Note: This is our first Swiss Connection feature after a several-month absence. This is the 47th feature in this series of Bluffton-Pandora Swiss families. CLICK HERE FOR AN INDEX TO FAMILIES LISTED. We invite viewers who have family genealogies not part of this collection to contact us.Reach out to us at: fsteiner@roadrunner.com. We also recognized that errors slip into these columns. We'd appreciate hearing from viewers who have corrections to make on specific columns.
About Our Swiss Connection During his retirement years, Bluffton Swiss genealogist, the late Herb Probst, created a genealogical overview of the early Swiss settlers in the Bluffton and Pandora communities, which he shared during his lifetime with several area families, who he researched.
Probst’s grandfather, Josef Probst, came from Germany in 1880 and married Elizabeth Suter of this community. On his mother’s side, her father was Solomon Welty and her mother was Barbara Amstutz.
John Schumacher was born June 29, 1816, in St. Albanthal Canton Basel. We do not have Barbara Steiner Schumacher’s date of birth except that it was in Alsace. The couple was married in America in 1838, two years after the Schumacher family settled in the Bluffton-Pandora Settlement. Unlike other columns, the details on the children of John and Barbara is limited.
Father: Christian Schumacher, Sr.
Born: Oct. 7, 1782
Died: Nov. 6, 1858
Mother: Barbara Elizabeth Luginbuhl
Born: March 11, 1781
Died: Oct. 19, 1855
John and Barbara Steiner Schumacher’s 13 children:
Anna
Born: 1839
Died: 1911
Spouse: John Althaus
Christian
Born: 1841
Died: 1928
Spouse: Nancy Lehman
Barbara
Born: 1843
Died: 1930
Spouse: Ulrich Steiner
Katherine
Born: 1844
Died: 1920
Spouse: Adam Diller
Rosina
Born: 1846
Died: 1922
Spouse: Daniel Stauffer
Elizabeth
Born: 1848
Died: 1881
Spouse: John G. Diller
Maria
Born: 1850
Died: 1932
Spouse: Christian Althaus
Jacob
Born: 1852
Died: 1925
Spouse: Dinah Oberly
Regina
Born: 1856
Died: 1932
Spouse: Wesley Brillhart
Sarah
Born: 1861
Died: 1955
Spouse: Alfred Zweiacker
John J.
Born: 1866
Died: 1943
Spouse: Mary Ann Liechty
Fanny
No other information
except that she died as a single woman
Magdalene
No other information
except she died as a single woman
The information on John and Barbara is from a small pamphlet titled “The Schumachers: The descendants of Christian and Barbara Elizabeth Luginbuhl Schumacher.”
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