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I have information on my line of Groh's from the Eppingen area of Germany.
THIS INFORMATION IS ABOUT FREDERICH, WILHELM, and HENRY.
FREDERICK...............FROM THE GRAND DUKE OF BADEN, EPPINGEN GERMANY CAME THE PLEA OF FREDERICH GROH TO GET A PERMIT AND BE ALLOWED TO IMMIGRATE TO AMERICA. FREIDRICH WAS BORN JULY 4, 1854 IN EPPINGEN. HE WAS. SINGLE AT THIS TIME ON FEBRUARY 6; 1879; HE APPLIED FOR MILITARY PASS FROM THE DISTRICT COMMAND IN BEOCHSAL WHICH WAS A SMALL TOWN HE RECEIVED HIS CLEARENCES FROM MILITARY SERVICE. HE SERVIED FROM AUGUST 10; 1878 IN THE FIELD UNTIL FEBRUARY 7, 1879. HE RECEIVED IMMIGRATION PERMISSION ON FEBRUARY 8, 1879 AND FROM THE DISTRICT COMMAND OF BROCHSAL ON FEBRUARY II; 1879. ON FEBRUARY 12; 1879, HE RECEIVED HIS TRAVEL PASS FROM THE GRAND DUKE DISTRICT THE DISTRICTS AND PRINCEPALATIES CLEARED HIS PASS ON FEBRUARY 14; 1879 HE RECEIVED HIS PERMISSION ON SEPTEMBER 1 1879.
WILHELM.........WILHELM GROH* WAS BORN JUNE 3 1860 IN EPPINGEN GERMANY. HIS PARENTS WERE JOHANN JACOB AND KATHERINA (BRENNEISEN) GROH. JOHANN JACOB WAS BORN JAN 9, 1825 IN EPPINGEN GERMANY. HE DIED MAR 251886 ALSO IN EPPINGEN. KATHERINA WAS BORN OCT 18, 1830 IN MUHLBACH GERMANY. HER PARENTS WERE MICHAEL AND MARIA (TROUTWEIN) BRENNEISEN. KATHERINA AND FOUR OF HER CHILDREN CAME TO AMERICA IN 1881. HER SONS FREDIRICH AND HENRICH, TWO DAUGHTERS REGINA AND EVA. ANOTHER DAUGHTER ALSO CAME OVER AT THE SAME TIME WITH HER HUSBAND AND CHILD. HER NAME WAS KATHERINE AND HER HUSBAND WAS JOHN NAGEL AND THEIR SON WAS JACOB. JOHANN JACOB AND KATHERINA HAD 14 CHILDREN BUT EIGHT WERE EITHER STILLBORN OR DIED SHORTLY AFTER BIRTH, ONLY SIX LIVED. WILHELM AND HIS FAMILY AND A BROTHER JACOB AND HIS FAMILY CAME TO AMERICA IN 1894.
WILHELM MARRIED CATHERINE (GRETHER) IN 1887. CATHERINE WAS BORN NOV 16, 1858 IN ITTLINGEN GERMANY. HER PARENTS WERE JACOB AND MAGDELENA (FREY) GRETHER. WILHELM AND CATHERINE HAD FOUR DAUGHTERS BORN IN EPPINGEN AND THEY WERE ELIZABETH ALICE BORN JAN 6 1889, REGINA BORN FEB 271890 DIED FEB 24,1894 IN GERMANY, CATHERINE ELLEN BORN FEB 1, 1892 DIED FEB 14, 1918 1N AMERICA.
EVA BORN SEPT 1, 1893 AND DIED NOV 1, 1893. THE FAMILY CAME TO AMERICA AND WENT TO BLUFFTON INDIANA WHERE THEY HAD A SON WILLIAM FREDRICK** BORN OCT 15, 1894. THE FAMILY MOVED TO JUNCTION OHIO WHERE HE BOUGHT A FORTY ACRE FARM. IN 1896 OCT 9 A DAUGHTER WAS BORN HER NAME WAS CHRISTINE EVELYN. CATHERINE HAD ANOTHER DAUGHTER ON DEC 9, 1898 AND BOTH MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DIED.
ON MAY 28, 1900 WILHELM MARRIED WILHELMINA SHOCKOW A WIDOW WITH NINE CHILDREN BUT MOST HAD ALREADY LEFT HOME. SHE HAD ONE SON THAT LIVED WITH HER THAT WAS CALLED "UNCLE EARNEY". WILHELM WAS A VERY GOOD CHRISTIAN AND ATTENDED THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH NEAR JUNCTION. WILHELM DIED MAR 27, 1934 AND IS BURIED IN THE DOTTERER CEMETERY ALONG WITH HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER AND HIS BROTHER FREIDRICH AND HIS WIFE WILHELMINA WAS BORN AUG 151852 AND DIED MAR 28, 1939 AND IS BURIED IN RIVERSIDE CEMETERY DEFIANCE OHIO ALONG WITH HER FIRST HUSBAND.
* My Great Grandfather
** My Grandfather
HENRY..........HENRY GROH WAS BORN AUGUST 28, 1865 IN EPPINGEN GERMANY THE SON
OF JOHANN JACOB GROH AND KATHERINA (BRENNEISEN) GROH. ON NOVEMBER 4, 188O. AT THE AGE OF 15 HE WAS GIVEN PERMISSION TO COME TO AMERICA.UPON
ARRIVAL TO AMERICA BE LIVED IN GIRARD, OH WHERE HE LERNED THE HARNESS MAKING TRADE. WHILE LIVING THERE BE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH (FORMERLY EVANGELICAL BABTIST). AT THE AGE OF ABOUT 20, HE WENT TO BLUFFTON, INDIANA AND OPERATED A SHOP IN NEWVILLE, INDIANA. ON OCTOBER 28, 1888, HE MARRIED DRUSULLA GILLIOM AND THEY MOVED TO BLUFFTON, INDIANA WHERE HE OPENED A HARNESS SHOP AND STORE.
IN 1907 THE FAMILY MOVED TO COLORADO TO SEEK A DIFFERANT CLIMATE BECAUSE HIS WIFE WAS HAVING SOME LUNG PROBLEMS. THEY RETURNED TO BUFFALO AFTER 15 MONTHS AND CONTINUED BUSINESS THERE.
THIS WAS THE TIME BEFORE THERE WERE CARS, SO WHEN VISITORS CAME TO VISIT FRIENDS AND MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH IN NEWVILLE, HENRY WOULD SEE THAT THEY COULD GET HOME AS THEY CAME TO NEWVILLE BY TRAIN OR INTERURBAN CAR.
IN 1913, THE FAMILY MOVED TO ELGIN, ILLINOIS WHERE HE OPENED A STORE AND SHOP. IN 1926, HE RETIRED AND MOVED TO FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. THEY ATTENDED CHURCH IN LEO, INDIANA.
HENRY AND DRUSILLA HAD NINE CHILDRED: LOUIS, NETTIE, ELLEN, EDWIN, MARY, HERMAN, SAMUEL, EVA AND MINNIE
DRUSILLA DIED JANUARY 31, 1942 AND HENRY DIED JANUARY 10, 1944. THEY ARE BURIED IN THE BLUFFTON APOSTILIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH CEMETERY.
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