Friday, August 2, 2019

52 Ancestors - Week 289: #497 Anna (Waldruff) (Kieffer) Zafrin (1715-1767) of New Jersey

Anna (Waldruff) (Kieffer) Zafrin (1715-1767) is #497 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married  #496 Frederick Zafrin/Zavering/Sovereign (1714-1805) in about 1750, probably in Alsace, France.

I am descended through:

*  their son, #248 Jacob Sovereign (1759-1851) who married #249 Elizabeth Pickel (1764-1864) in 1781.
*  their son, #124 Frederick Sovereign (1786-1875) who married #125 Mary Jane Hutchison (1792-1868) in 1810.
*  their son, #62 Alexander Sovereen (1814-1907) who married #63 Elizabeth Putman (1818-1895) in 1840.
*  their daughter, #31 Mary Jane Sovereen (1840-1874), married  #30 James Abraham Kemp (1831-1902) in 1861.
*  their daughter #15 Georgianna Kemp (1868-1952)  married  #14 Charles Auble (1849-1916) in 1898.
*  their daughter #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977), married #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976) in 1918.
*  their daughter #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) who married #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
 
  
*  Name:                   Anna Waldruff[1]    

*  Sex:                      Female  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                    about 1715, Alsace, France[1]    

*  Immigration:        about 1750 (about age 35), to Morris, New Jersey, United States[1]    

*  Death:                  about 1767 (about age 52), Probably Morris, New Jersey, United States[2]

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                     Samuel Kieffer (1713-1744)    
*  Marriage 1:                  before 1739 (before about age 25) Alsace, France[1]    

*  Child 1:                       George Kieffer (1739-1778)    
*  Child 2:                       Jacob Kieffer (1743-    )  

*  Spouse 2:                     Frederick Zafrin/Zavering/Sovereign (1714-1805)    
*  Marriage 2:                  before 1750 (before about age 36), probably Alsace, France[1-2]

*  Child 3:                       David Sovereign (1757-1845)    
*  Child 4:                       Jacob Sovereign (1759-1851)    
*  Child 5:                       Leonard Sovereign (1763-1823)    
*  Child 6:                       Frederick Sovereign (1764-1851)    
*  Child 7:                       Anna Sovereign (1765-1853)    
*  Child 8:                       Elizabeth Sovereign (1766-1823)    

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  
The RootsWeb WorldConnect family tree of Ronald Cox provides the best description of the life of Anna Waldruff[1]

Anna Waldruff was born in about 1715 in what is now France, perhaps near Alsace near the Rhine River.  Her parents are not known.

She married (1) Samuel Kieffer (about 1712- about 1744) before 1739 in Alsace, and they had two sons[[1]:

*  George Kieffer (1739-1778), married Maria Conke in about 1765 in New Jersey.
*  Jacob Kieffer (1743-????)

Samuel Kieffer died in about 1744, leaving Anna with two small children.  

Anna married (2) to Frederick Zofrin/Zavering/Sovereign (1714-1805), probably before 1750 in Alsace[1].  

After Ann married Frederick Zofrin, he brought her and her sons to America and in about 1750, and they settled near the Paulins Kill In Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey, near Schooley's Mountain[1].

Anna's son, Jacob Kieffer was said to have settled near the Paulins Kill then later at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  George Kieffer, born in 1739, married Mary or Maria Conke/Conck and had two sons George and Jacob. George died on 24 Dec. 1778 while serving in the New Jersey Volunteers during the American Revolution and he left a young widow in Newton Township. Mary remarried to Michael Teeter[1].  The sons of George Kieffer went to Upper Canada when the Zavering family migrated in about 1799.  Ontarian Families provides a discussion of the Kieffer family that settled in Norfolk County, Ontario[3]

Frederick and Anna (Waldruff) (Kieffer) Sovereign had six children, all probably born in or near German Valley, Morris County, New Jersey[1-2]:

*  David Sovereign (1757-1845), married 1782, Anna Rarick (1760-????)
*  Jacob Sovereign (1758-1851, married 1781 Elizabeth Pickel (1764-1849).
*  Leonard Sovereign (1763-1823), married 1788 Rhuhama "Amy" Culver (1766-1828).
*  Frederick Sovereign (1764-1851), married 1790 Patience Brown (1769-1852).
*  Anna Sovereign (1765-1853), married 1795 John Heath (1763-1847).
*  Elizabeth Sovereign (1766-1823), married 1785 Leonard Clouse (1762-1823).

Anna (Waldruff) (Kieffer) Sovereign must have died in or near German Valley, New Jersey in the 1767 or 1768 time period.  Frederick Zavering married (2) Levinah Culver (1740-1817), daughter of Robert Culver, on 10 May 1768 probably in German Valley in Morris County, New Jersey[2].

5.  SOURCES


1. Ronald Cox, "Ronald Cox's Ancestors, Cousins and their allied families," RootsWeb WorldConnect Project (https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=roncox), Frederick Sovereign sketch.

2. Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, The Early Germans of New Jersey: their history, churches, and genealogies (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982), page 504-505, Frederick Sovereen family sketch.

3. Edward Mariot Chadwick, Ontarian Families: Genealogies of United Empire Loyalists and Other Pioneer Families of Upper Canada  (Toronto : Rolph, Smith & Co., 1898), Volume 2, pages 90-98, Keefer family sketches.

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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2019 to 312 Ancestors in 312 Weeks.


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