Valentine3 Urner/Orner (Johannes2, Ulrich1), born 21 January 1743(9) in North Coventry, Chester, Pennsylvania (gravestone, photo posted on descendant Debbie Dilks Orner’s website); died 15 April 1818 aged 75 years, 02 months, 26 days(9) in Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania; married probably about 1765-66 to ANNA ELISABETHA LUDWIG who was born 1748(9) and christened 15 August 1748 at Ilbesheim-Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz, Bavaria, Germany, and died 1808(9) in Pikeland.
Valentine Orner, still single, was a baptismal sponsor for Valentine Fus, son of Valentine and Anna Maria Fus, on 07 January 1764, and for Valentine Kercher, son of Nicholas and Maria Eliza Kercher, on 22 July 1764 (both recorded at Zion’s (Old Organ) Lutheran Church in East Pikeland).
He was a taxpayer in Pikeland beginning in 1766 (recorded as Valentine Urner in 1767, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1785 and 1790). He is found listed as Valentine Urner on a Sheriff’s Return listing all Pikeland landowners in 1789(A). On 23 June 1800, he was witness to the will of Lewis Voight of Vincent Township (Chester Will #4824) and signed his name as Valentine Urner.
[From The Journals of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Volume II, page 750: “1776, October 19, Saturday: In the afternoon a deacon of the congregation in Peikstown, across Frantz Creik, named Valentin Urner, came with two horses and fetched me twelve miles in my stage coach to his house in order that I might hold service tomorrow, God willing, in St. Peter’s church.....We arrived safely in the evening and it was pleasant for me to learn that this good Christian deacon was the first child whom I baptized in the barn at Providence in December, 1742, and that I had instructed and confirmed him as a boy; and now he is the father of four children and an exemplary deacon of the congregation.” NOTE: Possibly Rev. Muhlenberg misremembered the date after 34 years, or possibly this means that the birthdate on Valentine’s gravestone is incorrect.]
On 27 November 1771, he pledged four Pounds toward the building of a new St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Pikeland(A). He was on the muster roll of Captain Eyric’s Company (from Pikeland), 2nd Battalion, Chester County Militia on 12 August 1780 (PA 5:5:534)(D). When the new St. Peter’s church was chartered on 29 September 1789, he was selected as one of the Elders(A). In 1811, he was one of the Trustees charged with building the new St. Peter’s Lutheran and Reformed Church in Pikeland(A) (at Chester Springs).
1790 Census: Valentine Urner, page 042, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania.
1800 Census: Valentine Oner, page 782, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania.
1810 Census: Valentine Orner, page 355, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania.
They are buried at St. Peter’s Church in Pikeland. His will (Chester Will Book 13, page 056; file #6543), which was signed 26 February 1814 and proved 19 May 1818, mentions sons Conrad, Lewis, and George; and “my five daughters” Elizabeth Smith, Mary Clinger, Catharine Linderman, Susanna Arms, and Rebecca Orner; and co-Executor son-in-law Peter Clinger.
Known children, born in Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania:
Elizabetha4 Orner, born 14 October 1767(9); died 12 December 1840(9); married to Henry Smith who was born 25 April 1769(9) and died 28 August 1851(9). He was a farmer. 1800 Census: Henry Smith, page 782, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1810 Census: Henry Smith, page 372, Vincent, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1820 Census: Henry Smith, page 194, Vincent, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1830 Census: Henry Smith, page 159, Vincent, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1850 Census: Henry Smith, page 147, visit 072/078, South Coventry, Chester, Pennsylvania. They are buried at St. Peter’s Church in Pikeland. Known child: Henry5 Smith, born 28 August 1804(9), died 27 August 1850(9), unmarried, 1850 Census: (with father), buried at St. Peter’s Church.
+ Conrad4 Orner, born 1771; married Elizabeth Schmidt.
Anna Maria4 Orner, born about 1773; married about 1798 in Pikeland to Peter Klinger who was born probably about 1776 in Pikeland.
[Peter was the fourth of seven children of Johannes Klinger and his second wife Margretha ______. Johannes (son of Johann Wilhelm Klinger and Anna Catharina Heist) was born 04 February 1727/8 at Pfaffen-Beerfurth (Reichelsheim), Hesse, Germany. He is probably the Johannes Klinger who left from Erbach, Germany and arrived at Philadelphia 02 September 1749 on the ship Albany, sailing from Rotterdam. He moved to Yellow Springs (now Chester Springs) in Pikeland; joined Zion’s Lutheran Church in Pikeland by 1764(7); and subscribed toward the building of the new St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Pikeland in 1771(A). Johannes owned a grist mill. Peter’s parents both died on 24 October 1784, and Jonathan Wells was appointed as his guardian. Peter appears on the Pikeland Tax List in 1796 as a freeman (unmarried), and in 1799 and 1800 as a married tenant employed as a mason. Info from Klinger family researcher Nancy Hawtrey.]
[NOTE: There is a Coroner’s Inquest record in the Chester County Archives (not checked yet) for an unnamed Orner, “child of Mary Orner”, inquest conducted 25 February 1795 in Pikeland. If the child was not hers, I don’t know who else’s it could have been.]
Catharina4 Orner, born 12 June 1776; died 14 December 1830 in Pikeland; married to Johannes Lindemann who was born 01 July 1771 in North Coventry, Chester, Pennsylvania and died 31 January 1859.
[He was the son of Justus Lindemann who was born 01 January 1742/43 in Pennsylvania, died 1782 in Coventry, married to Mary Magdalena ______. Justus was the son of Justus Lindemann, born 02 August 1690 in Dachrieden, Thuringia, Germany, died 16 November 1769 in North Coventry, married to Anna Elisabetha Imsweiler who was born 12 March 1698/99 in Unkenbach, Rhineland Pfalz, Germany, they came to America on the ship Loyal Judith in 1740.]
He was a weaver. When the weaving company he started with his brother was unsuccessful, he bought a farm near Black Horse in Uwchlan Township and moved there. He may have run a tavern there also. 1810 Census: John Linderman, page 354, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. Possibly living in East Nantmeal Township in 1819. 1820 Census: Jno Linderman, page 226, Uwchlan, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1830 Census: John Linderman, page 231, Uwchlan, Chester, Pennsylvania.
[He was married second to Susanna ______ who was born about 1790 in Pennsylvania. 1840 Census: John Linderman, page 280, Uwchlan, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1850 Census: John Lindaman, page 038, visit 254/255, Uwchlan, Chester, Pennsylvania.]
Known children, born in Pikeland:
Maria5 Lindemann, born about 1798.
Catharina5 Lindemann, born 03 November and christened 22 December 1800 (from a Fraktur in the collection of the Pennsylvania State Museum, Drawer 1, item #70.34.6).
Elizabeth5 Lindemann, born about 1803.
Rebecca5 Lindemann, born 24 April and christened 12 May 1809 (from a Fraktur in the collection of the Pennsylvania State Museum, Drawer 4, item #70.34.10).
Susanna5 Lindemann, born about 1812; married 27 January 1833 to Isaiah Wells who was born about 1811 in Pennsylvania. He was a farmer. 1850 Census: Isaiah Wells, page 200, visit 054/058, West Nantmeal, Chester, Pennsylvania. Known children: possibly James Wells, born about 1835 [with Isaiah and Susanna in the 1850 census, but listed after the three younger children]; Sarah Wells, born about 1836; Martha Wells, born about 1845; William Wells, born about 1847.
Sarah5 Lindemann, born 08 October and christened 24 November 1813; died 01 January 1889; married 30 June 1836 to Hugh Rettew (son of John Rettew and Elizabeth Gordon) who was born 07 March 1816 in Chester County and possibly died before the 1850 census. 1850 Census: Sarah Rettew (alone, and child, with Mary Jones), page 011, visit 025/025, West Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. Known child: Elizabeth Ann Rettew, born about 1841.
John5 Lindemann, born 21 September 1815; died 16 October 1829 in Uwchlan.
Susanna4 Orner, born 17 April 1778; died 01 August 1859; married 08 April 1808 to Abraham Arms (son of George Arms and Magdalena Wanger) who was born about 1784-86 probably in Douglass (now Pottsgrove), Montgomery, Pennsylvania. 1810 Census: Abraham Armes, page 354, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1820 Census: Abraham Arms, page 186, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1830 Census: Abraham Arms, page 231, Uwchlan, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1840 Census: Abraham Arms, page 292, East Vincent, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1850 Census: Abraham Arms, page 147, visit 073/079, South Coventry, Chester, Pennsylvania. She is buried at St. Peter’s Cemetery. Known children:
John K.5 Arms, born 04 July 1817; died 16 August 1880; unmarried. 1850 Census: (with parents). 1860 Census: John Arms, page 407, visit 114/116, East Nantmeal, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1870 Census: John Arms (with John Priser), page 407, visit 114/116, East Nantmeal, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1880 Census: John Arms (single, “lives alone”), page 450, visit 044/044, East Nantmeal, Chester, Pennsylvania.
Susan5 Arms, born 17 April 1825; died August 1859. [NOTE: Not found and not with parents in 1850 census, so possibly married by then.]
Valentine4 Orner, born 1780(9); died 24 October 1804(9) in Pikeland; probably unmarried; buried at St. Peter’s Church.
Rebecca4 Orner, born 1782; died 18 July 1827 in Coventry, Chester, Pennsylvania; unmarried. She had three children [NOTE: info from unverified sources]. Possible children: Aaron Orner [?Heck]; Abner Orner; Hannah [?Cohene].
George4 Orner, born 11 June 1787(9); died 10 March 1864(9) in Pikeland; married 12 November 1809(11) in Pikeland to Anna Catherine King who was born 26 July 1787 in Pikeland and died 20 October 1856.
[She was the daughter of Philip Koenig/King and Maria Engel Moses. Philip’s will (Chester Will Book 15, page 106), signed 08 January 1821 and proved 21 October 1824, mentions, among others, child Catherine Orner. 1790 Census: Philip King, page 042, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1800 Census: Philip King, page 782, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1810 Census: Philip King, page 357, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. Philip was the son of Michael Koenig/King(A) who was born 1714 in Wittenberg, Germany(A), who donated the land for St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Pikeland in 1771(A) and died 1790 in Pikeland(A). King and Moses genealogy is on Mary D. Taffet's website.]
1810 Census: George Orner, page 355, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1820 Census: George Orner, page 186, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1830 Census: George Orner, page 150, Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1840 Census: George Orner, page 201, West Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1850 Census: George Orner, page 012, visit 044/044, West Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. 1860 Census: George Orner, page 114, visit 138/138, West Pikeland, Chester, Pennsylvania. They are buried at St. Peter’s Church in Pikeland. Known children, born in Pikeland: Jacob Orner, born 17 September 1810, died 21 June 1827 aged 16 years, 09 months, 04 days (Records of East Vincent Reformed Church); Augustus Orner, born 15 August 1821, died 25 April 1822; James Orner, born September 1826, died 21 June 1827.
+ Lewis4 Orner, born about 1790; married Margaret Williams.
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