Emilie (Emelia) Unzicker

Notes:

Birth:
Grave marker gives year as 1855

Buried:
Lakeside Cemetery

Emilie married John S. Sommer on 24 Oct 1878. John (son of John Sommer and Barbara Schertz) was born on 14 Oct 1849 in Tazewell Co., IL; died on 24 Mar 1935 in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Wilbert C. Sommer was born on 28 Mar 1880; died on 16 Oct 1957.
2. Arthur U. Sommer was born in 1883; died in 1965; was buried in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL.
3. Oscar Julius Sommer was born in 1886; died in 1961.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Oct 1847, Butler Co., OH
• Residence: 1849, Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Naturalization: 1856, Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1860, Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1870, Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1880, Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Apparently joined the Hessian congregation in Butler Co., OH.

Birth:
Offentaler estate

Census:
farmer Peter Unsenker, 44, Germany; Catharine, 28, Germany; August, 10, Illinois; Magdelin, 9, Illinois; Anna Eliza, 5; and laborer Louis Greene, 25, Germany. The 1864 plat map shows 'P. Unzicker' living in woodland just above the Roberts, Roth, and Staker farms in the northwesst corner of Morton.

Census:
farmer Peter Unsicker, 56; Catharine, 45; Augusta [August], 26; Magdalena, 19; Amelia [Emilie], 16; Magdalena Kennel, 79; farm laborer Benedict Hauger, 38; and Julia [Julius] Unsicker, 26 [6].

Census:
farmer Peter Unsicker, 64; Catherine, 54; and farmer Julius, 36, born in Illinois to a father from Wiesbaden and a mother from Bavaria.

Buried:
Hirstein Cemetery

Peter married Katharina Kennel on 30 Dec 1848 in Butler Co., OH. Katharina (daughter of Johannes Kennel and Magdalena Katharina Naffziger) was born on 1 Oct 1822 in Dreisen, Palatinate, GR; died on 11 Jan 1898 in Morton, Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Morton, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1830

Notes:

Birth:
Kirchheimbolanden

Immigration:
With her family on ship De Rham

Buried:
Hirstein Cemetery

Notes:

Of Grebeneckerhof, Nassau-Weiburg, on the left side of the Rhine.
Leaseholder of Offental estate, near St. Goarshausen in Duchy of Nassau-Weilburg from 1813.

Jakob married Elisabeth Jordy on 14 Dec 1807 in Trippstadt, Palatinate, GR. Elisabeth (daughter of Jakob Jordy and Magdalena Imhof) was born on 4 Dec 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of Wilensteinerhof.

Birth:
My handwritten notes indicate the birthdates of Elisabeth Jordy and Jacques Unzicker were found in the Trippstadt Civil Register (Zivilstandsregister 1803-1957) where their marriage was recorded (LDS FHL #489216). I do not have a photocopy of the entry - only my notes on the page where I was writing down the information as I viewed the microfilm.

Notes:

Married:
Three witnesses were described as uncle-of-the-bride farmer Christian Imhof, 50, living at Wilenstein; farmer Jean Imhof, 46, living at Wilenstein; and farmer 'Gaspard Schantz,' 39, living on the Wachenhof estate at Idstein.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1830, New Orleans, LA
• Residence: 1831, Butler Co., OH

Notes:

One or more of these children may have been born to other wives.

Immigration:
Ship Superior from Dreisen, Palatinate

Buried:
Collinsville Cemetery

Johannes married Magdalena Katharina Naffziger on 5 Feb 1808 in GR. Magdalena (daughter of Valentin Nafziger and Magdalena Spring) was born on 21 May 1791 in Fränkisch-Crumbach, Hesse, GR; died on 13 Feb 1873 in Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Morton, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1830, New Orleans, LA

Notes:

Birth:
Obertraisa estate

Immigration:
Ship Superior

Buried:
Hirstein Cemetery

Notes:

Married:
Beunigweiler

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

Johannes + Katharina Holly. Katharina (daughter of Jakob Holly and Marie Kurtz) died in St. Goarshausen, Nassau-Weilburg, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Offenthal Estate

Notes:

Jakob lived his entire life on the Wilensteinerhof near Trippstadt.

“Between 1790 and Aug. 1, 1797 Jacob took up the lease on the Frönsburgerhof at Lembach, Lower Alsace. The name Jacob Jordÿ, described as a "bestander auf demFrönsburger hoff," is found as a witness on the civil death entry of Carolatha Häberlin at Lembach on that date. His age was given as 39 and one-half years. He signed 'Jacob Jordÿ erbestander.' An Erbbeständer is a property owner with ownership rights that can be passed down by descendants as long as conditions of the overlord are met. At the same time Veronika/Veronique's brother Johannes/Jean Habecker and his wife Katharina/Catherine Schantz were living in the nearby Katzenthal, a valley outside the village but within the boundaries of Lembach. “

Died:
Wilensteinerhof

Jakob married Magdalena Imhof in 1781. Magdalena (daughter of Peter Imhof and Veronica Rocke) was born in Mar 1765 in Trippstadt, Palatinate, GR; died on 17 Feb 1787. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Langensohlerhof

Died:
12 Feb 1794 according to Virgil Miller in Both Sides of the Ocean

Other Events and Attributes:

• CLER: Y

Notes:

Lease-manager and landowner, Herfingerhof, and Amish Mennonite minister.
Lived at one time on Munsterhof in the Palatinate.

Birth:
Source 243 gives birth year as 1746 at Munsterhof

Died:
Herfingerhof

Peter + Elisabeth Muller. Elisabeth was born about 1750; died in 1803. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth Muller inherited a large estate, Herfingerhof, from her Schwartztrauber relatives.The farm was about 500 acres near the village of Berrstadt in the Palatinate. She owned it and her husband, Peter, operated it. There they raised their four children.

Notes:

“General Notes: Died alone and forsaken by all of his children and numerous step-children from four marriages, all of whom had emigrated to America.”

Birth:
Near Worms, Russia

Died:
at their home Klostergasse (monastery lane)

Valentin married Magdalena Spring on 12 Jul 1804 in Hochheim, GR. Magdalena (daughter of Johannes Spring and Mrs. Elizabeta Spring) was born about 1766 in Hochheim, GR; died on 9 Mar 1806. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]