Forwarded message: > From lizmiller@bigfoot.com Tue Feb 29 17:47:47 2000 > Reply-To: <lizmiller@bigfoot.com> > From: "Liz Miller" <lizmiller@bigfoot.com> > To: <jthesing@home.com>, <dms@netcom.com> > Subject: Gerber/Garber surname from Tusc and Holmes counties > Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:48:01 -0500 > Message-ID: <002901bf8320$2d6d6780$a0ed5d18@lmiller-ra.neo.lrun.com> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_002A_01BF82F6.44975F80" > X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 > Importance: Normal > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01BF82F6.44975F80 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hello- > I too am a Gerber/Garber researcher. My Gerber's are from the Berks County > area and I recently (Fall 1999) stumbled across a Gerber family history that > helped me and wanted to pass it along. In the Ohio Genealogy Society > located in Mansfield OH, there is a publication by Wilbur D. Gerber, for > John Calhoun Gerber & Iva Mabel Havenstock Family History (submitted in > 1975). > There is a gem of information copied family bible pages from ELIAS GERBER's > FAMILY BIBLE. These pages are written in German as well as typed & > transcribed into English. The family history was submitted > by Wilbur D. Gerber of Navarre OH in the mid 1970's. Other parts of the > family history state that Christian Gerber b.1763 came from PA to Stark > County OH in 1810. There are 8x10 pictures of several generations beginning > with Elias and Maria Gerber Family. > > I hope this helps someone. It certainly did my Garber/Gerber, since > Christian Gerber > was a brother of my John Gerber b.1747 and bap. Schwartzwald Reformed > Church, Exeter > Township, Berks County PA. > > The bible pages provide the following information: > > Children of John Gerber: > John Gerber in year 1747 > Catharine born Jan 28 1749 > Fannie born Dec 9 1750 > Jacob born Dec 15 1755 > Anna born Sept 19 1760 > Christian born March 10 1763 > Elizabeth born Oct 18 1766 > Abraham born April 22 1769 > > Children of John Gerber with his second wife > John born Jan 17 1772 > Daniel born August 25 1775. > > Christina Gerber, first wife of John Gerber died 27 Nov 1769. John Gerber, > husband of > Christina, died 13 May 1777. Another page says that Christina Gerber, wife > of John > Gerber died in the year 1769. They lived in matrimony for 29 years. She was > 42 years > old. > > The rest of the information is for offspring of Christian Gerber and then > his son Elias > Gerber located in Stark County OH and Holmes County OH. > Children of Christian Gerber > John born May 5 1787 > Catharine born Sept 21 1788 > Jacob born Sept 5 1790 > Anna born May 12 1792 > Magdalena born May 8 1794 > Christian born August 16 1798 > Elizabeth born May 12 1798 > David born May 3 1801 > Daniel born May 27 1804 > Elias born April 9 1807 > > Deaths of Christian Gerber family > Christian Gerber died in year 1817 > Jacob Gerber died in year 1827 > Magdalena Gerber died in year 18-- > Daniel Gerber died in Sept of 1835 > Elizabeth Gerber died in year 18-- > Anna Gerber, wife of Christian Gerber died Dec 29 1843, aged 78 years and 2 > months. > > Elias Gerber married Mary Richard(s) on Sept 19 1833. > > Elias was born April 9, 1807 and Mary Richard was born May 9 1810. > Children: > David Gerber born July 6 1834 > Margaret Gerber born May 28 1836 > Adelina born June 21 1838 > George born Oct 20 1840 > Christian born Feb 13 1845 > Solomon born Jan 1 1846 > > > > > > Regards, > > Liz > > Life is more accurately measured by the lives you touch than the things you > acquire... Work like you don't need the money... Dance like nobody's > watching... Love like you've never been hurt before.