Jonas Koch
(1807-1872)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Leah Bachman

Jonas Koch 3

  • Born: 26 Dec 1807, Petersville, Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA 3
  • Marriage (1): Leah Bachman on 24 Aug 1834 in Schoenersville, Hanover Township, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States 1 2
  • Died: 29 Feb 1872, Potts Grove, Northumberland, Pennsylvania at age 64 3
  • Buried: Milton: Harmony Cemetery, Northumberland, PA 3

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Moved: From Northampton to Northumberland county, 1828, , Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA. 3

2. Residence: in 1828 in Chillisquaque Twp., Northumberland, PA. 3

3. Moved: 1836, Potts Grove, Northumberland, Pennsylvania. 1

4. Frederick had no will per Northumberland Will Book 3 Page 489. On 16 Jan 1845 in , Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA. 4 Be it remembered that on the 16th day of January 1845 Letters of administration in due and common form of Law were granted Catharine Bachman, Nicholas Bucher & Jonas Kock upon the estate of Frederick Bachman deceased, who entered into bond with Daniel Kock & Henry Haas in the sum of six hundred dollars.
Witness My hands,
Edward Oyster Register.

5. Book: Genealogical & Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, 1911. 3
Jonas Koch, father of Mrs. Cawley, was born in Northampton county Dec. 26, 1807, son of Adam Koch, who lived at Petersville, Northampton Co., Pa., where for many years he served as a justice of the peace.
Adam Koch married Elizabeth Strauss, and their union was blessed with the following children: Christianna, Susan, Mary, Elizabeth, Reuben, William, Henry, Jacob and Jonas.
In 1828 Jonas Koch moved from Northampton to Northumberland county, purchasing a farm in the eastern part of Chillisquaque township, where he spent the remainder of his life. He died Feb. 29, 1872, near Pottsgrove, Pa.
He married Leah Bachman, who was born Aug. 23, 1814, in
Northampton county, daughter of John Frederick and Catherine (Cole) Bachman, the former born Nov. 3, 1783, died Jan. 2, 1845; the latter, born Feb. 22, 1788, died July 16, 1852. Mrs. Leah (Bachman) Koch died Feb. 16, 1899, and she and her husband are buried in Harmony cemetery, at Milton, Northumberland county. They had a family of three children: Elizabeth married John Harrison Cawley; Mary A. married Charles Rissel; William H. is a resident of Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania.


Jonas married Leah Bachman, daughter of John Frederick Bachman and Catharine Kohl, on 24 Aug 1834 in Schoenersville, Hanover Township, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States.1 2 (Leah Bachman was born on 23 Aug 1814 in , Northampton, PA,1 3 5 died on 16 Feb 1899 in Potts Grove, Northumberland, Pennsylvania 3 5 and was buried on 20 Feb 1899 in Milton: Harmony Cemetery, Northumberland, PA 3.)

Sources

1 "Northumberland County Democrat (Sunbury, PA)," 2 Mar 1899 page 1 obituary of Leah Bach Koch.

2 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, PA > Lehigh > Schoenersville > Christ Reformed Church Jonas Koch m. Lea Bachman 24 Aug 1834.

3 Floyd, J.L., Genealogical & Biographical Annals of Northumberland County (Published 1911
Read it at https://archive.org/details/genealogicalbiog00floy), Page 373.

4 Northumberland County Courthouse, Northumberland County, PA, Will Book 3 Page 489.

5 The Daily Item (Sunbury, PA), 18 Feb 1899 page 1 obituary of Leah Koch.


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