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| 12801 | “Asa Skaggs and Adaline Noblet were married by J.P. John Davis in 1850 July 21, Osage Co. MO. They lived there, Maries county, their entire married lives and died on the farm on the Old springfield Road, just east of Lane Prairie, not fora from the old Noblett homeplace. Born to them were said children, Margaret, Harvey, Eli, John, Elizabeth and one son died in infancy. “Margaret, Harvey and Eli died at an advanced age, single. John married twice, first Sallie Schram and second Ann Engle. John died childless. Betty married twice, first to William West, seven children were born to this marriage. Second to Thomas Blackwell, no children to this marriage.” Osage County Missouri Book A 1841-1861, Mrs. Howard W. Woodruff, Author | Skaggs, Asa (I1470)
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| 12802 | “At age 15, he crossed the country to California to find his father. Later he settled on a farm near Tremont, IL, and became a prosperous farmer....John became an extensive grain farmer and a breeder of high-grade stock. He was a Republican.” | Gingerich, John (I4742)
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| 12803 | “at boulin” | Miller, Ann Marie /Muller (I4727)
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| 12804 | “At one time Jacob owned 1,570 acres of land in Bureau County, IL and 320 acres in Lee County, and was half-owner of the hotel in Princeton known as the American House. “ A large bank barn was built by Jacob and it is still standing, located about two and one-half miles northwest of the “Red Covered Bridge” in Bureau County--has hand hewn walnut beams. | Albrecht, Jacob (I6111)
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| 12805 | “Aumuhle”, the current residence of Betty Weber Christner, son Edgar and family. This mill had been in Eyer possession since the mid-1800s, and passed into Christner hands through marriage. Andrew Eyer appeared in the East Bend Mennonite church community in the late 1800s. | Eyer, Andrew (I941)
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| 12806 | “Barbara Louise was very active in her church. She was known for her musical ability—she played the piano and organ. Her daughter Ruth said her mother stood next to her and sang in the church choir into her early eighties. Barbara was a very attractive lady. She married Dr. Campbell Chapman, a medical doctor in Deer Creek who later took over his father’s medical practice in DesMoines, Iowa. Verna Belsly said Dr. Chapman was a lifelong Democrat who said he voted Democrat ‘even though I sometimes had to put a clothespin on my nose to do it.’ Cleat Belsly Hunt said Dr. Chapman told her if she wanted to lose weight she should put some ‘snooze’ under her tongue. Louis Phillips said when Dr. Chapman first opened his practice in DesMoines he needed customers so he would have Barbara sit in the waiting room to make it look like he was busy. One day a lady came in, sat down and asked Barbara how she liked the new doctor. Barbara said, ‘Oh, fine, he’s very good.’ Just then Dr. Chapman came out and said, ‘Oh, Mrs._____, I’d like you to meet my wife.’ Barbara and Campbell had three children. Ruth’s career life was spent first as a teacher, then as a dietician. She did not marry. She is a most interesting and delightful person. Two of her hobbies are big watching and bridge. Robert married Illeen Lunney Copas of Australia. Now a retired lawyer, he has worked as Special Agent of the FBI, for several government agencies, the American Bar Association of New York City and the Department of Insurance, State of Illinois. Eugene died in 1979. He worked in various jobs in California since 1932 and was married four times.” | Belsly, Barbara Louise (I5352)
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| 12807 | “Believed to have emigrated with his father ca. 1842-1843. In September, 1850, 23 year old Henry Stolder from Germany was living with Jacob and Jacobina Stalter Sann, along with his sister Frederika (Veronica) and her infant daughter, Magdelina, in Tazewell County. In the 1860 Census, a "Henry Stolder", age 34, was working as a farm laborer for Joseph Pfeffinger in Montgomery Township of Woodford County. Henry's death place and date has not been confirmed. But to date, no record of him has been found in the historic documents after 1860. “ | Stalter, Heinrich (I89)
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| 12808 | “Big John,” “Black John”, lived in Tremont. A deacon in the Dillon Creek Congregation by 1864. Attended the 1875 conference of Amish ministers in the Sutter barn. “In Germany....John was a horseman and a good horseman he was, as I found out for myself when I stayed with him in the spring of 1868-69, when he was breaking four-year old colts to work that had been raised in the woods, wild and vicious.” The 1850 census of Tazewell County shows the households of Valentine, Andrew, John (with Jacob and Joseph), and Christian in consecutive order on one page. Their household on the 1850 census of Tazewell County: farmer John Burkie, 35, Germany; Elizabeth, 25, Germany; Elizabeth, 2, Illinois; John, 1, Illinois; laborer Jacob, 25, Germany; and laborer Joseph, 22, Germany. John is found as a 65-year-old retired farmer on the 1880 census of Elm Grove, living with three children. He stated that his father was born in France, his mother in Hesse. | Bircky (Birky), Johannes (I182)
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| 12809 | “Black Peter” Settled near Roanoke, Woodford, Co., IL | Pelsy (Pelzel, Belsley, Bellesley), Pierre (I2639)
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| 12810 | “Bluetown” | Schertz, David (I2759)
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| 12811 | “Burcki” came from Giebel near Langnau in the Emmenthal. The name is listed in the 1798 Bürgerverzeichnisse (census) of Canton Bern, Switzerland. Hans Burcki was an early Taufer (Anabaptist) leader who left Switzerland before the Amish movement began. He was exiled to Holland, but escaped at Breisach in Baden. Since he had twelve children it is suspected that many of the Amish Mennonite Berkey, Burkey, and Birkey families descend from him. (See http://www.gerberfamily.org/giebel_haus.php) | Birki (I2786)
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| 12812 | “Christian Birky’s first wife was named Mary. On August 10, 1854, Christian petitioned the court to be named legal guardian of his daughter Fronica (Veronica), as follows: To the County Court Tazewell County Illinois The undersigned respectfully shows that Fronica Birkey aged seventeen years in January last is a minor heir of his wife Mary deceased and that the said Fronica is his daughter, and that heir aforesaid she is entitled to certain property of about the value of $178---- and he preys that letter of Guardianship may issue to him the said Christian Birkey for his said daughter. Affirmed to this ???? (Signed) Christian Birki before me this 10th day of August, 1854 Jno M Bush. Also in the file is the Court's Order that appointed Christian the legal guardian of Fronica (Veronica) until she reached the age of 18. This suggests that Mary received a bequest (most likely from her father at the time of his death). Since she had apparently pre-deceased the benefactor, her bequest was divided among her natural children (Mary, Joseph, Magdalena, Barbara, Elizabeth, Andrew, Anna, Catharina, and Veronica). All save Veronica were of the age of majority in 1854. In order for her to collect her property, she needed a legal guardian, and that became her father. The person leaving the bequest may have been of some means since Mary's share was $1602, and an equal amount may well have been left to any of Mary's siblings or their issue. The entire process suggests that Mary Birki's father may have died intestate in Illinois in 1853 or 1854 and it thus may be possible to identify him through probate or other guardian records. “ Gary Yordy (Source: Tazewell County Probate Records, File 11 “Fronica Birkey”) | Birky, Veronica (Fronica,fannie) (I506)
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| 12813 | “Christian Cender (1786-1861), a native of Belmont, Bas-Rhin, son of Ulrich Zehender (1761/62-1835), the principal lease-manager of the farm called Riedhof or Täuferhof near Niedernai in 1815, and Barbara Sommer (1765-1827), and himself a farmer assisting his father on that property. From the time of marriage until at least 1831, Magdalena Eymann and Christian Cender lived in Niedernai. From 1832 to 1835, they were near Saverne, Bas-Rhin. Then for two decades theirs was the sole Anabaptist family in the tiny village of Rigny-la-Salle, Meuse, near Vaucouleurs. To America in 1855... “Christian Cender's notebook is in the hands of Alva Cender. He left no doubt as to who owned the book. On the first page he entered, "This housebook is mine, Christian Cender, whoever takes it is a thief, whoever brings it back is kind to me." The book contains mostly business transactions. On April 11, 1852, he recorded that "I settled my accounts with my son-in-law Christian Schrag." | Cender, Christian (I100)
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| 12814 | “Christian Oesch, single, son of the landowner of Forsthof, Berta Holli nee Oesch, wife of Josef Holli, Gerpolding, Court of Ebersberg, Veronika Gascho nee Oesch, wife of Christian Gascho of Egelbrunn near Regenstauf and Maria Augsburger nee Oesch, wife of Daniel Augsburger in Illinois, USA, agree that their mother Katharina Oesch give the farm to their sons Christian and Josef on 27 Sep 1809 in Neuburg/Danube in the notary’s office.” Christian Suttor of Hellmannsberg, and Christian Oesch of Hanfeld paid 18,3009 Guilders for the property, Forsthof. | Oesch, Christian (I805)
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| 12815 | “Christian sen. from Hanfeld as bail, son Johannes an Barbara from Unterweilbach near Dachau take on lease the cattle farm Kaps on 20 Jul 1819, (Court of Ebersberg).” | Oesch, Johann (I806)
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| 12816 | “Christopher’s middle initial “B” stands for “Burkey,” his mother’s maiden name. We are told that all of the boys of that family used that same initial, apparently proud of the Burkey name. His parents were Amish. In later years his father became an invalid. This grandfather is remembered by his grandchildren as sitting in his wheelchair by the window so he could look outside. He was a very large person, eventually weighing over 300 lbs; his helpful slightly-built wife had a hump in her back. As was the way in those days, the grandchildren were sent to help these grandparents when they grew older. They lived in Nebraska which is considered part of the Midwest “Heartland.” At that time small farms raised most of the food products for the nation. The frontier was considered closed in 1890 when Chris was about nine years old. At the close of Civil War, farmers constituted 60 percent of the work force. The farmers settled land in a westward movement; these frontier people did hand labor and used horses to pull simple equipment in contrast to the present corporate farms with huge expensive machinery. I understand that Grandpa Schrock did not own land but farmed land owned by others. He owned a combine and was hired to work in fields. He was a very tall, handsome person who enjoyed life, but it is said he did not accumulate much money. He was strict with his children. Mother said if one of his children got a spanking in school, Grandpa Schrock would deliver another spanking with a belt at home. If a teacher checked the space titled “Talks too much,” this also meant a spanking at home. “We have a copy of the Public Sale Notice for the auction that was held by Chris when selling his home. The auction notice states, “Two bedroom, full basement, 3 lots one block west and one block north of the schoolhouse, Lots l, 2, and 3, Block 10. Remodeled only a few years ago, furniture, canned fruit and fruit jars, wash tubs, snow shovel.” He then moved to the town of Geneva to be nearer his children as he was in ill health because of cancer. “There was a reunion in the 1980’s of the Christian C. Schrock family, Christ B. Schrock’s parents, at the Geneva Lion’s Club Building in Geneva with about 260 people attending. This family had become widespread as relatives arrived from California, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, and Arizona. This was the first time many had seen each other for a number of years, and some had never met previously. “ | Schrock, Christian Birky (Christopher) (I4266)
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| 12817 | “Daniel Burky took the lead in filing a “Bill in Chancery” in the Court of Common Pleas in Butler Co. in 1846 over division and distribution of Johannes Holly’s farmland.” In the April 2008 Mennonite Family History, page 76, Neil Ann Stuckey Levine gives the following info: Elisa Holly Burcky (b. Feb. 10, 1814) on July 24, 1838, in Butler Co., m. Daniel Burcky (b. 1807/8), who immigrated with his future wife and others in 1832, stayed in Butler Co., Ohio, one year, returned to Germany for his parents, and arrived with them in New Orleans at Christmastime 1834. Elisa Holly and Daniel Burcky left Butler Co., for Illinois. | Burky, Daniel (I9252)
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| 12818 | “Daniel Ropp was Joseph and Catherine Ropp's second son and their fifth child. He was born August 20, 1855 in Elm Grove Township, Tazewell County, Illinois. His parent's farm was his childhood home. Here he acquired the skills to be a successful farmer in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. He helped his father care for their animals - the horses, cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens. He learned how to care for the leather tack needed to harness the horses to the buggies, wagons, and farm implements. Dan soon knew how to care for the orchard and garden. As he matured, he helped with the heavy work - plowing and harvesting. In the winter he chopped and split wood for the fires. There was work for all seasons. Dan attended Railroad School - by his accounts and those of others, he was a mischievous boy, but certainly not the only one. School and work on the farm occupied most of his time - but there was time for play and other social activities. He learned to hunt and fish. Once or twice a year, several families would meet at the Mackinaw River Dells and spend the day socializing and fishing. Butchering was sometimes a joint venture with several families sharing the work. Dan and the other children enjoyed these gatherings - there was always a good meal and time to play corner ball or some other game. In 1866, his mother decorated eggs for Easter. She wrote “D Ropp 1866” on one of the eggs. His cousin Mary (Uncle Peter's daughter) saw the egg and commented on how pretty it was. Dan gave it to her. She kept it her entire life. Dan was born into a close-knit Amish community. Uncles, aunts, cousins, and grandparents lived nearby. It was a good place to grow up. When Dan was nineteen, the family moved to the Amish community northeast of Washington, Illinois. For the next five or six years, he worked there. In 1880 Sarah Garber, a former schoolmate who had moved with her family to Missouri in 1870, returned to Illinois for a visit. Sara had driven a mule-pulled wagon loaded with household furnishings from southeastern Missouri to Illinois for her cousins Lydia and Fred Metz. When she had moved to Missouri, Sarah was eight years old and of little interest to Dan. Now she was eighteen and she attracted his attention. Soon they were making wedding plans. On January 6, 1882, Dan and Sarah were married. Dan and Sarah Ropp lived on a farm in the Grandview, MO area. After Dan died, Sarah moved to Grandview and lived across the street from the President Truman family. | Ropp, Daniel (I4175)
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| 12819 | “Danne at Four Winds” | Ringenberg, Christian (I11084)
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| 12820 | “Did Anne Verle Zehr emigrate to America before her husband? In 1850, There was a 65 year old French born, Anne Zehr and 25 year old Madeleine Zehr living with 30 year old Peter Zehr in District 56 of Woodford County. They were next door to Maria Zehr (Mrs. Debolt) Householter. Peter Zehr and Maria Zehr Householter were children of Joseph and Anne Verle Zehr. There was also a 67 year old French born Anna Zehr living with 38 year old Joseph "Shirts" (Schertz) and his wife, 24 year old Ann Zehr Schertz. "Ann" Zehr Schertz was the youngest daughter of Joseph and Anne Verle Zehr. Thus, there are two women named "Anne" or "Anna" Zehr that were of the age of Anne Verle Zehr living with children of Joseph and Anne. Could one of these have been the wife of Joseph Zehr and the other, a relative? If one of these women is Anne Verle Zehr, why is she in America when it is known that her husband Joseph Zehr, Sr., was still living in France in 1852? By 1860, elderly Anne and Joseph were living with their daughter, Anne Schertz near Metamora.” | Verly (Werelin), Anna (I800)
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| 12821 | “Died single at the age of 25 at Ste. Marie-aux-Mines Nov. 20, 1741, after an illness of 14 weeks. Her death entry identifies her as 'Vrena Hochstettlerin,' and mentions that she had been living with brother-in-law Michel Blank. She was buried at Fertrupt [Ger. Forbach] near Ste. Marie-aux-Mines. “ | Hostetler, Verena (I6533)
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| 12822 | “Dutch Ridge” | Saltzmann, Margaret Gertrude (I6429)
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| 12823 | “Elisabeth gave birth to her second son six years after Daniel was born (Johann Baptist Holly). His father was Adam Kandler, a Catholic man from Lindach, and their son was baptized Catholic as Johann Baptist Kandler. His father insisted that he be raised in the Catholic faith. Elisabeth and her father objected and had the baby’s baptissm rescinded. His name then became Anton Holly. However, Elisabeth’s second son is referred to in records as John Baptist Holly. John B. emigrated to Illinois in 1870, and married Anna Graber…They lived in Kansas and Oklahoma and had 13 children. Their first son was named Daniel Holly, born 1879. Daniel had ten children, born in Colony, Oklahoma, and died in California.” | Holly, Johann Baptist (I14261)
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| 12824 | “Emma Josephine was a Past Matron of the Eastern Star of the Masonic Order. Her son James showed us a beautiful picture of a horse that she had painted. She married DeLos Davis of Deer Creek and they later moved to Chillicothe. His occupations included managing the Peoples Telephone Co, operating a plumbing and heating business and doing sales work. Emma and DeLos had four children. Harold died in infancy. Helen has also passed away. Her husband, Michal Sirnec was a purchasing agent for Bunty Candy Co. He now resides in Cicero. Florence, widow of Clyde Allan, lives in Normal. James, a retired salesman, is married to Marge Schumacher, a real estate agent. James recalled the frequent Belsly reunions that were held. Upwards to seventy-five relatives would attend and what good times they would have! They would make five gallons of homemade ice cream at a time and the youngsters would take turns turning the handle.” | Belsly, Emma Josephine (I5354)
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| 12825 | Schrock, Eric Andrew (I9967)
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| 12826 | “Franklin Co., MO Early Births. gives year as 1857. | West, Elizabeth Ann (Bets) (I666)
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| 12827 | “Franklin was the last son born to Christian and Mary. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington. For many years he was a banker in Deer Creek and later sold insurance and real estate in Washington. He was very interested in collecting antiques and had a wide reputation as an authority on old coins, Indian relics and old guns. He was a Past Master of two Lodges in the Masonic Order and a choir director at his church. He was known to have a good sense of humor and to be quite a kidder. Louis Phillips (who is quite a kidder himself) told the following story about Frank: ‘For many years we used to go to Peoria to pick up his daughter Margaret Belsly Triebel and then go to the cemetery in Washington where he was buried. One year I noticed a flag on his grave and I was fairly sure he had never been in the service so I asked Margaret about it. She said he and a buddy would go down to the local loafing corner and would tell of their exploits during World War I (which they were never in). Someone heard about it and thought they had been neglected so started putting flags on both graves. I can just see Uncle Frank turning overrun his grave and laughing a bit when he looked down—or up—and saw it.’ Franklin married Lydia Carlock, whose grandfather founded Carlock, Illinois. Their daughter Margaret graduated from Knox College in Galesburg. She married Louis Triebel who was President of the William Triebel Monument Co. at Peoria. Their son Franklin Jr. married Alamade St. Clair of New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a casualty underwriter for Travelers Insurance Co. at Peoria, Omaha, Nebraska and New Orleans, Louisiana.” | Belsly, Franklin Louis (I5353)
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| 12828 | “French records prove that the man who married Katharina Ulrich in 1831 in France and fathered her first child was named Jacob Wagler. But, in America, Katharina Ulrich’s husband was called Christian Wagler. Nothing is known from French documentation about Christian Wagler, except that he signed the death document of his father in 1826 in La Croix. Perhaps Christian Wagler set out for America with the family of Jacob Wagler in 1833 and, before or after crossing the Atlantic, married his younger brother’s wife--supposing, of course, that she had been widowed in an untimely fashion--and thereby merged the identity and responsibility of that brother with his own.” Wagler/Berse “The groom is actually called “Jacques Berse” in the couple’s French civil marriage record, to which he signed his name as “Jakob Bers” in crude antique German script. Alteration of the Germanic surname Wagler to Bers(e) in French must somehow have been justifiable linguistically.” “The surname Wagler, like Wagner, was obviously originally drawn from wagon-building and/or the wheelwright’s trade. The rare French noun ber(s), “the side rail of a cart over which canvas may be stretched,” would seem to lie behind this name change: Tresor de la Langue Francaise...vol. 4 (Paris, 1975), p. 400.s.v., Bs. The Wagler surname appears frequently in French records as Berse, but often the male Wagler in question simply signs his name as Wagler in old German script to the French document naming him as Berse.” According to Tazewell County, Illinois Cemeteries Volume Two, the headstone of Christian Wagler in Railroad Cemetery at Elm Grove says he was born Jan. 30, 1803, lived 73 years, 10 months, and 22 days, and died Dec. 22, 1877. | Wagler, Christian H. (Jacob) (I131)
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| 12829 | “General Notes: The large family of Mennonite Nafzigers (also Nafzier, Naftzger, Noftsger, and Noffsinger), goes back to two brothers, Christian and Ulrich, who immigrated to the border area between Alsace and Palatinate from Uetendorf near Thun in Canton Bern, Switzerland, about the year 1705. Originally the Nafzgers had come from Wurttemberg, where the name still appears today as Nefzger (Nehzer comes from the Swabian verb nefzen meaning to doze or nap, thus a designation for a slow, easy-going person). Zacharias Nafzger, a smith, settled in Thun in 1621. Since that time his descendants have lived around Thun as craftsmen (pewterers and silversmiths). In 1707 he is named as leaseholder in Birlenbach in Lower Alsace (Bas-Rhin), where he had difficulties with the local clergyman (Robert Lutz). He had apparently left his Swiss homeland (Uetendorf in Canton Bern in Switzerland) of his own free will together with his brother Ulrich Nafziger, born in 1686. At least there are no indications of either banishment from their native land or of Anabaptist origin. Possibly the two young men set out to seek their fortunes and only because members of the Amish congregation through marriage to Mennonite women.” | Nafziger, Christian (I10491)
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| 12830 | “General Notes: As a widow she emigrated with four children to Peoria, Illinois.” | Schertz, Katharina (I16412)
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| 12831 | “General Notes: As a widow she emigrated with four children to Peoria, Illinois.” | Schertz, Katharina (I33291)
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| 12832 | “General Notes: Died alone and forsaken by all of his children and numerous step-children from four marriages, all of whom had emigrated to America.” | Nafziger, Valentin (I4769)
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| 12833 | “General Notes: In 1771, lease holder of the Geilweilerhof estate, not far from Muhlhofen, west of Landau, near Siebeldingen in the Palatinate. Here in 1525, during the Peasants' War, rebellious farmers of the area assembled and swore allegiance to the Bundschuh, at the so-called "Dagobert hedge". The Dagobert hedge was a very old thorn bush that had grown on a tall trunk into a crown shape, visible from far away. The "holy tree of Haingeraide" was said to grow and to bloom so long as there continued to be rights for the peasants of the Haingeraide. The hedge did survive the decrees of the French Revolution meant to equalize in justice, but only a few years later a thunderstorm with strong winds damaged it serverley. Today a newly-planted hedge grows where the holy tree once stood.” | Nafziger, Christian (I2162)
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| 12834 | “General Notes: Magdalena was much in demand as a healer - Alfred Kuby has shown that she could accurately predict the term of existing pregnancies with the help of a urine sample. She was also a zealous advocate for her faith and quite an autocratic woman. For example, during a renovation of the house, she had her initials "MN 1738" carved in the arch of one of the gates, although her husband was still alive.” | Güngerich, Magdalena (I9860)
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| 12835 | “Gottlieb was known as a teacher of German language school during the first 35 years of residence in Montgomery Township. using the Bible as a textbook, he taught a liberal education, such as history, geography, literature, poetry, etc., designed to aid immigrant children who did not fully grasp a second language. “Because of his extensive musical training in both organ and violin, Gottlieb also taught music and singing.” Three of his sons began manufacturing chain link fence in 1897. Their first order came from Jacob Zehr: 396 ft. of fencing purchased from Hohulin Brothers Fence Company for $26.90 (including gate). | Hohulin, Gottlieb (I13522)
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| 12836 | “grain mill” | Verkler (Wurkler), Madelaine (I6817)
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| 12837 | “Grandpa Sutter was a tall man, over six feet, and his nickname was Shorty. I remember his white hair, his bent-over torso, and his little white beard (chin-whiskers!). ….“ “Christian Sutter died July 22, 1932 in Hopedale, Illinois. He was born August 3, 1853 in Morton, Illinois a son of Christian and Magdalena Nafziger Sutter. He married Fannie Stalter Feb 28, 1876 in Flanagan, Illinois. He died July 22, 1932 in Hopedlae, Illinois. Surviving are his widow Fannie and 13 children. Burial in Hopedale Mennonite Cemetery.” | Sutter, Christian N. (Nafziger) (I2559)
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| 12838 | “He is thought to have married Barbara Forney in Livingston County Aug. 25, 1878, and an entry is found in the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index. However, we could not identify him on any census after 1850. “ | Oyer, Christian (I10327)
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| 12839 | “Her civil death entry stated that her name was Marie, giving her age 11 and the names of her parents.” | Oyer, Catherine (I8752)
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| 12840 | “Her parents are assumed to be Valentine Nafziger from the ruined castle estate Froensbourg/Frönsburg (near Lembach in what was later Lower Alsace) and his wife Elizabeth. “ | Nafziger, Elizabeth (I803)
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| 12841 | “His untimely death deeply saddened the family.” | Zobrist, Alpha Wayne (I14449)
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| 12842 | “In 1726, we find "Hans the old" of Fronsburg, signing a lease contract "for his son Christian". It was at this point that the Pfalzhof came into the possession of the Gungerich family. Christian, who could only sign his name with a mark, was born about 1690, and had eleven children in two marriages. He died in 1752...on the Pfalzhof...We found the name of his second wife, Barbara Jutzi, in the "Palatine Mennonite Census lists" housed at the Karlsruhe Generallandesarchiv. As a widow, Barbara and her five children ran the estate. The name of his first wife is as yet unknown.” | Güngerich, Christian (I72)
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| 12843 | “In 1753 Johannes was on the Lichtenbrunnerhof near Kaiserslautern with a wife, two children and one farmhand. According to the census data, he had lived there for 18 years. By 1759 Johannes was a temporary tenant with Franz Dellmuth on the Bremerhof estate (on the south edge of Kaiserslautern). With him was his wife, Verena Lang, two sons (jean 8 1/2, and Jakob, 1 1/2, and two daughters Anne 12, and Verena 5. By 1765 Johannes and family had relocated to Eselsfurth on the northeast edge of Kaiserslautern where their fifth child, Magdalena was born.” | Jordi, Johannes (I9918)
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| 12844 | “In 1808 twelve people lived on the farm, the farmer Jean Hierchy, 56, and his wife Anne Ruffenacker (Rouvenacht), 50, their son Jean, 18, and 9 servants. Among these anthropologists were two Anabaptists, Pierre Ringenberger, 22, of Hingsange, and Anne Schracke, 20, Rhodes, who were married in 1810. The couple went to Linstroff. They emigrated with their children in 1831 to the United States in Ohio.” Jean Hirschy was a witness to Anna Schrag/Peter Ringenberg marriage. | Hirschy, Jean (I2633)
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| 12845 | “In 1888 remarried Alma Ross. They lived on a farm he inherited from his grandfather. It was located midway between Lacon and Washburn on bottomland called Crow Creek. It is likely the same farm his parents lived on when they were first married. Alma died in 1895. Jennie Chambers became his second wife. John at one time owned six hundred ten acres of land. Besides farming, he also worked with a local telephone exchange which had forty phones on its line. As farmers wanted phones, John would extend a line to them and provide them with service when needed. In 1905 John moved his family to Lacon where he bought an implement and hardware store. He and his family ran the business until 1919 when his son Mark took over and the family returned to farming in the same area they had left. John and Alma had three sons. Roscoe farmed land his parents owned near Arthur, North Dakota and later farmed near Moorhead, Minnesota. Bruce lived to age ten. Mark ran the implement and hardware store and later built a bowling alley and locker plant in Lacon. He was a very successful investor in stocks and bonds. John’s marriage to Jennie produced two sons and two daughters. Freda and her husband Louis Klein operated a grocery store in Henry. Cleat (Dud) worked for many years at the Caterpillar Company in Peoria. Her husband Cecil Hunt worked at the Belsly Hardware in Lacon where they live. Area (Bill) has retired from farming. He lives in rural Washburn and is still a township supervisor. His love of hunting and knowledge of animals and birds make him one of the foremost authorities of wildlife in that part of Illinois. Uncle Bill and Aunt Alma have helped immeasurably gathering information for this booklet. Lorin was a trainman for the Santa Fe Railroad. He was also a businessman, city councilman and mayor of Lacon for eleven years. Under his leadership street lights and a sewer system were installed and paving, zoning and a marina were completed.” | Belsly, John Rudolph (I5348)
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| 12846 | “In 1892 he moved from his native township to the farm of one hundred and twenty-three acres he still holds, and which is located about two miles from Somerset borough, adjoining the '' County Farm.'' In April, 1904, be took his present place as steward and hospital superintendent of the County Home, having been elected by the poor directors. He is well qualified to manage this institution, which has on an average of one hundred and eight inmates, seventy-five of whom are insane subjects, composed of twenty-eight females and forty-seven males, which require great care and skill to properly manage. The farm of three hundred and forty-seven acres which belongs to the county bag to be managed by Mr. Schrock,. as well. He still owns his farm, which is well improved.” Harvey’s marriage license to Susan Landis indicated he was previously married and his first wife had died 3 Oct 1884. | Schrock, Harvey (I15994)
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| 12847 | “In accordance with license issued by the Clerk of the Orphans’ Court. Signed by William G Schrock, Minister of the Gospel | Family: Harvey Schrock / Susan Landis (F10939)
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| 12848 | “In the Bernese State Archives, two brothers--Christian and Bendicht Schrag, sons of Ulrich Schrag--are mentioned in a 1765 list of Anabaptists. They had moved from Wynigen-Launberg to the Munster Valley. However, at that time, other Schrags were already residents in the Zweibrücken area.” “In 1738 Ulrich Schrag, age fifty, was living in Eschert in the Jura, thus born in 1689. He had a wife Marguerite, age forty-five, and children Houle (Uli in French), Christian, age nine, Bendit, age seven, Barbelet, age five, and Annelet, age two.” “He went to Eschert in 1713. Eschert is on the south side of the French-speaking valley Val Moutier/Grand Val/Münsterthal in the Jura Mountains of Canton Bern, approximately 16 miles northwest of Wynigen. At the time it would only have been reached from Wynigen by traveling a roundabout road for 44 miles. From Lüsslingen it would have been only seven miles to the northwest if a direct route were possible over the mountains, but was actually 35 miles by roundabout road. On its south side Eschert touches Canton Solothurn. Bernese authorities were prohibited from chasing Anabaptists across that boundary (and so, based solely on his relocation, we strongly suspect that ?llrich had chosen adult baptism). A fire destroyed most of the village of Eschert in 1733. ?llrich married Margreth Röthlisberger. In 1738 a census at Eschert identified Ulrich Schrag, 50; Marguerite, 45; Houle [?li], 13; Christian, 9; Bendit [Bendicht], 7; Barbelet [Barbli], 5; and Annelet [Anneli], 2.“ “This was probably the Ulrich Schrag who was a native of Laumberg near Wynigen, Bern, Switzerland when he moved to the commune of Eschert in the Munstertal, Alsace, France in 1713. He was an Anabaptist. He was married to Margreth.” ————— (The material from this summary is taken from the family tree of Peter Schrag unless noted.) Ulrich b. 1687 (son of Bendicht b. 1667) married Margrit Rothlisberger-- some family traditions say in 1709. His cousin Caspar b. 1685 could well have been married about the same time in an un-recognized Anabaptist marriage before being officially married in France in 1711. Perhaps the two couples fled the Wynigen area together thru the Jura , but where Caspar ended up with the Amish in Zweibrucken, Germany; Ulrich b. 1887 stayed in the predominantly Mennonite Jura area. We know Ulrich lived at Eschert in 1713, but know little else of him until his first child Ulrich is born at Eschert in 1725. Some of his children settled here for several generations. Just where Ulrich had been in the intervening years, one can only guess, but the path of many fleeing Anabaptists led to caves in the Jura Mountains, near Souboz and they were also known for meeting under the bridge over the gorge at Courtelary. This might especially be true for the Schrags who lived a mere 25 miles to the southwest. After things settled down a bit, the Jura district appeared to be much more accepting of Anabaptists than the Bern area was. J. Virgil Miller in the book “Both Sides of the Ocean” hints of a sort of dual citizenship where the Schrags, although having moved to the Jura, had kept Wynigen as their Heimat. } | Schrag, Ullrich (Houle) (I2102)
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| 12849 | “It is strongly suspected that Anna Chraque was a daughter of Caspar Schrag and Elisabeth Weiss. Anne Chraque's proposed family relationship is based on circumstance. Though there may have been other Swiss Schrags in Lorraine that we have not identified, only one branch of one family has been identified as Amish Mennonite. Caspar Schrag and Elisabeth Weiss had a son Caspar (circa 1744-1794) who married Barbe Rouvenacht and Marie Blaser. He worked as a miller at Bischwald Mill and a cultivator on Belgrade farm at Bistroff. Thus he was a business partner with the Engel family. Their son Joseph Schrag (1772-1830) was born on Belgrade farm but lived at Gondrexange. He married Marie Engel (1774-circa 1800)…. Note that Anne's son Joseph Cachot/Gascho also lived at Gondrexange. This is a coincidence in a tiny community (though the population has grown in two centuries to its present 490). Note also that Joseph Cachot/Gascho's immigration companions in 1831 included Peter Engel. If Anne was a sister to Caspar (circa 1744-1794), the only documented Amish Mennonite Schrag in her age bracket in the region, then her parents were Caspar Schrag and Elisabeth Weiss.“ | Schrag (Chraque), Anna (I13882)
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| 12850 | “Joe Park sold his farm near Champion City to Ben Havener and moved to the southern part of the county.” (Newspaper note of 26 Dec 1883) According to Fred Kinder, Joseph married Sarah E. Anderson, born abt 1858, daughter of Henry Anderson and Mathey Ann Bandy. Children from this marriage are: William Henry Isaiah Park b. 10 July 1880 (my GF) James Edward Park b. 30 July 1886 Thomas Albert Park b. 9 July 1888 Mary Virginia Park b. 2 Feb 1890 Martha Elizabeth Park b. 2 Feb 1890 David Eli Park b. 5 Mar 1893 Hally Park b. Abt 1895 all 7 children were born in Franklin Co. MO | Park, William Joseph (I705)
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