Immigrant: Johannes Stoehr Immigration date: 26 Sept 1737 Origin: Switzerland? Relationship: My 2nd cousin, 6x removed
Other Immigrants: Heinrich/Phillip Jacob (bros.) Immigration date: 1843
Another Immigrant: George Frederick Stoehr Immigration date: 1852 Relationship: My 2nd cousin, 5x removed
The Stoehr family, like the Schaub's may have originated in Switzerland, around Canton Basel. A search of current phone books in Basel show many Stoehr's living there today. Families first migrated toward Alsace and then farther up the Rhine to Rumbach, Germany.
Peter Stoehr Sr. (1618-1681) and wife Anna Barbara are the earliest known ancestors of my line. Four generations later, Johannes Stoehr and wife Anna Margaretha Dock emigrated to Penn- sylvania aboard the St. Andrew Galley in Sept, 1737 (along with his brother Johann Peter, and neighbor Christoph Schaub). Johannes was a nail maker at the iron smelter near Langen- soultzbach, Alsace. These Stoehr families lived near Lancaster, Berks, and Lebanon Counties, PA. Descendants migrated to Elkhart Co.IN, Kansas, and North Carolina. Most of the group who moved to NC were members of the Moravian Church. Many Stoehr descendants eventually changed the Stoehr spelling to Stair, Stare, or Starr.
Almost a century passed until another group of Stoehr families from Rumbach emigrated to America in 1843. These were: Heinrich Stoehr (1808-1881) (a cousin to Johannes) who left Rumbach in March,1843 with wife Magdalena Goerthler and sons Frederick and Lewis, plus brother Phillip Jacob Stoehr(1813-) and wife Caroline Pabst and sons Jacob, Carl, and Lewis.
Then in 1852, George Frederick Stoehr (also a cous. to Johannes), emigrated to PA with wife Caroline Schaub (his second wife), and sons Lewis and Jacob, and daughter Frederika. The family first lived in PA, then in Monroe County, OH. Around 1859, Jacob married Mary Schaub. They had 3 children:
* George (1860) married 1)Laura Long 2)Clara Kuntz
* Louis (1864) married Annie Radcliff (Louis died in
Rail Road accident in 1895)
* Matilda/Tillie(1870) married 1)William Jones 2)Harry Eifert
Jacob and Mary moved to Hancock Co., IN with Mary's parents and her brother, Phillip Schaub, around 1865. Known as "Uncle Jake" Jacob was well respected in the community. He first worked in the General Store of Newhart & Hagen, then opened his own blacksmith and wagon shop, supplying most of the wagons in Hancock Co.
Much more information is available on this family by contacting the author Rebecca
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