Alice Fern Werner

Notes:

Obit: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19145254

Birth: Apr. 2, 1902
Death: May 20, 1998


Family links:
Spouse:
David Louis Schiavo (1909 - 2002)

Note: Double marker with David Louis Schiavo

Burial:
Valley View Cemetery
Clarkdale
Yavapai County
Arizona, USA
Plot: Section S

Created by: Debbra
Record added: Apr 29, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 19145254

Buried:
Valley View Cemetery

Alice married David Louis Schiavo on 29 Jun 1940. David was born on 30 Sep 1909; died on 21 Sep 2002 in Cottonwood, AZ; was buried on 25 Sep 2002 in Clarkdale, Yavapai Co., AZ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ruth Elizabeth Schiavo

Notes:

Buried:
East Bend Mennonite Cemetery

Joseph married Elizabeth Zehr on 21 Oct 1897. Elizabeth (daughter of Bishop Jacob Zehr and Elizabeth Ehresman) was born on 17 Nov 1868 in Woodford Co., IL; died on 28 Nov 1946 in Gibson City, Ford Co., IL; was buried in Fisher, Champaign Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Mennonite
• Census: 1940, Drummer Twp., Ford Co., IL

Notes:

Birth:
On Zehr homestead near the Zimmerman Ford of the Mackinaw River

Census:
The 1940 census of Drummer Township, Ford County shows Joseph Werner, 72, Illinois; Elizabeth, 71, Illinois; and daughter and music teacher Fern, 38, Illinois; and that on April 1, 1935 they had been living at Fisher, Champaign County.

Died:
Thanksgiving Day

Buried:
East Bend Mennonite Cemetery

Notes:

Buried:
Greenwood Cemetery

David + Katharina Stalter. Katharina (daughter of Joseph Stalter and Katherine Reidiger) was born on 4 Jan 1832 in GR; died on 12 Dec 1921 in Yellowhead, Kankakee Co., IL; was buried in Saybrook, McLean Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
or 17 Sep. Kirschbacherhof estate

Buried:
Greenwood Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: In Europe, A Dienstknecht (Farm Hand), In US, A Minister/Farmer
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Residence: 1848, Slabtown, Woodford Co., IL
• Immigration: May 1848, Le Havre to New York
• Census: 1850, Woodford Co., IL
• Census: 1880, Montgomery Twp., Woodford Co., IL

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth - March 15, 1898 - page 93, 94.
PRE. JACOB ZEHR
Montgomery Township, Woodford County, Ill., lost one of its oldest and most respected citizens on Tuesday morning of Feb. 22nd, 1898 by the death of Pre. Jacob Zehr, at his home in Mackinaw valley, near Zimmerman's Ford. Deceased was born in Bavaria, Germany, Sept. 17, 1825 and emigrated to America in the spring of 1848. On April 21st, 1850, he was married to Elizabeth Ehresman and settled on the farm upon which he died. This farm he entered from the government and by hard labor succeeded in making it a comfortable home, leaving his family well provided for. His family consisted of four sons and five daughters of whom one son and two daughters preceded him to the grave; his wife, six children and eighteen grandchildren survive him. Bro. Zehr united with the Amish Mennonite Church in early youth and remained a faithful member to the time of his death. On the 12th of June 1859, he was chosen by the above named church as minister of the Gospel, and on May 17th, 1863 ordained as bishop. It was ever his highest aim to fill this charge according to God's ordinances as long as He gave him power and health to do so. He was a sufferer from nervousness or sick-headache more or less for nearly forty years, which wore on him so that for the last four or five years his health has been so poor that he was unable to preach. This seemed to be his greatest sorrow in his declining years; yet by his patience in his sufferings and his trust in his Master he was ever setting a good example to others who visited him, and to his family. About four months ago he was partly paralyzed and from that time was confined to his bed and as helpless as a child, patiently awaiting his Master's call to come up higher. His life on earth was an exemplary, upright, humble one, highly respected by all who knew him. While the sorrow of his death is general, yet it is mitigated by the knowledge that after a long and useful life a good man has gone to the home he so longed for.

What a blessed assurance that
"If we so live as to meet him,
In heaven his bright face we shall see."

The funeral services were held in the village of Deer Creek. Thursday at 1 o'clock P. M. Feb., 24th, a very large congregation of friends and relatives came to pay their last tribute of respect to their beloved friend whose kindness and generosity brightened the lives of many. Elder John Schmitt of Metamora spoke in German, and Val. Strubhar of Washington, in English. The remains were laid to rest in the Mt. Zion cemetery, two miles north of Deer Creek.

"Yonder in the graveyard gently
Rests the form we loved so well;
But we look to heaven and glory
Where there will be no farewell.
Farewell father, till we meet thee,
In thy heavenly home above;
There to sing God's praises with thee,
In the land of joy and love."


Settled near Slabtown near his brothers. After marriage he farmed near Mackinaw River's Zimmerman Ford at the southern edge of Woodford County's Montgomery Township.

“Jacob and Elizabeth’s two oldest children, a son and a daughter, died in infancy. These two children, we were told, were buried in a little plot under the apple tree in the southeast corner of their garden.”

He was ordained as a minister on June 12, 1859, and as an elder (bishop) on May 20, 1863, for the Mackinaw Meeting. After 1873 he primarily served the Goodfield congregation. He attended the May 16-19, 1875, Amish ministers conference held in the Sutter barn.

“For Jacob Zehr there was a “throne in the flesh” in the form of very painful headaches from which he suffered for 35 years. These finally wore him down so that the last few years of his life he was no longer able to minister to the people. Once he could no longer fulfill this service his desire was to be called out of this life to be with his Lord.

“The last four months of life he was partially parliized. On a Tuesday morning, Feb 22 1898, death came to release him form further suffering. His funeral was held in the Deer Creek Baptist church in order to accommodate the large crowd of people who came to the services. The services were in charge of Rev. Peter Zehr, Rev. John Smith, and Rev. John Strubhar. His body was laid to rest in the Mt. Zion cemetery north of Deer Creek, IL.”

“Jacob., Jr. is at the well; in the background are Phoebe (Zehr) Wolber and her daughter [given her apparent age, probably Mary Magdalena “Lena”, b. 1895] and Mrs. (Zehr) Warner. It was recorded that “Mrs. Wolber’s small son [Alvin] fled to the safety of the house” because he was camera-shy!” ,


According to Auswanderung, Jakob Zehr, a serving farmhand at Hanfeld, emigrated from Bavaria in 1848 bound for Illinois with 400 florins in hand.

Birth:
in the Hofmark at Hilgertshausen

Residence:
Purchased land in row Zimmerman Ford area of Mackinaw River.

Immigration:
On the ship Admiral. Assets of 400 fl.

Census:
Living next to older brother Christian: Jacob Sears, 25, Germany; and Eliza, 20, Germany.

Census:
Farmer Jacob Zehr, 42, Bavaria; R. Annie Zehr, 36, Ohio; with six children born in Illinois, and Magdalena Zehr, 75, Bavaria

Buried:
Mr. Zion Cemetery (see photo)

Jacob married Elizabeth Ehresman on 21 Apr 1850 in Woodford Co., IL. Elizabeth (daughter of Christian Ehresman (Eyresmann) and Magdalena Barnhardt) was born on 11 Sep 1830 in GR; died on 27 Nov 1902 in Deer Creek Twp., Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Deer Creek, Washington Twp., Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Immigration: 1835, OH
• Residence: 1844, IL

Notes:

Elizabeth died a highly respected lady who spent her married life fulfilling duties as mother, minister’s wife and Christian lady.

Buried:
Mt. Zion cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1849, America
• Naturalization: 1 Nov 1881, McLean Co., IL

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth, November 1888
"On the 22d of October, near Arrowsmith, McLean Co., Ill., of the infirmities of old age Joseph Stalter aged 81 years, 1 month and 7 days. He was buried on the 23d followed by his children and grandchildren and many relatives and friends. Service by Joseph Stucky and Pre. Hadfealt from Heb. 7 and Psa. 90. Peace to his ashes."
—————————————
Joseph and his brother John received the Kirschbacherhof 4 Mar 1835. The inventory list still exists. The two brothers fell into debt and they migrated in 1849 to America. Joseph then went to America some time after the death of his wife in 1877.

“They took with them sufficent funds to buy land on the recently opened prairies of central Illinois, and in 1855 Josef Jr. became a minister of the newly formed Rock Creek Amish congregation there.”

Tenants on Kirschbacherhof and Nassenwald.
Leaseholder on the Kirschbacherhof. Went to the USA in 1849.

Birth:
Monbijou

Joseph married Katherine Reidiger on 23 May 1830 in Ichenheim, Baden, GR. Katherine (daughter of Sebastian Reidiger and Magdalena Güngerich) was born on 5 Apr 1808 in Ichenheim, Baden, GR; died on 1 Jan 1877 in Arrowsmith, McLean Co., IL; was buried on 4 Jan 1877. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Obit: Gospel Herald, February 1877:
"Jan. 1st 1877, in McLean Co., Ill., of dropsy, Catherine Stalter, wife of Joseph Stalter, aged 68 years, and 8 months. She was the mother of 13 children, 9 of whom survive her. On the 4th her remains were consigned to mother earth, at which opportunity remarks were made from Rev. 14:13, by Joseph Stuckey and Henderson."

Birth:
Ottenweierhof

Notes:

Married:
Ottenweierhof

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• USR1: Cholera
• Residence: 1803, Abstried, near Diessen, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1810-1817, Laim, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1818-1827, Manried, Bavaria, GR
• Immigration: 1849, New York, NY
• Residence: 1828-1849, Hanfeld, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1849, Woodford Co., IL

Notes:

At one time Daniel lived in the village of Struth in France, but moved to Bavaria in 1803, where he leased a cattle farm for two years. From 1810 to 1817, the family lived at Laim, near Munich. Daniel purchased property at Manried near Hilgertshausen on 2 Dec 1818, then resold it on 15 Dec 1827. The next move was to Hanfeld, near Starnberg, Bavaria. At the age of 72 and about ten years after the death of his wife (Magdalena Unzicker), Daniel emigrated to America with the David Springer family on the ship Minnesota. The ship departed from Liverpool, England and arrived in New York on 21 June 1849. From New York Daniel went to Illinois where his sons George, Christian, Peter, and Jacob had settled.

Also on board were Valentine Birkey (1794) with brother Christian's daughter, Barbara and her illegitimate son, and Mary Burkey Birky.

Daniel’s children’s names were kept in a 1780 edition of Martyrs’ Mirror that has been passed down in the Ingold family.
——————
While in Bavaria, Daniel was one of the signatories to a letter sent March 18, 1811, to King Maximilian I. Joseph (ruler from 1806-1825). In it the “Elders of the Menonists” of the dairy farm Oberndorf, appealed to the King for permission to hire their own private instructors to educate their children in their own catechism, since he had allowed them freedom of religion. But “some of the community have received legal orders to send their children to school a good half hour away.”

The answer came to them on Sept. 11, 1811, that “attendance of the local school remained compulsory, but the Mennonite children were not compelled to participate in religious instruction.”

Other signing the letter were: Christian Güngerich, Heinrich Stalter, Christian Bürcky, Johannes Bächler.

———————
Daniel’s estate was probated in 1858 (Woodford Co., IL), Jacob Summers, Administrator. Appraisers were Christian and Peter Farney and Peter Sommer.
Paid out was: Christian Zehr $825.79; Daniel Zehr $825.79; Magdalena Zehr $36.00; Magdalena Zehr two $40 payments.

Residence:
Bergerhof. Laim was very near Nymphenberg in Gern. Thus, surely he had dealings with the Stalter and Birkey families in Gern.

Immigration:
From Liverpool. Arrived 21 June 1849 on ship Minnesota. Only son Joseph stayed in Bavaria.

Residence:
Mang-Anwesen

Residence:
Mackinaw River area

Buried:
Thought to be Slabtown Cemetery

Daniel married Magdalena Unzicker on 6 Jun 1802 in Windstein, Wissembourg, Alsace, FR. Magdalena (daughter of Johannes Unzicker and Barbara Ullmann) was born on 8 May 1785 in Windstein, Wissembourg, Alsace, FR; died on 16 Dec 1838 in Hanfeld, Bavaria, GR; was buried in Hanfeld, Bavaria, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Bas-Rhin

Died:
Dec 1 (Staker)

Notes:

On 17 Parairial 10th year of the Republic (6 Jun 1802), at Windstein, District of Wissembourg, France, Daniel Zohr, age19, sone of Daniel Zehr and Catherina Zohr, married Magdalena Hunzicker, age 17, daughter of Johannes Unzicker and Barbara Uhlmann of Windstein. The following persons were witnesses and signed the marriage record: Joseph Zohr, farmer, age 47 years; Jacob Stepp, farmer, age 54 years, both residing at Windstein; Christian Bock, farmer, age 35 of Windstein; Christian Zohr, farmer, age 45 of Stultzthal.

Married:
Marriage records of Windstein, Bas-Rhin, France, 1793-1862:
On 17 Prairial 10th year of the Republic (6 Jun 1802), at Windstein, District of Wissembourg, France, Daniel Zohr, age 19, son of Daniel Zehr and Catherina Zohr, married Magdalena Hunzicker, age 17, daughter of Johannes Unzicker and Barbara Uhlmann of Windstein. The following persons were witnesses and signed the marriage record: Joseph Zohr, farmer, age 47 years; Jacob Stepp, farmer, age 54 years, both residing at Windstein; Christian Bock, farmer, age 35 of Windstein; Christian Zohr, farmer, age 45 of Stultzthal.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 10 Nov 1836, New York, NY

Notes:

Obit: Gospel Herald, September 1874:

"Aug. 11th, in Woodford Co., Ill., of dropsy of the heart, Christian Erisman, aged 74 years, 4 months and 25 days. He leaves a bereaved wife and 15 children, who were all present before his death. Remarks suitable to the occasion were made by Joseph Stuckey, from 1 Peter 1:24. - Peace to his ashes."

Of Deer Creek, IL. Native of Stuttgart, Wurttemberg, Germany.

Birth:
, according to the Wimsheim Familien Register. However, when he died Aug. 11, 1874, his obituary said he was "aged 74 years, 4 months and 25 days." His headstone in Slabtown Cemetery at Goodfiield also says, "Christian Ehresman died Aug. 11, 1874 aged 74 Y. 4 M. & 25 D." This erroneous calculation would yield a birth date of March 16, 1800.

Immigration:
Ship Troy. The ship Troy sailed from Le Havre and arrived at New York City Nov. 10, 1836. The Ehresmans are found on the passenger list in a group of travelers from Baden: Christian Ehresman, 36; Anna, 22; Jacob, 10; Johann, 7; Elisabeth, 4; Christina [Christian], 3; Jacobina, 2; and Daniel, 1. According to the Troy passenger list, Daniel died at sea Oct. 26, 1836.

Buried:
Slabtown Cemetery

Christian + Magdalena Barnhardt. Magdalena (daughter of Johannes Barnhardt and Katharina Güngerich) died in 1834 in GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes: