John Jacob Tschudi, son of Martin Tschudi of Canton Glarus, Switzerland
The data below was compiled by our Tschudy/Tschudi cousin, Helen Beall of Starke County, Indiana. Thank you Helen for sharing your research with us.
John Jacob TSCHUDI was accepted on Foundation, a provision for the education of poor boys, in the school of St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, on 13 May 1790. He entered the college on 1 Aug. 1792 and received his BA on 1 Aug. 1794. On 1 July 1796 he became an assistant professor of English and Grammar. On 27 Dec. 1807 he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church and a priest on 23 Apr. 1809. He served as rector of the Church of the Holy Cross, Statesburg, South Carolina (also known as St. Mark's, Claremont, SC), from 1807 to 1811. On 9 Dec. 1811 he became rector of St. John's Church, Berkeley, South Carolina (also known as Biggin Church) where he remained until his death from cholera on 17 Sept. 1834. [Source: Episcopal Diocesan Archives, Charleston, South Carolina.]
On 16 Aug. 1821, he married Mary George BARRINGTON, born 20 Mar. 1805, the daughter of Richard BARRINGTON and his wife Eleanor CONNOR. [Source: Christ Church (Episcopal), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.]
The 1830 census for South Carolina shows the following children in the household.
1 male under 5
2 males 5-10
2 females under 5
1 female 10-15
I have only been able to identify two of the children, Mary Eliza and Richard, who are both from the second marriage. The eldest female must, by her age, be a daughter of the first marriage. The Archivist of South Carolina and the Charleston County record keepers all assure me that I will never find any guardianship records which would list children because all such records went missing during the Civil War. The same sources and the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina also tell me that the registers of births, marriages, and deaths for St. John's Berkeley are also lost. However, I have found the inventory to John Jacob's estate and recently came across some references to records in a book that tell me that some, if not all of these records exist.
MARY ELIZA TSCHUDI (1826-1910)
After her father's death, Mary George apparently took Mary Eliza and her brother, Richard back to Philadelphia. I do not know what happened to Mary George Barrington TSCHUDI.
Mary Eliza TSCHUDI was born on 6 Oct. 1826 [Source: Tombstone in Oconee Cemetery, Athens, Georgia] in South Carolina [Source: Census records]. On 17 Dec. 1846 she married John Wilson NEVITT, born 6 Nov. 1814 [Source: Tombstone in Oconee Cemetery, Athens, Georgia], the son of John NEVITT and Sarah STOTESBURY, at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia [Source: Church register]. A newspaper notice of the wedding mentions her brother, Richard TSCHUDI.
John Wilson NEVITT was a merchant in Savannah, Georgia. He and Mary Eliza had a number of children, some of whom died young. When the Civil War broke out, Mary Eliza and the children moved to Athens, Georgia, to get away from the war. After the war, she refused to return to Savannah, so John spent the rest of his working years commuting between the two cities on weekends. Their eldest son, John NEVITT, was attending the state military academy in Milledgeville (then the capital of Georgia) when the Confederate army drafted all the students. Mary Eliza was terrified that some of her other children would be drafted, so she arranged with cousins in Memphis, Tennessee, to send all the older children and their cousins to school in Canada until the war was over. All the children returned to Georgia except, the second son, Richard Barrington NEVITT, who, for reasons unknown to me, decided to remain in Canada. [Source: Nevitt family papers held by descendants of Richard Barrington NEVITT.]
John Wilson NEVITT died on 12 Oct. 1888 and Mary Eliza died on 26 Dec. 1910. [Source: Oconee Cemetery registers.]
Richard Barrington NEVITT (22 Nov. 1850-11 May 1928) married Elizabeth Eleanor BEATY (20 Feb. 1852-31 Aug. 1927). They are both buried in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They had a number of children including my grandmother, Mary Louise NEVITT.
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A Captain John TSCHUDY who was born in Baltimore and died in Charleston, South Carolina, on 16 Oct. 1821 at age 38 is called a cousin of the Rev. John TSCHUDI of St. John's Berkeley in the newspaper notice. I haven't been able to place Captain John, but it indicates that our line is somehow related to other Tschudys in Baltimore.
