Emera ALTIZER

Male 1749 - 1819  (~ 70 years)


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  • Name Emera ALTIZER 
    Born ca 08 Apr 1749  Dutchess Co. NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 08 Apr 1749  Rhinebeck, Germantown Reformed Church, Dutchess Co. NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID C0DA07B47ED9432C965F29E06CF627BB5DEB 
    Died Sep 1819  Riner, Montgomery Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Altizer Cemetery, Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Original name was von Althauser.

      Information from Jay Altizer. Please check his site for all things Altizer!

      http://www.altizerfamily.com

      Emera Altizer was born Emmerich Althauser in 1749, in Dutchess Co., New York, to German immigrants Johann Peter Althauser and Elisabetha Christiana Laucks. As a young man, Emera traveled south to Lancaster Co., PA where (according to family tradition) he worked as a cobbler for a Michael Pitzer. He married Pitzer's daughter Anna Marie in July, 1773 at Hagarstown, MD. Shortly after his marriage Emera moved to Montgomery Co. VA and lived there until his death in 1819. He is buried in the Altizer Cemetery on Chestnut Ridge in Montgomery Co. Emera was father to eight children (six boys and two girls) and those of us who bear the name Altizer, or have an Altizer in our ancestral line, all descend from this one man who lived through the last half of the 18th century.

      The children of Emera Altizer were John, Emera Jr., Nancy, Elias, David Riley, William Alexander, Elizabeth and Jonas. Each of these children had rather large families and Emera became grandfather to approximately 70 grandchildren. Of the Altizer male children: John, Emery Jr. and Jonas lived their lives in the Montgomery Co and Floyd Co area. Jonas inherited the Altizer homeplace on condition that he care for his mother until her death. Elias, David, and William left Montgomery Co. about 1810, and headed west for the newly opened Indiana Territory. David settled in Tazewell Co, near what is now Cedar Bluff (supposedly because one of his children got sick) while the other two young men went on to settle in the southwest corner of Indiana (later Illinois). As for the two Altizer girls, Nancy married Adam Akers and Elizabeth married George Reed, and they both stayed in the Montgomery Co. area and raised their families there.

      The largest concentration of the Altizer clan is in and around the Tazewell Co., VA area, and most of these members are descended from David Riley, and of those, the majority are descended from his son William. The children of Elias and William Alexander apparently had the same wander gene as their fathers, following the westerly migrations and creating branches of the family in Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri, Wisconsin, Texas, California and other areas. Of course, in the post WWII automotive age, every branch of the family has become mobile and scattered all over the country. And today there are probably as many Altizers in Florida as in Virginia.

      Emera could neither read nor write so the revised spelling of his name was probably from some notary or census taker who spelled it as he heard it. The German name Althauser has an umlaut over the a, making the pronunciation something like "Althoiser" In the 1810 census his first name is spelled Emeriah, and a few records exist that spell the last name "Althiser". There are other variations of the Althauser name but none of those have been traced to Emera, yet everyone I've met who spells the name "Altizer" or ?Alltizer? can trace their lineage directly to Emera. We are today recording eleven generations of his descendants. From telephone records and other sources I have seen, I estimate there are some 4000 people living who bear the name and, if my grasp of math and genetic traits is correct, there could be over 1 million other descendents of Emera Altizer.


    Person ID I4459  Master File
    Last Modified 31 May 2013 

    Father Johann Peter Althauser,   b. ca 25 Jan 1695, Segendorff, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Dutchess Co. NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Elizabeth Catherine Laucks,   b. 1711, West Camp, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6151  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Anna Marie Pitzer,   b. 15 Feb 1756, New Holland, Lancaster County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Aug 1850, Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 94 years) 
    Married Jul 1773  Hagerstown, MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Elias ALTIZER,   b. Mar 1776, Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Nov 1840, Posey Co. IN Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years)
    +2. John ALTIZER,   b. 1777, Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Dec 1850, Floyd Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
    +3. Emera J. ALTIZER, Jr.,   b. 1780, Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1872, Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 92 years)
     4. David Riley ALTIZER,   b. 1784, Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Sep 1854, Tazewell Co VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
    +5. Elizabeth Ann ALTIZER,   b. ca 1785, Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. ca 1858, Floyd Co. or Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 73 years)
    +6. Nancy ALTIZER,   b. 1791, Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +7. Jonas ALTIZER,   b. 1792, Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aug 1861, Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
    +8. William Alexander ALTIZER,   b. Apr 1792, Montgomery Co. VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Feb 1879, Pearl, Pike Co. IL Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 86 years)
    Last Modified 18 Jun 2011 
    Family ID F3280  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart