The following
is the list of the pioneers who, with their families, settled at St.
Mary’s in October 1856:
Herman Baus
Mathias
Butzler
Mathias Esser
Frederick
Gross
Hilarius
Karis
Peter Michels
Herman
Schreier
John Schreier
Peter Schreier
Quinn Schreier.
In 1857 other
families, the majority also from Stommeln or vicinity, arrived at
St. Mary’s only to be disillusioned regarding the fairy tales of the
fried pigeons flying into one’s mouth, in America; tales they had
read in the letters of the first settlers and had swallowed without
question. They were:
Christian
Bruggen
William
Brueggen
Herman
Flock
John
Feilbach
Henry
Hemmersbach
Peter
Gross
John
Gross
Martin
Jungferndorf
Hubert
Kohlgraf
Anton
Neukirchen
Hilarius
Rondorf
John
Schaaf
Casper
Schieffer
Peter
Schieffer
Caspar
Schmit
Henry
Schmitz
Hilarius
Schotten
Louis
Schotten
John
Siebertz
Jacob
Siebertz
Herman Wacker
