On this day in 1870, my 4G-grandaunt, Anna Barbara Egger was buried in Lutzenberg, Appenzell, Saint Gallen, Switzerland. She was the daughter of my 5G-grandparents, Laurenz and Catharina (Niederer) Egger. Anna Barbara was born sometime around 1800 or 1801. Her brother John Heinrich was also born around 1800 and was my 4G-grandfather.
The other Egger siblings were Michael, born in 1806; Laurenz, who was born and died in 1807; Anna, born in 1808; Katharina, born between 1810 and 1811; Anna Elisabeth, born in 1812; and Lorenz, who was baptized in April 1816. The Egger family highlights a Germanic naming convention in which siblings might often share the same first name but then each go by their own unique second name.
I don’t know much more about Anna Barbara, though I’ve just discovered that the Kanton St. Gallen archives website, so that may spark further investigation. According to the records I had found previously, it appears she never married. Her brother John Heinrich and his wife were the parents of Margaretha Egger, born 7 March 1841; Margaretha married John George Hunkler, and they were the parents of George John Hunkler, who left Saint Gallen for Illinois in 1883.
