KOONTZ ANCESTRY

Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Koontz. 

JACOB KOONTZ, son of Jacob Koontz and Barbara Beaver, was born about 1792 in Page County, Virginia.  He married Deborah Coombs before 1820 in Virginia.  They moved to Ohio and lived there five years.  The bulk of their time there was spent at Brownsville, near Newark in Licking County.  They then moved to a farm near Alpine, Indiana.  They moved to Middletown, Henry County, Indiana.  In 1829, he plotted the town of Middletown and purchased land in Jay County.  Shortly thereafter, he was stricken with "mill sickness" (paralysis) and died in 1830.  Later, Deborah remarried.  She died August 17; 1865.One of their six children was Mary Anne, who married Jefferson Reed.  They had a son named Tabor Reed.  Tabor served in the Union Army (Indiana Infantry) during the Civil War and was wounded at Rich Mountain, Virginia.  Later, he served as a lieutenant.  Tabor was Frank Koontz's nephew and it was Tabor who made the arduous trip to Boise, Idaho in an attempt to save Frank's life.  Tabor died March 15, 1925, and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Baker City.

JACOB KOONTZ, son of Elder John Koontz and Elizabeth Baker.  Born 1764, and died September 4, 1846, at age 82.  He married Barbara Beaver, (daughter of Conrad Beaver and Mary Kneisley).  Barbara was born about 1765 and died in 1819 at age 53.  They lived in and around Page County, Virginia.  They had nine children.

JOHN (COUNTS) KOONTZ, SR., son of John (Cuntz) Koontz and Anna Elizabetha Catherine Stoever.  Born March 26, 1739 in Opequon, Frederick County, Virginia, and died April 25, 1832, near Alma, Page County, Virginia.  He married Elizabeth Baker in the early 1760's.  Elizabeth Baker's father came to America from London, England.  John was a "fire and brimstone" Baptist minister who lived to be 93 years old.  John and Elizabeth had four children.  John's tombstone is mounted in a large rock structure in the Seekford Cemetery in Alma, Virginia.  There is a long inscription telling about his zeal as a minister.

JOHN (CUNTZ) KOONTZ, born April 18, 1706 in Niederndorf, Germany and died around 1745, probably in Frederick County, Virginia.  John was thought to be the son of immigrant, JOSEPH CUNTZ AND ANNA GERTRUD REINSCHMIDT  John married Anna Elizabetha Catherine Stoever, daughter of Rev. John Casper Stoever, Sr., June 25, 1738 at Earltown, Pennsylvania.