When Johan Jacob Olinger was born on 20 June 1770, in Ruscombmanor Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Johann Jacob Olinger, was 23 and his mother, Mary Magdalena Sohns, was 19. He married Catharina Katherine Maukmore on 20 July 1793, in New Market, Shenandoah, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Greene, Tennessee, United States in 1812 and Wythe, Virginia, United States in 1820. He died in May 1845, in Scott, Virginia, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Scott, Virginia, United States.
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German: variant of Ohlinger .
German: habitationalname for someone from Ölling in Bavaria or Öllingen near Ulm, orfrom Olingen near Betzdorf.
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