Philippina Dorothea Zink, John Zink’s older sister, was born in Morschheim on 14 July 1797 and baptized two days later in the Morschheim Evangelical Church.[1]  She was the second child born to Johannes Zink and Catherina Elisabetha Leppert, and she was ten years older than her brother John.

 In January 1817, Philippina was married in Morschheim to Johann Nicolaus Hartmann of Ilbesheim, a nearby village.[2] The civil record of their marriage gives a very complete description of the bride and groom.[3]  The groom was identified as Johann Nicolaus Hartmann, farmer, age twenty-one years and nine months, born in Ilbesheim and residing there, son of Justus Hartmann, farmer residing in Ilbesheim, and Anna Elisabetha born Bauer, residing in Ilbesheim.[4]  The bride was identified as Philippina Dorothea Zinck, age nineteen years and six months, born and residing in Morschheim, daughter of the deceased Johannes Zinck of Morschheim and his wife, the deceased Catharina Elisabetha born Leppert of Morschheim.

        Nicolaus and Philippina Hartmann lived in Ilbesheim after their marriage.  The following children were born to them and baptized in the Ilbesheim Evangelical Church:[5]

 Anna Elisabetha, born 21 February 1819

Johannes, born 20 July 1821

Philippina, born 29 January 1824

Margaretha, born 30 January 1825

Justina Catharina, born 30 March 1826, died 25 July 1846

Johann Peter, born 16 October 1828

Anna Maria, born 7 July 1831

Philipp Heinrich, born 10 July 1835

Georg Friedrich, born 20 September 1838, died 20 June 1839

Nicolaus, born 26 November 1840

         The Hartmanns emigrated to the United States sometime after July 1846, when their daughter Justina Catharina died in Ilbesheim.  In September 1850, when the U.S. census was taken, they were living in the Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York.[6]  Nicholas was a gardener at that time. Their daughter Elizabeth and son Nicholas were living with them.

         At the time of the 1860 and 1870 Federal censuses, Nicholas and Philippina were living with their youngest child, Nicholas, in Cleveland, Ohio.[7]  In 1860 the elder Nicholas was still working, as a laborer, but in 1870 there is no occupation next to his name, so he was probably retired. 

         Nicholas and Philippina probably died between 1870 and 1880 as they were not enumerated in the U.S. census of the latter year.

         A typewritten document found among the records of the Zink-Graff family reunions provides important information about the children and grandchildren of Nicholas and Philippina.  Although the document is unsigned and undated, it must have been prepared in 1918 because the following reference appears in the reunion minutes of that year:

 Miss Etta Zink reported that she had received a letter from one of the descendants of the Hartman family, also copy of genealogy of this family.  Mrs. Hartman being sister of John Zink, our grandfather. Moved that this letter and list be placed on file. Carried.[8]

 The document is valuable because it gives not only the names but also the residences of the children and grandchildren of Nicholas and Philippina who were alive at the time.  This is important because by 1918 the Hartman family had dispersed across the United States to New York, Missouri, Nevada, Louisiana, and Georgia, though the largest cluster remained in Cleveland, Ohio.  To view the document, just scroll down to the bottom of this page and click on the attachment.