Andrew Hieser

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Amish Mennonite - Pleasant Grove Church

Notes:

Obit: (fromTCGHS “The Monthly” Dec 2005)
Death of Andrew Heiser
Andrew Heiser a well known farmer of Elm Grove township died at his home Tuesday morning after an illness of two years with cancer of the ____ach (stomach?).
The deceased was born in Elm Grove township Oct. 27, 1856 and was the son of Joseph and Barbara Heiser. All his life has been spent in the neighborhood in which he was born. His marriage to Emma Naffziger took place Jan. 14, 1886 and the wife and three children, Elmer, and reuben Heiser and Mrs. Oscar Miller survive him. He also leaves two brothers, Joseph Heiser of this place and Chris Heiser of Minier and one sister, Mrs. Jacob Naffziger of this place. He was a man held in high esteem by all who knew him and will be greatly missed in the community where he had resided so long.
The funeral services were held Thursday morning at 10 o’clock at the Pleasant Grove Church of which he was a member. The services were conducted by Rev. Samuel Gerber.

Died:
Funeral by Rev. Samuel Gerber

Buried:
Pleasant Grove Mennonite Cemetery

Andrew married Emma C. Nafziger on 14 Jan 1886 in Tazewell Co., IL. Emma was born on 5 Jan 1856; died on 28 Feb 1929; was buried in Tremont, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Butler Co., OH
• Immigration: 17 Sep 1838, NY
• Residence: 1848, Dillon Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1850, Dillon Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1870, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1880, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Obit: Hof T Obit: Jan 1, 1893
HIESER - On the 8th of November, 1892, near Pekin, Tazewell Co., Ill., of the infirmities of old age and other complaints, Bro. Joseph Hieser, aged 74 years, 8 months and 8 days. He leaves an aged widow, three sons and four daughters to mourn his death. He begged his family not to weep for him, for he said he was going home to Jesus. His remains were laid to rest at Pleasant Grove on the 10th. Funeral services by David Augsburger of Washington, Pre. King of Mackinaw, P. Ropp of Pekin, and J. Burckey of Tiskilwa.

“Joseph went to Dillon in 1848 to work laying railroad tracks. He labored on the rails to Peoria until 1850, but came away with little savings.

Following his arrival in Tazewell County, Joseph Hieser worked [in 1850] on the first railroad built into Peoria, and on account of dishonesty he was never paid for his labor. Until his marriage the home of Joseph Hieser was cared for by his mother, who had subsequently joined her son. She is now deceased and lies in the cemetery of Elm Grove Township.”

Census:
Joseph 'Hiser', 30; 'Madaline', 62, and Jacob, 34.

Census:
Joseph Heiser, 50, farmer; Barbara, 40; Christian, 19, farm laborer; Joseph, 17; Andrew, 14; Barbara, 14; Magdalena, 10, Elizabeth, 8; and Maria, 5. They appear on the 1880 census of Elm Grove as 'Jos. Hiser', 62, farmer; Barbara, 52, keeping house; Andrew, 23; Barbara, 23; Mary, 15; and Elisabeth [Barbara's mother], 67.

Died:
At 71 yrs. 8 mo., 8 days.

Buried:
Pleasant Grove Mennonite Cemetery

Joseph married Barbara Schrag on 4 Feb 1851 in Tazewell Co., IL. Barbara (daughter of Christian Schrag and Elisabeth Bircki) was born on 17 Aug 1828 in Koesching, Bavaria, GR; died on 30 Oct 1911 in Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Tremont, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Gravestone date

Died:
Gravestone date

Buried:
Pleasant Grove Mennonite Cemetery

Notes:

Married:
by Andrew Ropp. Page 188 Tazewell Marriage Index

Other Events and Attributes:

• EARL: Y
• Occupation: Medical Assistant or Care Giver {According To Helmut Funk Of Weierhof Working With Gary Waltner, and Joseph Staker}
• Residence: 1815-1818, Hanfeld, Bavaria, GR

Notes:

Residence:
lived on the grounds of the castle estate of major general Maximilian Graf von Spreti at Arzbach bei Dachau from 1815 to May 4, 1818.

Jacob married Magdalena Eyer on 25 Nov 1816 in Arzbach, Bavaria, GR. Magdalena (daughter of Jakob Eyer and Magdalena Birki) was born in 1788 in FR; died on 19 Oct 1851 in Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Dillon Twp., Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

History of Illinois:
"Until his marriage the home of Joseph Hieser was cared for by his mother, who had subsequently joined her son. She is now deceased and lies in the cemetery of Elm Grove Township."

Birth:
Hatten in Lower Alsce?

Census:
Joseph Hiser, 30; Madaline, 62; and Jacob, 34.

Buried:
Magdalena is thought to be buried in one of the unmarked graved at Landes Mennonite Cemetery.

Notes:

Married:
Described the groom as Bauer Jakob Hiser, living in House No. 10, born in 1788, a son of Nicolaus Hiser and Katharina Hiser.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Anabaptist (Wiedertaufer)
• USR1: Pulmonary tuberculosis

Notes:

“Mennonite family Schrag from Giesing (Community Au) six family members together have 1000 Gulden as John Schrag counted out for the tribunal. The family is from the Bavarian Rhine District (Palatinate) with the following persons: Jakob, 84 years old previously farmed several estates, now in Giesing supported by his children. Children: Magdalena, servant with farmer Haslinger in Giesing; Katharina at home with her father; Joseph, hired hand in Kloster Scheyern; Johann, works as brandywine maker; Daniel, hired hand with farmer Glaser in Freimann. A son of Jakob Schrag of the first marriage with the name Jakob Muller [called a step-son in the first application] emigrated to America 13 years ago and settled in ‘Wilmont.’ He left behind a child by Barbara W., hired girl in Weissenfels by Pardorf, Munich, Katharina Muller, who is now 13 years old and is now in the care of the Mennonite Holly at Linden, District of Ebersberg. The Schrag family wish to take this child with them to America. Mother and guardian are agreed. The sons of Schrag performed their military duty. No other hindrance. The family, for three years in Giesling, complains that they are being sent around from one authority to the other. (2 Dec 1837)

They farmed at Kösching, a suburb of Ingolstadt, adjacent to Hellmannsberg, where the Sutters leased an estate in 1811.

Christian died near Munich in 1831. His parents, brothers, and sisters went to Canada in 1837.

Birth:
Freudenbergerhof

Died:
Near Munich

Buried:
by a Catholic priest

Christian married Elisabeth Bircki about 1821. Elisabeth was born on 24 Jan 1802 in FR; died on 24 Jan 1892 in Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• USR1: infirmities of old age

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth, February 1892:
"On the 24th of January, 1892, near Pekin, Ill., of the infirmities of old age, Elizabeth, widow of Christian Schrag, aged 90 years. She had been a widow for 31 years [61 years?]. She leaves four children, 23 grandchildren and 54 great-grandchildren. Her last words were, 'Come, Lord Jesus.' Buried in the Pleasant Grove graveyard. Funeral services by D. Roth, P. Ropp, Em. and Joseph Litwiller, and Joseph Buercky, of Tiskilwa, Ill."
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Elizabeth traveled to Butler Co., OH with her daughter Barbara after the death in Germany of her husband where Barbara may have met and become engaged to Joseph Heiser. From there they went to the Elm Grove area of Tazewell Co. She may have been a daughter of Christian “Christel Burcky/Bircki and Barbara/Barbe Koch.

{She and her daughter migrated to Illinois, Pleasant Grove. )

Buried:
Pleasant Grove Cemetery as Elizabeth Schrag (Aug 2020 - unable to find this in FAG)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cultivator

Notes:

Wife was his second cousin.

Nicolas + Anna Maria Goldschmidt. Anna (daughter of Hans Heinrich Goldschmidt and Anna Maria Neuhauser) was born on 16 May 1750 in Ste. Marie-Aux-Mines (Markirch), Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FR; died on 26 Sep 1831 in Uffing, Bavaria, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anna Maria and Noe went to live at Hanfeld, because Noe’s daughter by his first marriage was married to an Oesch there.

Died:
Thirty miles south of Hanfeld on the Streicherhof.

Notes:

Jakob was a farmer from Zweibrücken and leased the Prullhof of the cloister Scheiern in Bavaria, then the Stillerhof near Landsberg. He was also elder of the Mergenthau congregation near Friedberg (Augsburg), Bavaria.

Jakob + Magdalena Birki. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmed on both Freudenbergerhof and Kaplaneihof estates near Ernstweiler. Also at Gradhof.
• Residence: ?, Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR
• Immigration: 1837, Tavistock, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1837, Munich, Bavaria, GR

Notes:

This couple farmed on the Freudenbergerhof estate near Zweibrücken. The family moved to Bavaria where Daniel was born in 1813. When the family applied for permission to emigrate, Jacob and daughter Catherine were living at Gradhof, Giesing, Munich.

In 1837, Daniel was at Freimann and father Jacob and daughters Magdalena and Catherine were at Giesing.

All of the family except wife Magdalena emigrated to Canada.
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The Schrag family lived on different farms as tenants in Bavaria. The last place was in Giesing / Munich 1837.
In the state archive in Munich I found under Fazikel RA 1730 following entry:
From here, the familie applied for emigration to Upper Canada. Six family members filed for emigration in March 1837. Their fortune was 1000 Guldiers. The family came from the “Bavaria Rhine circel“ also Palatinate.
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Regarding the military discharge certificates for the Schrag brothers, I have found a relevant and interesting paragraph in Hermann Hage's German dissertation on Amish Mennonites in Bavaria: Translation by Sem Sutter, 2020

“The three brothers Josef, Johann and Daniel Schrag, born on the Kaplaneihof in Pfalz-Zweibrücken or in Bavaria, performed their military service in the Bavarian army before 1835, although the family had lived since 1812 on the Gradhof, today in Kösching, Eichstatt, which would have included them in the exemption from military service for colonists from the left bank of the Rhine. Apparently they did not have the knowledge or the means to protect their sons from military service. In 1838 they were finally able to emigrate from Munich to Canada.”

(From Herbert Holly on 8 Nov 2019: In the folder from the state archive Munich 11.8.2019:
Faszikel Mennoniten:
Military discharge certificate: No. 82 - Johann Schrag, Joseph Schrag, Daniel Schrag.
Report from the captain of the ship “Altona” from the death of Peter Schrag of Palatinate.)

Widower Jacob emigrated in 1837. According to Holly, his application for emigration documents was dated May 26, 1837. A National Archives list of passengers arriving at Baltimore from foreign ports in September 1837 shows Jacob Schrag, 84; John, 32; Daniel, 24; Magdalene, 36; Catherina, 34; and Catherina Miller, 13. An archives index card says they arrived Oct. 1, 1837.



From Joe Staker
The Schrags of Kösching

Ulrich Schrag and Marie Stalter were the parents of Jacob Schrag. He was born on the Gersbergerhof estate (three miles northeast of the city of Zweibrücken) in July 1760, and died at Wilmot, Ontario April 25, 1838.
Jacob married Magdalena Holly. She was born at Nehwiller-près-Woerth, Lower Alsace in 1767, and died at Wilmot Oct. 29, 1838, a daughter of minister Jörg/Georg Holly and Barbara Bürki. They farmed on the Freudenbergerhof estate near Zweibrücken.

Their son Christian Schrag was born there Dec. 24, 1798. He married Elizabeth Bürki/Birkey, who was born circa Jan. 24, 1802. They farmed at Kösching, above Ingolstadt. Kösching is adjacent to Hellmannsberg, where the Sutters leased an estate in 1811.
Christian died at Unterföhring (a suburb on the northeast side of Munich) Aug. 26, 1831.
Christian's parents [s/b father only], brothers, and sisters went to Canada in 1837. Elizabeth also emigrated from Europe with her children, arriving at New Orleans in 1846. At first they lived in Butler County, where Barbara may have met and become engaged to Joseph Heiser.
Heiser went to Dillon to work on railroad tracks in 1848. He labored on the rails to Peoria until 1850, but came away with little savings. Joseph and Barbara married Feb. 4, 1851, and lived at Elm Grove.
Elizabeth lived to be 90, and died Jan. 24, 1892. She is buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery as 'Elizabeth Schrag.' Herald of Truth, February 1892: "On the 24th of January, 1892, near Pekin, Ill., of the infirmities of old age, Elizabeth, widow of Christian Schrag, aged 90 years. She had been a widow for 31 years [61 years]. She leaves four children, 23 grandchildren and 54 great-grandchildren. Her last words were, 'Come, Lord Jesus.' Buried in the Pleasant Grove graveyard. Funeral services by D. Roth, P. Ropp, Em. and Joseph Litwiller, and Joseph Buercky, of Tiskilwa, Ill."
The children of Christian Schrag and Elizabeth Bürki/Birkey include:

1. Elizabeth Schrock was born circa March 30, 1814, and died at Hopedale March 19, 1899. Circa 1849 she married Michael Saltzman. They are found on the 1870 census of Chenoa, McLean County as day laborer Michael Salsman, 53, France; Elizabeth, 47, France; Mary, 22; Eliza, 21; Mike, 18; John, 16; Joseph, 13; and Christian, 6; all children born in Louisiana. Herald of Truth, April 1899: "On the 19th of March, 1899, near Hopedale, Ill., Elizabeth Schrack, wife of Michael Saltzman, aged 78 years, 11 months and 19 days. She lived in matrimony over 50 years, and leaves her aged companion, four sons and two daughters, 17 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren and many friends to mourn their loss. She was a faithful member of the Amish Mennonite congregation and was deeply interested in the spiritual welfare of her children and of the church. Buried on the 21st of March. Funeral services by Joseph and John Egli, Daniel Nafziger and J .C. Birky. C."
2. Magdalena Schrock was born March 24, 1824, and died at Hopedale Nov. 9, 1914. On July 8, 1855 in Tazewell County she married Noah Augsburger. He was born in Bavaria Nov. 30, 1819, and died at Boynton July 17, 1903, a son of Noé Augspurger/Noah Augsburger and Elisabeth Eyer. See AUGSBURGER for more on this couple.
3. Christian Schrag/Schrock was born in Bavaria April 24, 1826, and died at Flanagan, Livingston County Oct. 29, 1917. On March 14, 1852 in Tazewell County he married Maria/Mary Zimmerman. She was born at St. Valentin, Indre Oct. 5, 1835, and died Dec. 20, 1920, a daughter of Michael Zimmerman and his second wife Magdalena Erb. Gospel Herald, November 1917: "Christian Schrock was born in Bavaria April 24, 1826; died at his home near Flanagan, Livingston Co., Ill., Oct. 29, 1917; aged 91 y. 6 m. 5 d. He emigrated to New Orleans, La., in 1846, and in 1850 came to Pekin, Tazewell Co., where in 1852 he married Mary Zimmerman. They resided at this place until 1868 when they moved to Nebraska Twp., being of the earliest settlers. Twelve children were born to them. He united with the Amish Mennonite Church when a young man and remained a faithful member. He leaves a devoted wife and seven children, also 25 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the house by Bro. D. M. Slagle and at the Church by Bro. Dan Orendorff in German and Bro. Geo. Sommer in English. Buried in the Waldo Cemetery." Gospel Herald, January 1921: "Mary Zimmerman was born near Paris, France, Nov. 5, 1835; died from the effects of a fall (pneumonia also setting in causing her much suffering which she bore patiently) Dec. 20, 1920; aged 85 y. 1 m. 15 d. She was converted in her youth, was received into the A.M. Church, and remained faithful. She had a smile and a pleasant word for all. Sh e came to America with her parents in 1838 locating near Canton, Ohio, where they resided until 1841, when they came to Pekin, Ill. In 1852 she was married to Christian Schrock. In 1868 they came to Livingston Co. near where Flanagan is now situated. Twelve children were born to them. Six of them with the husband preceded her. She leaves 6 children, 24 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, and 1 brother. Funeral services were held at the Waldo A.M. Church by the home ministers, Dec. 22. Burial in the Waldo Cemetery."
4. Barbara Schrock was born at Kösching Aug. 17, 1828, and died in Tazewell County Oct. 30, 1911. On Feb. 4, 1851 in Tazewell County she married Joseph Heiser. He was born in Bavaria March 1, 1818. His headstone at Pleasant Grove Cemetery says he died Nov. 9, 1892 at 71 years, 8 months, 8 days.

Birth:
Gersbergerhof.

Residence:
Kaplaneihof

Immigration:
Front sheet of document on hand (Herbert Holly)
1) Jakob Schrag age 84, Farmer live since years in Giesing , his children
2) Magdalena Schrag , Maidservant by a farmer Haslinger in Giesing
3) Katharina Schrag, at home withe the father
4) Joseph Schrag, servant in cloister Scheuern
5) Joahnn Schrag, a brandy burner
6) Daniel Schrag, servant by farmer Glkaser in Freimann near Munich

Residence:
Giesing-At the time of immigration

Buried:
(Old Baden) Kropf Baden Cemetery

Jakob + Magdalena Holly. Magdalena (daughter of Georg (Jörg) Holly and Barbara Bürki (Buerge)) was born in 1762 in Nehwiller, Reichshoffen, Bas-Rhin, FR; died on 29 Oct 1828 in Johanneskirchen, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Anabaptist
• Immigration: 1837

Notes:

Birth:
Nehwiller-près-Woerth.

Died:
House No. 8, near Munich and Unterförhing, with Johann Beckler, a faith brother.

Buried:
Burial by Daniel Zehr