THE LEHMANN FAMILY HOMEPAGE

by Audrey (Lehmann-Shields) Hancock

A FAMILY TREE can wither, if no one tends its roots.

2007,Courtesy of: Vincent Falter

Our LEHMANN FAMILY had their first known beginnings in Schirrhein, Bas-Rhin (Alsace), France (aka Shirrheim, Elsas, Germany). Here, within a cemetery in Schirrhein, lies LEHMANN family members and connecting family members such as the SCHITTER family. After a number of years, graves are recycled in France.
Thank you, Vincent E. Falter for the photo.

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In France our Alsatian immigrants spelled the surname: LEHMANN United States records give these corrupted surname spellings in different records. Lehman, Lahman, Layman, Laymon, Laman, and Lamon Usually pronounced as Layman, but sometimes as Leeman in our family. My great-grandfather, Martin4 Lehmann (Michel/Michael3, Michel2, Johannes/Jean1 Lehmann), and his son, John5 Lehmann, are the only ones descended from Michel Lehmann & Mary Madeleine Biam known to have kept the original spelling of LEHMANN. My mother, Rita Marie (Lehmann) Shields, indicated that her father (John Michael Lehmann) insisted that his children keep the double "nn" as they were growing up, while other relatives in the family dropped an "n" to spell the surname as LEHMAN..

PORTRAIT ON A WALL Sometime, when I have become a quiet portrait on the wall, Will you, my fair descendant, stop to think of me at all? Suppose your hands are shaped like mine and you have my keen sense of fun.   Will there be one to tell you so.....then.....when my days are done? If you love books and fires and songs, and silver moons in velvet skies, Toss me a look of shared delight from those, my own dark eyes. For there are kinships in a curl and namesakes in a spoken name; The wine of life may yet be poured by faded hands within a frame. Author unknown       JOHN MICHAEL LEHMANN & MARY CATHERINE MILLS

OTHER GENEALOGY POETRY

BIOGRAPHIES

Life Stories

Jean/Johann/Johannes/Johann1Lehmann & Catharina/Catherina/Catherine Halter First Known Lehmann Ancestor and his Halter wife First Generation Descendants

Marie Ann2 Lehmann

Catherina/Catherine2   Lehmann

Michel2 Lehmann [Sr.]

Michel2Lehmann & (1) Catherine Schott and (2) Catharina Schmitter (Johannes1 Lehmann) Second Generation Descendants

Nicolas/Nicholas3 Lehmann

Michel/Michael3 Lehmann

Andre3 Lehmann

Marie Madeleine3 Lehmann

Rufina3 Lehmann

Jacques/Jacob3 Lehmann

Michel/Michael3Lehmann & Marie Madeleine/Mary Magdelena Biam (Michel2, Johannes1 Lehmann) Third Generation Descendants

Elisabeth4 Lehmann

Martin Michael4 Lehmann

Julian/ Julia Ann4 Lehmann

Regina Rachel4 Lehmann

Catharine Elizabeth4 Lehmann

Mary Magdelena4 Lehmann

Joseph Christian4 Lehmann

Martin Michael4Lehmann & Katharina Reichert (Michel/Michael3, Michel2, Johannes1 Lehmann) Fourth Generation Descendants

Maria Magdelena Elisabeth5 Lehmann

Clara5 Lehmann

Joseph5 Lehmann

Margaret5 Lehmann

Katharina/ Katherine/ Catharine/ Catherine5 Lehmann

Mary Magdelena5 Lehmann

John Michael5 Lehmann

Regina Rachel5 Lehmann

Martin Michael5 Lehmann

Michael5 Lehmann

John Michael5 Lehmann & Mary Catherine Mills and Their Family

Catherine Mary Lehmann

Johanna "Jennie" Nora Francesca Lehmann

Albert Henry Lehmann

Leo Martin Lehmann

Henrietta Catherine Lehmann

Martin Michael Lehmann

Regina "Jean" Lehmann

Francis Henry Lehmann

Gerhard John Lehmann

Gertrude Philomena Cecilia Lehmann

Rita Marie Lehmann

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THE LEHMANN FAMILY of  SCHIRRHEIN, ALSACE, BAS-RHIN, FRANCE  to OHIO, U.S.A.

LEHMANN GRANDDAUGHTERS of MARTIN MICHAEL LEHMANN & AGNES KATHARINA REICHERT

LEHMANN COUSINS
Granddaughters and a Granddaughter-in-law of Martin Lehmann, Sr. & Katharina Reichert Jennie, Henrietta "Heine", Clara, Jean, Catherine, & Viola Jennie, Heine, Jean, and Catherine were daughters of John Lehmann, s/o Martin and Katharina. Clara was daughter of Martin Lehmann, Jr., s/o Martin & Katharina Viola Poeppelmeier became wife of Henry Lehmann, s/o Martin Lehmann, Jr. and bro/o Clara
This photo was taken outside the Tecklenburg Hotel in Ft. Loramie, Shelby County, Ohio.
The girls worked in the hotel for their aunt and uncle during the summers.

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LANGUAGE HELPS German writing of alphabet German writing of alphabet

Quick References
and
Family Connections

BIAM Family Connection	EGETTER Family Connection	FRICK Family Connection	HOCHWALT Family Connection	RICHTER Family Connection	TECKLENBURG Family Homepage	ZINCK Family Connection
LEHMAN and PROSSER Family Connection	Charles William Prosser Tree	LEHMANN Brick and Tile Yard	CALVARY CEMETERY Dayton, Montgomery Co., Ohio	FALTER Family Connection Surnames: DANNEMILLER DANNEMULLER FALTER HALTER LANG, LUX, LEHMANN (Lehman/Layman) RUFFING STEINMETZ WURM (Worm) ZIRCHER/ZURCHER (Zercher, Zirger) and many more of Ret. Gen. Vincent Falter	Halters: from Alsace-France to Ohio	The "Schirrheimers" of St. Stephen, Seneca County Ohio by Vincent Falter
LEHMANNs Lost in Translation
BAECHEL, BECHEL, BACHEL de Schirrhein, Schirrhoffen, & Soufflenheim of Jerome Kok (in the French language)	BAECHEL, BITSCHI, DANNENMULLER, DOLLINGER, FISCHER, GEYER, HAHN, HALTER, HEISSERER, HUBER, KINDMANN, KLEIN, KUNTZ, LEHMANN, LUX, MARTIN, MESSNER, PFEFFERKORN, RICHTER, SCHERER, SCHITTER, SCHMUCK, SCHOTT, SCHUETTER, VOEGELE, & WITT de Schirrhein, Schirrhoffen, & Soufflenheim, etc. Lineage, photos, records (in the French language) of Jean Paul Geyer
Seneca Co., OH GenWeb Project Final Home of Nicolas Lehman/Layman Family	Links to Personal Pages of Seneca Co., OH Researchers
Learning Center: French	French Republican Calendar Conversion Site	French Records ADELOCH	French Names	Alsace-Lorraine Genealogy Discussion List	Genealogy InTime Magazine

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Visit our A to Z Listing for: Individual Information and Photos Biographies perhaps not in Quick References Obituaries of Individuals Incidental Articles Gravestone Photos Family Grouping Photographs Miscellaneous Alphabetical Listing by the first name (forename) only, then chronologically by birthdate or approximate birthdate. Surnames of LEHMANN, LEHMAN, LAYMAN, etc. will be given as known. Middle names or initials will be given, but will not be as significant to the listing. Click on the alphabet letter to get to the listing of each name: A = Adam, Alice, Amelia, and the like. B = Benjamin, Bonnie, and the like. etc. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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We Are The Chosen My feelings are in each family we are called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, Breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. We have been called as it were by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family, you would be proud of us? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why I do the things I do? It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up. Their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, Because we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation, To answer the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, And that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones. [Author: Della M. Cumming ca 1943.]

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Webpage by:
Audrey (Lehmann-Shields) Hancock
of Portage, Michigan

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Created: 24 May 2001 Revised: 29 March 2013
Revised: 20 July 2017

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