Joseph Christian Burkey (Burcky)

Notes:

Buried:
Waldo Cemetery

Family/Spouse: Rose Belle Wertz. Rose was born on 1 Nov 1882; died on 20 Jun 1913; was buried in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jemima Young. Jemima was born in 1869; died in 1954; was buried in Pontiac, Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

Buried:
Waldo Cemetery

Christian married Mary Schrock on 14 Sep 1876 in Livingston Co., IL. Mary (daughter of Christian Schrag and Maria Zimmerman) was born on 20 Oct 1857 in IL; died on 1 Jun 1920 in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL; was buried in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Waldo Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1880, Nebraska Twp., Livingston Co., IL

Notes:

Marriage record spells surname Birkey.

They can be found on the 1850 Illinois census of Tazewell County as farmer Joseph Burgie, 32; Anne, 30; Catherine, 9; Mary, 3; and Anne, 1. They can be found on the 1880 census at Nebraska Tsp., Livingston County.

Birth:
possibly Obersanding

Census:
Farmer Joseph Burgie, 32; Anne, 30; Catherine, 9; Mary, 3; and Anne, 1.

Buried:
Waldo Cemetery

Joseph married Anna (Nancy) Ringenberger on 25 Oct 1846 in Tazewell Co., IL. Anna (daughter of Pierre Ringenberg (Ringenberger) (Rinkenberger) and Anna Schrag) was born on 7 Nov 1820 in Grostenquin, Linstroff, Moselle, Lorraine, FR; died on 17 Aug 1901 in Alvin, Vermillion Co., IL; was buried in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Hingsange farm

Buried:
Waldo Cemetery

Notes:

Married:
by Andrew Ropp. Marriage record uses Birkey spelling.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Immigration: 13 Oct 1846, La Have To New Orleans, LA
• Residence: 1850, Tremont Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1860, Tremont Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Residence: 1868, Nebraska Twp., Livingston Co., IL

Notes:

OBIT from Gospel Herald - Nov.29, 1917
Schrock.-Christian Schrock was born in Bavaria April 24, 1826; died at his late home near Flanagan, Livingston Co., Ill., Oct. 29, 1917; aged 91 y. 6 m. 5 d. He emigrated to New Orleans, La., in 1846, and in 1850 came to Pekin, Tazewell Co., where in 1852 he was married to Mary Zimmerman. They resided at this place until 1868 when they moved to Nebraska Twp., being of the earliest settlers. Twelve children were born to them. He united with the Amish Mennonite Church when a young man and remained a faithful member. He leaves a devoted wife and seven children, also 25 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the house by Bro. D. M. Slagle and at the Church by Bro. Dan Orendorff in German and Bro. Geo.Sommer in English. Buried in the Waldo Cemetery.

Birth:
near Ingolstadt

Immigration:
Ship Leodes - Christian arrived with two friends, Christian Nafziger and John Nafziger. On the passenger list they were named Christian Nafzig, 26; Nafzig Joh., and Christian Schwag, 20. Then they walked on foot by the Mississippi River to Tazewell Co., Illinois.

Census:
Christian, 33, born Germany, Farmer; Mary, 23, born Germany, Tremont Twp.; Ellen, 7, b. IL; Man (Emmanuel?), 5, b. IL; Mary, 3, b. IL; Christian, 1, b. IL; Michael Zimmerman, 82, b. Germany, farmer; Peter Zimmerman, 17, b. OH, labourer; Ellen, 56, b. Germany.

Residence:
Flanagan area

Buried:
Waldo Cemetery

Christian married Maria Zimmerman on 4 Mar 1852 in Tazewell Co., IL. Maria (daughter of Michael Zimmerman and Magdalena Erb) was born on 5 Nov 1835 in St. Valentin, Indre; died on 20 Dec 1920 in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL; was buried in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Herald of Truth Obit:
Schrock. - Mary Zimmerman was born near Paris, France, Nov. 5, 1835; died from the effects of a fall (pneumonia also setting in causing her much suffering which she bore patiently) Dec. 20, 1920; aged 85 y. 1 m. 15 d. She was converted in her youth, was received into the A. M. Church, and remained faithful. She had a smile and pleasant word for all. She came to America with her parents in 1838 locating near Canton, Ohio, where they resided until 1841, when they came to Pekin, Ill. In 1852 she was married to Christian Schrock. In 1868 they came to Livingston Co. near where Flanagan is now situated. Twelve children were born to them. Six of them with the husband preceded her. She leaves 6 children, 24 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, and 1 brother. Funeral services were held at the Waldo A. M. Church by the home ministers, Dec. 22. Burial in the Waldo Cemetery.

Birth:
Germany? Oct 5?

Buried:
Waldo Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 192
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Residence: Nassau-Weilburg, GR
• Residence: 1817, Riedenburg, Bavaria, GR
• Immigration: 1836, Hennepin, Putnam Co., IL

Notes:

Willow Springs Mennonite Church (Tiskilwa, Illinois, USA)

Willow Springs Mennonite Church, 1946
Scan courtesy Mennonite Church USA Archives-Goshen X-31.1, Box 17/28

Willow Springs Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), located 4 miles south of Tiskilwa, Bureau County, Illinois, a mem­ber of the Illinois Mennonite Conference, was organized in 1836 as an Amish Mennonite congregation, the settlers having come mostly from Bavaria, Germany, plus a few from Butler County, Ohio. The Bavarians had first settled in 1835 in the Hennepin and Gran­ville neighborhood in Putnam County. After meet­ing in homes for 35 years the congregation built its first meetinghouse in 1873. This was destroyed by lightning in 1896, but was immediately rebuilt, and later enlarged several times.

Three subsidiary groups have been formed from Willow Springs: Ohio Station in the north central part of the county 1840-1915, which never developed into a congregation; Sheffield in the western part of the county 1943-1950; and the Tiskilwa Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite), which was formed in 1911 when a group withdrew to join the Central Illinois Mennonite Conference.

The first minister in the Hennepin community was Jacob Burkey of Hesse, Germany, who never lived in the Tiskilwa neighborhood. The Willow Springs congregation suffered for many years from inadequate and even absentee ministerial leadership and was not established on a sound basis until 1868, when Joseph Burkey, a minister at Tremont, Illinois, moved in and was ordained bishop a year later. His successor was C. A. Hartzler, a minister from Garden City, Missouri, who came in 1913 and was or­dained bishop a year later. C. W. Long was pastor in 1957, with a membership of 142.


“Once lived at Buscherhof, near to Lutterbacherhof, in Alsace. Herbert Holly found in a document “Johannes Bircky from Busherhof, in former times baronial Nassau-Weilburgerish.” (House of Nassau-Weilburg)

“Their daughter Barbe’s “civil birth entry described her parents as farmer Jean Perky and his wife Svalter. It was signed 'Johannes Birki.”

“We found Buscherhof listed in the early 1700s as part of the parish that included Bouquenom, Harskirchen, Mittersheim, Neusarrewerden, Rimsdorf, Sarrewerden, Vibersviller, Willer, and Zollingen. This indicates that it was within 5 miles south or 11 miles west of the Lutterbacherhof. The Cassini map created in the late 1700s shows a Bouchert farm on the east side of Sarrewerden.

“We know of only one clue that might indicate their living place in Bavaria: when Christian Albrecht and Elizabeth Engel traveled directly to Hennepin, Putnam County in 1836, they were thought to be intentionally reuniting with friends John and Veronica (Solphonia). The Albrechts had lived in a large communal house at Kaiserslautern and on the Büdenhof estate at Sesslach; Sesslach is a medieval walled village in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, about 200 miles east of Kaiserslautern. John and Veronica (Solphonia) had arrived at Hennepin in 1835, and hosted the Albrechts over their first year 1836-37. John is found as John Burkey Sr., 73, born in France, in the Putnam household of Peter Albrecht on the 1850 federal census; he does not appear on the 1860 census. “

“I found this text in Past and Present of Bureau County, describing the arrival of two Mennonite 'Burchey' families in Putnam County in 1835. That of John Burkey and Solphonia is mentioned second: "Mennonite Church of Indiantown: The first family of this sect came to Putnam County in 1835 or 1836, from Ohio. In the family, whose name was Burchey, were four boys, Daniel, Christian, Frederick, and Jacob, the latter being a minister of the gospel, and thus was a nucleus formed for the Mennonite church, which has been maintained up to the present time. About a year later came another family of the same name with four sturdy sons and one daughter (leaving four daughters in the mother country, Germany). Then from Germany also came Christian Albrecht with six sons and four daughters. Many others joined them from time to time. Until 1867 meetings were held in private parlors, once in three weeks, and till 1873, they met every two weeks."

“The couple farmed on La Canardière ['the farm stock yard', Ger. Entenhof or Antehof] at Gondrexange. Freni's sister Catherine Zwalter (born circa 1768), worked there as well with her husband Joseph Gascho (born circa 1773). In 1802 Johannes signed a lease contract at Steingaden, Bavaria.

“Son Andre’s civil birth entry describes his parents as Jean Perki, farmer at La Canardièr, and Fréne Svaltert. It was witnessed by Jean's brother André Perki, 21, of Bouquenom [now called Sarre-Union, adjacent to Rimsdorf, Lower Alsace]. It was signed 'Johannes Birki' and Andreas Birki. db

“The bann announcement announcing their intention to marry described them as Jean Perki, 22, and Freine Stavalter, 21. The couple farmed on La Canardière ['the farm stock yard', Ger. Entenhof or Antehof] at Gondrexange. Freni's sister Catherine Zwalter (born circa 1768), worked there as well with her husband Joseph Gascho (born circa 1773). In 1802 Johannes signed a lease contract at Steingaden, Bavaria. The name Christian Bürcky also appears on that document; this individual could not be identified with certainty.313 Another document signed there in 1804 describes only Johannes of Buscherhof, the German name of his family's prior home in Lower Alsace. An additional document names Johannes Birki and 'cousin' Friedrich Hage.314 Johannes and Freni also lived at Obersanding (15 miles south of Regensburg), then purchased the Hellerhof estate there in 1826. It was put up for auction in 1836, the same year that Johannes and Freni emigrated from Europe, and sold in 1839. The packet ship Charles Carroll sailed from Le Havre, and arrived at New York May 12, 1836. Its passenger list shows farmer John Berkie, 52; Fenica, 56; farmer Andrew, 30; Madeline, 17 [this may have been Magdalena Albrecht, who married Andrew in 1838; her name is marked with an 'x' and a note that she delivered a female child May 7]; John, 21; Catherine, 16; and Nicholas [actually Joseph], 20. They settled at Hennepin, Putnam County (adjacent to Granville), and hosted the Albrechts over their first year 1836-37.”

The index to the civil records of Rimsdorf, Lower Alsace indicates an entry for the birth of Johannes Birki Sept. 17, 1801. Note that the next listed child Andreas/Andrew was born nine months later, substantially lessening the likelihood that Johannes belongs with this family. However, the actual entry is omitted from the online archives, so the parents cannot be identified with certainty.

Residence:
Busherhof (Lorraine), in former times baronial Nassau-Weilburgerish. (House of Nassau-Weilburg)

Residence:
The family moved from Schildschwaig to Maierhofen, at Hemau near Riedenburg. His brother Andreas and family were living nearby on Flugelsberg near Prunn/Brunn.

Immigration:
Request to emigrate. Left with children and son-in-law Peter Roggy.

Buried:
Probably Putnam Co., IL

Johannes married Veronica (Freni) Zwalter on 27 Feb 1798 in Gondrexange, Moselle, FR. Veronica (daughter of Christian Zwalter and Marie Risser) was born in 1780; died before 1850 in Putnam Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1835

Notes:

From Gondrexange, Moselle, FR.

Notes:

according to civil status acts:?1798-02-27 Gondrexange Marriage : Perki Jean marie à Frene zwalter le 9 ventose to 6?[ 02.27.1798 ] , according to Otto , Jean son of Jean Perky senior & Elizabeth Ruby, witness Schwager?Gascho

Married:
in the Dieuze Ponds area. A witness was his brother-in-law Gascho.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer In Illinois
• Occupation: Weaver In France of “fine tablecloths, and other articles. Peter III had a bedspread which was woven by him.”
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• USR1: Stroke
• Residence: 1809, Haute-Clocher, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1810, Hingsange, Linstroff, Lorraine, FR
• Immigration: 1831, NY
• Residence: Abt 1831-1837, Lancaster Co., PA
• Residence: 1837, Butler Co., OH
• Residence: 1837, Groveland, Tazewell Co., IL
• PURC: 7 Jun 1837, Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1850, Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Peter and Anne lived in Hingsange between 1810 and 1829 when nine of their children were born and two died. In 1831, Peter, Anne, and at least seven of their children sailed for America. After disembarking in New York, they went to Lancaster Co., PA, where their last child was born in 1833. The family moved by steamboat to Illinois in 1837.

Peter walked twenty miles to attend church at Mackinaw Dells. When he died, Peter left no will. , His grave stone uses the name Rinkenberger.

Birth:
Hingsange farm (Arr.Sarg, Dept. Moselle)

Residence:
for several years before their marriage at the garm Sarrelfing, working as domestics.

Residence:
Until 1829

Immigration:
Peter and Anna; children John, Christian, Peter, Anna, Barbara, Mary and Katie. They sailed for six weeks.

Residence:
The family stayed in Lancaster six years.

Residence:
Traveled by steamboat to Farmdale

PURC:
160 acres in Sec 25, Fond du Lac Twp. Built a log cabin on this land.

Census:
Peter “RingerBarger”, 64, France; Anne, 62, France; laborer Christian, 30, France; and laborer Abraham, 17 PA; Barbara [Stalter], 25, Bavaria; and grandson/son Peter, three months, IL.

Buried:
Rinkenberger Family Cemetery - on their farm in East Peoria: 3550 East Washington Street, East Peoria, IL (Robein, Tazewell Co., IL ) This land was not included in the sale of the farm in 1948.

Pierre married Anna Schrag on 13 Jan 1810 in Haute-Clocher, Moselle, FR. Anna (daughter of Caspar (Gaspard) Schrag (Gerack) and Marie Blaser (Blaiser)) was born on 15 May 1787 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR; died on 10 Apr 1859 in Farmdale, Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in East Peoria, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Emigration: 1831, NY

Notes:

Anna and her husband are buried in the Rinkenberger Family Cemetery. It was established before 1859 on the 160-acre farm in Section 25 of Fond du Lac Township in Tazewell Co., about a mile north of Farmdale, IL, which immigrant Peter Rinkenberger purchased in 1837. It can be found in a clump of trees at the top of a hill, at 3550 East Washington St. in East Peoria, IL.

Birth:
Bachats? Headstone gives year as 1790

Died:
At age 71

Buried:
Family cemetery on their land in East Peoria: 3550 East Washington St.- Robein neighborhood

Notes:

Anna’s surname is spelled (Schraque) on the marriage document.

One of the witnesses to the marriage was the bride’s cousin, Jean Hirgie, a 58-year-old farmer at Haute-Clocher. (Could be Jean Hirschy, born 1752 in Haute-Clocher, who married Anne Rouvenacht (sister of Barbe Rouvenacht?) .
The groom signed his name “Petter Rinckenberg” and the bride signed with an “x”, indicating she was illiterate. Catherine Kempt also signed with an “x”.

Catherine Kempf was present and consented to her son’s marriage.

Married:
arr. de Sarrebourg (Haute-Clocher means high bell tower)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Anabaptist (Wiedertaufer)
• USR1: Pulmonary tuberculosis

Notes:

“Mennonite family Schrag from Giesing (Community Au) six family members together have 1000 Gulden as John Schrag counted out for the tribunal. The family is from the Bavarian Rhine District (Palatinate) with the following persons: Jakob, 84 years old previously farmed several estates, now in Giesing supported by his children. Children: Magdalena, servant with farmer Haslinger in Giesing; Katharina at home with her father; Joseph, hired hand in Kloster Scheyern; Johann, works as brandywine maker; Daniel, hired hand with farmer Glaser in Freimann. A son of Jakob Schrag of the first marriage with the name Jakob Muller [called a step-son in the first application] emigrated to America 13 years ago and settled in ‘Wilmont.’ He left behind a child by Barbara W., hired girl in Weissenfels by Pardorf, Munich, Katharina Muller, who is now 13 years old and is now in the care of the Mennonite Holly at Linden, District of Ebersberg. The Schrag family wish to take this child with them to America. Mother and guardian are agreed. The sons of Schrag performed their military duty. No other hindrance. The family, for three years in Giesling, complains that they are being sent around from one authority to the other. (2 Dec 1837)

They farmed at Kösching, a suburb of Ingolstadt, adjacent to Hellmannsberg, where the Sutters leased an estate in 1811.

Christian died near Munich in 1831. His parents, brothers, and sisters went to Canada in 1837.

Birth:
Freudenbergerhof

Died:
Near Munich

Buried:
by a Catholic priest

Christian married Elisabeth Bircki about 1821. Elisabeth was born on 24 Jan 1802 in FR; died on 24 Jan 1892 in Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• USR1: infirmities of old age

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth, February 1892:
"On the 24th of January, 1892, near Pekin, Ill., of the infirmities of old age, Elizabeth, widow of Christian Schrag, aged 90 years. She had been a widow for 31 years [61 years?]. She leaves four children, 23 grandchildren and 54 great-grandchildren. Her last words were, 'Come, Lord Jesus.' Buried in the Pleasant Grove graveyard. Funeral services by D. Roth, P. Ropp, Em. and Joseph Litwiller, and Joseph Buercky, of Tiskilwa, Ill."
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Elizabeth traveled to Butler Co., OH with her daughter Barbara after the death in Germany of her husband where Barbara may have met and become engaged to Joseph Heiser. From there they went to the Elm Grove area of Tazewell Co. She may have been a daughter of Christian “Christel Burcky/Bircki and Barbara/Barbe Koch.

{She and her daughter migrated to Illinois, Pleasant Grove. )

Buried:
Pleasant Grove Cemetery as Elizabeth Schrag (Aug 2020 - unable to find this in FAG)

Other Events and Attributes:

• CLER: Y
• Occupation: Minister In Germany
• Religion: Mennonite
• Emigration: 1839, Fulton Co., OH
• Immigration: 1839, Fulton Co., OH
• Residence: 1843, Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Michael and Barbara had 12 children.

“An 1850 census of unincorporated portions of Tazewell County lists Michael Zimmerman, 70, a farmer from Germany; Magdalena, 46, Germany; Mary [Maria], 14, Germany; Phoebe [Jacobina], 12, Germany; and Peter, 8, Ohio. He lived next door to his 35-year-old son Christian and his wife Elizabeth Stalter. An 82-year-old Michael Zimmerman is listed on the 1860 census in the Elm Grove household of son-in-law Christian Schrock. He died later that year. He is thought to have been buried in Railroad Cemetery at Elm Grove, though there is no headstone for him.

In 1832 Michael accepted employment from Comte Henri Gatien Bertrand, the former aide-de-camp to Napoleon, at Lagny, St. Valentin in the department of Indre, 16 miles northeast of Châteauroux, and approximately 170 miles south of Paris (see ROTH for background on Bertrand).
Michael remarried to Magdalena Erb at St. Valentin April 20, 1835. She was born at Breitenbach, Lower Alsace July 7, 1805, a daughter of weaver Daniel Erb and Marie Stöcky [St?cki]. They farmed at Lagny (now Les Lagnys), three miles northwest of St. Valentin.
When Bertrand's wife Fanny died in 1836, the name 'Michel Zimmerman' is mentioned with Müller and Riser [Risser] as someone who could not sign an inventory document owing to the restrictions of his religion. But his signature does appear at the bottom of the page.”

Emigration:
parents with eight younger children

Immigration:
On the packet ship Poland. Parents w/three younger children

Buried:
Railroad Cemetery
“An 82-year-old Michael Zimmerman is listed on the 1860 census in the Elm Grove household of son-in-law Christian Schrock. He died later that year. He is thought to have been buried in Railroad Cemetery at Elm Grove, though there is no headstone for him. “

Michael married Magdalena Erb on 20 Apr 1835 in Lagny, St. Valentin, FR. Magdalena was born on 7 Jul 1805 in Breitenbach , Bas-Rhin, FR; died on 23 Feb 1892 in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL; was buried in Flanagan, Livingston Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth, March 15, 1892:

"On the 23rd of Feb. 1892, in Livingston Co., Ill., of the infirmities of age, widow Magdalena Zimmerman, aged 82 years. She was found dead in her bed in the morning, having retired as usual the evening before. Before midnight her daughter had gone to her room, and found her quietly sleeping. For several years her mental vigor had wandered, but her trust in God remained steadfast. She was a faithful mother in Zion and had been a widow for many years. Buried on the 25th. Funeral services by John P. Schmitt from Sir. 41: last seven verses, Joseph Buercky of Bureau Co., and Daniel Orendroff, from 2 Cor. 5. The deceased sister leaves one son and two daughters, 23 grandchildren, and 15 great grand children."

Birth:
1810, according to her obituary

Buried:
Waldo Cemetery

Notes: