Context of Her Life

In a thriving Moravian community in the part of central North Carolina now known as Forsyth County on July 29, 1802, 19 year old Johann Philip Fischel married 18 year old Rachel Elisabeth Muller (some families later changed the spelling to Miller).

Two years later on February 9, 1802, their daughter Elizabeth Fischel was born. When she was nearly 22 years old Elisabeth married a local 24 year old young man named Joseph Nading. Sadly just 4 years into their marriage she died at the age of 26 in child birth along with their baby. She was buried in the Friedburg Moravian Church Cemetery now on the far southern edge of Winston Salem, North Carolina.

She left behind their two earlier children: her first born, a boy named Matthew Nading, and a daughter, Anna Marie. Joseph went on to have two more wives and five more children. He lived to be 81 years old and was buried in 1865 at the nearby Hopewell Moravian Church.

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