Notes for John Shorr: "In the year 1835 John Shorr, following the frequented lines of travel of that day passes through the fertile flat alnds of Perry, Fairfield and the Pickaway plains And found them not to his liking.
The hills of Hocking gave him a taste and touch of the Fatherland, and the Hocking River, winding among the hills, washing the base of the castle-like crags, with pool and eddy, seemed a reprodution of the Rhine.
About three miles north of Logan, Ohio he set a stone marked with a cross as the place for a church when his people had settled. He returned to the Old Country and in the next year, during the summer of 1837 the colony arrived. It consisted of twenty-six families in all who bought and entered the land that John Schorr had chosen.
Among the families of the co;lony were the Weilands, Kunklers, Kesslers, Uckers, Shradders, Scharschels, Fox, Stedman, Judy and Shorr.
The first services were held at thr different residences of those Catholic pioneers by Father Fokel about 1839.
President of the United States in 1835 was Andrew Jackson.
President of the United States in 1839 was Martin Van Buren."
John Shorr
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