Our grandmother* (see relationship notes below), Carrie 'Mae' (Merritt) Musgrove, was a third great grand-daughter of Johann Lastinger, a German immigrant.
Carrie 'Mae' Merritt
The date of the birth of John Lastinger I have not been able to learn definitely, but it was probably about 1740. He was born a native of the German Empire and came to America landing Charleston, S.C, about 1760. - Lastinger Family by William Lastinger 1909.
German Immigrant
Johann Michael Lastinger was born on December 7, 1740, in Langenaltheim, Bavaria, Germany - The John Lastinger Family of America page 1.In 1960 the author of The John Lastinger Family of America, Aurora Shaw, received the answer to her inquiry from the Bishop in Langenaltheim, Germany, confirming grandpa Lastinger's birthdate (letter translated from German here).
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| Kirche St. Willibald in Langenaltheim |
It is believed that Johann Michael Lastinger christened 7 Dec. 1740 at Langenaltheim, the son of Johann Georg Lastinger and his second wife, Susanna Schoener, is the immigrant John Lastinger, our ancestor.
If so, he was the grandson of Johann Georg Lastinger (Sr,), and the great-grandson of Valentin Lastinger and Margaretha Schlegel, Valentin Lastinger, the father of twelve children, was the first Lastinger in Langenaltheim, an Austrian, either an Upper or Lower Austrian religious exile 1960 (The John Lastinger Family of America page 2 ).
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| Lastinger Family Chart William Lastinger - 1909 |
Our ancestors are listed in The Germans of Colonial Georgia, 1733-1783 by George Fenwick Jones, on page 63 (link here)
Marriage
He married in Effingham, Georgia, on September 29, 1767 (link here).
Author Shaw relates the information she received from a Lastinger family historian.
'(H)er name was Anna Barbara, her family physical characteristics have led many to believe she was a native of Holland, or she may have been of the French Hugenots.'
This descendant, William W. Lastinger, aiso stated: 'In my childhood I learned from my early ancestry that John Lastinger met his bride on the ship coming over to America.
The family tradition was that she was a beautiful brunette, large brown eyes and black hair.... when John Lastinger and his promised bride landed at Charleston, S,C , they went at once to the church and were married' (ibid page 2).
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Jerusalem Lutheran Church
Home of Ebenezer Church records
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In the church at Ebenezer there was kept a large record book in which were recorded the deaths, the births, and marriages, and baptisms of the members of the congregation. Only the second volume of these records is in existence, which has been printed and is known as "The Ebenezer Record Book".
The first one is supposed to have been wantonly destroyed by the British soldiers quartered in the church during the revolution. The third volume was supposed to have disappeared during the Civil War, so the second volume is the only one known to be in existence. It had to be translated into English and was done so about 1930 by Voigt.
(Lastinger family of America pg 7).
The children of John Lastinger are listed in the existing book (ibid page 21).
According to Folk's Huxford's Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Volume 1, page 166:
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Salzberg Refugees
The original Salzberg group arrived in Savannah, Georgia, on March 12, 1734.That John Lastinger was a Saizburger immigrant has been assumed due to family tradition and the fact that he lived among the Salzburgers, his children's births were recorded in the Ebenezer church records, the Saizburger Church, and he did become a member of the Saizburger settlement, though he came to this country some thirty years or so after the original Saizburger settlers. (ibid page 1).
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| Pastor Johann Martin Boltzius |
The Catholic Archbishop of Salzburg expelled German Protestants from the region in present-day Austria in 1731, and England’s King George II offered them refuge in the new colony of Georgia. Some 300 Salzburgers following Pastor Johann Martin Bolzius accepted the invitation. General Oglethorpe greeted the exiles in Savannah, and they travelled 25 miles upriver and founded the town of Ebenezer in what is now Effingham County. Read more:Today in Georgia HistoryThey moved from their original location. When our ancestors arrived in 1767, the colonists built their new church. The women carried bricks from the kiln in their aprons to bricklayers. Fingerprints are present in some of the blocks.
In 1767-69 the Salzburger settlers of Georgia completed a house of worship sixty by eighty feet with a large gallery across the front. It was built of brick, handmade on the ground, a depression nearby showing from whence came the clay. The walls of this building are thick, probably thirty inches (ibid page 7).Revolutionary Soldier
Although application to the Daughters of the American Revolution has been made to enter this society as a descendant of John Lastinger, so far as it is known to the writer, John Lastinger has not been accepted by that organization as a Revolutionary Soldier, This would not mean that he did not serve but that insufficient proof is available as to such service.
Mrs, McCall in her book, "Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, " page 108, states that John Lastinger was a native of Germany, came to America, landed at Charleston, S.C, then settled at Ebenezer, Georgia, and that he served as private in Georgia troops and received bounty land for such service. ( page 6)The Roster of Revolutionary soldiers also reported John Lastinger, a revolutionary soldier, on page 108 (link here).
Both the Roster and Huxford relied on Mrs. McCall's book. Aurora Shaw thinks her information was the result of a mistake. Shaw thinks McCall confused land 'grants for service to the colony' with 'lucky draws' in the unusual Georgia Land Lottery system. (ibid page 8)
Grandpa Lastinger died on February 4, 1803, in Bulloch, Georgia, at 62 (Find-a-Grave here).
Sarah (Lastinger) Parker
John and Anna Lastinger's second child was a daughter named Sarah. Born in 1770 in Effingham, Georgia, she married William Parker in 1801. They had one child during their marriage, William Parker, Jr., known as 'Short Arm Bill' (blog post here). She died as a young mother in 1804, one year after her father. She is buried at Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery near Kirkland, Georgia (Find-a-Grave here).
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| Sarah (Parker) and Allen Raymond Williams Children: Mary Jane and Jesse Greene Williams |
The only child of William and Sarah (Lastinger) Parker was the father of Sarah Parker, who married Allen Raymond Williams. With her sister, Morning (Parker) Davis, and her son, Jesse Green Williams, they were founding members of the Little Utah Mormon Church (blog post here).
The Georgia Salzburgers
*Terms of relationship - grandmother, uncle, aunt, cousin, etc. - are generically used to include relatives such as fourth great-grandfathers, great grand uncles, second cousins twice removed, etc.
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