Display Patriot - P-327390 - Jacob KEISLING/KESLING/KISLING/KISSLING
Jacob KEISLING/KESLING/KISLING/KISSLING
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P-327390
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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
s/o Hans Jacob and Ursula Catharine Herter Kissling
wife Wallaburger Miller
record showed cemetery as "Truchtelfingen Balinger Cemetery"
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Author: Eric Henry Troutman
Hans Jacob Kissling was born 27 September 1729 in Truchtelfingen, Schwabia, Germany, the son of Jacob & Ursula Katharina (Herter) Kissling. Jacob Kissling arrived at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 17 October 1749, aboard the ship Fane with his younger brother Johann George Kissling. On 11 March 1752, he married Waldburga Mueller (1731-1796), daughter of Martin & Maria Agnes (Schayrer) Mueller. Waldburga and her parents were also from Truchtelfingen, Schwabia, Germany. They arrived in America on the same ship as Jacob Kissling.
Jacob Kissling was the father of ten children:
Maria Agnes.
Martin.
John.
Casper.
Christopher.
Jacob.
Maria Barbara.
Anna Maria.
Sebastian.
Michael.
He was a farmer in Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania where he raised his family. During the Revolutionary War, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Captain Jacob Whetstones Company, Berks County, Pennsylvania Militia.
The cause of his death is a very sad story. Having survived the war he died shortly after. Attempting to ford the Schuylkill River with a wagon and team of horses he got tangled in the reins, fell in the river, and drowned. Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading, Pennsylvania. Burial Records: “Jacob Kissling: born [in] 1729, and died 4 February 1784, [and] buried 28 March 1784, age 54 years five months.
Highlights of his memorial service: he drowned in Schuylkill: born in Fruchtelfingen, Wuerttemberg; 34 years ago he came to this country, and five years later he married the bereaved widow Walpurga. During 24 years of marriage, they had ten children of which six are living. After the body had lain in the water for seven weeks, it was buried on the 28th of March in the presence of a large gathering of people. Jacob and Waldburga Kissling are both probably buried in the old cemetery of Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Letters of Administration were created on 2 March 1784, to Walborgee Kisling, the widow. Berks County Orphan’s Court Records, spring of 1784, mentions, the widow Walburga Kisling and names her six living children: Maria Agnes, Martin, John, Jacob, Maria Barbara, and Sebastian.
Many of the Kisslings of Berks County, Pennsylvania are descendants of Jacob Kissling as his brother Johann George Kissling moved to Wythe County, Virginia after the Revolutionary War.
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