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Biography
Matthais was born the year after his parents, Hans Michael and Anna Schneider and two young brothers, John George and John Gottlieb Henrich, left their homeland in the Palatine region of the Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) and arrived in the American colony of Georgia. Pastor Boltzius of the Jersualem Luthern Church noted in his records that the mother died after "giving birth to a weakly child." The child was baptized and given the name, Matthais. Mrs Landfelder took the child to care for, but little Matthais only lived two days.
-Blanche Keating Collie
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