Welcome to the Heringer Family http://the-heringer-family.com/home.aspx A blog about family and friends Copyright 2006 Thomas Heringer 120 info@nospamthe-heringer-family.com mojoPortal Blog Module V 1.0 Guest Book http://the-heringer-family.com/guest-book.aspx Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:37:20 GMT http://the-heringer-family.com/guest-book.aspx http://the-heringer-family.com/guest-book.aspx My wife just passed this last week. I have had family around me down until today. This has been very devastating to me. I invite you to sign my guest book at: http://memorialwebsites.legacy.com/cyndiheringer/Homepage.aspx


Tom Heringer  ...]]> Age http://the-heringer-family.com/age.aspx Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:42:00 GMT http://the-heringer-family.com/age.aspx http://the-heringer-family.com/age.aspx Wow! I am going to be 63, but feel like 90. Family that read this can please give me my youth back.


Tom Heringer  ...]]> Obama a Muslim http://the-heringer-family.com/obama-a-muslim.aspx Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:39:15 GMT http://the-heringer-family.com/obama-a-muslim.aspx http://the-heringer-family.com/obama-a-muslim.aspx Obama admits that he is a Muslim. There really is no difference between a radical muslim and anyother muslim. The danger with this man is very real so wake up America.


Tom Heringer  ...]]> Toms Parents http://the-heringer-family.com/toms-parents.aspx Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:43:49 GMT http://the-heringer-family.com/toms-parents.aspx http://the-heringer-family.com/toms-parents.aspx


Tom Heringer  ...]]> Welcome to our website http://the-heringer-family.com/welcome-to-our-website.aspx Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:42:00 GMT http://the-heringer-family.com/welcome-to-our-website.aspx http://the-heringer-family.com/welcome-to-our-website.aspx

The Heringer Family has been farming the Sacramento Delta (Joseph Heringa) for better then 140 years. The following is some of the history of our family in the Sacramento Valley, CA.. The web master of this sites grandfather was Joseph Heringer's brother (Peter Heringa) Peter did everything from working on the railroad to being a tug boat captain with his partner on the Sacramento River. For awhile he was Chief Commissary officer at San Quentin Prison, that is where Lawrence W. Heringer was born my father 1898--1975.The following is some of the history of our family in the Sacramento Valley, CA.


Tom Heringer  ...]]> John Heringa http://the-heringer-family.com/john-heringa.aspx Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:38:20 GMT http://the-heringer-family.com/john-heringa.aspx http://the-heringer-family.com/john-heringa.aspx John Heringa (First Generation) was born in 1819 in the province of Groningen, Holland. His grandmother and an uncle raised him after both of his parents died by the time he was 9 years old. He was bound to farm work at 12 years and then moved to live with an uncle who ran a dry goods store and manufactured woolen goods.  At 21 years he joined the army and served 9 years after which he joined the police force in the town of Oppenhuezen. He met and married Geertje, a town native, in 1857. At the age of 49 with 4 children under 9 years old, having saved $1100, John and family started for America. They sailed from Liverpool and landed in Boston thence on to NYC arriving after a voyage of 14 days. Following a three- day layover, the family boarded a steamer to Panama, crossed the ismiss on land, then sailed for San Francisco, arriving 7 weeks after departing England. They immediately boarded a paddlewhealer for Sacramento arriving the next day to the welcome of a countryman and friend who sold them a 30-acre ranch for six hundred dollars. This ranch was located on Merritt Island, just below Clarksburg They soon invested another three hundred dollars in cows and started a dairy farm. The family lived on Merritt Island for three years and sold the farm due to annual flooding of the Sacramento River. John moved his family to East Sacramento purchasing 160 acres and devoting their efforts to general farming on a ranch located near what is now Mather Air Base. John Heringa died in 1902 having been predeceased by his wife Geertje 4 years earlier in 1898.


Tom Heringer  ...]]> Peter Heringa http://the-heringer-family.com/peter-heringa.aspx Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:35:58 GMT http://the-heringer-family.com/peter-heringa.aspx http://the-heringer-family.com/peter-heringa.aspx Peter Heringa was 9 years old when his parents came to the Sacramento Delta. Instead of farming the older brother took up a number of pursuits. These included working for the Western Pacific Railroad, where he did everything from being an engineer to a car painter. He was also a fireman in the Sacramento Volunteer Fire Department. He met his future wife in Sacramento and was married their on December 25, 1890. He also helped the campaign of one of the governors of that day and apparently made a contribution to the campaign. He was appointed as Chief Commisary Officer at San Quentin where both of his sons were born, Howard in 1893 and Lawrence in 1898. Lawrence W. Heringer was/is my father.


Tom Heringer  ...]]> Joseph Heringa http://the-heringer-family.com/joseph-heringa.aspx Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:33:46 GMT http://the-heringer-family.com/joseph-heringa.aspx http://the-heringer-family.com/joseph-heringa.aspx Joseph Heringer, (Second Generation) was the 2nd of five children born to John & Geertje in Holland. He was 7 years old when he sailed for America with his parents. He helped his dad on the Merritt Island dairy as a young boy and then as a teen on their new ranch in East Sacramento. Joseph married Martha at the age of 24 and farmed in East Sacramento until returning to Clarksburg in 1901 at the age of 38. He rented farm ground on Merritt Island until 1906 when he bought a farm in the Lisbon district just north of Clarksburg. There he farmed hay, grain, and some row crops until his death in 1912. Joseph was Michael W. Heringer's (great)2 grandfather. The name was Americanized in the late 1800's.


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