John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 1378

In volume 11, page 608, of Beyond Germanna, there was an article about George Samuel Klug.  The authors were Mary C. Padget and I, John Blankenbaker.  The part that I want to extract here is the list of the children.

George Samuel Klug married Susanna Castler, probably shortly after he arrived in the Robinson River Valley.  There appears to have been nine children:

1. Michael, who married Elizabeth Fisher.  The family of this Elizabeth Fisher is unclear.  It does NOT appear that she was from the family of Lewis and Anna Barbara (Blankenbaker) Fisher.  Michael Klug was in the militia of 1781 from Culpeper Co., in Class 70.  He is also in the 1787 Culpeper personal property tax list, with an apparent address north of Criglersville.
2. Samuel, born about 1744.
3. Ephraim, b. about 1756, married Elizabeth Major.  He was in the militia of 1781 in Culpeper County Class 92, and in the 1787 tax list for Culpeper County, living in the south of today's Madison Co.
4. Elizabeth, married Michael Broyles.
5. Eva married Matthias Broyles, youngest brother of Michael Broyles.
6. Magdalene, married William Lotspeich.
7. A daughter married Godfrey Yager as his first wife.
8. Child eight.
9. Child nine.

Rev. Klug left no will when he died in 1764.  Susanna was appointed administrix of the estate, where the personal property was appraised at 361 pounds.  Susanna eventually married again, and lived until 1801.  An account of the estate in 1775 shows that payments had been made to the four sons-in-law above.  The account also mentions there were nine children in all.  The feeling is that children number 8 and 9 above were girls.  With one or two exceptions, these children do not appear in the German Lutheran Church records of the Robinson River Valley.
(12 Mar 02)