Re: stork family 1800s'
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stork family 1800s'
Kent Sorenson 3/06/10
This family is chronicled in the book, The Hessian Valentine Stork and his American Descendents (found in various places online as well as Ancestry.com). According to the book, he was born 1793 in Arheilgen, Hesse-Darmstadt, the son of Adam & Katharina. He married Katharina Bach in 1818 in Hesse-Darmstadt.
"Valentine and Katharina had a courtship of seven years which was interrupted when Valentine joined the Hessian Army that was hired out to Napoleon by the Grand Duke of Hesse, Louis X. Valentine became a personal bodyguard to Napoleon and was one of a few survivors of those who marched on Moscow that severe winter of 1812".