Daniel Stalter

Notes:

Birth:
Kirschbacherhof

Died:
Kirschbacherhof

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1849, America
• Naturalization: 1 Nov 1881, McLean Co., IL

Notes:

Obit: Herald of Truth, November 1888
"On the 22d of October, near Arrowsmith, McLean Co., Ill., of the infirmities of old age Joseph Stalter aged 81 years, 1 month and 7 days. He was buried on the 23d followed by his children and grandchildren and many relatives and friends. Service by Joseph Stucky and Pre. Hadfealt from Heb. 7 and Psa. 90. Peace to his ashes."
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Joseph and his brother John received the Kirschbacherhof 4 Mar 1835. The inventory list still exists. The two brothers fell into debt and they migrated in 1849 to America. Joseph then went to America some time after the death of his wife in 1877.

“They took with them sufficent funds to buy land on the recently opened prairies of central Illinois, and in 1855 Josef Jr. became a minister of the newly formed Rock Creek Amish congregation there.”

Tenants on Kirschbacherhof and Nassenwald.
Leaseholder on the Kirschbacherhof. Went to the USA in 1849.

Birth:
Monbijou

Joseph married Katherine Reidiger on 23 May 1830 in Ichenheim, Baden, GR. Katherine (daughter of Sebastian Reidiger and Magdalena Güngerich) was born on 5 Apr 1808 in Ichenheim, Baden, GR; died on 1 Jan 1877 in Arrowsmith, McLean Co., IL; was buried on 4 Jan 1877. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Obit: Gospel Herald, February 1877:
"Jan. 1st 1877, in McLean Co., Ill., of dropsy, Catherine Stalter, wife of Joseph Stalter, aged 68 years, and 8 months. She was the mother of 13 children, 9 of whom survive her. On the 4th her remains were consigned to mother earth, at which opportunity remarks were made from Rev. 14:13, by Joseph Stuckey and Henderson."

Birth:
Ottenweierhof

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Married:
Ottenweierhof

Other Events and Attributes:

• CLER: Y
• Occupation: Farmer on Monbijou estate, assisting his father-in-law, the estate manager and leaseholder.

Notes:

Joseph made experiments with threshing machines powered by water. After his sons fell into debt, Joseph had to sell his farm Stuppacherhof (previously owned by Jakob Dettweiler) to pay the debt of his sons. He was a broken man and died in 1851.

Tenant on Kirschbacherhof and Monbijou, preacher of the Zweibrücken congregation. Lived on Ottenweierhof in 1822.

The Kirschbacher Hof was reconstructed and after 1822 was again leased to the Stalters who were still living in the Zweibrücken region. Joseph Stalter was for a time a leaseholder on the Kirschbacher Hof. For a time he was owner of an estate Stubbach Hof. In 1835 he moved to the “Montbijou” estate and gave the lease of the Kirschbacher Hof to both of his sons, Joseph and Johannes.

Joseph Stalter was a respected preacher of the Amish congregation.,

Birth:
Bickenaschbacherhof

Died:
Monbijou estate

Joseph married Susanna Hauter on 24 Jul 1806. Susanna (daughter of Nikolaus Hauter and Elizabeth Maurer) was born in 1787; died on 11 Nov 1820 in Dietrichingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Monbijou estate

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1791-1814, Alsace Lorraine, FR

Notes:

See Source for description of properties.

Daughter Elisabeth probably belongs in this family, based on the statement in Guth that she is of the Ottenweierhof, and based on Stewart’s chart which shows her a sister of Katherina, wife of Joseph Stalter (1807) and also a sister of Barbara who is Joseph Stalter’s (1786) second wife. Some speculation here. dk

Birth:
Ottenweierhof

Residence:
Managed and lived at Ottenweierhof

Died:
Ottenweierhof

Sebastian + Magdalena Güngerich. Magdalena (daughter of Christian Güngerich and Anna Holly) was born on 27 Jun 1773 in Steinseltz, Bas-Rhin, FR; died on 24 Mar 1835 in Mahlberg, Waldeck, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Ottenweierhof

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 78
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• RWDN: S21

Notes:

One of the effects of the French revolution was the annexing of the territories to the north east of what was then France. This included Belgium, Savoy, Nice, and all lands up to the Rhine River. This was accomplished by 1793. This change of government had to have been noticed by our Stalter ancestors. When the Kirschbacher Hof estate was ransacked by the invading armies the Heinrich Stalter family took temporary refuge with eldest son, Christian, who was a leasholder on the Bickenaschbacher Hof. For reasons unknown, this estate was not destroyed. Christian Stalter was residing on Bickenaschbacher Hof when he died in 1831.

In 1800 Hienrich Stalter died on the Tenschof estate. His widow apparently returned to the Bickenaschbacher Hof for it was from here that she wrote a letter to the former Duke Max Joseph of Zweibrücken. In this letter, which is still kept in an archives in Munich, she explains her gloomy circumstances, and reminds the Elector of his promise given to her husband at the occasion of his visit at the Elector’s exile at Rohrbach castle near Heidleberg; namely that the Stalter family should obtain another estate as soon as “his Highness should acquire other dominions”.

The Elector, in fact, remembered his promise and ordered that the Stalter family (several sons and a nephew of Heinrich Stalter) could possess considerable estates from the nationalized Upper Bavarian Abbey’s properties. These Abbey (church) properties were available because, as part of the changes brought about by the French Revolution, there was a great reduction in the power of the Catholic Church. Church lands were confiscated and sold, or used by the French government to gain the support of those “German” noblemen who had lost property as a result of the revolution. This helped the French, because these new properity holders now were indebted to the French authorities, and therefore more likely to support the French in the new regime. This also helped our Stalter ancestors, because now there was land available for them to farm which the Elector could use to keep his promise to his friend, Heinrich Stalter.

A number of other Amish families followed the Stalters to Bavaria, where the government readily accepted them to cultivate the abandoned Abbey’s estates. The Bavarian government was quite aware of the special abilites of the Mennonite farmers.,

Birth:
Tenscherhof in Lorhringen

Died:
Bickenaschbacherhof

Christian married Magdalena Hauter in 1785. Magdalena (daughter of Johannes Hauter and Magdalena Schrag) was born in Jun 1759 in Ixheim, GR; died on 11 Dec 1805 in Hengstbach, Zweibrücken, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 79
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Birth: 1759
• Death: 1805

Notes:

Info. about Magdalena and her family from Cender papers and Stewart chart.,

Died:
Bichashbacherhof, GR

Notes:

Of Monbijou.

Nikolaus + Elizabeth Maurer. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Anabaptist

Notes:

“Sebastian Reidiger became the manager of the Lords of Dungern at the estate at Ottenweier in 1763. With his family he had come from the valley of Emmental in the Kanton of Bern in Switzerland. He belonged to the Anabaptist movement, the Mennonites. In the Ottenweier estate records as in the community records the name Reidiger has also been spelled as: Reitiger, Reitenger, Riediger, Rediger, Rodiger, Reutiger and Reudinger. As did his predecessor, the Mennonite Johann Georg Rieder who managed the estate from 1720-1763, Sebastian (Basch) Reidiger, conducted religious meetings at the estate and at the close by forest, the Anabaptist forest, for his family and the hired hands. There, one can still find a huge, round table made from sandstone on which the adult baptismal candidates have been registered.”

Part owner of the Meier farm.

Sebastian married Anna Lederach (Lederer) before 1774. Anna was born about 1725; died after 1796. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From the Rohr farm by Bruehl.

Notes:

Of Steinseltz, Alsace near Wissemberg (later the Rheinseltz, Alsace).

Birth:
Blumenthal farm

Christian + Anna Holly. Anna died on 21 Sep 1830 in Wellenburg, Bavaria, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]