SBB Vol. III No. 1

Charles F. Schug

Schug’s Baumholder Bulletin

“Both justice and decency require that we should bestow on our forefathers and honorable rememberance” Thucydides

Volume III                               Saturday July 4, 2009                    No. I

Bruce Warren Schug (11-14-1945)

Bruce contacted me last October by email after I contacted his daughter via Face Book.  Bruce lives in Greenville SC. Born in Three Rivers, MI his Schuch ancestors Christian Jacob Schuch (1691-?) son of Johann Peter (c1665-?) came to America on the Samuel with his family when it sailed from Rotterdam to Philadelphia arriving in August 1739. (Dorey Kathleen Snapp (1952) my wife’s ancestor Lorantz Schnepp (1711-1771) arrived on the same ship in 1733) The Schuch were from Zweibrucken, Prussia and immigrated to Bucks County Pennsylvania.  

Bruce has an Aunt Dorothy who is the attendant of the Schuch Family Bible dated 1837.  Aunt Dorothy has ultimately traced their ancestors back to Ulmet and Rathsweiler 13.8 km. from Baumholder.  Close enough to be more than just kissing cousins.   Oh and Yes Bruce also has tasted the grape from Walters Winery.  Welcome

 

Weyerbacher’s of Baumholder

Surfing the internet last January I discovered the Weyerbacher Descendants Website. (Weyerbacher.net) Their ancestors from Baumholder immigrated to Bucks PA around 1751.  When you go to the site click to “Family Origins” then down load and read Making of a German American by Robin Errickson and Our Family Origin in Germany by Warren Wirebach. 

I emailed the Webmeister, informed him about Horst Conrad’s book.  He inquired about the Weyerbacher’s, which I replied were few.  I assume because the family immigrated in the med 1700’s. 

If you are in the vicinity of Allen Town PA on July 12^th and you feel like crashing a family reunion I am sure you will be more than welcomed.

Library Research Finds Gems.

Background :Beginning in 1939 several villages were demolished and families evicted for the development of the Baumholder Truppen bugsplats (Baumholder Military Training Area). Some of the villages that disappeared were: Includes Aulenbach, Ausweiler, Breungenborn, Ehlenbach, Erzweiler, Frohnhausen, Grünbach, Ilgesheim, Kefersheim, Mambüchel, Oberjeckenbach, Ronnenberg, and Wieselbach. Johann Peter Schug (1747- ?) was from Aulenbach.  Louisa Katherina Kirsh’s (1794-1888) family was from Frohnhausen.

Library research puts meat on the factual names and dates associated with genealogy.  An article I found in a 1950’s Tascarawas Co. Genealogy Society Newsletter is an example.  I know of no relationship with the writer and the Schug’s of Baumholder.  However the Sir Names are familiar and Peter Jacob Arth the emigrant who received the letter farmed in Port Washington Ohio and like Carl Schug’s family is listed as a Charter Member of St. Paul’s German Evangelical Church and found throughout the church book.

Letter From Prussia Received by Peter Jacob Arth

                                    Frohnhausen and Breungenborn, May 3,1853

Dear Relatives and kinfolk:

This is the response to your letter of January1, 1853 (4months), which found us all in good health.  We are going to make it short this time, since nothing of importance has happened since we last wrote you.  Your sisters, dear brother-in-law are still single and the Godfather is getting frail this last year.  He has almost no vision and his breathing is getting more labored with every week.  Your brother Johann Nickel injured at the mill is almost totally recovered.  Although he is not what he used to be, he’s working in the fields again.  His family has not increased since you left – his wife and two children.  However our family has grown by adding another healthy son on August 11, 1852.  We now have a pair – boy and a girl.  On April 6^th this year we bought Gimbel’s house and newly built barn for 560 Thaler.  Gimbel and his daughter’s husband, Worst, are immigrating next Monday and sail for Brazil.  Immigration is heavy this year, especially to America.  Friedrich Kemmer and Peter Simon from Mambuchel leave tomorrow to find a new home and Fatherland by you.  They will deliver this letter to you, God willing, and may he give his blessing, so they may find prosperity.  Christian Heartmann from Breungenborn developed a boil on his abdomen whish became so dangerous that they buried him on the first day of Easter.  Old man Koebich also passed away and three days after the Spring Fair we buried Johann Nickel Kirsch.  He died suddenly of a stroke.  Other than that, I know of nothing that would interest you, so I close with the wish that God may bless and keep you in His mercy.

                        Your loving brother-in-law

                                                Bier, teacher

(A letter dated 25 Feb 1850 was also published in Vol 1, page 32.  Looks like I have more to do)

I have attached the 1870 and 1880 Census of Peter Jacob Arth and his family.

Noted in the Port Wasington St. Pauls German Evangelical Church

Emma Arth,  Daughter of Peter Jakob Arth  in Buckhorn and his wife Elisabeth nee Dietrich, died 1 March of long fever; age 7 months 23 days; buried  4^th March 1875

Scottish & Irish Festival (We are all Celtics) 

My ancestors are German, Swedish, Norwegian and English.  However, from Horst Conrad’s Baumholder book I learned that Baumholder was a Celtic village since the beginning of the Common Area.   I volunteered to look up Sir names of these Scotts and Irish to locate what counties their ancestors resided.  (Also to watch the Lassies Step Dance.)   What a good time was had when I told Scotts they were Irish, Irish where Scotts and some were Vikings (Danes).  After all they were just a short boat ride away.   To my surprise “Fenimore” was listed- the Irish meaning “dearest love” slang -Fin Amour from  French.  And my bother Jim said that we were “Fens” Fenish who married with the “Moores”, thus Fenimore.  Jim tells a great yarn.

Beginning Genealogy

The deference between Genealogy and folklore is documenting your sources.  Until this is done my research is considered folklore, but A-1 folklore at that.

To start one should be retired or independently wealthy.  Best if you are both.  Other requirements is to be detailed oriented and a strong reader.  I am none of the fore mentioned. 

Then you need Genealogy software it can be free (familysearch.com). I recommend purchasing your own.   I started with Family Tree Maker great for beginners.    I now use Legacy 7, very powerful with a lot of bells and whistles. 

Learn how to Google.  Genealogy is the second most Googled topic.  Also familysearch.com is free.  Contact the Family Learning Center (located at LDS wards) Inside the Family Learning Center you are safe. The volunteers are sworn not to assault non Mormons.  They have lectures, answer questions and may have subscription web cites such as ancestry.com that you can use for free.  Also visit your local Genealogy and/or Historical Society.  Societies usually meet at a Library that has an Old Dead People area.  Libraries also my have fee internet access to other web sites such as HeritageQuest.com

I downloaded my files as of 2007 to Wereleate.org  a wiki ran by the Allen County Library.  That’s right it’s free. Barbara Renick (a genealogist from Orange Ca) has a website: Zroots.com for “Links” to other free sites.

A good place to start your quest is with the US Census records found at familysearch.org .  The1890 census is all but gone due to fire.

Photo of Lenora Ernestine Yoss

Wife of Walter Schug (1905-1981) Lenora E. Yoss (1905-1957) was placed on findagrave.com. The Daughter in law of Julius Caesar Schug (188-1921) was confirmed by Fritz Sprunger (1949)

Mom Got Downsized.

When my mother, Ferrel Arnette Fenimore (1915-2003) died I inherited her life sized painting. A gift from my dad, Richard Henry Schug (1914-1984).  “Ferrel” was too big for our home.  Besides my wife, Dorey  Kathleen Snapp (1952) would have nothing to do with her in our house.  I just could not throw the painting (my mother) into the trash.  She stayed in my office face against the wall.  “Ferrel” became a joke to our family. Who would inherit her when I passed-on?  No takers.  At last I had her cut down to size 22”x18”.  She now hangs nicely in the back corner of our dinning room.  Strategically placed with dignity, whoever not in plain site.

 

Wedding Bells Rung?

Ok, Who Married Who When & Where?  Inquiring relatives would like to know. Did they?

Are there any descendants yet?  Date:, City:, County:, State:,   

ANY ONE ELSE?  Live-ins don’t count. Must be Married, Domestic Partners OK.

Babies Any One?  YES-Congratulations

Evan Jackson Sprunger (28 March 2009)

Son of Christian Frederick Sprunger (1975) & Mary Elisabeth Pientka (1978)

From The Other Branch

Fenimore/Kindig

Charles Vallandingham Kindig (1863-1840) and his brothers where building contractors.  They were known for their construction of Round Barns that are scattered throughout Indiana. Last year one of his last remaining barns was sold and moved to Martha’s Vineyard.

Fenimore/Roseboom

Hendrick Roseboom,

 By Stefan Bielinski

Hendrick Roseboom (Hendrick Janse) was the patriarch of the Roseboom family of early Albany.

Hendrick Jansz Rooseboom, a tailor's apprentice, arrived at Fort Orange, now Albany in 1657. He had been hired on 8 April, 1657 by Jan Hendrick van Baelen, a tailor.

1664. By 1664, he was known as a fur trader and a property owner. His house and lot were located on what became the east side of Pearl Street and incorporated the northern wall of the stockade. For many years, the Pearl Street passage out of town was known as "Roseboom's Gate."

His first wife was Gysbertie Lansing - the mother of at least five Roseboom children. In December 1695, he was a widower when he married Widow Tryntje Jans at the Albany Dutch church where he had been a assistant to a pastor who, in the absence of a pastor, could hold religious services and read scripture.  Hendrick also served as the churches undertaker and grave digger for many years.

Hendrick Janse served the community as a constable, contractor, and juror. In 1679, his property was enumerated on the Albany assessment roll. In 1697, his household was configured on the city census. Two years later, he stood with his neighbors in swearing allegiance to the king of England.

Hendrick Roseboom died in December 1703 and was buried from the Dutch church.

Painting in the vicinity of Roseboom’s Gate