Re: Gerber farms in Langnau area
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Gerber farms in Langnau area
tim gerber 11/18/02
Hi Tim,
I have info that my great great grandfather Samuel Gerber was born 18 May 1836 on a mountain farm (don't know name of mountain or farm) in the municipal district of Marbach, Kanton Luzern. He was baptised 21 June 1836 in Schangnau, Kanton Bern. He is registered in Langnau. His two eldest children were born in Schangnau. The younger two in Bern.
I have information on the Gerbers back to the 1500s but do not have exact locations, e.g. farms, of where they lived. Samuel married Maria Elisabetha Mathys. They and their family immigrated to the USA in the 1880s. I am still trying to find information for their children Karl, Wilhelm, and Maria Anna who came to the USA. Samuel and Johan Ernst moved to North Dakota in 1900. Karl (Charles) was included in the census there but I have nothing further.
Carrol Gerber-Burkard