"The Gimm family in America can be traced to ... Johanna Elisabeth Gimm who emigrated [from Germany] to the United States with her five Children, one year after her husband in 1847"--Pref. Johanna Elisabeth Gimm, daughter of Tobias and Klara Susanna Roder Gimm " ... was born August 14, 1802 in Walterhausen, a village near Gotha in the duchy of Gotha. ... When she was twenty-one, she married Johann David Boehm ... who died early leaving his young widow with one delicate child "Maria Carolina". ... afterwards [she] married Johann Christoph Vogt of Muhlhausen in Thuringen. The marriage certificated says August 1, 1830, in St. Blassi which [is thought to be] a suburb of Muhlhausen."--Page 25. "Johann Christoph Voght ... known, and buried as George Christoph Voigt, was born May 28, 1798, in Muhlhausen, Thuringen, Germany."--Page 27. Leaving for America, he "sailed August 6, 1846 and landed in Baltimore, Md., October 2, 1846 ..."--P.25 He died 17 May 1860 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Johanna " ... died September 16, 1873 in Philadelphia and was buried with her husband in Odd Fellows' Cemetery, 22nd and Diamond Streets."--P.26. As of the writing of this book (1909) "In America, all descendants of Johanna E. and J. Christoph Vogt are living in Philadelphia except four: two in New Jersey; one at Quakertown, Pennsylvania; one in Lincoln, Nebraska."--P.27