Samuel Herr (abt. 1686 - 1747)

Born about 1686 in Unterbiegelhof, Bad Rappenau, Württemberg, Heiliges Römisches Reich [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died 4 Oct 1747 at about age 61 in Letort, Manor Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Descendant of Bishop Hans Herr. #5 in T. W. Herr, p. 1.

Samuel Herr was born about 1686 at the Unterbiegelhof farm in the Kraichgau region of Württemberg, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. The region is now within Baden-Württemburg, Germany. He was the son of Hans Herr and Lötscher-28.

Samuel Herr had the following children:

1. Samuel, born February of 1722
2. Christian, born about 1726
3. Anna, born about 1728

Samuel passed away on October 4, 1747 in Letort, Manor Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Research Notes

• Supplementary notes in the third edition (1994) of Theodore W. Herr's Genealogy of the Herr family state that this Samuel Herr was actually Samuel Herr, the grandson of Hans Herr (i.e., the son of Hans' son Abraham).

• Some sources place the Herr family in Unterbiegelhof, Germany, in 1671 ^{[1] [2]} but that information was based on a misreading of a document, which itself was in error. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Mennonite Family History, volume 1, number 1 (January 1982), page 17. Palatinate Mennonites, by Lois Ann Mast.
2. ↑ Friesen, Steve, A Modest Mennonite Home, (1990), page 21.
3. ↑ Anne Augspurger Schmidt-Lange, Corrected Mennonite Entries in Friedrich Zumbach’s 1947 Manuscript, “Schweizer Zuwanderung in den Kraichgau nach dem 30-jährigen Krieg (Swiss Immigration into the Kraichgau after the Thirty Years’ War)” Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, January 2019, page 8.

Bibliography

• Friesen, Steve, "A Modest Mennonite Home: The Story of the 1719 Hans Herr House, an Early Colonial Landmark," Good Books, Intercourse, PA, 1990, ISBN 0-934672-90-3
• Herr, Theodore W., "Genealogical record of Reverend Hans Herr and his direct lineal descendants : from his birth A.D. 1639 to the present time containing the names, etc. of 13223 persons," Lancaster, PA: T.W. Herr, Examiner Printing House; ©1908; FHL film #985738

See Also:

• "Samuel Herr (1686-1747)" (Online: FamilySearch) PID LJLL-55Q; accessed 10 Aug 2021.
• LaPlante, Patricia A "The Cameron and Paige Report", (Online: Rootsweb 7 Apr 2006) Samuel Herr, I14574; accessed 10 Aug 2021. Unsourced family tree.