Schmitt Elizabetha Barbara1812 - 1888 |
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Crest: The SIMON SCHMITT Family
Origin: 1550 Zuesch, Prussia, Germany located abt. 35 Km North of the Saarland and 50 Km West of the Rhine.
.........Note the iron smelting furnace on the Crest. A Medievial Name implying steel production.
.........The Schmitt's of 1700-1800 were woodsmen providing wood for the local woodcraft Trade Shops and the steel smelting furnaces.
.........The oldest known document of Zeusch, written in 1025 AD refers to "the Knight of Zuesch."