Jean Ringenberger
1811 - 1886 (74 years)-
Name Jean Ringenberger [1, 2] Birth 12 Nov 1811 Grostenquin, Linstroff, Moselle, Lorraine, FR [2, 3] - Hingsange (Dec. 12? Byron Schrock)
Gender Male Census 1850 Woodford Co., IL - John Ringenberger, born ca. 1810, France, single, near Panola, IL
Death 29 Oct 1886 Livingston Co., IL Burial Gridley, McLean Co., IL - Waldo Cemetery
Person ID I2353 Schrock-Birkey Connection Last Modified 13 Jul 2020
Father Pierre Ringenberg (Ringenberger) (Rinkenberger), b. 12 Jun 1786, Linstroff, Moselle, Lorraine, FR d. 5 May 1861, East Peoria, Tazewell Co., IL (Age 74 years) Mother Anna Schrag, b. 15 May 1787, Rhodes, Moselle, FR d. 10 Apr 1859, Farmdale, Tazewell Co., IL (Age 71 years) Marriage 13 Jan 1810 Haute-Clocher, Moselle, FR [4] - arr. de Sarrebourg (Haute-Clocher means high bell tower)
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. [1]
Family ID F733 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Anna Garber, b. 15 Mar 1817, OH d. 1 Feb 1902, Mackinaw, Tazewell Co., IL (Age 84 years) Marriage Bef 1844 OH Divorce Bef 1870 Children 1. Mary Rinkenberger, b. 19 Sep 1844, Mackinaw, Montgomery Twp., Tazewell Co., IL d. 22 Sep 1929, Manson, Calhoun Co., IA (Age 85 years) 2. Christian Ringenberger, b. 28 Sep 1846, Mackinaw, Montgomery Twp., Tazewell Co., IL d. 28 Mar 1924, Livingston Co., IL (Age 77 years) 3. Peter Ringenberger, b. 24 Jan 1850, Mackinaw, Montgomery Twp., Tazewell Co., IL d. 30 Apr 1933, Gridley, McLean Co., IL (Age 83 years) 4. Anna Ringenberger, b. 28 Sep 1853, Mackinaw, Montgomery Twp., Tazewell Co., IL d. 23 May 1888 (Age 34 years) 5. Sarah Ringenberger, b. 1 Nov 1857, Tazewell Co., IL d. 19 Aug 1944, Gridley, McLean Co., IL (Age 86 years) Family ID F1668 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Jun 2011
Family 2 Magdalena Kettner, b. 31 Jul 1811, Gern, Munich, Bavaria, GR Marriage 8 Feb 1876 Tazewell Co., IL [1] Family ID F1670 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 12 Jan 2022
Family 3 Lena Beck Family ID F11177 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Jul 2020
-
Event Map = Link to Google Earth
-
Notes - Obit: Herald of Truth, FEBRUARY 15, 1887, pages 62,63
RINGENBERGER.-In Livingston county, Ill., of the infirmities of old age, John Ringenberger, in his 75th year. Services by John P. Schmidt from John 5:24-25. Deceased united with the Amish Mennonite church in his youth.
After coming to IL he went to Ohio. There he met and married Anna and returned to IL to take up farming. They lived in a log house at Slabtown near the present location of Mackinaw Dells and had five children. (The 1850 Woodford Co. census lists John as single.) By 1870, John and Anna had divorced and she was living with the children near Flanagan, IL.
- Obit: Herald of Truth, FEBRUARY 15, 1887, pages 62,63
-
Sources - [S181] Ardys Serpette, The Rinkenberger Family.
- [S1181] Elias Edward Zimmerman, Rinkenberger Family Record, 1786-1949: Descendants of Peter Rinkenberger I, (Printed by Economy Printing Concern, Berne, Indiana).
- [S181] Ardys Serpette, The Rinkenberger Family, 12 Dec 1811.
- [S170] Marriage Record of Anna Schrag and Peter Ringenberger.
- [S181] Ardys Serpette, The Rinkenberger Family.