Carl Anton SCHMITT (SMITH)

  General Notes:

He ran away from home at age 16 and joined the army of Napoleon, serving in campaigns in Italy, Spain and Russia where he was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of the Berisina River. After 2 years in a Russian prison camp he made his way to Frankenthaler. Later he served in the Bavarian army as a frontier guard.

They had 6 children, two of whom emigrated to Wilkes Barre PA. After he died, his wife Christine moved to America to join them.

Carl married Christine PRAETORIUS, daughter of Philip PRAETORIUS and Unknown MITTERNACHT, in 1821. (Christine PRAETORIUS was born in 1803 in Frankenthaler, Germany, died in 1888 in Wilkes-Barre, PA and was buried in Hollenback Cemetary, Wilkes Barre, PA.)