Christian Rediger

Notes:

Obit:
REDIGER--CHRISTIAN REDIGER was born in Baden, Germany, Nov. 27, 1840; died at the home of Perry Stutzman, Jan. 21, 1932; aged 91 y. 1 m. 24 d. He was united in marriage to Elizabeth Eigsti June 25, 1878. To this union were born 13 children, 7 sons and 6 daughters. He came with his parents from Germany to Woodford Co., Ill., in the year 1868. In 1883 he with his family came to Milford, Nebr., where they lived until the year 1889. They later located at Thurman, Colo. From there they moved to Hartford, Kans., and because of the death of his life companion, he moved again to Milford, Nebr., in the year 1899. In this community he remained the rest of his life.

During the last 20 years he lived with one of his children. His wife, 2 sons, 1 daughter, 2 brothers, and 3 sisters preceded him in death. He is survived by 10 children: Edward, Phoebe, Joseph, Susie, Lena, Benjamin, Emma, Christian, William, Lydia. He is also survived by 2 brothers and 2 sisters, 65 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. He accepted Christ as his personal Savior in his youth and united with the Mennonite Church of which he was a member when he died. He was apparently in good health until the last few days of his life when pneumonia set in, which caused his death. Funeral services were held at the East Fairview Church, conducted by J. E. Zimmerman and Ben Schlegel. Text, Rom. 8:18. Interment in the adjoining cemetery.

"He sleeps, he sleeps, and never more
Will his footsteps fall by the old home door;
Nor his voice be heard with his loving tone,
By the loved ones left, round his own hearthstone.
He has gone, he has gone to his home afar,
To the beautiful land where the angels are."

Buried:
East Fairview Mennonite Cemetery

Christian married Elizabeth Eigsti on 25 Jun 1878 in Metamora, Woodford Co., IL. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Augustin (Eigsti) and Susanna Nafziger) was born on 1 Mar 1857; died on 13 Nov 1895 in Hartford, Lyon Co., KS; was buried on 16 Nov 1895 in Hartford, Lyon Co., KS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Edward W. Rediger was born on 10 Sep 1877 in Roanoke, Woodford Co., IL; died on 23 Aug 1945 in Elgin, Cook Co., IL; was buried on 27 Aug 1945 in Elgin, Cook Co., IL.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Merzhausen, Baden-Württemberg, GR
• Emigration: 1836, Ottenweierhof, Baden, GR
• Residence: 1837, Alsace Lorraine, FR
• Emigration: 1868, Baden, GR

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth, Vol. XXVI, Number 16, August 15, 1889

REDIGER - On the 15th of June, near Milford, Seward Co., Nebraska, Preacher Jacob Rediger, aged 81 years, 11 months and 17 days. He was a laborer in the ministry for fifty-three years, and worked faithfully until the last six months of his mortal life. He seldom missed an appointment. He lived in matrimony 47 years and had 12 children, of which three, together with his wife, preceded him. Nine children, 42 grandchildren, and 1 great-grand child followed him to the grave. Services by Joseph Gascho and Joseph Schlegel from 2 Cor. 5:2 and Matt. 25:23. He was buried in the Mennonite graveyard.

Jacob Rediger was born in Ichenheim, Baden on June 30, 1807. He was ordained to the ministry in Baden, Germany. He served in the same Illinois church along with his son Joseph. He arrived in Nebraska at age 74.

Settled near Eureka. Chosen minister by the Mackinaw Meeting (Roanoke). Moved to Milford, NE in 1881.

Birth:
FAG gives year as 1806

Residence:
Near Freiburg

Residence:
Ottenweierhof

Emigration:
Along with wife and six children, to Eureka, IL

Buried:
East Fairview Cemetery

Jacob married Magdalena Schrag about 1838. Magdalena (daughter of Johannes Schrag and Elisabeth Eyer) was born in 1814 in Konigsbach, Baden, GR; died on 11 Apr 1882 in Milford, Seward Co., NE; was buried in Milford, Seward Co., NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of the Heimbrunnerhof near Konigsbach.

A large photo of Jacob and Magdalena hangs in the historical library at Bethel College in Newton, KS. A Litwiller cousin of Bernetta’s in IL has a German prayer book that belonged to Magdalena. On the inside cover of the book is written in German, “This book belongs to my wife Magdalena Schrag. She got it from her mother as an inheritance the 16th of January 1841.”

Birth:
either Heimbronnerhof at Stein, or Erzingen

Buried:
East Fairview Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1818, Alsace Lorraine, FR

Notes:

Of Ottenweierhof and Hof Scheibenhardt.

Birth:
Ottenweierhof

Residence:
Scheibenhardt farm

Jakob + Jakobine Güngerich. Jakobine (daughter of Christian Güngerich and Anna Holly) was born in 1779 in Steinseltz, Bas-Rhin, FR; died in 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

http://www.diannebauer.com/publicroots/NAFZIGER%20JANTZI/ANCESTORS/nafzigerj/pafg25.htm#2456

3 Jan 1786 on Fleckensteinerhof.
1821 on Heckenaschbacherhog.

Birth:
Fleckensteinerhof

Died:
Heckenaschbacherhof

Johannes married Elisabeth Eyer on 26 Apr 1809 in Contwig, Zweibrücken, GR. Elisabeth (daughter of Daniel Eyer and Barbara Dettweiler) was born on 18 Jul 1790 in Remchingen, Alsace, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
http://www.diannebauer.com/publicroots/NAFZIGER%20JANTZI/ANCESTORS/nafzigerj/pafg25.htm#2456

Notes:

Married:
http://www.diannebauer.com/publicroots/NAFZIGER%20JANTZI/ANCESTORS/nafzigerj/pafg25.htm#2456

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Anabaptist

Notes:

“Sebastian Reidiger became the manager of the Lords of Dungern at the estate at Ottenweier in 1763. With his family he had come from the valley of Emmental in the Kanton of Bern in Switzerland. He belonged to the Anabaptist movement, the Mennonites. In the Ottenweier estate records as in the community records the name Reidiger has also been spelled as: Reitiger, Reitenger, Riediger, Rediger, Rodiger, Reutiger and Reudinger. As did his predecessor, the Mennonite Johann Georg Rieder who managed the estate from 1720-1763, Sebastian (Basch) Reidiger, conducted religious meetings at the estate and at the close by forest, the Anabaptist forest, for his family and the hired hands. There, one can still find a huge, round table made from sandstone on which the adult baptismal candidates have been registered.”

Part owner of the Meier farm.

Sebastian + Susanna Detweiler. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of Steinseltz, Alsace near Wissemberg (later the Rheinseltz, Alsace).

Birth:
Blumenthal farm

Christian + Anna Holly. Anna died on 21 Sep 1830 in Wellenburg, Bavaria, 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:

• Religion: Mennonite

Notes:

After 1788 lived at Remchingen.

Daniel married Barbara Dettweiler in 1785 in Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR. Barbara was born about 1765. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]