Hirsch/Deer Family

Generation 1

Johannes Hirsch died 5 February 1673 at Dautmergen, Wuerttemberg, Germany.  He married Maria Mayer and they had the following children:
  1. Jacob Hirsch
  2. Anna Hirsch
  3. Jacob Hirsch
  4. Andreas Hirsch
  5. Johannes Hirsch

Generation 2

Andreas Hirsch was born 15 October 1670 at Dautmergen, Wuerttemberg, Germany and died before 2 November 1718 at Taebingen, Wuerttemberg, Germany.  He married Eva Glaser after 20 May 1703.  She was born 25 July 1678 at Taebingen, Wuerttemberg, Germany and died after 1733.  They had the following children:
  1. Andreas Hirsch
  2. Anna Maria Hirsch
  3. Martin Hirsch
  4. Jacob Hirsch
  5. Johannes Hirsch
  6. Christoph Hirsch
  7. Martin Hirsch/Deer
  8. Johannes Hirsch/Deer

Generation 3

Martin Hirsch/Deer was born 16 August 1715 at Taebingen, Wuerttemberg, Germany.  He departed Taebingen about 16 April 1749 and arrived at Philadelphia aboard the Christian 13 September 1749.  In America he adopted the English translation of his surname changing it to Deer.  He married Frances Long, daughter of George Long.  He also married Anna Maria, surname unknown.  Children of Martin Hirsch/Deer and Frances Long:
  1. Martin Hirsch/Deer, Jr.
  2. Andrew Deer
  3. Catharina Hirsch/Deer
  4. Barbara Hirsch/Deer

Generation 4

Andrew Deer was born c1757 and died 1798 at Madison Co., VA. An assumption previously made that he was named Noah on the authority of a grandson who claimed to be his namesake is incorrect.  He married Susannah Razor.  She was born c1762 at Sussex Co., NJ and moved with her children to Boone Co., Kentucky in 1811.  For further information see the Germanna History note #222 by John Blankenbaker at http://www.concentric.net/~sgtgeorg/germhis9.shtml.
  1. Andrew Deer
  2. Susannah Deer
  3. Frances Deer
  4. Rosanna Deer
  5. John Deer
  6. Elizabeth Deer
  7. Joel Deer
  8. Barbara Deer
  9. Simeon Deer

Generation 2

Frances Deer was born 3 December 1782 and in spite of the fact that she was reported to have owned and used a German Bible and Hymnal and spoke English with an accent she was probably born in Virginia. She died 17 April 1870 at Montgomery Co., IN. Frances Deer married Israel Clore 7 or 17 of February 1805 at Hebron Lutheran Church, Madison Co., VA. Isreal Clore was born 15 April 1779 at Culpeper (now Madison) Co., VA and died 18 August 1854 at Waveland, Montgomery Co., IN. For more information on his ancestry and their children see the Clore Family.

John Deer was born 4 March 1786 and died 7 August 1855 near Waveland, Montgomery Co., IN. He married Margaret Clore 27 November 1809 at Hebron Lutheran Church, Madison Co., VA. Margaret Clore, sister of Isreal Clore, was born 25 January 1790 at Madison Co., VA and died 9 March 1865 at Montgomery Co., IN. For more information on her ancestry see the Clore Family. They had the following children:

  1. Urial Deer
  2. William Deer
  3. Mahala Deer
  4. Barilla Deer
  5. Lucrecia Deer
  6. Margaret Deer
  7. Sarah Deer
  8. Jane Deer
  9. Elizabeth Deer

Generation 3

Sarah Deer was born 16 April 1824 in Kentucky, probably in Boone Co. and died 30 December 1873 at Parke Co., IN. She married Howard Clore (aka Howard Clore, Sr.) 1 January 1857 at Indiana. He was born 23 March 1819 at Boone Co., KY and died 14 December 1895 at Parke Co., IN. Howard Clore had first married Sarah's sister Margaret Deer on 12 December 1839. He married third to Besty Ann, surname unknown, before 7 June 1880 when they sold land to Howard D. Clore (aka Howard Clore, Jr.) and she probably died before 1895 as she is not mentioned in Howard Clore, Sr.'s will. They had no known children together. For further information on Howard Clore's ancestry see the Clore Family.

Children of Margaret Deer and Howard Clore:

  1. William Wessley Clore
  2. Amanda E. Clore
  3. Manurva Clore
  4. Matilda Clore
  5. Henry H. Clore
  6. Margaret F. Clore
  7. Sarah L. Clore
Children of Sarah Deer and Howard Clore
  1. Howard D. Clore (aka Howard Clore, Jr.)
  2. Whitfield W. Clore
  3. Robert A. Clore
  4. Lenorie Clore
  5. Unnamed son

Sources

The Deer Family by Thomas Garland, Laroy Clore, Demarius Booth, and Frances B. Berry, private printing, July 1942

They Came to Kentucky by Alberta Carson Kirkwood, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD 1976 pp 469-556

Bible Records from the family Bible of Howard Clore (aka Howard Clore, Sr.)

Will of Howard Clore (aka Howard Clore, Sr.)

Land deeds

1900 Census, Lucas Co., IA, Otter Creek Twp., District 76 Sheets 6 & 7

Obituaries of Howard Clore and Howard D. Clore

Before Germanna #11:  The Ancestry of the Christler, Baumgartner, Deer, Dieter and Lotspeich Families by Gary Zimmerman and Johni Cerney

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30 January 1998