Christian Salzman

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Millwright, Inventor

Notes:

Married Sophia Davish in 1890’s.

Buried:
Mennonite Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Apostolic Christian
• USR1: Consumption
• Census: 1860, Tazewell Co., IL
• Residence: 1862, Butler Co., OH
• Residence: 1866, Butler Co., St. Clair Twp., OH

Notes:

Obit: Jul 1871 Herald of Truth
On the 1st of May, after an illness of two years, in Butler County, Ohio, Arthur Salsman, aged 44 years, 11 months an 15 days. He had a desire to depart and be with Christ. He leaves a wife and six children. He was buried at the Apostolic Mennonite Church. Funeral discourses by Peter Kinsinger, from Heb. 13:14, and from Pre. Smoker from Ps. 39:5.
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Peter Schrock, Sr., was administrator of Arthur’s estate, which totaled $1612. Appraisers were Adam Flenner, B.F. Thomas, and C.K. Augspurger. Everything went to Magdalena and the four youngest children.

Birth:
(54) Parents were age 30 and 23 at time of his birth.

Census:
Morton Township. Living with wife, three sons, and a sister-in-law, Fanny Shrock, age 19.

Residence:
Moved back with his immediate family

Residence:
Wooddale farm owned by Peter Schrock

Buried:
Mennonite Cemetery #31

Joseph married Magdalena Schrag on 13 Nov 1853 in Butler Co., OH. Magdalena (daughter of Peter Schrock and Marie Zimmerman) was born on 7 Jun 1830 in Dompcevrin, Meuse, FR; died on 27 Jan 1878 in Butler Co., OH; was buried in Trenton, Butler Co., OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Magdalena’s two sisters, Maria and Frana, came to Illinois from Ohio for a visit. None of the three sisters were well, and Frana’s illness ended in death. Soon after this Magdalena and Arthur moved back to Butler Co., OH, to be with the Schrock family. After Arthur’s death Magdalena took her four small children to live at Fairview farm, but later she moved into a house owned by Peter in Trenton. She managed to send the two oldest boys to the Mennonite school in Wadsworth, Ohio--a school conducted in German for young men of eighteen and older.

In the fall of 1877 Magdalena became ill and died in January of 1878 after a lingering illness. Peter K. Augsburger was administer of the estate, and the family possessions were auctioned. Appraisers were F. V. Weaver, Philip Burger, and John V. Good. There were debts owed to the estate by John Schrock (Note dated Feb 10, 1879 for $450; and one dated Feb 28, 1879 for $130.40)--probably Magdalena’s brother. Some purchasers listed were: Peter Schrock, Samuel K. Augspurger, Daniel K. Augspurger, John K. Augspurger, Joseph Augspurger, George and Herman Augspurger, Jacob A. Augspurger, Joseph Rupp, Mrs. John Schrock, John Schrock, W. Kennel, John Salzman.

After their mother’s death the three older boys started out to make their own livings and the younger children became the wards of William B. Jotter. Anna went to live with the Peter K. Augspurger family, and Mary went into the home of a family named Bender.

Birth:
NASL: On June 7, 1830, Magdalena Gerard was born to Peter Gerard, 26, miller at Cheppe, and Maria Zimmermann (“Semarmane”), 25, at 1 a.m.; neither witness was related to the father (ni parens ni allies au pere) by birth or marriage; the record was filed on the day the birth took place. [The ages for Peter Gerard are as given in the records.]

Buried:
Mennonite Cemetery #31

Notes:

Married:
by Rev. Nicholas Augspurger

Other Events and Attributes:

• USR1: “Infirmities Of Age”
• Immigration: 30 Apr 1831, Butler Co., OH
• Census: 1840, Butler Co., St. Clair Twp., OH
• Census: 27 Sep 1850, Butler Co., St. Clair Twp., OH
• Residence: Dec 1853, Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1860, McLean Co., IL

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth Dec 1876
Nov. 3rd, in McLean Co., Ill., of the infirmities of age, Andrew SALZMAN, aged 77 years. Buried the 5th. Services by Joseph Stuckey, from Rev.14: 13.
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Andrew married Anne Catherine Hodler who was born 10 Oct. 1801 at Ste. Marie-aux-Mines, Upper Alsace to Christian Hodler and Madeleine Maurer. Andrew and family left Blamont, France four years later in 1831 to emigrate via Baltimore to Butler County, OH with Andrew's brother Michael (1799-1861). In Butler County Andrew declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States. In 1854 they moved to White Oak Twp. McLean County, IL and at the age of 77 Andrew died on 3 Nov. 1876 at the home of his daughter, Catherine Troyer in Danvers, of the "infirmities of age." Ann died 14 December 1891 at Hudson, McLean County also of the "infirmities of age." Her obituary records "her posterity number 79"...She was buried...in the Simon Lantz burial ground." From Find A Grave contributor Nancy J. Miller.

Birth:
At the stud farm Haras

Immigration:
Port of Baltimore

Census:
Living with wife and five children. Andrew and Anne were listed as “cannot read and cannot write.”

Residence:
Went west with his wife, two daughters and son Arthur and his new wife.

Census:
White Oak Township, living with daughter Barbara and her husband and two children. Andrew’s age is given as 60.

Died:
At home of daughter Catherine Troyer.

Buried:
Lantz Cemetery. Services by Joseph Stuckey.

André married Anne Catherine Hodler on 5 Feb 1827 in Val-de-Gueblange, Moselle, FR. Anne (daughter of Christian Hodler and Madeleine Maurer) was born on 10 Oct 1801 in St. Marie-aux-Mines, Moselle, FR; died on 14 Dec 1891 in Hudson, McLean Co., IL; was buried in Carlock, Dry Grove Twp., McLean Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1827, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, FR

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth, January 1892:
“Saltzman - On the 14th of December, 1891, at Hudson, McLean Co., Ill., of the infirmities of old age, Sister A. Saltzman, aged 89 years. She had been feeble for a long time. Her companion preceded her to the grave some years. Her posterity number 79, of which more than 20 are dead. She was buried on the 16th in the Simon Lantz burial ground. Funeral services by Pre. Goudie in English from 1 Cor. 15, and by John Stähly in German from John 14. The deceased was a beloved sister in the church, and we believe she has gone to her eternal rest.”

Birth:
68160

Residence:
at time of marriage

Died:
At home of daughter Catherine Troyer

Buried:
Lantz Cemetery

Notes:

André was 31 years and Ann was 25 yrs at the time of marriage.
Christian Christophe Christel Salzmann, born in 1793 at Petit Tenquin (57) but presently living at Veutzviller (brother of the groom) was a witness.

Married:
Brother Christian was a witness. The bride’s mother attended the wedding.

Other Events and Attributes:

• CLER: Y
• Occupation: Apprentice Miller At Robert-Espagne 1827. Miller At Cheppe Near Dompcevrin, Meuse 1828
• Occupation: Farmer In Butler Co., OH
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• USR1: Paralytic Stroke
• Residence: 1828-1830, Dompcevrin, Meuse, FR
• Immigration: 1831, Baltimore, MD
• Ordained: 1832, Butler Co., Lemon Twp., OH
• Residence: 1832, Butler Co., Lemon Twp., OH
• PURC: 22 Mar 1845, Butler Co., Lemon Twp., OH
• Census: 1850, Butler Co., Lemon Twp., OH
• Naturalization: 8 Oct 1855, Butler Co., Lemon Twp., OH
• PURC: 1 Apr 1856, Butler Co., Lemon Twp., OH

Notes:

Obit: HERALD OF TRUTH - October 15, 1887 - pp 318,319
SCHROCK. - At his home in Trenton, Butler County , Ohio, father Peter Schrock of a paralytic stroke brought on by old age, aged 85 years, 2 months and 20 days. He was faithful member of the Amish Mennonite Church, whose biblical teachings were his delight and guide until the close of a life which had reached beyond the scriptural limit. He leaves a wife, one son, eighteen grandchildren and one great - grandchild. His former wife, two sons and five daughters preceded him. The funeral services were held at the Mennonite Church by Pre. Werri, J. Yoder and P. Kinsinger.

Eight children were born to Peter and Magdalena, none to the second wife, Magdalena Rediger.

Peter served as a minister while living in Butler Co., OH. When the local church divided in 1835 over friction brought about by German Hessians arriving on the scene, Peter Schrock and Jacob Augspurger remained with the Augspurger group. Peter held meetings in his brick home and his descendants still call the front room of the home the “church room.” In 1863 a meeting house was built in St. Clair Township on Gephart Road. At about the same time the Hessian group was incorporated as the Apostolic Mennonite Society and they purchased land on Wayne-Madison road from John Good to be used for a church site and cemetery. Both meeting houses stood into the 1900s and the cemetery is still used today. After separating in 1835, the two congregations merged again in 1897.

In 1862 Peter attended the first Diener-Versammlung in Wayne Co., OH, where 400-500 people from up to 900 miles apart attended. On the agenda was the proper manner of baptism, the role of deacon, and the particular Butler County friction about luxurious dressing, musical instruments and worldly entertainment--all of which were voted as not permitted.

Peter's grandson, Homer, gave Willard Smith information about Peter's descendants. He is known as H.H. Schrock Implement Dealer, 801 Yankee Road, Middletown, Ohio, living in Butler County Ohio, where Peter first made his home. According to descendant, Jim Schrock, Peter established Fairview Farm (on SR63 between Monroe and LaSwordsville) about 1833, as that date was on the barn at the property. The farm and buildings no longer exist.

Among the records kept by Peter’s descendants, there appears the following 1916 recipe for beer:
5 gal water 6 oz hops Boil 1 hr. - 5 gal water 2 qts malt extract and 2 lb sugar Boil 20 min and cool to 60 add 3 cakes of year and ferment 48 hrs. Bottle as soon as fermented color w/2 oz carmel to 5 gal.

Peter had requested in his will that no appraisement be made of his estate, but on 1 Oct 1887, Executor’s Letters from the Judge of Butler Co. ordered that an appraisement be made. Among other items in Peter’s personal estate and property (made by John Good, F. Weaver, and Joseph Eicher) were the following:

Buggy, wagon jack, wheel barrow and ladder; tools; barrels, boxes and kegs; 19 bushel ear corn at .40 cts per bu. and 11 bu oats at .30 cts.

Loans due the estate included $370 from Sam’l Augspurger, with the notation “doubtful collection.”
Peter Schrock, Jr. and John Augspurger each owed $5000 (being a part of the purchase money on real estate sold by order of court).

Birth:
Probably at the mill in Gondrexange. (26 prairial an 10)
“The birth of Pierre Schrack, son of Joseph Schrack, miller, and Marie Neuhauser, took place on 26 Prairial X which should be converted to June 15, 1802, according to the most reliable conversion chart. The boy was born at 3 a.m., and the father dutifully registered the birth with local civil authorities later that very same day by carrying the newborn to the mayor's office. The two mandatory witnesses were not Anabaptists, and neither was a miller like the father. This tells me that the Schrack family may have been recruited to town to run the local mill -- there had to be a good source of water available -- and found themselves isolated from fellow believers, who, if available, would have been recruited by preference to witness the document. (Neil Ann Stuckey Levine)



Residence:
First two children were born here

Immigration:
Arrived in the spring with wife and first two children, along with brother Johannes and his family, and the Michael Salzman family. Included in the group was Jacob and Betsy (perhaps Barby?) Zimmerman, who were likely his wife’s parents.

Ordained:
Amish congregation, served after Bishop Krehbiel retired.

PURC:
After fulfilling two lease agreements for the then Ministerial Lands (first leased the south 81+ acres on 5 Jan 1829, then leased the north 81+ acres on 23 Mar 1833) Peter purchased from the State of Ohio the 162 76/100 acres he called Fairview Farm. This farm was sold in 1988 and no longer exists. It was on Rt. 63 (Formally R.R. #1 and the Hamilton Lebanon Rd.), Middletown, Lemon Township, once in view of LeSourdsville that lay to the west.

Census:
John Forney was living with the Peter Schrock family.

PURC:
Purchased 210 acres from Samuel and Susan Hull that was Woodsdale farm. The presend day address is 4870 Augspurger Rd., Hamilton, St. Clair Township. The home and bank barn can be seen from the highway on high ground overlooking the Great Miami River.

Died:
Gravestone date. Probate recording of his will says he died the 10th day of September 1887

Buried:
Mennonite Cemetery #20 (Date supplied by Jim Schrock)

Peter married Marie Zimmerman on 25 Aug 1827 in Robert-Espagne, Meuse, FR. Marie (daughter of Jacob Zimmermann and Elisabeth Becker (Becher,baechler?)) was born on 17 Apr 1801 in Emmendingen, Baden-Württemberg, GR; died on 31 Dec 1862 in Trenton, Butler Co., OH; was buried in Trenton, Butler Co., OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Day Worker In France At The Time Of Marriage.
• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

Jacob and Betsey Zimmerman and their children Christopher, John, Madaline, Catherine and Anna were on the same immigrant ship with Marie and Peter, and were Marie’s parents.


“The 1840 census of Lemon Township, Butler County, Ohio shows the household of Marie Zimmerman and son-in-law Peter Schrock: Peter Schrack, one male in the 30-39 year age range; two males 10-14; one female 30-39; one female 15-19; and two females under 5. It may be significant that the property next door had the name Elizabeth Bacher. That household has one female in the 30-39 year age range – too young to be his mother-in-law Elisabeth Becher/Becker – one female 10-14, and one female 5-9; one male 10-14, and one male 5-9. Did Peter and Marie place a house on or adjacent to their property in the name of Elisabeth Becher/Becker? If so, it is no longer apparent on the 1850 census.”

Birth:
[Grand] Duchy Of Baden] She was 27 in 1831 according to immigration ship list

Buried:
Augspurger Cemetery (no stone for Marie)

Notes:

Translation of marriage record by Neil Ann Stucky Levine:
 Here's what the marriage record says, with a few comments added.  I've used German spellings.  On Aug. 25, 1827, Peter Schrag, apprentice miller (compagnon meunier), 25, b. at Gondrexange, Meurthe [Moselle today], June 15, 1802, living in Robert-Espagne, son of majority age of Joseph Schrag, unskilled laborer (manoeuvre) and Maria Neuhauser, living at Rhodes, who did not attend the civil ceremony in Robert-Espagne but instead forwarded official notice of their consent via a royal notary at Sarrebourg in a document dated Aug. 22, 1827, married Maria Zimmermann, a day worker, 26, b. in Emmendingen, [Grand] Duchy of Baden, Apr. 17, 1801, daughter of majority age
of Jacob Zimmermann, unskilled laborer, and Elisabeth Becher [?Bächer or perhaps ?Baechler], his wife, both living in Robert-Espapgne, both of whom attended the civil ceremony.  
Banns at Robert-Espagne on Sundays, Aug. 12 and 19, at noon, and at Rhodes and Blâmont [?why here] on the same dates. All being in order, Peter Schrag and Maria Zimmermann are man and wife.  The four mandatory witnesses [the first two customarily for the groom, the second two for the bride]:
1) Joseph Engel, miller, 50, living in Robert-Espagne, friend of the couple;
2) Jean Pierre Olivier, locksmith (serrurier), 31, living in Robert-Espagne,
friend of the couple;
3) Jean Baptiste Hirat, tobacco retailer (débitant de tabac), 32, living in Robert-Espagne, friend of the couple; and
4) Hilaire Joseph Remy, operator of a boarding house (maître de pension), 29, living in
Robert Espagne.

Comments: No one of the four witnesses was a relative of either the bride or the groom, which indicates that there were likely no other relatives or fellow believers in town.  You will know the first witness, Joseph Engel, from my work on the Lange letters. The other three men just happened to be available in Robert-Espagne, and they were probably paid something to perform this civic duty.
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Married:
The bride was described as a 26-year-old day laborer born at Emmendingen, Baden April 7, 1801, a daughter of laborer Jacob Zimmerman and Elisabeth Becher, who were present and consenting. Witnesses included miller Joseph Engel, 50, a friend of the groom and resident of Robert-Espagne

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer At Haras and Farmer At Ste. Croix, both farms in Moselle
• Religion: Anabaptist
• Residence: Bef 1795, Petite-Tenquin, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1795, Sarralbe, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 24 Apr 1800, Sarralbe, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1810, Rhodes, Moselle, FR
• Residence: Bef 1821, Albestroff, Moselle, FR

Notes:

Petit-Tenquin (pop. 2009: 224) was destroyed during the Thirty Years War, then repopulated by Belgians. There is a passage of a Roman road in the village. Ferme Zelle is a former priory of Saint-Denis of Paris. (Population in 2009 was 224.) In 2012 “A La Ferme de Zellen” was owned by Koenig - Dubois.

Children Michael, Pierre, Catherine, Magdeleine, Barbe and Christian were all born at Zelle farm near Petite-Tenquin, but the parents registered the births at Sarralbe.

Later, Michel worked at St. Croix, most probably at the time Jean Gingerich was the leaseholder.

Michel Salzman was witness to the death of Christian Oyeman of Dulbestroff (Chateau-Salins). Both were living at Vallerade near Albestroff.

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One of four Anabaptist families living at Haras:

Michel Saltzmann and his wife Catherine Weiss came from Petit-Tenquin (57) in 1795. Two of their children were born at the Haras: one in 1795, who married in 1827 at Val-de-Guéblange (57), and another in 1800 that died the day after his birth. One son born in 1780 in Petit-Tenquin, Michel the young, married March 3, 1804 at Sarralbe to Hirschy Catherine, daughter of Pierre and Agnès Hirschy Farny. The couple had a child in 1804 who does not appear on the birth certificate. He probably left Sarralbe after that date, perhaps to the Val-de-Guéblange with parents and Michel’s brothers. (Translated by Google)
https://harasdesarralbe.home.blog/

son Christian, age 52, a farmer at Belgrad, and his neighbor Michel Saltzman, age 42, reported his death and declared that Michael Jantzi was 103 years and seven months. . .” }

Birth:
Seven miles east of Albestroff. 1751-1755 Death date calculated partially from son Michael’s marriage document.
“His death entry was recorded at Albestroff June 17, 1821. It gave his age as 66 (sources vary between 1749-55), and said he was born at “Olteuver.” The death entry of Catherine Weiss only a week later said she died at 63, and was born at Achlade or Achlach in Zweibru?cken (possibly Achslach in Bavaria) to Christian Weis and Catherine Zieguel [Siegel?]. Source 398

Residence:
Lived at the horse farm, Haras

Residence:
Haras

Residence:
At the farm Ste. Croix when Jean Gingerich was leaseholder

Residence:
Vallerade

Died:
At age 66 according to death record. 57670 (Cense de la Vallerade). Death record says Michel was a farmer at Vallerade, husband of Catheirne Weiss, son of Christian Salzman.

“His death entry was recorded at Albestroff June 17, 1821. It gave his age as 66 (sources vary between 1749-55), and said he was born at “Olteuver.” The death entry of Catherine Weiss only a week later said she died at 63, and was born at Achlade or Achlach in Zweibru?cken (possibly Achslach in Bavaria) to Christian Weis and Catherine Zieguel [Siegel?].” (Staker)

Michel married Catherine Weiss about 1778. Catherine (daughter of Christian Weis and Catherine Zieguel) was born in 1758 in Achlade (Achslach?), Zweibrücken, GR; died on 24 Jun 1821 in Albestroff, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Calculated from death document

Died:
57670 (Cense de la Vallerade) at the age of 63

Christian + Madeleine Maurer. Madeleine died after 1827. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of Ste. Marie-aux-Mines. Attended the marriage of her daughter.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Miller In Gondrexange and Imling, And At Rhodes (Bachat) At The Time Of Death
• Occupation: Unskilled Laborer In 1827 At Time Of Peter’s Marriage
• Religion: Amish
• Residence: 1797, Rhodes, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1799-1807, Gondrexange, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1811, Imling, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1822, Rhodes, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1826, Rhodes, Moselle, FR

Notes:

At the time of Joseph’s brother Jean’s marriage in 1797, he was living at Moulin Les Bachats near Rhodes. Bachats is attached to Rhodes, 9 km north of Gondrexange. There is a walled Anabaptist cemetery at the edge of town, bordering a cow pasture, where Pelsy, Esch, Abresol families, and more, are buried.

The 'ferme des Les Bachats' at Rhodes is still operational and maintains an inn. It is located on a peninsula in L'Étang de Stock (Stock Pond). A bachat is a feeding trough for cattle, indicating that it may have once been a dairy farm.

Joseph married his first wife, Marie Engel at Alzing farm near Gosselming in 1798. Very soon after they were living at Gondrexange, for their first and only child (Joseph, who lived only 5 years) was born there. Marie died there, possibly as a result of child birth complications. A second time Joseph went to Alzing to marry his second wife, Marie Neuhauser, but returned to Gondrexange to live and work. Their first three sons and one daughter (Anne, who evidently died as an infant) were born between 1801 and 1806.

Joseph and his wives could have lived at Domaine Ketzing for a time, a nobleman’s possession, who hired workers to farm and run the mill, blacksmith workers, brick kilns, etc., but this isn’t documented. Living quarters were provided in the woods some distance from the main chateaus. Today one can find a few foundation stones of buildings, and the remains of a well that served the workers. (2012) There was no persecution of Anabaptists during this time at Ketzing, as the Duke of Lorraine protected them. Today Ketzing is owned by an insurance company: a newer building is used for training seminars. The domaine is part of the forestry department and the chateaus provide lodging for hunters.

But more than likely the family lived at the mill in Gondrexange, since Joseph was the miller there for a number of years from about 1800 to 1811.

By 1811 the family had moved to Imling near Saarebourg. They lived at one of the three mills along the Saare River, Remeling, when their first daughter was born. The other two mills were Rimling, and Rot (Roth) (also called Rotmuhle). All three mills were situated side by side along the banks of the Saare. Eleven years later Joseph and Marie were back at Bachats, and were there in 1826. No doubt they lived there continuously until Joseph’s death in 1830. Marie was still living in 1826, but what happened to her after that is still unknown.

“Joseph Schrack, 33, miller, ...witnessed the civil birth record of Johannes Gascho, Born on 8 Jan, 1806, son of Joseph Gascho, lease-manager of the agricultural property called Canardiere in Gondrexange, and Katharina Swalter.”

“Gondrexange had two mills, one was sacred for the construction of the Marne-Rhine canal. It is logical that in a given period an Anabaptist was a miller. Joseph Schrag from Bellegarde, commune of Bistroff, had the mill turned from about 1800 to 1807. He was married to Marie Neuhauser who gave him several children in Gondrexange. Did he then go to Rhodes where he died in 1830?

“His sister Catherine, born in Oderfang, Saint-Avold, married the mill boy Joseph Oyer in 1804 and went to Niderhoff's mill. Joseph Schrag was probably replaced or was he in competition with André Schertz enumerated in 1809 as head of the family. He was the son of Christian Schertz and Elisabeth Reitiger. The only act that reveals his presence is his testimony at the death of his father at the age of 55 years.”

Birth:
Belgrade farm. Commune of Grostenquin. Belgerade (Bellegarde) farm was built around 1818 according to Jean-Claude Koffel.

Residence:
Living at Moulin les Bachats at time of brother Jean’s marriage.

Residence:
At the mill in Gondrexange where four children were born.

Residence:
Lived at the mill Remeling near Imling at the birth of Magdelaine in 1811, was still there in 1813 according to source 1056.

Residence:
Living at the mill at Bachats at time of Johannes and Catherine’s marriage

Died:
“On Apr. 5, 1830, Joseph Serack, 58, miller, a native of the farm called Belgrade [canton of Bistroff], Moselle, husband of Maria Neuhauser, died in Rhodes. The death was reported by son Peter Serack, 27, miller at Dompcevrin, Meuse.”
(Translation by NASL)


Buried:
Most probably in a burying ground on the farm/mill Bachats.

Joseph married Maria Neuhauser about 1800 in Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR. Maria (daughter of Nicolas Christian Neuhauser and Catherine Marie Ritzieker (Regsecker) (Lithzieker)) was born about 1772-1773 in Gosselming, Moselle, Lorraine, FR; died after 1826. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Anabaptist

Notes:

Alzing was already mentioned in 1525 as being a farm of the seigniory of Sarreck. In 1556, she was a possession of the counts of Lutzelbourg, then of the count de Custine. Alzing seems to have been in ancient times an important locality. The heart of Alzing remained an Anabaptist community.

Marie is almost certainly part of the Neuhauser family which lived in Gosselming and was well known to Schrag and Engel families--a sister to Jean Neuhauser, who was a witness to Joseph’s marriage to Marie Engel, since Marie’s mother had secondly married Jean’s father, Nicholas Neuhauser.

Her death is still a mystery. There is a Mary Gerrard listed along with Anna and Madeline Gerrard on the ship Baltimore, on which the family sailed to America in 1831. Her age is given as 52, and that fits fairly well with her probable birth date. However, except for a notation by son Peter in his Bible saying his mother died 27 January 1839, there has been no other data found about when (or where) she died, and no mention of her by any family members in America, or researchers finding evidence of her presence in America.

Gosselming (part of Meurthe before 1870 had 795 people in 1836, 542 in 2001) is situated at the extremity of a forest named Selvald, on the left bank of the Saar River, 6 km south of Fenetrange, 9 km from Sarrebourg, and 72 km from Nancy. The farm Alzing is 5 km west of Gosselming.

Birth:
Birth year calculated from son Johannes’ marriage document--she was 53 at the time. No doubt born at Alzing farm.

In a letter dated Aug 16, 1953, Homer Schrock (Ohio) writes to a cousin:
In going thru some of my great grandfather’s papers today (Peter, Sr.) in his Bible it said My mother died 27 January 1839 maiden name Bropfin and was born in Mariabirch. So far I haven’t found his father’s name.


Died:
She was present at Johannes and Catherine’s marriage in 1826.
In a letter dated Aug 16, 1953, Homer Schrock (Ohio) writes to a cousin:
“In going thru some of my great grandfather’s papers today (Peter, Sr.) in his Bible it said My mother died 27 January 1839 maiden name Bropfin [?] and was born in Mariabirch [Merlebach].”

Notes:

Married:
Alzing?

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Unskilled Laborer
• Religion: Anabaptist
• Residence: 1801, Robert-Espagne, Meuse, FR

Notes:

On their daughter Marie’s marriage document her parents were named as “ farm equipment operator Jacob Zimmerman and Elisabeth Becher, residents of Robert-Espagne who were present and consenting. “

{Jacob appears as a witness on a number of civil entries at Robert-Espagne, Meuse in 1827 and 1828. All of the entries give ages that result in an approximate birth year of 1782. ]

Residence:
At the time of Magdalena’s marriage.

Jacob + Elisabeth Becker (Becher,baechler?). Elisabeth was born about 1784. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]