Jacob Derr

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 6 Dec 1782, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland

Jacob married Margaret Long about 10 May 1810 in Frederick County, Maryland. Margaret (daughter of Johannes Peter Long and Anna Margaret Flook) was born on 30 Mar 1784 in Maryland; was christened on 13 Jun 1784 in Zion Lutheran Church, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland; died on 18 Jul 1868 in Middletown, Frederick, Maryland; was buried in Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

Samuel married Mary Magdalena Yaste on 5 Dec 1844 in Frederick County, Maryland. Mary (daughter of Samuel T. Yaste and Anna Mary "Polly" Youtsey) was born on 1 Nov 1824 in Middletown, Frederick, Maryland; died on 4 Oct 1905 in Middletown, Frederick, Maryland; was buried in Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Dec 1847, Maryland
• Alternate death: 30 Dec 1916, Utica, Frederick, Maryland

Cornelius married Mary Eve Metzger on 1 Dec 1874 in Myersville, Frederick, Maryland. Mary (daughter of William Metzger and Lydia Toms) was born on 12 Mar 1852 in Myersville, Frederick, Maryland; died on 26 Nov 1905 in Creagerstown, Frederick, Maryland; was buried on 29 Nov 1905 in Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1876, Maryland

Notes:

"William S. T. Derr lived at New York, NY (1898- to 1901); at Vancouver, WA (1901 to 1919). In New York, he was employed at Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. At Vancouver, WA, he had a bakery business; he was a partner in operating Great Western Tea Co.; elected County Clerk, Clark Co., WA, 1910; admitted to the bar in 1914; elected Justice of the Peace, 1914. He was instrumental in organizing St. Paul's Lutheran Congregation at Vancouver, Washington." [Roy H. Wampler, citation details below]

William Samuel Derr and his wife Edith May Smith were double third cousins through their shared Derr ancestry, triple fourth cousins through their Koogle forbears, and fourth cousins via their Smith ancestors.

William married Edith May Smith on 11 Oct 1904 in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Clark County, Washington. Edith (daughter of Lewis Carlton Smith and Joanna May Derr) was born on 5 Jan 1887 in Graceham, Frederick, Maryland; died on 12 Mar 1981 in Oceanside, San Diego, California; was buried in Oceanside, San Diego, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]