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Johann Heinrich “Henry” Antes

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Johann Heinrich “Henry” Antes

Birth
Freinsheim, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Death
20 Jul 1755 (aged 54)
Frederick, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Frederick, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Johan Heinrich "Henry" Antes was a religious leader among German-Americans in Pennsylvania. He emigrated to America with his parents, Philip Frederick and Anna Catherine Antes, from Freinsheim in the Rhenish Palatinate when Henry was about nineteen years old. Talbot Hamlin states that Philip Frederick's father was originally Baron Von Blume, an abbot of a monastery who, somehow, converted to Protestantism, married an abbess, similarly converted, and together they fled from Germany to the tolerance of Pennsylvania, where they started a new life, taking the name of Anthos (a translation of the word "Blume" into the Greek word for flower), later simplified to Antes. He was named Johann Heinrich but apparently called Henry. He built the first grist mill at Bethlehem, PA in 1743. A rough translation of his birth announcement: "July 17 (1701) Philipp Friedrich Antes and his wife Anna Caterina announce the birth of Johann Heinrich, a boy, at 6 p.m. in the evening."
Johan Heinrich "Henry" Antes was a religious leader among German-Americans in Pennsylvania. He emigrated to America with his parents, Philip Frederick and Anna Catherine Antes, from Freinsheim in the Rhenish Palatinate when Henry was about nineteen years old. Talbot Hamlin states that Philip Frederick's father was originally Baron Von Blume, an abbot of a monastery who, somehow, converted to Protestantism, married an abbess, similarly converted, and together they fled from Germany to the tolerance of Pennsylvania, where they started a new life, taking the name of Anthos (a translation of the word "Blume" into the Greek word for flower), later simplified to Antes. He was named Johann Heinrich but apparently called Henry. He built the first grist mill at Bethlehem, PA in 1743. A rough translation of his birth announcement: "July 17 (1701) Philipp Friedrich Antes and his wife Anna Caterina announce the birth of Johann Heinrich, a boy, at 6 p.m. in the evening."

Inscription

(In German)
Hier ruhet HEINRICH ANTES

Ein Lleinod dieses Landes
Ein redlich kuhner
Handhaber der Gerechtigkeit
und treuner Diener
Vor Welt-und Gottes Leut.

Entschlief In Friedrichs-Town den 20 Julii, 1755
Seines Alters 54 Jahre.

English Translation:

Here lies HENRY ANTES

An Ornament of this land,
An upright, fearless, administrator of justice,
And a faithful servant before the world and God's people.

Fell asleep in Fredericktown July 20, 1755, age 54 years.

Gravesite Details

Grave is said to be marked by stone of blue marble.

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