Baehr-Evans Family History Ver. 22Feb2019

The regional breakdown of my DNA lineage is as follows:

Southwestern Europe – 75%

Interestingly, Southwestern Europe may have been the last refuge of the Neanderthals, due to its relatively
sheltered position during the last glacial maximum. European hunter-gatherers also may have taken refuge
there 20,000 years ago. Eventually, the first farmers arrived in the region from the Eastern
Mediterranean, and these are the ancestors of the modern-day inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula and
neighboring regions. Connections across the Mediterranean, dating back to prehistory and down to the
medieval period, connect Iberians with other coastal peoples, especially groups in Northern Africa. Some
Southwestern Europeans also migrated across the Strait of Gibraltar, leading to a mutual genetic exchange.
This cluster was also the pioneer Explorer, the group that expanded over 500 years ago to the Americas, as the
Spanish and Portuguese established empires around the world.

Northwestern Europe – 17%

This region of Northern Europe is a biogeographical composite of populations that include British,
Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Northern French, Belgians, Dutch, Danish, and some Scandinavian and German
groups. So, much more than an established historical population, it is a prehistorical region characterized early
on by a long period of glaciation, with episodic habitation by hunter-gatherer groups migrating from the south
and east. With the advent of agriculture and the spread of plant domestication some 8,000 to 6,000 years ago,
the people of Northwestern Europe grew from the mix of the early settlers and new farmers. Over the last
4,000 years, the region became subdivided into the ethnic and political entities we now know. This
biogeographical region is seen in many people of European ancestry, as well as most people living in the U.S.,
Canada, and Australia today. It is also seen in small percentages in groups from Latin America, as well as in
countries that were part of the British Empire of the 18th and 19th Centuries.

Northeastern Europe - 7%

Hunter-gatherers were the first peoples to settle in Northeastern Europe, initiating a unique ancestry that would
be traced back to this region. The region stretches from Lapland to parts of Siberia to the east, and although
this cluster is genetically diverse, the root of many of these populations is a genetic signature found most
often in Finnish, Northern Russian, and some Baltic peoples. The first humans in the regions pushed into
the deep north only around 30,000 years ago, migrating to where no other Neanderthal had dared. The
northerners maintained long-term lateral connections and developed a coherence as the ice retreated, all the
while keeping in touch with populations in the south. Today, this ancestry is seen in Saami hunters and
fishermen, as well as Uralic, Russian, Finnish, and some Scandinavian peoples.

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Johann Bähr’s Baptismal Certificate, March 24, 1833, Coburg, Germany. Copy made in 1845.

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John Baehr’s Furlough Papers, 1864

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John Baehr’s Discharge Papers, 1864

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FAMILY’S FAVORITE RECIPES WINE RECIPE Susan Maher

SHERRY WINE One-quart grape juce 3 quarts water 1 package
of raisons 1 cake of yeast 2 lb Brown sugar 2
Susan Maher Leamons Power (pour) Boiling water over
15 lb Brown Sugar Raisons and sugar then add Leamons and grape
10 lb Seedless Rasins (Chopped) juce when cool add yeast let stand 18 days then
5 lb whole wheat & 5 large potatoes (chopped) Bottel Strain.
2 yeast cakes; put yeast in ¾ cup warm water
Add 2 teaspoons white sugar FROUT CAKE THAT BESSIE
And let raise. MAKES
Wash and chop the rasins.
Peel and chop the patatoes Susan Maher
Add 5 full gallon of luke warm water into crock. 1 lb Butter
Add Ingredients and then add yeast. 2 Lb Raisons
Stir and let stand for 3 weeks. Stirring once every 2 lb Currants 8 eggs
day. Strain. 4 Cups Brown sugar
2 ½ Lbs of Flower
CORN SALID Lemon Cimon nuts to tast
½ Cup Molases 1 Tes spoon soda
Susan Maher 3 Tea spoons Baking Powder
15 ears of corn
4 cucumbers MOM CALER’S STEAMED
2 green peppers PUDDING
1 small head cabbage
1 tabelspoon of salt Bessie Maher Caler
2 tabelspoons of celery seed (tied in cloth) 4 cups. Bread. Crumbs. Large. Cups.
Boil 30 minutes 1 teaspoon Soada. Level.
Sauce: 1 Qt vinegar ¼ teaspoon Cloves. Ground.
2 tabelspoons of Colman’s mustard ¼ teaspoon Cinimon
1 cup of flour ½ teaspoon Salt
2 cups of sugar ½ cups Milk
1 teaspoon of tuemric & 1 tsp of salt 1 Cup Molases
Boil until smooth. One Pk. Dates
Pour over Salid. Cook all together. One Pk rasins
Cup Sugar
One egg.

Steam 3 hours. Mary, if you want too. Cut up.
Green & Red. Cherries it makes look prettie

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SCONES WHITE ICING

Susan Maher Mary Caler Baehr
3 Cups flower. ½ cup margarine. Cream.
Currants to taste Blend in jar Kraft marshmallow cream.
1 pinch salt. Cream tarter & 3 table spoons sugar. 1 tablespoon milk & 1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons Lard & Baking Soda Equal parts Add 3 cups powdered sugar. Mix well.

FRENCH SILK PIE HOT RUM SAUCE

Mary Caler Baehr Mary Caler Baehr
¾ cup sugar 1 cup sugar
¼ pound oleo. Cream very well. 1 tablespoon lemon rind
Add either one square baking chocolate or 3 ¼ 1 ½ cups boiling water
tablespoon cocoa and 1 teaspoon vanilla. 1 tablespoon butter
Continue beating. Add 1 egg. Beat at high speed 1 tablespoon Cornstarch
for 10 minutes. 3 tbs. Lemon juice
Add second egg. Beat 10 more minutes. ½ cup rum
Pour into 8-inch cooked pie shell. Combine sugar, lemon rind with water. Add
Chill well. May be frozen. Top with whipped butter. Heat to boiling. Mix cornstarch with
cream. juice. Add to mixture. Cook 8 minutes.
Remove. Strain. Add rum and salt.
FOOL-PROOF PIE CRUST
PIZZA DOUGH
Mary Caler Baehr
4 C flour, 1 ¾ C oil, 1 Tbs sugar, 2 Tsp salt, 1 Mary Caler Baehr
Tbs vinegar, 1 egg, 1 half C water. Mix first 4 5 pounds flour
ingredients; add to remaining beaten ingredients. 1 can milk & 1 can water
Form into ball. Chill 15 minutes. Roll into 1 stick oleo. Scald.
desired shape. Dough can be left in refrigerator Add 2 cans water, 2 tbs. sugar, some salt.
3 days or frozen. Dissolve 2 cakes of yeast. Add to flour.

HEAVENLY PIE RUM SAUCE

Mary Caler Baehr Mary Caler Baehr
1 eight-ounce Angel Food cake 1 egg
Break into bite size pieces and put into 9 x 13- 1 cup confectioner’s sugar
inch pan. 4 teaspoons rum
Melt over warm water 2 packages of chocolate 1 cup heavy cream, whipped
chips. Beat eggs until thick and lemon-colored. Add
Add two teaspoons of sugar and 3 raw egg sugar gradually and continue beating. Add rum
yolks—remove from heat. to whipping cream and combine two mixtures.
Beat 3 egg whites until stiff. Beat 1pint whipping
cream. Combine all. Chill over night or for
several hours.

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FOOL PROOF FUDGE AUNT CARRIE BACHER LYNN’S SUGAR
COOKIES
Mary Caler Baehr From Ruth Brugler

32 marshmallows 2 cups brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
¼ cup water 1 egg
1 cup sour cream
2 & 1/2 cups granulated sugar 1 cup buttermilk
1 cup shortening
¼ pound of butter 2 teaspoons soda
4 teaspoons vanilla
1 six-ounce can evaporated-milk 7-8 cups of flour—enough to roll

¼ teaspoon of salt Cut out cookies. Sprinkle with sugar.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes
½ cups of semi-sweet chocolate bits

¼ teaspoon salt.

. In top of double boiler, combine marshmallows & water.
Place over boiling water & cook until marshmallows
dissolve, stirring occasionally. In a large, heavy saucepan
combine sugar, butter, milk, & salt. Mix.. Bring to a rolling
boil over medium heat. Continue boiling 8 minutes,
stirring constantly to prevent sticking. Remove from heat
& stir in melted marshmallow mixture and chocolate bits.
Mix until thoroughly blended. Pour into greased pan.
Cool thoroughly & cut into squares. If desired, add 1 cup
chopped nuts, coconut, or glace’ fruit to the fudge before
pouring it in the pan.

CHEESE CAKE LEMON CHICKEN SOUP
Ann Gonzálbez Evans Charlotte Anne Evans Dobyns

Crust: 13 graham crackers 8 to 10 cups homemade chicken broth
¼ cup sugar 2 to 3 Shredded chicken breasts
Melted butter to hold Juice from 3 to 4 big lemons
Filling: 4 small packages of cream cheese 2 to 3 eggs whisked thoroughly
½ cup cugar 2 to 3 cups hot cooked rice or orzo.
2 eggs Heat broth. Add chicken and lemon.
Blend ingredients and pour into shell. Bake 20 minutes at
350degrees. Cool 20 minutes. Temper the eggs with some of the hot broth and add
Topping: back into the soup. Be careful not to boil the soup
½ pint sour cream after adding eggs or it will curdle. Add salt and fresh
4 tbsp sugar ground pepper. I add the rice to each bowl and top
½ tsp vanilla with soup.
Blend & pour over pie. Bake for 5 minutes. Sometimes I add cubed carrots and celery at the
beginning to the broth and cook til tender.

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SWEET POTATO DISH THAT CHOCO PEANUT BUTTER PIE
CHARLOTTE LIKED
Mary Caler Baehr
Valley Truelove Miller CRUST:
1 package of peanut cookies
1 cup mashed sweet potatoes Grind cookies.
1 egg Measure 1 ½ cups crumbs
½ cup melted butter Stir in
1 cup sugar ¼ cup sugar
½ cup sweet milk 1 tablespoons of melted butter.
Mix well. Pat into 8” pyrex pie plate.
Mix sweet potatoes, eggs and melted butter with Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.
mixer or just mix with a spoon and pour into a
casserole. FILLING:
¾ cup brown sugar firmly packed
TOPPING: 1 cube of oleo (1/2 cup)
1 ½ cups brown sugar ¼ cup Skippy Chunky Peanut Butter
1 ½ cups chopped pecans 1 egg
1/3 cup flour Using electric mixer, cream sugar, oleo and peanut
½ cup butter (do not melt) butter. Scrape sides of the bowl. Cream well (for
at least five minutes.)
Mix brown sugar, pecans, flour and butter. Add eggs one at a time. Beat for five minutes
Sprinkle this mixture on top of casserole mixture. after adding each egg.
Bake at 250 degrees for 30 minutes. I use more Pour into cooled pie crust. Refrigerate.
potatoes and not as much sugar and butter. Use as
many nuts as you like. I’m bad at changing the CHOCO-TOPPING:
ingredients in a recipe. Whip one package of Dream Whip.
Add one ounce melted Sweet Baker’s Chocolate—
cooled.
Cover pie. Garnish with chopped peanuts.
Refrigerate.

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CHEWY DUNKING SNAPS MUSH or “MOOSH” CORN

Mary Caler Baehr Connie L. Evans

Mix: ¾ cup shortening, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1/3 cup Put some butter in a frying pan. It is better to use
molasses a big frying pan. Scrape corn off the cob, then
scrape juices from the cob. Put corn in pan and
Sift and add: 2 1/3 cup sifted flour, tsp soda, 1 tsp add a little bit of milk to thicken, then sugar, if
each of Watkins Ginger, Cinnamon, ½ tsp Watkins you want or sweetener. If the corn is already
Cloves, ¼ tsp salt. sweet, don’t add sugar. Salt. Let corn cook over
stove until it thickens a little. Stir so it doesn’t
Mix well. Shape into one-inch balls. Dip tops in stick to the bottom. I let it simmer 15 or 20
sugar or decorating candies. Bake on ungreased minutes. Serve. Can be frozen.
baking sheet in 375-degree oven for 12 to 15
minutes. Makes 5 dozen cookies.

GRANDMA’S APPLESAUCE CONDENSED MILK
CAKE
Vallie Truelove Miller
Beulah Truelove Evans Spiva
2 cups of butter 1 cup instant non-fat dry milk solids
2 cups of sugar 1 Tablespoons melted butter
3 eggs 2/3 cup sugar
3 1/2 cups of flour sifted with ½ cup boiling water
1 teaspoon of allspice
1 teaspoon of cloves Combine all ingredients in the container of an
1 teaspoon of nutmeg electric blender or mixer. Beat until smooth.
1 teaspoon of soda Store in refrigerator until ready to use. I can’t tell
1 1/2 teaspoons of salt any difference in this and the bought. This is as
Add: good as what you buy ready-made and much
15 ounces of raisins cheaper.
2 cups of chopped nuts
13 ounces of maraschino cherries and the juice
1 cup of applesauce (or dried or fresh apples, cut,
peeled, and sliced like a cobbler)
Bake for 2 hours at 300 degrees.

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MOM’S HOMEMADE SALSA LEMON POUND CAKE
Anne Baehr Evans Vallie Truelove Miller

Two tomatoes 1 lb. butter
Two tomatillos* 1 lb. sugar
Two jalapeño chiles 1 lb. flour
Clove of garlic 6 eggs
Handful of cilantro 1 teaspoon baking powder
3 leaves of basil As much lemon flavoring as you like
¼ onion (white or purple) 1 lb. pecans (about 2 cups)
¼ tsp sugar 1 box raisins, white or dark
¼ tsp salt
1 or two limes Sift flour & baking powder twice, cream butter, sugar and
Hand-chop all vegetables into small pieces. Mix eggs, flavoring, then flour. Use a little of the flour on nuts
ingredients in a bowl, squeeze in lime and serve. If you and raisins. Beat the nuts and raisins in the batter with a
like you can also flash blend the salsa. Enjoy! *Tomatillos spoon after you have beaten all other ingredients with
may be boiled and peeled, if you have the time. mixer. Bake 300 degrees, 2 hours. Cool a little before
removing from pan. This makes a very good Christmas
cake.

Paella Valenciana Grind saffron with pestle into teaspoon of olive oil in
a small bowl and set aside.
Ramón Evans and Grandfather Luis Gonzálbez
In large, wide paella pan, heat oil over medium heat.
½ teaspoon of Saffron threads Add chicken and any other meat to pan and cook until
¼ cup olive oil browned, about 7 minutes per side. Remove to a plate.
4 chicken breasts with skin on
1 large onion, chopped Add onion, green pepper, and garlic to pan and cook
2 cloves garlic, minced for 4 minutes, stirring constantly. Add 4 ½ cups of
4 ripe tomatoes, chopped water to paella pan along with tomatoes and bring to
1 green pepper boil. Scrape any browned bits from bottom of pan.
2 cups Valencia or white long grain rice
1 1/2 teaspoons salt Stir in rice, salt and pepper. Add chicken again and
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper simmer gently over low heat for 20 minutes, stirring
8 small fresh clams, scrubbed clean, and/or only occasionally.

other fresh seafood and sausages. Examine shellfish to make sure they are clean and
closed (alive). Nestle clams, other seafood, & sausages
into rice until almost covering rice and broth.
Continue cooking over low heat until rice is tender
and all shellfish open, about 10 to 20 minutes. Serve
hot.

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{ Index }

A 171, 198f DIPHTHERIA 38, 39
47 DOETCHEL 5, 26, 39
ABERCROMBIE 167 DOHAR 58f, 62, 69, 89, 107, 115,
117, 153, 168
ACKLEY 31 DOOLITTLE RAID 190f
56 DORSEY 189, 194
ALVEY 205f, 212, 216 DRENNEN 56
ANDERSONVILLE DROGUE 74, 78

PRISON
ANGSTADT
APARICIO

B 33, 35, 250 E 31, 115-148
Part 1 & 151-169, 186, 249ff 170f
BACHER See BAEHR EDELBLUTE 167
BAEHR 9, 11, 20 EDGE 5, 30
BAHR 22 EHRICH 170-185
BAYER 40, 50 f ERICKSON
BECKER 12 EVANS
BENNETT 13, 20
BENTER 54, 56, 89 F 103
BILLHARDT 114
BISHOP 12 FALCIONI 198
BISSELL 78 FLORIDA CSA
BLUBER 15 31f
BOMBECK 34 9th REGIMENT 11
BOYLE 8 FLORENCE
BRUGLER 205ff, 214, 216ff, 220
BUCHSTEINER 16 STOCKADE
BUFE FRIEGEL
BUSKER
G 28, 30, 36
C 107-148 & 151-169 204
5, 30 G.A.R. 224-234
CALER 59, 98, 153, 167 GARCIA 11
CARRAR 103 GARVEY 5, 30, 37, 57
CHALLENGER 220 GERWIG 40, 46, 49
CHAPPELL GEUSS 187f
CHECA GILMER 11
GILMORE 204-220
CHOLERA 39, 232 GOEKE 53
CLARKE 58 GONZALBEZ 4, 56
COLLINS 90, 94, 110, 114, 153, 156, GRESSINGER 209, 218
161f, 164, 166f, 167, 169 GRIMM
COSTA 204, 207, 219f GRUEN

D 237f H 34F
109 115
DACHAU 63, 77, 89, 94, 96, 99ff, 167, HAISLET 16
DARRAGH 174 HARRIS 31
DAVIS 3 HASSLER 35
2ff, 26, 30, 37-56 HAVENS 66, 228, 233
DIETRICH HEINLEIN 2f, 40f, 48f
DIETZ HICKEY 5f
HIRAM COLLEGE
HUISDALE

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{ Index }

J 36,103f,164F O 14
62, 103 9ff, 20ff
JOHNSON 186 OHIO Vol. Inf. 14
JOHNSTON 30TH REGIMENT 14
JUDD 37th REGIMENT
47th REGIMENT
53rd REGIMENT

K 64, 71, 78, 84, 89, 147, 153, P 56, 198
157f, 159, 161f, 167, 211 101
KELLY 8, 22ff, 33-36 PECK 35, 107, 114
5 POLETICK
KIBLER 20, 24ff, 33f, 36, 57-60; 167 PORTER
KLATTE 226ff
KOEHLER 12 Q
KORBA 238
KRAUS See KIBLER QUENDENFELD 12
KRISTALNACHT
KUBLER 8, 20 R 34
5 110ff, 147
L 34 RAU
75, 96, 98 RAUSS
LAYER 12
LEHMAN 103 REBHAN 19, 30
LEMLEY 219 RHING 66ff, 70f, 78
LOESER 185, 208, 214 ROCK ISLAND
LOEWER 2, 65, 70f, 78 187
LONKE 6 PRISON 2, 36, 62, 65-73, 77, 89
LOPEZ ROGERSON
LUNNEY
LUSITANIA S 4, 21, 32, 65, 79, 103, 105f,
LUTES 185
SALMAS 11, 13
M 149f 20
5 SCHENCK 16, 205, 209, 216
MAHAR/MAHER 34f SCHROEDER 108f
MAOHOLD 39, 72, 170, 186ff, 193-199, SEBASTIAN 15ff, 31f, 186
MELLINGER 251ff SCHENDERLEIN 48
MILLER 204-209, 214ff SHERMAN 28, 103, 185, 235, 237
174 SPANISH FLU 98, 171, 178f, 181, 186, 189,
MIRANDA 103 SPITZ 192-197, 212, 252
MONACANS 156f, 162 SPIVA 224-234
MONEY 186ff
MOSER SQUIRE 59, 158, 173, 198
STATEN 33
N STEWART 192, 240
SWARTZ
NERACHER SYPHILIS
NEVIN
NOXAN 63
91
48

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{ Index }

T 97
75, 96, 98
TOBIAS 184-197, 200ff
TORRES 39, 107, 224
TRUELOVE
TYPHOID

V

VOGEL See WEIGEL

VON BLESSINGH 9, 16

W 56, 157ff
235
WALDECK 68, 78
WAWREIN 27f
WEAVER 33
WEBBER 186f, 199
WEIGEL 209, 218
WHITFIELD 67, 226
WIGGINS 7
WILLIAMS
WINDSOR

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