Our Lieinbach Line To Ward Welsh Truckenmiller

House of the Stauber-Leinbach Homestead' circa 1715-1730 in Oley. Proprietor of the homestead had been Jacob Stauber 1713-1723. Johannes and Anna Elisabetha Leinbach had entertained a stream of Moravian missionaries 1736-1741 including Count Zinzendorf and his daughter Benigna.

Johannes Heinrich Leinbach

married

Anna Barbara Lerch

Johannes Leinbach

married

Anna Elizabeth Kleiss

John Heinrich Leinbach 

married

Johannah Salome Hermann

Henry Leinbach Sr
married 
Catherine Keller

 Magdalena Leinbach 1781 – 1833
married

Johannes Schmeck 1776 – 1829

Mary Schmeck 1807-1876
Married

Edmund Truckenmiller  1810-1889
(Floyd's History of North'd Co Gives Mary's parents)

Daniel Truckenmiller 1838-1919

married

Mary Elizabeth Berger 1842-1920

Edward Truckenmiller 1870-1950

married

Hattie Welsh 1873-1936

Ward Welsh Truckenmiller 1908-1970

married

Thelma Clara Brown 1908-1992

Charles Frederick Truckenmiller 

married

Patsy Ann Smith (Living)

Daniel Ward Truckenmiller 

married

Heather Alice Sulouff (adopted by a Gehrer)

"Johannes Leinbach Sr. is apparently the person who changed the spelling of the family name from “Leimbach” to “Leinbach,” and he may have done it deliberately. In a document in the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem PA, he acknowledges the spelling of his father’s name with an “m” while spelling his own name with an “n.” More research in Germany needs to be done, but DJL’s current “best guess” as to the name-change is as follows:

 The family may have taken its name “Leimbach” from their lords, the “von Leimbach” family, who owned the region in the late Middle Ages, but there is no evidence to date we were descended from them. The von Leimbach family had died out in the 1500’s, and the Von Riedesel family owned the land on which Johann Heinrich Leimbach was born in 1649 -- one branch of which still maintains a castle called “Eisenbach” near Lauterbach. The Baron von Riedesel lives in the town of Lauterbach.

 The word “Leim” in the late Middle Ages meant something like “clay” as well as “glue.” Currently the word “Lehm” is used for “clay,” and “Leim” means “glue,” the kind made from animal bones and horse hoofs. The word “Lein-” has to do with flax and linen. “Bach” means “brook.”

 DJL speculates that Johannes Leinbach Sr., a school teacher and perhaps a bit pedantic, may have thought he was going back to the true origin of the name by changing it from “Leimbach” to “Leinbach.” He knew his father had been a linen-weaver in his youth in an area where flax was a major crop and therefore felt that “Lein” might have been part of his name. Johannes Sr. may also have thought that people had been making the “mistake” of pronouncing “Leinbach” as “Leimbach,” the way we tend to pronounce the m-b combination as “raimbow” instead of “rainbow” in normal conversation. Johannes may have also wanted to distance the name from the word “Leim,” which by this time was taking on the regular meaning of “glue” and losing its old meaning of “clay." - copied from a post on ancestry.com, the source link given no longer works.

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Leinbach Family

First Generation Johannes Leinbach was born in 1674 in Langenselbold, Isenberg, Hesse, Germany, son of Johann Heinrich Leimbach (Leinbach) and Anna Barbara Lerch. He had several siblings whose baptisms are recorded in German church records, but he appears to be the only one who emigrated to America. He married Anna Elisabeth Kleis, daughter of Johann Adam Kleis and Elisabeth Schilling, in 1700 in Altenhaszlau, Hanau, Germany, and immigrated with his family in 1723, settling in the Oley Valley, Berks Co. PA (then Philadelphia County). There the family became associated with the Moravian Church, although Johannes himself remained a Lutheran. His wife and most of his children joined the Moravian congregation at Bethlehem in 1742.

Second Generation Children of Johannes and Anna Elisabeth Leinbach
Johann Friedrich Leinbach (1703-1784) m. Amelia Elisabeth Frey (1703-1784), 
a daughter of Henry (Heinrich) Frey and Maria Anna Catherine Levering
Johann Heinrich Leinbach (1705-1777) stayed in Berks Co. PA. His wife was Johanna Salome Hermann.
Johanna Elisabeth Leinbach (1708-1712)
Johannes Leinbach (1712-1766) m. Anna Catharina Rheim (1716-1803)
Johanna Elisabeth Leinbach (1714-1716)
Johanna Maria Leinbach (1718-?) m. Abraham Rheim, lived Berks Co. PA
Maria Barbara Leinbach (1722-1810) m. 1) Frederick Martin, a missionary to the West Indies who died there in 1750. She married 2) David Nitschmann (1696-1772), a Moravian bishop.

  

Sources David H. Smith, Sr.'s The Bensinger Family and Schuylkill County Genealogy and History site connects to the Leinbachs. Well done!

Much of the data on this page was contributed by Harvey Lineback. Thanks also go to Jennifer Buehring, Catherine Leinbach, and Linda Newsom for additional information.

In addition to the usual records from the Moravian archives in Salem, Harvey Lineback cites the following:

Genealogy of Leinbach-Lineback Families

Historical Review of Berks Co., Pa. April, 1938 p 90.

Also see the following:

Veazie, Isabel, "As Near As Possible to the Brethren," Three Forks of Muddy Creek

Web page on the Linebaugh family of Pennsylvania; this includes information on the early generations of the NC Leinbach/Lineback family.

Janet Ariciu's web page includes Linebaugh, Bowman, Neun, Keller, Hottel, Frey and Levering.

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I think these are from the book Pendleton's Oley Valley Heritage  - but I have not located the book to be sure.  These are copied from an Ancestry Family Tree -