Diebold Martzolf,
Eva Dorothea Kachel, & Eva Barbara Martzolff
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Diebold
Martzolf, son of Johann Heinrich Martzolff and Maria Margaretha Grässel, was born April 12, 1779 in Oberbetschdorf,
which is now part of Betschdorf, Alsace, France. He
was baptized April 14, and was the sixth eldest of seven known
children. He was a shoemaker, carpenter, farmer, and church
sexton. Eve Dorothea Kachel was born June 4, 1791 (church record) to Philipp Heinrich Kachel and Eva Dorothea Wolff in Oberbetschdorf, France. On January 17, 1815, Diebold Martzolf married Eve Dorothea Kachel. They had nine children, two of whom lived to adulthood. Eve Dorothea died March 22, 1827, in Oberbetschdorf. Eve Barbara Martzolff, daughter of Johann Philipp Martzolff and Maria Elisabetha Haushalter, was born January 5, 1793 in Oberbetschdorf, France. She was the youngest of nine known children. Eve Barbara and Diebold were first cousins; their fathers were brothers. Diebold took Eve Barbara Martzolff for his second wife, on August 21, 1827, five months after the death of Eve Dorothea. Four children are known to have been born to Diebold and Eve Barbara, all of them lived to adulthood. In late 1831, Diebold and Eve Barbara and their family emigrated from Betschdorf. On January 9, 1832 they arrived at New York harbor on the "Charles Carroll". Their first three or four years in America they lived in the area of Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania. By 1836, they had relocated to northern Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Eve Barbara died January 27, 1847, and is buried in the St. Paul's Church Cemetery in Zelienople, Butler County. Diebold died December 28, 1855 and is buried in the Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Prospect, Butler County, Pennsylvania. Betschdorf Nothing has been passed down about their lives in Betschdorf, or life in Europe in general. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, there was frequently civil strife in France and conflicts between France and Germany, with many battles fought on both sides of the Rhine. The Betschdorf church records list several individuals as being in the military. Diebold Martzolf was born April 12, 1779 in Oberbetschdorf in the region of Alsace, France. On April 14, 1779 he was baptized in the Evangelical church in Oberbetschdorf. Today, the villages of Oberbetschdorf and Niederbetschdorf have been merged into the town of Betschdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. In German, the Alsace region is known as Elsass (Elsaß). The name Diebold is a common variant German spelling for the name Theobold. Both forms are found in the Evangelical Lutheran and civil records of Betschdorf and, as with other names, the spelling generally depends upon the writer of the record. Quite often, the signatures at the bottom of the record are very different from how the name appears in the record. Other spellings of Diebold that have been found include:
In
all of the examples of Diebold's signature which have been found (baptisms, marriages,
and Declaration of Intent), he signed as "Diebold Martzolf"
or "Diebold Martzolff." Diebold Martzolf and Eve Dorothea Kachel married on January 17, 1815. Diebold was nearly thirty-six. Although most men married by the time they were twenty-five, Diebold was not unique in marrying so late. We have no clues as to why he waited so long to marry. Diebold and Eve Dorothea had nine children in a little more than twelve years. The strain this had to have put on Eve Dorothea was probably a contributing factor in her death on March 22, 1827, shortly after the birth of the last child. Two children lived to adulthood; the other seven did not live to the age of two. About five months after Eve Dorothea's death, Diebold married his first cousin Eve Barbara Martzolff on August 21, 1827. Nothing about this marriage was unusual. In Europe at this time, marriage between first cousins was common, even among royalty. The church records suggest that widowers with children often remarried as soon as three months after the death of a spouse. Diebold and Eve Barbara had two children while living in Betschdorf. Immigration Sometime late in the year 1831, Diebold left Betschdorf for America with his wife, Eva Barbara, and four children. Diebold's brother Johann Heinrich and several other Betschdorf families are known to have entered the United States through Baltimore in 1830. The year of arrival is ambiguous in the Declaration of Intent of "Theabold Mortzold" at the Beaver County, Pennsylvania court house; it appears that the date was first written as 1832, and then the '2' was overwritten with a '3'. There were a number of immigrants from Betschdorf to America around this time. Besides Diebold, Eve Barbara, and their family, other Marzolfs who emigrated to America were:
Adams
County, PA
Diebold first lived with, or near, his older brother, Johann Heinrich (John Henry) in the vicinity of Hanover, Pennsylvania. While there, they had at least two more children: daughter Eve Barbara baptized June 16, 1833 at Emmanuel Reformed Church, Hanover and Theobald baptized August 9, 1835 at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Hanover. Beaver County, PA The family moved to Beaver County by 1836: "Theobald Martzolf" is listed among the contributors to Burry Church in 1836. In 1837, "Theobald Martshelf" first appears in the tax records for North Sewickley Township, Beaver County. References to the Martzolf family appear in the records of St. John's/ Burry Church, New Sewickley Township, Pennsylvania; St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Zelienople, Pennsylvania; and Emanuel Lutheran Church, Prospect, Pennsylvania.
Children Diebold and Eve Dorothea Kachel had nine children, two of whom came to America and survived to adulthood:
Diebold
and Eve Barbara Martzolff had at least four
children, all of whom survived to adulthood:
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