Johann Zacharias Rexroth 3
- Born: 22 Feb 1724/25, Erbach, Hesse, Germany 2
- Marriage: Anna Maria Voegel on 19 Nov 1751 in Christ Lutheran Church, Tulpehocken Valley, Lancaster. (now Berks) Co., Pennsylvania 1 2
- Died: 1 Oct 1799, Brandywine, Pendleton Co., (West) Virginia at age 74 3
 Other names for Johann were Johannes Zacharias Rexerodt,4 Zachariah Rexroad 2 and Zacharias Rexrodt.
General Notes:
The youngest of Balthaser's children, Zacharias was born in Hesse, Germany.
When Zach was slightly less than two yeas old, his mother died. His father remarried when Zach was three years old. His father died when Zach was nine.
As a young man, Zach learned the family business: the smith trade.
The ship Albany, carrying 285 immigrants including Zach, departed from Rotterdam, Holland in June of 1749. This would have made Zach 24 years old at that time. The Albany arrived in Philadelphia at the end of August, 1749. Eventually, about 30,000 people came to America from the Palatinate-Odenwald area between 1727 and 1777. Some of them were members of Zacharias' family.
By late 1751, Zach was known to be living the Tulpehocken Valley in Berks Co., Pennsylvania -- west of Reading.
In 1762, a Zacharias Rexrode arrived in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, possibly coming over the mountain trail from Pennsylvania when he was 37 years old. He has signed his name on documents in the 1760's as "Zacharias Rexroth", but the English deed recorders insisted on spelling his name Rexrode, just as it sounded to them.
Zacharias made his way into Pendleton County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the year 1774 when he was about 49 years old. Records show his wife's name as being Catherine with no maiden name or date of marriage given. Zacharias and Catherine eventually settled in a log home in the Pendleton County area and the homestead is still standing and occupied today.
Due to the changes in boundaries, the area where the Rexroads lived was in Augusta, Rockingham, Pendleton, and then Highland Counties. The history of Pendleton County says that Zacharias Rexroad Sr. was a blacksmith and first lived at the foot of the mountain west of the Swadley homestead. 2
Research Notes:
The IGI for Pennsylvania records shows a Johann Zacharias Rexrodt/Anna Margaret Weiss and also a Johann Zacharias Rexroth/Anna Marie Voegel. Both Zacharias' lived in Berks County, Pennsylvania siring children with their respective wives. Zach was probably the Zacharias Rexroth/Anna Marie Voegel, since Rexroth was the name he signed on his will in 1798.
His will seems to imply that he had eight living sons. 5
Noted events in his life were:
• Signed oath of allegiance: on 2 Sep 1749, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania.
• Moved: circa 1751, in Tulpehocken Valley, Lancaster (now Berks) Co., Pennsylvania.
• Moved: circa 1763, in Augusta (Later Rockingham) Co., Virginia.
• Moved: circa 1771, in Augusta (Later Pendleton) Co., (West) Virginia.
• Purchased Land: in 1788, in Pendleton Co., (West) Virginia.
Johann married Anna Maria Voegel on 19 Nov 1751 in Christ Lutheran Church, Tulpehocken Valley, Lancaster. (now Berks) Co., Pennsylvania.1 2 (Anna Maria Voegel was born circa 1725 6 and died circa 1806 6.)
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