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John Scherer was born while George Washington was still alive. John was 78 when his last child, Laura, was born. There were a total of 19 children by John plus the three brought by his second wife, Susan, when they married.
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Susan Terrell Robinson was John Scherer's second wife. She brought three children to the marriage: Martha Lewis, James Robinson, and Jacob Robinson. The two boys were adopted and used the name Scherer. Martha Lewis apparently used the name Lewis.
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Edward moved from Hardy County WV to Randolph County Indiana in 1887 with his family.
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Died in Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie, IN, of complications following pneumonia. Had lived in Hartford City, IN, until 1923, when she moved to New Castle, IN, then to Middletown, IN. She was a member of the Christian Church at Winchester.
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Isaac Borror was born on April 20, 1834, in Hardy County, VA. He was a farmer and he eventually lived on and owned the original Charles Borror farm (154 acres) now between Pendleton and Grant Counties, WV. The farm is 14 mi. south of Petersburg on Knob Rd., across from the Borror-Riggleman Cemetery where Charles and Martin Borror are buried. The land is now owned by Melvin Crites, who lives next to the cemetery.
Isaac married Sarah Rebecca Carrier on October 15, 1857. She was born in Rockingham County, VA, on August 19, 1837. Isaac and Sarah had 11 children and also raised their grandson Arlie, son of Nimrod Borror and Cora Brown.
During one of the skirmishes in the South Branch WV area, along Knob Road in Grant County, Isaac was travelling on horseback when some Confederates stripped him, took the horse, and sent him home on foot in his underwear.
In 1887 Isaac sold the Borror farm to Jeremiah Riggleman (Pendleton Co. WV Deed Book 27, p. 144) and moved to Randolph County, IN. There they bought 40 acres 4 mi. northwest of Winchester, IN, and 4 mi. northeast of Farmland in White River Twp (land entry 104). The farm was near Lickskillet, now called Mull. In 1909 Isaac and Sarah sold their farm and lived with Indiana relatives.
Isaac died in 1916 in Randolph County, IN, and Sarah died in 1920 while also living in Randolph County. They were both buried in the New Dayton Cemetery, formerly known as the Bear Creek Cemetery. One of Sarah's grandchildren said that she was a stern, straight-backed woman, wearing her hair pulled back so tight that "she couldn't move her eyebrows."
Story courtesy of Borror's Corners, June 1988, No. 3.
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One tradition is that the family came from Battenburg, Germany. A brief search in Battenburg turned up no records. Another story is that the family moved from York Co. Pennsylvania. The spelling of the family name has varied from Bohrer, Borer, Borrer, Borah, Boyer, and Borror. The most common usages now are Borror and Boyer.
The family settled in 1720 on 400 acres of wild lind on Brushy Run in what is now Pendleton Co. WV.
If the dates given are correct, Barbara Judy would have been about 24 when she married Jacob I, and he would have been about 63. It is possible that there is another Jacob in between - another generation.
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One of the three Borror brothers who first came from Hardy Co. VA (WV) in 1809 to clear the land their mother had been given.
Moved from Ohio in 1838 to southern Indiana and spelled his name Boyer. At the Borror reunion in 1897, they had not heard anything from this family since 1858-1859.
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Moved to northern Indiana about 1842 or 1843. No report at 1897 Reunion.
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Inscription on tombstone, Freiden's Cemetery, Guilford County, NC:
Hier schlafet Jacob Daniel Scherer
Ist Geboren Anno 1726 den 11 November
Nimmt Sophia Dick
in Surehe an 1755 den 7 October
zeiget 9 kinder und sterbet an 1795
den 26 September sein ganzes alter ist
68J. 10M. 14T.
Here sleeps Jacob Daniel Scherer
He was born on the 11th of November
in the year 1726
He took to wife Sophia Dick
on October 7, 1755
begot nine children and died on
the 26th of September 1795
aged 68 years 10 months, 14 days.
Robert M. Scherer visited this cemetery in the 1950's and there is a photo of this tombstone in the possession of R. L. Arnold. Many of the details of the family history are due to Helen Elizabeth Jenks Riggs of Waterloo, Iowa.
According to an email from Denise Lujan, Jacob came to America, by way of Philadelphia, in 1752.