Renate Dry alan-renatedry at osnanet.de
Thank you so much I could not make sense of this poem.
It is about a house that the Homeyers would own for some time in Ranzin.
I don't know if they owned it before or after the relatives of the crown
owned it. I DO know-- that I finally found one of the old family crests is
on that Herrin house in Ranzin and I am very happy about that.
It appears that at least 2-Generations of Homeyers lived there at that
Herrin house as Grain wholesaler / traders.
AT some point the eastern most Homeyers start adding Gustav into the male
line as apposed to the Western and Middle German names of Fredrich Whilhelm
Karl/Carl and later Cord Deitrich etc.
I know that my father and aunt Alma Homeyer Lampe visited one of the
Prussian Homeyer houses just prior to their leaving for the US in 1925.
My father would ask about and report on his eastern most cousins from time
to time (usually via his sister Alma of Iowa). We all worried about them
and we were in tears when the Berlin wall fell- as we hoped our cousins
would now feel more free.....
On a similar note, my father said a person was no one until he owned land.
He would retire on 18 wooded acres of land in New Hampshire and was very
happy their. At one time my maternal uncle owned some 80 acres near us and I
would own 118. For over a decade, It was indeed a great feeling to know
that I owned a piece of land. Now that I am old and my uncle has passed
there is only some 40 acres plus my fathers 18 left in the family as we are
all too old and frail now. Oddly enough there is a similar sad story about
my father(passed in 1997) and mothers' 200 year old house in New Hampshire.
Thank you so very much-
Pam Homeyer Sullivan Little Rock Arkansas USA
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