Martha heiratete Corbin, Thomas Jefferson am 21 Mrz 1866 in , Caswell County, North Carolina, USA. Thomas wurde geboren geschätzt 1847 in ,,, USA; und gestorben. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]

1. Corbin, Pattie Ellen wurde geboren geschätzt 1867 in ,,, USA; und gestorben.
2. Corbin, Thomas Jefferson wurde geboren geschätzt 1869 in ,,, USA; und gestorben.
3. Corbin, Janie Elizabeth wurde geboren geschätzt 1871 in ,,, USA; und gestorben.
4. Corbin, Minnie Augusta wurde geboren geschätzt 1873 in ,,, USA; und gestorben.
5. Corbin, William Bledsoe wurde geboren geschätzt 1875 in ,,, USA; und gestorben.
6. Corbin, Ruth Anita wurde geboren geschätzt 1877 in ,,, USA; und gestorben.
7. Corbin, Ethel wurde geboren geschätzt 1879 in ,,, USA; und gestorben.
8. Corbin, Edwin Rudolph wurde geboren geschätzt 1881 in ,,, USA; und gestorben.
9. Corbin, Sallie Anne wurde geboren geschätzt 1883; und gestorben.
10. Corbin, Marry Lou wurde geboren geschätzt 1885; und gestorben.
11. Corbin, George Lee wurde geboren geschätzt 1887; und gestorben.
12. Corbin, Ida Green wurde geboren geschätzt 1889; und gestorben.
13. Corbin, Rebecca wurde geboren geschätzt 1891; und gestorben.

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Bernard-C-Rodenhizer:
Another story handed down in the family is that Casper was unhappy with his stepmother and left home. Many of the German settlers had moved to the Valley of Virginia and he probably joined friends in seeking a new home. This brought him to Rockbridge, Co., Virginia. The first authentic record of Casper that we have is that of his marriage to Anne Hershberger Craft in Lexington, VA.

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Anne, seventeen at the time of her marriage, lived near, Natural Bridge, but as she once put it, she lived near this giant spectacle but had never seen it.

Casper seems to have been endowed with a pioneer spirit as he engaged in business in different places, apparently bettering his financial status each time. It’s likely that he engaged in the manufacture of iron in Rockbridge Co., for in his next move to Meadsville, Halifax Co. Virginia, he owned a foundary which was a thriving business, making household and farming implements. How long he and his family remained there is not definitely known, but eleven of the thirteen children were born either in Rockbridge or Halifax County. The family was living in Danville, Va., when in 1862, Casper’s father, the second John Rodenizer, died on June 20, at the age of 87.

The foundary, established in Danville, as the firm of Crews and Rodenhizer, was a thriving business during the War Between The States, for they supplied army equipment. While living in Danville, Casper owned a home on Grove Street, and later bought property on the east side of North Main Street, here he had a substantial home which housed not only his unmarried children, but the married ones as well, along with the numerous grandchildren. This home was owned by his grandchildren as late as 1956. Three sons of his daughter, Mary Rodenhizer Ragland, (Pryor, William, and Edwin R.) were reared in Casper’s home after their mother’s death. William said that he sometimes slept with his great-grandfather, John, who with broken English, often told him that father (the first John) and his uncle, Phillip Peter, fought in the Revolution.

Casper did not believe in slavery and he hired seven servants a year to work at the foundary and at his home. It is somewhat interesting to state here, that Rebecca Rodenhizer saw to small negro girls on the roadside near her home, crying. On questioning them she found they were mistreated at home. They were named Lucy and Margaret Carter. She took them home with her, taught them to read, write, and sew, and above all to become faithful and honorable servants.


When Rebecca married John Baugh, Lucy became her personal maid and nursed her children. Lucy and Margaret lived with various members of the family until they married and lived in Roanoke. Rebecca’s daughters cared form them when they were unable to work.

The old Grove Street Cemetery in Danville, established in 1830, did not belong to the city, but was owned by private citizens. Casper Rodenhizer was one of these and his father, John, was buried there in 1862. The location of his grave is not known as no records were kept of the sections owned by various citizens, but a daughter of Casper’s Mr. Pattie Rodenhizer Corbin, remembered his burial and grave her recollections of him a short time before her death in 1935. When the history of the cemetery was written by Miss Mack in 1930, descendants of people buried there were asked to give information about them when no maker could be found. Mr. E. W. Myers, furnished forty-markers for unnamed graves, but the Rodenhizer descendants overlooked this; however, in 1957, Miss. Mack gave this compiler permission to add the following statement to the list of persons buried in Grove Street Cemetery and also to add it to the copy which is in Danville’s Public Library:

Rodenhizer ---- John, son of John and Margaret Muller, born in York County, Penn. Died June 20, 1872.

The firm of Crews and Rodenhizer was dissolved in 1870 because Casper found that Mr. Crews was not dealing honestly with him. Some time before Casper had hired, in the foundary, a young man named Joe Westbrooks. Although he was unskilled and uneducated, Casper realized him a person of ability and of character. His judgment was correct, for when the business was sold Mr. Westbrooks bought it. It is nationally known as the Westbrook Elevator Company.

Casper moved with his family to Leaksville, NC., where he operated a foundary, a lumber mill, and a flour mill. Several of his married sons worked in these various enterprises. His home was still open to any and all relatives, who came and his grandchildren in Danville looked forward to the closing of the private school they attended so that they could take off, under the care of Lucy an Margaret Carter, to spend the summer in Leaksville.

Casper suffered a stroke in his Leaksville home and died March 13, 1880. This was 111 years since his grandfather had landed in Philadelphia. His life, which began in Fredrick, Maryland, and ended in Leaksville, North Carolina, had been motivated by an inherent integrity. Although he left home as a very young man and apparently with no help or guidance, he became successful. It was his custom to pay his bills, household and business, twice a year on July 1 and January 1. Apparently his credit was unquestioned and he was called "Honest Casper" by the people with whom he transacted business. He may have heard his father and grandfather repeat an old German maxim: "Integrity is mastery over self-swindle."

Each of his children inherited from him legacies in property or money. In her book "History of Danville," Mrs. L. L. Hagan said of him:

"In 1850 there were only four houses in North Danville. Of these the Claiborne home was undoubtedly one and another was that of Casper Rodenhizer, a pioneer manufacturer of iron in the South, located on the east side of North Main Street, where a short street commemorates his ownership."

Here follows the names of Casper, his wife, children and grandchildren with as many date as could be obtained:

Casper Rodenhizer (Son of John) Born June 11, 1812 in Frederick, Maryland. Married Anne Hershberger Sept. 10, 1831 in Lexington, Virginia. Anne Hershberger Born Aug. 22, 1814, died May 25, 1892
Note: they were both buried in Leemount Cemetery.

Casper heiratete Hershberger, Anne am 10 Sep 1831 in Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA. Anne (Tochter von Oats, Winter) wurde geboren am 12 Apr 1811; gestorben am 25 Mrz 1892. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]

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Bernard-C-Rodenhizer
From Leemount Cemetery Danville, Virginia Volume 2 Gravestone Records Through Fall 1986 - Abstracted by the members of the VA-NC Piedmount Genealogical Society Box 2272 Danville, Virginia 24543 - Avverett College Press Danville, Virginia 1988 Page 45

IJ49-49 Birth : 12 APR 1811 Death : 25 MAR 1892 RODENHIZER ANN
wife OF GASPAR RODENHIZER (NOTE; ERROR IN FIRST NAME SHOULD BE CASPER)

Ann Harshburger orphand and raised by Craft - Her Mothers name was Winter Oats or Oates

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Bernard-C-Rodenhizer:
Source: Rockbridge Circuit Court Cleark's Office - Marriage Register Number 1 at page 259 Casper Rodenhizer and Ann Craft were married Sept 10, 1831, by Rev. James Kerr.

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Bernard-C-Rodenhizer:
Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1810
Rodenizer, J. State : MD
County : Baltimore Co.
Location : Cacrnarvon Twp
Year : 1810
Page# : 459

John heiratete Carson, Elizabeth am 5 Jun 1811 in , Frederick County, Maryland, USA. Elizabeth wurde geboren geschätzt 1790; gestorben geschätzt 1825. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]

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Bernard-C-Rodenhizer:
Source: Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Frederick County, MD - Transcrip dated 19 Jan 1953 and signed by Ellis C. Wachter Clerk of the Circuit Court for Federick County, MD
From: Maryland
Death: somewhere between 1820 to 1829

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Bernard-C-Rodenhizer:
Notes for JOHANNAS RODENHIZER:
Altspelling: Rodinghizer
altspelling: Rodenhauser
between Johannes Rothenheuser and Caspar Rodenhizer the following different
spellings appeared in the record as the name because angelicized

Rothenheusser
Rothenheuser
Rotenheuser
Rodenheuser
Rodenhyser
Rodinghiser
Rodenizer
Rodenhauser
Rodanizer
Rodenhaus
Rodeniser

ROTHENHEUSER 1769 RODENHIZER 1997

The name Rodenhizer, as it is now spelled, was brought to America from Germany in 1769 by two brothers, Johannas and Phillip Peter Rothenheuser. Were they lived in Germany is not known, buy family tradition says that a special regiment for the standing army was being formed of young men six feet tall and perfectly proportioned. The Rothenheuser brothers qualified for these requirements but they did not care for inactive military service, and, to escape it they emigrated to America. We may also suppose that a desire for religious and civic freedom, which was causing an exodus from Europe at that time was another reason for their venture into the New World. Like many of their country-men, they first settled in Pennsylvania. The Germans of Colonial America have been given favorable comments by two historians:

"These early Germans, though often extravagant in their religious notions were usually men of character and as a class were a very choice lot of colonists."
Colonial America-Chitwood

"Germans contributed one of the most valuable elements in the American Hertiage. They not only engaged in type founding but were the finest wood and iron workers in the colonies."

Adult American History- Baldwin

In the records of the Historical Society, York, Penn., we find this statement:

Index of German Pioneers - List 276C
at the Court House, Philadelphia
13th of Oct. 1769, Present: Samuel Shoemaker, Esq Mayer
Issac Jones, Esq.
Rotenheuser, Johannes, and Phillip Peter, Came over in ship "Minerva", Capt.Thomas Arnett from Rotterdam, but last from Portsmouth, England, did this day take and subscribe the usual qualifications. Consigned to Mr. Samuel Shoemaker in the list 95, paid S7, 2s, 6p (7 pounds, 2 shillings, 6 pence)
Landed at Phila.

In connection with the above statement a librarian at the History Society called the attention of Mrs. James Worsham, lineal descendent of Johannes Rodenheuser, to the list of the ship’s passengers. Almost all of them, unable to write, signed by making a mark; but the Rothenheuser brothers wrote their signatures in beautiful German Script, which indicated a cultural background.

The early records of the family are sketchy which is explained by a statement from the State Library, Harrisburgh, Penn., which says:

"Vital statistics were not recorded in Pennsylvania prior to 1906. There were laws previous to that date, but they were not enforced"

However, we know that the Rothenheusers settled in York, County, Penn., and Johannes was married before 1775. By that time his name had become Anglicized and in the next records of him, the name is written John.

The variant in spelling of Rotheneuser is not difficult to understand. The majority of people in York, Co., before the Revelution were German, and naturally they were slow to give up their native language and customs. In fact they are very much in evidence today. When it was neceessary for them to discharge civic or legal duties before an official who spoke English, the name was written as it sounded to the said official. Here are some of the many spellings of the name that have been found: Rodenhyser, Rothenheuser, Rodenhauser, Rothenheiser, Rodanizer, Rodenhaus, Rodinghizer, Rodinizer, Rodenizer, Rodeniser and Rodenhizer.

The first official record of the family in the christening of the daughter of John Rodenheuser and his wife Maria Margaret (Muller). A son, John, was born in 1775. It indicates that they were communicauts of the German Church and conformed to an honorable standard of living in Hanover Township.

Maria Margaret Rodenhauser, born Feb. 11 1777, father John mother Maria Margaret, Christoned August 18, 1777. Sponsor - Catherine, wife of Casper Muller. (Probably the mother’s name was Muller)

The next record concerns the service rendered in the Revolution by John Rodenhyser. See the transcription of the Historical Society York, Penna. below. The son, John, of the above soldier stated that his father and also his uncle fought in the Revolution, but no record of Phillip Peter’s service can be found.

COPY; The Historical Society
225 East Market St. York, Penna. July 26, 1950

This is to certify that the following is a true and correct abstract from York County, Penna. in the AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A Source Book compiled by Henry James Young, 1939
(Red Series, Vol. 1 Page 31)

"Payroll of Capt. John McIlvaine’s Company in Colonel John Andres’s Battalion of York County Malitia, A.D. 1778:

John Rodenhyser, Nov. 10, 1777 Pay for month S. 2-10-0
Amt. Due when discharged S. 5-15-0
Whole pay received S. 3-10-0

The record herein is from a longhand copy in the Historical Society of York Co. The whereabouts of the original is unknown.

SIGNED: John Lowry Ruth, Director
Seal is attached

OTHER ITEMS FROM YORK, PA

John Rotenheizer lived in York, Penna. Between ages of 18 and under 53 Years. Vol II, 6 series, Penn. Archives

John Rodenhyser entered service Nov. 10, 1777. Amt. due when discharged 5, 16 shillings

Peter Rodenhizer paid tax in Hunting Township, York C. in 1780. Third Series, VOL. XXI, page 266.

.A letter from the State Library, Harrisburg, Penn., signed by Jessica C. Fargusen, Genealogical Librarian, contains the following information concerning the Rodenheuser brothers:

"John Rothenheiser taxed in Newberry Township in year of 1779. In 1781 he was taxed in York Township on a house and lot, likewise a cow. His name disappears from the tax lists, nor do we find him listed as the head of a family in York, County in 1790."
"Peter Rothenheizer was taxed in Huntington Township, York County, in 1779 having a house and cow. In 1783 he is listed in Huntington Township as having a family of five persons. He did not seem to own real estate."

In 1955 this compiler wrote a letter to the Clerk of the Court at Huntington asking if the Rodenheuser or its variant in spelling, could be found on any records. There was no reply and a simular letter was sent to the Mayor of Huntington explaining that the Clerk of the Court did not answer the inquiry. It turned out that the Mayor was president of the Kiawanis Club and they made a through investigation, even consulting a genealogist, but no records of Peter’s family could be found.

On reading the above statements concerning their taxable property, you first impression is that they were very poor, but we cannot judge Colonial America by the standard of living which has developed since the Revolution. In "The Way of Our People" by Woodward he has this to say:

"To gain a clear view of the life of that period we must get some idea of the value of things as measured by the medium of exchange. Money was scarce and it went along way when expended on merchandise or food. Aworkman recived two shillings a day. Everyone including day laborers, had a garden, raised vegtables, kept a cow and horse. Clothes were expensive and made to last for years. The workman’s two shillings were just enough to keep him and his family well fed in a poorly furnished home."
The family of the Revolutionary soldier, John Rodenhyser, moved to Frederik, Md. about 1790.

Two items concerning the family are recorded in the Courthouse of Frederick, Md. The first is the marriage license of John Rodanizer and Elizabeth Carson, June 5, 1811.

Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Federick Co., Maryland.
"I hereby certify that a marriage license was issued to John Rodanizer and Elizabeth Carson on the 5th day of June 181, and appears by the record of marriage licenses of this office.

Signed Ellis C. Wachter,
Clerk of Court
Two children were born of this marriage. Casper, named for his great-uncle Casper Muller, and Mary, who married a Mr. Fraley. Their descendants live in Emmetsburg, Maryland. Elizabeth Carson died about 1820 or 29 and John Rodanizer married Hannah Morehead. Two children of this marriage were Daniel, and a sister who married Manuel Miller.
The second record concerning the above John is as follows:

Frederick, MD.

Bill of sale from John Prutzman of Frederick Co. to Frederick C. Hase and John Rodenghizer, dated June 9th, 1812 and recorded June 12 1812, consideration of property $199.00

Deed from John Rodinghizer, and wife Elizabeth to George Eckman, Jr. Dated Aug. 24, 1816 and recorded January 20, 1817, consideration $300.00.

John Rodenhizer, Frederick, Md. Was evidently the son of John Rotenhziser (Rodenhyser) who fought in the Revolution, because so many of the German people living in Penna. came to Md. And Va. John Rodenhizer of Md. was born 1775 and died June 20th, 1862. Buried in Grove St. in Danville. His son Casper Rodenhizer was born in Frederick, Md. June 11th, 1812 and died March 13th, 1880 in Leaksville, NC.

Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1840

Rodenizer, John State : MD
County : Frederick Co.
Location : 4th Election Dist
Year : 1840
Page# : 206

Rodenizer, John State : MD
County : Frederick Co.
Location : 4th Election Dist
Year : 1840
Page# : 215

Note: above two index's - do not know which is Johannas or John (father - son)? need to check the roll
and find out

From: " Names of Foreigners who took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania 1727-1775 With the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1880." Edited by William Henry Egle, M.D.

Page 489 and 490.

List of Foreigners Inported in the Ship Minerva, Capt. Thomas Arnott, From Rotterdam, Last from Portsmouth. Qualified Oct 13, 1769.
Philip Peter Rothenheusser

Johannes heiratete Müller, Maria Margaret um 1772. Maria wurde geboren um 1755; und gestorben. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]