Elizabeth Rediger

Notes:

No children.

Birth:
Ottevirehof

Buried:
Waldo Cemetery

Family/Spouse: Joseph Burkey. Joseph (son of Joseph Burcky and Catherine Schlegel) was born on 26 Oct 1837; died on 10 Aug 1909; was buried in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Christian married Magdalena Stalter on 18 Jan 1829. Magdalena (daughter of Christian Stalter and Elizabeth Rinkenberger) was born on 10 Dec 1805; died on 5 Jan 1877 in Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• RWDN: Magdalena had eight known children, seven daughters, then one son.
• Emigration: 1868

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: S211
• RWDN: S211

Notes:

The first Stalter to live at Wahlerhof. Had nine children, listed in source.
Became an elder in the Zweibrücken congregation., ,

Died:
Wahlerhof

Christian married Elizabeth Rinkenberger on 18 Nov 1804 in Mittelbach, Zweibrücken, GR. Elizabeth (daughter of Josef Rinkenberger and Maria Leyenberger) was born on 2 Jun 1783; died on 16 Jan 1847 in Hengstbach, Zweibrücken, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Wahlerhof

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 78
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• RWDN: S21

Notes:

One of the effects of the French revolution was the annexing of the territories to the north east of what was then France. This included Belgium, Savoy, Nice, and all lands up to the Rhine River. This was accomplished by 1793. This change of government had to have been noticed by our Stalter ancestors. When the Kirschbacher Hof estate was ransacked by the invading armies the Heinrich Stalter family took temporary refuge with eldest son, Christian, who was a leasholder on the Bickenaschbacher Hof. For reasons unknown, this estate was not destroyed. Christian Stalter was residing on Bickenaschbacher Hof when he died in 1831.

In 1800 Hienrich Stalter died on the Tenschof estate. His widow apparently returned to the Bickenaschbacher Hof for it was from here that she wrote a letter to the former Duke Max Joseph of Zweibrücken. In this letter, which is still kept in an archives in Munich, she explains her gloomy circumstances, and reminds the Elector of his promise given to her husband at the occasion of his visit at the Elector’s exile at Rohrbach castle near Heidleberg; namely that the Stalter family should obtain another estate as soon as “his Highness should acquire other dominions”.

The Elector, in fact, remembered his promise and ordered that the Stalter family (several sons and a nephew of Heinrich Stalter) could possess considerable estates from the nationalized Upper Bavarian Abbey’s properties. These Abbey (church) properties were available because, as part of the changes brought about by the French Revolution, there was a great reduction in the power of the Catholic Church. Church lands were confiscated and sold, or used by the French government to gain the support of those “German” noblemen who had lost property as a result of the revolution. This helped the French, because these new properity holders now were indebted to the French authorities, and therefore more likely to support the French in the new regime. This also helped our Stalter ancestors, because now there was land available for them to farm which the Elector could use to keep his promise to his friend, Heinrich Stalter.

A number of other Amish families followed the Stalters to Bavaria, where the government readily accepted them to cultivate the abandoned Abbey’s estates. The Bavarian government was quite aware of the special abilites of the Mennonite farmers.,

Birth:
Tenscherhof in Lorhringen

Died:
Bickenaschbacherhof

Christian married Magdalena Hauter in 1785. Magdalena (daughter of Johannes Hauter and Magdalena Schrag) was born in Jun 1759 in Ixheim, GR; died on 11 Dec 1805 in Hengstbach, Zweibrücken, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 79
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Birth: 1759
• Death: 1805

Notes:

Info. about Magdalena and her family from Cender papers and Stewart chart.,

Died:
Bichashbacherhof, GR

Josef + Maria Leyenberger. Maria (daughter of Ulrich Leyenberger and Anni Zougg (Zaug, Zaugg, Zook)) was born in 1688. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Widow of Valentin Wagler.