Email From Adrianne kee46@email.msn.com  to  HUNSUCKER-L@rootsweb.com
Email Dated June 13, 2000

Wanderlust Continues:

The descendants of the Germans who came to North Carolina in the eighteenth
century continued to move for reasons similar to those of their ancestors
before them - richer soil and better economic conditions. 47 {  }  In 1850,
there were 33,175 natives in NC living in Indian and 13,851 living in IL.
48 {  }

Cabarrus Co. residents were a part of this migration.  Not only was the soil
there becoming poor, but the families had grown large, and there was not
enough land for every member of the family.  It is obvious that a number of
Lutherans from Cabarrus and surrounding counties had migrated to Indiana and
Illinois.  By 1825, a call was made from Union County, IL, signed  by
forty-three persons, for a pastor or missionary who would be able to preach
in the German and English languages. 49 { } In 1827, the Rev. John c. A.
SCHOENBERG was sent out by the Synod of NC.  In 1831, the Rev. Daniel
SCHERER, then pastor at St. John's in Cabarrus County, removed to Illinois,
where he succeeded the Rev. SCHOENBERG, and two years later formed a
congregation at Hillsboro in Montgomery County.  The Hillsboro congregation
was received in full connection with the NC Synod in 1834.  50 {}

Among the families from Cabarrus County who migrated to the Old Northwest
were the LUDWICKS and the CRESSES.  There were others from Cabarrus Co. who
moved west by going south around the Appalachians instead of over them like
the CRESSES and the LUDWICKS.  One Y.B. COTTON of Cabarrus Co. married the
daughter of my first ancestors to the county, Sarah FAGGART.  They moved to
GA, and one of their twelve children, E. B. COTTON, became a prominent
planter in LA.  Some of their descendants live in LA to this day.  52 {}.

It is obvious from various reference books in Cabarrus CO. that many
descendants of the early German settlers still live there today.  They do
not speak German as the Germans do in Fredericksburg, TX, or the Amish and
Mennonites in PA and OH, who still cling to their "PA Dutch" language and
customs.  Recently, I searched through two of my high school year books
(1952 and 1954 from Winecoff High School, located in North of Concord and
not in the east where most of the Germans settled) for German names and
found the following:

WEINCOFF (WEINKAUFF)
COOK (KOCH)
LUDWICK
CRIDER
FINK
ROSEMAN (ROSEMANN)
WAGNER
CANUP (KNUPP)
CARPENTER (ZIMMERMAN)
CLINE (KLEIN)
EDDLEMAN (EDELMANN)
GOODMAN (GUTHMANN)
HOLSHOUSER (HOLZHAUSER)
ISENHOUR (EISENHAUER)
SHUE (SHUH)
WHITE (WEISS)
BARNHARDT (BERNHARDT)
WAGONER (WAGNER)
BLACKWELDER (SCHWARZWAELDER)
SOUTHER (SUTHER)
HILEMAN
NEISLER
WIDENHOUSE
HETLIG
BRIGMAN
MILLER (MUELLER)
OVERCASH (OBERKIRSCH)
MISENHEIMER (MEISSENHEIMER)
BEAVER (BIBER)
TROUTMAN (TRAUTMAN)
ALLMAN
WILHELM
STIRWALT (STEIGERWALT)
SCHRIVER
SUTHER
FISHER (FISCHER, FISCHLER)
BOST (BAST)
KESLER
SHEPERD (SHAEFFER)
RAMSEUR
SMITH  (SCHMIDT)
WILLIAMS (WILHELM)
SIDES (SEITZ)
SLOOP (SCHLUPPE)

I do not know how many others derived their German descent through their
mother, like I have.  My mother lives in Union County NC; her oldest sister
lives in Pinehurst, Moore CO. NC; and her youngest sister lives in VA.  My
brother and I continue to wander--he lives in LA, CA and I live in Akron OH.

In this article, I have tried to show how Cabarrus CO became the most German
Co. in NC at the end of the Eighteenth Century.  I have attempted to show
from what lands the Germans came, the routes of their journeys, and when and
why they came.  Because my ancestors were among these immigrants, my
interest is perhaps greater than others not so allied in the past.  The
evidence that I have given does not always show the exact causation of their
migration, however the data here can still be profitably used.

I think the material could be used as an integral part in the Classroom of
America, European, and NC history.  Perhaps many already know the history I
have written here.  However, I have experienced in my lifetime that every
teneration must learn their history anew, or that history is lost.

....footnotes to follow.....

 

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