FIFTH GENERATION

GARN Book Information

25. Georg Adam⁵ GERN (Johann Adam⁴ GERN, Johannes³ GERN, David² GERN, Johannes¹ GERN) was born on 23 Sep 1744 in Kürnbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. He died on 2 Jul 1823 in Kürnbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany.

He was married to Anna Elisabetha WOESNER (daughter of Mathias WOESNER and Anna) on 12 Feb 1771 in Kürnbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. Anna Elisabetha WOESNER was born on 2 Nov 1744 in Kürnbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. She died on 3 Dec 1797 in Kürnbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. When the first edition of the book was published, we believed that her surname was Oesterlen, the name under which she and Georg Adam Gern married. However, the Kürnbach Book of Families makes it clear that she had been married first on 17 February 1767 to Caspar Oesterle with whom she had several children. The Kürnbach Book of Families reports the details on both of Anna Elisabetha's families and makes it clear that on 12 February 1771 to George Adam Gern as her second husband, that her maiden name was Wößner, Wössner or or Woesner, and names her parents. Georg Adam GERN and Anna Elisabetha WOESNER had the following children:

+47 i. Barbara⁶ GERN.
+48 ii. Samuel Friederich⁶ GERN.
49 iii. Anna Juliana⁶ GERN was born on 11 Oct 1777 in Kürnbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. She died on 11 May 1787 in Kürnbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany.
50 iv. Anna Elisabetha⁶ GERN was born on 2 Aug 1780 in Kürnbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. She died on 29 Sep 1781 in Kürnbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany.
+51 v. Johann Adam⁶ GERN.
52 vi. Christoph⁶ GERN was born on 25 Dec 1785 in Kürnbach, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. He died in 1812 in Russia. The Kürnbach Book of Families is difficult to read. However, it indicates the year he died and appears to indicate that he had been conscripted into Napoleon's army, France at the time being in control of the part of Germany where the Gerns lived. The record indicates that he died in battle along with many other German "Fallen." Undoubtedly he was one of the approximately 380,000 non-French soldiers in Napoleon's 650,000 man army when he invaded Russia and suffered huge losses because he was unprepared for Russian guerrila warfare and especially the Russia's winter weather. Records of the campaign indiate that when the army retreated from Russia, scarcely 27,000 soldiers were still fit to fight, that 380,0 00 were dead or missing and 100,000 had been captured. Christoph undoubtedly was one of the dead or "Fallen" and though it is not certain, he likely died in Russia.