4/4/2020
Suggested edit: Joseph, oldest son of Samuel, was born February 6, 1788, grew to manhood on the farm, married, lived for a time in his home country, but in quest of a new home he was taken suddenly ill at Lexington, Ky., where he died and was buried (in middle life). He left a small family, probably only one son, Louis Hershberger, who then with his family moved to Missouri, then to Galveston, Texas, where they lived for many years. On the journey across the gulf of Mexico, Louis Hershberger, his wife, and a six months old daughter, were shipwrecked by a storm. The boat was torn to pieces, but fortunately they succeeded in getting on some wreckage of the vessel. His wife carried the six months old baby by its clothing in her teeth for five or six hours as it required the use of both of her hands to cling to the raft herself until they were finally picked up by another vessel and all landed in safety. They lost all their property. This incident was reported by the family in their letters back home some years afterwards.
Yet in later life, after settling down in Galveston, they met with another disaster, some thirty years or more now past, when a tidal wave from the Gulf rushed inland and swamped many homes in the city, including theirs, and the family was taken out of a second story window by boats. She being a large woman, they has some difficulty in getting her out, but all were landed safely for the second time in life. They reared on son and two daughters.
Corrine, the daughter who as a baby was carried by her clothing in her mother's mouth on being shipwrecked form many hours grew to womanhood in Galveston, married a railroad man and lived some eight or ten years thereafter. She probably left an heir of two but of that I have no record. The parents have long since passed away, and the son and one daughter now represent the home and are living at this date so far as the writer knows.
Source: A Brief History of the Hershberger Family in Page County, Virginia, by G. W. Hershberger, 1932.
Contributor: Amy (48262996) • [email protected]
Suggested edit: Joseph, oldest son of Samuel, was born February 6, 1788, grew to manhood on the farm, married, lived for a time in his home country, but in quest of a new home he was taken suddenly ill at Lexington, Ky., where he died and was buried (in middle life). He left a small family, probably only one son, Louis Hershberger, who then with his family moved to Missouri, then to Galveston, Texas, where they lived for many years. On the journey across the gulf of Mexico, Louis Hershberger, his wife, and a six months old daughter, were shipwrecked by a storm. The boat was torn to pieces, but fortunately they succeeded in getting on some wreckage of the vessel. His wife carried the six months old baby by its clothing in her teeth for five or six hours as it required the use of both of her hands to cling to the raft herself until they were finally picked up by another vessel and all landed in safety. They lost all their property. This incident was reported by the family in their letters back home some years afterwards.
Yet in later life, after settling down in Galveston, they met with another disaster, some thirty years or more now past, when a tidal wave from the Gulf rushed inland and swamped many homes in the city, including theirs, and the family was taken out of a second story window by boats. She being a large woman, they has some difficulty in getting her out, but all were landed safely for the second time in life. They reared on son and two daughters.
Corrine, the daughter who as a baby was carried by her clothing in her mother's mouth on being shipwrecked form many hours grew to womanhood in Galveston, married a railroad man and lived some eight or ten years thereafter. She probably left an heir of two but of that I have no record. The parents have long since passed away, and the son and one daughter now represent the home and are living at this date so far as the writer knows.
Source: A Brief History of the Hershberger Family in Page County, Virginia, by G. W. Hershberger, 1932.
Contributor: Amy (48262996) • [email protected]
4/4/2020
Suggested edit: Joseph, oldest son of Samuel, was born February 6, 1788, grew to manhood on the farm, married, lived for a time in his home country, but in quest of a new home he was taken suddenly ill at Lexington, Ky., where he died and was buried (in middle life). He left a small family, probably only one son, Louis Hershberger, who then with his family moved to Missouri, then to Galveston, Texas, where they lived for many years. On the journey across the gulf of Mexico, Louis Hershberger, his wife, and a six months old daughter, were shipwrecked by a storm. The boat was torn to pieces, but fortunately they succeeded in getting on some wreckage of the vessel. His wife carried the six months old baby by its clothing in her teeth for five or six hours as it required the use of both of her hands to cling to the raft herself until they were finally picked up by another vessel and all landed in safety. They lost all their property. This incident was reported by the family in their letters back home some years afterwards.
Yet in later life, after settling down in Galveston, they met with another disaster, some thirty years or more now past, when a tidal wave from the Gulf rushed inland and swamped many homes in the city, including theirs, and the family was taken out of a second story window by boats. She being a large woman, they has some difficulty in getting her out, but all were landed safely for the second time in life. They reared on son and two daughters.
Corrine, the daughter who as a baby was carried by her clothing in her mother's mouth on being shipwrecked form many hours grew to womanhood in Galveston, married a railroad man and lived some eight or ten years thereafter. She probably left an heir of two but of that I have no record. The parents have long since passed away, and the son and one daughter now represent the home and are living at this date so far as the writer knows.
Source: A Brief History of the Hershberger Family in Page County, Virginia, by G. W. Hershberger, 1932.
Contributor: Amy (48262996) • [email protected]
Suggested edit: Joseph, oldest son of Samuel, was born February 6, 1788, grew to manhood on the farm, married, lived for a time in his home country, but in quest of a new home he was taken suddenly ill at Lexington, Ky., where he died and was buried (in middle life). He left a small family, probably only one son, Louis Hershberger, who then with his family moved to Missouri, then to Galveston, Texas, where they lived for many years. On the journey across the gulf of Mexico, Louis Hershberger, his wife, and a six months old daughter, were shipwrecked by a storm. The boat was torn to pieces, but fortunately they succeeded in getting on some wreckage of the vessel. His wife carried the six months old baby by its clothing in her teeth for five or six hours as it required the use of both of her hands to cling to the raft herself until they were finally picked up by another vessel and all landed in safety. They lost all their property. This incident was reported by the family in their letters back home some years afterwards.
Yet in later life, after settling down in Galveston, they met with another disaster, some thirty years or more now past, when a tidal wave from the Gulf rushed inland and swamped many homes in the city, including theirs, and the family was taken out of a second story window by boats. She being a large woman, they has some difficulty in getting her out, but all were landed safely for the second time in life. They reared on son and two daughters.
Corrine, the daughter who as a baby was carried by her clothing in her mother's mouth on being shipwrecked form many hours grew to womanhood in Galveston, married a railroad man and lived some eight or ten years thereafter. She probably left an heir of two but of that I have no record. The parents have long since passed away, and the son and one daughter now represent the home and are living at this date so far as the writer knows.
Source: A Brief History of the Hershberger Family in Page County, Virginia, by G. W. Hershberger, 1932.
Contributor: Amy (48262996) • [email protected]
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