Re: CELIA AGNUS SHORR OF OHIO D. c. DEC 1943
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Re: CELIA AGNUS SHORR OF OHIO D. c. DEC 1943
Richard Jackson 9/03/03
Mathias Schorr was born January 10, 1779 in Dirmingen, Saarland, Germany.About 1803, he married Katharine Nau (c. 1780 - 1818). On August 16, 1820, he married Barbara Weiland (1792 - 1868).In 1833, he applied to emigrate to America. On June. 28, 1836, he arrived alone on the Ship Crescent in New York, NY. It is said that he came to Ohio and scouted out a place for his family to settle. He then returned to Germany to retreive his family.They are returned the following year arriving, on June 8, 1837, at New York, NY aboard the Ship Francis I. Mathias Schorr brought his family directly to Marion Township, Hocking County, Ohio. Unfortunately he died in August 1840 and was buried in the Old St. John Catholic Cemetery, Falls Township, Hocking County, Ohio.His damaged tombstone survives to this day.