LEAVES FROM OUR TREE:
Scheraus/Sherouse Family

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The following pages show some of the descendants of several of the earliest families to settle in the area known today as Effingham County, Georgia, including the Scheraus/Sherouse, Gott, Freyermuth/Freyermouth, Mohr and related families. Many of the Sherouse descendants then migrated to the Marion County, Florida, area where they married into various families including the Brooks, Grantham, Proctor, Tyner and other lines.

Each family played a part in taming and civilizing a wilderness only recently ceded by the Indians. These sturdy pioneers set up their new homes in an area where "conditions were primitive and justice was rude but swift. For ten years after the end of the Revolution, most counties had neither courthouses nor jails. Trials were held in some private residence or under a tree." [Source: Coulter, E. Merton. Georgia: a Short History. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1947,. p 196-7.]

These early families endured more hardships than many new arrivals in the newly settled territory of Georgia since they were forced to leave their homes, friends and loved ones in Salzburg,Germany, during the purging of Protestants by the German Catholic leaders. Hundreds of immigrants, including Johannes Scheraus, his wife, Maria Helena Gott Scheraus, and their six-year-old son, Johannes, traveled first to England to escape religious persecution. From there they sailed to the new country of America with the 4th Salzberg Transport aboard the ship Loyal Judith, captained by John Lemon. The Loyal Judith reached port in Savannah, Georgia, on December 2, 1741.

We compiled the lineages of these descendants to the best of our ability and present them here. Many hours of work by many contributing family members have been put into the research and documentation of these family members. We all have attempted to make the following data as complete and accurate as possible, but we know that gaps and errors do exist. As with any genealogical research, this is a work in progress. Additions and corrections are welcomed. To protect privacy, we have omitted personal data on persons still living.

Visitors who print out data from this, or any, Web site, should also print out the source citations (if available). Our source citations are included on this Web site, but the Webmaster did not personally verify all of them. The Webmaster did categorize each source as either primary or secondary.

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