Gottlob Krause

The grave of Christina Krause, the mother of Gottlob Krause.
She is buried at God's Acre - Bethabara, NC

"Gottlob Krause has said that he is thinking of giving up his work as a mason, He would like to know whether there was a chance for him to establish a pottery and Bethabara. 

He shall be advised to stick to his present employment, since he has put so much into his brick-yard, and can certainly do better with that than by starting a pottery in Bethabara. - June 15, 1785" -- from the Minutes of the Salem Board. 

Johann Gottlob Krause (September 18, 1760-November 4, 1802) was the master mason during the construction of the first major brick buildings in the Moravian community of Salem. Representing the first generation of native North Carolina Moravian artisans, in the post-Revolutionary era Krause introduced construction techniques that blended Germanic forms with decorative brickwork adapted from English traditions, and thus shaped the architectural character of this unique community.

Krause was born in 1760 in Bethabara, a frontier village settled in the 1750s in North Carolina’s Wachovia Tract by Moravian pioneers sent from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was orphaned by the age of two. He died in 1802.