THE DESCENDANTS of J. HEINRICH SCHÖMBS

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Anna Margaretha Schömbs (*20.05.1743 Wahlheimer Hof)2.3.5/7

Godmother was Anna Margaretha Darmstadt from Sörgenloch. Anna Margaretha Schömbs was married in 1764 in Oppenheim to Joh. Heinrich Scheuermann. They lived in Nieder-Olm. Witness was Maria Eva Schömbs. Johann Heinrich Scheuermann was the administrator of the Dalberger Hof in Nieder-Olm.

Children: (4)

4.1.....Johann Mathäus Scheuermann

Johann Mathäus married Christina Schäfer (*Zornheim).

4.2.....Maria Odilia Scheuermann (*29.09.1765)

Maria was married to Heinrich Seibert (*Nieder-Olm).

4.3..... Scheuermann

4.4..... Scheuermann

Nikolaus Schömbs (*29.03.1745 Wahlheimer Hof, +1816 )2.3.5/8

Godfather was Nicolaus Sieben, Wahlheimer Hof. Nikolaus Schömbs was married on 08.12.1773 in Oppenheim to Susanna Catharina Zang (*Friesenheim, +24.11.1813 Undenheim). Nikolaus Schömbs and his wife were Müllersleute (millers) at the Wahlheimer Hof. In an entry in the Elsheim churchbook from 1815, (the marriage of the son Georg Philipp Schömbs) it is recorded that Nikolaus Schömbs later became Müller in Hahnheim.

Signatures of Johann Wilhelm Schömbs and his wife Anna Maria Hoß (marriage record of 1813)
Also the signature of Nikolaus Schömbs als "Father," as well as Martin Schoembs as Witness

Children: (9)

10.1.... Mathäus Schömbs (*18.11.1774, +19.12.1774 Wahlheimer Hof)

Godfather was Mathäus Schömbs, Wahlheimer Hof.

10.2.... Mathias Schömbs (*20.11.1775 Wahlheimer Hof, 14.02.1810 Dienheim)

Godfather was Mathäus Schömbs. Mathias Schömbs was married in August 1794 in Oppenheim to Elisabeth Hoffmann, Dienheim (+15.01.1813 Oppenheim).

Children: (5)

5.1.. Mathias Schömbs (*12.05.1795 Hahnheim)

Mathias Schömbs was married 4.03.1821 in Undenheim to Anna Katharina Mick, the daughter of Paulus and Margaretha Paul Mick.

Children: (8)

8.1.....Maria Magdalena Schömbs (*3.01.1822 Hahnheim, +23.10.1894)

Maria Magdalene on 17.01.1848 married Jacob Frey.

Children: (1)

1.1.....Jacob Frey (*8.10.1849 Undenheim)

8.2.....Wendel Mathias Schömbs (*18.01.1825 Hahnheim)

8.3.....Jacob Schömbs (*11.08.1827 Hahnheim, +1.08.1914 Peoria IL) Transcription

From the research of Jim Schembs (USA), a great-grandson of Jacob Schembs, we know that Jacob emigrated to Amerika in 1850 and settled down in Peoria, Illinois.

Birth Record of Jacob Schömbs
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1850 Emigrant to Peoria, Illinois, USA
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Hermine and Jacob Schembs

Jacob worked many years at a distillery in Peoria. He died in 1914 at the beginning of World War I at the age of 84 years. Jacob Schembs was married twice. On 18 May 1858 he married Margaret Gable, with whom he had four children. Then on 02.06.1868 he was married for the second time to Wilhelmine (Hermine) Lehne, the daughter of a German emigrant. With Hermine, Jacob sired five more children.

Children: (9)

9.1.....Robert Mathew Schembs (1860 - 1940)

9.2.....Maria E. Schembs (1862- 1863)

9.3.....William Schembs (1864-1939)

9.4.....John H. Schembs (1866 - 1910)

9.5.....Dr. Frank Harmon Schembs (1869 - 1939)

9.6.....Minnie Schembs (1870-1954)

9.7.....Charles E. Schembs (1873-1950)

9.8.....Ida Schembs (1875-1955)

9.9.....Rudolph Schembs (*22.08.1879 +01/1964 NJ)

	Family of Robert Mathew and Margaret Davis Schembs, ca. 1918 Back row v.l.: Jesse Schembs, Mable Schembs Weppler, Ernest Weppler, Viola Schembs, Robert Schembs, John Schembs. Front row v.l.: Floretta Casey Schembs, Frances Schembs, Margaret Davis Schembs, Robert Mathew Schembs
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Earl and Susan Ferguson with Son and Daughter (Yale University, New Haven), May 1998
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	Gathering of the Robert Schembs (1911) Family, Port Ludlow WA (1999) back v.l.: Nate Thomas, Jay Schembs, Peter Thomas, Bob Schembs (1936), Jean Schembs-Thomas, R.J. Schembs, Laurel Thomas Marino, Jim Schembs front v.l.: Lyndsay Schembs-Finn, Jamie Finn, Steve Stripling, Nicole Stripling, Wynne Thomas Stripling, Lisa Schembs, Trish Nolan Thomas, Olivia Thomas, Justin Marino, Al Marino
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8.4.....Katharina Schömbs (*8.10.1829 Hahnheim)

On 22.04.1855 Katharina and Guilelmus Eberhard (*1830) were married.

Children: (2)

2.1.....Georg Jacob Eberhardt (*19.08.1855 Undenheim)

2.2.....Johannes Eberhardt (*1.01.1858 Undenheim)

Johann was married on 1.07.1883 in Undenheim to Maria Boll (*1857).

8.5.....Martin Schömbs (*18.2.1832 Hahnheim, +25.01.1922 Brooklyn NY)

Martin married Sofia Henriette Eberhardine Caroline Wagner (*about 1843, +20.02.1923 Spring Valley NY). The wedding was in New York.

1859 Emigrant to Brooklyn, New York
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Children: (6)

6.1.....William Gustaf Schaembs (*6.05.1867 Brooklyn NY, +before 1923)

6.2.....Hermann Edward Schaembs (*26.04.1870 Brooklyn NY, +after 1910)

6.3.....Lena Schaembs (*09.1873 Brooklyn NY, +after 1910)

6.4.....Lorette Schaembs (*1876 Brooklyn NY, +after 1910)

6.5.....Emma Schaembs (*1878 Brooklyn NY, +17.08.1899 Manhattan NY)

6.6.....Rosalia Schaembs (*2.08.1879 Manhattan NY, +before 1910)

8.6.....Johannes Schömbs (*12.04.1834 Hahnheim)

8.7.....Katharina "Sophie" Schömbs (*24.04.1838 Hahnheim, +20.09.1895 Manhattan NY)

Sophie followed her older brother Jacob in emigrating to Amerika. She emigrated in 1857. She married Jacob Endlich (*16.12.1834 Nieder Saulheim, +02.04.1913 The Bronx NY). It is not known if they knew each other before emigrating. They were married in 1860 in New York City.

1857 Emigrant to New York City
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Children: (7)

7.1.....Elisabeth Ann Endlich (*1861 Manhattan NY, +21.06.1938 The Bronx NY)

7.2.....Sophie Ann Endlich (*06.05.1864 Manhattan NY)

7.3.....Sophie Endlich (*1869 Manhattan NY, *05.08.1872 Manhattan NY)

7.4.....Lewis Endlich (*23.10.1869 Manhattan NY)

7.5.....Jacob Endlich (*08.12.1871 Manhattan NY, +21.01.1873 Manhattan NY)

7.6.....male Endlich (*05.01.1874 Manhattan NY, +01.1874)

7.7.....Frederick Endlich (*15.03.1876 Manhattan NY, +02.12.1893 Manhattan NY)

8.8.....Katharina Schömbs (*05.09.1840 Hahnheim)

5.2.... Anna Maria Schömbs (*03.06.1797 Oppenheim)

5.3.... Maria Magdalena Schömbs (*04.01.1800 Oppenheim)

5.4.... Barbara Schömbs (*27.10.1802 Dienheim)

On 14.04.1837 in Weinolsheim Barbara Schömbs married Mathäus Scherle.

Children: (1)

1.1.... Ludovicus Scherle (*13.11.1839 Weinolsheim)

5.5.... Elisabetha Schömbs (*10.02.1807 Oppenheim)

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10.3.... Martin Schömbs (*29.10.1777 Wahlheimer Hof)

Newspaper report on the dismissal of Martin Schömbs and Wendel Schömbs as council members of Hahnheim in the French Republic (during the French occupation), 1803

Godfather was Martin Zang, Hahnheim. Martin Schömbs was married on 19.04.1796 in Hahnheim to Regina Böhm, Bechtolsheim. Witnesses were Nikolaus Schömbs, Wahlheimer Hof and Wilhelm Böhm, Bechtolsheim.

Children: (10)

11.1....Maria Susanna Schömbs (*13.04.1797 Hahnheim

"Anzeigenblatt für Rheinhessen" from 18. Dezember 1849
with the notice of various foreclosures against the Hahnheimer Schömbs Family

Godfather was Maria Susanna Schömbs, Wahlheimer Hof. Susanna Schömbs was married 1825 in Gau Bickelheim to Franz Fuhr (*09.01.1801 Gau-Bickelheim).

Children: (2)

2.1.....Heinrich Schömbs (*15.07.1822 Hahnheim, +13.09.1822 Hahnheim)

Born out of wedlock. As witnesses were Johannes Eberhard and Jacob Strauss.

2.2.....Heinrich Fuhr (*23.09.1829 Undenheim)

11.2... Johann Georg Schömbs (*17.12.1799 Hahnheim, +15.091860 Brooklyn NY)

Johann Georg Schömbs married Theresia Horn (*1810). Johann Georg Schömbs was by profession a butcher. While Georg and Theresia lived primarily in Hahnheim, they may have had a short stay in Laubenheim. Their first child Anna Maria was documented as being born in Laubenheim. In 1846 Johann Georg made application to emigrate to Brazil with his wife and children. After receiving permission, however, they emigrated to Algeria. Their stay in Algeria lasted only about a year, when they returned to Germany. Then in 1848 they emigrated again, this time to Amerika and settled in Brooklyn, New York. In Amerika they had two more children.

It was through researching the birth of their eighth child Philipp (*1848 Brooklyn NY) and discovering that his parents were Johann Georg and Theresia Schömbs that ultimately the travels of Johann Georg and his family were determined. Johann Georg followed the example of several of the Wahlheimer Schömbs and changed his name to "James" in Amerika. This is first noted in the 1860 U.S. Census. And if the Census information is to be believed, they kept it as James for twenty or more years. But later at least their son 9.8 Philipp changed it again to Schombs, first seen in the 1892 New York State Census. This followed the example of Henry Schömbs (*1829 Monzernheim) who had emigrated in about 1854 and changed his name to "Schombs". They were probably in contact with one another in New York City. They are the only two emigrants known to have used the "Schombs" spelling.

1848 Emigrant to Brooklyn, New York
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Children: (9)

9.1.....Anna Maria Schömbs (*11.01.1831 Laubenheim)

9.2.....Martin Schömbs (*22.07.1833 Hahnheim)

9.3.....Regina Schömbs (*01.10.1836 Hahnheim)

9.4.....Theresia Josefina Schömbs (*22.01.1839 Hahnheim)

9.5.....Magdalena Schömbs (*21.06.1841 Hahnheim, 13.01.1842 Hahnheim)

Godparents were Kämmerer and Ditewig.

9.6.....Mathias Schömbs (*23.11.1842 Hahnheim)

Godfather was Günzler.

9.7.....Franziska Schömbs (*09.08.1845 Hahnheim)

9.8.....Philipp Schombs (*17.12.1848 Brooklyn NY, +27.11.1897 Brooklyn)

9.9....Margaretha Schombs (*1852 Brooklyn NY, +nach 1880)

11.3....Franziska Schömbs (*1804 Hahnheim)

11.4....Maria Anna Schömbs (*1806 Hahnheim)

11.5....Georg Peter Schömbs (*1808 Hahnheim)

Georg Schömbs, plowman, was married twice. His first marriage was on 15.01.1848 to Margaretha Michel. The second marriage was nine years later (21.08.1859) to Appolonia Lahr (*12.02.1826 Undenheim).

Children: (1)

1.1....Johann Georg Schömbs (*02.10.1856 Hahnheim)

Johann Georg Schömbs married Maria Krait (*19.07.1859, +12.02.1902 Undenheim).

Children: (5)

5.1.....Georg Schömbs (*30.09.1883 Hahnheim)

5.2.....Philipp Schömbs (*07.03.1885, +03.05.1952 Hahnheim)

Philipp Schömbs married Klara Damm (*22.09.1887, +12.04.1951 Hahnheim).

Philipp Schömbs and wife Klara (ca. 1950)

Philipp Schömbs was a master butcher and a farmer. He supplied his meats and sausages to canteens and other restaurants in Mainz and its surroundings.

Philipp was politically active in the Center party and became Mayor in 1928 in his hometown Hahnheim. In 1933 he was persecuted by the Nazis, since he did not comply with their practices and was sent to a detention camp at Osthofen. From the abuse he received there he lost his hearing. In 1945, under the auspices of the American occupation, he was re-installed in the position of Mayor and served another year.

Lager Osthofen (heute Gedenkstätte)

His many years of service to the community were recognized in 1983 when a street near the railroad station was named in his honor. (See Chapter A – Ancestry of the Family -- for the picture and newspaper article -- "Philipp Schömbs-Straße" in Hahnheim). On his gravestone he is given the title "Altbürgermeister", or Old Mayor.


The Hahnheimer Schlösschen Former seat of the Rathaus (town hall) with Philipp Schömbs (far right)	Hahnheimer Schlösschen after renovation

The family lived in the Hahnheim "Little Castle" (Schlösschen). In about 1920 Philipp bought the property from the Schilling family and renovated it, including the house, farm, stables and barn. His butcher shop was also there. Click here to read more about the "Little Castle." You will get a computer translation. Unfortunately "Hahnheimer" translates to "Cock Heimer". Read it as "Hahnheimer". Click your browser Back button to return. Very interesting!

Children: (2)

2.1....Jacob Schömbs (*23.02.1912, +1943 vermisst Stalingrad)


Jacob und Maria Schömbs

Jacob Schömbs was a butcher in the shop of his father. He also worked in the vineyard. He lived like his father in the Hahnheimer Schlösschen (little castle – see picture above). Jacob married Maria Menacher (15.11.1906 Bayern, 4.11.1978 Ludwigsburg).

Children: (3)

3.1.....Ruth Schömbs

Ruth Schömbs

Ruth Schömbs married a frenchman named Ganieur. The family lives in the Allgäu with five children.

3.2.....Lothar Schömbs (*26.1.1935 Mainz, +26.12.1989 Großbottwar)

Lothar Schömbs married Magdalena Katharina Egger (*1938 Rimbach i. Odw.). They lived a short time in Mainz and then moved to Großbottwar bei Stuttgart.

Children: (2)

2.1.....Gunther Schömbs (*1962 Mainz)

2.2.....Oliver Schömbs (*1968)

Oliver Schömbs is an active chess player in Oberstenfeld.

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3.3.....Hans Schömbs (*1940 Hahnheim)

Hans Schömbs married Maria Wiesenbauer (*1949 Oblfing) 4 November 1969 in Mainz. He first learned the profession of butcher, but today works in the security field. They are now divorced. Hans lives in Frankfurt.

Kinder. (2)

2.1.....Christian Schömbs (*1969 in Mainz)

Christian Schömbs lives with his father in Frankfurt. He is a salesman.

2.2.....Andrea Schömbs (*1971 Frankfurt)

Andrea Schömbs lives in Renningen bei Stuttgart.

Family picture, ca. 1941. Back left: Philipp (*1885), Hans, sister of Jakob (Katharina ?), Maria Menacher Schömbs, ?, family maid. Front, from left: Lothar, Ruth, and son of maid. Jacob was in the German army on the eastern front, where he died.

2.2.....Katharina "Käthi" Schömbs (*22.01.1916)

Katharina Schömbs was twice married, the first to Biermann and the second to Otto Magerhan (*01.01.1914). She lived at times in Trier, Koblenz and Hannover. She and her husband live in a senior citizens home in Laatzen.


Käthi Schömbs (picture at age 85)	Hahnheim (Motive power from an older time)

In Hahnheim the Schömbs name no longer exists. The grave of her parents is looked after by a former neighbor, Georg Kimmes.

Excerpt from the obituary of Catherine "Käthi" Schömbs: "After a short illness my dear wife is asleep peacefully following 32 happy years of marriage"

5.3.....Adam Schömbs (*14.03.1886 Hahnheim, +16.01.1964 Gustavsburg)

Adam Schömbs married Katharina Keller (*12.01.1893-13.06.1934 Gustavsburg). Adam Schömbs was by trade a butcher and managed his own shop in Gustavsburg.

Children: (2)

2.1.....Hans Schömbs (*22.09.1911, +16.01.1978 Gustavsburg)

Hans Schömbs married Friedel ... (*1915). Hans Schömbs was a butcher like his father. He took over his fathers butcher shop. The family lives today in Ingelheim.

Children: (2)

2.1..... Dieter Schömbs (*05.02.1938 Mainz, +06.03.1994 Gustavsburg)

Diether Schömbs married Hilde Schuhmacher.

Metzgerei Diether Schömbs Gustavsburg, Darmstädter Landstraße

Diether was also a butcher. He took over the shop from his father, which still today operates under the Schömbs name, its third generation in the family. The shop and home on Darmstädter Landstraße was acquired in 1911 by Adam Schömbs, the grandfather of Diether. Hilde Schuhmacher Schömbs, who now runs the business following the suicide of Dieter, says Adam was a very taciturn man whose leg had to be amputed in his later years.

2.2.....Klaus Schömbs

2.2.....Klara Schömbs (Ingelheim)

5.4.....Jakob Schömbs (*15.09.1888 Hahnheim, +20.03.1910 Mainz)

5.5.....Johann "Jean" Schömbs (*04.04.1891 Hahnheim)

Johann Schömbs died as a young man. He was not married.

11.6....Heinrich Schömbs (*24.06.1810 Hahnheim, +08.02.1889 Carmi, IL)

Heirich married a German emigrant by the name of Lucia "Lucy" Frisse (*29.01.1810 Prussia, +21.06.1891 Carmi IL). Where and when they were married is not known at this time. Lucy is listed in the U.S. Census as having come from Prussia. Given that their first child was born in 1843, they were probably married a year or so before. Based upon the Census information on the births of their children, they may have lived in Kentucky and perhaps Ohio before settling down in Evansville, Indiana.

~1840 Emigrant to Evansville, Indiana
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Children: (5)

5.1.....Maria "Mary" Schoembs (*12.1843 Kentucky)

5.2.....Henry Schoembs, Jr. (*~1843 Ohio)

5.3.....John Henry Schoembs (*30.03.1848 Kentucky, +07.11.1879 Evansville)

5.4.....Margaret "Maggie" Schoembs (*~09.1851 Kentucky, +after 1910)

5.5.....Joseph F. Schoembs (*~06.1854 Indiana)

11.7....Margaretha Schömbs (*1812 Hahnheim)

Margaretha Schömbs married Georg Burkhard on 16.02.1838 in Weinolsheim.

11.8...Wilhelm Schömbs (+27.06.1816 Hahnheim)

Wilhelm was probably born after Margaretha.

11.9....Johannes Schömbs (*03.07.1817 Hahnheim)

In a weekly newspaper from 1838 of the region Zweibrücken, Homburg and Cusel is reported about a lawsuit against Johannes Schömbs from Hahnheim, a servant, in connection with stealing of shirts. Probably it is the same Johannes as Johannes Schömbs (*1817).

11.10...Martin Schoembs (*17.09.1819 Hahnheim, +15.01.1901 Urberach)

Martin Schoembs married Elisabetha Klassert (*21.04.1821 Dieberg).

Martin Schömbs Elisabeth Klassert

Martin Schoembs was a teacher by profession. He was first active as a Vikar in the Church in Gonsenheim, and came in 1847 as a young teacher to the hessian community of Urberach (today the district of Rödermark). There he became the "First Teacher" or headmaster over a school of about 350 children. In the parish chronicle of Urberach, later published on 28.10.1971 in the community newsletter, the prestige of the teachers had been previously tarnished by the godless school-vicar Sottoskasa, who had emigrated from Gonsenheim to America. He was replaced by Martinus Schoembs, born in Hahnheim and now Vikar in Gonsenheim, who restored the position and brought a new spirit into the school and community. "His elegant character and his zeal were acknowledged everywhere." He also served as the church organist and loyal helper of the priest, including helping with each burial and signing his name beside the priest in the record. In the later years he began using the spelling Schömbs.

Besides Martin there were three other teachers active in the school. In 1855 a female tradeschool became affiliated, which taught young girls hand crafts. The leading woman of the school soon became the wife of Martin – Frau Schömbs.

Children: (3)

3.1.....Hildegard Schömbs

Hildegard Schömbs became a Nun.

3.2.....Adam Schömbs (*1852 Urberach, +25.02.1929 Urberach)

Adam Schömbs married Anna Isabella Deckelmann, Dieburg (*~1861, +1907 Dieberg)

Adam Schömbs

Adam Schömbs followed in his father's footsteps, both as organist and teacher, replacing Martin as Headmaster in 1901. Adam began with the school in 1870 and worked there until his retirement in 1919. He served the school and community in the same faultless manner as had Martin and was very involved in the cultural life in Urberach. In memory of the service of Martin and Adam Schömbs, the community of Urberach in 1925 named a street after them which exists to this day, Schömbs-Straße (see Chapter A – Ancestry of the Family -- for the press article.

It is interesting to note that the two streets named for Schömbs (including the spelling variations) in Germany, both go back to the men from Hahnheim.

Translation: "In recognition of the great service your late father and you have given to the community, the council has unanimously decided that the new road to be opened between Michel Frank VI. and Schwestern-haus Straße be known as Schömbs Straße. The municipality asks for your kind approval for this.

The special merits and contributions to the Urberach School by Adam Schömbs were acknowledged by a colleague Roßkopf in the following poem written for his retirement.

Children: (4)

4.1.....Martin Peter Schömbs (*12.09.1879, +01.03.1882 Urberach)

4.2.....Margaretha Schömbs (*11.11.1880, +15.01.1966 Urberach)

Margaretha Schömbs married the teacher Ludwig Keller.

Children: (2)

2.1.....Elisabeth Keller

Elisabeth Keller married Karl Pauly.

Children: (4)

4.1.....Hermann Pauly (married ......)

Children: (2)

4.2.....Norbert Pauly (married ......)

Children: (1)

4.3.....Irmtraud Pauly (married ......)

Children: (4)

4.4.....Bernhard Pauly (married ......)

Children: (1)

2.2.....Rudolf Keller (married Anna....)

Children: (4 )

4.1.....Hildegard Keller

4.2.....Rolf Keller (married.....)

Children: (3)

4.3.....Wulfhild Keller (married.....)

Children: (2)

4.4.....Klaus Keller (married.....)

Children: (3)

4.3.....Elisabeth Schömbs (*18.03.1883 Urberach, +1938)

Elisabeth Schömbs married the Worms teacher Fritz Berg (*8.10.1880 Worms, +27.08.1914 Mouzon France during WW1)

Children: (2)

2.1.....Gertrud Berg (*1914, +1985)

Gertrud Berg was single.

2.2.....Maria Berg (*1911, +1994)

Maria Berg married Josef Ohmer(1912, 1945).

Children: (1)

1.1.....Rainald Ohmer (*1943)

Rainald Ohmer married Brigitte ....Rainald Ohmer carries on the tradition of the Schömbs family for over 125 years in Urberach as teacher and organist in the Catholic Church.

Children: (3)

3.1.....Monika Ohmer (*1970)

3.2.....Mathias Ohmer (*1971)

3.3.....Barbara Ohmer (*1973)

4.4.....Barbara Schömbs (*06.09.1887, +18.09.1971 Dieburg)

After her death, a long article appeared in the community newspaper. Barbara had not married. Following the death of her mother she had taken care of her father and had helped with the organ service. After her father's death she became the head organist. She "performed in her service with extreme punctuality and fidelity." In 1962 on her 75th birthday she was honored for her more than 50 years of service.

3.3.....Jakob Schömbs (*11.12.1854 Urberach, +27.04.1930 Mainz)


Jakob Schömbs as a young Priest (ca. 1875)	Jakob Schömbs

Jakob Schömbs became a priest in the year 1877. He never actually ministered to the congregation, but immediately became the organist in the Mainz Cathedral and Secretary to the episcopal chancellery. He was ordained into the priesthood in Speyer on 12.08.1877.

Gravestone of Jakob Schömbs
in the Cloister of the Mainz Cathedral

As a member of the Dompräpendat (since 1896) and the extended Cathedral chapter he had a special importance. He played the Cathedral organ up to the time of his death in 1930 – for more than 50 years. He is buried in the cloister of the Cathedral, in which a small yard exists for graves of the dignitaries of the Cathedral. You can visit and view his memorial gravestone.

Information exists about another Schömbs priest, Anneliese Schömbs, from Mannheim. She reportedly was a priest and missionary to Africa, but her place in the Schömbs tree is now known.

11.11...Philipp Schömbs (*11.07.1822 Hahnheim)

10.4....Johannes Schömbs (*05.05.1780 Wahlheimer Hof)

Godfather was Johann Michel, Wahlheimer Hof).

10.5....Jacob Schömbs (*22.03.1781, +25.03.1786 Wahlheimer Hof)

Godfather was Jacob Sieben, Hahnheim.

10.6....Susanna Schömbs (*02.02.1783 Wahlheimer Hof/Zornheim, +31.08.1856 Mommenheim)

Susanna Schömbs was married in 1803 to Conrad Schönhardt (*24.09.1777 Mommenheim, +10.06.1825 Mommenheim). Conrad was the child of Frederich and Maria Martha Schreiber Schönhardt of Mommenheim, both deceased at the time of the wedding.

At least three of their children emigrated to Amerika.

Children: (9)

9.1.....Franciscus Schönhardt (*17.08.1803 Lörzweiler, +15.01.1875 Lörzweiler)

Francis was married to Catharina Elizabeth Maurer (*1814 Lörzweiler, +27.04.1869 Mackenbach, Pfalz, Bayern) on 5 Jul 1835 in Mommenheim.

7.1.....Anna Maria Schönhardt (*26.08.1836 Lörzweiler)

7.2.....Jacob Schönhardt (*25.02.1838 Lörzweiler)

7.3.....Agatha Schönhardt (*10.07.1841 Lörzweiler)

Agatha married Joannes Philipp Hofmeister (*02.12.1834 Mommenheim, +23.03.1908 Mommenheim) on 23 March 1865 in Mommenheim.

7.4.....Franz Schönhardt (*05.06.1845 Mommenheim, +25.01.1852 Mommenheim)

7.5.....George Philipp Schönhardt (*13.07.1847 Mommenheim, +04.01.1909 Mommenheim)

On 6 July 1873 George Philipp and Magdalena Landgraf (*03.1846 Mommenheim, +04.01,1909 Mommenheim) were married.

7.6.....Magdalena Schönhardt (*13.02.1852 Mommenheim, +26.04.1939 Frankfurt)

7.7.....Christina Schönhardt (*29.09.1856 Mommenheim)

Christina married Carolus Leonhard Rech (*~1853 Mommenheim) on January 28, 1879 in Lörzweiler.

9.2.....Valentin Schönhardt (*01.11.1808 Mommenheim, +20.22.1878 Guilford Twp, Jo Daviess Cty IL)

Valentin was married after he had arrived in Galena, Illinois. On 01.05.1845 he and Elizabeth Margaret Young (*1809 Hahnheim) were married. They undoubtedly knew each other in Germany, as Mommenheim and Hahnheim are only a few kilometers apart.

~1840 Emigrant to Joe Daviess County, Illinois
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Children: (1)

1.1.....Ernest Schoenhard (*11.03.1849 Guilford Twp IL, +24.11.1899 Guilford Twp IL)

9.3.....Johannes George Schönhardt (*13.05.1811 Mommenheim, +27.03.1869 Brownsville MN)

Johannes married Anna Maria Buger on 23 February 1838 in Weinolsheim, shortly before they emigrated to Amerika.

~1841 Emigrant to Brownsville, Minnesota
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Children: (1)

1.1.....Jacob H Shanard (*~1839 Germany, +1911 McCook Cty, SD)

9.4.....Catharina Schönhardt (*1812 Lörzweiler, +13.09.1871 Buffalo NY)

Catharina and Ludwig Krost (*~1807 Mommenheim, +11.10.1881 Buffalo NY) were married 10 Feb 1833. They had four children before emigrating in 1843. Their fifth and sixth children were born in Amerika.

1843 Emigrant to Buffalo, New York
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Children: (6)

6.1.....Anna Margaretha Krost (*28.03.1836 Mommenheim)

6.2.....Jacob Krost (*09.11.1838 Mommenheim)

6.3.....Louis Krost (*09.03.1841 Mommenheim, +11.10.1891 Buffalo)

6.4.....Andrew Krost (*16.05.1843 Mommenheim, +before 1850)

6.5.....Anthony Krost (*1845 Buffalo NY, +28.04.1912 Cheektowaga NY)

6.6.....Magdalena Krost (*05.1850 Buffalo NY)

9.5.....Maria Magdalena Schönhardt (*18.03.1814 Mommenheim, + )

Maria and Petrer Becker (*1810 Lörzweiler) were married 1 Mar 1835 in the Sankt Quintin Catholic Church in Mainz.

9.6.....Maria Theresa Schönhardt (*07.05.1817 Mommenheim, +05.09.1820 Mommenheim)

Maria died at age 3 years.

9.7.....Georg Philipp Schönhardt (*12.10.1819 Mommenheim, +14.11.1874 Mommenheim)

Godfather was Georg Philipp Schoembs, his uncle from Elsheim. Georg and Christina Knusmann (*26.08.1822 Harxheim, +03.01.1868 Mommenheim) were married 2 Feb 1845 in Mommenheim. Christina was the daughter of Paul and Katharina George Knusmann.

Children: (8)

8.1.....Jacob Schönhardt (*20.09.1845 Mommenheim)

Godfather was Jacob Schoenhard, a showmaker and his father's brother.

8.2.....Petrus Schönhardt (*08.05.1847 Mommenheim)

Godfather was Petrus Becker of Mommenheim.

8.3.....Agatha Schönhardt (*11.11.1849 Mommenheim)

Agatha Schönhardt and Franciscus Krost II (*~1849 Mommenheim) were married 04 Feb 1875 in Mommenheim.

Children: (4)

4.1.....Philipp Krost (*18.04.1877 Mommenheim)

4.2.....Georg Krost (*11.08.1879 Mommenheim, +5.05.1889 Hessen)

4.3.....Johannes Krost (*12.01.1884 Mommenheim, +28.10.1885)

4.4.....Heinrich Krost (*15.10.1885 Mommenheim)

8.4.....Friedrich Joseph Schönhardt (*10.04.1852 Mommenheim, +02.05.1918 Centralia WA)

Godfather was Frederich Josef Busch. Friedrich Joseph Schönhardt was married about twenty years after he emigrated. On 5 Feb 1894 he and Mary Ann Obrate (*07.01.1861 Ohio, +28.03.1930 El Cerrito CA) wed in Olympia, Washington. Frederick was 42 years old at the time and Mary Ann about ten years younger.

~1875 Emigrant to Centralia, Washington USA
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Children: (5)

5.1.....Mary Lillian Schoenhard (*15.12.1894 Olympia WA, +03.07.1970 Richmond CA)

5.2.....Helen Frances Schonhard (*18.10.1896 South Union, WA, +10.04.1954 Honolulu, HI)

5.3.....Rose Schonhard (*25.02.1899 South Union, Thurston WA, +22.07.1984 Kingman, AZ)

5.4.....Alice Irene Schonhard (*22.07.1901 South Union, Thurston WA, +28.10.1984 Seattle WA)

5.5.....George Maurice Schonhard (*18.03.1903 South Union, WA, +12.10.1974 Wapato WA)

8.5.....Johannes George Schönhardt (*16.09.1854 Mommenheim, +11.09.1931 Scales Mound IL) Godfathers were Johannes Georg Schoenhard and Friedrich Joseph Schoenhard. Johann Georg married Mary Ann Gugler (*~Sep 1863 Illinois, +1935) on 31 May 1883 in Joe Daviess County. Mary Ann was the daughter of Gotlieb and Louisa Kraemer Gugler.

~1875 Emigrant to Scales Mound, Illinois USA
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Children: (7)

7.1.....Kind eins Schoenhard (*bev 1900 Jo Daviess Cty IL)

7.2.....Henry C Schoenhard (*Abt. 1883 Jo Daviess Cty IL, +1949 Jo Daviess Cty IL)

7.3.....Christena (Tina) Schoenhard (*Dec 1886 Jo Daviess Cty IL, +1950 Illinois)

7.4.....George A Schoenhard (*19.09.1888 Scales Mound IL, +Jun 1927 Freeport IL)

7.5.....John William (Jack) Schoenhard (*20.12.1890 Jo Daviess Cty IL, +Jan 1973 Illinois)

7.6.....Louisa (Lucy) M Schoenhard (*Abt 10.1893 Jo Daviess Cty IL)

7.7.....Arthur A Schoenhard (*08.04.1901 Guilford Township IL, +26.08.1979 Cuba City WI)

8.6.....Anna Maria Schönhardt (*14.04.1857 Mommenheim)

Godmother was Maria Magdalena Schilling.

8.7.....Catharina Schönhardt (*12.07.1860 Mommenheim, +03.09.1946 Nierstein)

Godmother was Catharina Schreiber. Catharina died at the age of 86.

8.8.....August Schönhardt (*20.02.1866 Mommenheim)

9.8.....Anna Maria Schönhardt (*28.04.1822 Mommenheim, +20.01.1852 Mommenheim)

9.9.....Jacob Schönhardt (*9.09.1824 Mommenheim, +26.02.1890 Jo Davies County IL)

Jacob and Margaret King were married 3 Jun 1857 in Jo Davies County.

~1875 Emigrant to Joe Daviess County, Illinois USA
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Children: (11)

11.1.....Ernest Henry Schoenhardt (*27.03.1858 Scales Mound IL, +25.09.1936 Freeport IL)

11.2.....Jacob Schoenhardt (*1860, +1884 Jo Daviess Cty IL)

11.3.....Tillie Schoenhardt (*08.12.1861 Thompson Township, Jo Daviess Cty IL, +23.12.1893 Jo Daviess Cty IL)

11.4.....Barbara Schoenhardt (*08.11.1863 Thompson Township, Jo Daviess Cty IL, +17.01.1905 Dubuque IA)

11.5.....Rudolph Schoenhardt (*21.11.1867 Jo Daviess Cty IL, +05.11.1912 Watertown IL)

11.6.....John Schoenhardt (*01.06.1870 Jo Daviess Cty IL, +09.09.1923)

11.7.....Valentine Schoenhardt (*25.12.1870 Jo Daviess Cty IL)

11.8.....Anna Schoenhardt (*07.04.1873 Jo Daviess Cty IL, +03.12.1910 Jo Daviess Cty)

11.9.....Margaret Schoenhardt (*12.03.1875 Thompson Township, Jo Daviess Cty IL, +06.10.1913 Elisabeth IL)

11.10.....Lydia Schoenhardt (*15.01.1877 Jo Daviess Cty IL, +22.01.1883 Jo Daviess Cty IL)

11.11.....Sofa Schoenhardt (*07.04.1879, +1882)

10.7....Johann Wilhelm Schömbs (*04.1786 Wahlheimer Hof).

Johannes Schömbs was married in 1810 in Hahnheim to Anna Maria Neumer. They lived in Friesenheim. Some documentation gives his date of birth differently than as shown above. The marriage document below from the year 1810 states his age as 24 years and 10 months, which would yield a birthyear of 1785. The record of his son Heinrich's marriage in 1848 gives Johannes as being 65 years old, or a birthyear of 1783. Such inconsistencies of data in genealogical records is not atypical, particularly in records prior to the 19th Century.

Johannes Schömbs Marriage Record 1810

Translation of the 1810 Marriage Record for Johannes Schömbs:

(jds Note: this was the period of occupation of the Pfalz by the French. Notice that the given name has been recorded as Jean, rather than Johann. Jean is the French equivalent of Johann – or John in English.)

In the year 1810, on the 14th day of the month January, at the hour of "Alutin", before us appeared the Mayor of the community of Selzen, official of the Hahnheim area, canton of Oppenheim, Department of Mont-Tonnerre.

Jean Schoembs, age 24 years and 10 months, farmer, resident of Hahnheim, son of Nicola Schoembs, 61 years of age, and Catharine, nee Zang, is married in the residence at Wahlheimer Hof, district of Hahnheim.

And Anna Marie Neumer, .............., daughter of Jean Guillemus Neumer, 52 years old, farmer, resident of Friesenheim Wörrstadt, registry office Gabsheim, canton Wörrstadt, and Catharina ..........

They ask us to plan the wedding of the two, and that this has been already submitted in writing to the Mayor, first told to me on the 1st day of the month January of the year 1810 at 10 o'clock in the morning.

After the two have been taught, and reminded from the Civil Laws book, Chapter VI, they have agreed to the wedding for which the two have asked to be united as husband and wife. Both have separately approved and with their signatures signed, so that Jean Schoembs and Anna Marie Neumer now in their marriage are united.

Thus it is recorded in the presence of Nicolas Schoembs, age 61, resident of Wahlheimer Hof and Jean Guillaume Neumeier, 52 years old, farmer, resident of Friesenheim Wörrstadt, registry office Gabsheim, canton Wörrstadt, after the reading the involved parties have signed a contract with us and it is held.

Mayor of the community Selzen

........................................

Johannes Schömbs

Anna Maria Neumer Nikolaus Schömbs Wilhelm Neumer

Children: (7)

7.1.....Johann Wilhelm Schömbs (*05.11.1810 Hahnheim, +01.02.1862 Illinois)

Seven years before the emigration of Johann Wilhelm, he married Francisca Wettig (*~1811 Framersheim, +~1852 Amerika). Francisca was from Sulzheim, a village 10 km west of Hahnheim. Their first children were born in Germany, while the last were born in Illinois.

1842 Emigrant to Galena, Illinois
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Children: (6)

6.1.....Elizabeth "Eliza" Schoembs (James) (*10.03.1836 Dutsheim, Germany, +25.09.1914 Rushford, MN)

6.2.....Apollonia "Abbie" Schoembs (James) (*1837 Germany, +03.07.1913 Bailey, IA)

6.3.....Maria Schoembs (James) (*Abt 1840, +Abt 1842)

6.4.....Michael Schoembs (James) (*Abt 1842)

6.5.....Anna "Mary" Schoembs (James) (*11.08.1843 Galena, IL, +07.08.1904 Hokah MN)

6.6.....Frances Schoembs (James) (*30.11.1850 Galena, IL, +07.06.1921 Sioux Falls, SD)

7.2.....Johann Georg Schömbs (*1811, 07.09.1842 Undenheim ???)

7.3.....Anna Maria Schömbs (*19.07.1817 Hahnheim)

On 3.11.1844 in Undenheim Anna Maria and Franz Estenfeld (*1821) were married. Franz was the son of Joseph and Maria Theresia Neumer Estenfeld.

Children: (6)

6.1.....Theresia Estenfeld (*2.05.1845 Undenheim)

Theresia Estenfeld married on 3.10.1872 in Undenheim Jacob Kaemmerer (*25.4.1839 Undenheim).

Children: (2)

2.1.....Anna Maria Kaemmerer (*18.11.1873 Undenheim)

2.2.....Heinrich Kaemmerer (*19.2.1877 Undenheim)

6.2.....Joseph Estenfeld (*89.9.1848 Undenheim)

6.3.....Heinrich Mathaeus Estenfeld (*9.2.1851 Undenheim)

6.4.....Johannes Estenfeld (*24.10.1852 Undenheim)

6.5.....Anna Maria Estenfeld (*26.8.1854 Undenheim)

6.6.....Catharina Estenfeld (*12.4.1859 Undenheim)

7.4.....Maria Theresia Schömbs (*09.05.1819 Hahnheim)

7.5.....Appolonia Schömbs (*11.07.1820, +18.09.1820 Hahnheim)

7.6.....Georg Heinrich Schömbs (*16.12.1821 Hahnheim)

Heinrich Schömbs was married on 10.07.1848 in Friesenheim to Katharina Magdalena Manz from Köngernheim (*31.03.1816). Heinrich Schömbs lived in Friesenheim. In the marriage record his profession was given as farmer. Witnesses were Georg Neumer, Franz Estenfeld, Philipp Lanz und Ernst Stirbert.

Children: (6)

6.1.....Friedrich Schömbs (*23.01.1843 Köngernheim)

Friedrich Schömbs was married on 21.08.1875 in Köngernheim to Magdalena Knoob (*17.09.1841 Friesenheim). Friedrich was a mason.

Children: (4)

4.1.....Peter Schömbs (28.05.1876, +1944 Friesenheim)

Peter Schömbs married Catharina Sommer from Weinolsheim. The family lived in Friesenheim. During the First World War he was in China and was involved in the Boxer Rebellion.


The Military Record of Peter Schömbs


Military Plaque commemorating Peter's service during the Boxer Rebellion (China)

Children: (3)

3.1.....Heinrich Schömbs (*18.04.1907, +14.08.1972 Weinolsheim)

Heinrich Schömbs married Kreszentia "Centa" Kriener (*08.02.1920, +18.06.1990). Centa worked on the farm in Weinolsheim and there met her future husband Heinrich. They lived in Weinolsheim. Heinrich Schömbs as a result of the stresses from being a German soldier in the Second World War, suffered a nervous breakdown.


Heinrich and Centa Schömbs, November 1942	Peter Schömbs (1876) with grandson Peter (1943)

Children: (1)

1.1.....Peter Schömbs (*1943)

Peter Schömbs and wife Judith

Peter Schömbs and his wife Judith Halada live in Berlin, where they have retired.

Peter Schömbs originally was in the wine-making business with his own winery in ________. Due to a serious health issue he had to sell the winery. He then learned the profession of hairdresser. Later he joined the firm Wella in Darmstadt, and was there 30 years as representative and international expert in the field of hair coloring. He was also responsible for quality issues prior to new products entering production.

3.2.....Gertrud Schömbs (*ca. 1908 Weinolsheim)

Gertrud Schömbs married Kasper, Bodenheim.

Children: (2)

2.1.....Gertrude Kasper (*1939)

Gertrude Kasper married Dr. Winter, Bodenheim.

Children: (3)

3.1.....Anette Kasper

3.2.....Volker Kasper (Nierstein)

3.3.....Liane Kasper

Liane Kasper married the butcher Eckert, Bodenheim.

2.2.....Heinz Kasper

3.3.....Anna Schömbs (*06.04.1911, +1947 Bodenheim)

Anna Schömbs married the winery owner Nikolaus May, Bodenheim (+2001).

Children: (3)

3.1.....Melchior May

Melchior May died at the age of 5 years in an accident.

3.2.....Eugen May

Eugen died in a swimming accident.

3.3.....Nikolaus Klaus May

(from a second marriage) Nikolaus May took over the winery May from his father, a small winery on Helmerichstraße in Bodenheim).

4.2.....Catharina Schömbs (*24.04.1878 Friesenheim)

4.3.....Elisabetha Schömbs (*08.11.1883 Friesenheim)

4.4.....Johannes Schömbs (*02.10.1884 Friesenheim)

6.2.....Heinrich Schömbs (*28.07.1849 Friesenheim)

Heinrich married Anna Wehrle.

Children: (1)

1.1.....Georg Schömbs (*30.11.1872 Friesenheim)

6.3.....Johann Schömbs (*16.02.1852 Friesenheim)

6.4.....Josefine Schömbs (*07.06.1855 Friesenheim)

6.5.....Katharina Schömbs (*02.01.1857 Friesenheim)

6.6.....Josef Schömbs (*25.06.1858 Friesenheim)

7.7.....Jakob Schömbs (*18.06.1828 Undenheim)

10.8.....Johann Wilhelm Schömbs (*10.12.1786, +05.11.1864)

Godfather was Johann Wilhelm Zang, Friesenheim. Joh. Wilhelm Schömbs was married in 1813 to Anna Maria Hoss (*16.02.1790, +27.03.1863) from Bodenheim. Witness was Martin Schömbs, Hahnheim.

In 1818 Wilhelm Schömbs is mentioned as a tenant of the Wahlheimer Mill.

Children: (3)

3.1.....Catharina Schömbs (*1814 Hahnheim, +25.04.1814 Hahnheim)

3.2....Margaretha Schembs (*01.01.1819 Bodenheim)

3.3....Maria Schembs (*09.10.1821 Bodenheim)

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10.9.....Georg "Philipp" Schems (*01.04.1789 Wahlheimer Hof, +20.12.1837 Elsheim)

Godfather was Georg Philipp Herd, Nackenheim. Georg Philipp Schems was married on 30.01.1815 in Elsheim to the widow of Jakob Walz, Eva Stein (*1786, +05.12.1856 Elsheim). Witnesses were Michael Walz und Jakob Brahm. Comment on the spelling of the family name in Elsheim: Over the years the Elsheim Churchbooks change the spelling of the name several times between Schems, Schoembs, and Schömbs.

Kinder. (8)

8.1....Catharina Schems (*06.01.1816 Elsheim

Godmother was Catharina Schems. Catharina Schembs married Jakob Secker from Finthen on 29.06.1842 in the Catholic church in Gross-Winternheim.

8.2....Philipp Schems (*21.09.1818, +15.03.1860 Elsheim)

Godfather was Philipp Walz, Elsheim. Philipp Schoembs was married on 26.03.1848 in Elsheim to Elisabeth Braunbeck (*1823). Witnesses were Nicolas Walz and Nicolas Braunbeck.

Children: (8)

8.1.....Maria Elisabetha Schömbs (*07.02.1849 Elsheim)

Maria Elisabetha Schömbs was married on 19.08.1885 to Heinrich Fries.

8.2.....Jacob Schömbs (*08.03.1850 Elsheim)

Jacob Schömbs was married on 21.09.1879 to Anna Maria Braunbeck.

8.3.....Catharina Schömbs (*29.05.1852 Elsheim)

Godmother was Catharina Mann.

8.4.....Eva Schömbs (*06.09.1853, +06.-12.1854 Elsheim)

Godmother was Eva Schömbs, Elsheim.

8.5....Georg Schömbs (*08.12.1854 Elsheim, +15.02.1926.Elsheim)

Witnesses of the baptism were "Georg Schömbs from Amerika" and Adam Kranz. This would have been Georg Schems (*1823 Elsheim, +Louisville KY)

Georg Schömbs was a butcher by profession. There is an IGI record of a Catholic church marriage in Gross-Winternheim of a Georg Schoembs and a Francisca Theis dated 26.11.1882. This is most likely the same Georg Schömbs. If so Francisca is the mother of the following children.

Children: (6)

6.1.....Franz Schömbs (*20.04.1887, +Ingelheim)

Franz Schömbs married Katharina Hefner. By profession Franz Schömbs worked on the railroad.

Children: (2)

2.1.....Anna Schömbs

Anna Schömbs married Josef Feser, Ockenheim.

2.2.....Georg Schömbs (*1915 Groß-Winternheim)

Georg Schömbs was a tailor by profession. He never married and lives today in Walldürn/Odenwald.

6.2.....Georg Schömbs (*ca. 1889 Elsheim, +Ingelheim)

Georg Schömbs married Marie Luise Tilgner, Mainz. Georg Schömbs was by profession a postal official.

Children: (3)

3.1.....Herbert G. Schömbs (*30.03.1926 Elsheim, +09.09.1975)

Herbert Schömbs was married on 27.08.1955 to Elisabeth Maria Magdalena "Liesel" Kirchner.

Elisabeth Kirchner
and Herbert Schömbs

Children: (2)

2.1.....Horst Schömbs (*1957)

Horst Schömbs (left) in an interview with National player Stefan Kunz

Horst Schömbs is married to Juliette. The family lives in Bingen-Büdesheim. Horst Schömbs is a bank director at the Mainzer Volksbank in Mainz. He is known in the region as the sportscaster of the soccer team 1st FC Kaiserslautern.

Article about Horst Schömbs in der AZ (2004)

2.2.....Petra Schömbs

Petra Schömbs married Manfred Haas, Waldböckelheim.

Children: (2)

2.1................

2.2................

3.2.....Hildegard Schömbs

Hildegard Schömbs married Friedel Bockius, Frei-Weinheim.

Children: (3)

3.1.............

3.2............

3.3...........

3.3.....Anneliese Schömbs

Anneliese Schömbs is married to Buschinski. The family lives in France.

Children: (6)

6.3.....Jacob Schömbs (*05.06.1891, +06.07.1960)

Jacob Schömbs married Katharina Denne (*20.09.1894, +27.09.1968).

Children: (2)

2.1.....Friedrich Schömbs (*05.08.1924, +09.01.1944)

2.2.....Martha Schömbs (*26.07.1927 Elsheim, +03.07.2009)

Martha Schömbs married Gerhard Sinock. The family lives in Elsheim.

Obituary for Martha Schömbs (2009)
click to enlarge

Children: (5)

5.1.....Fritz Sinock

Fritz Sinock lives also with his family in Elsheim. He married Pia.

Children: (3)

3.1.....Oliver Sinock

3.2.....Christoph Sinock

3.3.....Fabian Sinock

5.2.....Renate Sinock (*, +1982)

5.3.....Regina Sinock

Regina married Herr Heidenrich.

5.4.....Michael Sinock (*, +2008)

Michael died in an auto accident.

5.5.....Rita Sinock

6.4.....Anna Maria Schömbs (*28.06.1895 Elsheim, +19.11.1971)

Anna Schömbs married the master butcher Peter Denne (*20.10.1896 Lonsheim).

Children: (1)

1.1.....Agnese Denne

Agnes married but later divorced. She lives in Wiesbaden.

Children: (1)

1.1.....Sohn

6.5.....Margret Schömbs (*ca. 1900)

Margret Schömbs, for many years a mail carrier in Elsheim, was married to Philipp Mangold.

Children: (1)

1.1.....Margarete Mangold

Margaret Mangold married Hamm.

Children: (2)

2.1.....Volker Hamm

2.2.....Rolf Hamm

6.6.....Bernhard Schömbs

Bernhard Schömbs was an epileptic. He died at age 17.

8.6.....Bernhard Schömbs (*22.02.1855 Elsheim)

Godfather was Bernhard Braunbeck. Bernhard Schömbs married Susanna Agnesia Zink.

Children: (1)

1.1.....Philipp "Josef" Schömbs (*02.12.1898 Elsheim, +1963 Mainz)

Philipp Josef Schömbs was twice married. He was in the taxi business in Mainz.

Children: (1)

1.1.....Karlheinz Schömbs (*1937)

Karlheinz Schömbs was in his first marriage married to Helga Simon. Later he married a second time. Karlheinz was a boatmaker. At times he also worked as an operator for the national railway, Deutschen Bundesbahn.

Children: (2)

2.1.....Norber Schömbs (*ca. 1952)

Norbert Schömbs (child of the first marriage), lives in Rastatt.

2.2.....Jörg Schömbs (*1962 Mainz)

Jörg Schömbs married Marika Ivonne Opplau. Jörg Schömbs works in electronics in Frankfurt. He lives with his wife in Dexheim. In his freetime he is a marathoner.

8.7.....Anna Maria Schömbs (*01.11.1857 Elsheim/Groß Winternheim)

Godmother was Anna Maria Becker, Finthen.

8.8.....Elisabetha Schömbs (*18.12.1859, +29.12.1938 Elsheim)

Godmother was Elisabetha Luckenheimer, Groß-Winternheim

8.3....Eva Schems (*04.11.1820 Elsheim)

Eva Schems was married on 12.06.1848 in Elsheim to Jacob Ring, Finthen.

8.4....Georg Schems (*12.07.1823 Elsheim, 24.12.1885 Louisville KY)

Godfather at the christening was Georg Balbeck, Wackernheim. Georg emigrated to Amerika at the age of 24. He is one of a few Schömbs emigrants who returned to Deutschland for a visit. In December 1854 he was a sponsor at the christening of his nephew George in Elsheim. He was married a month later in Louisville to Caroline Adolph (*7.10.1833 France, +9.06.1885 Louisville KY).

~1848 Emigrant to Louisville, Kentucky
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Children: (9)

9.1.....Elizabeth Schoembs (*01.01.1856 Louisville KY, +10.04.1936 Louisville)

9.2.....Caroline "Carrie" Schoembs (*24.04.1857 Louisville, +15.07.1932 Louisville)

9.3.....Sophia Schoembs (*~1859 Louisville KY, +16.06.1915 Louisville KY)

9.4.....Amelia Schoembs (*14.1.1862 Louisville KY, +26.10.1944 Covington KY)

9.5.....George Schoembs (*14.10.1863 Louisville, +before 1870)

9.6.....Margaret "Emma" Schoembs (*26.06.1866 Louisville KY, +after 1930)

9.7.....Katherine Schoembs (*07.10.1866 Louisville KY, +15.01.1868 Louisville KY)

9.8.....Katherine Schoembs (*1869 Louisville KY, +1956 Louisville KY)

9.9.....William B. Schoembs (*25.8.1871 Louisville KY, +23.01.1956 Louisville KY)

8.5.....Elisabeth Schembs (*1825 Elsheim)

Elisabeth married Wendelin Bayer (*1819 Astheim) on 20.6.1848. Wendelin was a teacher in Lörzweiler. Witnesses were Johann Bayer and Philipp Schömbs.

8.6.....Maria Magdalena Schembs (*11.01.1826 Elsheim)

8.7.....Bernhard Schems (*25.02.1828 Elsheim)

Three of the children of Georg "Philipp" (*1789) and Eva Schems emigrated to Amerika. Bernhard (*1828) was the first. Twelve years later, on 07 Jan 1856, Bernhard married Agatha "Hattie" Orth Zang (*~1823 Hessen Darmstadt), an emigrant also from the Rheinland in Germany.

~1846 Emigrant to New Orleans, Louisiana
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Children: (2)

2.1.....Adam "Schoembs" Zang (*1849 Louisiana)

2.2.....Frank "Schoembs" Zang (*1853 Louisiana)

8.8.....Franz Schoembs (*21.09.1830 Elsheim).

Godfather was Franz Schönhard. Frank Schoembs emigrated in 1848, following his older brothers to Amerika. His first known stop was Evansville, Indiana, where Heinrich Schömbs (*1810), his cousin settled. Whether Heinrich was already in Evansville when Frank arrived is not known. But we do know that Frank was married in Evansville to Magdalena Hafner (*1832 Germany, +1911 Cairo IL), another emigrant, in 1855. They soon moved to Cairo/Galconda, Illinois, a small town about 80 miles down the Ohio River.

1848 Emigrant to Cairo, Illinois
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Children: (6)

6.1.....Louisa Schoembs (*~1859 Golconda IL)

6.2.....George Frank Schoembs (*1861 Golconda IL, +1934 Cairo IL)

6.3.....Magdalena Schoembs (*1863 Golconda IL, +1901)

6.4.....Mathilde "Tillie" Schoembs (*1865 Golconda IL)

6.5.....Emma Schoembs (*1867 Golconda IL)

6.6.....Frank Ernst Schoembs (*1870 Golconda IL, +1934 Cairo IL)

10.10....Catharina Schömbs (*03.05.1794 Wahlheimer Hof)

Godmother was Catharina Kämmerer, Undenheim.

Anna Catharina Schömbs (*09.01.1747 Wahlheimer Hof, +01.02.1747 Wahlheimer Hof)2.3.5/9

Godmother was Anna Catharina Münzenberger, Undenheim.

Anna Maria Eva Schömbs (*24.04.1749 Wahlheimer Hof)2.3.5/10

Godmother was Maria Eva Michel, Zornheim.

Anna Maria Schömbs (*24.04.1749 Wahlheimer Hof)2.3.5/11

Godmother was Ann Maria Diel, Köngernheim. Anna Maria Schömbs was married on 02.06.1772 to the St. Albans head manager Johannes Kämmerer, widower. Witnesses were the fathers of the couple.

Children: (4)

4.1.....Maria Ottilia Kämmerer (*25.05.1773)

4.2.....Anna Elisabetha Kämmerer (*03.12.1774)

4.3.....Johann Peter Kämmerer (*30.04.1777)

4.4.....Mathias Kämmerer (*08.09.1779, +17.07.1780)

Maria Otilia Schömbs (*18.07.1752 Wahlheimer Hof)2.3.5/12

Godmother was Maria Otilia Metten. Maria Otilia Schömbs was married in 1770 in Zornheim to Johann Diel, Wörrstadt. Witnesses were Georg Michel, Zornheim, and Mathäus Schömbs.