Daniel Zehr[1]
- 1856-
Photos Mill near Struth, FR
Several Zehr families lived at this mill.
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Name Daniel Zehr [2, 3] Birth Struth, Bas-Rhin, FR [4] Gender Male Residence 1803 Abstried, near Diessen, Bavaria, GR [1] Residence 1810-1817 Laim, Bavaria, GR [1] - Bergerhof. Laim was very near Nymphenberg in Gern. Thus, surely he had dealings with the Stalter and Birkey families in Gern.
Residence 1818-1827 Manried, Bavaria, GR Immigration 1849 New York, NY [1] - From Liverpool. Arrived 21 June 1849 on ship Minnesota. Only son Joseph stayed in Bavaria.
Occupation Farmer Religion Amish Mennonite Residence 1828-1849 Hanfeld, Bavaria, GR - Mang-Anwesen
Residence 1849 Woodford Co., IL [5] - Mackinaw River area
USR1 Cholera Death 1856 Farnisville, Woodford Co., IL [6] Burial Montgomery Twp., Woodford Co., IL [7] - Thought to be Slabtown Cemetery
Person ID I326 Schrock-Birkey Connection Last Modified 1 Jul 2022
Father Daniel Zehr, b. Abt 1735, Struth, Bas-Rhin, FR d. 21 May 1819, Struth, Bas-Rhin, FR (Age ~ 84 years) Mother Catherine Zehr, b. Abt 1750, Struth, Bas-Rhin, FR d. 24 Dec 1805, Struth, Bas-Rhin, FR (Age ~ 55 years) Marriage 1777 Struth, Bas-Rhin, FR Family ID F365 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Magdalena Unzicker, b. 8 May 1785, Windstein, Wissembourg, Alsace, FR d. 16 Dec 1838, Hanfeld, Bavaria, GR (Age 53 years) Marriage 6 Jun 1802 Windstein, Wissembourg, Alsace, FR [8, 9, 10, 11] - Marriage records of Windstein, Bas-Rhin, France, 1793-1862:
On 17 Prairial 10th year of the Republic (6 Jun 1802), at Windstein, District of Wissembourg, France, Daniel Zohr, age 19, son of Daniel Zehr and Catherina Zohr, married Magdalena Hunzicker, age 17, daughter of Johannes Unzicker and Barbara Uhlmann of Windstein. The following persons were witnesses and signed the marriage record: Joseph Zohr, farmer, age 47 years; Jacob Stepp, farmer, age 54 years, both residing at Windstein; Christian Bock, farmer, age 35 of Windstein; Christian Zohr, farmer, age 45 of Stultzthal.
Notes - On 17 Parairial 10th year of the Republic (6 Jun 1802), at Windstein, District of Wissembourg, France, Daniel Zohr, age19, sone of Daniel Zehr and Catherina Zohr, married Magdalena Hunzicker, age 17, daughter of Johannes Unzicker and Barbara Uhlmann of Windstein. The following persons were witnesses and signed the marriage record: Joseph Zohr, farmer, age 47 years; Jacob Stepp, farmer, age 54 years, both residing at Windstein; Christian Bock, farmer, age 35 of Windstein; Christian Zohr, farmer, age 45 of Stultzthal.
Children 1. Bishop Daniel Zehr, b. 8 Jun 1803, Struth, Bas-Rhin, FR d. 11 Aug 1855, Goodfield, Tazewell Co., IL (Age 52 years) 2. George Zehr, b. 23 Jan 1806, Abstried, near Diessen, Bavaria, GR d. 3 Feb 1886, Livingston Co., IL (Age 80 years) 3. Joseph Zehr, b. 29 Nov 1807, Preyderhof/Bogen, Bavaria, GR d. 9 Dec 1807, Preyderhof/Bogen, Bavaria, GR (Age 0 years) 4. Joseph Zehr, b. 18 Nov 1810, Laim, Bavaria, GR d. 30 Apr 1871, Beigarten, Bavaria, GR (Age 60 years) 5. Christian Zehr, b. 12 Nov 1812, Laim, Bavaria, GR d. 19 Sep 1893, Deer Creek, Washington Twp., Tazewell Co., IL (Age 80 years) 6. Magdalena Zehr, b. 12 Mar 1816, Laim, Bavaria, GR 7. Peter Zehr, Sr., b. 1818, Manried, Bavaria, GR d. 6 Apr 1886, Slabtown, Woodford Co., IL (Age 68 years) 8. Bishop Jacob Zehr, b. 17 Sep 1825, Manried, Bavaria, GR d. 22 Feb 1898, Deer Creek, Washington Twp., Tazewell Co., IL (Age 72 years) Family ID F141 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 22 Sep 2013
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Event Map = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - At one time Daniel lived in the village of Struth in France, but moved to Bavaria in 1803, where he leased a cattle farm for two years. From 1810 to 1817, the family lived at Laim, near Munich. Daniel purchased property at Manried near Hilgertshausen on 2 Dec 1818, then resold it on 15 Dec 1827. The next move was to Hanfeld, near Starnberg, Bavaria. At the age of 72 and about ten years after the death of his wife (Magdalena Unzicker), Daniel emigrated to America with the David Springer family on the ship Minnesota. The ship departed from Liverpool, England and arrived in New York on 21 June 1849. From New York Daniel went to Illinois where his sons George, Christian, Peter, and Jacob had settled.
Also on board were Valentine Birkey (1794) with brother Christian's daughter, Barbara and her illegitimate son, and Mary Burkey Birky.
Daniel’s children’s names were kept in a 1780 edition of Martyrs’ Mirror that has been passed down in the Ingold family.
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While in Bavaria, Daniel was one of the signatories to a letter sent March 18, 1811, to King Maximilian I. Joseph (ruler from 1806-1825). In it the “Elders of the Menonists” of the dairy farm Oberndorf, appealed to the King for permission to hire their own private instructors to educate their children in their own catechism, since he had allowed them freedom of religion. But “some of the community have received legal orders to send their children to school a good half hour away.”
The answer came to them on Sept. 11, 1811, that “attendance of the local school remained compulsory, but the Mennonite children were not compelled to participate in religious instruction.”
Other signing the letter were: Christian Güngerich, Heinrich Stalter, Christian Bürcky, Johannes Bächler.
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Daniel’s estate was probated in 1858 (Woodford Co., IL), Jacob Summers, Administrator. Appraisers were Christian and Peter Farney and Peter Sommer.
Paid out was: Christian Zehr $825.79; Daniel Zehr $825.79; Magdalena Zehr $36.00; Magdalena Zehr two $40 payments. [1, 6, 12]
- At one time Daniel lived in the village of Struth in France, but moved to Bavaria in 1803, where he leased a cattle farm for two years. From 1810 to 1817, the family lived at Laim, near Munich. Daniel purchased property at Manried near Hilgertshausen on 2 Dec 1818, then resold it on 15 Dec 1827. The next move was to Hanfeld, near Starnberg, Bavaria. At the age of 72 and about ten years after the death of his wife (Magdalena Unzicker), Daniel emigrated to America with the David Springer family on the ship Minnesota. The ship departed from Liverpool, England and arrived in New York on 21 June 1849. From New York Daniel went to Illinois where his sons George, Christian, Peter, and Jacob had settled.
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Sources - [S87] Ardys Serpette, Zehrs From Europe to Illinois.
- [S103] Steven R. Estes, Illinois Ministers Attending Amish Ministers’ Meetings of 1862-1878.
- [S128] Ardys Serpette, Additional Zehr Material.
- [S87] Ardys Serpette, Zehrs From Europe to Illinois, P. 71. Gives the year as 1777.
- [S227] Steven R. Estes, Living Stones: a History of the Metamora Mennonite Church.
- [S398] Joseph Staker, Amish Mennonites in Tazewell Co.
- [S1] Donna Schrock Birkey, Personal knowledge and family records.
- [S40] Hermann Guth, Amish Mennonites in Germany: Their Congregations, The Estates Where They Lived, Their Families (English edition), (Masthof Press, Morgantown, PA), 1802.
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- [S589] Gern2.doc, Year.
- [S14] Marriage records of Windstein, Bas-Rhin, France, 1793-1862 (LDS film #1069483), Gives year as 1803.
- [S1127] Herbert Holly, A Letter to King Maximilian ! from Mennonite Elders.
- [S87] Ardys Serpette, Zehrs From Europe to Illinois.