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Frederick and Elizabeth Stager were my 5th-great grandparents on the Garrison side. They lived during the American Revolution and this is their picture.
Frederick Stager (also spelled Steger, Steeger & Staeger) was born August 28, 1760 in Lancaster, PA to Adam and Catherine (See Adam’s will). He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and served as a private in the Lancaster County militia from September 1781 through July 1782 with a tour of duty to Bucks County, PA.
On January 25, 1785 Frederick married Elizabeth Juengst (also spelled Jungst, Yingst & Yiengst) in Lebanon, PA.
Elizabeth was born September 29, 1767 in Lancaster, PA. Her father, Johann Heinrich, was also a veteran of the Revolutionary war, serving three tours with the Lancaster County militia.
Frederick and Elizabeth had 14 children, seven girls and seven boys. Frederick died on February 18, 1824 in Lebanon, PA and left no will; his estate passed to his wife. Elizabeth died July 24, 1840, in Dauphin County, PA. Elizabeth left a detailed will naming her “beloved son-in-law, John Daub” as an executor of her estate. John Daub was the husband of Elizabeth Stager, both of whom were my 4th-great grandparents.
Frederick and Elizabeth are buried in Kimmerlings Cemetery, Avon, Lebanon County, PA. Frederick’s grave is marked with a Daughters of the American Revolution grave marker.
This image of Frederick and Elizabeth Stager is taken from the book A Family Odyssey:Ancestors and Descendents of Joseph Harrison and Ada Bell Stager(1). The image is a reproduction of a portrait of Elizabeth and Frederick.
Also in the book are images of three of their daughters. Unfortunately the names of the daughters was not recorded, so we don’t know which ones they were. I managed to track down a copy of this book in Minnesota at a local Historic Society. I was lucky that they had two copies in their library and were willing to sell one. This is, by far, the oldest image I have of any ancestor.
Sources:
1: Family Odyssey:Ancestors and Descendents of Joseph Harrison and Ada Bell Stager, 1983, by: Helen A. & Evelyn M. Stager
Daughters of the American Revolution records.
Frederick Stager (1760-1824) is my 4th great grandfather, whom had a son Frederick (1796-1869) who is my third great grandfather, whom had a daughter Hannah (1824-1861) who married my 2nd great grandfather Emannuel Ludwig.
There is just no way that is “Frederick Stager (1760-1824)” in that photograph. The daguerreotype or first practical photographic process was not invented until 1839.
The couple in the 1860s portrait are not Frederick and Elizabeth Yingst Stager. He died in 1824, well before common rural photography. The wife is wearing an 1840 – 1860s bishop sleeve dress and the husband is sitting in a Civil War era chair. This may be a grandson of Frederick Stager. Photos are often identified as “Frederick Stager and wife” with someone much later making an assumption easily disproven, as here. Generations conflated.