Biography
Dorothea Frederika 'Dorothy' Seider was born on 8 February 1753 in Saucon, Bethlehem, Bethlehem Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America.[1] She was the daughter of Johann Michael Seider (1708 - 1783) and his wife Eva Dorothea Duerrmann (1712 -).
Her siblings were:
- Christian Seider (~1742 - 1769)
- Johann Heinrich Seider (1750 - 1753)
- Abraham Seider (1755 - 1810)
Dorothy married Johannes Jacob Beil (1746 - 1826) in 1767 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
Their children were:
- Abraham Beil (1768 - 1830)
- Elizabeth (Beil) Shimer (1772 - 1857)
- Susanna Dorothea (Beil) Shimer (1775 - 1848)
- Sybilla Beil (1779 - 1852)
- John Beil (1781 - 1827)
- John Philip Beil (1783 - 1827)
- Catharina Beil (1785 - 1841)
- Mary Magdalene Beil (1790 - 1857)
- Solomon Beil (~1822 - 1910) -> rather doubtful - no sources for this alleged child of Johannes Jacob Beil & Dorothea-Frederika (Seider) Beil, with sources are documented only a total of 8 children
Dorothy died at the age of 70 on 26 December 1823 in Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA.
BURIAL: 26 December 1823 - Lower Saucon Church Cemetery, Hellertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA - PLOT: Old Section[2]
Sources
- ↑ from Ancestors and Descendants of Sarah Grace Shimer Mayer McLeod
- ↑ Burial: Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Collection Name: Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 555
- North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Book: NSDAR : Volume 151, 1919
- Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree Ancestry Profile: #2
- Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950, database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:8T3Y-TQ2M : 16 September 2021), Dorothea Fredrika Beyl
- Find a Grave, memorial page for Dorothea Fredericka (Seider) Beil (8 Feb 1753–26 Dec 1823), Find A Grave: Memorial #40007736, citing Lower Saucon Church Cemetery, Hellertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Tom Myers (contributor 47272121)