Rachel Gratz^{[1, 2]}

1764 - 1831  (67 years)

• Name	Rachel Gratz  [3]
  Born	9 Oct 1764  [3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Reference Number	1789
  Died	21 Dec 1831  [3, 4]
  Person ID	I1789	aojd
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2011

  
  

  Father	Barnard Gratz,   b. 1738, Langendorf, Silesia ,   d. 20 Apr 1801, Baltimore, MD  (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F544	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  (Research):AJLLJ Portrait Database 5 Aug 2011 Daughter of Richea Myers-Cohen and pioneer merchant and trader Barnard Gratz, Rachel Gratz was born in Philadelphia in 1764. Her only sibling Fanny died in infancy, making her nuclear family unusually small for the time. Her extended family, on the other hand, constituted a vast network of prominent business and civic leaders that stretched from central Europe through Amsterdam and London to the American frontier of western Pennsylvania.      In 1791 she married the young widower Solomon Etting. Etting was a close associate of her father, who had taught the young businessman to be a shohet, the first trained America. The couple soon moved to Baltimore, where Etting's mother Shinah had set up her family more than a decade earlier. On November 13, two weeks after her wedding, Rachel wrote her father from her new home in Baltimore, assuring him of her comfort and happiness: "From what little I have seen of this place, think I shall like it very much, as it far exceeds my expectations." This was the first of many Gratz-Etting marriages that would interlock these two families into an early American Jewish dynasty.      She raised not only the eight children she had with Solomon, including daughter Richea, but also the three children who had survived infancy from his previous marriage, including Miriam Etting Myers. [5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S81] . [S285] . [S4] PG. 87 GRATZ (1) (Reliability: 3). [S71] . [S294] ETTING, RACHEL GRATZ (Reliability: 3).