John E. Neuhauser

Notes:

Buried:
Center Cemetery

John married Laura Slagel in 1908. Laura (daughter of Daniel Webster Slagel and Mary Catharine Roeschley) was born in 1889; died in 1923; was buried in Pompeii, Gratiot Co., MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Pigeon River Mennonite Church Cemetery

Jacob married Fannie Gunden on 28 Feb 1878 in Wayland, Henry Co., IA. Fannie (daughter of John B. Von Gunden, Sr. and Catharine (Cathrine) Peterschmitt) was born in 1850 in Butler Co., OH; died on 20 Apr 1888 in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL; was buried in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Center Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Immigration: 1831, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1831, Lancaster Co., PA
• Residence: 1835, Butler Co., OH
• Naturalization: 1847, Butler Co., OH
• Residence: 1852, Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth, May 1, 1890, pages 141 and 142
NEUHAUSER.-On the 23d of July 1889, in Tazewell county, Ill., of the infirmities of old age, Bro. Peter Neuhauser, aged 93 years, 5 months and 3 days. He was born on the 20th of Feb. 1796 in Upper Alsace, near the city of Basle, Switzerland. In the spring of 1831 he emigrated to America, settling in Lancaster Co., Pa. Here he was married on the 23d of Jan. 1835 to Mary P. Schmidt. In the fall of the same year they moved to Butler county, Ohio, and in the spring of 1852 to Illinois, settling in Tazewell county, where he spent the remainder of his life. Sister Neuhauser died several years ago. Their union was blessed with 7 children, of whom two sons survive the parents. Bro. Neuhauser leaves many grandchildren and great-grand children. He retained his mental faculties to the last. He was a faithful, peace-loving member of the old Amish Mennonite church. Funeral services by Daniel Roth and Peter Ropp.

Sources and say Peter’s father (Jacob?) was born near Basel and died in Lorraine. His mother, Catherine (Sommers?), was born in Alsace Lorraine and died in Ohio.

Parents are possibly Jacob Neuhauser b. and d. Upper Alsace near the Swiss border, and Catherine Sommers (b. Lorraine and d. Butler Co., OH)

Birth:
near Basel SW

Buried:
Buckeye Cemetery

Peter married Anna Maria (Mary P.) Schmidt (Peterschmidt) on 23 Jan 1835 in Lancaster Co., PA. Anna (daughter of Jacob Peterschmidt and Barbara Lauber) was born on 22 Jul 1804 in Altkirch, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FR; died on 21 Feb 1884 in Livingston Co., IL; was buried in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• USR1: Bronchial infection
• Immigration: 1832

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth, March 1, 1884, Page 76, 77
NEWHAUSER - On the 2d of February, in Waldo Twp., Livingston Co., Ill., Sister Mary Newhauser, (maiden name Schmidt), and wife of Peter Newhauser of bronchial affection, aged 76 years, 6 months and 10 days. On the 4th she was buried in the Waldo twp grave-yard, followed by a large concourse of friends. Services by Daniel Steinman and Joseph P. Schmidt and Chr. Schlegel. She was a faithful member of the Amish Church. She leaves a husband 88 years of age, and two sons to mourn their loss, but they need not mourn as those who have no hope. She had a desire to go and be with Jesus, she remarked a few days before her death, "For me to live is Christ, for me to die is gain." Oh let us all be in earnest to work for the glory that awaits us beyond.

Birth:
(Altkeneck)

Buried:
Waldo Cemetery

John married Catharine (Cathrine) Peterschmitt on 16 Jan 1848 in Butler Co., OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lived close to Basel.

Jacob married Catherine Sommer in 1793. Catherine was born in FR; died in Butler Co., OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Weaver, Before 1792/93, When French Civil Record Keeping Began

Notes:

Jacob married Barbara Lauber before 1792-1793. Barbara (daughter of Christian Lauber and Katharina Schwartz) was born in 1771 in Alsace, FR; died after 1832 in Butler Co., OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: OH
• Immigration: 1832?

Notes:

Ten children, seven of whom, together with their widowed mother, immigrated to America in 1832 after Jacob Peterschmidt died in Hirsingue. According to family tradition, Barbara Lauber died in Butler Co. OH.

Died:
according to family tradition