Born at Carlstadt in the Palatinate. In 1736 she married Fred. Boeckel, and the same year emigrated with him to America, settling near Reading. She was converted in 1741, under the preaching of Count Zinzendorf, and moving into the Moravian settlements, she and her hsuband found employment in the "Economy" or common household of those days. Since 1761 she served also as a midwife. She left six children