John Garber

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Gibson City, Ford Co., IL
• Residence: 1893, Fisher, Champaign Co., IL

Notes:

Lived first in Pekin, then in Fisher in 1893, then in Gibson City, IL.

Buried:
Glendale Cemetery

John married Magdalena Oswald on 21 Feb 1884. Magdalena (daughter of John Oswald and Barbara Kennel) was born on 28 Jan 1857; died in 1943; was buried in Washington, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
By Peter Stuckey

1. Ella Gertrude Garber was born on 16 Jan 1885 in Groveland, Tazewell Co., IL; died on 21 Jan 1978 in Bloomington, McLean Co., IL; was buried in Hudson, McLean Co., IL.
2. Alfred Garber
3. Ralph Garber
4. Barbara Garber
5. Alma Garber
6. Frieda Garber died in 1967.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Veterinary surgeon
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Residence: 1827, OH
• Residence: 1840, Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1860, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Residence: 1874, Washington Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Residence: 1897, Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Obit: Excerpts (full text in Garber file): Washington (IL) Post
Emanuel Garber, Sr., is dead. Quietly he sank to sleep Thursday noon, at 12:25 o’clock, surrounded by relatives and friends. Mr. Garber had been complaining all winter and about the first of the year he had an attack of the grip and had been poorly ever since. At times his family had thought he was getting better. A week before his death he seemed to take more nourishment and to grow stronger, but it was only the beginning of the end. Wednesday evening he commenced sinking and from then until the last gradually sank to sleep.....Mr. Garber was known and loved by nearly everybody in this community, and far beyond. He was one of God’s noblemen...He was a veterinary surgeon by profession but he seemed to use his labors only as a cloak to accommodate others and relive the poor, suffering dumb bruts. He would travel any distance in all kinds of weather and all he asked for his services was nothing or a mere pittance. In all his business dealings he was honorable and just and was never known to do a wrongful act knowingly. The world is better for his having lived. he has left behind him no accumulations of gold but there will ever remain the kindly gentle life he lived, and few with whom he ever came in contact but were made better and happier by having met him. No man in any community was ever more highly respected than was Mr. Garber....Mr. Garber was a consistent member of the Mennonite church and always took an active interest in working in the vineyard of the Lord.

Emanuel and his wife lived on a farm six miles east of Pekin. Here their ten children were born. In the spring of 1875 they moved to a farm near Washington.

“Emanuel was a very respected man in his community. It is said that he was very good at doctoring animals and considered a veterinarian. My great grandfather is Samuel, born 1859. He migrated to Brawley, Imperial Co. Calif. abt. 1903. He owned the largest dry cleaning business in Imperial County. He joined the Stahl Brothers in their business ventures. See Pioneers of Imperial Co. He married Amelia Ellen Stormer and had five children: Arthur, Rudolph, Fannie, Minnie Amelia and Hulda. Minnie Amelia married Henry A. Stahl in 1908. They, with the Stahl brothers, farmed the homesteaded land and operated the largest dry goods store in Brawley. Later the store was bought out by J. C Pennys. Henry and Minnie also farmed a 40 acre walnut ranch in Northridge, L.A county, Calif. In his elder years, Samuel lived with his daughter, Minnie, on the walnut ranch and then with his son Rudolph. He died Feb. 1940. Burial sight is unknown; he may have been cremated. His wife, Amelia Ellen Stormer Garber is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Brawley, Calif. The name on the stone is misspelled, it says "Stromer". Wife of Samuel Garber is on the top. Amelia's brother, David Stormer, is buried next to her. Imperial county in the early 1900's was a very harsh climate with day time temperatures reaching beyond 110 degrees in the summer months. The Colorado River over flowed its banks causing major damage to crops and fields. This was rectified when the Hoover Dam was built. These were very strong people. I am proud to have them in my family tree.”

Birth:
According to obit

Residence:
See obit

Census:
Page 176: Emanuel Garber age 32, b. PA; Frances age 27, b. PA; Mary age 5, b. IL; John age 4, b. IL; Daniel age 2, b. IL; Samuel age 7/12, b. IL. Also living at the residence were Barbara Ingle age 14; Alfred Acre, laborer; Osurll Heck, laborer; John Yirkey age 21, laborer, b. OH; Andrew Wikinsen, laborer; Samuel Kreill, laborer; Christ Kinsinger age 11, laborer; Noah Garber age 18, b. OH; Jacob Groby, laborer.

Residence:
On farm southeast of Pekin

Buried:
Glendale Cemetery

Emanuel married Frances (Veronica) Sweitzer on 26 Sep 1850 in Cooper, IL. Frances (daughter of Jean Suisse (Sweitzer) and Marie Engel) was born on 6 Aug 1832 in Lancaster Co., PA; died on 7 Mar 1912 in IL; was buried in Washington, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Third child of her parents, Frances was born in Lancaster County, PA. Her parents had come from Alsace Lorraine, France, the year previous. They lived in Lancaster County until Frances was one year of age. They moved to Spring Bay, IL, and lived there until Frances had grown to womanhood, then her parents and eight children moved to Cooper, IL.

The 1910 census shows Francis Garber living with her daughter, Minnie, who is married to Louis Nehner. It lists her age as 77.

Buried:
Glendale Cemetery

Notes:

Married:
6 Jun 1854 says Joe Staker

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Immigration: 30 Apr 1831, Baltimore, MD

Notes:

Resided in 1879 in Washington, IL. Parents of 12 children.

Immigration:
Quatre Freres

Buried:
Glendale Cemetery

Jean married Marie Engel on 15 Sep 1828 in Imling, Moselle, FR. Marie (daughter of Bishop Christian Engel and Barbe Brunner) was born on 1 Dec 1807 in LaGarde, Chateau Salins, Moselle, FR; died on 17 Feb 1888 in Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Washington, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cultivateur

Notes:

Birth:
Jambrot farm

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:

• Occupation: Cultivator

Jean married Veronique Neuhauser (Neyhauser) in 1798. Veronique was born in 1776; died on 10 Jul 1853 in Imling, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

They lived in Imling when John married Mary Engel.

Other Events and Attributes:

• CLER: Y
• Occupation: Cultivator At Guermange
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Residence: 1813, Guermange, Saarebourg, Moselle, FR
• Immigration: 20 Jul 1833, New Orleans, LA

Notes:

While in France, Christian was from time to time petitioning the French government to exempt Anabaptists from military service.

First Amish Bishop in America west of Ohio.
Elder of the Welschlande gemeinde in Lorraine, settled along Partridge Creek in Illinois summer of 1833 and held the first Amish service in the home of his son, Peter Engel.

http://genealogytrails.com/ill/woodford/engel_cem.htm

Birth:
Possibly Gelucourt

Residence:
near Hellocourt

Immigration:
Locating one mile west of the present village of Metamora. Information given on FAG site says he immigrated in 1839.

Died:
Now Metamora, Woodford Co., IL

Buried:
Family graveyard on the old Engel homestead

Christian married Barbe Brunner on 1 Jan 1798. Barbe (daughter of Christian (Jean?) Brunner and Barbe Rouvenac) was born on 13 Jan 1769; died on 4 Sep 1852; was buried in Metamora, Woodford Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Engel Family Cemetery