Malachi Hartzell

Brief Life History of Malachi

When Malachi Hartzell was born about 1795, in Turkeyfoot, Lower Turkeyfoot Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Daniel Townsend, was 49 and his mother, Anna Elizabeth Kagresin, was 37. He married Mary Madgalena Lange about 1822. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Addison, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States in 1820. He died about 1837, in Ligonier Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 44.

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Family Time Line

Malachi Hartzell
1795–1837
Mary Madgalena Lange
1798–1870
Marriage: about 1822
Catherine A. Hartzell
1824–1893
Mary Hartzell
1840–1909
Jerome L. Hartzell
1826–1920
Margaret Elizabeth Hartzell
1829–1914
Sarah Louise Hartzell
1834–1926
Isabelle Hartzell
1836–1926

Sources (2)

  • Melchor Hartzel, "United States, Census, 1800"
  • Melchi Hartzell, "United States Census, 1820"

World Events (8)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

1795

Historical Boundaries: 1795: Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of (Swiss) German Hirtzel or Hirzel (via the intermediate form Hertzel 2). Compare Hartsell and Hartzel .

Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (Askenazic) Herzel or Hertzel 1 and 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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