Anna Margaretha Back

Biography

Anna Margaretha Hoffman was born on November 27, 1748 in Orange (now Madison) County, Virginia. Her parents were Johannes Hofmann and Maria Sabina Charlotta Barbara Hofmann (Volck).

She was known as Margaret and she married John Back (Bach), Sr. sometime before 19 July 1779 in Culpeper County, Virginia. Together they had the following 5 known children:

1. Susannah Floyd (Back);
2. Anna Bach;
3. Sarah Back;
4. Frances Floyd (Back);
5. Elizabeth Embrey (Bach).

She died circa 1831 in Rockingham County, Virginia, USA and was buried in Elk Run Cemetery, Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA.

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Around 1775, she married one of her neighbors, John Back.

Margaret and John had five children:

1. Elizabeth (born 1777);
2. Anna (born 1779);
3. Sarah (born 1783);
4. Frances (born 1786); and
5. Susannah (born 1790).

Elizabeth married John Embrey. Anna and Sarah apparently never married.
Frances married Henry Floyd, but she died in 1815.
Susannah later married Henry Floyd.

After her husband John died, in 1794, Margaret continued to live on their farm for a few years.
In 1807, she sold the farm and moved to Rockingham County, Virginia.
It is believed that two of her daughters (Anna and Sarah), who had never married, moved there with her.
Her daughter Elizabeth and her husband John Embrey had moved there, several years before.

Margaret Back bought 50 acres in Rockingham County, along Wolf Run.
Tax records show that she paid taxes on that property, from 1811 until 1830.

She was also seen living there, in the 1820 and 1830 Census Reports.
Her daughters lived with her.

It is believed that Margaret died in 1831, because she was not listed on the tax lists after 1830.

She was probably buried in an unmarked grave in the nearby Elk Run Cemetery.

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There really was a man named Henry Back, who had a brother named John Back, and they really did marry two sisters named Elizabeth and Margaret Hoffman. They were the daughters of John Hoffman and Maria Sabina Folg.

But Henry and John's father was John Henry Back (Johann Heinrich Bach). That Back (Bach) family lived about 11 miles southwest of Culpeper, and practically next door to the Hoffman family. The two Back brothers married the two Hoffman sisters, around 1775, probably in a double ceremony. John Back died in 1794, and his widow Margaret moved to Rockingham County, Virginia. Henry Back died in 1809, and his widow Elizabeth moved to Rockingham County to live next to her sister. Elizabeth was seen living there, in the 1810 Census Report (with her son Aaron); she was also listed in the 1810 Tax Lists (as "Aaron Back & mother"); and she was listed in the 1815 Tax List as well. Elizabeth Hoffman Back died in Rockingham County, around 1815; her sister Margaret died there, around 1831. Elizabeth Hoffman Back never went to Kentucky, and so she never established the Back (Bach) family there.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: May 13 2021, 18:29:47 UTC

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