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From: "Reality Bytes" <>
Subject: Six Family
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 19:32:32 -0700

I am new to this digest and want to put out just 'some' of the information I
have on the my side of the six family to see if there are any matches. If
you find something of interest to your research please contact me.

Jimmie

Descendants of Johann Philip Sixt

Generation No. 1

1. JOHANN PHILIP1 SIXT was born Abt. 1656 in Germany, Hesse-Nassau
Marienfels, and died Abt. 1710. He married ANNA GERTRAUD.

Children of JOHANN SIXT and ANNA GERTRAUD are:
2. i. JOHANN HEINRICH "JOHN HENRY"2 SIX, b. 1689, Germany, Hesse-Nassau
Marienfels; d. Aft. 1755, MD Frederick Co.
ii. JOHANN PETER SIX, b. 03 January, 1686/87.
iii. JOHANN GERHARDT SIX, b. 28 February, 1690/91.
iv. ANNA ELISABETHA SIX, b. 25 January, 1692/93.
v. ANNA MAGDALENA SIX, b. 23 September, 1696.

Generation No. 2

2. JOHANN HEINRICH "JOHN HENRY"2 SIX (JOHANN PHILIP1 SIXT) was born 1689 in
Germany, Hesse-Nassau Marienfels, and died Aft. 1755 in MD Frederick Co. He
married ANNA CHRISTINA THEUS/THEISS 03 August, 1713 in NY, Baasen Farm,
daughter of JOHANN THEISS and ELISABETHA MAGDALENA.

Notes for JOHANN HEINRICH "JOHN HENRY" SIX:
Naturalized 11 Oct 1715 at Albany, NY; "of County of Hassan" (Hessen?).
Pioneers of Old Monocacy by Dern and tracey; p218. Probably arrived in MD in
1745; b. 1689, to NY 1710; m. there 3 Aug 1713. Moved to Neu-Ansberg
(Hartsmannsdorf) in Schoharie Valley, where most children were bone. 1744

Children of JOHANN SIX and ANNA THEUS/THEISS are:
i. CATHARINA3 SIX, b. 1714; d. 23 April, 1776, NY Scoharie Co.; m. ROBERT
DEWIS/DAVIS, 1736.
ii. CHRISTINA ELISABETH SIX, b. 01 November, 1715, NY Schoharie; d. Aft.
1772; m. GEORGE MICHAEL JESSERANG, 05 February, 1744/45, MD Frederick Co.
iii. GERTRAUD SIX, b. 16 April, 1717, NY Schoharie.
iv. ANNA MARIA SIX, b. Abt. 1718, Near Dillenbach CH - NY Stong Arabia; m.
CHRISTIAN DILLENBACH, 1735, NY Stone Arabia.
v. JOHANN HENDRICH SIX, b. Abt. 1720, NY Schoharie; d. 07 October, 1799, MD
Frederick Co; m. ELISABETH GREINTSCH, 06 July, 1749, MD Frederick Co.
3. vi. JOHANNES "JOHN" SIX, b. 1722, NY Schoharie; d. 1772.
vii. PHILLIP SIX, b. 1724, NY Schoharie.
viii. JOHANNES CONRAD SIX, b. Abt. 1726, NY Schoharie; d. Bet. 1782 - 1783,
PA Washington Co (now Greene) Cunkard Cr; m. MARGUERITE CAHTERINE BONNETT.
ix. ADAM SIX, b. Abt. 1733, NY Schoharie; d. Abt. 1806, VA Wythe Co.

Generation No. 3

3. JOHANNES "JOHN"3 SIX (JOHANN HEINRICH "JOHN HENRY"2, JOHANN PHILIP1
SIXT) was born 1722 in NY Schoharie, and died 1772. He married (1) BARBARA
REISNER. He married (2) MARIA BARBARA BOWMAN 1759 in MD Frederick Co,
daughter of JACOB BOWMAN and ELIZABETH UNGERT.

Notes for MARIA BARBARA BOWMAN:
Barbara died in the Spring of 1801.

Children listed in Barbara BOWMAN SIX FUNHOUSER's 1797 will in Shenandoah
Co.
Probated 8 Jun 1801 (Bood E, pg 430)
Listed in Rev Carl lange's 1767 list of communicatnts in Strasburg as Maria
Barbara Saxe (Funkhuser book p97); she received a settlement form Jacob
BOWMAN's Sr's estate in 1778 (Shen. Co., Will Book A, pg 529)

typescript of the Barbara Funkhauser Last Will and Testament.

In the Name of God Amen

I barbara Funkhauser, Window of Christian Funkhauser deceased being at
present in perfect health and sound memory Thanks be unto God Almighty for
the same taking into mind and the Mortality of Mankind make this to be my
last Will and Testament that is to say first and formeost I recommend my
soul into the hands f God Almighty who gave it to me as for my body it is my
Will and desire that the same be buried in a decent Christian Like Manner at
the direction of my Executors. Concerning such worldly affairs as I shall
leave behind me it is my will and desire that the same be disposed unto my
dear beloved children in the following manner and form(viz)

Item I give and gequeat unto my youngest daughter Barbara funkhauser over
and above her equal share one complete Bed & Bedstead with furniture and the
Sum of ten shillings which she may either lay out for Pewter or Iron Potts
agreable to her mind over and above her equal share with the rest of my
other children.

Item I give and bequeat all such Effects what I shall live behind after my
decease when all just Debts and what I have bequeted unto my five other
named children is paid out or the same unto my Six Children (viz) my three
Sons John Six Issac Six and David Funkhauser and my three Daughtes Barbara
Funkhauser elizabeth Six wife of Adam Poke and Chaterine Six wife of william
stoner to be divided among my siad Six Children ineual shares. I say I give
and bequeat unto my aforesaid Six Children in equal shares. I say I give and
bequeat unto my aforesaid Six Children their Heirs Choehirs and assign fore
as all what is said above by me.

And lastly I hereby Constitute and appoint my son Issac Six and My Son in
law Adam Poke Executors to see this my Last Will and testament exeduted in
its true form and meaning stating this and no other to be my last Will and
testament. In witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal done on
the Twenty Second day of July 1797

Signed, sealed & delivered her
Published and pronounced Barbara X Funkhauser
by the Testarix as her Last mark
will and Testament in pre-
sence of us

_______________

George Keller B. Funkhauser
John Conn Will June 1801

Children of JOHANNES SIX and MARIA BOWMAN are:
4. i. JOHN4 SIX, b. Abt. 1760, Virginia, Shenandoah Valley; d. 04 November,
1845, Illinois, Brown County, Mt Sterling Twp.
ii. ISSAC SIX, b. Aft. 1760, VA Shenandoah Co; m. ELIZABETH DELLINGER, 22
December, 1795.
iii. CATHARINE SIX, b. 02 March, 1767, VA Shenandoah Co; d. 1843, VA
Shenandoah Co; m. WILLIAM STONER, 06 June, 1791, VA Shenandoah Co..
iv. ELIZABETH SIX, b. Bef. 1767; m. ADAM POKE, 22 April, 1783, VA
Shenandoah Co..

Generation No. 4

4. JOHN4 SIX (JOHANNES "JOHN"3, JOHANN HEINRICH "JOHN HENRY"2, JOHANN
PHILIP1 SIXT) was born Abt. 1760 in Virginia, Shenandoah Valley, and died 04
November, 1845 in Illinois, Brown County, Mt Sterling Twp. He married MARY
ANN DEVAULT 18 January, 1787 in Virginia, Washington County, daughter of
JOHANNES DEVAULT and MARIA SCHMIDT.

Notes for JOHN SIX:
Source: Last Will & Testimate, Barbara Six Funkhouser, July 22, 1797
Source of Birth: Marilyn Neereimer and Biographical Review of Cass, Schuyler
and Brown Counties, IL, 1892.
Source of Death: History of Schuyler and brown Co's 1882; probate for John
Six in Pike County.
Buried November 1845 Illionis, Brown County, Versailles South Cemetary,
Source: Soldiers of American Revolution buried in IL/IL Gen Soc 1976.

Occupation: Joiner/Carpenter/Pioneer/Farmer
Religion: Probably Lutheran
Residences: VA, PA, TN, KY, IL, Scott & Pike Co.

Notes: John Six appears to have been the oldest of the four children of
Johannes and Barbara Bowman Six, one brother Isaac and two sisters Catharine
and Elizabeth, born about 1760 in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
According to tradition, at the age of sixteen, he took his stepfather's
place in the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War. he was present at
the seige of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis.

Soon after the war he went to Pennsylvania to work at his trade of joiner,
carpenter, and there married Mary Duvall on 18 January 1787. The marriage is
in fact recorded in Washington County, VA rather that PA, which is in the
southwest corner of Virginia close to the Tennessee border. John's son,
Abrraham, appears to have been born in VA in about 1783, which indicates
John may have been previously married. The family pioneered to Hawkins Co,
TN, where it appears most of their children were born. Very little is known
of their time in Tennessee except that a John Six was a signer of a 1799
petition from "the citizens of Hawkins County that lived on the northwest
side of Clinch Mountain". John and his family must have migrated to Kentucky
about 1800 or so to Logan, Butler, and Ohio counties. They settled in Ohio
County where the remaining unwed children married. John kept in advance of
the settlements, where it was necessary to be constantly on guard against
Indian attacks, hunting in the fall. He found a market for his hams on the
Ohio River. Very little is known of the family's time in Kentucky, except
marriage dates of the children.

Sons John and David were the pioneers to Illinois in the Spring of 1823,
arriving near Springfield in June. They made the trip with pack horses and
brought their small families with them. John, Mary Ann, and most of the
children and their families, followed in a couple of years in covered
wagons. The entire party was very poor, having only their outfits and
willing hands, ready to engage in whatever offered itself. John and most of
the family eventually arrived in Morgan County (now Scott), a few miles
northwest of Winchester, Il, near Oxville and Exeter. They were farmers and
land records reflect that they lived in a tight little group, each family
with their own land in 1831 or so, ranging from 60 to 160 acres. Later, John
and Mary moved west across the Illinois River to "South Prairie" In Pike
County, just west of Perry, Illinois - a ferry was in place in those days at
Naples. Elizabeth and Jacob and their families moved to Independence Co, AR,
where they raised their families. David raised his family on a farm near Mt.
Sterling, about 14 miles north of Perry wehre his parents had retired. Son
John "Jack" and his family are somewhat of a mystery, living in Brown County
just south of Mt. Sterling, Adams County, Missouri, and Missouri Township
back in Brown Coutny, where he died in 1854. Apparently most of his family
died prior to 1892, cause unknown.

JOhn Six died at the age of about 84 on Novemeber 4, 1845, at the home of
his son David in Brown Cunty. Mary's death date, as her birth date, is
unknown. Through her name appeared in John's Will of 1840, there is no
evidence of her presence when the will was probated in 1846 in Pike County.
Neither John nor Mary's graves have been physically located and their
burials are not recorded in the cemetary publications of Brown or Pike
counties. We have some reason to believe that John's grave was identified by
a wooden marker in Versailles South Cemetary and has since disappeared. One
would think that Mary would be buried beside him. DAR lists his as buried in
VErsailles Township, Brown Co. Ill. The cause of death is speculated of
possibly a hunting accident on David's farm.

Children of JOHN SIX and MARY DEVAULT are:
i. ABRAHAM5 SIX, b. Abt. 1783, VA; d. 01 June, 1849, Illinois, Scott Co,
Winchester; m. SUSANNAH SUTTON, 26 July, 1806, Kyntucky, Logan Co.

Notes for ABRAHAM SIX:
Source: Cemetary stone.

Very little is known about Abraham, except that he owned about 234 acres of
land in Secs 11 and 14, T14N R13W, about six miles NW of Winchester. Two
houses still occupied in Sec 11 and 14 which may have been owned by Abraham,
and are now owned by George Hoots and Wayne Kilver. He apparently moved his
parents from their farm south of Exeter across the Illinois River to a
location just west of Perry in Pike County sometime prior to 1840, where
John's Will was prepared in 1840. A claim by Abraham appeared in the probate
documents of 1846 for the costs of moving his parents to Pike County.

ii. ELIZABETH SIX, b. Abt. 1784, Tennessee, Hawkins Co.; d. Bef. 1840, AR;
m. WILLIAM PARKER, 10 April, 1812, KY, Ohio County.

Notes for ELIZABETH SIX:
Source: Marilyn Neeriemer, Corresp
Source: Last Will & Testament, John Six, 24 Dec 1840

Elizabeth died in Arkansa, leaving a large family, sometime prior to her
father writing his Will in 1840.

iii. JACOB SIX, b. Abt. 1786, VA; d. Abt. 1854, AR, Independence Co.; m.
MARGARET PARKER, 15 January, 1810, KY, Ohio County.

Notes for JACOB SIX:
Source: AR 1850 Independence Co, p. 357, Greenbria Twp
Source: Family records, Nelda Dodd Agrusa, Prescott, AZ, FGS 6/1994

Marilyn Neereimer believes Jacob was born in Hawkins Co. TN between
1782-1787. AR 1850 reflects ca 1786 in VA. I believe it's likely he was born
after his parents were married ca 1787 in VA. Jacob and Margaret moved from
Ohio Co., KY to Morgan Co., Il, with the rest of the John Six clan in the
1820's - 6 children, 1 male and 5 females, appeared in the IL 1830 census.
They purchased and settled on 80 acres 1/2 mile south of Oxville in 1831,
but moved by 1833 to Independence Co, AR, about the time Will Parker family
moved to the same county.

5. iv. JOHN "JACK" SIX, b. Bet. 1787 - 1790, TN, Hawkins Co.; d. Bet. 1854 -
1857, Illinois, Brown Co, Missouri Twp.
v. DANIEL SIX, b. Abt. 1795, Tennessee, Hawkins Co.; d. 15 October, 1857,
Illinois, Scott Co, Winchester; m. RHODA HAMPTON, 15 January, 1821, KY,
Butler Co..

Notes for DANIEL SIX:
Probate Daniel Six, Scott Co, 16 Nov 1857
Buried October 1857, IL, Scott Co, Madden Cem T14N R13W Sec 2

6. vi. ISSAC SIX, b. Abt. 1797, Tennessee; d. 02 July, 1863, Illinois, Scott
Co, Winchester.
vii. MARY ANN "POLLY" SIX, b. Abt. 1798, North Carolina; d. 22 January,
1862, Illinois, Scott Co, Winchester; m. JAMES TAYLOR, 25 July, 1815, Ky,
Ohio County.
viii. DAVID SIX, b. Abt. 1799, Tennessee, Hawkins Co.; d. 02 December,
1857, Illinois, Brown Co, Missouri Twp; m. ELIZABETH COX, 23 December, 1819,
Kentucky, Ohio Co..

Notes for DAVID SIX:
Buried IL brown co Mt Sterling Twp, Old Home Place Fam Cem.

David and brother Jack were the pioneers to IL, arriving in Sangamon County
the spring of 1823. he brought his family on horseback, he and elizabeth
carrying their children in their arms. His possessions consistetd of his
little family, two horses and 25 cents. They movevd to Greene Co, Morgan Co,
and in 1829 on to Brown Co. David settle his family first in Sec 20, Mt
Sterling Twp, near brother Jack, but latter settled permanently in Sec 22.
He was a prosperous farmer and served as County Commissioner and election
judge for many years. He was a hatter by trade when he came to IL.

7. ix. WILLIAM "BILLY" SIX, b. 08 September, 1801, Kentucky; d. 28 April,
1866, Illinois, Scott Co, Winchester.
x. CATHERINE SIX, b. 06 September, 1802, Kentucky; d. 04 January, 1892,
Missouri, Cass Co., Main City; m. THOMAS LINDSEY, 22 March, 1821.

Notes for CATHERINE SIX:
After Thomas' death in 1849, Kate and the children remained in Pike Co, IL
until after they had married. In about 1868 she apparently acccompanied
Elizabeth and nancy and their families to MO and ended up living with nancy
and her family in Bates County near the KS border. She was granted a pension
by the government based upon Thomas's War of 1812 service.

xi. NANCY SIX, b. June 1804, Tennessee; d. 17 October, 1876, Illinois, Pike
County; m. SIMON HENRY TAYLOR, 08 November, 1821, Kentucky, Ohio Co..

Notes for NANCY SIX:
Immigrated to Pike Co, IL 1825 per 1880 Pike County History, p. 510

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