Individual Details
(20 Nov 1761 - 19 Mar 1843)
Barbara Muller was from Brackenfeldt Castle, situated in a beautiful valley of the river Neckar, a tributary of the Rhine. Wiernsheim being in the same valley. She was claimed to be related to Frederick the Great. At the this time it is not known how she came to live in the Wurttemberg area since it was not under Prussian rule. When she married Captain Johann Bierer, Barbara was disowned by her family for marrying beneath her. For a while they lived in the gate house to Castle Brackenfelt before leaving Germany. In May 1804, Johann M. Bierer left Wirensheim , Duchy of Württemberg, Germany, with his wife Barbara Ann Muller, from Brackenfelt Castle and his three sons, John M. Jr., Frederick and Everhard. They reportedly came to America to keep their sons out of the German army. During the trip from Germany to America the ship was driven from its course by storms and later cruised for several weeks in the vicinity of the West Indies where a tropical fever carried off many of the passengers including Johann. Johann died at sea of tropical fever an d was buried at sea off the West Indies. Mother Barbara and the three sons eventually landed in Baltimore, Maryland in October 1804 and from there travelled westward, over the Allegheny Mountains to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and to Hannastown (now Greensburg) where they settled . Barbara had some money and bought land. Her sons John M. Bierer and Frederick Bierer became butchers in Greensburg and her son Everhart carried on butchering in Connellsville, Pennsylvania for sometime until in the spring of 1817 when he moved to Uniontown where he followed his occupation as a cattle dealer and butcher until 1849. He was succeeded in the butchering business by his sons. On Nov. 13, 1908 the bodies of the BIERER family that were interred at the German Cemetery in Greensburg, Pennsylvania were disinterred and reinterred at the Union Cemetery near Greensburg.
Events
| Birth | 20 Nov 1761 | Birkenfeld, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | | | |
| Christen | 21 Nov 1761 | Birkenfeld, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | | | |
| Marriage | 8 May 1781 | Wiernsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Johannes Michael Bührer | | | |
| Immigration | 1804 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States | | | |
| Death | 19 Mar 1843 | Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States | | | |
| Burial | 20 Mar 1843 | German Cemetery, Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States | | | |
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