Descendants of George Meyer Generation No. 1 1. GEORGE2 MEYER (BERNARD1)1 was born Nov 1848 in Germany1, and died 29 Feb 1908 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH2. He married ELIZABETH LUTTMANN3 02 Jul 1876 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio4, daughter of FRANK LUTTMANN and MARY. She was born 16 Sep 1854 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH5,6, and died 31 Jul 1908 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH7. Notes for GEORGE MEYER: According to the 1900 US Census for Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, George Meyer came to this country in 1869. I have been so far unable to determine exactly how or when he came into the country. He worked as a master mantel maker (probably fireplace mantels). Notes for ELIZABETH LUTTMANN: More About GEORGE MEYER and ELIZABETH LUTTMANN: Marriage: 02 Jul 1876, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio8 Children of GEORGE MEYER and ELIZABETH LUTTMANN are: 2. i. MARY3 MEYER, b. 13 Sep 1882, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH; d. 09 Aug 1940, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH. ii. EDWARD MEYER, b. 30 Jul 1877, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH; d. 25 Dec 1912, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH. Notes for EDWARD MEYER: THE POST (CINCINNATI, OHIO) 26 Dec 1912, Page 8, Col. 2 MEYER, Edward, beloved son of the late George and Elizabeth Luttman Meyer, Wednesday, December 25th, at 9:45 p.m., aged 35 years, 4 months, 26 days. Funeral from the residence of his sister, Mrs. Peter Christopher, 2223 Flora Street, Saturday, December 28, at 8:00 a.m. Requiem high mass at St. Monica Church at 8:30 a.m. iii. ANNE MEYER, b. Feb 1880, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH. Generation No. 2 2. MARY3 MEYER (GEORGE2, BERNARD1)9 was born 13 Sep 1882 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH10, and died 09 Aug 1940 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH11. She married PETER ADAM CHRISTOPHER12 03 Jun 1908 in St. George Ch., Cincinnati OH13, son of ADAM CHRISTOPHEL and CATHERINE KUNTZ. He was born 25 Dec 1878 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH14, and died 18 Sep 1954 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH15. Notes for MARY MEYER: Mary Meyer was a very pretty young woman when she married Peter Adam Christopher. Her father had just died in February of the same year, 1908. She married Peter in June of 1908; and, only little more than a month later, in July, her mother died. After these tragedies, her brother, Edward Meyer, lived with Peter and Mary at 217 Seitz Street, where Esther was born to them in 1909. They bought the house at 2223 Flora Street in 1911; and, Edward moved along with them. Tragedy struck again on Christmas day of 1912, when Edward Meyer died of Pneumonia. Mary gave birth to twins, Edward and Ellanor in September 1915. Happiness was dealt another blow 10 months later when little Ellanor died of gastric enteritis. All, including Ellanor were buried in old St. Mary's Cemetery. Mary gave birth to Virginia in September 1918. Virginia was a very beautiful girl; but, had heart problems; and, was thought to be in delicate health. As of this writing, she is 86 years young and still going very strong. Mary herself had hypertension. One day in 1940 she passed away in her own bed at the house on Flora Street. THE POST (CINCINNATI, OHIO) 10 Aug 1940, Page 13, Col. 2 CHRISTOPHER, MARY MEYER, Beloved wife of Peter Christopher and beloved mother of Ester Zimmers, Virginia and Edward Christopher, Friday, August 9th, 1940, at residence, 2223 Flora Street; age 57 years. Funeral from Buss and Borgman Company, Parkway Funeral Home, Central Parkway and Clifton Hills Lane, Monday August 12th at 8:00 a.m. Requiem high mass at Cathedral of St. Monica at 8:30 a.m. Notes for PETER ADAM CHRISTOPHER: Remembrances of Dolores My Grandfather, Peter Christopher, was the only grandparent I ever knew, all of the others had passed on long before I was born. I cherished him. He would come to spend the winter months with our family in Florida; and, this was how I truly came to know him. He used to try to help me with my homework. He had only finished the 2nd grade in school; but, he still tried to help me. He taught me how to save money. He gave me an allowance of fifty cents every Saturday and suggested that I save it for something I wanted. He loved to smoke cigars and said that he had been smoking them ever since he was still in school. I could never figure out where he got the stoggies; and, later found out while researching the family, that his father, Adam Christophel, was a cigar maker by trade. Then it made perfect sense how he got hold of the cigars. Like my Mom, he also treated me as an equal. We used to even have differences of opinion; and, would argue at length; but, never resolve anything. One time we argued about him picking up my pet rabit by the ears, which he thought would not hurt it, and I was perfectly sure that it would. He used to love to eat ham and pickled pigs feet.....and have one glass of beer with it. He let me taste his beer to satisfy my curiosity and I thought it was the worst thing I had ever tasted in my short life. He was the first person I loved who died. I remember when we got the call from Ohio that he had suffered a stroke (I was in bed already). I just lay there and prayed for a long time until I fell asleep that the Lord would let him live longer. The Lord must have needed him more. I was heart broken. I remember being at his funeral; and, there was a man singing some sad sounding song. I was only 8 years old, but cried my eyes out like I had lived to be a hundred and lost my best friend....and I had. More About PETER CHRISTOPHER and MARY MEYER: Marriage: 03 Jun 1908, St. George Ch., Cincinnati OH16 Children of MARY MEYER and PETER CHRISTOPHER are: i. EDWARD RICHARD4 CHRISTOPHER17, b. 07 Sep 1915, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH18; d. 25 Jun 1992, Hialeah, Dade, FL19; m. MAY ADA WHITTAKER20, 23 Dec 1944, Miami, Dade, FL21; b. 28 Apr 1912, Wheeling, Ohio, WV22; d. 03 Jun 1978, Hialeah, Dade, FL23. Notes for EDWARD RICHARD CHRISTOPHER: Remembrances of Dolores My Father was the best man I ever knew in my life. Whenever you needed him, he was always there. When my Mom was sick, he would get me up in the morning, make my breakfast, drive me to school, go to work, come home & cook dinner, go grocery shopping & do the dishes. This was not a once in a while thing....it went on for years & years, as my Mom was not well a lot of the time. My Dad never even complained once....not once. When I was real small, my Dad started taking me to the movies every Saturday. This was when they had big theatres with double features and 25-50 cartoons. The place would be jam packed with screaming kids. This wasn't once in a while, once a month; but, every week, for years. The movies were mostly Cowboys & Indians. Early on, I was for the underdog & kept asking him why the Indians never won. He even laughed when I called him "Chief Iron Hand". I came up with that one because I was always getting in trouble for never hearing my parents call for me while I was out playing. When I would come to the door, I would always try to slide by him to escape the one swat that was waiting for me as my little behind passed by. He taught me how to fish fresh water & salt water; and go crabbing. He taught me to be strong and that I could take care of myself in any situation. My Aunt Virginia, his youngest sister, told me that when they were young, they always had to contribute something to the household and when they were young & didn't work, they both had to team up and do the dishes. She would wash and my Dad would dry. The funny thing was, on certain occasions, he would say "I think I hear my friend, Schlicter, calling me....wait a minute." Out the back door he would go & not come back. She would get stuck doing the drying, too. When she would get mad about it the next day, he would laugh. What was even funnier, was that I basically did the same thing to him when I was a teenager. I would run out the back door sometimes, when I was supposed to dry dishes & stay gone for a couple of hours. I could never understand why he never said or did anything about it. He must have figured that I came by it honestly. I feel his loss more keenly than any other loss in my life....ever. Notes for MAY ADA WHITTAKER: Remembrances of Dolores My Mother was a very friendly personality and very easy to talk to. All of the kids in the neighborhood and my friends wanted to hang out with my Mom because she would sit and play cards & board games with them, tell them jokes & generally treat them as equals. She always treated me the same way; and, I felt that I could tell her anything. She had my Dad totally figured out. If I couldn't get what I wanted from him, believe me, she knew how to get it. They were totally cute together. He used to take her out every Friday evening for dinner & I got to go along, too. She took forever to get ready...I mean FOREVER! But; my Dad knew how to deal with her, too. He would start calling her up after lunch and start urging her to get ready. Somehow, by the time he got home around 5:00 pm, she always still had a thing or two left to do to be totally ready. When I look back on it now....I realize what an unbounded patience he had, because in all the years that this ritual took place, he never once lost his temper; and, we would go out to a good dinner at some place that they really liked and enjoy it. This is a tradition that I have kept up with my children; and, I still thoroughly enjoy it. She was artistic. She liked to draw, write songs and play musical instruments, which she could pick up & actually start to play after fooling around with them for a half an hour or so. She liked to invent designs for jewelry. You could see that West Virginianess in her too, although she rarely talked about the place. She once helped my daughter, Michelle, put together a Terrarium for the heck of it. Michelle liked to catch the little lizards and things that lived around the yard; and, wanted to keep them. My Mom taught her how to make a home for them; and, how to catch flies in midair with a dishtowel to stun them, so they could be fed to the lizards alive. Michelle just thought that was the most! My mom never liked her real first name, May Ada, I guess; because when she was about 15 years old, after both her parents died, she re-invented herself as "Jean". She did such a good job of it that even her brothers and sisters called her "Jean"; and, that is the name that my Dad always called her. I thought this was a great idea; and, since I didn't like the name Dolores as much as she did.....I did the same thing when I was about 14; and, started to call myself "Dee". I learned from her how to do it and have used that name ever since. My mom was the kind of mother who went to the P.T.A. meetings and all of the rest of it. She taught me the alphabet & how to write my name before I went to school. She took me to Kindergarten before it was a required thing, like now. My mother, having grown up basically on her own, never threw anything away. She wouldn't even throw away old clothes...she would remove the buttons & zippers and either use what was left as a pattern to make another one, if she really liked it, or use it for a dust cloth until it was definitely used up. If you ever needed a button, zipper, screw, nut, bolt or anything she not only had it, but, amazingly, knew right where it was. When my Mom died, at 67, I knew I had lost the one person who was always in my corner, no matter what. The night she died, I saw her in a dream & she was young & beautiful & looked to be about 35 years old. She asked me, in the dream if I was coming with her, to which I replied in the negative; and she then faded in the distance. But, the dream was great because it helped me to remember her as the vibrant person that she always was in life. I knew it was a gift from her in parting, until we meet again. More About EDWARD CHRISTOPHER and MAY WHITTAKER: Marriage: 23 Dec 1944, Miami, Dade, FL24 ii. ESTHER CATHERINE CHRISTOPHER25, b. 19 Jun 1909, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH; d. 25 Jan 1995, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH26; m. (1) JOSEPH BERENS27, Abt. 1929, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio27; b. Abt. 1906, Ohio; m. (2) LOUIS GEORGE ZIMMERS28, Abt. 1936, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio; b. 13 Jul 1907, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH28; d. Jul 1980, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH29. Notes for JOSEPH BERENS: Esther and Joseph lived right accross the street from Peter & Mary Christopher when their only son, Richard Berens was born. They lived at 2220 Flora Street and Richard was born in the house next door. Joseph worked as a glazier. The marriage did not last very long & Esther moved back accross the street to 2223 Flora & the stability of her parents' home, taking Richard with her. More About JOSEPH BERENS and ESTHER CHRISTOPHER: Marriage: Abt. 1929, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio30 More About LOUIS ZIMMERS and ESTHER CHRISTOPHER: Marriage: Abt. 1936, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio iii. ELLANOR ELIZABETH CHRISTOPHER31, b. 07 Sep 1915, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH31; d. 16 Jul 1916, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH31. iv. VIRGINIA LORETTA CHRISTOPHER32, b. Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH32; m. JOSEPH WENZEL32, 21 Jun 1941, St. Monica's Catholic Church, Cincinnati, Ohio32; b. 10 Sep 1917, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH32; d. 25 Mar 1996, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH32. More About JOSEPH WENZEL and VIRGINIA CHRISTOPHER: Marriage: 21 Jun 1941, St. Monica's Catholic Church, Cincinnati, Ohio32 Endnotes 1. 1900 U.S. Census, Cincinnati 12 Ward, 1B. 2. St. George Catholic Church Death Records, 201. 3. 1900 U.S. Census, Cincinnati 12 Ward, 1B. 4. Restored Hamilton County Marriage Records from Cincinnati Freie Presse, 3. 5. 1900 U.S. Census, Cincinnati 12 Ward, 1B. 6. Hamilton County, OH Probate Death Register Vol 3 1905-1908, Page 33. 7. St. George Catholic Church Death Records, 208. 8. Restored Hamilton County Marriage Records from Cincinnati Freie Presse, 3. 9. State of Ohio, Dept of Health, Certificate of Death No. 4641, Item #6 - D.O.B. Sept. 13, 1882. 10. State of Ohio Dept of Health Death Certificate No.4641. 11. State of Ohio, Dept of Health, Certificate of Death No. 4641, Item #21 - D.O.D. Aug. 9, 1940 Prinicipal Cause - Hypertensive heart disease. 12. Birth Index of the University of Cincinnati, #7091 Page 139, Peter Adam Christopher b. 12-25-1878 Address: 189 Bremen Street Father: Adam Mother: Katy Kuntz born in Germany born in Germany Midwife: Mary Limberger Cigar Maker 13. St. George Catholic Church Marriage Records, Year 1908 Line #4, Peter Adam Christopher & Mary Meyer, daughter of George Meyer & Elizabeth Luttmann, married on 3rd of June 1908 at Cincinnati Ohio. 14. Birth Index of the University of Cincinnati, No. 7091 Page #139. 15. Cincinnati Catholic Cemetery Society Statistics Card #A78316. 16. St. George Catholic Church Marriage Records, Year 1908 Line #4, Peter Adam Christopher & Mary Meyer, daughter of George Meyer & Elizabeth Luttmann, married on 3rd of June 1908 at Cincinnati Ohio. 17. State of Ohio, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Birth No. 5371, File No. 73928, Born First of Twins on 07 Sep 1915 at 2223 Flora Street, Cincinnati OH. 18. State of Ohio Bureau of Vital Statistics Birth Certificate No. 5371. 19. State of Florida, Office of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death NO. 3326658, Died June 25, 1992 at Hialeah Fla of Metastic Adenocarcinoma of the Sigmoid Colon. Buried at Vista Memorial Park in Hialeah Fla. 20. Hamilton County Ohio Court of Common Pleas Divorce A-79522, Hubert M Grabo vs May Whittaker Grabo 04 May 1942 (Div.) Marriage of 25 May 1933 No Children born of this marriage. 21. State of Florida, Office of Vital Statistics, Marriage License No. 44937. 22. Ohio County WV Clerks Office Register of Births, No. 211, D.O.B. 28 Apr 1912 Born a twin at 4235 Water Street in Wheeling WV to Benjamin & Neva Whittaker. 23. State of Fla, HRS, Certificate of Death No. 07645, D.O.D. 03 June 1978 at Hialeah FL of Multiple Myeloma & Renal Failure Buried at Vista Memorial in Hialeah FL. 24. State of Florida, Office of Vital Statistics, Marriage License No. 44937. 25. State of Ohio, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Birth No. 3963. 26. Information given by Esther's son Richard (Berens) Zimmers. 27. 1930 U S Census, Cincinnati, Ohio, 11th Ward, Page 161. 28. Social Security Application for Account Number of 27 Nov 1936. 29. Social Security Death Index. 30. 1930 U S Census, Cincinnati, Ohio, 11th Ward, Page 161. 31. State of Ohio Certificate of Death No. 3988. 32. Provided by Virginia Christopher Wenzel.