Johannes Bechtold and his wife Anna Catharina Bechtold had three children according to the Schwickartshausen parish records. All three were born in Eckartsborn: Johann Adam, born 1 July, baptized 3 July 1757; Elisabetha Margaretha, born 28 December, baptized 30 December 1759; and Rebecca, born 15 June, baptized 17 June 1763.
The family arrived in Russia on 15 September 1766. Johannes and Rebecca died during the journey to the villages. Widow Anna Catharina and her two surviving children settled in Walter and are reported there in First Settler's List Family #64.
- Parish records of Schwickartshausen on Archion.de.
- Stumpp, Karl. The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the years 1763 to 1862. (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1982), p. 120
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010) p. 383
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institute, 2008): p. 309
