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1) Johann Eberhardt Riehm

1a) Father of Eberhardt: Hans Andreas Riehm.
. . . . b. 1642 Leimen, Heidelberg, Baden, Palatinate
. . . . d. Feb 19, 1719 Leimen, Heidelberg, Baden, Palatinate   Find-a-grave
. . . . Wife: (no information)    (FamilySearch.org says "Mrs. Hans Riem", which is probably useless)
. . . . Children:    (we believe that Eberhardt was the only child to come to America)
. . . . . . Martin Conrad Riehm (1665 - 17 Aug 1748)
. . . . . . Johann Nicholas Riehm (~1668 - )
. . . . . . Johann Andreas Riehm (1673 - 12 Dec 1734)
. . . . . . Anna Elizabeth Margaretha Riehm (1678 - 23 Oct 1748)
. . . . . . Johann Matthias Riehm (1683 - )
. . . . . . Johann Eberhardt Riehm (6 Oct 1687 - 23 Aug 1779)
. . . . Father: Andreas (or Endreas) Riehm, b. ~1620 Leiman, d. ~1663 Leiman
. . . . . . Father: Georg Riem, unknown dates, "Owned vineyard near the garden at the cross at Leimen from 1609-1657."
. . . . . . . . Father: Nicol Riem,   Father: Andres,   Father: Georg,   Father: Everhart Riem
. . . . . . . . . . All these guys seem to own the same vineyard/garden thru generations.
. . . . . . . . Notes about the last Everhart:
. . . . . . . . . . Known as "The Lower". Owned farm at the "Hofreite" in 1509; at or Near Leiman, a suburb of Heidleberg, Germany.
. . . . . . . . . . . Source of Ream notes: from Marjorie Alice Miller (1921-1996); and "The Hetzler Family" located in the Germantown, OH library.

                  Link to Denmark - Leif Ericson 1000 AD - Dave Ream 1960 Letter.
   A Letter from Dave Ream dated 1960, he and Chris were visiting the Leimen Germany Riehms, who shared with them stories that "the Riehm family was first noted around 1000 AD, when one of them sailed with Leif Ericson on his wild voyages to Iceland and probably North America around Cape Cod".   Editor note: that puts us in America 600 Years before Columbus.   Continuing Dave wrote, "during the years of 1000 and 1600 the Riehms drifted south from Denmark into Germany discarding their barbaric Viking ways along the way.":

Email from Bradley Ream May 2021: I reexamined the DNA reports, and I have a genetic connection to modern Denmark. There are also Danes with Riehm in their name as well. A young man in Norway contacted me and we are also connected via DNA so that may be the first 'science' adding evidence to the 1960 letter with the crewman Riehm who sailed with Leif Erickson according to our German cousins.


               Show 11th thru 15th century, Reims France.



1b) Wife of Eberhardt: Anne Elizabeth Schwab, m. Apr 5, 1712    (~ Schwobin)
. . . . b. Oct 10, 1692 Duhren, Heidelberg, Palatinate
. . . . d. Mar 4, 1761 Reamstown Cemetery   Find-a-grave
. . . . Father: Jost Schwab, b. Feb 22, 1656 Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Palatinate, d. Jan 29, 1727 Lancaster, PA   Find-a-grave
. . . . . . . . Approximately one year after Eberhardt came to Pennsylvania (1717), Jost Schwab and family also left for Penna (1718).
. . . . . . . . Jost was a baker by trade. His name may have been Americanized from the name Yost Swope.
. . . . . . . . Father: Georg Schwab, b. 1610, d.1689.    He was a baker and advisory Burgomaster in Sinsheim.
. . . . . . . . Mother: Margaretha Zimmerman, b. 1611 d. 1685
. . . . . . . . . . They had 8 children. Been noted that dates would put them in their 50s+ for kids, may be skipped generation.
. . . . . . . . . . Birth and death locations continue to be: Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Palatinate
. . . . Mother: Anna Katharina Wolfhardt    (or Wolfhard or Wolfharden or Wolfharten)
. . . . . . . . b. Oct 9, 1663 Sinsheim, Heidelberg, Palatinate
. . . . . . . . d. 1720 Hellers Church, Lancaster County, PA   Find-a-grave
. . . . . . . . Mother: Anna Haagen, b. 10/9/1636, Zurich, Switzerland,   d. 7/14/1673, Baden, Germany
. . . . . . . . . . Father: Conrad Haagen, b. Switzerland (1617-1642) (may be Hagen, Haag, Hagi)
. . . . . . . . . . Mother: Veronica Stroeler.   Brother: Hans Rudolph Haagen
. . . . . . . . Father: Johann Georg Hans Wolfhardt, b. 12/31/1639, d. 1/17/1712
. . . . . . . . . . Mother: Anna Burchkhardt, b. 2/25/1609, Hedelfingen, Wuerttemberg, Germany   d. 1/8/1677, Duhrien, Baden
. . . . . . . . . . . . Father: Veit Burchkhardt, b. 1591, Wuerttemberg, Germany    (sp? Borckhardt)
. . . . . . . . . . Father: Georg Johann Wolfhardt, b. 12/15/1601 d. 4/11/1670, Wurttemberg, Germany
. .. . . . . . . . . . Mother: Eleanore Renz, (1560 - 1637); b. St. Georgen, Neckar, W, Ger; d. Nurtingen, Neckar, W, Germany
. . . . . . . . . . . . Father: Alexander Wolfhardt, b. 1556 d. 8/22/1622
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mother: Agnes Hunn, (1537 - 1568), b. Marbach, Neckar, W, Germany
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Father: Michael Wolfhardt, (1523-1586), Administrator of Justice in Waiblingen
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mother: Barbara Shonwalter, (1497 - 1563), b. Waiblingen, Neckar, W, Ger
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Father: Thomas Wolfhardt, (1493-1560), Waiblingen, Wurttemberg, Germany
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Father: Hans Wolfhardt, (1464-)

WOLFHARDT ANCESTRY, The following came from: http://worldroots.com/brigitte/swope/swop2.htm   (re-verifed Oct 2009)
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Partial Sources for Ream/Schwab history came from:
   http://www.genealogy.com/users/a/n/s/Jane-E-Anspach-OH/FILE/0029page.html   (re-verifed Oct 2009)
   http://www.genealogy.com/users/a/n/s/Jane-E-Anspach-OH/   (re-verifed Oct 2009)
   http://worldroots.com/brigitte/swope/swop2.htm   (re-verifed Oct 2009)
   http://worldroots.com/brigitte/swope/   (re-verifed Oct 2009)
   http://vinnieream.com/reamorgn.pdf   (re-verifed Oct 2009)
   http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp



The following chart came from: http://users.telerama.com/~mrkeys/ream.html
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Why did Eberhardt come to America?
   (This was written by Dave Ream, October 2001)

No one seems to know the exact reasons for Eberhardt Riehm's departure from the Palatinate (there was no Germany in 1717). His story is probably not much different than most other immigrants to America over the past several centuries (and continuing today). Two possible explanations for Eb's departure make sense.

First, military/guerilla activity had been plaguing the Palatinate countryside for many decades, dating back to the Thirty Years' War in the early and mid-seventeenth century. It was one duke's army versus another duke's army, with the common folk caught in the middle. Eberhardt, a baker in Leimen, a small town near Heidelberg, was one of these non-combatants. We can guess that his bakery, and perhaps his home, was invaded from time to time by marauding soldiers who would steal cattle, burn houses, kill a few loudmouths—all sorts of terror and fear. And the troops would return every few years to commit the same atrocities again. Eb just got tired of being beaten up.

The second logical guess is the real estate promotional activities of William Penn and his sons and other cohorts. After receiving from the King of England the grant of that huge block of land now known as Pennsylvania (to settle a massive debt owed by the King to Penn), Penn wanted to find prospective settlers who would buy land from him. He went to "Germany" to find such folk, reasoning that hard-working Germanic people would be good credit risks who would welcome the opportunity to farm their own land. Also, he reasoned that, like the above speculation about Eberhardt Riehm, plenty of Palatine common folk were looking for some sort of relief from the dukes' armies. So Penn (or more likely, his associates) went from town to town in the Palatinate, talking up the attractions of America.

Eberhardt, Elizabeth, and their first two children Jacob and Katharina, left Leimen in the fall of 1717 for the trip down the Rhine to Rotterdam, and thence across the Atlantic to Philadelphia. Within two or three years, they were joined in Philadelphia by Elizabeth's parents, Jost and Anna Katharina Schwab; Jost had also been a baker in Leimen, perhaps his son-in-law's boss.

It is not known just what Eb and his family did in their first couple of years in America. Certainly they were in Philadelphia for a awhile, perhaps baking bread. But by 1720 they, along with the Schwabs, had moved west into the wilds of Leacock Township in Lancaster County; Katharina Schwab died in Leacock in 1720, and Nicholas Riehm was born in Leacock in 1721. In 1724, Eb bought land (from John Penn, son of William) a few miles north in Cocalico Township and settled down to establish his farm in what is now Reamstown.



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