Leonora Luisa Schrock

Leonora married George Wieland on 20 Dec 1900. George was born on 16 Mar 1875. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Minnie Viola Wieland was born in 15 Sep in Iroquois Co., IL; died in 1979.
2. Esther May Wieland was born on 4 May 1903 in Louisa Co., IA; died on 23 May 1903 in Louisa Co., IA.
3. George Joseph Wieland was born on 22 Apr 1904 in Louisa Co., IA; died on 11 Mar 1917 in Burlington, IA.
4. Daisy S. Wieland was born on 20 Nov 1906 in Louisa Co., IA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Apostolic Christian Church
• Residence: 1900, Cissna Park, Iroquois Co., IL

Notes:

Census of 8 Jun 1900, Joseph, a farmer, and his family were living near Cissna Park in Ash Grove Township, Iroquois County, IL. When he retired from farming, he moved to Goodfield, IL.

Died:
At his home.

Buried:
Apostolic ChristianCemetery (Dells)

Joseph married Mary Catherine “Minnie” Irons on 1 Sep 1881 in Congerville, Woodford Co., IL. Mary was born on 24 Apr 1862; died in 1934; was buried in Congerville, Woodford Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
Apostolic Christian Cemetery (Dells)

Notes:

Married:
At Irons homestead west of Congerville

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite Then Apostolic Christian
• Immigration: 30 Apr 1831, Baltimore, MD

Notes:

“Joseph Schrock, a well-to-do and successful farmer and stock-raiser of Montgomery Township is located on section 22. The village of Congerville, which was begun in the spring of 1888, is situated on a portion of his farm.* He owns about 320 acres of land, which is divided into two farms. Some of this land was bought in 1864, in which year he first came to this county, buying wild land and improving it with fences, trees, buildings, etc., and as fortune smiled upon him, purchasing more land, which he also improved until he is now very comfortably situated. Before coming to Montgomery Township, he resided some seven years in Roanoke Township, which was the second place in which he had located after coming to the state of Illinois in 1850.

“...reared in Butler County, Ohio, and attended the common schools of the district through the winter, and in the summer assisted on the farm and in the mill, thus acquiring a practical knowledge of agricultural matters, and getting a good insight into business transactions while an employee in his father's mill. He was of legal age, but unmarried, when he came to this state. While a resident of Tazewell County, he was united in marriage with the lady of his choice, Miss Magdalena Guingerich, a country-woman of his....” ,

“Mr. and Mrs. Schrock are good, intelligent German people, industrious, thrifty, and provident, and although not mingling in political matters, yet make excellent citizens, and are worthy members of the New Amish Church.” (Apostolic Christian)

According to Illinois Public Land Purchase Records found at Ancestry.com, Joseph Guingerich purchased 20,000 acres of land between Oct 1861 and Mar 1869, paying $224,000.

Joseph Guingerich, his father-in-law, along with Peter Farni, built a mill in Woodford County (near Farnisville, Mackinaw River area).

The first Joseph and Magdalena Schrock reunion was held in 1949. Several Pekin Schrocks and Tillman Smith attended, but did not return other years. So it became known as the Jonathan Schrock reunion.

*The History of Congerville (page 10, 17) tells the story of the town’s original intention of being named Schrock and the ultimate decision to name it Congerville.

Birth:
In Dompcevrin, Meuse, France where his sister was born. However, Frederic Schwindt says he was not born in the village of Dompcevrin, but at some other place within the broader territory of Dompcevrin.

Immigration:
Information from quarterly listing of Baltimore arrivals. Exact date and ship are unknown.

Buried:
Apostolic Christian Cemetery (Dells)

Joseph married Magdalena Guingerich on 8 Jun 1852 in Tazewell Co., IL. Magdalena (daughter of Joseph Gingerich and Magdalena Guerber) was born on 29 Nov 1830 in Enroute To America, at sea; died on 29 Nov 1922 in Congerville, Woodford Co., IL; was buried in Congerville, Woodford Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite, Then After Marriage, Apostolic Christian
• Immigration: 1830

Notes:

Obit: (from November 28, 1922 newspaper)

Magdalena Schrock 1829-1922
Magdalena Schrock, one of the eldest and most highly esteemed residents of Montgomery Township, Woodford County, died at the home of her son, Jonathan Schrock at Congerville, Thursday evening after a two month’s illness with complications incident to old age.
Magdalena Guingerich was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Guingerich, natives of Lorraine, France, and she was born on the sea on the way to America, November 20, 1829.
The family first settled in Ohio where they lived only a few years, later coming to Illinois. They settled near Mackinaw Dells over ninety years ago and where the deceased had since made her home and at Congerville.
When Mrs. Schrock was a child, her mother died and she then went to make her home with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gerber. Her father, Joseph Guingerich, left soon after his wife’s death for the Gold Fields of California, driving a team of cows that were taken on the trip to furnish milk for the prospecting party.
She married Joseph Schrock in 1852. They were the parents of nine children, as follows:
Mrs. John Zimmerman of Carlock; John Schrock, Wichita, Kansas; Mrs. Samuel Roth of Fairbury who died 38 years ago; Mrs. John Sutter, Paulding, Ohio; Joseph Schrock, Goodfield; Jonathan Schrock, Congerville; Mrs. Nathan Gudeman, Paine, Ohio; Mrs. Paul Gerber, Latty, Ohio; David Schrock, Congerville.
She is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Anna Sommers of Mansfield, Ohio.
Beside her sister and children, Mrs. Schrock is survived by fifty-nine grandchildren and seventy great-grandchildren. Her husband died several years ago.
Mrs. Schrock was a member of the Christian Apostolic Church. The funeral will be held from the Church of that denomination at Mackinaw Dells at 1 o’clock Friday afternoon.

Her parents came to the US in 1830 from Le Havre to New York, and Magdalena was born during the crossing. After her mother’s death, young Magdalena lived with “Aunt Gerber” (Barbara Guerber Gingerich Strubhar).

Birth:
Family Bible gives date as 30 Nov 1829

Died:
Family Bible gives date as 28 Nov 1922

Buried:
Apostolic Christian Cemetery (Dells)

Notes:

“After the wedding, a supper and reception were held in their home south of Deer Creek, Illinois. There was a gathering of Mennonites to help celebrate. Joseph Verkler, an elder in the Apostolic Christian Church who was visiting in Slabtown, was invited to attend the reception. After supper, the couple brought out a game of dominoes for all the guests to enjoy. When they invited Joseph Verkler to join them, he politely declined and said that that was not for him. The young bride witnessed the way he stood for his religious beliefs and did not bend temporarily to satisfy his peers. As time unfolded, Joseph and Magdalena Schrock joined the Christian Apostolic Church.”

Married:
by Andrew Ropp

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: In French
• Occupation: Farmer In Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL 1850-1875
• Occupation: Miller At Cheppe Near Dompcevrin In 1829
• Occupation: Miller In Butler Co., OH (And Perhaps Farmer?) 1832-1850 (Possibly worked with the Flenner mill, since his brother Peter lived at one time near the Flenner family.)
• Religion: Amish, Amish Mennonite
• Residence: 1826, Blâmont, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1829, Dompcevrin, Meuse, FR
• Residence: 1829, Cheppe, Dompcevrin, Meuse, FR
• Immigration: Spring 1831, Le Havre to Baltimore
• Residence: 1831, Lancaster Co., PA
• Census: 1840, Butler Co., Lemon Twp., OH
• Naturalization: Sep 1844, Butler Co., OH
• Census: 1850, Morton, Tazewell Co., IL
• Residence: 1832-1850, Butler Co., Lemon Twp., OH
• Census: Oct 1850, Butler Co., Lemon Twp., OH
• Residence: Oct 1850, Butler Co., Lemon Twp., OH
• Residence: Nov 1850, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1860, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 11 Aug 1870, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

“John Schrock, a native of Lorraine, was of German ancestry, but was educated in French, which he spoke like a native. He was wedded to a lady of Lorraine, Miss Catherine Saltsman, and when the couple were the parents of two children, Joseph and his sister Catherine, they came to America in 1831 leaving the port of Havre in the spring. The passage across the boisterous Atlantic consumed forty-four days. They at length disembarked in Baltimore, Md., very much fatigued from the hardships they had endured during the long journey. From there they went to Lancaster, Pa., and a year later, in 1832 removed to Ohio, and located on a farm which the father operated, and in connection with it rented a mill, which he managed very successfully, it being the business in which he was most proficient. While living in Butler County, Ohio, the family was increased by the addition of three children, namely: John, Peter and Magdalena, who were bright and intelligent, and their mature years have not disappointed the fond expectations, which their parents conceived of the little French-Americans. In the autumn of 1850, Mr. Schrock and his family removed to Tazewell County, Ill., and located near Pekin, taking up wild land, but subduing it by patient industry until at their decease they were surrounded by numbers of broad acres well cultivated and supporting numerous fine domestic animals. During life they were members of the old Amish Church, and died in that communion. The father entered into his rest in his seventy-fourth year and the mother in her fifty-seventh."

(Although the newspaper article said Johannas rented a mill, I’m wondering if in fact he might have managed a mill owned by the Flenner family. Daniel Flenner bought a mill site in 1812 and sold it in 1853, according to the book “Woodsdale’s Story” by Doris Page. Johannas and his family lived in that area during that time. Amishmen Iutzi and Augspurger are mentioned also in connection with the mill. (DB)
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Newspaper article 20 Apr 1935 (at event of son John’s death)
“...Back in Ohio lived Johannes Schrock, German born and also a follower of Menno. Schrock found Ohio pretty well settled, but from the Mennonites in mid-Illinois he heard of a growing new land where acres were cheap and crops were abundant. So Johannes Schrock with three horses, pushed through from Trenton, Ohio, to Pekin and looked at this new west. He liked it. He left one horse here and drove the other two back to the Buckeye state. Arriving, he told the anxious wife, who had been Katharina Salzman in her girlhood days in Germany, that they were moving to Illinois. To Joe, the oldest youth, was given the task of driving through with the horses and cattle and what goods they had. The father and mother took the rest of the family to Cincinnati where they took a boat down the Ohio to Cairo and up the Mississippi and Illinois to Pekin.

Joseph’s son, Jonathan, was later able to point out to his family an American elm tree along the road west of Bloomington where Joseph had camped under his wagon the last night of his trip from Ohio. He had the reputation of being an excellent marksman.
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“The [Johannes Schrock] family located in a log house on what is now the Allen Miller farm five miles east of Pekin. They were made at home by the Mennonites here and kindly neighbors; and because they were honorable and thrifty, they prospered.” ,
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Johannes and his family were counted in the 1850 Butler Co. census and were still there in October. They turn up in Tazewell in November. Land records seem to indicate John made a trip to Illinois prior to taking the family in November, since he had made arrangements to purchase land from the Niewkirk family before arriving. The sale was completed in December 1850. He likely stayed with the Christian Ackerman family and happened to be there when the census taker knocked and was counted again—twice in 1850!
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From John Garber information, Walter Ropp records:
“Danny Garber, whose death by blood poisoning followed a threshing accident, should come in about here. My old Uncle Christ Ropp, who remembered everything that ever happened around there, said that his grave was the first one in the Railroad Cemetery. John Schrock, six months older and much like him said, "I know your Uncle 'Crysthel' had an awful good memory but there's one time when he was mistaken. It was the third one." And now that they are both gone these twenty years, who is going to settle it!”

Bishop Samuel Gerber many times officiated at weddings and funerals of East Bend Mennonite Church members in the early 1900s. While living in Tazewell County, the Schrocks were surrounded by Gerbers and Ropps, including Bishop Samuel Gerber and Bishop Andrew Ropp. The families were obviously close neighbors and friends, and attended church together. So it was natural for both Bishops to be involved in the marrying and burying of these people, even after they had moved to Champaign County.

When Johannes and his family first lived in Tazewell Co., they probably worshipped in the old Railroad School just across the road from Johannes’ land. W. A. Ropp writes about the school: “This school was begun about 1840 and continued to operate until 1872 or 1873 ... about the year 1835, a company was organized to build a railway eastward from Pekin--the grade was finished nearly to Tremont when the panic of 1837 stopped the work. A primitive log school house was built near the newly-graded roadway and was named the Railroad school, altho there was no railroad within a hundred miles.

“Most of the land already had been taken up by settlers, for it consisted of some small, rich, open glades just lying round to let the sunshine in, and a good grade of timberland covered by a magnificent growth of hardwoods and elms--tall, straight and clean-trunked--that gave the township the name Elm Grove.

“The first settlers were families from a number of eastern states and several German families, immigrants from the Upper Rhine country... they said they were Amish. These folks came rapidly and bought out the earlier eastern settlers, so that by 1845 the neighborhood was predominantly German. Some of the early families were the Youngs, the Hodgsons, the Griggs, several Nieukirk families, three Garber families, six Ropp families, and the Unsickers, Sommers, Schrocks, Heisers, Kings, Yordys, Litwillers, Hochstettlers, Birkeys and a few others.“
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The only known photo of Johannes has sometimes been purported as his passport photo. However, according to Wikipedia: “In Europe, general peace between the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) and the beginning of WWI (1914), and development of railroads, gave rise to international travel by large numbers of people. Passports were not usually required; there were limited wars which caused some exceptions.” And, photos would not have been used in 1831--photography in its infant form came later--about 1839.
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Joseph Staker, in his discussion of the Schrock family, describes the land on which they settled: “The Schrocks (and Salzmans) lived on ‘ministerial’ land they had purchased from the State of Ohio. On Jan. 7, 1796, the Ohio Company set aside Section 29 in each of the ten townships of its second purchase for the support of religion. This set a precedent. When John Cleves Symmes made the Miami Purchase on Oct. 15, 1788, it included parts of Hamilton, Butler, and Warren counties. Congress approved his purchase but followed the earlier model by reserving Section 29 in each of the three counties for religious purposes. The State of Ohio was authorized by Congress in 1833 to sell or rent unused parts of each Section 29. The money from sales was invested, and churches within the boundaries of the original township received the interest and rent income until 1968.”
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In Ohio, the family worshipped with the Augspurger congregation, where Johannes’ brother, Peter, was a minister. This group was the more conservative of the two congregations near Trenton (the other being made up mostly of Hessian Christians who were more “liberal,” using buttons on their clothes rather than hooks and eyes). No doubt the Augspurger group followed the customs of kneeling for prayer and foot washing with communion, since the East Bend Mennonite Church in Champaign Co., Illinois, continued these customs well into the 1940s.
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John and his brother Peter, and Catherine’s father, Michael Salzman, purchased adjoining land in Section 29 of Lemon Township. In 1855 John sold 81+ acres to John Shertz.










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With regard to John Schrock in their household, John and his family were counted in the 1850 Butler Co. census and were still there in October. They turn up in Tazewell in November. Land records seem to indicate John made a trip to IL prior to taking the family in November, since he had made arrangements to purchase land from the Niewkirk family before arriving. The sale was completed in December 1850. He likely stayed with the Ackermans and happened to be there when the census taker knocked, and was counted twice in 1850.
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Birth:
Date is according to marriage record. Aug 17, 1801 has been used by Willard Smith.

His father Joseph was the miller at Gondrexange during the birth years of his first children, so Johannes was likely born at the mill in the village. No birth document has been found. Nearby Ketzing estate housed many Anabaptist farm workers, so there were probably connections between the Schrag family and other Anabaptists living at the estate, and perhaps products from the farm were processed at the Gondrexange mill.

Residence:
At time of his marriage was living in Blâmont

Residence:
Miller at Cheppe, Commune of Dompcevrin. The mill was destroyed in 1914 during the war, only ruins remain. More than likely lived at the farm Chanteraine.

Residence:
48°56'11.53'' N / 5° 29' 35.00'' E A small village next to Dompcevrin that included Cheppe mill.

Immigration:
On ship list name recorded as Jno. Gerrard. Family lore says the trip lasted 44 days.

Residence:
No information found about the family’s time in Lancaster Co., PA

Census:
#155 (Brother Peter was listed also at #155)

Naturalization:
Two men vouched for John Schrock: Michael Saltzmann and Jacob Taylor.


Census:
Counted again, John Shrock, age 50, being in the household of Christian Ackerman

Census:
House #1175, Family #1316

Residence:
Living with wife Catherine, Joseph, Catharine, Peter, John; next to the Michael Saltzman family

Residence:
Left Ohio to settle in Illinois

Census:
Page 176: John Shrock, age 60, farmer, b. France; John age 17, farmer, b. OH; Magdalene age 16, b. OH.

Census:
Page 18: John Schrack, age 70, farmer; Jacobine, age 53, keeping house, born in Baden.

The information below doesn’t belong to Johannes. Does it belong to his son John?
Real Estate valued at $8000, Personal Estate at $2000. Living in the same dwelling were John, Jr., age 30, farmer; Phoebe, age 24, keeping house; Peter 3; Catharine 2, and Daniel 5/12. This family was living next to Peter Unzicker family in dwelling 119.

Buried:
Railroad Cemetery (not documented, but the most likely)

Johannes married Catherine (Elisabeth) Salzman on 8 Apr 1826 in Blâmont, Moselle, FR. Catherine (daughter of Michael Salzman and Catherine Hirschy (Hergi Hirschine)) was born on 27 Oct 1804 in Sarralbe, Moselle, FR; died in Mar 1858 in Tazewell Co., IL; was buried in Pekin, Tazewell Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Servant
• Religion: Amish
• Residence: 1826, Bistroff, Moselle, FR
• Immigration: 30 Apr 1831, Baltimore, MD

Notes:

Birth:
6 brumaire an 13 according to (Film #1981660; n/m/d 1792) Her parents were age 25 and 24 at her birth. Witnesses to Catherine’s birth: Jacob Stabe(?), age 46 and Louis Heyacker, age 23, justitier.?

Residence:
At time of marriage

Immigration:
On the April 30, 1831 ship list of Baltimore arrivals ,with her two children, Joseph and Catherine, and husband Johannes; also her father Michael Salzman and step-mother. Manifest has not been found, but they are on the quarterly summary.

Buried:
Likely Railroad Cemetery

Notes:

Johannes was living at Blâmont at the time of the marriage and Catherine was at Bistroff.
A publication of the marriage was made at commune of Rhodes at Bistroff.

Witnesses:
Father of the groom, Joseph Schrack, living at the mill at Bachats, age 52, and Marie Nayhouser, age 53, mother of the groom
Nicolas Cherrier, age 50 years; Augustin Demontzey b. 1763.
Michael Salzman, age 44, miller at Xirange, father of the bride
André Chertz, age 33 years (born 1793), an uncle “par alliance” (by marriage) of the bride.

Married:
The French marriage index says Catherine Hergi was no longer living at the time of Catherine's marriage in 1826.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cultivator
• Religion: Old Mennonite Church
• Residence: Butler Co., OH
• Immigration: 1830, NYC
• Residence: 1837, Farnisville, Woodford Co., IL

Notes:

Birth:
Farm Vallerade . Gravestone gives year as 1803.

Immigration:
from Havre, France

Died:
At home of daughter Barbara Strubhar

Buried:
Imhoff Cemetery

Joseph married Magdalena Guerber on 21 Feb 1830 in Montigny, Haute-Normandie, FR. Magdalena (daughter of Pierre Guerber and Barbe Schertz) was born on 22 Nov 1807 in Insviller, Moselle, FR; died in 1848 in Congerville, Woodford Co., IL; was buried in Woodford Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Joseph Guingrich married Magdalena Gerber at Montigny, Meurthe-et-Moselle (22 miles south of Fribourg) Feb. 21, 1830. She was born on the Roderhof at Insviller Nov. 22, 1807, and died at Farnisville in 1848, a daughter of Peter/Pierre Gerber and Barbe Schertz. The marriage was recorded as that of Joseph Guingrich of Montigny and 'Magdelaine Guerber' of Ste. Croix farm at Fribourg. Peter/Pierre Gerber, the father of the bride, was working on Ste. Croix farm and attended the wedding.
The marriage entry also recognized that the couple had a child together. The birth of their daughter Barbe had been registered at Fribourg Jan. 1, 1830. The couple signed the entry as 'Joseph Guingrich' and 'M. Guerber.'
Though little is known about their passage from France to America, it has been passed down that Magdalena gave birth to their daughter Magdalena on a Transatlantic crossing Nov. 30, 1829. (from "Amish Mennonites in Tazewell County, Illinois" by Joseph Peter Staker)

Family history says that Magdalena was buried in the "Slabtown" Cemetery at Farneyville. Supposedly, horses got loose in the cemetery and trampled and broke some of the graves, including Magdalena's. Her burial location in the cemetery remains unknown.

Birth:
Roderhof

Buried:
Slabtown Cemetery

Notes:

The marriage record included the information that Magdelaine Guerber was the mother of Barbe Guerber, who had been born 1 January 1830.

The marriage was recorded as that of Joseph Guingrich of Montigny and 'Magdelaine Guerber' of Ste. Croix farm at Fribourg. Peter/Pierre Gerber, the father of the bride, was working on Ste. Croix farm and attended the wedding.

The marriage entry also recognized that the couple had a child together. The birth of their daughter Barbe had been registered at Fribourg Jan. 1, 1830. The couple signed the entry as 'Joseph Guingrich' and 'M. Guerber.'

Married:
Cultivator living at Montigny