2. | Christoph "Stoffel" Fagenwinters, (immigrant) was born on 15 Jan 1752 in Reinach, Aargau, Switzerland (son of Christoph "Stoffel" Feigenwinter and M. Sutterlin); died in 1809 in Salisbury, Rowan Co, North Carolina. Notes:
From: brianvhendrix brianvhendrix@mac.com
Date: 03/17/15 15:33:41
To: lumoto@aol.com
Subject: Christopher Fagenwinters
Sherry (?) -
I just found your website and wanted to add what I have discovered about Christopher Fagenwinters. My research suggests his given name was Christoph Feigenwinter and that he was a Swiss soldier drafted into the German army and rented out to the British to fight in the American Revolution. He deserted in South Carolina and found his way to the German/Swiss community in Salisbury, NC. He had a second son born in 1792 also named Christopher, who fought in the War of 1812 under the name Christopher F. Winters, then at some point changed the spelling to Winder before migrating to the Republic of Texas in 1840. CF Winder was my third great grandfather. This has all been confirmed through several documents, including pages from a German language genealogy book sent to me by a distant Feigenwinter cousin in Switzerland, which shows Christoph Feigenwinter, born 1752, ?disappeared as a soldier?.
I have a very detailed tree on ancestry.com under the username Brian Hendrix, if you?re interested.
Brian Hendrix
Houston, Texas
ancestry tree here:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/24719412/family/pedigree
Christoph married Barbara Faw on 1 Oct 1785 in North Carolina. Barbara was born in 1770 in Rowan Co, North Carolina; died before 1860 in Hot Springs, Garland Co, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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