This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Scheer, Stroberger,Schmidt, Ewald, Harries Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CRFBAEB/46.1 Message Board Post: Maria's parents were FREDERICH SCHEER and MARIA STROBERGER, although I show birthyear as 1875. I have a lot more on this family branch if you are interested. She was my first cousin, three times removed. Are You Lee Patrick Harries, son John William and Gloria (Jackson)? If so you are my 4th cousin. Gary Werner Scheer. 3. FREDERICH WILHELM FERDINAND2 SCHEER (LUDWIG FERDINAND KARL1) was born December 03, 1842 in New Bliesdorf, Brandenburg Province, Germany, and died September 08, 1931 in Tacoma, WA, USA. He married MARIA STROBERGER 1873, daughter of ? STROBERGER. She was born March 28, 1849 in Herzberg, Germany, and died July 26, 1901 in Bazile Mills, Nebraska, USA. Children of FREDERICH SCHEER and MARIA STROBERGER are: i. ELIZABETH THERESE3 SCHEER, b. January 12, 1874, Bazile Mills, Nebraska, USA; d. June 29, 1956, Tacoma, WA, USA; m. (1) JOHN FISHER; d. 1906; m. (2) RICHARD JOHN RINNE. 11. ii. MARIA MARTHA SCHEER, b. March 23, 1875, Bazile Mills, Nebraska, USA; d. May 18, 1956, Tacoma, WA, USA. 12. iii. ANNA LOUISE SCHEER, b. May 25, 1876, Bazile Mills, Nebraska, USA; d. April 19, 1958, Tacoma, WA, USA. 13. iv. HELENA MARGARETHA SCHEER, b. September 16, 1877, Bazile Mills, Nebraska, USA; d. May 02, 1963, Tacoma, WA, USA. v. ELLA SCHEER, b. October 25, 1883, Bazile Mills, Nebraska, USA; d. September 25, 1960, Tacoma, WA. MARIA MARTHA3 SCHEER (FREDERICH WILHELM FERDINAND2, LUDWIG FERDINAND KARL1) was born March 23, 1875 in Bazile Mills, Nebraska, USA, and died May 18, 1956 in Tacoma, WA, USA. She married HEINRICH HERMAN HARRIES September 30, 1901 in Bazile Mills, Nebraska, USA, son of JOHANN HARRIES and SOPHA THOLMANN. He was born February 01, 1865 in Eitzendorf, Germany., and died January 1926 in Pierce, Nebraska..