Display Patriot - P-230914 - Johann/Johan/John Phillip/Philip KLINGER Sr
Johann/Johan/John Phillip/Philip KLINGER Sr
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P-230914
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Author: Roger Lamar Klinger
Joh. Philip Klinger, Private 6th Company, 6th Battalion Berks County Pennsylvania Volunteers From 13 June 1780 to 15 January 1781
Joh. Philip Klinger, son of Johannes and Agatha Heist Klinger, was born 11-07-1723 in Pfaffen-Beerfurth, Odenwald, Hesse Germany. On 22-10-1744 he married Anna Elizabeth Heist.
In 1751 they sailed for America on the ship Neptune which arrived 23-09-1751, however, just before reaching port, his wife died and is buried in the old church yard of Trinity Church in Philadelphia. There were no children.
Joh. Philip migrated to Reading, PA where he established a home on Penn’s Avenue, and in 1753 went back to Germany for a second wife. On 25-05-1754 he married Eva Elizabeth Beilstein and they returned to his home in America that same year. Joh. Philip and Eva had seven children, two of which died young. The remaining were: Elizabeth 10-03-1756 – 12-03-1820 George Esq. 13-05-1761 – 24-04-1840 Joh. Philip, Jr. 11-12-1765 - 1829 Alexander 17-02-1767 – 16-04-1839 Joh. Peter 03-11-1773 – 10-08-1858
At the age of 57, Joh. Philip served as a soldier during the Revolutionary War. It is thought that he served as a guard for prisoners of war.
It is believed that Joh. Philip migrated to what is now northeastern Dauphin and western Schuylkill Counties, by way of the Tulpehocken Path, between 1780 and 1785, to his newly acquired land of more than 1,100 acres along the Pine Creek to the south of the gap in the Mahantango Mountain near the present day Klingerstown. This area was frontier territory at the time.
He envisioned the establishment of a community on his land and, according to early documents, set aside (or designated that it should be done) land for a cemetery, a Church and a school. There is no evidence that a school was ever constructed. The cemetery was known in the early days as the Philip Klinger Cemetery. It remained for his son Alexander, to deed the land to the church for the construction of the first house of worship at Klinger’s in 1800. There is evidence that the Lutheran and Reformed Congregations met at his home prior to the construction of the first Church building. The house stood at the foot of the hill upon which the Church was built. The original Church was replaced in 1894. Today, the name of the Church is Zion (Klinger’s) Church.
Joh. Philip Klinger died on 31 September 1811 at the age of 88 years, one month and 29 days. He is buried in the Zion (Klinger’s) Church cemetery.
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