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Rahn of Ebenezer



Casper Rahn and Conrad Rahn settled at Ebenezer in 1751. Casper married Barbara. Casper was deceased in 1757. Issue of Casper Rahn:
  • Conrad Rahn, died January 1777 at Ebenezer. He served in the Colonial Army, under Colonel Jones, Seventh Company, as an Ensign. On 16 October 1760 he was made Captain of the Ninth Company. Issue:
  1. George Rahn, born 1753, died 26 March 1756.
  2. Matthew Rahn, born 7 October 1754, died 4 November 1822. He was married (2) on 2 February 1802, Mrs. Hannah Eliza (Hoffman) Dolwich (died 25 June 1837), daughter of Jacob and Maria (Reiser) Hoffman. Issue:
    1. Samuel Rahn, born 1786, died 3 January 1823, married Eleanora. Issue: John C. Rahn married 27 April 1820, Margaret Zipperer; Agneta Rahn, died 30 January 1854, married 23 November 1807, John Seckinger; Esther Rahn married 22 September 1819, Aaron Lovett. Removed to South Georgia; Lydia Rahn married 9 December 1821, C. Basil Thomas; Jocias Rahn, born 10 November 1802, died 21 November 1802; Mary Florintha Rahn, born 16 October 1803, died 13 September 1854, married Christopher Dawson on 4 ; Irvin Rahn, born 4 September 1806, died 16 April 1891, married Sarah Ann Norman (born 1813, died 8 January 1881, Liberty County) on 12 September 1837, Liberty County. (Issue: Samuel Irvin Rahn, born 1 February 1839, died 15 November 1869, married Miss Summerall; Joseph William Rahn, born 1 November 1841, died 8 March 1848; Charles James Rahn, born 23 September 1843, died 28 August 1848; Thomas Alexander Rahn, born 8 January 1846, died 30 January 1856; Mary Eliza Rahn, born 9 February 1848, died 2 May 1853; Lewis Breedlove Rahn, born 27 November 1852, died 11 May 1893, married Emily Seckinger and John Osgood Rahn, born 26 September 1857, died 21 August 1941, married Georgia Ada McGillis); Frederick Rahn, born 11 December 1807, died 19 July 1831; Alexander Hamilton Rahn, born 23 December 1809, died 1 April 1866, married Mary C. Gould; Eliza Hannah Rahn, born 28 April 1811, died 14 June 1893, married Cletus Rahn (born 1801 Effingham County). (Issue: Margarett Rahn, born 1836 Effingham County; Elizabeth Rahn, born 1838 Effingham County; Sarah Rahn, born 1840 Effingham County; Victoria Rahn, born 1842 Effingham County; Edwin Rahn, born 1844 Effingham County; Sheppard Rahn, born 1846 Effingham County; Anna Rahn, born 1847 Effingham County and William Rahn, born 1848 Effingham County); Archibald Rahn, born 11 July 1812; Israel Hireto Rahn, born 11 February 1816, died 19 June 1864 in the War Between the States; Appolina Margaret Rahn, born 28 August 1817, died 29 January 1818; Richard Rahn, born April 1821, died December 1821.
  3. John Martin Rahn, born and died April 1756.
  4. Obadiah Rahn, born 1 September 1758, died 28 April 1769.
  5. Lydia Rahn, born 15 June 1760, died after 1777.
  6. Jonathan Rahn, born 21 March 1762 Effingham County, died 18 July 1840. He married in 1783 Christina Buntz (1763-1824)), the daughter of Urban Buntz. Known Children: Emanuel Rahn born 1789, married Salome Berry in 1811 and Susannah Rahn (1798-1863), married in 1820 John Wilson.
  7. Mary Rahn, born 2 December 1764, died 14 November 1769.
  8. Ann Margaret Rahn, born 19 February 1767, died 10 October 1853, married Frederick Herb.
  9. Joseph Rahn, born 9 July 1769, died after 1830, married Naomi Zettler.
  10. Jacob Rahn, born November 1772, died after 1777.




Saltzburg, Austria, the origin of settlers to Ebenezer, Georgia about 1733 or 1734.
New Jerusalem Church
New Jerusalem Church, Ebenezer, Georgia

Sources: Colonial Records of Georgia by Candler; 1850 Effingham County Census; Georgia Saltzburgers and Allied Families by Pearl Rahn Gnann; 1850 Liberty County Census; Liberty County Marriages; Last Will and Testament of Cletus Rahn; Last Will and Testament of John C. Rahn; Last Will and Testament of Jonathan Rahn; 1868 Rahn Plat