William M. Garber

Notes:

Buried:
Dudenville Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• USR1: Old age ill health, then hip fracture
• Residence: 1869-1873, Grant, Dade Co., MO

Notes:

Obit:
DAVID GARBER DIES AT BIG HORN
Would have celebrated 66th Wedding Anniversary May 19
David Garber, 87 years of age, died at 10 o'clock Tuesday night at the home of his son Roy Garber at Big Horn, with whom he had made his home for six years. Mr. Garber had been in ill health for a year and his condition was made more serious last month when he fell and fractured his hip.

If Mr. Garber had lived until May 19, he and Mrs. Garber would have celebrated their sixty-sixth wedding anniversary.

Mr. Garber was born in Monroe County, Ohio. He is survived by his widow; five sons, Roy Garber of Big Horn, E.E. Garber of Phao?, Mont., Eugene Garber of Broadus, Mont, Edward J. Garber of Baxter Springs, Kan., and Will Garber of Lockwood, Mo.; two daughters, Mrs. Lillian Purdy of Meeker, Colo., and Mrs. Sarah Rapp of Kansas City, Mo. A third daughter, Mrs. Lina Gregory, died here several years ago. Mr. Garber is also survived by thirty-one grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren. Mrs. Rapp has been here since Feb. 23, summoned by her father's illness, and Eugene Garber is expected Thursday.
Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Roy Garber home, the Rev. Fred H. Zimmerman officiating. The service will be in charge of the Champion Funeral Service. Interment will be made at Big Horn.

Died:
25 Feb 1925 according to Source 218, 1924 according to Source 398.

David married Magdalena Kinsinger on 19 May 1859 in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL. Magdalena (daughter of Johannes Kinsinger and Barbara P. Smith) was born on 19 Feb 1840 in Hamilton, Butler Co., OH; died on 26 Jul 1931 in Big Horn, Sheridan Co., WY; was buried in Big Horn, Sheridan Co., WY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Methodist

Notes:

Mrs. Garber, 92, Is Dead at Big Horn
"Grandma" to Many in County Succumbs Sunday
MAGDELENA GARBER, 92-year-old widow of the late David Garber of Big Horn and familiarly known over Sheridan County as "Grandma Garber," died at the home of her son, A. L. Garber, near Big Horn, at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
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Magdelena Kinsinger oldest daughter of John Kinsinger and his wife Barbara Smith Kinsinger was born near Hamilton in Butler County, Ohio, February 19, 1840. When 11 years of age, her mother's death left her to assist her father in rearing five sisters and brothers, none of whom survive.
When in her eighteenth year the family moved westward to continue pioneering in Taswell County, Illinois. There in 1859, Magdelena became the wife of David Garber.

To this union were born 11 children seven of whom survive. Mrs. Garber also reared an adopted niece, Rosa Kinsinger White of Meeker, Colo., now deceased. In 1870, the Garber family moved to Dade County, Missouri, and in 1914 to Dawson County, Montana. In 1917, they broke up housekeeping and came to make their home with their son, A. L. Garber near Big Horn, Wyo., where her husband preceded her in death six years ago, and where her death occurred Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock.

Mrs. Garber is survived by two half sisters, Mrs. John Bartache, Flanagan, Ill., and Mrs. Ulrich, Panda, Ill., and a half brother, William Kinsinger, Flanagan, Ill., and by her children; Mrs. Sarah Ropp, Grandview, Mo.; E. E. Garber, Phow, Mont.; E. J. Garber, Baxter Springs, Mo.; Mrs. W. H. Purdy, Meeker, Colo.; A. L. Garber, Big Horn, Wyo.; Eugene Garber, Moorhead, Mont. There are 31 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be held from the Big Horn Methodist Church, Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with the Rev. Raymond Laury officiating. Champion's

Buried:
Mount Hope Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• USR1: Asiatic Cholera
• Immigration: 28 Aug 1818, Philadelphia, PA
• Residence: Abt 1819, Mifflin Co., PA
• Residence: 1827/1835, OH
• Census: 1840, OH
• Residence: Abt 1841, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Gerber/Garber = tanner.

All the graves of John and Eva’s children in Elm Grove Twp. Cemetery use the name spelled GERBER.

“Sometime near 1840, John Garber and wife, Eva Caroline Paithe, came from Butler Co., Ohio and moved into a log house on the John Young farm about 80 rods southeast of Andrew Ropp. He was a native of Switzerland, born in 1799. His passport gives his departure for Philadelphia as June 18, 1819. His wife was born in New York City in 1801 of Holland Mennonite parents who went to Mifflin Co., Pa where this marriage took place. Their married life was in Lancaster Co and few years in Ohio. A short time after his arrival he returned to Ohio on business and dies there of cholera. His widow remained on the Young farm supported by the children, who married in the families of the community. They numbered 11. Samuel's wife was Mary Litwiller, their home at Eniden. Emmanuel's wife was Fannie Switzer, they lived on the east eighty of the Sommer Seed Corn farm. Sybil married Peter Ringenberger and lived on the west eighty. Mary, wife of Samuel King, lived in the field a mile northeast of the school house. Lydia, wife of Uncle Mose Ropp. Dave, whose wife was Lena Kinsinger on Dillon Creek. Katie, wife of Jacob Kennel north of Morton; Nancy, wife of Peter Schrock; John and Noah, and Dannie who died in his teens following an accident at a horse power.

“About 1860, when Man Garber lived on the Sommer farm, Mr. Young had a field of corn down at the road. One morning Garber noticed him out looking around to see how it was coming up and turn suddenly and come over to where he as working. "Garber", he said, "your chickens are rooting up all my corn." All right, all right, shoot em, shoot em. After a while (Garber) heard a shot and over came Young, and Garbers had chicken for dinner. A year or so later Garber had rye on his, with Young's field in corn again. May and June were dry and warm and one day in came Mr. Young all excited, "Garber, your chinch bugs are coming across the road to my corn. All right, Mr. Young, shoot em, shoot em!

“Way long ago, the church corner was the Nieukirk corner, named after a very early settler with two sons, Tom and Mace, in the old brink house across from the church. This place was a station where horses were changed on the stage coaches before 1800.”

According to Grubb in “Mennonites of Butler County, Ohio” a second Amish settlement in Ohio began when Jacob Yoder moved to Wayne Co. in 1817 from Mifflin Co., PA. Since John and his family had lived in Mifflin Co. at one time there is the probability that he had connections in Wayne Co. (or even lived there briefly before moving to Butler Co. since one of his children was born in Wayne Co.). Therefore when he returned to Ohio on business and died there, he could be buried in either Butler or Wayne Co.

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“When they left Ohio for Illinois in 1840, they sold their household goods and implements and with their eleven children started their journey down the Ohio River, up the Mississippi to St. Louis on a large steamboat. The last night before arriving at St. Louis no one could sleep. Every few minutes a sentinel would cry out, “Look out for pickpockets!”. From St. Louis, they boarded a smaller vessel and arrived at Wesley City.” Arrived with wife and 11 children in Tazewell Co., IL, via Wesley City, from Butler Co., OH.

"Moved to Ohio 1827, to Illinois 1840. Had eleven children, older born in Lancaster Co. Pa, the younger in Butler Co. Ohio. Eva, wife was born in New York City in 1801. They lived in Butler Co. a number of years before moving to IL. Their new home was a log house on the John Young farm. It now has the Bethel Mennonite Church located on the north corner. At the time it was the Nieukirk corner with a brick house that was the stopping place for stage coaches on the Peoria-Indianapolis road. Now Illinois Highway #9. Soon after their arrival John Garber went back to Ohio on business quite likely by stage and died there during an epidemic of Asiatic Cholera. This left his widow and her family in that house in Young's field for quite a number of years supported by her children Emmanuel the oldest, being around 21 and Nancy was the baby.

“In the peaceful little country of Switzerland, in the year 1788, 25th day of July, John Garber was born. When he reached early manhood, exciting news came to the village where he, his widowed mother and four sisters lived. The Americans were sending passports for young men to use, providing they agreed to work a certain length of time after arriving in America to pay for their passage--the time to be agreed upon by the two contracting parties. The government seal in the family tells us this was the method John Garber used to get to America.

“His passport was issued on March 19, 1813, and was good for five years. The passport was used April 7, 1818, and bears the seal of a Notary Public in the County of Bern, Switzerland. On May 26, 1818, he entered into contract with Joseph Rush, Captain of the ship Susquehanna, for his passage to America, at the cost of two hundred francs, amounting to about fifty American dollars, leaving his widowed mother and four sisters in Bern.

“Family tradition indicates that John Garber worked two years for a Pennsylvania planter to pay off his travel contract. As far as we know, John was the only one of his family to come to America. He later married Eva Caroline Paithe (b.1799).”

Birth:
Other dates found 1792, 1798 (near Steffisburg)

Immigration:
From Amsterdam on ship Susquehannah, John Rush, Captain

Residence:
Butler, Monroe, or Wayne Co.

Census:
Listed in the Rush Creek, Fairfield County census

Residence:
Walter Ropp history

Died:
Probably Butler or Wayne Co.

Buried:
B. Lorenz says in one place Elmgrove Twp. Cemetery, Tazewell Co., IL. But it is logical he was buried in either Butler or Wayne Co., OH, as cholera victims were generally buried immediately.

John married Eva Caroline Paithe on 30 Jun 1824 in Mifflin Co., PA. Eva (daughter of John (Emanuel?) Paithe (Paight?) and Barbie Bressman) was born on 20 Mar 1799 in PA; died on 26 Nov 1874 in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Could Not Read Or Write, Signed With Her X
• Religion: Dillon Creek Amish Congregation
• Census: 1870, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Her father was a native New Yorker, mother was from Holland. Walter Ropp’s notes say Eva was born of Mennonite parents from Holland, who went to Mifflin Co., PA.


“Barbara Lorenz says it has been handed down in her family that Eva Caroline’s father, John Paithe, was a Hessian soldier who stayed in the US after the Revolutionary War.”

“Eva Caroline Paithe, the girl who later became the wife of John Garber, was born on March 20, 1799, near New York City. Her mother was born in Holland, but her father was a native of New York state. When Eva Caroline was quite young, her parents moved to Pennsylvania. After her marriage to John Garber they resided in Mifflin County, PA. Eleven children were born to this union. In 1835, the parents with their seven children moved to Butler County, Ohio where they lived until 1840. Here four more children were born.

“In 1840 John and Eva sold their household goods and implements and with their eleven children started their journey down the Ohio River, and up the Mississippi to St. Louis on a large steamboat. The last night before arriving at St. Louis, no one could sleep. Every few minutes a sentinel would cry out, "Look out for pickpockets!" From St. Louis, they boarded a smaller vessel and arrived at Wesley City, Illinois, in Tazewell County. They made their home near Pekin.

“The following year, 1841 (probate says 1845), John Garber went back to Ohio to collect sale notes. He died there and was buried before the news reached his family. His wife, Eva, and her second son, Emanuel and his family, shared their home until her death in 1874.”

After John’s death, Eva lived with Emanuel until her own death.

Birth:
Charles W. Finch gives date 20 Mar 1794; Carr 1801

Census:
Listed as 70 years of age, born in PA, living in the household of Emanuel Gerber

Buried:
Railroad Cemetery

Notes:

The oldest child of Christian Kinsinger was Johannes Kinsinger, who came to be known as John Kinsinger in America. He was born on October 21,1815 in Contwig, Germany. He was considered to be a very bright young man. At the age of 19 years, he determined that his future lay in coming to America and he traveled with a small group of Mennonite immigrants by ship from the Netherlands to New York, and on through Pennsylvania to Butler County, Ohio , a center of Amish and Mennonite life in the Midwest. John (Jean) Kinsinger (19) is listed on page 1 of the Passenger List of the ship "Sully" which arrived in New York from Le Havre on November 5, 1834. 

In Ohio, he was a hired laborer on Amish and Mennonite farms. In a few short years, the frugal John had saved enough money to operate his own farm. He continued the family tradition of leasing land. In 1836, he met another recently-arrived Mennonite immigrant, Barbara Smith and they were married in 1837. 

In 1840, the family (as John Kensinger) was living in St. Clair Township, Butler County, Ohio and consisted of 1 male and 1 female (John and Barbara) age 20-30 years, and 1 male and 1 female under 5 years (John Jr. and Magdalena). St. Clair Township in Butler County is in the far southwestern corner of Ohio surrounding the village of Overpeck.
1840 US Census, Ohio, Butler Co., St. Clair Township, Sheet #4.

In 1850, the family was living in Fairfield Township, Butler County, Ohio and consisted of John (34), Barbara (34), Malinda (12), Barbara (10), Jacob (8), John (6), Anna (4), and Elizabeth (3 months) along with two laborers: John Reddigel (Rediger) and Wendel Greaser. It is unclear whether the family moved slightly south, or whether the township line moved north.

They had seven children when Barbara died in 1860. Shortly after Barbara's funeral, the devastated widower loaded his children into a wagon and left for Illinois, stopping near Groveland in Tazewell, County. He knew some of the residents of Groveland (Christian Bechler) who had lived in Butler County before coming to Illinois and was able to lease some farmland almost immediately. 

One of those Groveland families was the Christian Wagler family. John knew Christian and his wife Catherine Ulrich Wagler and their children well. The Wagler's and John had all came to America around the same time and had been members of the same congregation in Ohio. Even so, it was a surprise to many when the 41 year-old widower with seven children married the 21 year-old daughter of Christian and Catherine Wagler, Barbara Wagler, in 1861.

John and Barbara Wagler Kinsinger had eight children. John became a highly successful farmer in Tazewell County. In addition to raising a total of 15 children, the couple opened their home to several orphans. John was gregarious, articulate, and well-informed. He was very interested in politics and business. He also taught himself to read and write English. That made him an important man in the largely German-speaking Mennonite community. He often served as a translator or go-between for transactions between the German-speaking Amish and Mennonites, and the English-speaking locals. For this reason, he was frequently called to court. It is said that he provided this service free of charge and earned much good will among his brethren. 

John Kinsinger died in October, 1900 at the age of 85. Barbara Kinsinger died two years later. Both are buried in the Landes Cemetery, one mile southeast of Groveland. Of the 15 children of John Kinsinger, almost all grew to be successful. They spread from Pennsylvania to Wyoming and John Kinsinger's descendents are now present in every state of the Union. (Copied from FindAGrave website)

Birth:
Heckenaschbacherhof

Buried:
Landes Mennonite Cemetery, Plot #4 on cemetery map dated 8/12/2013

Johannes married Barbara P. Smith in 1834 in Butler Co., OH. Barbara was born in 1817 in Schwartzwold, Black Forest, GR; died in 1851 in Butler Co., OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Notes:

Wife’s name was Mary.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Abt 1800, Mifflin Co., PA

Notes:

John + Barbie Bressman. Barbie was born in 1750 in Holland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Immigration: Bef 1850

Notes:

Lived at Heckenaschbacherhof until 1840, then on the Faunerhof near Pirmasens. Emigrated to the US prior to 1850.

Christian married Magdeleine Schrag on 1 Nov 1814 in Contwig, Zweibrücken, GR. Magdeleine (daughter of Johannes Schrag and Christiane Esch) was born on 8 Apr 1798 in Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR; died on 9 May 1824 in Contwig, Zweibrücken, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Heckenaschbacherhof