Adam Winkler

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Kentucky

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Author: Kathy Solomon Isbell
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</p><p>Adam Winkler
Letter from Ralph E. Winkler to Carl F. Lamar, 11-22-1987.Pastor Arends (1740-1807) was a Lutheran minister who served many German communities in the Rowan County area of North Carolina. He served as pastor of Old St. Paul's Church, near Newton, NC, during 1785-1807, but made excursions into that area earlier.His register (or diary) is preserved in the archives of the North Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church in Salisbury, as indicated in the lead section of "The Immigrant of Zurich, Switzerland-Hans Thomas Conrad Winkler ( 1739-1789) who died in Burke County, North Carolina and Possible Descendants", July 10, 1987.
This register includes confirmation lists of teenagers. </p><p>The following list is perhaps such a confirmation list, and is quoted verbatim from the source journal:
"1783 South Fork (Old St. Paul's Catawba County)Christoph Siegmann        George Menegers              Elizabetha WinkernJohn Adam Winkler        Philip Steinwe                    Utill BostenHenrich Siegmann           Catharina Siegmann           Anna Maria KilianMichael Mouser              Helena Antonen                 Maria Margaretha BostenPhilip Kilian                    Marlena Eslingern              Catharina HepnernJacob Anton                   Anna Maria Eslingern        Catharina HaussernPhillip Becker                 Marlena Mengersen           Anna Eva WebernJacob Becker                 Hanna Suhrmannen            Maria Christina WebernConrad Hahn                  Marlena Mullern                Dorothea SiegmannConrad Wagoner            Gertraub Schellen              Catharina WagnernChristian Hahn                Anna Maria Volbrechten    Esther SiegmannChristian New                Margaretha Volbrechten    Anna Louwisa SteinweGeorg Lutz                     Hanna Siegmann                Catharina AntonenChristian Scheufler          Christina Teichlern             Anna Maria Antonen</p><p>The second listed name is "John Adam Winkler." This is probably Adam Winkler, 1764-1844 who married Margaret Bost by 1787 and migrated to Kentucky during the approximate period 1797 - 1800. I have no knowledge of Adam using the name "John" in Kentucky. Adam did name his oldest son "John".) "Hans" is a German form of John. It is to be remembered that two of the Winklers of the ship Neptune, in 1753, were listed as Hans Domas (Thomas) Winckler and Hans Jacob Winckler. Was it customary for German males of the same family to use their father's, or ancestor's, first name (such as "Hans") in this manner?[1] Neither Thomas Winkler nor Jacob Winkler of Old Burke County, NC were known to have used the first name "Hans" in that area. It is therefore possible that, in the name anglicization process, the name "Hans" or "John" was dropped from the names of Thomas, Jacob and Adam Winkler. Perhaps Rev. Arends listed Adam as "Hans Adam Winkler" in his journal, since it was probably written in German.The first name in the third column, "Elizabetha Winkern" could possibly be for a sister of Adam.[2]The name immediately below her's is probably more correctly written as "Utilla Bost"[3] (1764-1834), a future sister-in-law of Adam and an ancestor of genealogist Louis Barnard of Hickory, NC.Now look at the fourth listed name in the third column. Who do you suppose this is? Drop the "Maria" and the "en" from the surname, and we have Margaretha Bost.[4] Assuming that this list contains our ancestors, Adam and Margaret Winkler, this is the earliest known recording of their acquaintanceship. It also makes it more possible that they may have been married at Old St. Paul's.In a review of "The Heritage of Catawba County, NC", 1986, possibly identified the following among those listed above:
Christopher Sigmon, born Aug. 20, 1766
Katrina&nbsp;? Sigmon, born Nov. 28, 1762 (sister of Christopher)Christian Hahn, born Oct. 27, 1765. He was born in a wagon adjacent to Clark's Creek, during his parent's migration to NC from PA.It would appear that this was possibly an older group of church teenagers. Perhaps several marriages resulted from this and similar get-togethers at Old St. Paul's Church. At that time, Margaret Bost would have had no idea that in the 1790's she would accompany Adam Winkler on a long journey across the Appalachians to a new land known as Kentucky. During the same year of this church affair, the Treaty of Paris (ending the Revolutionary War) extended the boundary of the United States west to the Mississippi River.
</p><p><br />[1] Regarding naming practices:  Hans is probably a saints name—one of the most popular for males—rather than the name of his father.  After baptism, he would have been known by his second name.[2] If this is his sister, it may be a transcription error, and should be Elizabeth Winklern.  The ‘n’ or ‘en’ were added to all unmarried females names.  It would seem that if the names ended in ‘r’ then only an ‘n’ would be added.  Other ending used ‘en’.
[3] Ibid. 
[4] Ibid.
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