CHRISTIAN BODENHAMMER IMMIGRATED IN 1752 FROM GERMANY AND IN 1774 SETTLED IN ABBOTTS CREEK, ROWAN COUNTY,NC. ROWAN CO BECAME DAVIDSON CO, NC LATER.
HE CAME OVER ON THE SHIP, ST ANDREW, LANDED IN PHILADELPHIA FROM ROTTERDAM VIA PLYMOUTH,ENGLAND.
THEIR HOME WAS ON PLANK ROAD ABOUT 6 MILES FROM HIGH POINT,NC. THEY HAD A TRAVEN FOR TRAVELERS GOING BETWEEN FAYETTEVILLE AND WACHOVIA(NOW WINSTON-SALEM).
HE AND MOST OF HIS CHILDREN ARE BURIED IN ABBOTTS CREEK PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY. THE CHURCH WAS FOUNDED IN 1756.
BODENHAMER IS AN ANGLO-SAXON NAME FORM BRITAIN. COMING FROM THE HEREFORDSHIRE AND WILTSHIRE AREA, OR POSSIBLY THE SETTLEMENT OF BODHAM, IN NORFOLK.
DELRIVED FORN THE OLD GERMAN BOTO, FROM THE GERMANIC ROOT BUD, WHICH MEANS TO ANNOUNCE, THE OLD ENGLISH WORK HAM, WHICH MEANS HOMESTEAD OR SETTLEMENT. THE SURMANE MEANS A PERSON WHO LIVED NEAR BOTA'S SETTLEMENT.
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