Franciscus Xavierus EIKERENKOTTER, DR.

                      Sanders family(wife was Eikerenkotter) that rebuilt the Okatee home of
    John C. Frederick Eikerenkoetter in Beaufort Dist.,SC, states the death of
    Francis Xavier Eikerenkoetter is recorded in the family Bible, pub.1826;

   Xavier died in 1820 in Orangeburg Dist.,SC as recorded in Bible; Descendants
    of the Afro-American Eikerenkoetter family's have the oral tradition of the
    White ancestor Eikerenkoetter was a German Duke;
    The first Afro-American ancestor, Joseph Eikerenkoetter, was the son of Fran.
    Xavier Eikerenkoetter, Joseph was born ca 1818 probably in Beaufort Dist.SC,
    therefore,  his father  MUST have been Francis Xavier, as his brother, John
    Christian Frederick Eikerenkoetter, did not arrive in So.Carolina from New
    York until about 1822-1823; John may have gone to SC to settle his brother's
    estate as there does not seem to be any other reason why he would leave
    New York; In his estate there must have been his"wife" and son, that were
    either Afro-American or Indian descent, probably not Free, legally, and were
    "assumed as property", by brother John. John's wife died enroute or soon
    after arrival in Charleston, as the children are placed in the Charleston
    Orphanage in 1825, 1830 & 1831, where the youngest son (Frederick Eikerenkotter) died 11 MAR 1831;
    John then married Jane Behn of Beaufort Co.,SC 30 JUN 1831; It is the
    Slave list 1860 that matches some males & females by age but not named in
    the 1870 & 1880 census' in Beaufort Co.,SC.

   The Beaufort District Court House was burned during the Civil War and
    land, deeds,  probates & other court records that might prove these
    assumptions are not available until after 1865;

   F#1055366 Baptism. 22 MAy 1791, p.151; Patrini,"pro A.R.D. Pattore Antonio +
    Fechtler le&. D.p Consul Ferdinand Fischer Vet.Opp."; Parents: D.Consul
    Bernardus Eikernkotter et Antonetta Verse, Cong.(Latin)