Belated reply to your message of last year. My branch of the Hoerr family comes from the village of Reichelsheim and others in the Odenwald mountains in the southern part of the state of Hesse, formerly Hesse-Darmstadt. Darmstadt was the capital of the state for some time, perhaps still is. My grandfather, John P. Hoerr, was born in Reichelsheim in 1872, immigrated to the U.S. with his widowed mother in 1884, settled in McKeesport, PA, 15 mi. southeast of Pittsburgh. My father and I, both John P. Hoerrs, were born there, but I moved away in my 20s. The Odenwald may be the source location for a large part of the Horr (umlaut o) family. When I visited Reichelsheim in 1985, I found 25 Horrs in the phone book, and a genealogy researcher told me it's a quite common name throughout the region. What does the name mean? Never got a good answer, just a suggestion: the verb horen (umlaut o) means "to listen." I wouldn't doubt a remote connection between my branch and yours.