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Johann Heinrich HEINZ - was born on 5 Aug 1811 in Kallstadt,Rheinpfalz,Germany and died on 23 Dec 1891 in Pa . Johann married Anna Margaretta Schmidt. Anna was born on 10 Jun 1822 in Hesse-Darmstadt,GY. She was the daughter of Jacob Schmidt. She died on 29 Jan 1899 in Pa and was buried in Sharpsburg,PA . (Sources: - 1) Johann - came to this country and this city in 1840, settled in "Birmingham," on the South Side, and engaged in the making of bricks. he moved his family to Sharpsburg in 1850, and the elder Heinz, while continuing the making of bricks, added the business of contracting for the putting of those bricks into building. email from Diane Nichols   Hello, I saw your information on the Heinz family on the Internet and thought you might like a small bit of information about H. J.’s parents. Johann Heinrich Heinz and his wife Anna Margaretha Schmidt are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, O’Hara Township, PA. This is just north of Pittsburgh and in the hills above the town of Sharpsburg. Henry, as he was known, died in Philadelphia. The couple is buried in Section 4 of the cemetery, their lot being one quarter of a circle of burial plots at the highest point of the cemetery property.   With them is buried: Jacob J., son and 8th child of the couple   Raymond H., child of son John   Edward E., child of son John   Maria Chessman Heinz, wife of John Heinz   John H. Heinz, son and 3rd child of the couple   Harry W., child of John   Ivan T., child of John   Their daughter Margaret, who married George H. Prager, is buried nearby in the Prager lot. A nephew, Frederick Heinz and his wife were once buried in the plot, but were removed to Mt. Royal Cemetery in 1929. My grandmother witnessed the removal. Frederick’s house in Sharpsburg is the only Heinz house still standing in the town. Frederick was the son of Johann Heinrich Heinz’s older brother Georg.   My family is related through Johann Heinrich Heinz’s younger sister, Anna Maria, who never left Germany, but continued to live in Kallstadt. She married Johann Peter Schuster, who died young. Their son, Georg Nikolaus Schuster came to America with his children. His daughter Catharina, was my great-grandmother.   I have the information about Greenwood Cemetery because I am a stockholder and on the Board of Managers, and I am the cemetery’s historian. I have lived near Sharpsburg most of my life.   I hope this gives you some needed information. If I can be of any service, let me know. (Sources: - 2 - 3) Children: (Quick Family Chart) i.  Henry John HEINZ was born on 11 Oct 1844 and died on 14 May 1919 . Henry married Sarah Sloan Young. Sarah was born in Sharpsburg, Allegheny Co, Pennsylvania. Henry - founder and president of the H. J. Heinz Company, the largest pickling and condiment manufacturing concern in the world. (Sources: - 2)

Sources:

1 Robert Pilcher genealogy Robert Pilcher Web: http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2230569&id=I118908763

2 North Side: Henry J. Heinz Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Web: http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/northside/nor_n109.html

3 email from Diane Nichols Diane Nichols Feb 2005

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