Genealogy of the Ludwig Mohler Family in America
 

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3-4--Lyra Grace Tait, b April 6, 1907; completed 8th grade, 1921, and was one of eight in a class of fifty-six to be placed on the efficiency roll; was elected class president.

4--Lucy Ann Garber finished the Red Cloud H. S.; taught; married Dr. Thaddeus B. Myers, May 20, 1901, to whom was born in 1903 a son, Harry Garber Myers. Lucy Garber Myers died September 25, 1918, and was buried at Red Cloud, Nebr.

5--Joseph Schaeffer Garber completed the Red Cloud High School and settled at Kellogg, Idaho, where he married, 1912, and is in business. He has no issue.

6--Lawrence Abe Garber, youngest child of Joseph Garber, is a cattle ranchman near Wheatland, Wyo. He is unmarried, is fond of reading, and is very popular because of his thoughtfulness for others.

The following sketch throws a vivid sidelight upon the reason why America received so many immigrants of the better class from Germany from the days of Wm. Penn on down. This recital but represents the lives of the Palatinates, known to history as ten generations of sturdy old world farmers, driven to abandon lands and homes and flee to America for their lives during the days of the Reformation. That was the only way they could escape from the militarism, tyrrany and bloodshed of unlimited monarchy.

The terrible crimes of the Hohenzollerns during the recent World War were the same kind of crimes that have torn German civilization since the 10th century. They were the crimes that devastated whole provinces during the days of the Reformation. They are but the foreshadowing of the crimes the crafty deposed--though still unconquered--German rulers are planning to again project upon a helpless world. World dominence and Hohenzollern madness are one; and the form it took in 1854 was the struggle for supremacy of aggressive Prussia over the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Mrs. Joseph Garber was Catherine Schaeffer, born in the village of Ferbach, New Bavaria, Germany. Her parents were Joseph Schaeffer born, Rhein Bayer in 1801, died February 11, 1854, and was buried there. He owned a landed estate of 57 acres, dwelt in his three-story stone mansion and was a money lender. His wife was Anna Maria Meyer, born Aug. 5, 1805, Rhein Bayer and died April, 1879. Their children were: Joseph Schaeffer, b Aug. 26, 1831; almost completed university course of Piermecenz, Bavaria; was organist at Cathedral during student days; had his own piano and music room in his father's home. Joseph quarreled with the university authorities on the question of state authority just before his graduation, then emigrated to America, the ideal home of freedom. When war broke out that would have swallowed all his brothers, he returned to his mother, in Bavaria, bribed the French authorities to help him across the border, loaded the family into two covered wagons in the night and slipped away from the officer and seven German private soldiers quartered upon their household, arrived safely in France, with French assistance, and sailed from port of Havre de Grace after a wait of two weeks for the sailing boat that was to bear them to "freedom from military service," and they all landed at Castle Garden, 1854, after a trip of 30 days on water.

 
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