Jacobine (Phoebe) Kinsinger

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Mennonite

Notes:

Buried:
Waldo Cemetery

Jacobine married John Bertsche on 13 Jan 1891. John was born on 13 Jan 1864 in GR; died after 1900 in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Obit says 11 Jan 1864

Notes:

The oldest child of Christian Kinsinger was Johannes Kinsinger, who came to be known as John Kinsinger in America. He was born on October 21,1815 in Contwig, Germany. He was considered to be a very bright young man. At the age of 19 years, he determined that his future lay in coming to America and he traveled with a small group of Mennonite immigrants by ship from the Netherlands to New York, and on through Pennsylvania to Butler County, Ohio , a center of Amish and Mennonite life in the Midwest. John (Jean) Kinsinger (19) is listed on page 1 of the Passenger List of the ship "Sully" which arrived in New York from Le Havre on November 5, 1834. 

In Ohio, he was a hired laborer on Amish and Mennonite farms. In a few short years, the frugal John had saved enough money to operate his own farm. He continued the family tradition of leasing land. In 1836, he met another recently-arrived Mennonite immigrant, Barbara Smith and they were married in 1837. 

In 1840, the family (as John Kensinger) was living in St. Clair Township, Butler County, Ohio and consisted of 1 male and 1 female (John and Barbara) age 20-30 years, and 1 male and 1 female under 5 years (John Jr. and Magdalena). St. Clair Township in Butler County is in the far southwestern corner of Ohio surrounding the village of Overpeck.
1840 US Census, Ohio, Butler Co., St. Clair Township, Sheet #4.

In 1850, the family was living in Fairfield Township, Butler County, Ohio and consisted of John (34), Barbara (34), Malinda (12), Barbara (10), Jacob (8), John (6), Anna (4), and Elizabeth (3 months) along with two laborers: John Reddigel (Rediger) and Wendel Greaser. It is unclear whether the family moved slightly south, or whether the township line moved north.

They had seven children when Barbara died in 1860. Shortly after Barbara's funeral, the devastated widower loaded his children into a wagon and left for Illinois, stopping near Groveland in Tazewell, County. He knew some of the residents of Groveland (Christian Bechler) who had lived in Butler County before coming to Illinois and was able to lease some farmland almost immediately. 

One of those Groveland families was the Christian Wagler family. John knew Christian and his wife Catherine Ulrich Wagler and their children well. The Wagler's and John had all came to America around the same time and had been members of the same congregation in Ohio. Even so, it was a surprise to many when the 41 year-old widower with seven children married the 21 year-old daughter of Christian and Catherine Wagler, Barbara Wagler, in 1861.

John and Barbara Wagler Kinsinger had eight children. John became a highly successful farmer in Tazewell County. In addition to raising a total of 15 children, the couple opened their home to several orphans. John was gregarious, articulate, and well-informed. He was very interested in politics and business. He also taught himself to read and write English. That made him an important man in the largely German-speaking Mennonite community. He often served as a translator or go-between for transactions between the German-speaking Amish and Mennonites, and the English-speaking locals. For this reason, he was frequently called to court. It is said that he provided this service free of charge and earned much good will among his brethren. 

John Kinsinger died in October, 1900 at the age of 85. Barbara Kinsinger died two years later. Both are buried in the Landes Cemetery, one mile southeast of Groveland. Of the 15 children of John Kinsinger, almost all grew to be successful. They spread from Pennsylvania to Wyoming and John Kinsinger's descendents are now present in every state of the Union. (Copied from FindAGrave website)

Birth:
Heckenaschbacherhof

Buried:
Landes Mennonite Cemetery, Plot #4 on cemetery map dated 8/12/2013

Johannes married Barbara Wagler on 10 Mar 1861 in Groveland, Tazewell Co., IL. Barbara (daughter of Christian H. (Jacob) Wagler and Katharina Ulrich) was born on 19 Feb 1837 in Butler Co., OH; died on 9 Oct 1902 in Tremont, Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Groveland, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Barbara was the second wife of John Kinsinger.
Source gives children as follows: Katherine, Phoebe, Fannie, Sarah, Samuel, Jonnie, Willie, and Carrie.

Buried:
Landes Mennonite Cemetery, Plot #4 on cemetery map dated 8/12/2013

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Immigration: Bef 1850

Notes:

Lived at Heckenaschbacherhof until 1840, then on the Faunerhof near Pirmasens. Emigrated to the US prior to 1850.

Christian married Magdeleine Schrag on 1 Nov 1814 in Contwig, Zweibrücken, GR. Magdeleine (daughter of Johannes Schrag and Christiane Esch) was born on 8 Apr 1798 in Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR; died on 9 May 1824 in Contwig, Zweibrücken, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Heckenaschbacherhof

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Finish Carpenter (Menuisier) And Farmer
• Immigration: 1833, Butler Co., OH
• Census: 1840, Ross, Butler Co., OH
• Residence: 1844, Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1850, Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1860, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1870, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

“French records prove that the man who married Katharina Ulrich in 1831 in France and fathered her first child was named Jacob Wagler. But, in America, Katharina Ulrich’s husband was called Christian Wagler. Nothing is known from French documentation about Christian Wagler, except that he signed the death document of his father in 1826 in La Croix. Perhaps Christian Wagler set out for America with the family of Jacob Wagler in 1833 and, before or after crossing the Atlantic, married his younger brother’s wife--supposing, of course, that she had been widowed in an untimely fashion--and thereby merged the identity and responsibility of that brother with his own.”

Wagler/Berse
“The groom is actually called “Jacques Berse” in the couple’s French civil marriage record, to which he signed his name as “Jakob Bers” in crude antique German script. Alteration of the Germanic surname Wagler to Bers(e) in French must somehow have been justifiable linguistically.”

“The surname Wagler, like Wagner, was obviously originally drawn from wagon-building and/or the wheelwright’s trade. The rare French noun ber(s), “the side rail of a cart over which canvas may be stretched,” would seem to lie behind this name change: Tresor de la Langue Francaise...vol. 4 (Paris, 1975), p. 400.s.v., Bs. The Wagler surname appears frequently in French records as Berse, but often the male Wagler in question simply signs his name as Wagler in old German script to the French document naming him as Berse.”

According to Tazewell County, Illinois Cemeteries Volume Two, the headstone of Christian Wagler in Railroad Cemetery at Elm Grove says he was born Jan. 30, 1803, lived 73 years, 10 months, and 22 days, and died Dec. 22, 1877.

Birth:
(near Croix-aux-Mines) Gravestone says 30 June 1803. Birth registered as “Jacques Berse.” Joe Staker gives date as 30 Jan 1803.

Census:
as two males under 5 [Christian Jr. and Joseph]; one male 5-10 [Peter]; one male 10-15; one male 30-40 [Christian Sr.]; one female under 5 [Barbara]; one female 5-10 [Katharina/Catherine]; and one female 30-40 [Catherine Ulrich].

Census:
farmer Christian Wagler, 51, France; Catharine, 54, France; Peter, 17, France; Catharine, 16, Ohio; Christian, 14, Ohio; Barbara, 13, Ohio; Joseph, 12, Ohio; and Isaac, 10, Ohio.

Census:
oldest son Peter Wagler, 27, France; Catherine, 21; Illinois; and Christian, 7 months, Illinois.

Census:
Peter's family has moved to Morton, while the parents and two sons have return to the Elm Grove farm: farmer Christian Wagler, 67, France; Catharine, 71; Joseph, 35; and Christian, 34.

Buried:
Railroad Cemetery (see photo) http://www.genealogytrails.com/ill/tazewell/railroadcem.html

Christian married Katharina Ulrich on 7 Apr 1831 in Hirsingue, Haut-Rhin, FR. Katharina (daughter of Peter Ulrich, Jr. and Katharina Lauber) was born on 2 May 1797 in Hirtzbach, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FR; died on 21 May 1887 in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in May 1887 in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• USR1: Immigrated 1833

Notes:

From the diary of Sam Wagler's father Joseph we have the following information: "Sat. May 21, 1887. This afternoon I was by Grandmother. She died 8 o'clock and 8 minutes. Sunday May 22: From home I went to C.W. Heiser and Aunt Catherine Heiser. Monday May 23: Today was the funeral of my Grandmother. The scripture reading was 90 Psalm and John Chapter 5: Verses 20 to end. First part was read by Peter Ropp. Peter Zehr and Andrew Ropp held the sermon."

The ship France departed from Le Havre and arrived at New York July 12, 1833. Gary L. Yordy found the passenger list, which includes this grouping from France:

Pete Ulrich 30 carpenter [Christian Wagler]
Catherine Ulrich 23 [his wife, Catherine Ulrich]
Peter Ulrich 2 [their son, Peter Jacob Wagler]
Ludwick Schoften 28 [unknown]
Peter Ulrich 60 [Christian's father-in-law Peter Ulrich]
Catherine Lowber 55 [Christian's mother-in-law Catherine Lauber]

On April 7, 1831at Hirsingue, Upper Alsace Jacob Berse married his cousin Catherine Ulrich. He appears on the civil entry as Jacques Berse, a 28-year-old finishing carpenter born at La Croix-aux-Mines but living at Bruebach.258 His parents were described as the deceased cultivator Isaac Berse and the widow Elisabeth Marchal, who was living at Bruebach.259
Though her age is given as 31 on her 1831 marriage entry, bringing it closer to the groom's, Catherine Ulrich was actually born at Hirtzbach (next to Hirsingue) March 2, 1797, a daughter of Hirsingue weaver Peter/Pierre Ulrich and Catherine Lauber.

Birth:
Neil Stuckey says 1799/1800

Buried:
Railroad Cemetery (see photo) http://www.genealogytrails.com/ill/tazewell/railroadcem.html

Notes:

The only relative among official witnesses to the marriage was Joseph Wagler (“Berse)), 29, farmer, living in Bruebach: film 0733968, 1831, #4.

The witnesses at the marriage of Jacob Berse and Catherine Ulrich were brother Joseph (now living at Bruebach), and the brothers Christian and Jacob Hirschi of the Birkenhof at Ruederbach. 

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer

Notes:

Married Veronica Imhoff. Second to Marie Grub.

Johannes married Veronica Imhof about 1789 in GR. Veronica died on 31 May 1806 in Weisenheim-am-Berg, Palatinate, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the Ernstweilerhof.

From 1797 was leaseholder on the Heckenaschbacherhof, Palatinate. With him at this place was his father-in-law Christian Esch of the Fleckensteinerhof, who died there in 1809 at the age of 81.


"It is likely that his great-grandfather Caspar Schrag had already emigrated after 1700 from Switzerland...."
Five children: Johannes b. 1786; Barbara, b. 1790; Christiane, b. 1794; Christian, b. 1797; Magdalena, b.1798.

Birth:
Gersbergerhof

Died:
Heckenaschbacherhof

Johannes + Christiane Esch. Christiane (daughter of Christian Esch and Magdalena Hauter) was born in 1759. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer

Notes:

He is found in civil documentation at La Croix-aux-Mines as 'Isac Berse.'

Died:
Staker says death was at Chipal.

Isaac married Elizabeth Marchal in 1800. Elizabeth died after 1831. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living in Bruebach, and attended the ceremony of son Christian to give her consent.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Weaver

Notes:

The ship France sailed from Le Havre and arrived at New York July 12, 1833. Gary L. Yordy found the passenger list, which includes this grouping from France:

Pete Ulrich 30 carpenter [Christian Wagler]
Catherine Ulrich 23 [his wife, Catherine Ulrich]
Peter Ulrich 2 [their son, Peter Jacob Wagler]
Ludwick Schoften 28 [unknown]
Peter Ulrich 60 [Christian's father-in-law Peter Ulrich]
Catherine Lowber 55 [Christian's mother-in-law Catherine Lauber
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The 'Christian Wogler' household appears on the 1840 census of Ross, Butler County. It is checked off as two males under 5 [Christian H. and Joseph]; one male 5-10 [Peter]; one male 10-15; one male 30-40 [Christian]; one female under 5 [Barbara]; one female 5-10 [Katharina/Catherine]; and one female 30-40 [Catherine Ulrich]. Christian worked as a finishing carpenter in Ohio.

The family came to Tazewell County in 1844. The household appears on the 1850 census of Tazewell County as farmer Christian Wagler, 51, France; Catharine, 54, France; Peter, 17, France; Catharine, 16, Ohio; Christian, 14, Ohio; Barbara, 13, Ohio; Joseph, 12, Ohio; and Isaac, 10, Ohio. From the names of their next door neighbors, it is apparent that they were already living on Allentown Road at Elm Grove: Valentine, Andrew, and Joseph Birky were holding land awaiting the arrival of their father Valentine from Bavaria.
By 1860 the Elm Grove household consisted of oldest son Peter Wagler, 27, France; Catherine, 21; Illinois; and Christian, 7 months, Illinois. On the 1870 census Peter's family has moved to Morton, while the parents and two sons have return to the Elm Grove farm: farmer Christian Wagler, 67, France; Catharine, 71; Joseph, 35; and Christian, 34. The 1880 census shows Catharine, 83, living with her son Joseph, 42, at Elm Grove.

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Taken from "Roanoke Centennial History”:

The first newspaper in Roanoke was published in 1884, and was called the Era. The publisher was George Holton. It was published in the basement of the Audi building which today houses Lorene's.
It was established at the time of the county seat contest in 1883 and, when the election failed to remove the county seat from Metamora to Roanoke, its publication was abandoned. It did not continue over one year. There is one issue of the Era in existence today.

June 28, 1895 - Quite an exciting runaway occurred on our streets this afternoon. About 4 o'clock Peter Ulrich, Jr., was coming up Broad Street when his team became unmanageable, throwing him out just before they passed The Call office. They turned too short at the corner of Main Street upsetting Theo Herbst's buggy, breaking a wheel. After running down Main a block they turned west, passed the post office and ran into a tree at the Brubaker corner, where they were caught. Mr. Ulrich had barely started them up, when away they went for another spin. At Rapp's corner he was again thrown out, the neck yoke broke, letting the tongue down and things began to look serious, when they turned into A. Rapp's yard, and were again brought to a stand still by a catalpa tree. By this time the whole town was out. Mr. Ulrich had a small bone in his hand broke, but escaped very fortunate.

Died:
Langweiserhof

Peter married Katharina Lauber on 24 Aug 1794 in Bourg-Bruche, Bas-Rhin, FR. Katharina (daughter of Christian Lauber and Katharina Schwartz) was born about 1775 in Mussig, Bas-Rhin, FR; died after 1831/1833 in USA; was buried in Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Katharina lived in Bourg-Bruche with her mother and stepfather, a miller, at the time she married Peter Ulrich, Jr. in that community in 1794, at the age of 18.

Catherine Ulrich was baptized on the Birkenhof farm at Ruederbach, Upper Alsace Nov. 27, 1812. The farm is associated with the Rich, Hirschi, and Ropp families (Andréas Ropp lived only 4 miles away at Largitzen, and his brother's children lived on the Birkenhof).

Buried:
Railroad Cemetery

Notes:

Four relatives served as official witnesses--for the groom, 1) Peter Ulrich, his father, and 2) Johannes Ulrich, his brother, a weaver in Lubine, and, for the bride, 3) George Risser, her stepfather, miller in Bruche, and 4) the husband of Barbara Lauber, the bride’s brother-in-law, Jacob Peterschmidt.

Married:
LDS film 0745903, marriages for year II fol.2r-v.