When Johann Zimmer was born on 16 April 1838, in Lauf, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, his father, Alois Zimmer, was 38 and his mother, Elisabetha Falk, was 23. He married Carolina Schmidt on 26 October 1863, in Lauf, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Lauf, Amt Bühl, Baden in 1838 and Justice Precinct 3, Knox, Texas, United States in 1900. In 1900, at the age of 62, his occupation is listed as farmer in Knox, Texas, United States. He died on 10 September 1917, in Knox, Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Rhineland, Knox, Texas, United States.
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German: metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, either from Middle High German zim(b)er, zimmer ‘wood, wooden building’ or a shortening of Zimmermann .
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