Catherine Albrecht

Notes:

Obit: The Herald of Truth - January 15, 1899 - page 30

STALTER. - On the 15th of November, 1898, near Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., Ill., Sister Catharine, wife of Jacob Stalter, aged 53 years and 8 days. Buried on the 17th in the Willow Springs graveyard. Funeral services by Joseph Buercky in German and by Pre. McCormick in English . The deceased leaves four sons and two daughters, beside many relatives and friends to mourn her death.

Buried:
Willow Springs Cemetery

Family/Spouse: Jacob Stalter. Jacob was born on 8 Oct 1844; died on 10 Jul 1912; was buried in Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Aug 1843

Notes:

The Albrechts of the Mennonites in Illinois are descendants of five brothers and two sisters who came from Bavaria and settled in Illinois in 1837. The most widely known of this group was Henry V. Albrecht.

History of Bureau County, Illinois, H. C. Bradsby, Editor. World Publishing Company Chicago 1885 
John Albrecht, Arispie, was born April 3, 1814, in Bavaria, Germany. He is a son of Christian and Elizabeth (Engel) Albrecht. (See biography of Daniel Albrecht.)

John Albrecht was reared in Germany, where he entered the regular army at the age of twenty-one years and served six years in a cuirassier regiment. Unable, on account of military duties, to accompany his parents to America in 1837 he waited patiently till his time expired, when he borrowed $100 of a relative and in August, 1843, came to America. He was Fifty-four days on the ocean and running out of money after landing, was obliged to borrow of a traveling companion with whom he came to St. Louis, Mo.

He reached home in Bureau County, poor in purse but rich in strength of mind and body. He worked by the month for three years, paid what he owed and got married. He then rented land and farmed for four years, after which he bought eighty acres of prairie and forty acres of timberland at $5 per acre. From time to time he bought more land till now through his and his children's indomitable perseverance and industry he is in the possession of 1, 192 acres of land.

He was married in March, 1847, to Mary Ackerman, who was born in May, 1819, in Bavaria. She is the daughter of Henry Ackerman. She is the mother of the following children: Mrs. Catharine Stalter, Mrs. Mary Roop, John A., Christian, and Henry V. Albrecht. Mrs. Mary Albrecht died January 27, 1875. The whole family are members of the Mennonite Church. Politically they are Democratic.

Of the above children John A. Albrecht was born April 20, 1849. He is farming a place of 240 acres. He was married February 9, 1873, in Tazewell County, Ill., to Elizabeth Burkey, who was born July 2, 1851. Her parents are Valentine and Elizabeth (Springer) Burkey, natives of Germany. Mrs. Elizabeth Albrecht is the mother of five children, viz: Mary E., born January 18, 1874; Simon, born February 18, 1876; Johannes born April 4, 1877; Bertha F., born August 17, 1878; and William D. born September 19, 1881. Christian Albrecht was born November 22, 1850. He is at home working the old homestead. He was married March 10, 1878 to Fannie Stecker, born July 2, 1856, in Ohio. She is a daughter of Nicholas and Magdalena (Eimer) Stecker. This union was blessed with one son, Alvin Roy, who was born October 5, 1880. 

Immigration:
After serving in the military

Buried:
Willow Springs Cemetery

John married Marie Ackermann in Mar 1847. Marie was born on 19 May 1819 in Bavaria, GR; died on 27 Jan 1875; was buried in Bureau Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughter of Henry Ackerman.

Buried:
Willow Springs Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Linen weaver
• USR1: Pneumonia
• Immigration: 29 Apr 1836, NY

Notes:

Lived in a large community house at Kaiserslautern, Bavaria, Germany in the early 19th century.
The family knew John Burkey, who had come to America several years earlier and were living in Illinois at Hennepin on the Illinois River.

See source no. for description of the journey to Illinois, began June 1836 from Bavaria. Landed in New York, boarded a boat and traveled by the Hudson River to Albany and the Erie canal to Buffalo. From there by the way of the Great Lakes, and landed Fort Dearborn (now Chicago). There they obtained a team and wagon they traveled overland to Hennepin in Bureau County. They walked that distance as a family of father, mother, twelve children and about that many grandchildren. The trip took over three weeks.

The first winter four of their children erected a one room log cabin in which the four families lived the next winter, having only the large old fashioned chimney fire place to cook with and keep them warm.

Birth:
Hermersbergerhof

Immigration:
18 Jun 1836 on the Orion from Bremen. In order to escape the military draft for his sons.

Buried:
Albrecht Family cemetery on the home farm

Christian married Elisabeth Engel on 2 Aug 1802 in Hochspeyer, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR. Elisabeth (daughter of Jakob Engel and Anna Imhoff) was born on 23 Jul 1780 in Dermerstein, GR; died on 24 Nov 1842 in Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL; was buried in Bureau Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• USR1: Pneumonia

Notes:

Birth:
near Kaiserslaughtern

Buried:
Albrecht Family Cemetery on home farm
Source 1292 says she is buried in Willow Springs Cemetery , Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL

Notes:

Married:
Near Kaiserslautern

Johannes married Magdalena Gingerich about 1776. Magdalena (daughter of Valentin Gungerich and Anna Nafziger) was born about 1757. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Linen weaver

Jakob + Anna Imhoff. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]