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Johan Jost (John)
Kring and Johan Heinrich (Henry) Kring
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Johan Jost (John)
Kring and Johan Heinrich (Henry) Kring were brothers originally from Haigler, which was in the Palenate
State in now Western Germany. At the time, it was part of the Holy Roman Empire. As teenagers, they might have left Haigler
to avoid service in the Thirty Years War between Catholics and
Protestants.
They lived in Netherlands (then called “The Dutch
Republic”) for several years before immigrating to Philadelphia on July 21, 1751
on the ship named "Two Brothers." They might have spent some
time in Virginia before settling in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Colony.
Little is known about Henry and his
descendants. John was a cobbler, farmer and miniter,
and has hundreds of descendants. John's family is especially well-documented
in Sea to Shining Sea: The Kring Family, by Sandra
Kring Horner and Patricia Kring Bickel (privately published in 1980. Included
is a fictional story of the Kring bother’s early years prior to immigrating to
the colonies.
John’s great grandson Joseph Kring moved his
family from Pennsylvania to Nebraska in 1893 and homesteaded a farm that would
be in the Kring family for four generations over a century.
Click here for a history of the Residents of the Kring
Farm near Lexington, NE, 1893-2003.
Click here for pictures of the Residents of the Kring
Farm near Lexington, NE, 1893-2003.