Text Box: Franz and Catherine 1 LAUER FAMILY HISTORY

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ur earliest know ancestor using the Lauer surname (click to see family crest and read history of surname) was Heinrich Lauer (click to see descendants of Heinrich), born before 1663.  With Christina (her last name is unknown, she was born before 1667) they had a son Johann Niclass Lauer.  They lived in Lambsborn, Germany.  Johann Niclass Lauer remained in Lambsborn and with Anna Catharina Margaretha Minnhardt (she was born before 1700) had a son Georg Lauer.  Georg and Maria Elizabetha Theobald settled in her hometown of Hutschenhausen, Germany.  Their son Johann Phillip Lauer married Francisca Rauber.  While working in the city of Lauterbourg, Bas Rhin, Johann and Francisca had a son Franz Ludwig Von Lauer (1801 - 1875); Franz was born (click to see translation of his birth certificate) January 12, 1801.  Franz grew up in Alsace territory, a disputed area on the border of France and Germany.  He served in both the French and German Armies.  In 1979, a biography on Franz's life was included in book called Gasconade County History, Owensville Missouri.  Click this to read what was said there. 

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ranz, a great great grandson of Heinrich, was the first of our Lauer ancestors to come to America.  In America, Franz started using the English version of his name -Francis Louis Lauer.  In the picture above he is with his third wife Catherine.  Franz came to Missouri around 1836 and settled in the Roark Township area of Hermann Missouri.  At that time, this area was the exclusive domain of the German Settlement Society of Philadelphia.  Wealthy settlers could purchase shares in the society which would entitle them to land when they arrived.  No such share could be found at the Missouri State Archive for Franz.  He appears to have worked a few years before his first land purchase in 1840.  Franz along with his sons Louis, Charles, and Stephen served in the Union Army during the Civil war.  Text Box:

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ouis (1839-1912), pictured here with his wife Ericka (Fredericka) was wounded during the Civil War.  Ericka in her later years received a war pension.  She spent her last years living in Montgomery City across the street from her son Joseph Lauer.

 

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ouis Lauer had 3 sons and 4 daughters named:

 

Anne Lauer, born April 14, 1869, Gasconade County; died February 2, 1897; married Theodore Schluss, March 14, 1887, St. Martin's Church, Starkenburg, MO.   Burial: St. Martin's Cemetery, Starkenburg, MO.

 

John Ernest Lauer, born August 25, 1874; died October 06, 1950.

 

Mary Barbara Lauer, born August 31, 1877, Montgomery County; died June 25, 1956.

 

Alida Carolina Lauer, born February 21, 1880; died March 29, 1928; married Bernard Grotewiel, January 23, 1895, St. Martin's Church, Starkenburg, MO.

 

Bernard Walter Lauer, born October 15, 1883, Montgomery County; died March 29, 1936, Hospital in Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri.

 

Joseph Theodore Lauer, born June 05, 1885, Montgomery County; died May 08, 1953.

 

Elisabeth Loborn Lauer, born February 11, 1888; died October 19, 1914.

 

 

It is from the three brothers that most of the "Lauer Cousins" around the central Missouri area are descended.

 

Text Box: The three sons of Louis Lauer are pictured here.  From left to right: John Ernest Lauer, Joseph Theodore Lauer, and Bernard Walter Lauer.

 

Bernard Walter Lauer, my grandfather, married Anna L. Marshall November 2, 1910.  She was the daughter of Martin Marshall and his wife Louease (her last name is unknown).  Anna was born April 24, 1887 in Jackson County, and died March 26, 1960.

 

Bernard Walter Lauer and Anna Marshall had 8 children (5 sons and 3 daughters):

 

 

Louis Martin Lauer born September 03, 1911; died September 1985 in Bridgeton, MO.

 

Bernard Francis Lauer (my father) born February 08, 1913; died November 26, 1971 in Berkeley, MO.

 

Evelyn Louise Lauer born March 01, 1915; died March 18, 1973 in Montgomery City (Montgomery County), MO.

 

Fredinand (Fred) Walter Lauer born November 24, 1918.

 

Anna Marie Lauer born August 25, 1921; died June 08, 1991.

 

James Ernest Lauer born May 11, 1924; died 1983.

 

Mary Loretta Lauer born June 21, 1927; died December 21, 1981.

 

William Marshal Lauer born October 18, 1933.

 

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This a picture of the 8 children as adults. It was taken at the funeral of their mother Anna Marshall in 1960.  From left to right: Fred Lauer, Louis Lauer, William Lauer, Anna Marie Beller, Bernard Francis Lauer, Evelyn Zumwalt, Mary Azar, and James Lauer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pictured here are Bernard Walter Lauer and Anna Marshall.  I believe this to be their wedding picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bernard Francis Lauer’s baby picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pictured here is my father Bernard Francis Lauer as a young man.