Christlieb-Chrislip-Crislip Family Association

Portions of the text that follow, are from the Christlieb-Chrislip-Crislip Family Association-sponsored history and genealogy publication, Ancestors and Descendants of Friedrich Carl and Anna Catharina Christlieb.

Matilda Ellen Christlieb

1830–1856

Matilda Ellen Christlieb (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Carl Christlieb2, Solomon Christlieb3 & Sarah Crislip3) [834, 1031], born 29 October 1830, Mifflin Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; died 29 June 1856, Mifflin Township, Cumberland County; married Joseph Edward Heckman; born 1828.

Matilda Ellen Christlieb “married Joseph Heckman, died about 1856 leaving two children, James and Sarah.” File No. 115, Book 3, page 147. Cumberland County Courthouse. “Matilda Ellen Christlieb was born 29 October 1830, in Pennsylvania and died 29 June 1856. She was buried in Council Bluff Cemetery (Ziegler’s Church), Mifflin Township, Cumberland County. She married Joseph Edward Heckman, son of John George Heckman and Catharine Stum. Joseph Edward Heckman was born 1828, in Pennsylvania.”

Headstone of Matilda Ellen Christlieb Heckman

Matilda Ellen Christlieb Heckman's Headstone in Ziegler's Church Graveyard, Newville, Pennsylvania

Children of Matilda Ellen Christlieb and Joseph Edward Heckman

  • Charles Elbert Heckman (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Carl Christlieb2, Solomon Christlieb3, & Sarah Crislip3, Matilda Ellen Christlieb4) [834][1032], born 1846, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

  • F.J. Heckman (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Carl Christlieb2, Solomon Christlieb3, & Sarah Crislip3, Matilda Ellen Christlieb4) [834][1032], born 1848, in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

  • Richard Heckman (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Carl Christlieb2, Solomon Christlieb3, & Sarah Crislip3, Matilda Ellen Christlieb4) [834][1032], born 30 April 1850, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; died 1864.

  • James A. Heckman (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Carl Christlieb2, Solomon Christlieb3, & Sarah Crislip3, Matilda Ellen Christlieb4) [834][1032], born 1854; married 1st Catharine Elizabeth Gutshall, born 23 April 1853; died 15 March 1903; buried in Ziegler’s Church graveyard, Mifflin Township, Cumberland County; married 2nd, Myrtle ___, born 1880.

  • Sarah "Sadie" A. Heckman (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Carl Christlieb2, Solomon Christlieb3, & Sarah Crislip3, Matilda Ellen Christlieb4) [834][1033], born 29 April 1854; died 17 February 1922; married, 15 February 1876, Wilson A. Lay, son of George Lay and Catharine Doulhouser, born 12 July 1849; died 16 February 1916. Sarah and Wilson were married in the Lutheran Parsonage at Carlisle, Pennsylvania by The Rev. Charles S. Albert. Both are buried in Ziegler’s Church graveyard, Mifflin Township.

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