Samuel Derr

1822 - 1896  (74 years)

• Name	Samuel Derr
  Birth	12 Mar 1822	Middletown Valley, Frederick, Maryland   [1, 2, 3]
  Baptism	12 Apr 1822  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 May 1896	Middletown, Frederick, Maryland   [1, 2, 3]
  Burial	Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I31242	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of ASF
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Jacob Derr,   b. 16 Dec 1782, Maryland d. 31 May 1848, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Margaret Long,   b. 30 Mar 1784, Maryland d. 18 Jul 1868, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	Abt 10 May 1810	Frederick County, Maryland   [3]
  Family ID	F18546	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Magdalena Yaste,   b. 1 Nov 1824, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland d. 4 Oct 1905, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	5 Dec 1844	Frederick County, Maryland   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Cornelius Edward Derr,   b. 7 Dec 1845, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland d. 30 Dec 1916, Lewistown, Frederick, Maryland (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F18545	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2020

  
  

• Photos

  Headstone of Samuel and Mary (Yaste) Derr

  
  

• Notes

  He was a slaveowner — the 1850 census shows that he owned at least one black male slave aged 20 years — and, interestingly, a Republican. In 1875 he was a delagate to the Republican county convention at Frederick on the 6th of October. From 1876 until his death he was the superintendent of Sunday school at Zion Lutheran Church in Middletown. He and his wife are commemorated in a stained-glass window in that church. His headstone indicates that he "fell asleep" on 7 May 1896, which we always find alarming.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5007] Monocacy and Catoctin: Some Early settlers of Frederick and Carroll County, Md., and Adams County, Pa.; Also Descendants c. 1725-1985 ed. C. E. Schildknecht and Folger McKinsey. Volume 3. Westminster, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1989., year only. [S5008] Find a Grave page for Samuel Derr. [S5077] The Derr Family 1750-1986, with Allied Families of Baker, Flook, Hoover, Koogle, Long, Metzger, Smith, Templing, Toms, Yaste, and Youtsey by Roy H. Wampler. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1987. [S5007] Monocacy and Catoctin: Some Early settlers of Frederick and Carroll County, Md., and Adams County, Pa.; Also Descendants c. 1725-1985 ed. C. E. Schildknecht and Folger McKinsey. Volume 3. Westminster, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1989.