Johannes8 Zehrung (Christoffel7, Johann Bast6, Tonges5, Thonges
(Antonius)4 Zehring, Jann3 Zehrung, Michael2 Zering, Zering "the1 Old")
was born April 1706 in Ritzhausen, Germany, and died Bef. November 1773
in Atlantic Ocean. He married (1) Anna Maria Crumm 02 May 1730 in
Germany, daughter of Johann Crumm and Anna Schell. She was born 24
January 1712/13, and died 01 December 1742 in Pfuhl, Germany. He
married (2) Anna Maria Uhr Abt. 1744 in Bad Marienberg, Hesse, Germany,
daughter of Johannes Thonges Uhr, of Ritzhausen. She died Abt. 1759 in
Middle Creek, Northumberland Co., PA. He married (3) Anna Elizabeth
Lotz 02 May 1760 in Berks Co., Pennsylvania
> Notes for Johannes Zehrung:
> Immigrant on the snow "Rowand" in 1753.
>
> Lancaster Co., PA Administration Records:
> Release of Administration-13 November 1773
> Bond-23 November 1773
> Final Accounting-24 May 1775
>
> Children of Johannes Zehrung and Anna Crumm are:
>
> 2 i. Johannes Bast9 Zehring, born 23 March 1730/31 in
> Pfuhl, Germany.
>
> 3 ii. Elizabeth Maria Zehring, born 18 October 1732
> in Pfuhl, Germany.
>
> 4 iii. Anna Gertraud Zehring, born 11 July 1734 in
> Pfuhl, Germany.
>
> 5 iv. Johannes Henrich (Henry) Zehring, born 03 April
> 1737 in Pfuhl, Germany; died 05 April 1818 in Bethel Twp., Dauphin
> Co., PA. He married (1) Susannan Maria *Schaeffer* Abt. 1756. He
> married (2) Elizabeth Lutz, widow of Michael Wohlfarth Abt. 1780.
>
> Notes for Johannes Henrich (Henry) Zehring:
> Burial at Jonestown Old Reformed Cemetery, Queen Street, Jonestown,
> Lebanon Co., PA
>
> Heinrich Zehrung--a member of the 8th Co., 2nd Batt. under Capt.
> Mathias Henning during the Revolutionary War.
>
> 6 v. Christian Ludwig (Ludwig) Zehring, born 16
> September 1739 in Bach, Germany. He married Catherine (---?---).
>
>
> Children of Johannes Zehrung and Anna Uhr are:
>
> 7 i. Johann Teis (Mathias)9 Zehring, Zehrung, born 13
> December 1745 in Pfuhl, Germany; died 13 May 1813 in Shenandoah Co.,
> Virginia. He married Rebecca Yeager Miller.
>
> Notes for Johann Teis (Mathias) Zehring, Zehrung:
>
> "The Virginia Germans" by Klaus Wust 1969
> page 153 Matthias Zehring appointed agent for the Virginische
> Zeitung in Woodstock.
> page 169 Matthias Zehring listed as a general merchant in Woodstock.
>
> 8 ii. Phillip Zehring, born Abt. 1747. He married
> Catherine Zeller.
>
> 9 iii. Christian Zehrung, born 1748 in Pfuhl, Hesse,
> Germany; died 1748 in Pfuhl, Hesse, Germany.
>
> 10 iv. Anna Elizabeth Zehring, Zehrung, born 28 October
> 1749 in Pfuhl, Hesse, Germany; died Bef. 1790 in Northumberland Co.,
> PA. She married Leonard Kirstetter 25 November 1766 in Lancaster
> Co., Pennsylvania; died Bef. August 1790 in Northumberland Co., PA.
>
> 11 v. Christian Zehring, born 05 October 1755 in
> Middle Creek, Northumberland Co., PA; died 05 June 1832 in Warren
> Co., OH. He married (1) Christina Umberger Abt. 1775. He married
> (2) Anna Marie Rauch Abt. 1790; born 11 April 1762 in Hanover Twp.,
> Lancaster Co., PA; died 22 June 1839 in Germantown, Montgomery Co., OH.
>
> Notes for Christian Zehring:
>
> History of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, Pennsylvania, by William
> Henry Egle 1883, page 300
>
> Christian Zehring was a blacksmith. He built the stone shop on the
> farm he owned in Union Twp. There was also two large dwelling houses
> and a large Swiss barn, all built of stone. He established a regular
> route to Philadelphia to sell his produce from the farm. Christian
> Zehring was a township supervisor and overseer of the poor. In 1819,
> he and his family moved to Warren Co., Ohio where he died 5 June 1832.
>
> He married, first ? Umberger and second, Anna Maria Rough (Rauch).
>
> Christian Zehring was a Pvt. in Captain Casper
> Stover's Co., 2nd Batt. of Lancaster Co., PA Militia
> (PA Archives 5th Series, Vol. VII, pages 151 & 171)
>
> 12 vi. Johannes (John) Zehring, born 20 March 1758.
>