Swartzentruber
Swartzentruber
Swartzentruber
Swartzentruber
Swartzentruber
SWARTZENTRUBER
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Swartzentruber (Father):
This Menist family name, later called Mennonites, in its original Swiss origin may mean "seller of black grapes." The earliest spelling, found in a family Bible from the early 1700's, was Schwartzentraub. Earliest history indicated that Don's ancestors where activist in the Great Reformation in Europe." They were in the stream of reformers who suffered persecution throughout Switzerland and Germany".
The following is a chronological list of Swartzentruber genealogy:
Peter Schwartzentruber, born around 1750.
Peter, Jr. Schwartzentruber, born around 1770.
Christian Schwartzentruber, born December 9, 1802 in Germany-moved to America in 1839.
Jacob Swartzentruber, born November 14, 1833, near Waldeck, Germany.
Lewis Swartzentruber, born March 18, 1871, near Grantsville, Maryland.
Milt Swartzentruber, born September 29, 1902.
John Swartzentruber, born January 23, 1936, Greenwood, Delaware
Don Michael Swartzentruber, born August 20th, 1966, Seaford, Delaware.
Hostetter (Mother):
The Hostetter's were part of the 17th and 18th century quest for religious freedom. These German-speaking ancestors lived in the Upper Rhine Valley from Switzerland to Palatine. During the Great Reformation they became influenced by Menno Simons who was the forefather of the Mennonite denomination.
Genealogy order:
Jacob Hostetter, bishop from Switzerland.
Abraham Hostetter, born 1723. Abraham Hostetter, born c.c. 1760.
John Hostetter, born 1791. Jacob K. Hostetter, born 1824.
John H. Hostetter, born 1852.
Daniel E. Hostetter, born 1887.
J. Virgil Hostetter, born 1912, deacon ( died April 20, 1999 ).
Marjorie G (Hostetter) Swartzentruber, born June 19, 1938.
Swartzentruber: A Mennonite family name, Swartzendruber is Swiss in origin and may mean "seller of black grapes." In the early 1700s a family Bible used the spelling Schwarzentraub. This is one of the earliest known occurrences of the name. The Schwartzendrubers originally belonged to the Amish branch of the Mennonites. Among the Swiss Brethren leaving Switzerland for the Netherlands in 1711 there was a Hans Schwartzentrub, of Trub(?), who, however, left the ship at Mannheim. A Christian Schwartztrauben is mentioned in the Dutch Naamlijst of 1767-1802 as a preacher at the Weissemheim am Berg congregation (Amish) in the duchy of Leiningen, Germany. Bäntz Schwarztrauben was a preacher of the Amish church of Waldeck starting in 1775. A Christian Schwarztrauben, also Amish and by marriage related to the Gingerich family, lived at Mengeringhausen near Kassel and had taken over the "Galgenmühle" from Simon Roth. According to a family tradition the first American Swartzendrubers were immigrants from Waldeck. The first-known immigrations occurred soon after 1800, when settlements were made in Ontario and Pennsylvania near Somerset and Berlin. Soon, however, migrations to points farther west resulted in comparatively few residents remaining in Pennsylvania. The name has been most prominent in Ontario, Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. Prominent Mennonite personalities who bore this name include Jacob J. Schwartzendruber of Waldeck (Germany), Pennsylvania, and Iowa; Jacob Frederick and Joseph Schwartzendruber of Iowa; and Solomon Swartzendruber of Michigan. In addition to the ten preachers bearing the name Swartzendruber in 1958 there were also seven Mennonite Church (MC) bishops: A. Lloyd Swartzendruber, John Y. and Morris E. Swartzendruber of Kalona, Iowa, Elmer G. Swartzentruber of Wellman, Iowa, Alva R. Swartzendruber of Hydro, OK, Amos Swartzentruber of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Emanuel Swartzendruber of Pigeon, MI. There were also nine Old Order Amish ministers in Ohio, Delaware, Indiana, and Iowa bearing the name. A very conservative group of the Old Order Amish near Dalton, Wayne Co., Ohio, has been called the Swartzentruber Amish. A booklet called Documents Relating to Bishop Jacob Schwarzendruber (1800-1868) is one of the genealogies that has been printed.
Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 667. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
