My cousin, Pat, sent me an article that I found to be of great interest. Pat and I share our Beuhring ancestors. Frederick George Louis Beuhring (FGL) was in Cabell County in what is now WV by 1819 when he is found serving on a jury. He had moved to this area from Baltimore Maryland. It is thought that he came to our shores from Germany in 1795 at the age of 14.
After moving to Baltimore he was employed by Koenig and Company. The Lambert papers at Marshall University's special collections say that Koenig and Company were the largest wholesale firm (shippers and importers) in Baltimore in that time period. Augustus Koenig was the original immigrant who founded the company. He had no children of his own. However his sister, Dorothea Louisa Konig who had married Frederick William Dannenburg had died at age 30 and Frederick and his wife, took Frederick's niece, Frances Ellenor Dannenburg (Fannie) into their home to raise.
FGL Beuhring and Fanny Danneburg married in Frederick Konigs country home, Chateau Blanche, in 1820. Shortly after their marriage the couple moved to Barboursville, VA (now WV). And later bought the Nathaniel Scales farm on the Ohio River that is now part of downtown Huntington, WV.
So now the we have the background of why the article that Pat sent is of such interest to me (I a the 5-gr-grandaughter of August Koenig, I will share some of what the article says. The information is found in
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