Display Patriot - P-118143 - Henry/John BOTTORFF

Henry/John BOTTORFF

SAR Patriot #: P-118143

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State of Service: PA Qualifying Service: Ensign

DAR #: A012483

Birth: 17 Oct 1754 / Berks / PA
Death: 10 May 1806 / Jefferson / KY

Qualifying Service Description:

Captain Michael Wolf’s Berks County Pa Militia

Additional References:

Berks County, Pennsylvania Militia Roster
Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, Volume 5, pg 153, 224

Spouse: Sophia Fleicker
Children: Henry; Louis; Elizabeth;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
1942-05-27	IN	Unassigned	Ralph Earl McDonald (61061)	Lewis
1977-08-04	KS	Unassigned	James C Craig (113702)	Samuel
1983-10-13	KY	Unassigned	James William Peyton (122804)	John
2000-05-25	FL	6418	George Emery Biles Ph.D. (79267)	John
2011-02-17	IN	41543	Scott Wesley McDonald (178892)	Louis
2020-08-21	CA	93255	James Richard Fruitt (216553)	Elizabeth
2022-01-28	KY	100484	Jeffrey Scott Edds (221521)	Elizabeth
2022-02-04	KY	100483	Donald Emerson Edds (221603)	Elizabeth
2023-12-08	IL	110140	Owen Jacob Braun (228652)	Henry
2023-12-08	IL	110141	Connor Francis Braun (228653)	Henry

Burial:

Pleasant Grove Cemetery_(C-0048580)

Location:

Charlestown / Clark / IN / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

86406

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

48919322

Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Memorial
Newer stone, legible
Image 1, provided with permission from Marvin Crone, Find-A-Grave contributor # 47222111

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: George Emery Biles
John Henry Bottorff was born to John Adam Bottorff (also spelled as Batdorf, Potorf, Pottorff ) and Anna Catherine Zeller on 17 October 1754 in Harrisburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

On 23 July 1776, he married Sophia Fricker in Christ’s Lutheran Church, Stouchsberg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They had eight children as listed below:

John Henry Bottorff – born 11 Oct 1777
Henry Bottorff – born 03 May 1780
Jacob Joseph Bottorff – born 07 Feb 1785
Louis Bottorff – born around 1788
Samuel Bottorff – born 28 Feb 1790
Peter H. Bottorff – 13 Jan 1791
Elizabeth Bottorff – around April 1795
William Bottorff – 26 Sep 1796

In 1780, John Henry Bottorff joined the Berks County Pennsylvania Militia. He served as an Ensign in Captain Michael Wolf’s Company whose company was at Brandywine and Germantown, PA.

He died on or around 10 May 1806 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. He was a lay preacher (his tombstone shows his name as Reverend John Henry Bottorff) who disappeared on a trip. His body was discovered in 1806. It was decided that he was either attacked by animals of some kind or died as a result of an asthma attack. Items were found near this remains that would have been stolen by Indians if they had been responsible for his death. He is buried in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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