Abraham Ringenberger

Notes:

They lived at Montgomery, then at Hancock, MN for 30 years, and finally at Gridley.

Buried:
Gridley Cemetery

Abraham married Lydia Zimmerman in 1877. Lydia (daughter of Michael Zimmerman and Katharina Naffziger) was born on 22 Feb 1857; died on 2 Jun 1951; was buried in Gridley, McLean Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Census: 1850, Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1860, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1870, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Census: 1880, Elm Grove Twp., Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Katie was a sister of Anna, Peter’s brother John’s wife. Peter and Katie lived with her parents for a while and then moved to South Pekin, IL. Later, they moved to Slabtown where Peter built a house of logs hewn from trees which had grown on his farm. In 1882, the family moved to a farm near Gridley, IL.

Peter and son Gideon were early land owners southwest of Gridley, IL. Jerry Funk of Bloomington, IL is a descendent of Peter. One of Gideon Rinkenberger’s farms is still in Jerry’s family today.

After the 1860 census the family used the spelling “Rinkenberger.”
“The 1873 plat map of Montgomery shows P. Rinkenberger as the owner of 160 acres in the northwest corner of upper Section 11.”

Birth:
Hinsange farm

Census:
Peter age 35 born Germany, a farmer; Seba his wife was 23 born in Ohio.

Census:
Peter born in Bavaria; Phoebe(?); children Catherine age 9, Joseph age 8, Jacob age 3 and Daniel age 5/12

Census:
Peter age 60, farmer, born Bavaria; Sibilla age 44, keeping house, born Ohio; children Joseph age 18, farmer; Jacob age 10; Emily age 9; and Mary age 6.

Census:
Peter, widower, age 69, born Germany; Katie, dau. divorced, age 29, born in IL, keeping house; Mary, dau. age 16, born IL; Katie Saltons, granddau, age 8, born in IL; Jacob, son, age 23, born in IL; Sam Rahler, farm workers, age 20. (FHL Film #1254253, NA film # T0-0253; page 497C

Buried:
Gridley Cemetery

Peter married Katie Garber in 1844 in OH. Katie (daughter of Garber) was born in Jun 1813 in Alsace, FR; died on 24 Apr 1901; was buried in Gridley, McLean Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Peter met Katie in Ohio, they married and lived with her parents for a while before moving to Illinois near South Pekin.

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:

• Occupation: Farm on the ruined castle estate Hingsange farm, Linstroff, Moselle
• Residence: 1765-1772, Linstroff, Moselle, Lorraine, FR

Notes:

Christian married Catherine Kempf before 1786. Catherine died on 23 Aug 1821 in Dolving, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: A Mennonite tailor
• Occupation: Miller And Tailor Of Clothes In Rhodes
• Religion: Amish
• Residence: 1771, St. Avold, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1772, Bistroff, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1773, Bistroff, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1775, Bistroff, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1783, St. Avold, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1787, Rhodes, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1788, Rhodes, Moselle, FR
• Residence: 1794, Rhodes, Moselle, FR

Notes:

Andréas has been included as a child of Caspar by several researchers. However, his birth date seems not to fit with being Caspar’s son, but perhaps Andréas’ birth date is incorrect. It could also be that Caspar’s birthdate is incorrect or that he had a wife before Barbe Rouvenac.

Gondrexange is situated at the edge of a lake with the same name, between Rechicourt le Chateau and Heming. Eight km from Rechicourt le Chateau, twelve km from Sarrebourg and 72 km from Nancy. In 1836 there were 1027 people living in the village. By 2001 that number had dwindled to 464. A farm 2 km away called Ketzing had 18 inhabitants in 1836.

“At the edge of the village (Gondrexange), next to a large recreational lake, a narrow lane named ‘rue de la vieux moulin,’ or ‘old mill street,’ winds down below the edge of the main highway. Here can be seen the trace of a small mill stream and the ruins of a small stone mill structure, overgrown with weeds. Though not conclusively documented, this site seems a likely candidate for the Schrag residence and site of Joseph Oyer’s marriage (to Catherine Schrag, daughter of second wife, Marie Blazer).”


(also found on French documents as 'Caspard' and 'Gaspard'), was born circa 1744 and died on Sommerhof at Neuviller, Lower Alsace March 15, 1794. He was a miller at Bischwald Mill and a cultivator on Belgrade farm at Bistroff after 1772, and at the time of his death was a tailor at Rhodes. His civil death entry from Neuviller described him as a 50-year-old Anabaptist living at Rhodes (it is likely that he was visiting the Sommers on Sommerhof at the time of his death). Witnesses were tenant farmer Jean Sommer, 63, and day laborer Jean Müller, 59 (Jean Sommer, born circa 1731, was the father of Joseph Sommer, and grandfather to the Sommers who came to Tazewell County in 1834). “ }




  

Birth:
Ingweilerhof

Residence:
Cultivator at Belgrade farm, and miller at Bischwald Mill.

Residence:
Son Joseph was born at Bellegrade Ferme near Bistroff

Residence:
At time of Catherine’s birth

Residence:
At time of Anne’s birth

Residence:
Domiciled at Bachats at the time of his death.

Died:
On Sommerhof. 25 Ventose 2. Caspar Schraag, 50 year old Anabaptist living at Rhodes. Witnesses: Tenant farmer Jean Sommer of Sommerhof, 63, and day laborer Jean Muller.
The witnesses may not have known the exact date of Caspar’s birth, and gave a nice round number as what they thought was a probable age. Witnesses were Jean Sommer, 63 (tenant farmer) and Jean Muller, 59 (day laborer). Jean, b. abt. 1731 was the father of Joseph Sommer and grandfather to the Sommers who arrived in Tazewell Co., IL in 1834.

Buried:
There are remains of a Sommers cemetery at Sommerhof, so Caspar could have been buried there, or the body removed back to Rhodes. There are no identifiable stones at either place.

Caspar married Marie Blaser (Blaiser) about 1774. Marie was born in 1749; died on 27 Nov 1792 in Rhodes, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

Once lived at Belgrade/Bellegarde.

Birth:
Calculated from death date

Died:
At age 43. Civil death entry: 43-year-old wife of ‘citizen’ Gaspard Girack, a 48-year-old Anabaptist tailor living at Rhodes. Witnessed by ‘citizen laborer’ Jean Ruvenach, 27, and signed ‘Caspar Schrag’ and ‘Hans R?venacht.’