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Christian Friedrick Steinman

11/08/1739-06/17/1808 . May be the married "Steinman" listed on the 1781 tax preparation list. From The Moravian Graveyards of Lititz: Christian Frederick Steinman. i, r. xvi, 6. June 17. He was born Nov. 8, 1739, in Epstein, near Manheim, in the Palatinate. Of Mennonite parentage, he united, in his sixteenth year, with the Moravians in Ebersdorf. Having come to this country, he was employed at Christianspring on the farm and in the distillery, and after his marriage, in 1785, to Mary Magdalena Peitzel, he served for seven years as the Warden at Gnadenthal. After living for a number of years in Shoeneck, unofficially, but helping that congregation by word and deed, he and his wife came (April 13) to spend the remainder of their lives in Lititz. He was not related to the first Christian Frederick Steinman.
Birth Year: 
1739
Member Year: 
1755
Death Year: 
1808