Absalom Shamburger - 1808-1886 - Smith Co, TX

Submitted by East Texas Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711
18 January 2004

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East Texas Family Records, VOL. III, No. 2, Spring 1979, page 16

ABSALOM SHAMBURGER

Contributed by Mildred Shamburger

Editor's Note: In the last issue, in the histories of Peter and 
Matthew Shamburger, the name Schaumburg was incorrectly spelled 
Schaumberg.

Absalom Shamburger was born 1808 in North Carolina and died 1886 in 
Wood County, Texas. He was married to Elizabeth Frances Harrison In 
Mississippi, where he lived from 1836 to 1847. He then moved to Texas, 
settling in Smith County.  Later he moved to Wood County. On the 1860 
census of Wood County, Absalom is listed as a physician. He was the 
son of John Shamburger, an emigrant from Germany. John came to America 
circa 1776 by way of Holland from the province of Schaumburg.

The children of Absalom and Elizabeth Frances Shamburger were:

l. Spinks La Fayette Shamburger - born October 31, 1841, Lauderdale
   County, Mississippi; married Mary E. Morrow, July 23, 1868.

2. Elija Shamburger - born in Mississippi, died young in Mississippi.

3. John Archibald Shamburger - born in Mississippi, died young in 
   Mississippi.

4. Peter Monroe Shamburger - born in Smith County, Texas; married 
   Love Fuller.

5. Elizabeth Cornelia Shamburger - born in Smith County, Texas; 
   married George W. Hutchings.