The CAEMMERER, KAEMMERER, KAEMERER Family (jgk)

For my German Ancestors see the following surnames: Origin from St. Louis MO area USA.
CAEMMERER, KAEMMERER, KAEMERER, SCHMITT, ERB.

For my Irish Ancestors see the following surnames:From Co.Kilkenny and Co. Carlow area of Ireland.
GAFFNEY, GRACE, BYRNE, DESMOND.

From England: WIMBUSH.
Also Associated Surnames From St. Louis, MO USA: DIETZ, GODELMANN, GOEMANN, SCHAEFER, KOCH, SPRICK, GOLDCAMP,
WALPEN, COREY, STROH, KRUPPENBACHER, LAUX, BOGT,
SPRENZNDYER, GOELLNER.

For my stepchildren Kevin and Karen Davis: SHELTON, OLIVIER, BOYER, and WHYTE. All From Portland Oregon USA area.

Would like to share information with any descendents of the families of the Surnames mentioned above especially those of John Anton Kaemmerer, Sr.
John Anton Kaemmerer was born in Kirrweiler Germany.

I also have gotten records From Mr. Fred B. going back two more generations to Christophori CAEMMERER, b: in Birkweiler, Germany. Date: unknown at this time.
One son was Peter CAEMMERER, b. abt 1703 in Birkweiler, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany. Most of this information was taken from the LDS microfilm Records of Kirrweiler, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany.
I have entered the data from the LDS records exactly as shown for the vast majority of ancestors as they were provided from the LDS transcriptions of the German records, which were written in Latin.

Warren Kaemmerer who is a Grandson of John Anton KAEMMERER thought:
"John's family with at some other members (possibly two or three brothers)of his family emigrated From Kirrweiler Germany, abt 1860, to New Orleans, La.
His family then went up the Mississippi River to Waterloo, or
Belleville IL.
From there it is said one or two brothers or family members stayed in Waterloo/Belleville IL area, and the rest of the family with John went across the river to St.Louis, MO and on to
Florissant MO".
At least one of his siblings, a sister, Probably Dorthea stayed in New Orleans with her husband (Langenstein).

It is believed her sister Anna Maria, also married a Langenstein who was a brother of Dorothea's husband.
Dorothea had a daughter named Lena who was still in the New Orleans, La, at least around 1980.
Lena married a man named O'Leary, and had at one son who was a Judge in LA.
A cousin of mine visited Lena in 1950-51in New Orleans, LA, but late lost contact.

Mathias (Math)a Grandson of John Anton KAEMMERER said:
"It is possible that the cities of Kammerer, Pennsylvania
And Kemmerer, Wyoming, owe their beginning to one or more
Of the brothers of John Anton KAEMMERER".

Leonard another Grandson of John Anton Kaemmerer said:
"the patriarch of my Kaemmerer Clan in America was John Anton Kaemmerer, Sr. He was born 1838 in Germany", and in 1861 Enlisted in the UNION army.
And he also said: "He died and was buried in Calvary Cemetery, St Louis, Missouri. His head Stone is of Military design, showing his Civil War Service".
You can view the headstone on the Genealogy.com tomb Stone link.
John Anton Kaemmerer Sr, was a Carpenter and or a farmer in Florissant, Missouri.

Leonard,a grandson also said:
"John was a Union Soldier in the Civil War. He enlisted in the Army in 1861, and was with one of the Missouri Volunteer
Regiments. He belonged to Co.A. Missouri Second Light Artillery Volunteers. He mustered out in 1863".

John Anton married Mary Josephine Bateisher at St. Peters and Paul Catholic Church in St. Louis Mo. I have reason to believe all thirteen of their children were born, baptized, married and most of them stayed in St. Louis, Missouri area.
Much of the information I have was provided by three of the known living Grandchildren of John Anton Kaemmerer,Sr.
Math A. Kaemmerer wrote his Epistle entitled, "The Kaemmerer History, Heritage,and Legacy".

Elda who is a Grandaughter of John Anton Kaemmerer and was 90 years young, provided much of the other information for all of John and Mary Josephine's Thirteen Children, most of his Grandchildren, and