Jacob Rediger

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Merzhausen, Baden-Württemberg, GR
• Emigration: 1836, Ottenweierhof, Baden, GR
• Residence: 1837, Alsace Lorraine, FR
• Emigration: 1868, Baden, GR

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth, Vol. XXVI, Number 16, August 15, 1889

REDIGER - On the 15th of June, near Milford, Seward Co., Nebraska, Preacher Jacob Rediger, aged 81 years, 11 months and 17 days. He was a laborer in the ministry for fifty-three years, and worked faithfully until the last six months of his mortal life. He seldom missed an appointment. He lived in matrimony 47 years and had 12 children, of which three, together with his wife, preceded him. Nine children, 42 grandchildren, and 1 great-grand child followed him to the grave. Services by Joseph Gascho and Joseph Schlegel from 2 Cor. 5:2 and Matt. 25:23. He was buried in the Mennonite graveyard.

Jacob Rediger was born in Ichenheim, Baden on June 30, 1807. He was ordained to the ministry in Baden, Germany. He served in the same Illinois church along with his son Joseph. He arrived in Nebraska at age 74.

Settled near Eureka. Chosen minister by the Mackinaw Meeting (Roanoke). Moved to Milford, NE in 1881.

Birth:
FAG gives year as 1806

Residence:
Near Freiburg

Residence:
Ottenweierhof

Emigration:
Along with wife and six children, to Eureka, IL

Buried:
East Fairview Cemetery

Jacob married Magdalena Schrag about 1838. Magdalena (daughter of Johannes Schrag and Elisabeth Eyer) was born in 1814 in Konigsbach, Baden, GR; died on 11 Apr 1882 in Milford, Seward Co., NE; was buried in Milford, Seward Co., NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Magdalena Rediger was born on 5 Aug 1838 in Baden, GR; died on 7 Jul 1917 in Fisher, Champaign Co., IL; was buried in Fisher, Champaign Co., IL.
2. Jacob Rediger was born on 15 Sep 1839 in Baden, GR; died on 10 Jan 1931 in Washington Co., CO; was buried in Thurman, Washington Co., CO.
3. Christian Rediger was born on 27 Nov 1840 in Baden, GR; died on 21 Jan 1932 in Milford, Seward Co., NE; was buried in Milford, Seward Co., NE.
4. Catherine Rediger was born on 22 Apr 1844 in GR; died on 3 Aug 1937 in Calhoun Co., IA; was buried in Manson, Calhoun Co., IA.
5. Joseph Rediger was born on 13 Mar 1847 in Baden, GR; died on 28 Aug 1938 in Milford, Seward Co., NE.
6. Benjamin Rediger was born on 17 Aug 1848 in Baden-Württemberg, GR; died on 12 Jun 1943 in Breckinridge Co., KY; was buried in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL.
7. Jean Rediger was born in 1854.
8. Elizabeth Rediger was born on 8 Apr 1858; died on 11 Jan 1945; was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles Co., CA.
9. Lydia Rediger

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1818, Alsace Lorraine, FR

Notes:

Of Ottenweierhof and Hof Scheibenhardt.

Birth:
Ottenweierhof

Residence:
Scheibenhardt farm

Jakob + Jakobine Güngerich. Jakobine (daughter of Christian Güngerich and Anna Holly) was born in 1779 in Steinseltz, Bas-Rhin, FR; died in 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Anabaptist

Notes:

“Sebastian Reidiger became the manager of the Lords of Dungern at the estate at Ottenweier in 1763. With his family he had come from the valley of Emmental in the Kanton of Bern in Switzerland. He belonged to the Anabaptist movement, the Mennonites. In the Ottenweier estate records as in the community records the name Reidiger has also been spelled as: Reitiger, Reitenger, Riediger, Rediger, Rodiger, Reutiger and Reudinger. As did his predecessor, the Mennonite Johann Georg Rieder who managed the estate from 1720-1763, Sebastian (Basch) Reidiger, conducted religious meetings at the estate and at the close by forest, the Anabaptist forest, for his family and the hired hands. There, one can still find a huge, round table made from sandstone on which the adult baptismal candidates have been registered.”

Part owner of the Meier farm.

Sebastian + Susanna Detweiler. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of Steinseltz, Alsace near Wissemberg (later the Rheinseltz, Alsace).

Birth:
Blumenthal farm

Christian + Anna Holly. Anna died on 21 Sep 1830 in Wellenburg, Bavaria, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1720, Canton Bern, SW

Notes:

“Lived near Boltigen in the Simmental in the Emmental, Bern, SW. Theirs was a Reformed family. As a young man he worked as a farmhand on an Amish Mennonite farm near Hornbach in the Palatinate, near Zweibrücken. By his acquaintances with the Mennonites he became so convinced of their faith that he asked to be allowed to join the church--which he did. After an interrogation by the Reformed Church Council he was expelled on July 16, 1739, because he would not return to the Reformed faith and he had to leave the country. He went to Baden where he lived on the Ottenweierhof of the Lord von Dungren, near Lahr and Ichenheim.”

Johannes married Barbara Yaggy (Jaggi) about 1720 in SW. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Minister
• Reference Number: 127
• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

"Living at the Steinseltz mill after 1740. From 1759-1766, Christian was an Amish minister. He died at Steinseltz. Information on their five children was taken from an inheritance inventory found at the Strasbourg archives."

Christian + Jacobea Widmer. Jacobea died in 1775. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 128