Hello from Fremont Center Seeking Meyer Family relatives~ Sullivan County, NY

_{Hello from Fremont Center

Seeking Meyer Family "shoestring" relatives}

Subj: Help....
Date: 7/31/00 1:14:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: meyerr@mindspring.com (Roger Meyer)
To: Elaine369@aol.com
My name is Roger W. Meyer. I have ancestors who came to Obernburg and Fremont Center from a Bavarian community near Obernburg, Germany in 1850. I'm trying to determine whether I have any "shoestring" relatives still left in that area.

What I have so far is the following:

My great-great grandparents (John or Joannes Meier) and my great-grandfather (John Meier...later changed to Meyer) came to Obernburg from Bavaria in 1850. Obernburg was then known locally as Dutch Town....and may have been named for Obernburg, Bavaria.....because Obernburg, NY resembled their mountain homeland.

My great-grandfather, John Meier, served in the Civil War as a militiaman in the 28th New York Regiment. John Meyer was a shoemaker. He was born in 1837 near Munich in Bavaria. Both John Meier (my great-grandfather) and John Meier (my great-great grandfather) are buried at Fremont Center in the Methodist Cemetery. The younger John Meier died in 1914.

The younger John Meier had 8 children by his first wife, Caroline Wilhelmine Leopold Meier. They are:
Mary Kuhner - b7/26/1865 d4/18/1958
Elizabeth Busch Meyer- b1/13/1879 d7/1957
Edward Meyer (my grandfather) - b8/13/1883 d 1953
William Meyer - b2/13/1876
Frank Meyer - b1/10/1870 d5/24/1933
Amelia Thompson Meyer - b5/20/1872 died in Los Angeles, CA
John Meyer - b2/7/1874 d May 1938
Fred Meyer - b2/19/1868 d4/13/1928

Arthur N. Meyers - born 1896 died 1972. Arthur's mother was Elizabeth and he married my great-grandfather after his first wife, Caroline Wilhelmine, died. Arthur is a half-brother to my grandfather Edward G. Meyer. He added the "S" to Meyer to allegedly avoid confusion with the Jewish Meyer families. Arthur was a Justice of the Peace and town historian in Tusten/Narrowsburg during the 1960's.

My great-great grandfather, John Meier, built the cellar with a stone arch ceiling which was built as a brewery cellar for the Obernburg Brewery. He also built the priest's house at Obernburg....also built of stone.
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My personal information: I was born in Gloversville, NY in 1949.....lived in Johnstown, NY until 1953.....and was raised in the Chicago area until I left for the University of Kansas. My wife and I currently teach and live in Yakima, Washington.

We are planning a trip to New York to visit Obernburg, Fremont, and Narrowsburg.....as well as the Catskills and Adirondack Mts. either late this summer or next year.

I have ordered a copy of the Centennial booklet from St. Mary's Church to help with my search for family connections. I have also found several references to Meier and Meyer in a database enclosure that Rita #1 sent to me. That list shows a Georg Meyer married to Cunigunda Mitterweger and having children named Philipp, Joannes, and Catharina. It also shows a George Mayer, married to Maria Cunigunda Mitterweger, and having children Catharina Theresia, Franz, Valentin, Daniel, Joannes Anton, and Barbara. I don't know if this family is related to the Georg Meyer family, or not.

Please let me know if you can get me internet addresses of anyone from that area who might be a "Meier or Meyer".
Thanks,
Roger W. Meyer
2610 Barge St.
Yakima, WA 98902
(509) 457-5044
meyerr@mindspring.com

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