Husband John M. Bierer 1 2 3
AKA: John Buehrer
Born: - Würtemberg, Germany
Christened:
Died: - West Indies
Buried: - at sea
Marriage:
Wife Barbara Müller 1
AKA: Barbara Muller 2 3
Born: - Würtemberg, Germany
Christened:
Died: 19 Mar 1843 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 4
Buried:
Children
1 M John M. Bierer 1 2 3
Born: 1782 - Germany 2
Christened:
Died: - near Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
Buried:
Spouse: Barbara Holtzinger ( - ) 2
Marr: 1805 4
2 M Frederick Bierer 1 3 5 6
Born: 27 Jul 1791 - Winsheim, Wurtemburg, Germany 1 5
Christened:
Died: 7 Jun 1854 - near Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 5
Buried: - German Cemetery, Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
Spouse: Elizabeth Lafferty ( - ) 1 7
3 M Everhart Bierer 1 3 8
AKA: Everhardt Bierer 2 8
Born: 6 Jan 1795 - Wiernsheim, Maulbronn, Wurtemberg, Germany 8
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Died: 2 Aug 1876 9
Buried: - Oak Grove Cemetery, near Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA
Spouse: Catherine Margaretta Rukenbrod (1798-1858) 8
Marr: 15 Apr 1816 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 8
Spouse: Mrs. Ruth Shaw ( -1888) 9
Marr: 2 Jan 1862 9
General Notes: Husband - John M. Bierer
The Bierer family is an old one, and traces its ancestry back to the Kingdom of Wurtemburg, Germany. The name in the "fatherland" was Buehrer, but it has been Anglicised, and is now almost universally written Bierer. In Germany most of the ancestors were farmers and merchants, though some of them were prominent in the civil and military affairs of the empire. In May, 1804, John Bierer, with his family, took shipping at Amsterdam for the United States.
He was an officer in the German army. His wife was three generations removed in direct descent from Frederick the Great. As a result of this alliance he was expelled from the army, and eventually found it best to quit the country. With his wife and three sons he sailed in May, 1804, for the United States. They were driven by storms out of their course, finally landing in the West Indies. A tropical fever developing among the passengers, many of them died, among these was Mr. Bierer, who was buried at sea. The widow and her three sons arrived at Baltimore in October, and immediately set forth for the west. On foot they crossed the mountains, reaching Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in the winter. They settled in Hempfield township.
His widow and three sons, John, Everhart and Frederick, landed at New York city and came to Greensburg.
His sons had but limited opportunities of education, as the expenses of the migration to America-coupled with the loss of a large part of their means through the villainy of a trusted friend of their father, left the widow and her children with scanty funds. This trusted friend had been authorized to receive and remit the deferred payments, amounting to about one-half of the price of the German homestead, but instead of remitting the money or bringing it over to the family in this country, embezzled and kept it. But the three boys thus thrown upon their own resources, proved equal to the emergency, and in after years rose to wealth and influence.
General Notes: Wife - Barbara Müller
She was from Brackenfeldt Castle-situated in a beautiful valley of the river Neckar-a tributary of the Rhine. Wiernsheim is in the same valley-forty to fifty miles from Heidelburg, the seat of the famous German University. In 1803 the Duke of Wurtemberg became an ally of Napoleon. In consequence of this alliance Napoleon extended the dominions of Wurtemberg and made the duke a king, and his descendants as kings long occupied the throne of Wurtemberg.