Joseph Saltzman

Notes:

Buried:
East Fairview Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Mennonite in France
• Immigration: Oct 1878

Notes:

Obit:
Saltzman.-Jacob, son of Peter and Anna (Reshley) Saltzman, was born in A La Trimbol (à Lafrimbolle), Lorraine, France, May 20, 1856; died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. David Lehman, Kalona, Ia., April 28, 1944; aged 87 y. 11 m. 8 d. He came to America in Oct., 1878, worked in New York and Boston, Mass., until the fall of 1882 when he came to Milford, Nebr. He was united in marriage Sept. 6, 1885, to Fannie Burkey of Milford and they lived together in matrimony almost 60 years. After their marriage they moved on a farm near Milford where they lived until the fall of 1908, when they retired and moved to Milford. In 1942 they went to the home of their daughter where they remained the last 17 months and where Bro. Saltzman passed away. To this union 6 children were born: Mrs. David Lehman and Mrs. Barbara Stutzman, Kalona, Ia.; Mrs. Fred Yeackley and Mrs. Melvin Troyer, Milford, Nebr.; Edward E., Milford; and one son Joseph A., deceased. He is survived by his companion and the above named, 27 grandchildren, 54 great-grandchildren, and a host of relatives and friends. Bro. Saltzman accepted Christ in his youth and united with the Mennonite Church in France. On coming to America and locating at Milford, Nebr., he placed his membership with the East Fairview congregation where he was a life-long member, always taking a deep interest in the spiritual welfare of the church. Bro. Saltzman was a devoted husband and father, and a friend to all who knew him. It can be truly said of him "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon April 29, at the Lehman home, conducted by J. L. Hershberger, and at the Lower Deer Creek Church by J. Y. Swartzendruber, D. J. Fisher, and Geo. S. Miller, after which the body was taken to Milford, Nebr., to the house of his son, Edward E., where services were conducted Monday afternoon, May 1, by Ammon Miller and at the East Fairview Church by J. E. Zimmerman and L. O. Schlegel. Interment was made in adjoining cemetery.

Buried:
East Fairview Church Cemetery

Jacob married Veronica (Fannie) Burkey on 6 Sep 1885. Veronica (daughter of Joseph Bircky (Burkey) and Barbara Augustin (Eigsti?)) was born on 20 Oct 1863 in Morton, Tazewell Co., IL; died on 11 Feb 1949; was buried in Milford, Seward Co., NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
(28 Apr 1944?)

Buried:
East Fairview Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Miller at Lafrimbolle,FR
• Residence: 1863, Harcholin, Moselle, FR

Notes:

Lived in Blâmont at the time of his marriage. The civil marriage in 1847 legitimized the firstborn of Anna Reschly and Peter Saltzmann, who had a total of nine children, all born in La Frimbolle.

Pierre was miller at Neuve Grange. Later, Their son Joseph, husband of Madeleine Revenaque (Rouvenach), is a miller at the New Granqe in 1875 until the marriage of his daughter Madeleine in 1893 with Michel Moziman of Bourg-Bruche who takes over.

Residence:
Lived in this place from_?__until 1863.

Died:
Moulin de la Neufgrange

Pierre married Anna Reschly on 31 Dec 1847 in La Frimbolle, Moselle, FR. Anna (daughter of Daniel Reschly and Barbe Schmidt (Peterschmidt)) was born on 1 Dec 1823 in Métairies-Saint-Quirin, Moselle, FR; died in 1898?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Abt 1874, FR
• Residence: 1889, LaFrimbolle, Lorraine, FR

Notes:

Unmarried. One child known in La Frimbolle. The day following the birth of Joseph, grandfather Daniel Reschly told civil officials that the birth of this son to his 23-year-old daughter, unwed and unemployed, had taken place at Harcholin near La Frimbolle.

Later Anne married Pierre Saltzmann. After Pierre’s death Anna returned to Lafrimbolle where she was an innkeeper in 1889. Later her daughter Anne, and husband Joseph Lehmann took over the management.

Residence:
a widow

Residence:
working as an innkeeper. Her daughter Anne and son-in-law Joseph Lehmann eventually took over the management of the inn.

Died:
Name Anne D. Reschly found on genealogy website when searching on Saltzman, as well as the death date.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Reference Number: 174
• Religion: Amish Mennonite
• Immigration: 1 Nov 1844, Le Havre to New York
• Residence: 1849, Tazewell Co., IL
• Residence: Abt 1869, Woodford Co., IL
• Residence: Abt 1878, Milford, Seward Co., NE

Notes:

From Roanoke Centennial History:
"Joseph Birkey was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1816. He came to the United States in 1844, and settled first in New Orleans, Louisiana. He then moved to Tazewell County for one year, then returned to Germany. He married Barbara Eikstein in Bavaria, then returned to the United States."

Joseph, his bride-to-be Barbara Augustine (later 'Eigsti'), her sister Catherine, and his younger brother Valentine sailed on the Kilby, arriving at New Orleans in October 1846. The passenger list shows "Joseph Bircky 29; Augustine Cath. 21; Barbara, 20; and Birky Valentine 26." Christian, Elizabeth, and Catherine migrated in 1846.

On 2 Nov 1861, Joseph petitioned the judge of the Tazewell County Court to name Daniel Uncicker (sic) administrator of the estate of Valentine Birkey. This document gives the date of death as 23 Sept 1861.

Birth:
13.May.1816 born Joseph Bircki.Normal birth with midwife N. Gunzler in Nymphenburg.
Father: Valentin Birki leaseholder from the castle farm Unterweilbach, from Lutterbach/ Alsace
Mother: Elisabeth Unzicker from Breimthal nearby Heidelberg both Anabaptists


Immigration:
On ship Nashville

Buried:
East Fairview Cemetery

Joseph married Barbara Augustin (Eigsti?) on 22 Aug 1847 in America. Barbara (daughter of Nicholas Augustin (Augstin) (Eigsti-Eigstein) and Barbara Gascho) was born on 25 Sep 1827 in Unterweilbach, Bavaria, GR; died on 6 Aug 1911 in Milford, Seward Co., NE; was buried in Milford, Seward Co., NE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 177
• Religion: Amish Mennonite

Notes:

Obit:
Birkey. - Barbara (Eigstein) Birkey was born Jan. 23, 1827; died Aug. 6, 1911; aged 84 y. 6 m. 12 d. She was united in marriage Aug. 22, 1847, with Joseph Birkey and lived in matrimony 55 y. 6 m. To this union were born 4 sons and 6 daughters. Her husband, 2 brothers, 5 sisters, 2 sons, 1 daughter, and 13 grandchildren preceded her to the spirit world. 2 sons, 5 daughters, 44 grandchildren, 40 great-grandchildren, 2 brothers, 2 sisters and a host of relatives and friends mourn her departure.
Sister Birkey was a faithful member in the A. M. Church from youth. She lost her eyesight 13 years ago. She suffered much in her last days, but bore all patiently to the end. She was laid to rest in the East Fairview Cemetery near Woodriver, Nebr. Services by the brethren, Christian Rediger and Jos. Whitaker.

Barbara lost her eyesight thirteen years before her death, but she continued to knit for her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Birth:
Recorded in Unterweilbach church book

Buried:
East Fairview Church Cemetery

Notes:

Died:
Harcholins?

Joseph married Katharina Muller in 1816. Katharina was born in 1792. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Voiturier (Transport, Convey) Livery? (Unskilled Laborer-NASL)
• Residence: 1812, La Croix-aux-Mines, Vosges, FR

Notes:

A bachelor in his mid-forties, Daniel was living in Marckolsheim, Bas-Rhin, when he married in 1819.


“He lived at La-Croix-aux-Mines, Vosges in 1812. On Sept. 26, 1819 at St. Quirin Metaires, Meurthe-et-Moselle he married Barbe Schmitt, a daughter of Sébastien Schmitt and Anne Stroubar. After the marriage they lived at LaFrimbolle.

Died:
near Lafrimbolle. Death reported by son Joseph.

Daniel married Barbe Schmidt (Peterschmidt) on 26 Sep 1819 in Métairies-Saint-Quirin, Moselle, FR. Barbe (daughter of Sebastian (Bastian) Schmidt and Anna Strubhar) was born on 2 Aug 1793 in La Frimbolle, Moselle, FR; died on 3 Jul 1847 in La Frimbolle, Moselle, FR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Engaged In Agriculture (Cultivatrice)

Notes:

Married:
Haute Gueisse?

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: In Europe A Bauer (Farmer), In US A Farmer
• Reference Number: 36
• Religion: Amish
• Residence: Bef 1803, Völlerdingen, Alsace, FR
• Residence: ? 1803, Riedenburg, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1813, Dachau, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• PURC: 1825, Dachau, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1815 - 1828, Dachau, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• Immigration: 31 May 1828, Dachau, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1830, Pellheim, Bavaria, GR
• PURC: 8 Mar 1833, Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• PURC: 15 Apr 1841, Ludwigsfeld, Bavaria, GR
• Death: 12 Aug 1848, Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• Residence: 1831-1849, Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR
• Immigration: 21 Jun 1849, NY
• Census: 1850, Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
• Residence: 1860, Morton, Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

Valentine, father of thirteen children, all of whom emigrated to America, although not all at the same time, lived in Gern, Bavaria, when his children were born. The year after his wife died, Valentine, with some of his family came to America. He left Gern near Munich, Bavaria with five children, and with 10,000 fl., one of the larger amounts taken out of the country--much more than most immigrants. His brother Christian took the same amount. Valentine was of the "Little Red" Birky's. The family’s emigration is documented in Friedrich Blendinger’s material (the emigration to North America from the governmental district Upper Bavaria in the years 1846-1852, in: ZBLG (magazine for Bavarian national history) 27 (1964), p. 431-487. The magazine is on line with full text.

Birth:
Probably born at either Lutterbacherhof or Buscherhof (both near Sarre-Union and Rimsdorf). Lutterbacherhof is now a part of the Cultural Heritage Inventory Department Palais du Rhin. See https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/IA67006033

Residence:
Lutterbacherhof, near Saar-Union/Saarbrücken, FR

Residence:
Lived on rented farms with brother Andreas (Country court Riedenburg [Flugelsberg]), and with Christian (in County Court Munich.
Google translation :
Gern and Riedenburg
lt. deed of citizenship of
In 1828 he stayed until about 1815
with his brother on the
Wing mountain.

Residence:
Unterweilbach tenant, of Court Spreti, near Dachau.

PURC:
Purchased an estate in Arzbach from his brother Christian.

Residence:
Tenant at Unterweilbach.

Immigration:
Received France to Bavaria immigration permit. ”Here appears Valentin Bircky from Lutterbach in Alsace, 34 years old, father of seven children, five boys, and two girls, the oldest 13 years of age, the youngest two years of age, asking for permission to emigrate.”

Residence:
Arzbach estate (about 2 miles north of the center of Pellheim) called Schloss Pellheim.

PURC:
Purchased Kandler farm estate, house No 3 from Joseph Stalter, Elisabeth’s step-father.

PURC:
Mayerrhof, house No. 8, called “Wurzer estate in Ludwigsfeld near Munich, and Dachau.

Death:
Death of wife Elisabeth Unzicker

Residence:
Valentin moved with his family to his father-in-law living in Gern near Munich

Immigration:
Via Liverpool on ship Minnesota. Evidently the family was originally booked to depart with ship agent Karl Dick from Augsburg via Mannheim-LaHavre-New York. Plans must have changed since they ultimately arrived on the ship Minnesota, via Liverpool to New York.

Census:
Age 67, living with son Joseph and Barbara (Eigsti) Birky; also living there was Christian Springer, laborer.

Residence:
Year of his death

Buried:
Birky-Landes Cemetery, personal visit, Plot #36 on cemetery map dated 8/12/2013

Valentin married Elisabeth Unzicker (Hunsiker) in 1812 in Munich, Bavaria, GR. Elisabeth (daughter of Unzicker (Hunsicker) and Magdalena Nafziger) was born in 1796 in Breimthal, Heidelberg, Bavaria, GR; died on 12 Aug 1848 in Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR; was buried on 15 Aug 1848 in Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 37
• Religion: Mennonite
• USR1: Stroke

Notes:

Unzicker, originally Hunzicker= from Hunzicken, Canton Bern. The initial H was probably lost during a stay in France where an H is not pronounced at the beginning of a word.

















More likely, Elizabeth could have been a sister to Daniel b. 1798 who married Magdalena Kahn.}

Birth:
Near Wieslock and Heidelberg

Died:
Farmer’s wife, at age 54, on her father’s farm

Buried:
Gern Mennonite Cemetery

Notes:

Settlement of Valentine’s estate lists Joseph first and Jacob seond--the rest in the same order as here.

Married:
about 1812-1813 - 2,500 Guilders given to the bride and groom on the occasion of their marriage by the bride’s family.

Other Events and Attributes:

• CLER: Y
• Occupation: Estate manager, farmer
• Religion: Mennonite
• USR1: Herzwassersucht - cardiac dropsy

Notes:

Nicholas owned a large farm near Munich and was also a preacher of the Mennonite church.

“Nikolaus and his family moved from Strasbourg in Alsace to Unterweilbach near Dachau. Later they leased the castle farm in Pellheim. Other Amish families and individuals were also in the neighborhood. For example, the families of Christian and Valentin Birki who owned properties in Arzbach. Christian Habecker's Amish family also lived there for three years as subtenants of Christian Birki. Also tenants in this area were the Zehr and Hiser families, all of whom were named in the Pellheim parish register. Jakob Müller was a farmhand in Pellheim, Christian Gascho and his wife Maria née Güngerich in Pellheim, Georg Hochstettler farmhand in Arzbach, the siblings Johann, Barbara & Valentin Ackermann also in Arzbach and Anna Zwalter (Schowalter), “Austräglerin” or elderly farm woman in Pellheim. We may assume that all of the people named in Pellheim were employed by Nickolaus Augustin or lived on the farm. According to the church register, Christian Gascho was the subtenant of Nikolaus Augustin on the estate in Pellheim. The same was the case with Christian and Katharina Jotter (née Augsburger).

“Nikolaus Augustin must have been a very good farmer, because in the Staatsarchiv I found an application for a certificate of property by the Pellheim community dated 21 May 1841 when he left his lease there. It records what he had in terms of cash, agricultural property, and equipment and livestock, as well as outstanding debts from creditors.” [Totaling 16,174 Guilders]

“Following are the names of local leaders of the community who gave attestations to Nikolaus’ wealth and reputation: Eduard Count Sprety, Landlord of Weilbach; Franz Mayer, mayor, community of Pellheim; Dachau regional court.”


Information taken from Eigsti Genealogy Book.
  Nicholas, a farmer, owned a large farm in Germany.  He was also a preacher in the Mennonite Church.  The children received training in the home which produces industrious and faithful citizens.  Being instructed in the faith of their parents, they accepted Christ as their Saviour in their youth.  Nicholas died at about 50 years of age in Munich, Germany.  Elizabeth, the youngest daughter, contracted dipthiria and died from the disease in 1849, at approximately 7 years of age.

  In Germany, the law of conscription required all young men to serve three years in military duty.  The family left a comfortable, prosperous farm to come to America, suffering the privations of pioneer life.  They came not for financial gain, but to escape militarism, believing that it was not in accordance with the teachings of Holy Scriptures.

  The first to come to America, was Joseph Burkey.  He lived for one year in Tazewell Co., Illinois, then returned to Germany and married Miss Barbara Eigsti, in 1847.  The following year Joseph Burkey with his new bride, Barbara and her brother, Christian, came to America and settled in Tazewell Co., Illinois.  Following the death of Nicholas Augstien, his widow Barbara and the remaining children joined the family in America.  The trip was made in small wooden vessels, taking 56 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean.  They landed in New York City, proceeded by rail to Chicago and by canal to LaSalle, Illinois, on by boat to Hennepin, and by team to Bureau County, Illinois.

  Barbara Augstien owned land two miles south of Morton, Illinois.  A deed was recorded on August 19, 1853 in Tazewell County.  The land was purchased for the sum of $5,000.  Barbara Augstien is recorded in both the 1870 and 1880 federal census as residing with her youngest son, John Eigsti.  On December 26, 1880, she passed away at the age of 80.  She was buried in the Willow Springs Mennonite Church Cemetery, near Tiskilwa, Illinois.

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“In 1818 Nicholas Augstein left Strasbourg and moved to Gern (near Munich) with a number of other families. The family name was changed to Eigsti after resettling near Munich and it has been thought the cause could have been an anti-semitic climate.”

Died:
1852 Kirchdorf church register. He died at noon and was buried on Feb 3 in Kirchdorf in the grave belonging to the farm.

Buried:
In the grave belonging to the farm

Nicholas married Barbara Gascho in 1822 in Bavaria, GR. Barbara (daughter of André Gascho and Anna Zwalter) was born on 10 Nov 1800 in Desseling, Bas-Rhin, FR; died on 26 Dec 1880 in Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL; was buried in Dec 1880 in Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Mennonite
• Immigration: 7 May 1853, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA

Notes:

She found help in the Amish community in one Johann Springer, who lived nearby. He assumed guardiandship for the minor children, and helped when she sold her property. In December 1852 she applied to emigrate to America. Barbara traveled to Morton, Illinois with her remaining children: 2 adults and 5 minor children, in the spring of 1853.

Birth:
Year IX of the French Republic

Immigration:
Ship City of Glasgow

Buried:
Willow Springs Mennonite Cemetery