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The Shoemaker Family A Genealogical and Biographical Record OF THE SHOEMAKER FAMILY OF Gloucester and Salem Counties, N. J. 1765-1935 ♦ Traud and AsumDird by HUBERT BASTIAN SHOEMAKER OF PHILADELPHIA, PA. THE SHOEMAKER COAT OF ARMS The coat of arms displayed on the opposite page is taken from "Matthews American Armoury and Blue Book," where are recorded coats of arms of numerous faou1ies, origin and authenticity not always traced. It might be relevant t::. state for the benefit of those not conversant with heraldry that i,, ..ncient times the armor of metal worn by those in combat as a protection consisted of a shield or breast plate, a helmet etc., and the shield especially, as painted became characteristic of the individual bearers. And so it arose as a family insignia or distinction and descended to modern times and is used now in various ways on plate, jewelry, motor cars or in genealogies, or printed for framing, etc. The coat of arms in the first place may have been usurped by a particular family or secondly granted by regal authority and thence handed down and ·considered as belonging to all descendants of the blood. The Shoemaker coat of arms is represented by a shield of sable which is a tincture of black represented by criss-cross perpendicular and horizontal lines. Within this shield are three chevronels. A chevron is a house rafter and chevronel its diminutive as worn on the sleeves of officers. These chevronels are shown in ermine, a white field with black dots. Above the helmet covering the head is the crest. This crest or ornament is represented as a demi-lion rampant, meaning a part of a lion in an erect position. The color designated is gules, which repre­ sents the ruby in precious stones. He holds in his dexter paw a regal mace. Dexter is right, regal characteristic of a Icing and mace, a staff surmounted bv a crown. Guttcc-Argent represents the other colors in ornamentation, guttee-a field sprinkled with tears of gold, silver, etc., and argent, a Fmich word for silver with fields quite plain. The motto assigned to this coat of arms is Sapere Aude, meaning-Dare to be wise. IV i>botmaktr BEHOLD: Of human life, inception, growth and marvel, medirate. A young man comes 3000 miles, adopts a new world and mi.tl-S. He carves his future and works for daily bread, The "Family Tree" is started, it grows and spreads. The buds are formed, the first one blasted, The next two grew to womanhood but fell for cause unknown, Like in a fidd where seed is sown. Then five more plants came forth and flourished, Adding new branches as time went by, Their lives abiding in various spans, As used by each in nature's plan and God's commands. Two hundred years have passed, the tree yet grows, From that first seed, two thousand souls created, Some scattered widely. And what shall be two hundred years from now, Who can perceive. VII CONTENTS Shoemaker Coar of Arms IV Foreword . XI Preface ................................................. XIII The Shoe~ker Family. l The Old Homestead . 6 Conrad Shoemaker rhe Settler. 7 Samuel Shoemaker Descendants. 9 An Ancient Landmark . 56 Jacob Shoemaker Descendants............................. 57 George Shoemaker Descendants . 83 Old Swedes' Church . 120 Susanna Shoemaker Descendants . 121 The Founders' Headstone................................. 178 Conrad Shoemaker, Jr., Descendants........................ 178 Addenda . 209 Index.................................................. 211 FOREWORD The inspiration for this work, originated after a period of several years commencing with a search of the Steelman ancestry and conclud­ ing with that of Jacob Learnings, both of Cape May County, N. J., and both my maternal ancestors. I then turned to the paternal or Shoemaker side of the family, of which I knew practically nothing, with the query of who was my great-grandfather; this was in December, 1933. I visited The His­ torical Society of Pennsylvania headquarters at 13th and Locust Streets for the fast time December 26th in my preliminary search. I was sur­ priseu and interested to find plenty of Shoemaker history previously published pertaining to early families who settled in Germantown from 16S2 to 1687, but could not trace my own ancestry. I then started work in the region of my birth amongst the Shoe­ makers of Gloucester and Salem Counties, N. J. Few knew much of their ancestry. I visited cemeteries everywhere, and in Swedesboro located the grave and head stone of Conrad Shoemaker, Sr., by the side of the old Swedes, now Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church. The church records from early times, first in Swedish, repose in a fireproof vault. I examined these partially and found they had been photostated by Mr. Frank H. Stewart, long President of the Historical Society of Gloucester County. Great credit is due him for his various contribu­ tions, both historical and genealogical. These records, copied in con­ venient form and deposited with the Pennsylvania Historical Society, gave me my start and proved Conrad Shoemaker, Sr., my ancestor in America, since it tallied with information obtained from my grand­ father's bible. My search continued throughout the two counties and then followed the trend of humanity toward the cities, to Camden and its outlying sections, -into Philadelphia and the v-icinity, and to far­ away places. I have been greatly aided in finding many old bibles, and am indebted to many people for their interest and co-operation, and espe­ cially to Mrs. Elizabeth Schultz, of Fairview, Camden, N. J., for her prompt and thorough work covering her ful! family line. I have endeavored to be accurate, and where names and dates have conflicted have used bible records where obtainable as most reliable. I have made all the personal contacts possible to avoid errors and have aimed to follow down every name where there was a· possibility of marriage if it was at all possiole. Most of the works of this lcind which XI 1 have consulted are hardly more than fifty per cent complete in this respect. Through the process of transcribing and correcting thousands of dates and names it is impossible that errors should not exist of a minor nature. If you find such in your copy of the boolc, please correct it yourself and notify me if you desire, and I may issue later, addenda in pamphlet form with corrections and additional history which may come to hand, which can be inserted in each volume. I have found in my contacts with probably one ·hundred units of the faau1y that ninety per cent are interested in .the subject, some extremely so. A few have said they were not interested in their family history and naturally were not free to volunteer information. Others have supplied me with more data than I hav.:: thought well to use in order to be fair to all, but the biographical part could have been more interesting and I would have been glad to incorporate more of this if I had been given the material. So if some member of your family has outstanding work or deeds to their credit, or has been pre-eminent in business or profession or excelled in school or college, please do not blame me for the omission as against such mention in other cases. If you feel your history has been too brief, I know it is not that you could not have given me more if you had so desired. In a review of this work accomplished during a part of the last eighteen months and a survey of the characters in the shifting scenes as unfolded in my search, I am much impressed with the predominance of integrity, energy, ill4ustry, piety, courage, resourcefulness and ini tiveness that has persisted in the family from generation to generation and which truly bas made "Shoemaker" a good name. There are many fine examples running throughout the pages of this book and I want to say for those apt to cast aspersions that I have not yet found one very bad descendant. I trust this will be an incentive to those of the seventh and eighth generations now in their youth to emulate and keep up the family traditiODS. Full accounts of the fami1y in Texas, California, Australia, Mary­ land, and Virginia are not now available, which I hope to add later on as well as a more complete history of Conrad Shoemaker, the settler. I trust that this contribution of family knowledge in a permanent form will be useful to those now living and to generations yet unborn. Ht1BEllT B. SHOEMAKEL Phila., Pa., Sept. 11 1935. XII PREFACE There is not one of us that desires to go bade and live over again the lives of our forefathers. That would be an experience far removed from our present period and custom of life, and altogether out of con• sonance with the most of that which now gives us pleasure and content. Some one has said, ''Who wants to live in the past," in opposition to the interest of loolcing into or searching for something we seem to be losing through lapse of time, which has not been set down and which is a connecting link: with our present lives, and which informa• tion needs chronicalling for the benefit of those living long after we have passed away. Supposing that from remote times no hi'ltory had been handed down and that all knowledge of the past had been lost, then I think: we of the present age would also feel lost, as much of what has been done and what ,-.re k:now of this, has been as stepping stones to achievement.
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