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Descendants of Bensheim Kessinger


Generation No. 3


3. ADAM T3 KESSINGER (JOHN GEORG2, BENSHEIM1) was born 1798 in Cocalico, near Lancaster, PA, and died 1858 in Mill Hall, PA. He married ELIZABETH HUNSICKER 1822 in Lancaster Co., PA, daughter of JAC. HUNSICKER. She was born August 01, 1808 in Switzerland, and died January 27, 1888 in Mill Hall, PA.

Notes for A
DAM T KESSINGER:
Adam's father and first wife came from Germany with 7 children. One brother died on the crossing. Mother died 3 days after arriving in Philadelphia, PA. Father started through Lancaster County, PA after death of mother and bonded the children out. It is reported that the first night in America was spent in a haystack.
Two sisters lived in the same town for years with separate families and didn't know they were sisters until much later.

Current (1999) indications are that Adam's father remarried in Lancaster to a Sequehannock Indian and it is from this union that Adam was born. (The Sequehannock were a division of the Delawares (Part of the Lenape (Old Ones of the Algonquin)). This is as correct as it can get since most of the
Sequehannock were drived out of Lancaster and York Co. by 1800. There are no birth records in Lancaster County to prove this, but that would not be surprising.

Unfortunately, Native American heritage can be difficult to trace if you were not raised on a reservation. Many of us only know of our heritage because the information was passed down through the generations by reference or as a family secret. Until the early 1980's, it was not culturally acceptable to be Native American in the mainstream society. Today it is accepted as a novelty in our atmosphere of multiculturalism. Regrettably, the generations have erased much of the concrete genealogical information necessary to positively establish a Native American lineage.


Adam first appears as head of household and eight children in Centre County census records in 1850-60.


More About A
DAM T KESSINGER:
Burial: 1858, Cedar Hill Cemetery near Mill Hall, PA in Kessinger plot holding eight graves
Moved: Abt. 1828, to Clinton County, PA
Occupation: built Lomar Furnace for firm of Kurtz and Irwin

Notes for E
LIZABETH HUNSICKER:
Elizabeth was born in 1808 near the German border in Switzerland.


(not possible after getting dates from gravestone) She came to America when she was 15 years old through the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There is confusion as to which ship she arrived on. One source would be the ship Fortuna, Caleb Earl, master, from Hamburg, arriving September 8th 1803. The other source has for arriving from Amsterdam on October 9th 1803. She came with her father her mother and her sister Margaret.

More About E
LIZABETH HUNSICKER:
Burial: Cedar hill Cemetery, Mill Hall, PA
     
Children of A
DAM KESSINGER and ELIZABETH HUNSICKER are:
5. i.   DEWITT CLINTON4 KESSINGER.
6. ii.   THOMAS M KESSINGER, b. 1823, Lancaster, PA ???; d. 1911, Mill Hall, PA.
7. iii.   JOSEPH ROSS KESSINGER, b. March 18, 1834; d. 1904, Hublersburg, PA.
8. iv.   FRANCIS M KESSINGER.
9. v.   FANNIE R KESSINGER.
10. vi.   MARY P KESSINGER.
  vii.   JACOB G KESSINGER.
  More About JACOB G KESSINGER:
Cause of Death: killed in Battle of Cold Harbor, Civil War


4. GEORGE3 KESSINGER (JOHN GEORG2, BENSHEIM1)

More About G
EORGE KESSINGER:
Occupation: Pony Express Rider
     
Children of G
EORGE KESSINGER are:
  i.   WILLIAM4 KESSINGER, b. 1853; d. 1918.
11. ii.   THOMAS KESSINGER.



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