Bernhard Mohr (1863)

Born 13 Sep 1863 in Hambach, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Ancestors

Husband of Christina (Berger) Mohr — married 14 Jun 1889 in Hambach, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland

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Biography

Bernhard was the 1st child of the 7 children of Peter Adam Mohr and Magdalena Fischer. He was born 13 September, 1863 in Hambach, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

Bernhard began working as a grape picker and vine cultivator. Some time later he bought some land and grew grapes. When he was not working in the vineyard, he worked as a day laborer and later even an organ grinder, a "Dreihorgelspieler", to make ends meet.

Bernhard married Christina Berger 14 June 1889 in Hambach. She was born 15 October 1865 in Hardenburg, Bad Dürkheim, the daughter of the stonemason Anton Ferdinand Berger and Katharina Berger in Hardenburg. Bernhard and Christina had 8 children. Five of their children were stillborn, one died at 1 day old, and the 2 survivors, Anton and Victor, were both killed in France in 1916-17 during the 1st World War.

In a letter dated 12 February 1900 to his sister, Anna, his father wrote about Bernhard: "You asked in your last letter about many things which I will try to tell you about. 1st, I am with Bernhard, that you know. Bernhard in the last 2 years went into debt for 710 marks for one acre on which he leveled the land for a vineyard that he also paid 490 marks for. The grape harvest was bad that fall, so he really didn’t earn back enough money to pay back on his loan capital. He is having a rough time, is going around with an organ and also works in the fields, nothing is too much for him, but he can’t make ends meet and therefore I have to suffer too, because I can’t do much anymore. I am often in bed sick, I have stomach problems and dizzy spells in my head and after all that Bernhard is mean to me. Do not write about this in your letters."

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Sources

• Family history gathered by Fred Swanson 1935 in Atlantic City, NJ from his grandfather, Carl Junk, and passed on to Mark Swanson 1975 in Miami, FL.

• 1863 Birth - FamilySearch.org, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, film 367547, image 563 of 635, Katholische Kirche Sankt Jakobus, Hambach-Neustadt, acquired by Mark Swanson at the Family History Center, Plantation, FL, 23 May 2008 and from cousin Werner Meisel in Hambach 12 July 2012.

• Ortsfamilienbuch Hambach, Johann Benedom, Schifferstadt, Germany, 2017, pages 679, 680, entry 2880.