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Frances Sara (Fanny) Eaker

Frances Sara, known as Fanny, was born in 1770 in Lincoln Co., NC. Fanny's father was Hans Peter Eaker Jr. and her mother was Anna Barbara ?. Her paternal grandparents were Hans Peter Egger Sr. and Verena Gilmann. She was an only child. She died at the age of 70 in 1840 in St. Clair Co., AL.

General Notes
- Aker, Acre, Ecker, Egger
  
  ? note: there was a Jacob Green who married Fanny Eaker (Aker) who was a granddaughter of Eve Whisenant through Peter Eaker
  
  The original spelling of the name in Switzerland was EGGER and evolved into Ecker in Alsace and remained such as long as family members signed in German. When the family started signing in English in NC it became EAKER

Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Peter Egger
  - b.  1672
  
  Hans Peter Egger Sr.
  - b.16 May 1689 in Adelboden, Canton Bern, Switzerland d.Aug 1773 in Lincoln Co., NC
  
  Margaretha Frydag
  - b.  1672
  
  Hans Peter Eaker Jr.
  - b.  1720 in Alsace-Lorraine d.10 Nov 1797 in Lincoln Co., NC
  
  Lorentz Gilmann
  - b.  1592 in Canton Bern, Switzerland
  
  Lorentz Gilmann
  - b.23 Oct 1614 in Reichenbach, Canton Bern, Switzerland
  
  Ann Berger
  - b.  1599
  
  Christen Gilmann
  - b.03 Nov 1843 in Canton Bern, Switzerland
  
  Verena Rychen
  - b.  1626
  
  Verena Gilmann
  - b.17 Feb 1688 in Reichenbach, Canton Bern, Switzerland d.  1742
  
  Catharina Von Kaenel
  - b.  1668
  
  Frances Sara (Fanny) Eaker
  - b.  1770 in Lincoln Co., NC d.  1840 in St. Clair Co., AL
  
  Anna Barbara ?
  - b.  1730

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Source/Citation THE SHOE COBBLER'S KIN, A GENEALOGY OF THE PETER EAKER, SR. FAMILY OF LINCOLN COUNTY, NC