A few family trees are posted below. If you would like your own lineage posted please contact me. The list includes my own lineage to Alsace.
In a letter dated 3/98, Hugh Yoho received the following letter from Ulf Joho which has been paraphrased:
From my birth place, the city of Eberbach near Heidelberg Germany, I received a message from Mr. Hermann Eiermann. Mr. Eiermann had the idea to research the roots of the ancestors of some families who had lived for hundreds of years in Eberbach. So he searched the history of Joho and found the following:I was born in 1961 and am the 18th generation of documented Joho's found by Mr. Eiermann. All Joho's in Eberbach can be traced back to Conrad Joho, who immigrated from Switzerland in 1700 to Eberbach Germany where he married a widow. He came from the village of Schinznach, county Aargau Switzerland (border country to Germany) where many Joho's lived. After the 30 Years War (1618-1648) in which Switzerland was neutral, many workers emigrated to different destinations in Germany, France and other counties (cantons) of Switzerland. Germany especially was a popular destination because the long war had reduced the population by 50% in many regions. Switzerland on the other hand had too many people for that current agriculture to support.
Conrad Joho's lineage has been traced back to Routschmann Joho who was born in 1395 in the village of Baden Switzerland. He is the oldest known Joho and is therefore considered the first generation. The lineage to Conrad Joho is as follows:
ADDTIONAL NOTE: This 9th Generation has the logical time line to precede the earliest known generations of the U.S. line, specifically that of Johan Michael Joho (ca 1678), the father of Johannes (1712-1795) who was the first known immigrant to the U.S. Unfortunately, none of the names in this generation include Johan Michael. The link to Johan will most likely be found in previous generations back to Routschmann Joho.
The 9 generation siblings and their offspring follow:
*Daniel Joho (ca 1638) - Elsi Sutler (1st Marriage) |
Margareth Erb (2nd Marriage) |
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Uli Joho (ca 1635) - Susanna Leuffer |
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Ludi Joho (?) - Elsbeth Jazer |
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Jogli Joho - Anna Schaub |
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Hans Ulrich Joho - Sara Keller | Anna Dull (2nd Marriage) |
Verena Holliger (3rd Marriage) |
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Dave Yoho may be reached at Dave Yoho Associates 10803 W. Main St., Farifax VA 22030 (703) 591-2490 FAX (703) 273-6626
Editors Note: No connection has been found between this Joho line and Johannes Joho the original immigrant.
Source: Hugh Yoho: 10725 Art St. Sunland CA 91040
I can only congratulate you on your research which brought you back to the 1700's. As to the spelling with "Y" or "J", the only time I have seen our name spelled Yoho was on letters I got from people living in the states.Now, let me go back to my own family and its composition at the present day. My great grandfather, Samuel Joho, must have lived somewhere between 1850 and 1910. One of his sons, my grandfather Karl Joho died in 1938 at the age of 55 or 56, so he was born somewhere around 1885. His son, my father Carl Joho, was born on Feburary 12th 1911 in Auenstein in the Canton of Aargau followed by dental studies in Geneva and Basle. He became a dentist in 1936 and settled in Mollis, Canton of Glaris where he is still practising half time. From his first marriage with Nelly Dubied, born in 1912, he had two children: my sister Suzanne Joho, born June 25th 1942 and myself Jean-Pierre, born January 27th 1939. My mother died in 1952 at the age of 40. My father then remarried Hanny Streiff. This second marriage did not have any children.
As to myself, I married Claudine Konrad in 1963 and have two children, Stephanie and Thierry. After dental studies in Geneva and Zurich, I went through orthodonic training at the University of Zurich, followed by two years of graduate training at the University of Washington in Seattle. where I also did my M.S. in dentistry.
When I showed your letter to my father, he told me that one of his uncles, Rudolf Joho, who lived in Aarau and worked as "Stadtschreiber", which is something like main secretary of the city council, had undertaken a similar research trying to gather a family tree. One of his sons, Max Joho, is still living in Basle.
Jene-Pierre's address is 1211 Geneve 4, le 19, rue Barthelemy-Menn.
Editors Note: Jean- Pierre and I corresponded a few times over the years, but no further family history was provided.
With interest I read your letter inquiring about your possible family roots. Joho is indeed a Swiss name and there are two possible origins which I know. One branch of the Joho's have citizenship in the village of Auenstein, Canton of Aargau. These families are of prostestant faith. The other branch, where I belong are of catholic faith and come from the village of Bettwil, also in the Canton of Aargau.About 20 years ago I investigated my family line and could trace it back to a Peter Joho born in 1773. Further back there were no records in the village of Bettwil, probably because the books got lost during the raid by the troops of Napeleon around 1800. I know of only a Paul Joho, who is a physicist at the high school of Zurich. He is related to me by Bonaventus Joho.
I have a Ph.D. in physics and have a research position at the cyclotron facilities of the Swiss Institute of Nuclear Research in Villigen. I spent two years from 1971 to 1973 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada.
Werner Joho's lives at Distelweg 3, Wuerenlingen Switzerland.
Editors Note: No connection was found between this line and Johannes Joho. This line needs to be traced back further to determine if this is the link to Johannes.
All that was written here was provided by my father Herbert Yoho:
Timothy was a farmer and at one time owned a considerable portion of the "bottom land" along the Ohio River above New Martinsville WV. With additional land on Birch Ridge, he owned approximately 1200 acres. He and Mary "went to house keeping" in a log cabin which he built. He had $40 dollars and she had a cow. The cabin, which no longer remains, was located between the present day Mobay and PPG Chemical Companies on U.S. Rt. 2.
Timothy built another home with a barn in 1902. The house has since been torn down but the barn remains. One can still see his initials "TY" which he wrote in different color shingles on its roof. The barn is located on Rt. 2 above New Martinsville. Reportedly very tight with his money, someone once asked him why he didn't spend some of his money. He replied: "I don't enjoy spending money. I enjoy making it". When his home was torn down years ago, $25,000 was found hidden away.
If anyone wanted to talk with Timothy, they would have to follow him in the field where he worked. He had a rope tied at the foot of his bed so he could pull himself out of bed in the morning.
My father Herbert remembers that Timothy's wife Jane Kelly smoked a corn cob pipe and had a corn cob on a stick to scratch her back. Jane lived about 10 years after Timothy's death in 1912.
Herbert Yoho, my father writes about Cyrus Yoho:
My grandfather was very well known. In his funeral procession there were 125 cars. At that time not many people owned cars. He would loan money to anyone who asked and many times it was not repaid.
He had a farm at Kent, Marshall County WV. The land, 400 acres was left to him by his father Timothy. In 1924 he had a new house built there. It remains today but looks bad. He gave each of his children $5,000 each.
Cyrus would buy a load of coal from Fairmont WV in the fall. Word would go out and people from Birch and Rines Ridge would come to purchase some. When the coal was weighed at the scale, some people would say, I'm short, I'll pay you later but some never did.
Cyrus' wife was named Molly. She was the daughter of my great grand parents Wesley Rine. They had 10 children. One time when I visited them, they served buck wheat cakes. I poured what I thought was syrup only to find it was meat grease. It was what they used in place of syrup.
My father Herbert writes about his father:
My dad used to say: In the fall of the year, if he had his hogs butchered and smoked, had $50, and mom had canned goods, he felt safe until Spring.
He used to take 10 bu. of wheat to Albert Yoho's Mill in Proctor. Albert would grind the wheat and keep 3 bu. to pay for the 7 bu. Edgar took home. Money rarely changed hands in those days. As a boy I can remember taking butter and eggs to the store and exchanging them for groceries. Many memories remain with me.
Edgar was not only a farmer, he also worked as a prison guard at the former West Virginia State Prison at Moundsville WV. His farm and home are still present at "Round Bottom" on Rt. 2 across from the Moundsville Country Club.
My father who provided much of the above information about Timothy, Cyrus, and Edgar Yoho, worked as a route salesman for Marshall Dairy for 38 years. Before his retirement, he was very active in the community serving on the Marshall County School Board, the Moundsville City Council and was president of the Moundsville Booster Club.
He was on the School Board at the time the building of John Marshall High School was approved. His name is on the corner stone of the building. He was also largely responsible for the building of Moundsville High School football stadium and the field house both now used by John Marshall. He went door to door across the city of Moundsville asking people to support the construction of those buildings. He was recently honored at a half time ceremony during a John Marshall football game where a long list of his accomplishments were announced.
I will add that like his father, I think my father is the kindest, most gentle, and hardest working man I have ever known.
My father was the kindest, most gentle, and hardest working person I have ever known. He married Bessie Luthy whose grand parents came from Switzerland. There the name is spelled Luthi.