Joseph W. Sutter

Notes:

His family lived Milford, NE.
Married Anna, they had no children of their own. However, they adopted Helen who married a Saltzman, lived in IA.
They also kept his brother, Christian’s daughter Dolly.

Buried:
East Fairview Cemetery

Joseph married Anna Reck in 1888. Anna was born on 11 Dec 1863 in GR; died on 30 Oct 1937 in Seward Co., NE; was buried in Milford, Seward Co., NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Frances (Fannie) Steckley on 21 Mar 1882. Frances (daughter of Andreas R. (Andrew) Hauter and Veronica (Franike, Fannie) Eigsti (Augustin)) was born on 8 Jun 1859 in Zurich, Hay Co., Ontario, Canada; died on 1 Apr 1930 in Milford, Seward Co., NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• USR1: Lagrippe
• Immigration: 16 Oct 1850, NY
• Census: 1860, Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 22 Jun 1885, NE
• Census: 1900, Milford, Seward Co., NE
• Census: 1920, Milford, Seward Co., NE

Notes:

Obit: Gospel Herald, March 1923:
"Jacob Sutter was born Nov. 27, 1833, in Byron [Bayern, or Bavaria], Germany. From there he moved to Illinois where he was united in marriage to Kathrine Wagler. Later they came to Milford, Nebr., where he has lived for 46 years. He died February 26, 1923, in Milford at the age of 89 y. 2 m. 29 d. He united with the Amish Mennonite Church in his youth. He had 15 children (8 sons and seven daughters), 59 grandchildren and about 25 great- grandchildren. His wife died July 30, 1908, with whom he lived in matrimony over 50 years. Three sons, three daughters and eleven grandchildren preceded him in death. He leaves to mourn his departure, 5 sons, 4 daughters and one sister, Fannie Birky, Fisher, Ill. On Feb. 14, 1909, he again united in marriage to Magdalena Yordy with whom he lived until death. The cause of his death was lagrippe [sic]. Buried near Milford in East Fairview Cemetery. Services by home ministers."


Jacob's grandson, Christian Suttor (b. May 7, 1902) married Maria Horsch (b. August 31, 1907) in 1943. She was the daughter of Michael Horsch of Hellmannsberg. Christian died on October 12, 1990, and was buried in the Hellmannsberg Cemetery beside his wife, Maria Horsch, who had died on October 13, 1963. (See death notice in family album book.) We had visited with Christian in the 1980s in Bavaria.

At his death, Jacob had 15 children (8 sons and 7 daughters), 59 grandchildren, and about 25 great-grandchildren. (According to the 1900 census, Catherine was the mother of 14 of the children.)

Evidently Jacob and Catherine had a child (or children) who stayed in Bavaria, since all children listed in the 1885 NE census were born in Illinois. One of Jacob’s children was the father of Christian Suttor (see above) who spoke no English and lived his life in Bavaria.

Birth:
Forsthof

Census:
P.144

Census:
State Census “G” Precinct. Jacob and Katie, with 8 children--all born in IL.

Census:
P. 149A

Census:
P. 129A

Buried:
East Fairview Cemetery

Jakob married Katharina Elizabetha Wagler on 10 Feb 1858 in Tazewell Co., IL. Katharina (daughter of Johannes Wagler and Sophie Valentin) was born on 23 Mar 1838 in Alsace Lorraine, FR; died on 30 Jun 1908 in Milford, Seward Co., NE; was buried in Milford, Seward Co., NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Immigration: 1850
• Census: 1860, Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1900, Milford, Seward Co., NE
• Census: 1920, Milford, Seward Co., NE

Notes:

Obit: Gospel Herald - Vol. I, No. 20 - August 15, 1908 - page 319
Sutter. - Catherine Sutter, nee Wagler, was born in Alsace, Germany, March 23, 1838; died at Milford, Nebr., July 30, 1908; aged 70 y. 4 m. 7 d. She lived in matrimony with Jacob Sutter 50 y. 4 m. To them were born 15 children, 8 sons and 7 daughters; 5 children preceded her to the spirit world. She leaves to mourn, her husband, 10 children and many relatives and friends, but not as those that have no hope, for Sister Sutter was a faithful member in the A. M. Church from her youth; her desire was to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Funeral services were held at the Fairview Church near Milford, July 31, by Jos. Schlegel. Text, II Tim. 4:1, and N. E. Roth, Rev. 21:7.

Obit:
“Sister Suter was a faithful member in the A.M. Church from her youth. Funeral services were held at the Fairview Church near Milford, July 31, by Jos. Schlegel. Text, II Tim. 4:1, and N. E. Roth, Rev. 21:7.”

Tombstone: “Gone but not Forgotten”

Census:
IL p. 144

Census:
Mother of 14, 10 living - NE pg. 149A

Census:
NE pg. 129A

Buried:
East Fairview Cemetery

Notes:

Married:
By Andrew Ropp

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Estate manager/Minister/farmer - Bauer in Dittenfeld
• Religion: Amish
• Residence: 1825-27, Probfeld, Bavaria, GR
• Ordained: 19 May 1824, Bavaria, GR
• Immigration: 11 Nov 1851, New York, NY
• Census: 1860, Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Birth:
One history has the year 1795. Source #360 gives birthplace as Münchweiler (probably Münchweiler an der Rodalbe.

Residence:
John and Barbara were born there

Immigration:
From Le Havre. After 36 day voyage on the Samuel L. Fox (left Le Havre about 5 Oct 1851).
https://www.immigrantships.net/v3/1800v3/samuelmfox18511111_01.html

Census:
pg. 149 farmer John Sutter, 65, Germany; Barbara, 61; Andrew, 19; Andrew Buky [son-in-law Andrew Birkey], 29; Fanny [Veronica], 22; and Barbara, 1, born in Illinois.

Buried:
Birky-Landes Mennonite Cemetery - Grave #36 on printed plot map, or Plot #2 on the 8/12/2013 version.

Johannes married Barbara Oesch on 31 Oct 1819 in Hanfeld, Bavaria, GR. Barbara (daughter of Christian N. Oesch and Katharina Burki) was born on 24 Jun 1799 in Saarbuckenheim, Alsace, FR; died on 10 Sep 1884 in Morton, Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Groveland, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

Birth:
(Sarre-Union) Day could be read Jun 23 or 27 just as well.

Buried:
Landes Cemetery - Grave #10 on printed plot map dated 8/12/2013.

Notes:

Married:
Near Lake Starnberg, below Munich. They were first cousins.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Weaver In France

Notes:

Birth:
Day could be the 8th.

Johannes + Sophie Valentin. Sophie was born on 13 Feb 1811 in Alsace Lorraine, FR; died on 13 Nov 1866 in Wellesley, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• EARL: Y
• Occupation: Estate Manager/Farmer
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Residence: Bef 1796, St. Goarshausen, Nassau-Weilburg, GR
• Residence: 1796, Probfeld, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: Bef 1804, Annweiler, Palatinate, GR
• Residence: 1804-1811, Kaisheim, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1 Oct 1811, Neuberg-an-Donau, Bavaria, GR

Notes:

Suttor/Sutor/Sutter/Suter is a Mennonite family name with Swiss origins. More than likely this surname is derived from the Latin expression for a shoemaker-- sutor.

“Before it began to be drained, the Donaumoos (Danube marsh) was the largest bog in Southern Germany. In 1790 the Bavarian elector Charles Theodor began to invite Mennonites to settle in the inhospitable 120-square-mile area area, offering incentives for recaimation and cultivation. In 1802 over 120 Mennonite families were permitted to settle there, and many of the families remained until the '48er wave of emigration. Entries for Mennonite families in the Donaumoos such as Sutter, Oesch, and Ingold can also be found in Catholic records at Karlskron.”

Johannes Sutor and three of his children were born at Hellmansburg. Many family members are buried there also. The largest of the markers in the cemetery reads:

Here rest the bones (remains) of the deceased Christian Sutterich family.
Father, Mother, Wife, Children. God has received (accepted) them so he
will receive (accept) me too. Before God's face we will meet (see each other) again.
Johannes Sutter, the ancestor (forefather) born 1765, died June 1, 1844
left 2 sons and 2 daughters and 33 grandchildren. Of the Mennonite religion.

Birth:
“Johannes Suttor was born circa 1764. A report for the birth of one of his children gives his birthplace. The document – written by a municipal clerk at Karlskron, 7 miles south of Ingolstadt – stated that he was born on the 'Lindenbrunnerhof bei Annweiler.' This may have been either of two locations. The first possibility is the LindeLbrunnerhof farm between Darstein and Münchweiler am Klingbach, about 4 miles from Annweiler. However, there is a good case to be made for the LindeNbrunnerhof farm at Heltersberg, only a few miles from Lemberg, Pirmasens, and Münchweiler an der Rodalbe but 18 miles from Annweiler. One strong clue seems to point to the Lindenbrunnerhof: an Ingold family that lived there also lived with them in other locations, intermarried with the Sutters, and now has descendants in Tazewell County.”

Residence:
at the Rhine River

Residence:
at the time of Johannes’ and Barbara’s birth

Residence:
Lindelbrunnerhof, 4 mi. from Annweiler

Residence:
Former Cistercian monastery (tenant, along with Friedrich Hage). This estate had belonged to a Catholic abbey before it was secularized in 1803. During the time the Sutters lived there the grounds were used to grow food for the Bavarian army; after 1811 it was used to house displaced Franciscans, then converted into a prison.

Residence:
Forsthof, a Jesuit estate (with Friedrich Hage). In this time frame about 50 Mennonite families were given formerly Catholic properties between Neuberg and Ingolstadt, as the government encouraged cultivation of the Danube Marsh.

Buried:
Hellmansburg Sutter Cemetery

Johannes married Magdalena Stähli in 1788 in Palatinate, GR. Magdalena (daughter of Johannes Jorg Stähli (Staehly) and Anna Kinzinger) was born in 1765 in Oberstraysa, Fränkisch-Crumbach, GR; died in Hellmannsburg, Bavaria, GR; was buried in Hellmannsburg, Bavaria, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

From Frankish-Crumbach (Odenwald), according to Guth.

Birth:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/o/w/Susan-J-Howard/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0186.html

Buried:
Hellmansburg Sutter Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Mennonite
• Immigration: Abt 1803, Hanfeld, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1803, Hanfeld, Bavaria, GR

Notes:

Oesch Swiss roots begin in Oberlangenegg, a district far in the valley beyond Schwarzenegg. Here lived Taufer named Oesch. The Steffisburg, Switzerland records speak of Uli Osch, "The exiled disobedient Anabaptist," whose son Christian was baptized in 1684. It is easy to conclude that the family had to flee to the hills. This family later moved on to Alsace and the Palatinate and produced a large progeny of Amish Mennonites.

It was in connection with the resettlement of Amish tenants from the Alsace and the Palatinate to Bavaria, encouraged by the Elector Max (the later King Max I. Joseph of Bavaria) that Christian Oesch (1755) and his wife, Katharina Burki, and seven children immigrated to Hanfeld near Starnberg about 1803.

Christian and his family came from Saarbuckenheim (Sarre-Union in French) in the "crooked Alsace" and was born on the Waderhof (beo Diemeringen in Unterelsass, 1803 nach Hanfeld) near Lorenzen about 1755. At Hanfeld, Christian owned the "zum Streicher" estate in this purely-Catholic village south of Munich. The native population was not friendly to these new Mennonite settlers.

They refused to permit any Mennonite burials in their cemetery and forced the Mennonites to bury their dead in a meadow instead. The local Catholic priest even insisted upon the Mennonites paying him for his usual fee when someone died. Christian, as well as his son, Andréas, refused to make the payment after Christian's wife, Katharina's, death. As a result, the priest informed the government and was told that he could sue for the fee at court. The Munich State Archives reports that apparently no action was taken. The old Mennonite cemetery at Hanfeld no longer exists today.

Birth:
Waderhof

Immigration:
Court Starnberg, with seven children. Besitzer des Streicherhofes

Residence:
Moved here from Sarre-Union

Died:
Court Starnberg

Buried:
Oesch Cemetery

Christian married Katharina Burki in 1783. Katharina was born in 1764 in Lorentzen, Bas-Rhin, FR; died on 6 Mar 1829 in Hanfeld, Bavaria, GR; was buried in Mar 1829 in Hanfeld, Bavaria, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer’s daughter
• Religion: Mennonite

Notes:

Who was Katharina/Catherine Bürki, who married Christian Oesch/Christian N. Oesch, and died at Hanfeld March 6, 1829?  We could make two reasonable guesses, but the information to verify them is lacking.  She may have been a sister to Christian 'Christel' Bürcky/Bircki ('Big Birkeys'), who was born circa 1760; this would make sense because of Christel's link to the Gentersberg estate (and presumably to the nearby Dorsterhof estate) where Oesches farmed.  Or, she may have been a sister to Johannes Birky or Bircki ('Little Red Birkys'), who was born circa 1748.  This would make sense because his son Andreas/André/Andrew owned property at Söcking, which is now part of Hanfeld.

According to Rudolf Ingold and Hermann Guth, the Mennonite tenants at Hanfeld fell into a disagreement with local Catholic clerics, and were obliged to bury their dead in a meadow. When Katharina/Catherine Bürki died in 1829, one priest asked for a death fee. Christian refused, and the priest complained to the local administration. He was told that he could take the matter to court, but no action was taken.

Birth:
Waderhof estate

Died:
Court Starnberg

Buried:
Oesch Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Weaver In France At The Time Of His Marriage

Notes:

Died:
Thannzapfenmuhle, at home of son Johannes. The mill is on the road to Ste. Marie-aux-Mines.

Johannes married Katherina Liechti on 4 Jun 1794 in Ribeauville, Vosges, FR. Katherina was born in 1769 in St. Amarin, Haut-Rhin, FR; died on 3 Nov 1833 in Ribeauville, Vosges, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]