An American Family History

The ancestors of Elizabeth Baker Branstiter were German Palatine Lutherans who were driven out of Germany by war, famine, despotic rule, and disease. The first settlers in America sent back favorable reports and others followed. The Bakers, Kesslers and Kiblers came to Philadelphia in this wave of immigration. From there, they went to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and then to Clark County, Ohio. Elizabeth's grandfather, Jacob Baker served in the Revolution.

• Anna Catherine Gramm Baker
• Veronica Gramm Kiblinger

Philip Baker and Anna Catherine Gramm 1752

Philip Baker

Rhein-Durkheim, Germany
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Luray, Page County, Virginia

• Jacob Baker
• John (Johannes) Baker
• Philip Baker
• Henry Baker
• Conrad Baker
• Samuel Baker
• Daniel Baker
• Martin Baker
• Rudolph Baker
• Anna Elizabeth Baker Ransbarger
  

Henry (Heinrich) Kibler and Mary Pierce 1760
Henry Kibler
Mary Amelia Pierce

Luray, Page County, Virginia

• Magdalene Kibler Baker
• Barbara Kibler Pence
• Adam Kibler
• John Kibler
• Philip Kibler
• Martin Luther Kibler

Henry and Barbara Kessler 1770
Henry Kessler
Barbara Kessler

North Codorus, Township, York County, Pennsylvania
Rockingham County, Virginia
German Township, Clark County, Ohio

• Catherine Kessler Smith
• Henry Kesler
• Simon Kessler
• Barbara Kessler Beary
• Mary Elizabeth Kessler Baker
• Mary Magdalene Kessler Myers
• Anna Maria Kessler

Jacob Baker and Magdalene Kibler 1776

Page County, Virginia
German Township, Clark County, Ohio

• Philip Baker
• Samuel Baker
• Jacob Baker
• Martin Baker
• Magdaline Baker Xander
• Henry Baker
• John Baker

Philip Baker and Mary Elizabeth Kessler 1803

Rockingham County, Virginia
German Township, Clark County, Ohio

• Elizabeth Baker Branstiter
• George B. Baker
• Mary M. Baker Rockel
• Sarah A. Baker Hunt Bilger
• William Baker
• James Baker
• Susannah Baker Ryman
• Jacob Baker
• Daniel Baker
• Jefferson Baker

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