J C Bernhardt Family

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Greetings, all Bernhardt Family members;

August 4, 2013 will be here soon. That is the date for our Bernhardt Family Reunion at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury, N.C. I hope everyone is well and look forward to seeing everyone there. Stan Sebastian has sent us information on the Saturday outing and I’m forwarding that to all. Looks like a great activity! Thanks Stan and family.

The Jacob Alphonso family is responsible for the Saturday Activity and thus I have reserved shelter #10 at Dan Nicholas park for Saturday afternoon, August 3. As you enter the park, take 1st right (in front of volley ball courts) like you are diving toward the golf course and shelter is 2nd paved left with parking lot behind.

I'm going to grill some hamburgers and hot dogs starting around 4. Knowing that attendance may be scant, I'll cook for whoever comes and will have some of my family there no matter what. Can always save what we don't eat for Sunday.

Thought it would be fun for kids. Putt-putt, nature trails, live reptile collection, petting zoo, paddle boats, miniature train, volley ball. Every so often some people fly radio control planes in the field at the entrance.

Stan Sebastian

We will keep everyone updated on other info as our reunion date draws near. Please feel free to forward this to anyone who didn’t receive it and send me their email address and I will include them in future messages.

Ben Bernhardt

bbernhardt@carolina.rr.com

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John Crawford Bernhardt

John Crawford Bernhardt (Johu Crofford,) the youngest son of John Christian Bernhardt II and Sarah Elizabeth Lentz was born Oct 3, 1835 in Cabarrus Co., NC. The German Lutheran family attended Bethel Bear Creek Church in Stanley Co. JC joined the Confederate Army and served in the Nineth Regiment Calvary, Company H.
JC married Laura Elizabeth Davis on Sept. 30, 1865 and operated a grist mill near St. Peter's Lutheran Church south of Salisbury, NC. In 1873 the family moved to Marion, NC where JC operated a general store. The family returned to Rowan Co., in 1874 and purchased property on Grants Creek where they were active in Grace Lutheran Church. JC and Laura had 10 children; John Adolphus, George Michael, Cora Lee, Mary Augustus, Sarah Elizabeth, William Mathias, Ernest Theophilus, Joseph Clarence, and twin, and Jacob Alphonso. Laura died of pneaumonia on March 22, 1882 and is buried at Grace Lutheran Church.
On Dec 6, 1883 John Crawford was married to Martha Jane Brown. The family moved to the St. Paul's Lutheran Church area of Rowan Co. in 1889. The family home in which they lived still stands and is owned and occupied by their descendants. Martha Jane and JC had 5 children; Annie Laura, Joline, Paul Crawford, Ida Pearl and Ira Leo. JC served as County Surveyor and Justice of the Peace. He died Oct 30, 1912. Martha Jane died Nov 10, 1929; both are buried at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Salisbury, NC.
Descendants of the 15 children of JC Bernhardt will hold their 60th Family Reunion on the first Sunday in August of 2010.