Display Patriot - P-134972 - Felix CLODFELTER/GLATFELDER
Felix CLODFELTER/GLATFELDER
SAR Patriot #:
P-134972
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Felix Glatfelter was born on 2 February 1727 in Zurich, Switzerland. The earliest record of the Clodfelter or Glodfelter ancestors goes back to the Swiss Canton of Zurich and the region around the Glatt River and its smooth fields (“glatt-felter”). The records in Glattenfelden and in its Glattenfelden Church date back to 1596. So many people were leaving Switzerland by the mid-1700s that the cantonal governments considered prohibiting further emigration.
To learn something about the extent of the emigrations, the parish pastors were requested to compile lists of those who had left their parishes. It was from such a prepared list that we learned that the Glattfelter brothers were planning to leave the country and come to the Carolinas. When their ship, the Francis and Elizabeth, docked in Philadelphia on 30 August 1743, the Glattfelters and other relatives were on it.
Felix Glatfelter and Marie Sarah Meier were married on 24 October 1750 in York County, Pennsylvania, at Christ Lutheran Church. Felix and his family moved to Rowan County, North Carolina, between 1763 and 1768. They settled along Brushey Forks, a tributary of Abbotts Creek, now in Davidson County.
About 1789, a Union Church was organized at Bethany, and the family, except for George, moved to Pilgrim’s Church. Felix lived on his plantation for the rest of his life. He was buried beside Sarah, who died on 23 November 1813. He died on 18 January 1814.
His proven patriotic service in the Revolutionary War as a Juror in Rowan County Court in August 1783.
Sources:
Johnson, Cyril L., The Family of Noah Clodfelter, Indiana. Russellville: self-published, 1954.
Author: Bob Ervin
Felix Glatfelder was born on 02 Feb 1727 in Glattfelden, Zurich, Switzerland to John Peter Gattfelder and Salomea Amberg. Felix came to America sometime before 1750 landing in Pennsylvania and settling in York County, PA.
Felix married Maria Sarah Meier on 24 Oct 1750 in York County, PA. They had four sons: John, Jacob, Peter and George and a daughter, Susanna.
Felix and Maria relocated to Rowan County, North Carolina sometime before January 1770. Felix took the Oath of Allegiance on 05 Aug 1778 in Rowan County, NC.
Felix resided in Rowan County, North Carolina until his death on 18 Jan 1814. He is buried in the Bethany Church of Christ Cemetery, Midway, Davidson County, North Carolina.
Source:
SAR Application # 181841, 181842 & 181843
DAR RC #836248, Julia Rogers Mathews Trelease
Linn, Rowan County, NC Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1775-1789, Vol III, page 38
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