Carl / Charles Laubscher

Carl [Charles] Laubscher was the 6th child of Johan Georg Laubscher & Maria Eva Entz:

Carl / Charles Laubscher^1–4 was born on 24 Oct 1816 in Durlach u Weingarten, Baden, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.^5–6 He was baptized on 26 Oct 1816 at Lutheran Church in Durlach u Weingarten, Baden, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.⁶ He died on 3 Jan 1895 at the age of 78 in Pike Co., Pennsylvania, United States.⁷ Carl [Charles] Laubscher was born in Baden about 1816. He probably arrived in Pennsylvania during the late 1830s or early 1840s. Carl's brother, Louis, arrived in the fall of 1839. It seems likely that Carl, brother George and sister Catherine arrived about the same time.

He resided in the household of his late wife's father-in-law,Peter Haverling, along with daughter, Mary, in Sterling Twp., Wayne Co., Pennsylvania in 1850. From at least 1860 until 1880, Charles farmed in Greene Twp., Pike Co.

Prior to 1850, Carl anglicized his given name to Charles, although Carl was inscribed on his tombstone.

He remarried about 1852 to Elizabeth Koerner of Germany. Carl and Elizabeth had six children. Elizabeth died in 1875 at the age of 50.

Carl did not serve in the Civil War like his two brothers and was the only member of the family to remain in Pennsylvania his entire time in America.

In 1870, brother George was living with Carl and Elizabeth.

Carl barely witnessed the new year of 1895, dying on the 3rd of January. He was buried in the Old Greenton/Kipp Cemetery in Greentown, Pike Co., PA with Elizabeth and two infant children. Rosanna was one and Jane may have been the other..

Carl / Charles Laubscher and Maria Haverling/Heberling were married about 1848 in Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, United States.¹ Maria Haverling/Heberling¹, daughter of Peter Haverling/Haberling, was born in 1825–1830 in prob Germany. She died about 1850 at the age of 25 in Pennsylvania.¹ Maria was the daughter of Peter Haverling. She married Carl Laubscher about 1848. Their daughter, Mary, was born in February 1849. Maria presumably died in childbirth. She was not on the 1850 census with her father, husband and daughter. Maria had a brother, William [b. c1822 Ger.], who was on the 1850 census with his wife Margaretha [b. c1830 Ger.] and son Louis [b. 1849 PA].  

 

Carl / Charles Laubscher and Maria Haverling/Heberling had the following child:

 

2 i. Mary Laubscher, born 2 Feb 1849, Stirling, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States; married Jacob Hahn, 1869, Dunmore, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States; died 26 Feb 1929, Atkinson, Holt, Nebraska, United States.

 

Carl / Charles Laubscher and Elizabeth Koerner⁸ were married about 1852 in Prob Pike Co., Pennsylvania, United States.² Elizabeth Koerner was born on 12 Mar 1825 in Germany.^2,7 She died on 3 Apr 1875 at the age of 50 in Pike Co., Pennsylvania, United States.^4,7 Elizabeth was born in 1825 in either Germany or Pennsylvania. Census records for 1860-70 give Germany as her birthplace, while daughter Rose's death certificate shows Pennsylvania. She was Carl Laubscher's second wife.

 

Carl / Charles Laubscher and Elizabeth Koerner had the following children:

 

3 i. Rose Amanda Laubscher, born 7 May 1854, Greene Twp., Pike, Pennsylvania, United States; married Frederick Fetzer, ca 1903, Monroe  Co., Pennsylvania, United States; died 27 Sep 1917, Hanover Twp., Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States.

4 ii. Robert B. Laubscher, born 14 Feb 1856, Greene Twp., Pike, Pennsylvania, United States; married Amanda Barry, ca 1906, Monroe  Co., Pennsylvania, United States; died 4 Dec 1933, Stroudsburg Twp., Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States.

iii. John B. Laubscher⁴ was born about 1858 in Greene Twp., Pike Co., Pennsylvania.^2–4 The last record of John is the 1880 census. He was 22 years old.

iv. Rosanna Laubscher⁸ was born in May 1859 in Greentown, Pike, Pennsylvania, United States.⁸ He/she died in Jul 1859 at the age of 0 in Greentown, Pike, Pennsylvania, United States.⁸ According to the 1860 US Federal Mortality Schedule [M1838_1], Rosanna contracted scrofula [tuberculosis of the neck] and died six days later. She was 21 days old.

5 v. George Bruce Laubscher, born 9 Sep 1861, Greene Twp., Pike, Pennsylvania, United States; married Emma Gschwind, 21 Feb 1902, Moore Co., North Carolina, United States; died 7 Jan 1929, Vass, McNeill Twp., Moore, North Carolina, United States.

vi. Jane Elisabeth Laubscher⁸ was born about 1864 in Greene Twp., Pike Co., Pennsylvania.^3–4 There is no further record of Jane after the 1880 census.

6 vii. Anna M. "Annie" Laubscher, born 30 Nov 1866, Greene Twp., Pike, Pennsylvania, United States; married William Roger Slutter, ca 1888, Monroe  Co., Pennsylvania, United States; married Thomas Wesley Staples, 4 Jul 1905, East Stroudsburg, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States; died 6 May 1967, Penn Yan, Yates, New York, United States.

 

Sources:

1. Peter Hoeverling, 1850 US Federal, Sterling, Wayne, Pennsylvania, p. 120-121, 19 August ; NARA M432_835.

        2. Charles Laubscher, 1860 US Federal, Greene, Pike, Pennsylvania, p. 804, 11 August; NARA M653_1176.

        3. Charles Laubscher, 1870 US Federal, Greene, Pike, Pennsylvania, p. 365, 17 August; NARA M598_1446.

        4. Charles Laubshire, 1880 US Federal, Greene, Pike, Pennsylvania, p. 337B; NARA 1255165 - FHL / T9_1165 - NARA.

        5. Charles Laubscher, 1870 US Federal, Greene Twp., Pike Co., Pennsylvania, p. 365, 17 August 1870; NARA M593_1446.

        6. Evangelische Kirche Weingarten, "Baden German Loutheran Baptisms, Marriages & Burials 1502-1985," baptism, Ancestry.cm (www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 December 2017), Carl Laubscher baptism; p. 16; 17.

        7. Find A Grave, compilation of cemetery interrments, "Old Greentown/Kipp Cemetery, Greentown, Pike, PA," database, Find A Grave (https://oldfindagrave.com : accessed 14 December 2017), Carl & Elizabeth Laubscher.

        8. "Ancestry Public Trees", database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 December 2017), "Susan Opocensky Family Tree," Laubscher family; submitted unk by Twila Osterle, [contact information for private use].