Magdalena Eyer

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Dillon Twp., Tazewell Co., IL

Notes:

History of Illinois:
"Until his marriage the home of Joseph Hieser was cared for by his mother, who had subsequently joined her son. She is now deceased and lies in the cemetery of Elm Grove Township."

Birth:
Hatten in Lower Alsce?

Census:
Joseph Hiser, 30; Madaline, 62; and Jacob, 34.

Buried:
Magdalena is thought to be buried in one of the unmarked graved at Landes Mennonite Cemetery.

Magdalena married Jacob (Nicolas) Heisser on 25 Nov 1816 in Arzbach, Bavaria, GR. Jacob (son of Nicolas Hyser and Anna Maria Goldschmidt) was born about 1788 in Ste. Marie-Aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FR; died in Bavaria, GR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Described the groom as Bauer Jakob Hiser, living in House No. 10, born in 1788, a son of Nicolaus Hiser and Katharina Hiser.

1. Barbara Schrag (Eyer Heiser) was born in 1813 in Gaissach, Oberbayern; died on 13 May 1892 in Rockwell City, IA; was buried in Lake Creek Twp., IA.
2. Joseph Hieser was born on 1 Mar 1818 in Bavaria, GR; died on 9 Nov 1892 in Tazewell Co., IL; was buried on 10 Nov 1892 in Tremont, Tazewell Co., IL.
3. Katherine Heiser died in 1914 in GR.

Notes:

Jakob was a farmer from Zweibrücken and leased the Prullhof of the cloister Scheiern in Bavaria, then the Stillerhof near Landsberg. He was also elder of the Mergenthau congregation near Friedberg (Augsburg), Bavaria.

Jakob + Magdalena Birki. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1748 at the Steinichhof Langensteinbach.

Christian + Anna Brennemann. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Oyer/Eyer/Eymann - From Ey, which means meadow or wet meadow land (MFH Jan 1984) There are several places named Oy in Canton Bern, in the German Algau, Bavaria, and elsewhere.

Associated with Riggisberg, Canton Bern—Benedict thought to be born here late 17th century.

“Benedict Eyer, Mennonite, farmer. In St. Marie-aux-Mines (Markirch/Els.) in 1708. Named as a resident, leased in 1728 for six years along with Jacob Dettweiler the Steinichhof (Langensteinbach), two marriages and more than eight children.”

For fuller genealogical information about Benedict’s descendants, see source . (