Family of Caspar Faulring

The Family of Johann Caspar Faulring & Barbara Foerster
Second Generation

Casper Faulring Barbara Foerster

Marriage Certificate
of Casper and Barbara

Casper Faulring was born in Germany and came to America with his parents. The family settled in the Town of Concord, Erie County, New York. His name was generally rendered "Casper" in America, using the Anglicized. It is there he met and married Barbara Foerster on March 1, 1868⁶, an immigrant from Bohemia. Casper and Barbara lived in the Town of Concord where they raised a family of eight children:

Third Generation

i.	John Faulring	John was born on December 9, 1868. He married Anna Pfarner⁹.
ii.	Frederick D. Faulring	Frederick was born on January 27, 1870⁹. He married Agnes S. Clint.
iii.	Mary Margaret Faulring	Mary was born on January 1, 1872⁴. She married George Pfarner⁴.
iv.	John Ferdinand Faulring	Ferdinand was born on September 4, 1873⁴. He married Clara Klein⁴.
v.	Christian Edward Faulring	Christain was born on March 14, 1876⁴. He married Bertha Smith.
vi.	William Casper Faulring	Casper was born on June 4, 1878⁴ He married (1) Matilda Demerley and (2) Emma Kohn.
vii.	Bertha Louise Faulring	Bertha was born on March 28, 1881⁴. She married William Pfarner⁴.
viii.	George Albert Faulring	George was born on April 9, 1884⁹. He married Alice Needham.

Family of Casper and Barbara Faulring, about 1916

Seated: John, Barbara Burr, Fred, Mary and Ferd.
Standing: William, Bertha, George and Christ.

Johann Caspar Faulring:

Baptism

Johann Caspar Faulring was born on January 27, 1839⁸, in Moggenbrunn, the eighth child of Johann Friedrich Faulring and Anna Margaretha Zapf. He was baptized on February 17, 1839, at St. Laurentius Church in Meeder, Saxony Coburg-Gotha⁸. His first fifteen years were spent in Moggenbrunn with his parents, during which time he received any early education and undoubtedly worked in the family farm.

In 1854, shortly after his 15^th birthday, Casper accompanied his family on the journey to America, where they settled on a farm in Concord, New York. There, he continued his farm life. The extent of his education is unknown.

In June of 1866, Casper purchased two parcels of land on Brown Hill Road, in the town of Concord⁷. About a year later, he sold a half-interest in this land to his brother John⁷. It would be around the time of this sale that Casper met Barbara Forster, who had recently relocated to Springville, New York. They were married on March 1, 1868⁹, and settled on his farm, where they began raising their family. By 1880, Casper and family were living on his father's land, which he continued to farm until his death a few years later¹¹. On March 19, 1886, two years after the birth of his last child, Casper was found setting in a chair, dead of an apparent suicide from an overdose of morphine¹². Nothing we know today sheds light on why Casper took his own life.

Barbara Foerster:

Obituary of Barbara Burr

As shown by her certificate of marriage, Barbara Foerster was born in Schneiderhof, Kingdom of Bohemia, a small village on the border between Bohemia and Bavaria. Her obituary states she was born on November 10, 1842¹³. Today, the village no longer exists as it was ordered abandoned by the Czechoslovak government to create a buffer zone with Germany.

Barbara came to America in 1867 and initially settled in Chicago, Illinnois. Shortly, however, she moved to Springville, Erie County, New York, where her sister lived. It is there that she met and married Casper Faulring. Circumstantial evidence suggests that Barbara's sister may have been Rosa Foster (the Foerster name often changed spelling in America), who was the wife of Peter Faulring.

After the death of Casper, Barbara married Charles Burr on April 12, 1887⁴. (Remarriage for a widow with several children was almost a necessity at the time.) The Burrs lived in the Town of Concord until 1896, when they moved to Boston where Charles worked as a farm laborer. Charles Burr died on January 11, 1915¹⁰. Barbara lived an additional fifteen years, dying on January 20, 1930⁴.

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