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GENEALOGY REPORT
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DORSCH LAENG
This Genealogy Report contains details on seven generations of the descendants of Dorsch Laeng.
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Genealogy Report....................................................................... page 1
End Notes................................................................................... page 69
Index of Individuals.................................................................... page 77
For those of you seeking information subsequent to the seventh generation please write to me. Iwill be pleased to share with you the information that I have.
Joseph P. RheinSarasota, FloridaUnited States of AmericaApril 17, 2006
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Descendants of Dorsch Laeng
Generation No. 1
1. DORSCH1 LAENG was born Abt. 1650 in Utzenstorf, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, and died 09 Feb 1698/99 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France. He married (1) ANNA BANZEN 19 Feb 1672/73 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France, daughter of ENDRES BANZEN. She died Bef. 1689. Hemarried (2) ANNA MARIA NONNER 22 Feb 1688/89 in Year 1689 - Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace,France1, daughter of HANS NONNER and ANNA SCHERTZLER. She was born 06 Sep 1655 in Gambsheim,Province of Alsace, France..
Notes for DORSCH LAENG:Dorsch Laeng married first Anna Banzen daughter of Endres Banzen of Herrlisheim. "1673 the sunday after EstoMihi was married after he had obtained authorization by decree from the authority of this place: a swiss man, ofthe calvinist faith, named Dorsch Leng, living here for a time for his work, native of Zuzischdorff, district ofBern, and Anna, daughter of Endres Banzen of this place; both rather poor people will have difficulity to make aliving". (Source - Examination of copy of Marriage Record)
Dorsch Laeng, widower, married second Anna Marie Nonner, on February 22, 1688, daughter of Hans GeorgNonner and Anna Maria Schertzler of Gambsheim. Undersigned by witnesses, Hans Jacob Wiher and ClausGuman. Joannes Volmar Wanslbe, Vicar. (Source - Examination of copy of Marriage Record)
Esto Mihi
"The period of fifty days before Easter begins with the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, called Dominica inQuinquagestima or Esto Mihi from the beginning of the Introit of the Mass; it is a Sunday of the second class, andthe colour the Mass and Office is violet. The introit being: Esto mihi in Deum protectorem, et in locum refugii, utsalvum me facias etc... For many early Christians it was the beginning of the fast before Easter. In many placesthis Sunday after and the next two days were used to prepare for Lent by a good confession." Source - TheCatholic Enclopedia On Line)
Michael Emmerich, a descendant of David Frauel who married Catharina Laeng on November 14, 1749 inHerrlisheim, advises that "According to the United States Naval Observatory - Astronomical applications, Eastersince antiquity 'falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the dayof the vernal equinox'. Because Ash Wednesday is 46 days prior to Easter, this website calculates Ash Wednesday1673 to be "February 15 and Easter Sunday is April 2. Assuming then that Alsace was using the Gregoriancalendar, which I am not sure of, one need only count up four days, making the date of the marriage February 19,1673".
Both catholic and protestant records were checked in Herrlisheim as it was converted by force from protestantismto catholicism in 1682. On the basis of dates of other records reviewed for both Laeng and Rhein forebears it isfairly certain that Alsace was using the Gregorian calendar. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
Zuzischdorf is Utzenstorf
Michael Emmerich further advises that "if the person writing the marriage record from 1673 that mentionedZuzischdorf wasn't using perfect grammar they may have used the preposition 'zu' (to) rather than 'von' 'da' etc. Itcould be Zu Utzenstorf, which spelled phonetically with the 's' being pronounced 'sch' could be z'utzenschdorfwhich could be further corrupted to Zuzischdorf. It's a thought." "....I've been looking more into thisUtzenstorf/Zuzischdorff and am more and more convinced this is the right place. I am fairly certain that the "Zu"is a contraction of Zu Utz...' Even though 'zu' means 'to' based on contemporary records in the neighboringOffendorf, this word was used freely as a substitute for 'von'. The two f's at the end or 'torf' also seems to be aquirk of the time. In looking through LDS microfilms from the 17th century Offendorf, I found it spelled
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'Offendorff' very consistently. A cursory search on German orthography reveals that 'd' and 't' are very much alikein pronunciaton, thus the 'torf' instead of the 'dorf'. I found the website of gemeinde Utzenstorf and discoveredthat from the mid-14th century and on for a very long time while the village was referenced as 'Utzistorf' whichseems to be a more phonetic spelling, using 'is' rather than the 'ens'. Since 's' is pronounced 'sch' when it comebefore a 'p' or 't,' and 'tz' and 'z' are synonomus in this contex, a very phonectic spelling would be 'Uzischdorf.'Thus "Zuzischdorff." As there were a significant number of Laengs residing in Utzenstorf, Canton of Bern in the16th and 17th centuries I have elected to enter Dorsch Laeng's place of birth as Utzenstorf, pending furtherverification and review of the record of his christening.
The Swiss Federation was formed in 1291 from territories in the Holy Roman Empire. Bern became the eighthstate in the Federation in 1353. Switzerland became an independent nation in 1648 following the end of the ThirtyYears War.
Emmigration from Switzerland
"Alsace's predicament was much different in that the Thirty Year's War ravaged Alsace. It is said that at the endof that War, which ended with the Treaty Of Westphalia in 1648, there was not a farmhouse, which was standing.The Swedish army literally looted everyone and committed atrocities. Records of that period attest to that.Alsace needed to be re-populated by the French. It was decided that good Catholic farmers could be found inFrance. Lands would be given for cultivation, and Mass. Very few Catholic Frenchmen came from inside Franceat the urging of the Government. The King and his Prime Minister, Mazarin, set out to find French speakerfarmers. They turned to the Swiss French Catholics, but these were not very enthusiastic to go to that hostile land.Finally after much hesitation, they asked French Protestants to come and emigrate. Very few came. It wassuggested that the Swiss German Kantons, mainly of the Reformed religion might be interested.
"The Swiss-Germans did come. That is one reason why today, in Alsace, one finds many Families of Swiss origin,whose families came from Aargau, from Bern, from Zurich, and other German speaking Kantons.
"The Swiss spoke their diverse Swiss-German dialects and fitted very well into the countryside. They were hardworking; they were not too far from home either. And as usual, "Alsacien" or "Elsasser deutsch" is so close toSwiss-German dialects that many Alsatians not only worked in Switzerland but also felt at home in Germanywhere there are thousands of workers who work across the Rhine.
"Alsace and Switzerland have over the hundreds of years maintained privileged relations, not only in terms offriendliness, but also because of economic reasons. For hundreds of years, the markets of Basel and other Swisscities were prized by the Alsatians. They could sell their produce at better prices. They could also speak thesame languages, Alsacien and French and German depending upon the time. They could be understood byeveryone.
"For Alsace, there are the French; there are Germans, there are Alsatians Families from before 1648, but the re-population came mainly with the Swiss.
"Alsace and Lorraine were transit areas where religion was extremely important to consider as it placed you inone category. Language was another. If you spoke French or German, you were often considered to be in one ofthe camps of the French and German. If you spoke "Alsacien" or "Elsasser deutsch", you were not well seen byeither the French or the Germans who considered you as traitors for speaking German for the French, and abroken German with French words by the Germans. Antagonisms remain because of World War II where manymen were forcibly enrolled in the Waffen SS, and in the German Nazi Armies. " (Source - Jacques de GuiseCEG / CGR / EIG Cabinet d' l@tudes Genealogiques, Center for Genealogical Research, Estudio deInvestigaciones Genealegicas, Geneve / Geneva / GinebraSuisse / Switzerland / Suiza)
Laengs in Utzenstorf
Set forth below are a number of Dorsch (Durs, Urs) Laengs born around 1650 in Utzenstorf, District of Berne,Switzerland, as taken from the records of the Church of the Latter Day Saints Family Search. References, file
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numbers, etc. pertain to Church of the Latter Day Saints. This will need to be researched further.
The most probable candiates are two brothers; Durs Laeng, Christened Oct 24, 1644 (File # 537184, page # 30,Reference # 96445) and Urs Laeng, Christened October 10, 1647, both in Utzenstorf. They are the sons of HansJacob Laeng and Anna Schuerch of Utzenstorf. Other children are; Madieni, Christened 1641, Anna, christenedJune 25, 1643, Abraham, Christened February 1, 1646, Hans Jakob, Christened February 1, 1646, Niclaus,Christened March 18, 1649, Barbara, Christened November 3, 1650, Elsbeth, Christened July 17, 1653, Bendicht,Christened December 6, 1657, Rudolf, Christened July 29, 1660, all in Utzenstorf.
Hans Jacob, Christened April 20, 1622, is the son of of Durs, Christened, September 24, 1570 in Utzenstorf,married to Verena Wyss.
Durs is the son of Urs Laeng, born about 1529, married to Margret Zeigler about 1550.
Other probable candidates are:
Name/ Date ofFile # - page Christening/ Father Mother Reference#
Durs Laeng Sep 11, 1636 Felix Laeng Elsbeth Misteli 537325 - 76579
Durs Laeng Nov 19, 1643 Rudolf Laeng Barbara Bunchser 537184 43 96929*married Anni Solberger, December 1685
Durs Laeng Dec 17, 1643Peter Felix Laeng Susanna Gugger537184 27 96404
Durs Laeng Oct 14, 1638 Peter Felix Laeng Susanna Gugger537753
Uurs Laeng May 2, 1645 Jacob Laeng Verena Kummer 537184 112 96413
Durs Laeng May 16, 1651 Benedicht Laeng Elisabeth Muelchi 537325 -76941*married Anna Mullchi, February 5, 1677
Urs Laeng Jun 7, 1657 Urs Laeng Elsbeth Marti 537184 134 96955
Urs Laeng Apr 24, 1659 Abraham Laeng Ursula Danner 537325 -76952
Other Laengs who may be the forebears or related to the forebears of Dorsch Laeng Durs Laeng Feb 8, 1590 Jost Laeng Madlena Christin 537184 179 96423
Urs Laeng Sep 4, 1607 Bastian Laeng Christiane Buchser 449513*married Anna Wintz, June 12, 1631
Durs Laeng Aug 21, 1570 Rudolph Laeng Luisa Schoenisubmitted after 1991 - no source reference
Methodolgy
The area of Alsace was returned to France following the Thirty Years War in 1648. From that date to the end ofthe French Revolution, I have elected to enter all information as to the location of Commune de Herrlisheim asProvince of Alsace, France.
Following the end of the French Revolution (conventionally termed "Revolution of 1789" denoting the end of the
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ancien regime in France) it was split into departments. From that date until the Franco-Prussian War that ended in1871, it is entered as Department of Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
From 1871 until 1890, the date my grandparents emigrated from Herrlisheim to Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,Pennsylvania, it is entered as Alsace-Lorraine, Germany. (Notes to File - JP Rhein)
More About DORSCH LAENG:Name 2: Christian name also known as Durst or Urs.Burial: 09 Feb 1698/99, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France2
Fact 1: 09 Feb 1698/99, "In the year 1699 the 9th of february was buried by me Joannes Volmar Wansleb, vicarof Herrlisheim: Dorsch Lang, living in Herrlisheim, in presence of witnesses: Nicolas Guman in Herrlisheim andAnna Maria, widow of the desceased." Per death record.Fact 2: Feb 1698/99, Died in February 1699 per death record.
More About DORSCH LAENG and ANNA BANZEN:Marriage: 19 Feb 1672/73, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France
More About ANNA MARIA NONNER:Baptism: 06 Sep 1665, Godparents Joannes Muller, inn landlord in Haguenau and Catherina, daughter of GeorgWolper mayor of this place. (Source - Examination of baptismal record Gambsheim)
More About DORSCH LAENG and ANNA NONNER:Marriage: 22 Feb 1688/89, Year 1689 - Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France3
Witness: 22 Jan 1688/89, Witnesses were Hans Jacob Wiher and Claus Guman.3
Children of DORSCH LAENG and ANNA NONNER are:i. DORSCH2 LAENG, b. 29 Nov 1689.
ii. CASPARD LAENG, b. 03 Jan 1693/94, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.2. iii. GEORGES LAENG, b. Abt. 1695, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.
iv. MICHEL LAENG, b. 19 Jan 1697/98, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. 26 Apr 1699,Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.
Generation No. 2
2. GEORGES2 LAENG (DORSCH1) was born Abt. 1695 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France4.He married ANNE KIENTZ 24 Nov 1717 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France5, daughter ofBARTHOLME KIENTZ and CATHERINE WOLFF. She was born 09 Feb 1689/90 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Province of Alsace, France6.
More About GEORGES LAENG:
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Date born 2: Abt. 1695Education: 04 Nov 1717, The marriage record of Georges Laeng and Anna Kientz lists Dorsch Lang as the fatherof Georges,6Occupation: Weaver
More About ANNE KIENTZ:Fact 1: 09 Feb 1689/90, Date of birth in Herrlisheim per catholic church records is February 9, 1690.
More About GEORGES LAENG and ANNE KIENTZ:Marriage: 24 Nov 1717, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France7
Children of GEORGES LAENG and ANNE KIENTZ are:i. MARIE CATHERINE3 LAENG, b. 26 Sep 1718, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. 29
Apr 1720, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.3. ii. JEAN GEORGES LAENG, b. 12 Jun 1720, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. 26 Mar
1787, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.iii. JEAN MICHEL LAENG, b. 29 Aug 1722, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France8; d. 09 Oct
1724, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France9.iv. MARIE CATHERINE LAENG, b. 23 Oct 1724, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France10; m.
THEOBALD WOLFF, 07 Jan 1744/45, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France10.
More About THEOBALD WOLFF and MARIE LAENG:Marriage: 07 Jan 1744/45, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France10
4. v. CHRISTINE LAENG, b. 11 Nov 1726, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.
Generation No. 3
3. JEAN GEORGES3 LAENG (GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 12 Jun 1720 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Provinceof Alsace, France11, and died 26 Mar 1787 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France12. Hemarried MARIA SALOME GROSS 24 Nov 1744 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France13,daughter of MARCEL GROSS and CATHERINA SCHMITT. She was born 02 Jan 1727/28 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France13.
More About JEAN GEORGES LAENG:Occupation: 1758, Weaver13
More About JEAN LAENG and MARIA GROSS:Marriage: 24 Nov 1744, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France13
Children of JEAN LAENG and MARIA GROSS are:i. MARIE SALOME4 LAENG, b. 28 Dec 1745, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.
ii. ELISABETH LAENG, b. 09 Sep 1748, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.
More About ELISABETH LAENG:Education: This may be the Elisabeth Laeng that married Jean Naas on July 11, 1774 in Herrlisheim. Sourcefor this marriage is shown below.14
5. iii. CASPARD LAENG, b. 15 Jan 1750/51, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.6. iv. PHILIPPE LAENG, b. 06 May 1753, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. Aft. 1816,
Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.v. MARGUERITE LAENG, b. 21 Jun 1755, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. 19 Jun
1760, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.7. vi. MELCHIOR LAENG, b. 04 Jan 1758, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. 26 Jul 1841,
Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.vii. GERTRUDE LAENG, b. 17 Nov 1760, Commune de Herrlisheim, Provine of Alsace, France.
8. viii. ANTOINE LAENG, b. 24 Mar 1763, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. 04 May 1833,Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
ix. JEAN GEORGES LAENG, b. 24 Mar 1763, Commune de Herrlisheim, Provine of Alsace, France15; d. 17 Apr
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1763, Commune de Herrlisheim, Provine of Alsace, France16.
More About JEAN GEORGES LAENG:Education: Twin
x. MARGUERITE LAENG, b. 22 Jun 1766, Commune de Herrlisheim, Provine of Alsace, France17.xi. CATHERINE LAENG, b. 16 May 1769, Commune de Herrlisheim, Provine of Alsace, France17.
4. CHRISTINE3 LAENG (GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 11 Nov 1726 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Province ofAlsace, France. She married JEAN GEORGES HERRMANN 02 May 1752 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Province ofAlsace, France18. He was born 13 Nov 1723 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France19.
More About CHRISTINE LAENG:Date born 2: 11 Nov 172620
More About JEAN GEORGES HERRMANN:Date born 2: 1725Occupation: Laboureur
More About JEAN HERRMANN and CHRISTINE LAENG:Marriage: 02 May 1752, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France21
Children of CHRISTINE LAENG and JEAN HERRMANN are:i. JOSEPH4 HERRMANN, b. 1753, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France22.
More About JOSEPH HERRMANN:Baptism: 19 Mar 1753, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France22
Education: May have died in infancy.
ii. JOSEPH HERRMANN, b. 1754, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France22.
More About JOSEPH HERRMANN:Baptism: 07 Apr 1754, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France22
iii. AMBROSIUS HERRMANN, b. 1756, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France22.
More About AMBROSIUS HERRMANN:Baptism: 10 Dec 1756, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France22
iv. ODILE HERRMANN, b. 1756, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France22.
More About ODILE HERRMANN:Baptism: 01 Jan 1756, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France22
9. v. ROSINE HERRMANN, b. 18 Aug 1758, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. 30 Jan1823, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
vi. JEAN GEORGES HERRMANN, b. 1764, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France22.
More About JEAN GEORGES HERRMANN:Baptism: 16 Feb 1764, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France22
vii. MARIA HERRMANN, b. 1765, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France22.
More About MARIA HERRMANN:Baptism: 1766, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France22
viii. ANNA MARIE HERRMANN, b. 1766, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France22.
More About ANNA MARIE HERRMANN:Baptism: 10 Apr 1776, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France22
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Generation No. 4
5. CASPARD4 LAENG (JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 15 Jan 1750/51 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France. He married ELISABETH ALT 14 Apr 1777 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Province of Alsace, France23. She was born 1746, and died Aft. 1836.
More About ELISABETH ALT:Census: 1836, Residing with her daughter, Madeleine Laeng and her husband, Philippe Jacques Jung and familyat 13 Steinstrasse, Herrlisheim.24
More About CASPARD LAENG and ELISABETH ALT:Marriage: 14 Apr 1777, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France25
Child of CASPARD LAENG and ELISABETH ALT is:10. i. MADELEINE5 LAENG, b. 1788.
6. PHILIPPE4 LAENG (JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 06 May 1753 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Province of Alsace, France26, and died Aft. 1816 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. Hemarried ODILE ZILLIOX 21 Jun 1779 in Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France27, daughter of ANDREAS ZILLIOXand MARIA BONN. She was born Abt. 1759 in Weyersheim, Province of Alsace, France28, and died 20 Apr 1810in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France29.
Notes for PHILIPPE LAENG:
More About PHILIPPE LAENG:Education: Information on the children of Philippe Laeng and Odile Zilliox, except for Jean Michel Laeng, wasfurnished by Christine Poirel as taken from the records at Herrlisheim.Occupation: 1784, Weaver30
More About PHILIPPE LAENG and ODILE ZILLIOX:Fact 1: Source of marriage - Church of Latter Day Saints Batch M838153, Source call number 0721713, 1776 to1792.Marriage: 21 Jun 1779, Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France31
Children of PHILIPPE LAENG and ODILE ZILLIOX are:i. MARIE ANNE5 LAENG, b. 12 May 1780, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France32.
11. ii. PHILIPPE LAENG, b. 19 Oct 1781, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.12. iii. JEAN MICHEL LAENG, b. 06 Mar 1783, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.
iv. FRANCOIS JOSEPH LAENG, b. 17 Apr 1785, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France32; d. 24Apr 1785, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France33.
v. INFANT LAENG, d. 13 Dec 1786, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France33.13. vi. MARIA ANNA LAENG, b. 21 Jan 1788, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. Aft. 1836.
vii. FRANCOIS JOSEPH LAENG, b. 16 Mar 1789, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France34; d. 17Mar 1789, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France35.
viii. INFANT LAENG, d. 08 Mar 1791, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France35.ix. INFANT LAENG, d. 16 Apr 1792, Commune de Herrlisheim, Provine of Alsace, France35.
7. MELCHIOR4 LAENG (JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 04 Jan 1758 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France36, and died 26 Jul 1841 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France37. He married FRANCESCA KIENTZ 26 Nov 1781 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France38, daughter of JOANNES KIENTZ and MARIE GUHMANN. She was born 27 Feb 1761 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France38, and died 12 Nov 1828 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-
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Rhin, France38.
More About MELCHIOR LAENG:Census: 1836, Age 79, Resided at 106 Sandgass, Herrlisheim with his daughter Elizabeth Laeng, widow, and herchildren.39
Education: Godfather was Joannes Michaelis Gumann son of Nicolas Gumann.40
Occupation: 1828, Journalier40
Witness 1: 26 Oct 1837, Was a witness at the wedding of his nephew Jean Georges Laeng, born May 23, 1799.Witness 2: 04 Jan 1758, Witness to Act of Birth was Joannes Michaelis Gumann, son of Nicolas Gumann.
More About FRANCESCA KIENTZ:Witness: 27 Feb 1761, Witness to Act of Birth was Clara Grohs, daughter of Joannes Grohs.
More About MELCHIOR LAENG and FRANCESCA KIENTZ:Marriage: 26 Nov 1781, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France40
Children of MELCHIOR LAENG and FRANCESCA KIENTZ are:14. i. ELIZABETH5 LAENG, b. 1786, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.15. ii. MATHIEU LAENG, b. 28 Jan 1787, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. 04 Sep 1866,
Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
8. ANTOINE4 LAENG (JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 24 Mar 1763 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Province of Alsace, France, and died 04 May 1833 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France41.He married MADELEINE SIEFFERT41 15 Feb 1790 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhein, France42.She was born 1774, and died 26 Oct 1837.
Notes for ANTOINE LAENG:Valerie Wenger Kastner advises that Antoine Laeng married to Madeleine Sieffert and Mechior Laeng married toFrancesca Kientz, are brothers. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
More About ANTOINE LAENG:Date born 2: Abt. 1761Education: Twin
Notes for MADELEINE SIEFFERT:In 1836 Madeleine Siffert, age 62, widow, grandparent, is residing at 177 Ottergass, Herrlisheim, with JeanGeorges Laeng, age 34, widower of Madeleine Clauss, laborer and his children; Rafine, age 8, Rosalie, age 7,Madeliene, age 5 and Marie Anne, age 3. (Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau,Bas-Rhin, France)
More About ANTOINE LAENG and MADELEINE SIEFFERT:Marriage: 15 Feb 1790, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhein, France42
Children of ANTOINE LAENG and MADELEINE SIEFFERT are:16. i. JEAN GEORGES5 LAENG, b. 23 May 1799, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. 26 Jan
1882, Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany.17. ii. CATHERINE LAENG, b. 31 Jan 1791, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France.
iii. ANTOINE LAENG, b. 23 May 1792, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France42.
9. ROSINE4 HERRMANN (CHRISTINE3 LAENG, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 18 Aug 1758 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France43, and died 30 Jan 1823 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France44. She married ARBOGAST KISTLER 06 Jun 1785 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace,France45, son of JOHANNES KISTLER and CATHERINE KLEIN. He was born 1749 in Commune de Herrlisheim,
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Province of Alsace, France46, and died 17 May 1811 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin,France47.
More About ROSINE HERRMANN:Baptism: 18 Aug 1758, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France48
Witness: 30 Jan 1823, Son Daniel Kistler appears as a witness on the Act of Death.49
More About ARBOGAST KISTLER:Baptism: 15 Apr 1749, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Province of Alsace, France50
Occupation 1: 1792, Farmer51
Occupation 2: 1811, Was a laboureur according to his certificate of death. 52
More About ARBOGAST KISTLER and ROSINE HERRMANN:Marriage: 06 Jun 1785, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France53
Children of ROSINE HERRMANN and ARBOGAST KISTLER are:18. i. DANIEL5 KISTLER, b. 01 Jul 1785, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. 28 Apr 1852,
Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.19. ii. ANDRE KISTLER, b. 28 Nov 1787, Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France; d. 06 Jul 1844,
Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, France.iii. ANTOINE KISTLER, b. 1789, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France53; d. 16 Jan 1846,
Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; m. FRANCOISE PFISTER; b. 1792.
Notes for ANTOINE KISTLER:In 1836 Antoine Kistler, age 46, occupation laborer, is residing at 220 Grande route, Herrlisheim, with hiswife, Francoise Pfister, age 44 and Francoise Liess, widow, age 89 (mother in law of Francoise. (Source -1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France.)
More About ANTOINE KISTLER:Baptism: 13 Jan 1789, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France54
iv. ROSINE KISTLER, b. 1790, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France55.
More About ROSINE KISTLER:Baptism: 19 Apr 1790, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
20. v. MARIE ANNE KISTLER, b. 03 Jan 1792, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. 30 Jul1863, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
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10. MADELEINE5 LAENG (CASPARD4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 1788. She marriedPHILIPPE JACQUES JUNG. He was born 1786.
More About MADELEINE LAENG:Name 2: Madeline Laeng
Notes for PHILIPPE JACQUES JUNG:In 1836 Philippe Jacques Jung, age 50, occupation carpenter, was residing at 13 Steinstrasse, Herrlisheim with hiswife, Madeleine Laeng, age 48, and their children; Philippe, age 25, occupation chaudronner, Madeleine, age 23,Odile, age 19, Louis, age 9, Marie Anne, age 5 and grandparent, Elise Alt, widow, age 90, {mother ofMadeleine}. (Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France.)
Children of MADELEINE LAENG and PHILIPPE JUNG are:i. PHIIPPE6 JUNG, b. 1811, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
ii. MADELEINE JUNG, b. 1814, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.iii. ODILIE JUNG, b. 26 Aug 1815, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France55.
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More About ODILIE JUNG:Witness: 1815, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jean Baptiste Mockers and Andre Noe, farmer. 55
iv. LOUIS JUNG, b. 1827, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.v. MARIE ANNE JUNG, b. 1831, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
11. PHILIPPE5 LAENG (PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 19 Oct 1781 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France56. He married LOUISE VOLTZENLOGEL 20 Sep 1825 in Weyersheim,Bas-Rhin, France, daughter of GEORG VOLTZENLOGEL and GERTRUDE MEDER. She was born 07 Apr 1787 inWeyersheim, Bas-Rhin, France57.
Notes for PHILIPPE LAENG:In 1836 Philippe Laeng, age 56, occupation laborer, is residing at 359 Gummergass, Herrlisheim with his wife,Louise Voltzenlogel, age 49, and their children; Benjamin, age 15, Philippe, age 13, and Josephine, age 8.(Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France.)
More About PHILIPPE LAENG and LOUISE VOLTZENLOGEL:Marriage: 20 Sep 1825, Weyersheim, Bas-Rhin, France
Children of PHILIPPE LAENG and LOUISE VOLTZENLOGEL are:21. i. BENJAMIN6 LAENG, b. 1821, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
ii. PHILIPPE LAENG, b. 1823, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.iii. JOSEPHINE LAENG, b. 13 Jun 1828, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58.
12. JEAN MICHEL5 LAENG (PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 06 Mar 1783 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France58. He married MADELEINE ZINGER 25 Oct 1816 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58, daughter of JEAN ZINGER and CATHERINE ALT. Shewas born 23 Jan 1793 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58, and died Aft. 1836 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
Notes for JEAN MICHEL LAENG:In 1836 Jean Michel Laeng, age 54, a laborer is residing with his wife Madeleine Zinger, age 44, at 141Ottersgass, Herrlisheim with their children; Jean Michel, age 19, Alexandre, age 17, Regine, age 16, JeanBaptiste, age 13, Louise, age 9, Marc age 5, and Balbine, age 1. (Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons ofBischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France.) There is no mention of Ferdinand, and Marie Louise.
HERRLISHEIM TO THE UNITED STATES
Jean Michel Laeng, born March 6, 1783 in Herrlisheim, arrived Port of New Orleans, Tuesday, December 28,1847, on the ship Aurelius, Crocker as the ship's Master, after a 46-day voyage from Havre. His name is listed asMichel Laeng on the ship manifest, his age as 64. His family number is 100310 and his passenger number is 124.Also on the ship manifest for that voyage, under family number 100304, are the three youngest children of JeanMichel Laeng; Louise Laeng, age 21 (born July 19, 1826) passenger number 128, Marcus Laeng, age 16 (bornApril 25, 1831) passenger number 129, and Balbine Laeng, age 10 (born April 25, 1835) passenger number 130.
Listed as passenger number 125, immediately following Jean Michel Laeng is Louise Adam, age 21, familynumber 100302, as passenger number 126 is Salome Kistler, no family number, age 21. (this is the youngestdaughter of Joseph Kistler and Catherine Alt who was born April 24, 1827 in Herrlisheim. Jean George Laengappears as a witness on her Act of Birth) and, as passenger number 127 is Michel Kistler, age 16, no familynumber, who may be the brother of Salome.
In the remarks section for Jean Michel Laeng appears the notation "6 chests".
There were 157 passengers in steerage listed on the ship manifest, which manifest contained a notation "None ofthe passengers died on the voyage". (Source - National Archives Series - LDS - M259, roll 27 covering period
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June 16 to December 31, 1847 - FHL# 0200157.)
All seven individuals are listed as being born in Baviere (Bavaria), with place of settlement in the United States asMississippi. The occupation for each of the seven is listed as weaver. Jean Michel Laeng's occupation inHerrlisheim was a weaver, which notation appeared on the Act of Birth for each of his children.
I do not know why they are listed as being born in Bavaria. I suspect that Jean Michel Laeng, his three youngerchildren and the others left Herrlishem and went to Bavaria, where the older ones may have worked as weavers.At that time, the area of the former Lower Paltinate was across the Rhein River and was a part of Bavaria. I donot know the circumstances that brought them to the United States with a final destination of Mississippi andwhen and how Marcus got to Pittsburgh. The history of Europe shows that the largest immigration to the UnitedStates up to that time occurred in the year 1847 and that the economic conditions in Europe were very poor.
According to the Federal Census for 1900, Balbine Laeng is residing in Stonington, New London County,Connecticut in 1900. She married Thomas Sweet, had four children, three living, son William Sweet born inMaine January 1878.
Also listed on the ship's manifest are the following individuals whose surname is common to Herrlisheim.
Hans Jung, age 40 (number 84), Anna Marie Jung, age 36 (number 85), George Jung, age 10 (number 86),Josephine Jung, age 7 (number 87) and Frantz Jung, age 3 (number 88). Hans Jung is listed from Bavaria, boundfor Mississippi and his occupation is labourer.
Marguiere Zinger, age 22 (number 68), from Bavaria, bound for Mississippi and his occupation is carpenter. Hemay be a brother-in-law or nephew of Jean Michel Laeng.
Johann Schmitt, age 40 (number 104), Catherine Schmitt, age 30, (number 105), Catherine Schmitt, age 4(number 106), Marie Schmitt, age 2 (number 107), Simon Schmitt, age 20 (number 108) and Charle Kistler, age75 (number 109) The older males are listed as carpenters and all are shown as being born in Bavaria with finaldestination of Mississippi.
The fact that all 157 passengers on the ship manifest were listed as being born in Bavaria, when in fact some ofthem were born in Herrlisheim, France, leads me to believe that an individual or group of individuals inMississippi arranged for their passage in exchange for work to be performed in Mississippi to pay of the debt forthe passage. It may have been a group of cotton planters who wanted to establish a factory in the area to weavethe cotton in support of local trade. Others listed as labourers and carpenters would also be needed to help withthe building or expansion of the factory. How long they stayed in Mississippi and how Marcus got to Pittsburghand Balbina eventually to Maine and Rhode Island remains to be determined.
A possible connection follows. "The Bankston textille mill, Choctaw County, is regarded as Mississippi's firstsuccessful mechanically powered textile mill and became famous throughout the Old Southwest as a model ofindustrial efficiency and profitability. Colonel James M. Wesson, its founder, was associated with a textile firm inColombus Georgia, the 'Lowell of the South', which in 1847 decided to build a cotton and woolen mill in the backcountry of northern Mississippi. In January 1847, he together with David L. Booker, John P. Nance, RichardEctor and Thomas J. Stanford, organized and chartered the Mississippi Manufacturing Company and, before theend of the year, began moving machinery and equipment to the new site on the west side of McCurtain's Creek, atributary to the Big Black River in Choctaw County. A Semple steam engine, manufactured in Rhode Island, wasbrought in to power the mill. It was transported from Rhode Island to Greenwood by water and then drawnoverland to the mill site by several oxen, a distance of sixty-five miles, several miles of which were through theYazoo swamp. The eighty-horsepower engine actually provided more than sufficient power for the textile mill,and the enterprising Colonel Wesson added a flour mill and a gristmill to the textile equipment to utilize thesurplus power. The Bankston textile mill began operations in December 1848 with twelve workers. It prosperedand quickly expanded to include a tannery, a shoe factory, a machine shop, along with other enterprises. By June1849, the textile mill operated 500 cotton spindles and spun 300 pounds of cotton." (Source - A History ofMississippi Cotton Mills and Mill Villages by Narvell Strickland, 1965)
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A search of the 1850 Federal Census for Choctaw County, Mississippi did not show a listing for a Laeng, Lang,Kistler, Linger, Schmitt (Smith) or Young (Jung) in our line. I have noted it here for future reference. (Note toFile - JP Rhein)
"Aurelius, ship (America) 580 tons, 16 ft draft, built 1834, Captain George Crocker, Harve - New Orleans,December 28 (45 days) 159 passengers". (Source - NAM, M272-4; NAM, M259-27-254; Picayune, December28, 1847, B. 3, Col. 2; Registre Veritas, Vol. 17, p107, no.1885)
(Note to File - J.P. Rhein)
More About JEAN MICHEL LAENG:Education: 1813, Was a witness to Act of Birth for Jaques Schmitt, son of Joseph Schmitt and Marie EveKientz.58
Immigration: 28 Dec 1847, Arrived Port of New Orleans on the ship Aurelius, Crocker as ship's Master. Seedetails in Notes Section on Marcus Laeng, born April 25, 1831.Occupation: Was a weaver.58
Time Line: 14 Jul 1789, The French Revolution begins (1789 to 1793) with the storming of the royal prision.Witness: 02 Jan 1825, Was a witness to Act of Birth of Jure Kistler, son of Jacques Kistler and Elisabeth Gross.
More About JEAN LAENG and MADELEINE ZINGER:Marriage: 25 Oct 1816, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58
Witness 1: 25 Oct 1816, Jean Michel Kistler, born 1782.58
Witness 2: 25 Oct 1816, Jean Michel Schaffer, born 1764.58
Witness 3: 25 Oct 1816, Michel Alt, born 1778.58
Witness 4: 25 Oct 1816, Philippe Laeng58
Children of JEAN LAENG and MADELEINE ZINGER are:22. i. JEAN MICHEL6 LAENG, b. 17 Jul 1817, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.23. ii. ALEXANDRE LAENG, b. 12 Jan 1819, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas Rhin, France; d. Aft. May
1890, Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany.iii. REGINE LAENG, b. 17 Feb 1820, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58.
More About REGINE LAENG:Witness: 1821, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jean George Laeng and Francois Schohn, married to AnnMarie Bicher.58
iv. JEAN BAPTISTE LAENG, b. 14 Sep 1823, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58.
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Notes for JEAN BAPTISTE LAENG:A 'Jean Baptiste Laeng' arrived Port of New York, November 2, 1839, on the ship Atalanta from Harve. Hisage is 16 and he is classified as a laborer from Luxembourg. His final destination is Indiana. Jean BaptisteLaeng, born September 14, 1823 in Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France, son of Jean Michel Laeng,born March 6, 1783, and Madeline Zinger, is the same age as the individual above. I have been unable to findany marriage of Jean Baptiste Laeng in Herrlisheim and it may be that he went to Luxembourg at an early ageand then emigrated to the United States.
Also on that voyage is a Catherine Laeng from Hanover. Her age is shown as two and her final destination isIndiana. The only other Laengs listed on the ship manifest are a Rosine Laeng, female, age 36, a musicianfrom France and a Josephine Laeng, female, age 9, from France, both with final destination Texas.
Details of the passenger manifest are contained on LDS - M237, roll 40 covering period September 6 toDecember 31, 1839 - FHL # 0002283. A review of the index with the Family History Center in UpperTownship, Atlantic County, New Jersey showed that this film was # 0002285. Searched both films and thereis no manifest listed for the ship Atalanta on November 2, 1839. (Note to File - J.P. Rhein
Captain Clapp, born in Scitiabe, Mass., in 1843 made various voyages around the world. The ships hecommanded were: Charmer, Atalanta, Jacoby Howe and General Buster. (Source-Sea Captains of WhidbyIsland by Alice Kellogg Cahil, published 1901)
More About JEAN BAPTISTE LAENG:Witness: 1823, Witness to Act of Birth was Jean Michel Schaffer.58
v. FERDINAND LAENG, b. 30 Jan 1825, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58.
More About FERDINAND LAENG:Witness: 1825, Witness to Act of Birth was Jean Baptiste Mockers.
vi. LOUISE LAENG, b. 19 Jul 1826, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
Notes for LOUISE LAENG:HERRLISHEIM TO THE UNITED STATES
Jean Michel Laeng, born March 6, 1783 in Herrlisheim, arrived Port of New Orleans, Tuesday, December 28,1847, on the ship Aurelius, Crocker as the ship's Master, after a 46-day voyage from Havre. His name is listedas Michel Laeng on the ship manifest, his age as 64. His family number is 100310 and his passenger numberis 124. Also on the ship manifest for that voyage, under family number 100304, are the three youngestchildren of Jean Michel Laeng; Louise Laeng, age 21 (born July 19, 1826) passenger number 128, MarcusLaeng, age 16 (born April 25, 1831) passenger number 129, and Balbine Laeng, age 10 (born April 25, 1835)passenger number 130.
Listed as passenger number 125, immediately following Jean Michel Laeng is Louise Adam, age 21, familynumber 100302, as passenger number 126 is Salome Kistler, no family number, age 21. (this is the youngestdaughter of Joseph Kistler and Catherine Alt who was born April 24, 1827 in Herrlisheim. Jean George Laengappears as a witness on her Act of Birth) and, as passenger number 127 is Michel Kistler, age 16, no familynumber, (Jean Michel Kistler, born 1831, Herrlisheim) brother of Salome. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
vii. MARIE LOUISE LAENG, b. 24 Feb 1828, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg Bas-Rhin, France58.
More About MARIE LOUISE LAENG:Witness: 1828, Witness to Act of Birth was Jean Baptiste Mockers.58
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viii. BALBINE LAENG, b. 30 Mar 1829, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
More About BALBINE LAENG:Education: May have died in infancy as there is a Balbine Laeng, born April 25, 1831.Witness: 1829, Witness to Act of Birth was George Schreiner.58
24. ix. MARCUS LAENG, b. 25 Apr 1831, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. 24 Sep 1901,Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio.
25. x. BALBINE LAENG, b. 25 Apr 1835, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. 1914.
13. MARIA ANNA5 LAENG (PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 21 Jan 1788 in Communede Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France58, and died Aft. 1836. She married JEAN MICHEL KISTLER 18 Nov1811 in Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58, son of ARBOGAST KISTLER and AGNES LUTZ. He was born1782 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France, and died Bef. 1836 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
Notes for MARIA ANNA LAENG:In 1836 N. (Maria Anna) Laeng, age 58, widow, is residing at 43 Steinstrasse, Herrlisheim with her children;Rosalie, age 23, Aloise, age 20 and Charles, age 18. (Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller andHaguenau, Bas-Rhin, France.)
More About JEAN MICHEL KISTLER:Date born 2: 18 Sep 1782, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, France
More About JEAN KISTLER and MARIA LAENG:Marriage: 18 Nov 1811, Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58
Children of MARIA LAENG and JEAN KISTLER are:i. ROSALIE6 KISTLER, b. 13 Feb 1813, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58.
More About ROSALIE KISTLER:Witness: 1813, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Antoine Kientz and Phillipe Schaffer.
26. ii. ALOISE KISTLER, b. 04 Apr 1816, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.iii. CHARLES KISTLER, b. 1817, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58.
More About CHARLES KISTLER:Witness: 1816, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jean George Lutz and Jean Baptiste Mockers.58
iv. JEAN MICHEL KISTLER, b. 24 Sep 1818, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58.
14. ELIZABETH5 LAENG (MELCHIOR4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 1786 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France. She married BARTHOLOME SCHMITT 09 Nov 1812 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58. He died Bef. 1836.
Notes for ELIZABETH LAENG:Elizabeth Laeng is residing at 106 Sandgass, Herrlisheim with her three children, Aloyse, age 21, Felix, age 15,and Elizabeth, Age 13. She is a widow and her occupation is listed as daily laborer. Her father, Melchior Laeng,age 79, is residing with the family and he is listed as a grandparent. (Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons ofBischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France)
More About ELIZABETH LAENG:Date born 2: 1786
More About BARTHOLOME SCHMITT and ELIZABETH LAENG:Marriage: 09 Nov 1812, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58
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Children of ELIZABETH LAENG and BARTHOLOME SCHMITT are:i. ALOYSE6 SCHMITT, b. 1815, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin-France58.
More About ALOYSE SCHMITT:Witness: Witness to Act of Birth was Joseph Noe.58
ii. FELIX SCHMITT, b. 1821, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.iii. ANTOINE SCHMITT, b. 28 Jan 1822, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58.
More About ANTOINE SCHMITT:Emigration: 1847, Emmigrated to the United States at age 25 with wife and mother-in-law. (Source-Emigrantsfrom Haut-Rhin, France)
iv. MARIE ELIZABETH SCHMITT, b. 1823, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France58.
More About MARIE ELIZABETH SCHMITT:Witness: 1823, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Joseph Braun and Joseph Gros.58
15. MATHIEU5 LAENG (MELCHIOR4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 28 Jan 1787 in Communede Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France58, and died 04 Sep 1866 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France59. He married CATHERINE SCHMITT 04 May 1812 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France60, daughter of JEAN SCHMITT and MARIE SCHNOERING. She was born 29 Aug 1786 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France60, and died 09 May 1858 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France60.
Notes for MATHIEU LAENG:In 1836 Mathieu Laeng, age 49, occupation barber, was residing at 29 Steinstrasse, Herrlisheim with his wife,Catherine Schmitt, age 49, and their children; Felix, age 24,Louise, age 18, Marie Anne, age 16, Louis, age 8, and Cecile, age 4. (Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons ofBischwiller and Haguenau in Bas-Rhin, France.)
More About MATHIEU LAENG:Education: Bet. 1789 - 1793, The French RevolutionMilitary service: Bet. 01 Mar 1807 - 08 Feb 1811, Served in the 56 regiment of infantry. Was awarded the SaintHelena medal, created in 1857 by Napoleon III, and given to the 390,000 soldiers still living in 1857, who hadfought with Napoleon I during the 1792-1815 wars.61
Witness: 24 Sep 1817, Name and signature as a witness is on the Civil Act of Marriage of Antoine Rhein andMarie Kistler in Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
More About MATHIEU LAENG and CATHERINE SCHMITT:Marriage: 04 May 1812, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France62
Children of MATHIEU LAENG and CATHERINE SCHMITT are:i. FELIX6 LAENG, b. 1812, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
More About FELIX LAENG:Occupation: 1836, Was a soldier serving with the 49 Regiment of the Line.63
ii. JEAN BAPTISTE LAENG, b. 1814; d. Bef. 1822.
More About JEAN BAPTISTE LAENG:Education: Appears to have died in infancy.
27. iii. MARIE LOUISE LAENG, b. 24 Mar 1818, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. 08 Oct1896, Quesnoy sur Deule, France.
iv. MARIE ANNE LAENG, b. 13 Jan 1820, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France64.
More About MARIE ANNE LAENG:
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Witness: 1820, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jean Michel Laeng and Francoin Schohn.64
v. JEAN BAPTISTE LAENG, b. Feb 1822, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France64.
More About JEAN BAPTISTE LAENG:Witness: 1822, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Andre Kistler and Andre Noe.
vi. ??? LAENG, b. 11 Jul 1825, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France64.
More About ??? LAENG:Witness: Witnesses to Act of Birth was Jean Baptiste Mockers
vii. LOUIS LAENG, b. 30 Jul 1827, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France64.
More About LOUIS LAENG:Occupation: BarberResidence: 1864, Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, FranceWitness: 1827, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jean Georg Laeng and Jean Baptise Mockers.64
viii. CECILE LAENG, b. 1832, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
16. JEAN GEORGES5 LAENG (ANTOINE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 23 May 1799 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France65, and died 26 Jan 1882 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Alsace-Lorraine, Germany. He married (1) MADELEINE CLAUSS 1819. She was born 1789, and died Bet. 1833 -1835. He married (2) MARIE ANNA SCHERER 26 Oct 1837 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhein,France65. She was born 22 Oct 1809 in Kurtzenhausen65.
Notes for JEAN GEORGES LAENG:In 1836 Jean Georges Laeng, age 34, widower, is residing at 177 Ottergass, Herrlisheim, with his children;Rafine, age 8, Rosalie, age 7, Madeleine, age 5 and Marie Anne, age 3. Also residing with the family isMadeleine Sieffert, age 62, widow, and grandparent of the children. (Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons ofBishwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France.)
Jean Georges' date of birth 1802 appears to be in error as the date of his birth per his Act of Birth is May 23,1799. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
Unless otherwise noted information on Jean Georges Laeng was furnished by Valerie Kastner. (Note to File - JPRhein)
More About JEAN GEORGES LAENG:Date born 2: 23 May 1799Occupation: 1813, Weaver66
More About JEAN LAENG and MADELEINE CLAUSS:Marriage: 1819
More About JEAN LAENG and MARIE SCHERER:Marriage: 26 Oct 1837, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhein, France67
Witness: Melchior Laeng, age 87
Children of JEAN LAENG and MADELEINE CLAUSS are:i. MARIE ANNE6 LAENG, b. 20 Feb 1820, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France68.
Notes for MARIE ANNE LAENG:In 1836 a Marie Anne Laeng, age 16, servant, is residing at 339 Gummersgass, Herrlisheim, with GeorgesGross, age 35, laborer, and his wife Catherine Clauss, age 31, and their children; Nicolas, age 6, Pierre, age 4,Michel, age 2 and Beatrice, age 6 months. (Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller andHaguenau, Bas-Rhin, France.)
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As Jean Georges Laeng and his wife Madeleine Clauss had a daughter, Marie Anne born February 2, 1834before the death of Madeleine Clauss it may be that Marie Anne born February 20, 1820 died prior to 1834. Ihave listed the information here for future reference.
There is a fair degree of probability that Catherine Clauss is the sister of Madeleine Clauss. Relationship, ifany, to a Catherine Clauss, age 53, grandparent, residing at 26 Steinstrasse, Herrlisheim, with FrancoisAntoine Wendling, age 29, laborer, and his wife Catherine Koehrer, age 28, is unknown. (Notes to File - JPRhein)
ii. MADELEINE LAENG, b. 06 Apr 1824, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France68.
More About MADELEINE LAENG:Education: May have died in infancy.Witness: 1824, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jacques Laeng and Melchior Laeng.68
iii. JOSEPHINE LAENG, b. 04 Aug 1825, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. 04 Jan1826.
iv. RAFINE LAENG, b. 19 Feb 1827, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
More About RAFINE LAENG:Education: May have died in infancy.
v. ROSALIE LAENG, b. 19 Sep 1830, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.vi. MADELEINE LAENG, b. 02 Apr 1832, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
vii. MARIE ANNE LAENG, b. 02 Feb 1834, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
Children of JEAN LAENG and MARIE SCHERER are:viii. JOSEPH6 LAENG, b. 25 Feb 1839, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France68.
More About JOSEPH LAENG:Witness: 1839, Witness to Act of Birth was Joseph Keintz.68
ix. JACQUES LAENG, b. 22 Jun 1842, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France68.x. ODILE LAENG, b. 13 Dec 1843, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France68.
More About ODILE LAENG:Witness: 1843, Witness to Act of Birth was Andre Becht.68
28. xi. MATHIEU LAENG, b. 24 Feb 1846, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. 1915.
17. CATHERINE5 LAENG (ANTOINE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 31 Jan 1791 in Communede Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France69. She married JACQUES GROSS. He was born 1784.
Notes for CATHERINE LAENG:In 1836 Catherine Laeng, age 42 (born about 1791-1792) is resididng at 278 Grande route, Herrlisheim, with herhusband, Jacques Gross, age 52 (born about 1784-1785), laborer, with their children; Marie Anne, age 20 andRosalie, age 15. (Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France)
More About CATHERINE LAENG:Date born 2: 31 Jan 1791
Notes for JACQUES GROSS:In 1836 Jacques Gross, age 52, occupation laborer, is resididng at 278 Grande route, Herrlisheim with his wifeCatherine Laeng, age 42 and their children; Marie Anne, age 20, and Rosalie, age 15. (Source - 1836 Census ofBischwiller and Haguenau Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau.)
Children of CATHERINE LAENG and JACQUES GROSS are:
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i. THERESA6 GROSS, b. 1815, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France70.ii. MARIE ANNE GROSS, b. 1816, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
iii. ROSALIE GROSS, b. 22 Sep 1822, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France70.
18. DANIEL5 KISTLER (ROSINE4 HERRMANN, CHRISTINE3 LAENG, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 01 Jul 1785 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France70, and died 28 Apr 1852 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France71. He married CATHERINE KLEIN 04 Oct 1817 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France72, daughter of MATHIEU KLEIN and CATHERINE CHRISTMANN. She was born 29Nov 1790 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France72, and died 06 Jan 1853 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France73.
Notes for DANIEL KISTLER:In 1836 Daniel Kistler, age 48, occupation laborer, is residing at 240 Grande route, Herrlisheim with his wife,Catherine Klein, age 45, and their children; Daniel, age 17, Anastasie, age 15, Antoine, age 12, Regine, age 8,Suzanne, age 5, and Catherine, age 2. (Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France.)
More About DANIEL KISTLER:Education: 1785, I am unable to explain the close date of the marriage of Arbogaste Kistler and Rosine Hermannto the birth of son Daniel. May be an error in reading and recording these dates. This will need to be investigatedfurther.Occupation 1: 1818, Farm labourer74
Occupation 2: 1850, Labourer74
More About DANIEL KISTLER and CATHERINE KLEIN:Fact 1: 04 Oct 1817, The civil officer signing the Marriage Certificate is ??? Gless.Marriage: 04 Oct 1817, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France74
Witness 1: 04 Oct 1817, Jacques Gross, born 1780, married to Theresa Klein.74
Witness 2: 04 Oct 1817, Antoine Gross, born 1774, labourer, married to Rosine Pfaadt.74
Witness 3: 04 Oct 1817, Jacques Lutz, born 1791. (Actual date of birth was December 1792.)74
Children of DANIEL KISTLER and CATHERINE KLEIN are:i. DANIEL6 KISTLER, b. 08 Oct 1818, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France74; d. 11 Oct
1840, Algeria.ii. REINE KISTLER, b. 19 Jun 1820, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France74.
More About REINE KISTLER:Education: Appears to have died in infancy.Witness: 1820, Witnesses to Act of Birth were George Thomas and Jean Michel Schaffer, both labourers.74
iii. ANASTASIA KISTLER, b. 27 Sep 1821, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France74; d. 01 Dec1897, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
iv. ANTOINE KISTLER, b. 17 Feb 1824, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. 09 Oct1849, Algeria.
v. LOUIS KISTLER, b. 08 Nov 1825, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France74; d. 19 Nov1825, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
29. vi. REGINE KISTLER, b. 28 Apr 1827, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. Aft. 1880,Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany.
vii. ARBOGAST KISTLER, b. 28 Feb 1829, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. 04 Mar1829, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
viii. SUZANNE KISTLER, b. Jul 1830, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.ix. CATHERINE KISTLER, b. 1834, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
19. ANDRE5 KISTLER (ROSINE4 HERRMANN, CHRISTINE3 LAENG, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 28 Nov 1787 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France, and died 06 Jul 1844 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, France. He married (1) MARIE ANNE PFAFF 09 Jan 1819 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhein, France75, daughter of BENOIT PFAFF and THERESE BECKER. She was born 21 Jan 1786 in Commune de
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Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace, France, and died 14 Aug 1828 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Province of Alsace,France. He married (2) MARIE ANNE GRUN 1830. She was born 1801.
Notes for ANDRE KISTLER:In 1836 Andre Kistler, age 48, laborer is residing at 79 Mutternsteg, Herrlisheim with his wife Marie Anne Grun(second), age 35 and children; Joseph, age 13 born to his first wife, and Louis, age 5, Louise, age 3 and Jacques,age 2. Also residing with the family is Elizabeth Rockenbrod, age 29, servant. (Source - 1836 Census of theCantons of Bischwiller and Hagenau, Bas-Rhin-France)
Unless otherwise noted, all information on Andree Kistler, his spouse and descendants was taken from GeneaNethttp://www.geneanet.org. File of Daniel Kistler. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
More About ANDRE KISTLER and MARIE PFAFF:Marriage: 09 Jan 1819, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhein, France75
Witness: 09 Jan 1819, Witnesses were Daniel Kistler and Antoine Kistler, brothers of the bridegroom, AntoineGross married to Rosine Pfaff and Gregorie Becker.75
More About ANDRE KISTLER and MARIE GRUN:Marriage: 1830
Child of ANDRE KISTLER and MARIE PFAFF is:30. i. JOSEPH6 KISTLER, b. 20 Mar 1823, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, France.
Children of ANDRE KISTLER and MARIE GRUN are:ii. LOUIS6 KISTLER, b. 1831.
iii. LOUISE KISTLER, b. 1833.iv. JACQUES KISTLER, b. 1834.
20. MARIE ANNE5 KISTLER (ROSINE4 HERRMANN, CHRISTINE3 LAENG, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 03 Jan 1792in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France76, and died 30 Jul 1863 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France77. She married ANTOINE RHEIN 24 Sep 1817 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France78, son of FRANCOIS RHEIN and CATHERINA PFAADT. He was born 29 Jan 1789 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France78, and died 13 Mar 1837 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France79.
More About MARIE ANNE KISTLER:Baptism: 23 Jan 1792, Catholic Church at Herrlisheim80
Census: 1836, Resided at 137 Ottergass, Herrlisheim. Age 44.
Notes for ANTOINE RHEIN:In 1836 Antoine Rhein, age 47, laborer, is residing at 137 Ottersgass, Herrlisheim, with his wife, Marie AnneKistler, age 44, and their children; Jacques, age 16, Pierre, age 12, Paul, age 12, Ambroise, age 5, and Luden, age2. (Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France.)
More About ANTOINE RHEIN:Occupation: 1820, Laborer81
More About ANTOINE RHEIN and MARIE KISTLER:Marriage: 24 Sep 1817, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France81
Witness 1: 24 Sep 1817, Piere Pfaadt, born 177881
Witness 2: 24 Sep 1817, Jean Baptiste Mockers, born 177881
Witness 3: 24 Sep 1817, Mathieu Laeng, born 178781
Witness 4: 24 Sep 1817, Sebastien Pfaadt, born 175881
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Children of MARIE KISTLER and ANTOINE RHEIN are:31. i. JACQUES6 RHEIN, b. 28 Feb 1820, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. 06 Apr 1888,
Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany.ii. PAUL RHEIN, b. 11 Nov 1823, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. Aft. 1836.
More About PAUL RHEIN:Census: 1836, Resided at 137 Ottergass, Herrlisheim with his family. Age 12.82
iii. PIERRE RHEIN, b. 11 Nov 1823, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France83; d. 24 Sep 1855,Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France84.
More About PIERRE RHEIN:Census: 1836, Resided at 137 Ottergass, Herrlisheim with his family. Age 12.85
Witness: 1823, Witness to Act of Birth was Jean Michel Laeng86
iv. JOSEPH RHEIN, b. 28 Mar 1827, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France86; d. 22 Sep 1831,Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France87.
v. AMBROISE RHEIN, b. 1828, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. 25 May 1830,Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
vi. AMBROISE RHEIN, b. 31 Mar 1831, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France87; d. 06 Dec191287; m. CATHERINE KORMANN87.
More About AMBROISE RHEIN:Census: 1836, Resided at 137 Ottergass, Herrlisheim with his family. Age 5.88
vii. LUDEN RHEIN, b. 10 Feb 1834, Commune de Herrlsiheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France89; d. 30 Jul 186390.
More About LUDEN RHEIN:Census: 1836, Resided at 137 Ottergass, Herrlisheim with his family. Age 2.91
viii. GEORGES RHEIN, b. 04 Mar 1837, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
More About GEORGES RHEIN:Witness: 1837, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jacques Kientz and Jean Michel Gross. 92
ix. ELIZABETH RHEIN, b. 22 Apr 1838, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France9292.
More About ELIZABETH RHEIN:Witness: 1838, Witness to Act of Birth was Jacques Kientz.92
x. CATHERINE RHEIN, b. 02 Jun 1841, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France92.
More About CATHERINE RHEIN:Witness: 1841, Witness to Act of Birth was Andre Schaffer.92
Generation No. 6
21. BENJAMIN6 LAENG (PHILIPPE5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 1821 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. He married REINE SCHIFF.
More About BENJAMIN LAENG:Date born 2: 1821, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas Rhin, France92
Children of BENJAMIN LAENG and REINE SCHIFF are:i. JACQUES7 LAENG, b. 13 Sep 1845, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France92.
More About JACQUES LAENG:Witness: 1845, Witness to Act of Birth was Jacques Alt. `92
ii. FELIX LAENG, b. 16 Feb 1847, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France92.
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More About FELIX LAENG:Witness: 1847, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jacques Schiff and Jean Kientz.92
iii. MATHIEU LAENG, b. 27 Feb 1848, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France92.iv. JOSEPH LAENG, b. 17 Jul 1862, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France92.
22. JEAN MICHEL6 LAENG (JEAN MICHEL5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 17 Jul1817 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France92. He married MARGARET ???. She was born1827 in Germany93.
Notes for JEAN MICHEL LAENG:Marcus Laeng had an older brother, Jean Michel Laeng, born July 17, 1817 in Herrlisheim. The 1870 FederalCensus for Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio enumerated on June 24, 1870 (Post Office Bloomville) lists aMichael Lang (listed as Micheal Lang) farmer, age 53 born in France with a value of real estate of $1,800 andpersonal property of $700. His wife's first name is Margaret, age 49, and her place of birth is Hess-Darmstadt.The children are listed as Augustus, age 15, Louisa, age 14, George, age 12, (all listed as being at home), Peter,age 8, attending school, Ludwig, age 5, Joseph, age 3, and Michael, age 1. All the children were born in Ohio.Also listed as residing with the family is Ann Haweswetzel, age 12, born in Ohio, relationship unknown. Thiswould place Michael in Ohio as early as 1855.
The 1880 Federal Census for Ohio, enumerated June 7, 1880, lists a Michael Laeng, farmer, age 62 (would havebeen born in 1817 or 1818), with his wife, Margaret, both born in Germany. There are five children. All thechildren were born in Ohio. The oldest child is son Peter, born 1861 and the youngest child is daughter Mary,born 1873. John Dannemiller, age 69, born in Germany is listed as residing in the next household. I have notbeen able to locate any other Laengs in Ohio at that time other than a Christian Laeng, farmer, age 40, alsoresiding in Venice Township, born in Pennsylvania as were his parents. Michael and his wife do not appear on the1890 or 1900 Federal Census for Ohio, either individually or as a couple or with son Peter who is a farmer and isresiding in Groton Township, Erie County, Ohio in 1900. I presume they died sometime before 1900. As bothMarcus and Michael were residing in the same Enumeration Disrict 212 in the 1880 Census and given theapproximate date of Michael's birth, there is a high degree of probability he is Jean Michael Laeng, the brother ofMarcus. I have often wondered what brought Marcus to Ohio from Pennsylvania and it may have been as a resultof his older brother. I have listed him as a brother of Marcus pending further verification. (Note to File - JPRhein)
More About JEAN MICHEL LAENG:Name 2: Michael LaengDate born 2: 17 Jul 1817, Germany93
Census 1: 1880, Resident of Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio. Enumerated on June 7, 1880.94
Census 2: 1880, Parents born in Germany.Education: 1870, Michael Laeng is listed as Michael Lang 1870 and 1880 Federal Census for Ohio in VeniceTownship, Seneca County.Occupation: Bet. 1870 - 1880, Farmer95
Witness: 1817, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Joseph Lutz and Jean Baptiste Mockers.96
Children of JEAN LAENG and MARGARET ??? are:32. i. AUGUSTUS7 LAENG, b. Jul 1855, Clinton Township, Seneca County,Ohio; d. 1919, Clinton Township,
Seneca County, Ohio.ii. LOUISA LAENG, b. 1856, Ohio.
iii. GEORGE LAENG, b. 1858, Ohio.33. iv. PETER LAENG, b. Feb 1861, Ohio; d. 1912.
v. LUDWIG LAENG, b. 1865, Ohio.vi. JOSEPH LAENG, b. 1867, Ohio97.
vii. MICHAEL LAENG, b. 1869, Ohio97.viii. MARY LAENG, b. 1873, Ohio97.
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23. ALEXANDRE6 LAENG (JEAN MICHEL5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 12 Jan1819 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas Rhin, France98, and died Aft. May 1890 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany. He married FRANCOISE PFAADT, daughter of JEAN PFAADT andCATHERINE ZINGER. She was born 02 Jan 1826 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France98.
More About ALEXANDRE LAENG:Occupation: 1866, Was a weaver.98
Witness 1: 1819, Witness to Act of Birth was Joseph Koihev, born 1776.98
Witness 2: 1819, Witnesss to Act of Birth was Jean Baptiste Mockers, born 1780, a teacher.98
More About FRANCOISE PFAADT:Witness 1: 1826, Witness to Act of Birth was Jean Michel Kientz, born 1794, was a farm laboureur.98
Witness 2: 1826, Witness to Act of Birth was Meleacor Fritsch, born 1786, was a baker.98
Children of ALEXANDRE LAENG and FRANCOISE PFAADT are:i. MADELIENE7 LAENG, b. 27 Jun 1849, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France98.
More About MADELIENE LAENG:Witness: 1849, Witness to Act of Birth was ??? Kistler and ??? Bender.98
ii. THERESA LAENG, b. 27 Sep 1850.
More About THERESA LAENG:Witness: 1850, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jean George Laeng and Jacques Gross.98
iii. MARC LAENG, b. 31 Dec 1852, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France98.
More About MARC LAENG:Witness: Witnesses to Act of Birth were Charles Mockers and Jacques Braun.98
iv. ??? LAENG, b. 26 Mar 1854, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France98.
More About ??? LAENG:Witness: 1854, Witness to Act of Birth was Jacques Alt. `98
v. MICHEL LAENG, b. 21 Oct 1856, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France98.vi. JACQUES LAENG, b. 18 Sep 1858, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas Rhin, France, later Alsace-
Lorraine, Germany99; d. 05 Sep 1931, Saint Meinrad, St. Meinrad, Indiana100.
Notes for JACQUES LAENG:The Benedictine tradition came to the Midwest in the 1850s, when the Swiss Abbey of Einsiedeln wasapproached by a priest from Indiana. Fr. Joseph Kundek sought a monastery willing to begin a foundation inhis area. When the monks of Einsiedeln agreed to investigate this proposition, they had three goals in mind:
- They wanted to transplant their Benedictine heritage onto American soil.- With the growing Catholic population settling in the area, they wanted to minister to their pastoral needs.- And to further their ability to pastorally assist the Catholic Church in America, they wanted to start a schoolto prepare local men for the priesthood.
The three-room cabin these Benedictines used to established their priory in 1854 has since grown into SaintMeinrad Archabbey and School of Theology, St. Meinrad, Indiana.
There were two obituaries published for Brother Ferdinand Laeng, one in English and one in German. Thefirst one following was in English and the second one following was in German, which has been translatedinto English.
BROTHER FERDINAND LAENG
"Early in the evening of September 5 the Angel of Death came silently into our monastic enclosure to takealong with him the lamp of life which good Brother Ferdinand had lighted and which he kept trimmed for the
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coming of the Bridegroom.
The deceased was born in Europe, on Sept. 18, 1858, in the little state of Alsace. As a young man he went toAmerica. At about the age of twenty-six he came to St. Meinrad to consecrate his life to God as a simple laybrother. Consequently in 1885 he entered the novitiate to prepare for a life in religion. The day ofconsecration approached and on May 30, 1886, he pronounced the vows that bound him irrevocably to God.
Some of our readers will recall that in the nineties Brother Ferdinand was a tall, strong, broad-shoulderedman, capable of doing heavy work. But about thirty years ago his health began to fail. During all these yearshe edified his fellow religious by his simple faith and by his unostentatious but deep spirituality. A lover ofspiritual reading, he was deeply versed in spiritual lore and the science of the saints. Moreover, he possessedan extensive, yet practical, knowledge of Holy Scripture, such as only few of the laity attain to. In fine, he wasa man of faith, a man of prayer. The rosary was his constant companion.
Death came rather suddenly, but it did not surprise its victim. The good Brother was a daily communicant foryears. Less than two hours before the final summons he received the holy sacrament of extreme unction.Shortly before seven o'clock in the evening he asked to be assisted from one chair to another. Without astruggle, and apparently without a pain, he dropped his head and breathed his last. All was over. Those ofthe community who had assembled in the death chamber recited at once the Vespers of the Office of the Dead.
The funeral was held from the Abbey Church on Sept. 7. First, the entire Office of the Dead was chanted, thencame the Solemn Requiem, which was celebrated by Father Columban, who had been for some years theimmediate superior of the deceased and who knew how to appreciate the spirituality of his former subject.The Mass and the absolution over, the funeral procession wended its way to the little "God's Acre" on thehillside, where the mortal re-mains of good Brother Ferdinand were laid to rest until the trumpet blast thatshall awake even the dead. R. I. P." (Source - Obituary from the Grail, Published by Saint MeinradArchabbey, St. Meinrad, Indiana, October 1931)
[TRANSLATION FROM GERMAN]
St. Meinrads' Raben[The Raven's of St. Meinrad]
Supplement to "The Fruit's of Paradise""A brief little folly is more valuable than wisdom and honor." (Eccl. 10-1)
November 1931 44th edition St. Meinrad, IndianaNo. 11
In Memorium.
Again, one of our dear brothers has undertaken that well-prepared long journey to the eternal home. OnSeptember 5, at 7 o'clock in the evening, a mild death released our dear honorable brother Ferdinand Laengfrom decades of suffering, endured with devotional patience, which the dear deceased himself called a 25-yearfight with death. In the morning of the mentioned day, brother Ferdinand came to the writer of these lines inorder to give his weekly confession, as was his custom. After this was completed, he said: Reverend Father,this is the last time that I will come to confession." It was a premonition of approaching death. In the course ofthe afternoon, he had repeated chocking attacks, which tended to be more numerous in the last years. At 6o'clock, the reverend P. John gave him Holy Communion as extreme unction, as well as holy anointment anddispensation. When the bell rang seven, brother Ferdinand leaned back in his recliner with a sigh, as if resting.It was the last sigh before a well-deserved eternal rest. Without any sign of a death struggle, the good brotherbreathed out his soul, which had been ennobled by patient suffering.
Brother Ferdinand Laeng was born on September 18, 1858 in Herrlisheim bei Strasburg in Elsace. At hisbaptism he received the holy Apostle Jacob as a patron saint. He came to America in about 1881. Here, hefirst worked at the railroad. Around the year 1883 he moved to Cartagena, Ohio, where he worked for thereverend Fathers of the precious blood.
In September of 1881 he came to St. Meinrad as a monastic candidate, and on May 29, 1885 he was investedwith a holy monastic garb. After having passed his examination year on May 30, 1885, he took the holymonastic vows, whereby he received the monastic name Ferdinand. His only goal from then on was to followChrist in faithful work, made holy by prayer and obedience according to the mild rules of our most Holy
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Father Benedict.
Around the year 1890 he came to Gessen in Louisiana, where he provided valuable services in the newfounding of the priorate St. Joseph, which in the course of years developed to the present fully blooming St.Joseph's Abbey. Called back home, he returned to St. Meinard and worked as a stonemason during theconstruction of the new abbey church. Some believe that it was during this work that the beginning of hisprotracted illness started. In the year 1895 he was transferred to a place that was less hazardous to his healthby his superiors: work in a machine house, where he remained until his progressing illness made any kind ofphysical work impossible. The infirmity, which in the beginning was thought to be tuberculosis, consisted of acomplication of chronic "emphysema" of the lungs and inflammation of the windpipe. In addition he sufferedfrom arteriosclerosis.
He used the long years of suffering that now followed, to prepare himself for the, so-called daily expectationof death, which now we hope will have taken him into the fortunate land of the living, where God "dries alltears from the eyes of his people, where there will be neither sadness, suffering nor pain, since the first [death]has happened."R.I.P.
SAINT CHARLES, CARTHAGENA, OHIOMISSIONARIES OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD, C.PP.S.
HISTORY OF ST. CHARLES
Why the name St. Charles? St. Charles Borroneo (1538-1584) is known for organizing seminaries for trainingpriests. The primary purpose of St. Charles was to be a seminary for training priests. In the year 1844,Precious Blood Missionary Father Francis DeSales Brunner brought with him from Switzerland 7 priests and7 brothers to begin a mission for serving German speaking settlers living in Ohio.Around the year 1835, Afro-Americans were given a tract of land and a boarding school named EmlenInstitute in the settlement named Carthagena (about eight miles south of Celina) which received its name fromCartagena, Columbia, South America, in turn after Carthage, Africa. After some years, the experiment failedand the establishment was no longer in use. Emlen Institute and 200 acres of land were purchased in 1861 bythe Missionaries of the Precious Blood to become a training center for Precious Blood priests and brothers.
This first building became known as Old Abbey. It was enlarged and served many purposes. What was thencalled the "new" seminary was built in 1878 and replaced some of the functions of the Old Abbey as bothbuildings continued to be used. The number of students, staff and other residents continued to grow and whatwe call the present main building was finished in 1922 and has replaced both the Old Abbey and the "new"seminary building. The number of philosophy and theology seminarians reached as high as 120. Thetheologate school closed in 1969. Theology students now attend the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.Presently St. Charles is the home for retired priests and brothers. A cemetery lying south of the main buildingwas plotted in 1900 and serves as the burial grounds for priests and brothers of the Society. (Source - St.Charles Missionaries of the Precious Blood, C.PP.S. All rights reserved. Copyright 1999)
SAINT MEINRAD ARCHABBEY
1n 1860, Fr. Martin Marry, OSB, was sent to southern Indiana from the Abbey of Einsiedeln, Switzerland, toclose the foundation of Saint Meinrad. The six-year-old priory was deep in debt and held little hope ofsurvival. Four months after Fr. Martin's arrival, the town of St. Meinrad was established. The town gave arevived impetus to the foundation itself, and convinced Fr. Martin that, more than ever, the Benedictinefoundation of Saint Meinrad could be saved. In 1861, Fr. Martin wrote to Abbot Henry of Einsiedeln:
"...it seems to me that if God did not intend to preserve and use Saint Meinrad, he would long ago have hadthe occasion to drop it. So much good has been accomplished, so much sacrifice made, so much work done,and so much hardship endured that, after all, the blessing of God will surely come ...and make it into whatobedience should have made of it in its very beginning."
As time went on, it became evident that, with the careful and thoughtful leadership of Fr. Martin Marty, thepromise of permanency for Saint Meinrad would be realized. The foundations seminary was begun and soonfilled to capacity. A small printing press was purchased. That printing operation has grown into today's AbbeyPress.
Father Martin Marry, OSB, was just 26 years old when he arrived at the six-year-old mission house of SaintMeinrad in southern Indiana. The young monk had been sent to America by the Abbot of Einsiedeln,
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Switzerland, in 1860. He had been instructed to close the young priory. However, after just a short time, Fr.Martin saw the benefit Saint Meinrad could have for the Church in the United States. (Source - Saint MeniradArchabbey, St. Meinrad, Indiana)
From the Saint Meinrad Newsletter, Winter 2003, Volume 42:1
Here's a look back at what was happening 150 years ago, as Saint Memrad Archabbey prepares to celebrate itssesquicentennial in 2004.
November 19,1852: Abbot Henry convenes a meeting of his monks in Emsiedeln (Switzerland) to proposestarting a foundation in the United States. The proposal is approved. Abbot Henry appoints Fr. UlrichChristen to be the superior "explorer" and Fr. Bede O'Connor as his companion. They become known as"Joshua and Caleb," as they search for a promised land.
December 20, 1852: Fathers Ulrich and Bede leave for America after a "send-off rally" led by students Aloys(later Martin) Marty and Johann (later Fintan) Mundwiler, who later become the first two abbots of SaintMeinrad.
January 2,1853: Before boarding the ship to America, Fathers Ulrich and Bede stay in a London hotel. Thatevening, fire breaks out in the hotel, leading Fr. Bede to comment later that they went through fire and water(the ocean voyage) to make the foundation.
January 5,1853: The exploring monks leave Southampton on the Hermann steamship, but rough seas force thecaptain and crew to return to the harbor.
January 10, 1853: The Hermann again leaves for America, but the raging waves once more force the captainto delay the voyage and cast anchor alongside the Isle of Wight.
January 13,1853: Finally, the ship sets sail again. During the voyage, Fr. Ulrich takes English lessons from Fr.Bede.
January 31,1853: The ship arrives in New York.
February 4, 1853: The two monks set out to visit a young Benedictine community, St. Vincent in Latrobe,Pennsylvania.
February 10,1853: They leave for Pittsburgh on the way to Cincinnati. From Cincinnati, a steamer takes themto Madison, Indiana.
February 18, 1853: The monks meet with Bishop Maurice de la Palms, of the Diocese of Vincennes, whowelcomes them and assures them of his support in their efforts to find land for a foundation.
More About JACQUES LAENG:Date born 2: 1858101
Arrival: 21 Jan 1889, Port of New York, New York, United States101
Burial 1: 07 Sep 1931, Saint Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, Indiana.102
Burial 2: 07 Sep 1931, Father Columban celebrated the Solmen Requiem Mass.Census 1: 1900, Lists his place of birth and that of his parents as Germany.Census 2: 1900, Occupation at St. Meinrad appears to be 'Ingenier', probably Engineer.Census 3: 1900, The Cenus Enumerator taking the census at St. Meinrad in Harrison Township, SpencerCounty, Indiana on June 6 and 7, 1900 listed "Inmate" as the occupation for all the priests and brothers,except Rev. Schmidt who was listed as 'Head'.Census 4: 1900, Under column for Naturalization it lists 'Pa' for Ferdinand as well as a number of the otherBrothers.
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Christening: 1858, Received the name Jacob after the holy Apostle Jacob.Departure: Le Havre, France103
Education: 1884, Came to Saint Meinrad to consecrate his life to God as a simple lay brother.Fact 2: 1885, Entered the novitiate to prepare for a life in religion,Fact 3: 29 May 1885, Invested with a holy monastic garb.Fact 4: 30 May 1886, Consecrated as Brother Ferdinand in the Congregation of the Benedictine Order.Fact 5: Bet. 1881 - 1883, May have worked and resided in Ohio as his Uncle, Marcus Laeng came to Ohio in1879. Noted here for future reference.Immigration 1: Abt. 1881, The 1900 Census shows that he has been in the United States for 18 years. Thiswould make his date of emigration around 1881 when he was about 24 years of age.Immigration 2: 22 Nov 1883, A Jacob Lang arrived Port of New York from Amsterdam, Neatherlands. Hisage is 24 and his place of origin is Germany. Microfilm Roll 472 and List Number 1482, New York PassengerLists 1851 - 1891. Listed here for future reference.Nationality: 1871, Herrlisheim became part of Alsace-Lorraine of the German Empire following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871.Occupation: Was a Brother in the Congregation of the Benedictine Order.Witness 1: 1858, Jean Georges Adam, age 41, mason, listed as Premier Temoin on birth certificate. He may bethe son of Jean George Adam and Catherine Laeng.104
Witness 2: 1858, Louis Pfaadt, age 32, pensioneer, listed as Second Temoin on the birth certificate.104
34. vii. ALEXANDRE LAENG, b. 08 Aug 1860, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. 07 Mar1928, Jefferson County, Kentucky.
viii. MARIE ANNE LAENG, b. 08 Jun 1862, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France105.
More About MARIE ANNE LAENG:Witness: 1862, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jaccques Pfaadt and Charle Kistler105
ix. JOSEPH LAENG, b. 30 Mar 1864, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France105.
More About JOSEPH LAENG:Witness: 1864, Witnesses to Act of Birth was Andre Pfaadt, labourer. and Louis Koerper.105
35. x. LOUISE LAENG, b. 15 May 1866, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas Rhin, France, later Alsace-Lorraine, Germany; d. 11 Dec 1954, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
xi. ANTOINE LAENG, b. 07 Jun 1868, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France105.
More About ANTOINE LAENG:Education: Was a twinWitness: 1868, Witness to Act of Birth was Francoise Koerper
xii. CAROLINE LAENG, b. 07 Jun 1868, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
More About CAROLINE LAENG:Education: Was a twinWitness: 1868, Witness to Act of Birth was Francoise Koerper
xiii. ROSALIE LAENG, b. 02 Jul 1870, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France105.
More About ROSALIE LAENG:Witness: 1870, Witnesses to Act of Birth was Francoise Schiff and Ignace Pfaadt.105
24. MARCUS6 LAENG (JEAN MICHEL5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 25 Apr 1831in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France105, and died 24 Sep 1901 in Venice Township, SenecaCounty, Ohio106. He married PHILOMENA MARGARET CENTNER 06 Sep 1860 in Holy Trinity, Lower HillDistrict, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania107, daughter of JOSEPH CENTNER and MARGARETHARECTEWALD. She was born 01 Jul 1842 in Pitt Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania107, and died 18 Jan1884 in Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio108.
Notes for MARCUS LAENG:HERRLISHEIM TO AMERICA
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Marcus Laeng, age 16, passenger number 129, family number 100304, (born April 25, 1831 in Herrlisheim)arrived Port of New Orleans, Tuesday, December 28, 1847, on the ship Aurelius, Crocker as the ship's Master,after a 46-day voyage from Havre. His father, Jean Michel Laeng, is listed as Michel Laeng on the ship manifest,his age as 64 (born March 6, 1783 in Herrlisheim). His family number is 100310 and his passenger number is124. Also on the ship manifest for that voyage, under family number 100304, are two other children of JeanMichel Laeng; Louise Laeng, age 21 (born July 19, 1826) passenger number 128 and Balbine Laeng, age 10(born April 25, 1835) passenger number 130.
Listed as passenger number 125, immediately following Jean Michel Laeng is Louise Adam, age 21, familynumber 100302. There is a high degree of probability that this is Louise Adam, born 1824, Herrlisheim, daughterof Joseph Adam and Sophie Cablo and sister of Rosalie, born 1823, who married John Bauer from Herrlisheimand who is residing on Mary Street, 4th Ward, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in 1880.
Listed as passenger number 126 is Salome Kistler, no family number, age 21. This is the youngest daughter ofJoseph Kistler and Catherine Alt who was born April 24, 1827 in Herrlisheim. Jean George Laeng appears as awitness on her Act of Birth. Salome Kistler is a sponsor on August 10, 1851 at the baptism of her niece, SalomeDurrstein, (daughter of Beatrix Mary Kistler and Jacob Durrstein) at St. Philomena Catholic Church in Pittsburgh,Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Passenger number 127 is Michel Kistler, age 16, no family number. This isJean Michel Kistler, born 1831, Herrlisheim and the brother of Salome. In the 1850 Federal Census forPennsylvania, Sara (Salome) Kistler, born in Germany in 1826, is residing in Ward 4, Pittsburgh, AlleghenyCounty, with Paul Hugus and his family. There is no occupation listed for Sara and she is listed as not literate.Paul Hugus' occupation is listed as Dry Goods Merchant. Sara may have been working as a servant orhousekeeper for the Hugus family.
In the remarks section for Jean Michel Laeng appears the following notation "6 chests".
There were 157 passengers in steerage listed on the ship manifest, which manifest contained a notation "None ofthe passengers died on the voyage". (Source - National Archives Series - LDS - M259, roll 27 covering periodJune 16 to December 31, 1847 - FHL# 0200157.)
All seven individuals are listed as being born in Baviere (Bavaria), with place of settlement in the United States asMississippi. The occupation for each of the seven is listed as weaver. Jean Michel Laeng's occupation inHerrlisheim was a weaver, which notation appeared on the Act of Birth for each of his children.
I do not know why they are listed as being born in Bavaria. I suspect that Jean Michel Laeng, his three youngerchildren and the others left Herrlishem and went to Bavaria, where the older ones may have worked as weavers.At that time, the area of the former Lower Palatinate was across the Rhein River and was a part of Bavaria. I donot know the circumstances that brought them to the United States with a final destination of Mississippi andwhen and how Marcus got to Pittsburgh. The history of Europe shows that the largest immigration to the UnitedStates up to that time occurred in the year 1847 and that the economic conditions in Europe were very poor.
Also listed on the ship's manifest are the following individuals whose surname is common to Herrlisheim.
Hans Jung, age 40 (number 84), Anna Marie Jung, age 36 (number 85), George Jung, age 10 (number 86),Josephine Jung, age 7 (number 87) and Frantz Jung, age 3 (number 88). Hans Jung is listed from Bavaria, boundfor Mississippi and his occupation is labourer.
Marguiere Zinger, age 22 (number 68), from Bavaria, bound for Mississippi and his occupation is carpenter.
Johann Schmitt, age 40 (number 104), Catherine Schmitt, age 30, (number 105), Catherine Schmitt, age 4(number 106), Marie Schmitt, age 2 (number 107), Simon Schmitt, age 20 (number 108) and Charle Kistler, age75 (number 109) The older males are listed as carpenters and all are shown as being born in Bavaria with finaldestination of Mississippi.
The fact that all 157 passengers on the ship manifest were listed as being born in Bavaria, when in fact some of
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them were born in Herrlisheim, France, leads me to believe that an individual or group of individuals inMississippi arranged for their passage in exchange for work to be performed in Mississippi to pay of the debt forthe passage. It may have been a group of cotton planters who wanted to establish a factory in the area to weavethe cotton in support of local trade. Others listed as labourers and carpenters would also be needed to help withthe building or expansion of the factory.
Many Alsatians also began to sail for America, where after 1807 slave importation had been banned and newworkers were needed for the cotton fields. The history of Alsace states that many American recruiters worked forship owners and made promises, sometimes grandiose and fictitious, to the Alsatians. Once they agreed and leftAlsace, sometimes, surreptitiously, they often found themselves forced into indentured servitude. This was soabused in fact that in 1818 the Louisiana general assembly enacted legislation protecting the rights of suchimmigrants, which sometimes led to new tactics such as ship owners demanding exorbitant passage fees. Howlong they stayed in Mississippi and how Marcus got to Pittsburgh and Balbina eventually to Maine and RhodeIsland remains to be determined.
A possible connection follows. "The Bankston textile mill, Choctaw County, is regarded as Mississippi's firstsuccessful mechanically powered textile mill and became famous throughout the Old Southwest as a model ofindustrial efficiency and profitability. Colonel James M. Wesson, its founder, was associated with a textile firm inColombus Georgia, the 'Lowell of the South', which in 1847 decided to build a cotton and woolen mill in the backcountry of northern Mississippi. In January 1847, he together with David L. Booker, John P. Nance, RichardEctor and Thomas J. Stanford, organized and chartered the Mississippi Manufacturing Company and, before theend of the year, began moving machinery and equipment to the new site on the west side of McCurtain's Creek, atributary to the Big Black River in Choctaw County. A Semple steam engine, manufactured in Rhode Island, wasbrought in to power the mill. It was transported from Rhode Island to Greenwood by water and then drawnoverland to the mill site by several oxen, a distance of sixty-five miles, several miles of which were through theYazoo swamp. The eighty-horsepower engine actually provided more than sufficient power for the textile mill,and the enterprising Colonel Wesson added a flour mill and a gristmill to the textile equipment to utilize thesurplus power. The Bankston textile mill began operations in December 1848 with twelve workers. It prosperedand quickly expanded to include a tannery, a shoe factory, a machine shop, along with other enterprises. By June1849, the textile mill operated 500 cotton spindles and spun 300 pounds of cotton." (Source - A History ofMississippi Cotton Mills and Mill Villages by Narvell Strickland, 1965)
A search of the 1850 Federal Census for Choctaw County, Mississippi did not show a listing for a Laeng, Lang,Kistler, Zinger, Schmitt (Smith) or Young (Jung) in our line. I have noted it here for future reference. (Note toFile - JP Rhein)
Thomas C. Sweet who married Balbina Laeng, the sister of Marcus, was born in 1828 and raised in Rhode Island.His occupation in the 1880 Federal Census is listed as "works in lace mill". He would have been 19 years of agein 1847 and it may be that he accompanied the group that brought the Semple steam engine to Mississippi. Heenlisted in the Union Army in Massachusetts in 1862 and he and Balbina were married in 1866. It may be that hestayed in Mississippi for a period of time subsequent to 1847. It may be that Balbina, and perhaps others, wentnorth to New England prior to the Civil War to work in the textile industry. The latter two comments, whilespeculative, are plausible, and are listed here for future reference. The question remains, why did Balbina go toNew England. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
There is a Sara Kistler, born 1826 in Germany, residing in Ward 4 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvaniawith Paul Hugus and his family. There is no occupation listed for Sara. Paul Hugus is listed as a Dry GoodsMerchant and was born in Pennsylvania. There is a high degree of probability that Sara is Salome Kistler. Shemay have been working as a servant or houskeeper for the Hugus family. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
"Aurelius, ship (America) 580 tons, 16 ft draft, built 1834, Captain George Crocker, Harve - New Orleans,December 28 (45 days) 159 passengers". (Source - NAM, M272-4; NAM, M259-27-254; Picayune, December28, 1847, B. 3, Col. 2; Registre Veritas, Vol. 17, p107, no.1885)
"Until 1860 the crossing is done on sail boats and lasts about five weeks, the steam boats reduce the duration to12 days from Hambourg or the Harve, but all immigrants are still traveling in the hold. The boats chartered by the
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immigration agents or recruiters are in fact only commercial ships not equipped for passengers. Trips areorganized as follows: cotton is transported to Europe by huge American vessels, often obliged to sail back empty.So the cost of cotton is calculated to cover the round trip, and when a captain found a cargo for the return trip hewas able to charge a low price. This explains why the fares were sometimes very low: one could go from a Frenchharbor to New York for 50 to 60 francs. Remember that in Lorraine for example, a day laborer eared between .50and one franc per day, an artisan between .30 and .50 francs for lunch and a mason 2.25 francs per day. After thatthe big recruiting companies organized the trips by offering a contract to the immigrant, which allowed him or herto go to New York for about 150 francs from Strasbourg, including victuals and luggage." (Source-Alsatiens etLorraines en Algerie, Fabienne Fischer)
IN PENNSYLVANIA
The Archives and Records Center of the Diocese of Pittsburgh advised that "Marcus Lang, widower; Elsass,Herbisheim; son of Michael Lang and Maria Obermaier was married to Philomena Zentner, Birmingham,America; daughter of Jos. Zentner and Magda P. Recktewald on September 6, 1860 at Holy Trinity RomanCatholic Church. Witnesses: Jos. Leibert, Phil. Jacob, both of Reisville." The name Lang has an umlaut over theletter "a".
In a subsequent letter they advised that "The mother's names for all the grooms on this particular page wereshifted by one space, making the mother's name for one groom appear to be the next groom's partents. Thecorrected entry should read "son of Michael Lang and Magdalena Lenger". They also stated that "His place ofbirth is clearly written as Herbisheim, based on a comparison of the other l's and b's found in the adjacent entries.Incorrect spellings are extremely common in the early record books". An examination of a photocopy of the Actof Birth for Magdalena (Madeleine) shows clearly that her maiden name is Zinger as is the Act of Birth for hersister, Catherine, and their father, Jean Michel Zinger, all born in Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.Also, her marriage license clearly states her maiden name as Zinger, daughter of Jean Michel Zinger.
The reference to Herbisheim above is incorrect or it may be that the individual entering the initial marriageinformation wrote Herlisheim and the fourth letter was mistaken for a 'b'. I wrote to Mairie de Herbsheim (locatedabout 30 miles south of Herrlisheim and 18.6 miles south of Strasbourg) and requested a copy of the Act of Birthof Michel Laeng, Marie Obermaier, and Marcus Laeng in the relative time period and received a reply stating thatno record of an Act of Birth for any of these individuals was found in the birth register of Herbsheim.
The weight of evidence clearly points to the fact that Marcus' mother is Madeleine nee Zinger and is not neeLenger and that he was born in Herrlisheim. I have elected not to pursue this further.
As to Marcus' first wife, the Archives and Records Center said there were no Laeng (1) deaths at Holy Trinityprior to September, 1860, and (2) entries in the records of St. Philomena, Strip District (closest parish to HolyTrinity) from 1850 to 1860.
Birmingham was an area now known as South Side, Pittsburgh. Philomena was 18 years of age when she marriedin 1860. Her father died in 1857and her mother in 1858. She may have worked as a servant. Reisville was in thelower Hill District of Pittsburgh.
Marcus' grave site marker at New Washington Cemetery, New Washington, Crawford County, Ohio, reads "Hererests Markus Laeng, Died Sep 24, 1901, Aged 70y 5 m." This would place his date of birth as April 24, 1831,which is one day different from the date of birth of April 25, 1831 on The Act of Birth in Herrlisheim. I suspectthat an error of one day may have been made when calculating his date of birth for the grave site marker.Additionally, his name on the grave site marker is shown as Markus whereas, his name is listed as Marcus onvarious other records including church and census records. I have no explanation for this.
The baptismal record for (1) Maria Margaretha indicates that Marcus and Philomena and family were residing inOakland in May 1867 and (2) Josephus Franciscus indicates they were residing on Gist Street in the 14th ward.The 1870 Federal Census for Pennsyvania, 14h Ward, Pittsburgh enumerated on July 9, 1870 lists Marks Longeas residing at dwelling and house number 262-262. His age is 38, born Hesse, occupation is roller of (?) forge.Philomena, age 38 , born Pennsylvania, occupation, keeps house. Children are Mary, age 8, Theresa, age 7,
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Joseph, age 5, Maggie, age 3, and Frank, age 8/12 Oct. Gist Street is in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Thepresent day area is close to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Gist Street is above the MonogahelaRiver and I suspect that Marcus as a roller worked in one of the mills along the river. He could have easily walkedto work. The listing of his place of birth as Hesse is interesting. Herrlisheim in low Alsace prior to the end of theThirty Year's War in 1648 was part of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg, House of Hesse Darmstart and was partof the Habsburg lands.
I have been unable to locate Marcus Laeng (Lang), Jos. Leibert, and Phil. Jacob, in any census records forPittsburgh or Allegheny County in 1850 and 1860.
The following information was extracted from the Archives of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Holy Trinity ParishBaptismal Records. Christian names are in Latin which was the practice at that time.
Mar. Katharina, born 15 Jun 1861; baptized 23 Jun 1861; father: Marcus Laeng, Elsass; mother: Philom.Zentner, Amerika; sponsors: Peter Zentner, M. Kath. Dollinger
Theresia, born 17 Nov 1862; baptized 23 Nov 1862; father: Marcus Laeng, Elsass; mother: Philom. Centner,Amerika; sponsors: Georg and Theresia Fraas
Josephus Ignatius, born 1 Feb 1865; baptized 5 Feb 1865; residence: 8th ward; father: Marcus Lang, Elsass;mother: Philomena Zentner, Pittsburg; sponsors: John Dietrich, 6th wd; Ann Schnttenger, 6th wd
Maria Margareth, born 26 May 1867; baptized 2 Jun 1867; father: Markus Lang, Ellsas; residence: Oakland;mother: Philomina Zentner, Birmingham; sponsors: A.M. Bauerhen, Birmingham; Jos. Rectewald, Laurensville
Josephus Franciscus, born 3 Oct 1869; baptized 17 Oct 1869; father: Marcus Lang, Alsatia; residence: GistSt., 14th wd; mother: Philomena Zentner, Pittsburgh; sponsors: Michael Gala, Gettys Run, Sharpsburgh;Margaretha Zentner, 8th wd
Maria Josephina, born 14 Apr 1872; baptized 14 Apr 1872; father: Marcus Laeng, Gallia; mother: PhilomenaZentner; sponsors: Petrus Zentner, Maria Shneider (later married Joseph Peter Centner).
Holy Trinity Death Records
Franciscus Ignatius Laeng; died 15 Jul 1871; buried 16 Jul 1871; age: 21 months; son of Marcus and PhilomenaLaeng. This appears to be Joseph Franciscus baptized in 1869.
IN OHIO
Marcus Laeng and his family came to Venice Township in 1874. He is listed in the 1880 Federal Census for Ohioand residing in Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio. The 1900 Federal Census for Ohio for Venice Township,Seneca County, enumerated on June 9, 1900, lists a Marcus Laeng, born April 1829, age 70 at last birthday. Theage is correct but the year of birth does not agree (1) with the date on the Act of Birth and (2) the derived date ofbirth from the grave site marker. I have no explanation for this other than the census enumerator may have askedfor his age and then may have miscalculated his year of birth which was not uncommon. Marcus is listed asowning property, is retired and is a U.S. citizen. It states that he immigrated in 1840 (in error, correct date is1847) and has been in the United States for 60 years. On the line above the entry for Marcus, the censusenumerator lists a Rose Marshall, born in Germany, who immigrated in 1847. Did the census enumerator make atransposition and enter the data on the incorrect line? Many of the census enumerators took the information onseparate sheets of paper and later entered it on the 'somewhat large census listing sheets'. It may be that this iswhat happened here. I do not know.
Also listed as residing at the same location as Marcus in the 1900 census are a son, Anthony, a farmer, bornAugust 1874 in Pennsylvania and a daughter, Philomena, born, September 1878 in Ohio.
Seneca County is in North central Ohio. The county seat is Tiffin and is located about 60 miles slightly Southeast
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of Toledo and about 180 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. In the late 19th century, a line of the Baltimore and OhioRailroad ran through Venice Township and may have been the transportation taken by Marcus Laeng on the visitsto Pittsburgh as described below.
The valuation and taxation of Venice Township in 1884-85 are as follows: Acres of land in township, 24, 575,valued at $780,200, and personal property at $276, 910. The population of Venice Township (including Attica663), in 1880, was 2,231.
In the summer of 1913 or 1914, Joseph Peter Rhein, born March 16, 1895 spent the summer on the farm on hiscousins in Ohio. I believe this was the farm of James McCarthy (husband of Mary Katharine Laeng his firstcousin once removed) at New Washington Village, Crawford County, Ohio located North of Columbus and about20 miles Southwest of Tiffin, the county seat of Seneca County. New Washington Village is about 150 milesNorthwest of Pittsburgh. The Rhein family album contains a number of wonderful pictures on what appears to bea Sunday afternoon picnic on a beautiful, prosperous looking farm. The young women are all dressed in longwhite dresses and the young men are wearing white shirts and ties, some with a vest. Also, there are other picturesof my father and his cousins working on the farm. Unfortunately, there are no names or a location given. In 1913my father would have been 18 years of age. The children of James McCarthy and their ages in 1913 are asfollows: Francis 25, Edward 23, Aloysius 22, Clement 20, Theresa Philomena 18 and Frederick 15.
Marcus Laeng had an older brother, Jean Michel Laeng, born July 17, 1817 in Herrlisheim. The 1870 FederalCensus for Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio enumerated on June 24, 1870 (Post Office Bloomsville) listsa Michael Lang (listed as Lang not Laeng) farmer, age 53 born in France with a value of real estate of $1,800 andpersonal property of $700. His wife's first name is Margaret, age 49, and her place of birth is Hess-Darmstadt.The children are listed as August, age 15, Louisa, age 14, George, age 12, (all listed as being at home), Peter, age8, attending school, Ludwich, age 5, Joseph, age 3, and Michael, age 1. All the children were born in Ohio. Alsolisted as residing with the family is Ann Haweswetzel, age 12, born in Ohio, relationship unknown. This wouldplace Michael in Ohio as early as 1855. The 1880 Federal Census for Ohio, enumerated June 7, 1880, lists aMichael Laeng, farmer, age 62 (would have been born in 1817 or 1818), with his wife, Margaret, both born inGermany. There are five children. All the children were born in Ohio. The oldest child is son Peter, born 1861and the youngest child is daughter Mary, born 1873. John Dannemiller, age 69, born in Germany is listed asresiding in the next household. I have not been able to locate any other Laengs in Ohio at that time other than aChristian Laeng, farmer, age 40, also residing in Venice Township, born in Pennsylvania as were his parents.Michael and his wife do not appear on the 1890 or 1900 Federal Census for Ohio, either individually or as acouple or with son Peter who is a farmer and is residing in Groton Township, Erie County, Ohio in 1900. Ipresume they died sometime before 1900. As both Marcus and Michael were residing in the same EnumerationDisrict 212 in the 1880 Census and given the approximate date of Michael's birth, there is a high degree ofprobability he is Jean Michael Laeng, the brother of Marcus. I have often wondered what brought Marcus to Ohiofrom Pennsylvania and it may have been as a result of his older brother. I have listed him as a brother of Marcus.
IN PENNSYLVANIA, AGAIN
Marcus Laeng was in Pittsburgh on May 17, 1891 and was a sponsor at the baptism of Rosa Angela Rhein,daughter of Joseph Rhein and Louise Laeng Rhein, at St. Augustine Church located in the Lawrenceville section.Angela Mertzin was also a sponsor.
Marcus Laeng was in Pittsburgh again on February 1, 1900 and was a sponsor at the baptism of Aloysius RalphRhein, son of Joseph Rhein and Louise Laeng Rhein, at St. Augustine Church. Margaretha Centner, his sister inlaw, was also a sponsor.
AT REST IN OHIO
From the Crawford County News, Friday October 4, 1901. "Markus Laeng, whose demise occurred last Tuesdayevening, September 24, was born April 25, at Herrlisheim, Alsace, France, now a province of Germany. He cameto America in 1847 and settled at Pittsburg, Pa., where he was married to Philomena Centner, in September 1860.After living in Pittsburgh for a number of years, he with his family came to Venice township, Seneca county, in1879 and settled upon a farm. After living here a few years, his wife was called away by death on January 25,
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1894. To this union were born eleven children, seven of whom are still living, one being in Pittsburg, two atCrestline and the rest living in and about this community and one sister, Mrs. Balbina Sweet, at Westerly, RhodeIsland, and other relatives. The funeral occurred Friday afternoon at St. Bernard's Catholic Church in NewWashington, conducted by Rev. Fr. Kunert."
Last Will and Testament of Marcus Laeng
In the name of the benevolent Father of all, I, Marcus Laeng do make and disclose this my last Will andTestament, revoking and making null and void all former Wills by me made.
Item one (1) :- It is my will that all my personal estate (Except Household Goods and Wearing Apparel), beconverted to money as soon after my decease as convenient and the proceeds derived there from shall be firstused to pay all my just debts, funeral expenses and monument, then any executor hereinafter named is herebyauthorized to sell real estate sufficient to pay such balance.
Item two (2) :- It is my desire and will that my son Anthony Laeng, have first privilege to buy my farm, consistingof one hundred acres in Venice township Seneca County, Ohio, on conditions as follows, to wit - my said sonAnthony, is to pay to each of his brothers and sisters or their heirs the following sums of money. To my daughterMaggie Dannemiller $490 eleven years after my decease, without interest, to my son Joseph Laeng, $490 twelveyears after my decease, without interest, to my daughter Josophena Laeng $490 thirteen years after my decease,without interest, to my daughter Philomena Laeng $690 fourteen years after my decease, without interest, to mydaughter Terresa Laeng $200 fifteen years after my decease, without interest. In the event my son, AnthonyLaeng, does not want to take my said farm, on the conditions above recited, then I devise and will that my saidson Anthony Laeng, shall have the occupancy and use of said land rent free, for then years after my decease,except such time and years that my daughters, Josophena and Philomena shall remain on said premises, ashousekeepers and helpers on the farm during such time that they so help him, my said son shall give to each of mysaid daughters, Josophena and Philomena, a one fourth part of the income of such farm. After ten years from thedate of my decease, I do desire and decree, that my said land shall be sold and proceeds divided as follows. It ismy will that my son Anthony Laeng and my daughters Josophena Laeng and Philomena Laeng each first receiveout of the proceeds of such sale of my land the sum of $200. My daughter Terresa Laeng is to have $200 thisbeing her full devise and all that she is to receive out of my Estate. The balance and remainder is to be equallydivided, share for share among my following children, Mary McCarthy, Maggie Dannemiller, Joseph Laeng,Josophena Laeng, Philomena Laeng and Anthony Laeng.
Item three (3) :- I do nominate and appoint my son Anthony Laeng, Executor of this my Last Will and Testamentgranting him power to sell and convey by deed real estate as directed to be sold herein and to do all and singularthe things required herein.
Item four (4) :- I do decree and will that in the event that any one or more of my said children do resort to processof law to change or alter any of the conditions or provisions of this my Last Will and Testatment, such child orchildren shall receive but five ($5) dollars each as his or her full devise of my said estate.
Witness my hand this 29 day of July 1897. (signed) Markus Laeng
Subscribed by Marcus Laeng, in our presence and acknowledged by him to be his last will and testament andsubscribed by us in his presence, this 29 day of July 1897.
(signed) J. Michel Felder, Jr.(signed) F. J. Miller
New Washington, Ohio
(Source - Copied from a photocopy of the handwritten will included with "Laeng, Bellow & Bouvier FamilyTree", Compiled by Caryl Ann Densley, December 2001)
It is clear from reading the document that Marcus Laeng signed his first name as 'Markus'. As the name 'Markus'
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also appears on his gravesite marker, it may be that he Anglicized it in his later years. (Note to File by JP Rhein)
EPILOGUE
Further work will need to be done to complete the interesting saga of Marcus Laeng who came to the UnitedStates as a young boy. Where did the family reside after arriving at New Orleans? Who did his father, the olderdaughter and others work for? When and how did Marcus get to Pittsburgh? Who was his first wife and did theyhave any children? What motivated him to move to Ohio and take up farming?
(Notes to File - J.P. Rhein)
More About MARCUS LAENG:Burial: Sep 1901, New Washington Cemetery, New Washington, Crawford County, Ohio108
Census 1: 1900, Federal Census for Ohio, shows him as retired, owning property and residing in VeniceTownship, Seneca County, Ohio with son Anthony and daughter Philomena. Anthony is listed as a farmer. Statesthat Marcus came to the United States in 1840.Census 2: 1870, Platt map shows M. Lang residing on Gist St. between Forbes St and Tuston St. H. Lang residesaccross Tuston St. at the corner of Gist St. and Tuston St. Relationship, if any, to Marcus is not known.Census 3: 1870, Taken July 9, 1870 and lists Marks Longe residing in 14th Ward with wife Philomena andchildren Mary, Theresa, Joseph, Maggia and Frank. Owns real estate valued at $1,800. Place of birth listed asHesse.Census 4: 1880, Daughter Mary Katherine is not listed as residing with the family in Seneca County, Ohio, butappears on the Pennsylvania Census as residing with Joseph Peter Center and Mary Ann nee Schneider and familyin Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.Census 5: 1880, Federal Census for Ohio, employed a farm laborer, Joseph Michaels who was 26 years of age atthe time.Education: 1901, Gravesite marker reads "Here rests Markus Laeng, Died Sep 24, 1901, Aged 70y 5m."108
Naturalization: 10 Dec 1872, Seneca County, OhioOccupation: 1880, FarmerProperty: May 1884, Owned property in Section 34, just North of Baseline Road, one mile East of State Route 4on Baseline Road in Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio.Witness: 1831, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Andre Frauel and Jean Noe.109
More About PHILOMENA MARGARET CENTNER:Baptism: 10 Jul 1842, Diocese of Pittsburgh110
Burial: Jan 1884, New Washington Cemetery, New Washington, Crawford County, Ohio111
Census: 1850, Federal Census for Pennsylvania, Pitt Township, Allegheny County, enumerated on July 11, 1850,lists Philomena Centner as age 8, born in Pennsylvania and in school. Father is Joseph Centner, age 45, ashoemaker, born in Germany. Mother is Margaret, age 38.Education: 1884, Gravesite marker reads " Philmena frau von M. Laeng 23 Jan 1884 im Alter von 41J 6M.111
Fact 2: 1884, Died in childbirth.
More About MARCUS LAENG and PHILOMENA CENTNER:Marriage: 06 Sep 1860, Holy Trinity, Lower Hill District, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania112
Witness: 06 Sep 1860, Witnesses were Joseph Leibert and Phil. Jacob, both of Reisville, community in the HillDistrict, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania112
Children of MARCUS LAENG and PHILOMENA CENTNER are:36. i. MARY KATHARINE7 LAENG, b. 15 Jun 1861, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; d. 24 Aug 1924,
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New Washington, Cranberry Township, Crawford County, Ohio.ii. THERESA LAENG, b. 17 Nov 1862, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; d. 07 Mar 1939, Pittsburgh,
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; m. W. H. SMITH.37. iii. JOSEPH IGNATIUS LAENG, b. 01 Feb 1865, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; d. 07 Dec 1931,
Crestline, Crawford County, Ohio.38. iv. MARIA MARGARET LAENG, b. 26 May 1867, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; d. 10 Nov 1937,
Bloom Township, Seneca County, Ohio.v. JOSEPH FRANCIS LAENG, b. 03 Oct 1869, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; d. 15 Jul 1871,
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.vi. MARIA JOSEPHINE LAENG, b. 14 Apr 1872, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; m. FRANK
KAPPLE.vii. BERNARD ANTHONY LAENG, b. 01 Aug 1874, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; d. 31 Oct 1944.
More About BERNARD ANTHONY LAENG:Burial: 1944, St. Mary's Cemetery, New Washington, Crawford County, OhioCensus: 1900, Federal Census for Ohio shows birth as August 1874 and first name as Anthony. Was afarmer.113
viii. PHILOMENA LAENG, b. 19 Sep 1879, Venice Township, Seneca County, Ohio; d. 1902, Venice Township,Seneca County, Ohio.
More About PHILOMENA LAENG:Burial: New Washington Cemetery, New Washington, Crawford County, OhioCensus: 1900, Federal Census for Ohio shows birth as September 1879. Father born in Germany and Motherborn in Pennsylvania.113
25. BALBINE6 LAENG (JEAN MICHEL5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 25 Apr 1835in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France114, and died 1914115. She married THOMAS C. SWEET1866116, son of THOMAS SWEET. He was born 1828 in Rhode Island116, and died Bef. 1900.
Notes for BALBINE LAENG:HERRLISHEIM TO THE UNITED STATES
Jean Michel Laeng, born March 6, 1783 in Herrlisheim, arrived Port of New Orleans, Tuesday, December 28,1847, on the ship Aurelius, Crocker as the ship's Master, after a 46-day voyage from Havre. His name is listed asMichel Laeng on the ship manifest, his age as 64. His family number is 100310 and his passenger number is 124.Also on the ship manifest for that voyage, under family number 100304, are the three youngest children of JeanMichel Laeng; Louise Laeng, age 21 (born July 19, 1826) passenger number 128, Marcus Laeng, age 16 (bornApril 25, 1831) passenger number 129, and Balbine Laeng, age 10 (born April 25, 1835) passenger number 130.
Listed as passenger number 125, immediately following Jean Michel Laeng is Louise Adam, age 21, familynumber 100302, as passenger number 126 is Salome Kistler, no family number, age 21. (this is the youngestdaughter of Joseph Kistler and Catherine Alt who was born April 24, 1827 in Herrlisheim. Jean George Laengappears as a witness on her Act of Birth) and, as passenger number 127 is Michel Kistler, age 16, no familynumber, who may be the brother of Salome.
In the remarks section for Jean Michel Laeng appears the following notation "6 chests".
There were 157 passengers in steerage listed on the ship manifest, which manifest contained a notation "None ofthe passengers died on the voyage". (Source - National Archives Series - LDS - M259, roll 27 covering periodJune 16 to December 31, 1847 - FHL# 0200157.)
All seven individuals are listed as being born in Baviere (Bavaria), with place of settlement in the United States asMississippi. The occupation for each of the seven is listed as weaver. Jean Michel Laeng's occupation inHerrlisheim was a weaver, which notation appeared on the Act of Birth for each of his children.
I do not know why they are listed as being born in Bavaria. I suspect that Jean Michel Laeng, his three youngerchildren and the others left Herrlishem and went to Bavaria, where the older ones may have worked as weavers.
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At that time, the area of the former Lower Palatinate was across the Rhein River and was a part of Bavaria. I donot know the circumstances that brought them to the United States with a final destination of Mississippi andwhen and how Marcus got to Pittsburgh. The history of Europe shows that the largest immigration to the UnitedStates up to that time occurred in the year 1847 and that the economic conditions in Europe were very poor.
Also listed on the ship's manifest are the following individuals whose surname is common to Herrlisheim.
Hans Jung, age 40 (number 84), Anna Marie Jung, age 36 (number 85), George Jung, age 10 (number 86),Josephine Jung, age 7 (number 87) and Frantz Jung, age 3 (number 88). Hans Jung is listed from Bavaria, boundfor Mississippi and his occupation is labourer.
Marguiere Zinger, age 22 (number 68), from Bavaria, bound for Mississippi and his occupation is carpenter.
Johann Schmitt, age 40 (number 104), Catherine Schmitt, age 30, (number 105), Catherine Schmitt, age 4(number 106), Marie Schmitt, age 2 (number 107), Simon Schmitt, age 20 (number 108) and Charle Kistler, age75 (number 109) The older males are listed as carpenters and all are shown as being born in Bavaria with finaldestination of Mississippi.
The fact that all 157 passengers on the ship manifest were listed as being born in Bavaria, when in fact some ofthem were born in Herrlisheim, France, leads me to believe that an individual or group of individuals inMississippi arranged for their passage in exchange for work to be performed in Mississippi to pay of the debt forthe passage. It may have been a group of cotton planters who wanted to establish a factory in the area to weavethe cotton in support of local trade. Others listed as labourers and carpenters would also be needed to help withthe building or expansion of the factory. How long they stayed in Mississippi and how Marcus got to Pittsburghand Balbina eventually to Maine and Rhode Island remains to be determined.
A possible connection follows. "The Bankston textille mill, Choctaw County, is regarded as Mississippi's firstsuccessful mechanically powered textile mill and became famous throughout the Old Southwest as a model ofindustrial efficiency and profitability. Colonel James M. Wesson, its founder, was associated with a textile firm inColombus Georgia, the 'Lowell of the South', which in 1847 decided to build a cotton and woolen mill in the backcountry of northern Mississippi. In January 1847, he together with David L. Booker, John P. Nance, RichardEctor and Thomas J. Stanford, organized and chartered the Mississippi Manufacturing Company and, before theend of the year, began moving machinery and equipment to the new site on the west side of McCurtain's Creek, atributary to the Big Black River in Choctaw County. A Semple steam engine, manufactured in Rhode Island, wasbrought in to power the mill. It was transported from Rhode Island to Greenwood by water and then drawnoverland to the mill site by several oxen, a distance of sixty-five miles, several miles of which were through theYazoo swamp. The eighty-horsepower engine actually provided more than sufficient power for the textile mill,and the enterprising Colonel Wesson added a flour mill and a gristmill to the textile equipment to utilize thesurplus power. The Bankston textile mill began operations in December 1848 with twelve workers. It prosperedand quickly expanded to include a tannery, a shoe factory, a machine shop, along with other enterprises. By June1849, the textile mill operated 500 cotton spindles and spun 300 pounds of cotton." (Source - A History ofMississippi Cotton Mills and Mill Villages by Narvell Strickland, 1965)
A search of the 1850 Federal Census for Choctaw County, Mississippi did not show a listing for a Laeng, Lang,Kistler, Linger, Schmitt (Smith) or Young (Jung) in our line. I have noted it here for future reference. (Note toFile - JP Rhein)
Thomas C. Sweet who married Balbina Laeng, the sister of Marcus, was born in 1828 and raised in Rhode Island.His occupation in the 1880 Federal Census lists his occupation as "works in lace mill". He would have been 19years of age in 1847 and it may be that he accompanied the group that brought the Semple steam engine toMississippi. He enlisted in the Union Army in Massachusetts in 1862 and he and Balbina were married in 1866. Itmay be that he stayed in Mississippi for a period of time subsequent to 1847. It may be that Balbina, and perhapsothers, went north to New England prior to the Civil War to work in the textile industry. The latter two comments,while speculative, are plausible, and are listed here for future reference. The question remains, why did Balbinago to New England. According to the Federal Census for 1900, Balbine Laeng is residing in Stonington, NewLondon County, Connecticut. She married Thomas Sweet, had four children, three living, son William Sweet
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born in Maine January 1878. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
"Aurelius, ship (America) 580 tons, 16 ft draft, built 1834, Captain George Crocker, Harve - New Orleans,December 28 (45 days) 159 passengers". (Source - NAM, M272-4; NAM, M259-27-254; Picayune, December28, 1847, B. 3, Col. 2; Registre Veritas, Vol. 17, p107, no.1885) (Note to File - J.P. Rhein)
More About BALBINE LAENG:Burial: 1914, Elmgrove Cemetery, North Kingston, Rhode Island117
Census 1: 1900, Appears of the 1900 Federal Census in Stonington Town (Palmer Street - family number 441),New London County, Rhode Island. Listed as Head of Household. Had four children, three alive. Stated that shewas born in France as were her parents. 118
Census 2: 1900, Operated a boarding house at Palmer Street in Stonington Town, New London County,Connecticut..118
Census 3: 1900, Three boarders listed; George Everett, R. Dave Maxson and Edith Maxson. Lists year ofimmigration as 1857. This is incorrect should be 1847. See Notes Section on Marcus Laeng.118
Residence: 1901, Westerly, Rhode Island119
Witness: 1835, Witness to Act of Birth was Jacques Keintz.120
Notes for THOMAS C. SWEET:The 7th Regiment Infantry was organized at Taunton and mustered in June 15, 1861. Mustered out July 1864 atthe expiratin of its term, Among other battles, it fought at the Siege of Yorktown April 5 - May 4, 1862, Battle ofAntietam September 18, 1862, Battle of Fredericksburg December 12 - 15, 1862, Chancellorsville April 27 - May6, 1863, Battle of Gettysburg July 2 - 4, 1863, Battles of the Wilderness May 5 - 7, Spottsylvania May 8 - 12,Spottsylvania Court House May 12 21, Bloody Angle May 12, North Anna River May 23 - 26 and Cold HarborJune 1 - 12, 1864. Regiment lost during service 4 Officers, 76 Enlisted men killed and mortally woulnded and 2Officers and 72 Enlisted men by disease. Total 154. (Source - Extracts from History of the Union Army)
See Notes Section for Anthony McKinney for more details on the History of the Civil War and the Army of thePotomac. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
More About THOMAS C. SWEET:Census: 1880, Residing in Gilford, Belknanp, New Hampshire, occupation works in lace mill, born in RhodeIsland. Family History Library Film Number 1254760, NA Film Number t9-0760, page 63C.Military service 1: Bet. 1862 - 1864, Served as sergeant with Company I, 7th Massachussetts Infantry during theCivil War. (Source - NPS, M544 roll 39)Military service 2: 1864, Pension request filed in Rhode Island, Application Number 52971, Certificate Number35680.
More About THOMAS SWEET and BALBINE LAENG:Marriage: 1866121
Children of BALBINE LAENG and THOMAS SWEET are:i. GEORGE B.7 SWEET, b. 1872, Maine122.
ii. MARY L. SWEET, b. 1877, New Hampshire122.39. iii. WILLIAM SWEET, b. Jan 1878, Maine.
26. ALOISE6 KISTLER (MARIA ANNA5 LAENG, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 04 Apr1816 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France123. He married CATHERINE SATTLER.
Notes for ALOISE KISTLER:In 1836 Aloise Kistler, age 20, is residing at 43 Steinstrasse, Herrlisheim, with his widowed mother, Maria AnnaLaeng, and siblings. (Source - 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau.)
More About ALOISE KISTLER:Witness: 1815, Witness to Act of Birth was Phillipe Schaffer.123
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Child of ALOISE KISTLER and CATHERINE SATTLER is:40. i. BALBINA7 KISTLER, b. 12 Jul 1849, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, France.
27. MARIE LOUISE6 LAENG (MATHIEU5, MELCHIOR4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 24 Mar1818 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France123, and died 08 Oct 1896 in Quesnoy sur Deule,France. She married JACOB CLAMER 13 Aug 1839 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhein, Province of Alsace,France, son of JOHANNES CLAMER and CATHERINE GNMPER. He was born 11 Sep 1806 in Lembach, Bas-Rhin,France124, and died 23 May 1864 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France124.
More About MARIE LOUISE LAENG:Burial: 124
Residence: 1873, Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, FranceWitness: 1818, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Andre Kistler and Michel Gross.125
More About JACOB CLAMER:Occupation: 1839, Customs Officer
More About JACOB CLAMER and MARIE LAENG:Marriage: 13 Aug 1839, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhein, Province of Alsace, FranceWitness: 13 Aug 1839, Mathieu Schaeffer, as uncle of the wife.
Child of MARIE LAENG and JACOB CLAMER is:41. i. ALEXE7 CLAMER, b. 09 Sep 1848, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
28. MATHIEU6 LAENG (JEAN GEORGES5, ANTOINE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 24 Feb 1846in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France126, and died 1915127. He married MADELINE KEITH05 May 1871 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhein, France127, daughter of JEAN KEITH andCATHERINE BUR. She was born 06 Jul 1845 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France127, anddied 05 Nov 1910 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany127.
More About MATHIEU LAENG:Date born 2: 24 Feb 1846, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France128
Witness: 1846, Witness to Act of Birth was Joseph Noe. 128
More About MATHIEU LAENG and MADELINE KEITH:Marriage: 05 May 1871, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhein, France129
Child of MATHIEU LAENG and MADELINE KEITH is:42. i. CHARLES7 LAENG, b. 10 Jun 1879, Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany; d. 02 Aug 1915.
29. REGINE6 KISTLER (DANIEL5, ROSINE4 HERRMANN, CHRISTINE3 LAENG, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 28 Apr1827 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France130, and died Aft. 1880 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany. She married JACQUES RHEIN 24 Jun 1850 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France130, son of ANTOINE RHEIN and MARIE KISTLER. He was born 28 Feb 1820 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France130, and died 06 Apr 1888 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Alsace-Lorraine, Germany131.
More About REGINE KISTLER:Education: 1927, Christian name appear as Regina on the death certificate of her son Joseph Rhein in Pittsburgh,Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.132
Witness: 1827, Witness to Act of Birth was Jean George Laeng born 1782.133
Notes for JACQUES RHEIN:
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The legal age of majority in France was set in 1803 at 21 years (lowered in 1974 to 18 years). However, therewas an exception in the case of marriage: a man younger than 25 (and a woman younger than 21) needed theconsent of their parents in order to marry. If there was disagreement between the parents, it was sufficient to haveconsent of the father. If one parent was dead or incapable of indicating consent, the consent of the remainingparent was sufficient. If both parents were dead or incapable of indicating consent, the grandparents took theirplace.
Even after having reached 25 (21 for women) it was still required for the prospective bride and groom to make aformal, respectful request to their parents for their counsel regarding the marriage -- this was necessary until thegroom had reached 30 and the bride 25. If the parents were opposed to the marriage, this formal request wasrequired to be repeated two more times, once a month. One month after a third unsuccessful request the marriagecould go ahead.
And even after a prospective groom had reached 30 he was still required to make this formal request to hisparents. In the event of an objection on the part of his parents he could go ahead with the marriage one monthlater.
If the parents and grandparents were all dead or all incapable of indicating consent, it was necessary for anyoneyounger than 21 to obtain consent of the conseil de famille.
There were stiff penalties for civil officials who didn't enforce these regulations.
The conseil de famille was composed of a justice of the peace and six blood relatives or relatives by marriage,half from the father'sside and half from the mother's side. (There were more complex regulations for the composition of the group, butthis is the basic idea.)
"Son Tuteur", means the groom's guardian, usually appointed to that position by the groom's father just prior tohis death, or by the groom's mother after her husband's death, or by the grandparents, or by the conseil de famille.
This is all from Le Code Civil (also known as the Code NapolTon), the body of French civil law first promulgatedin 1803.(Source - Robert Behra)
More About JACQUES RHEIN:Census: 1836, Resided at 137 Ottergass, Herrlisheim with his family. Age 16.134
Education: Death certificate of his son, Joseph Rhein, gives his Christian name as Jacob and states that he wasborn in Lorraine. I suspect that Louise Laeng Rhein gave his birthplace as Alsace-Lorraine but the individualcompleting the form elected to enter LorraineOccupation: Weaver
More About JACQUES RHEIN and REGINE KISTLER:Fact 1: 24 Jun 1850, Act of Marriage signed by Mathieu Schohn acting on behalf of Le Maire..135
Marriage: 24 Jun 1850, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France135
Witness: 24 Jun 1850, Witnesses to the Act of Marriage were Joseph Rhein, age 49, Jacques Gross age 33 andThiebaud Schohn age 63.135
Children of REGINE KISTLER and JACQUES RHEIN are:i. ANASTASE7 RHEIN, b. 10 Mar 1851, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France135; d. 24 Mar
1851, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France136.
More About ANASTASE RHEIN:Education: 1851, Mother's christian name appears as Reine on Act of Birth.137
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Witness: 1851, Witness to Act of Birth Jacques Gross.137
ii. ROSALIE RHEIN, b. 16 Jan 1853, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France137.
More About ROSALIE RHEIN:Education: 1853, Mother's christian name appears as Reine on the Act of Birth.137
Witness: 1853, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Antoine Gross and Jacques Alt.137
iii. MARIE RHEIN, b. 17 May 1855, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France137; d. 25 May 1855,Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France138.
More About MARIE RHEIN:Witness: 1855, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Charles Mockers and Jean George Adam. 139
iv. ANTOINE RHEIN, b. 02 Apr 1856, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France139; d. 29 Sep1919140.
More About ANTOINE RHEIN:Education: 1856, Mother's christian name appears as Reine on the Act of Birth.141
Witness: 1856, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Charles Mockers and Jean George Adam. 141
v. THERESA RHEIN, b. 17 Feb 1858, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France141; d. 09 Apr1858, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France142.
More About THERESA RHEIN:Education: 1858, Mother's christian name appears as Reine on the Act of Birth.143
Witness: 1858, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Louis Pfaadt and George Adam. 143
vi. THERESA RHEIN, b. Feb 1859, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France143; d. 22 Jun 1859,Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France144.
vii. JOSEPH RHEIN, b. 20 Apr 1860, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France145; d. 13 Nov 1865,Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France146.
More About JOSEPH RHEIN:Education: 1860, Mother's christian name appears as Reine on the Act of Birth.147
Witness: 1860, Witness to Act of Birth was Joseph Werner.147
43. viii. PIERRE RHEIN, b. 11 Aug 1862, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; d. 19 Mar 1929,Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
ix. FELIX RHEIN, b. 03 Mar 1864, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France147; d. 08 Feb 1865,Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France148.
More About FELIX RHEIN:Education: 1864, Mother's christian name appears as Reine on the Act of Birth.149
Fact 2: 1864, Christian name may be Felica. Handwriting difficult to read.Witness: 1864, Witness to Act of Birth was Jean Michel Pfaadt.149
44. x. JOSEPH RHEIN, b. 13 Apr 1866, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France, later Alsace-Lorraine, Germany; d. 19 Mar 1927, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
30. JOSEPH6 KISTLER (ANDRE5, ROSINE4 HERRMANN, CHRISTINE3 LAENG, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 20 Mar1823 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, France150. He married ANASTASE HUCK 19 Apr 1845 in Communede Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France150, daughter of URSULE HUCK. She was born 06 Jan 1825 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France150.
More About JOSEPH KISTLER:Witness: 20 Mar 1823, Witnesses to the Act of Birth were Arbogaste Lutz and Joseph Pfaff.150
More About ANASTASE HUCK:Witness: 06 Jan 1825, Witness to the Act of Birth were Jacques Liess and Jacques Kistler. Declarant was
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Jeanevise Lux.150
More About JOSEPH KISTLER and ANASTASE HUCK:Marriage: 19 Apr 1845, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France150
Witness: 19 Apr 1845, Witnesses were Joseph Pfadt, Jacques Pfadt, Michel Huck and David Huck.150
Child of JOSEPH KISTLER and ANASTASE HUCK is:45. i. JACQUES7 KISTLER, b. 05 Sep 1850, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.
31. JACQUES6 RHEIN (MARIE ANNE5 KISTLER, ROSINE4 HERRMANN, CHRISTINE3 LAENG, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) wasborn 28 Feb 1820 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France151, and died 06 Apr 1888 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany152. He married REGINE KISTLER 24 Jun 1850 in Communede Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France153, daughter of DANIEL KISTLER and CATHERINE KLEIN. She wasborn 28 Apr 1827 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France153, and died Aft. 1880 in Communede Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany.
Notes for JACQUES RHEIN:The legal age of majority in France was set in 1803 at 21 years (lowered in 1974 to 18 years). However, therewas an exception in the case of marriage: a man younger than 25 (and a woman younger than 21) needed theconsent of their parents in order to marry. If there was disagreement between the parents, it was sufficient to haveconsent of the father. If one parent was dead or incapable of indicating consent, the consent of the remainingparent was sufficient. If both parents were dead or incapable of indicating consent, the grandparents took theirplace.
Even after having reached 25 (21 for women) it was still required for the prospective bride and groom to make aformal, respectful request to their parents for their counsel regarding the marriage -- this was necessary until thegroom had reached 30 and the bride 25. If the parents were opposed to the marriage, this formal request wasrequired to be repeated two more times, once a month. One month after a third unsuccessful request the marriagecould go ahead.
And even after a prospective groom had reached 30 he was still required to make this formal request to hisparents. In the event of an objection on the part of his parents he could go ahead with the marriage one monthlater.
If the parents and grandparents were all dead or all incapable of indicating consent, it was necessary for anyoneyounger than 21 to obtain consent of the conseil de famille.
There were stiff penalties for civil officials who didn't enforce these regulations.
The conseil de famille was composed of a justice of the peace and six blood relatives or relatives by marriage,half from the father'sside and half from the mother's side. (There were more complex regulations for the composition of the group, butthis is the basic idea.)
"Son Tuteur", means the groom's guardian, usually appointed to that position by the groom's father just prior tohis death, or by the groom's mother after her husband's death, or by the grandparents, or by the conseil de famille.
This is all from Le Code Civil (also known as the Code NapolTon), the body of French civil law first promulgatedin 1803.(Source - Robert Behra)
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More About JACQUES RHEIN:Census: 1836, Resided at 137 Ottergass, Herrlisheim with his family. Age 16.154
Education: Death certificate of his son, Joseph Rhein, gives his Christian name as Jacob and states that he wasborn in Lorraine. I suspect that Louise Laeng Rhein gave his birthplace as Alsace-Lorraine but the individualcompleting the form elected to enter LorraineOccupation: Weaver
More About REGINE KISTLER:Education: 1927, Christian name appear as Regina on the death certificate of her son Joseph Rhein in Pittsburgh,Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.155
Witness: 1827, Witness to Act of Birth was Jean George Laeng born 1782.156
More About JACQUES RHEIN and REGINE KISTLER:Fact 1: 24 Jun 1850, Act of Marriage signed by Mathieu Schohn acting on behalf of Le Maire..156
Marriage: 24 Jun 1850, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France156
Witness: 24 Jun 1850, Witnesses to the Act of Marriage were Joseph Rhein, age 49, Jacques Gross age 33 andThiebaud Schohn age 63.156
Children are listed above under (29) Regine Kistler.
Generation No. 7
32. AUGUSTUS7 LAENG (JEAN MICHEL6, JEAN MICHEL5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) wasborn Jul 1855 in Clinton Township, Seneca County,Ohio, and died 1919 in Clinton Township, Seneca County,Ohio. He married ANNE NEE UNKNOWN Abt. 1880. She was born Oct 1858.
Notes for AUGUSTUS LAENG:In June 1900 August Laeng (surname listed as Lang), age 44, married 20 years, occupation, glass gatherer, isresiding in Tiffin City, Clinton County, Ohio, with his wife Anne, age 42, keeping house, and children; Albert,age 19, occupation glass gatherer, Rudolph, age 16, occupation glass gatherer, Nellie, age 12, at school,Josephine, age 10, at school, and Rosa, age 2. Anne is listed as having six children with five living. (Source -1900 Federal Census for Ohio, Tiffin City, Clinton County, enumerated on June 12, 1900.)
More About AUGUSTUS LAENG:Burial: 1919, St, Joseph Church, Seneca County, Ohio
More About AUGUSTUS LAENG and ANNE UNKNOWN:Marriage: Abt. 1880
Children of AUGUSTUS LAENG and ANNE UNKNOWN are:i. ALBERT8 LANG, b. Mar 1881.
ii. RUDOLPH LANG, b. May 1884.iii. NELLIE LANG, b. Aug 1887.iv. JOSEPHINE LANG, b. Oct 1889.v. ROSA LANG, b. Feb 1897.
33. PETER7 LAENG (JEAN MICHEL6, JEAN MICHEL5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was bornFeb 1861 in Ohio157, and died 1912158. He married ANNA M. FRITSCH 1887159. She was born Apr 1871 inOhio159.
More About PETER LAENG:Census 1: 1910, Resident of Croton Township, Erie County, Ohio. Enumeration District, Visit 0182160
Census 2: 1900, Resident of Croton Township, Erie County, Ohio. Was a farmer. Rented.
More About ANNA M. FRITSCH:Census: 1910, Parents born in Ohio.
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More About PETER LAENG and ANNA FRITSCH:Marriage: 1887161
Children of PETER LAENG and ANNA FRITSCH are:i. ROSA8 LAENG, b. 1889, Ohio.
More About ROSA LAENG:Education: 1900, Appears on the 1900 Federal Census for Ohio. Not on the 1910 Census. May have married.
ii. JOHN A. LAENG, b. 1890, Omar, Reed Township, Seneca County, Ohio162.
More About JOHN A. LAENG:Military service: 04 Oct 1917, Enlisted in National Army for service in World War I at Sandusky Ohio.Assigned 158 Depot Brigade to Oct 1917; Co B, 147th Infantry. Honorable discharge as Private, December 8,1917 on disability, Surgeon's certificate 2596. (Source - Ohio Military Men)Residence: 1917, Was a resident of Groton Township, Erie County, Ohio
iii. AMELIA C. LAENG, b. 1894, Ohio162.iv. MARY N. LAENG, b. 1898, Ohio162.v. PETER M. LAENG, b. 26 Feb 1900, Ohio162; d. 13 Apr 1972, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio163; m.
ESTHER MARIE DICK163,164, 14 Nov 1923165; b. 07 Feb 1903165; d. 1997166.
More About PETER M. LAENG:Social Security Number: 280-03-1355
More About PETER LAENG and ESTHER DICK:Marriage: 14 Nov 1923167
vi. GENEVIEVE L. LAENG, b. 1902, Ohio168.vii. ALBERT A. LAENG, b. 21 Jul 1904, Ohio168; d. Feb 1973.
viii. GEORGE W. LAENG, b. 1907, Ohio168.ix. CLARA M. LAENG, b. 07 Oct 1909, Bellevue, Ohio169; d. 31 Mar 1992, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio169;
m. (1) SHERMAN EDWARD PASCH, 23 May 1929, Bellevue, Ohio170; b. 15 Dec 1905, Riley Township,Sandusky County, Ohio171; d. 22 Oct 1959, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio171; m. (2) CLIFFORD SMITH, 14May 1962.
Notes for CLARA M. LAENG:The following was extracted from One World Tree, Ancestry.Com.
Clara stayed a part of the Pasch family after Sherm's death. During their marriage, he caused her muchheartache because of his drinking and irresponsibility. A short while after his death, she married Clifford"Tilly" Smith. He made her extremely happy, but he died 3 months after the marriage. Sherm and Clara livedon CR 198 in the third house on the right after the overpass. In 1996, there is a brick house on the right (livedin by Raymond Glasser, when he hung himself in the barn after being released from prison for murder), anatural colored, ranch house and then Sherm and Clara's. I think this was the original Plagman homestead.Clara is buried with Sherm. In 1990, Brenda and I visited Clara at her home. She said that she met Shermwhile walking to her job. He sat on someone's front porch as she walked by everyday. She commented that ifshe only know what heartache he was to bring to her, she would have kept walking. After Sherm's death, shewas a frequent visitor to our house on CR 198. She was a special part of our lives and we hope that she has atlast found happiness.
CLARA M. SMITH, 82, OF 814 NORTH FIFTH STREET, died Tuesday at Quality Care Nursing Center.Mrs. Smith was born Oct. 7, 1909, in Bellevue to Peter and Anna (Frisch) Laeng. She married Sherman Paschon May 23, 1929. He died on Oct 22, 1959. She then married Clifford Smith on May 14, 1962. He died onAugust 2, 1962. Mrs. Smith had worked for Howard Zink Corp. She was a member of St. John's LutheranChurch. Brothers George, Peter, and Albert Laeng, and sisters, Mrs. Fred Rettinger, Mrs. Roy Pusback, Mrs.Albert Grams, Mrs. Harold Myers, and Mrs. Fred Smith, are deceased. Graveside services will be at 11 am onApril 6 at Oakwood Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Memorials may be made to the United Way.
I think she was cremated.
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More About CLARA M. LAENG:Burial: 06 Apr 1992, Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio171
Confirmation: St. John's Llutheran Church171
More About SHERMAN EDWARD PASCH:Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio171
Confirmation: 08 May 1921171
More About SHERMAN PASCH and CLARA LAENG:Marriage: 23 May 1929, Bellevue, Ohio172
More About CLIFFORD SMITH and CLARA LAENG:Marriage: 14 May 1962
34. ALEXANDRE7 LAENG (ALEXANDRE6, JEAN MICHEL5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) wasborn 08 Aug 1860 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France173, and died 07 Mar 1928 inJefferson County, Kentucky. He married LOUISE METZ 1888 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany173, daughter of FREDERIC METZ and LOUISE SCHIESS. She was born Sep 1863 in Communede Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France, and died Bef. 1910.
Notes for ALEXANDRE LAENG:I believe the Alexander Laeng married to a Louise Laeng, listed in the 1900 Federal Census in the 12 Ward,Louisville, Kentucky, enumerated on June 7, 1900, is the Alexandre Laeng, son of Alexandre Laeng andFrancoise Pfaadt of Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany married to Louise Metz. He is the brother of LouiseLaeng, married to Joseph Rhein, who immigrated to the United States in 1890 and settled in Pittsburgh,Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
The census data for 1900 states that Alexander was born in Alsace-Lorraine, Germany. Wife is Louise, born1863, in Alsace-Lorraine. Married 12 years. This would make the date of their marriage 1888 at which timeAlexander would have been 28 years of age. Children, all born in the United States, except Mary born 1888Alsace-Lorraine, Elizabeth born September 1890, and Louis born November 1893.
In the 1910 Census all of the above are listed except wife Louise.
Alexander Laeng is listed in the 1920 Federal Census in the 21st Precinct, Louisville, Jefferson County,Kentucky, enumerated on January 14, 1920. His age is 60 (born 1860) in Alsace-Lorraine, France, immigrated1889, occupation is a glass blower (worked for Central Glass, located at 30th and Broadway according to hisgrandson, Louis C. Laeng, Jr.) He has a daughter, Mary, age 31 (born 1889 in Alsace-Lorraine).Also residing with the family is daughter Elizabeth and her husband PhilipWoods.
It was not uncommon for the immigrants from Alsace to list Alsace-Lorraine, Germany as their place of birth inany census taken prior to the First World War and their place of birth as Alsace-Lorraine, France, following thewar.
Alexander Laeng died March 7, 1928 (age 67) and Louis C. Laeng January 20, 1993 (age 99) and his wife,Florence A. Laeng who died July 15, 1994 (age 100). All deaths were in Jefferson County, Kentucky. (Source -Commonwealth of Kentucky, health Data Branch, Division of Epidemiolgy and Health Planning, comp. KentuckyDeath Index)
Louis C. Laeng, son of Alexander is listed in the 1920 Federal Census, enumerated January 14 and 15, 1920,residing at Ormsby Street (21st and Ormsby Street), 2nd Ward, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky with hiswife, Florence, born in Kentucky, his son Louis, age 17, born 1903 in Kentucky. Mary Asford (correct spelling isAlford), mother-in-law, age 62 (born 1858) in Kentucky. Her parents were born in Ireland.
Social Security records lists Louis C. Laeng's date of birth as November 21, 1893 and his date of death as January
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20, 1993 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.
There is a high degree of probability that the above Alexander Laeng is the son of Alexandre Laeng andFrancoise Pfaadt of Herrlisheim and the brother of Louise Laeng, married to Joseph Rhein. Accordingly, I haveentered it here. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
More About ALEXANDRE LAENG:Immigration: 1889, Immigrated to the United States.174
Witness: 1860, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jean George Adam and Louis Pfaadt.175
More About ALEXANDRE LAENG and LOUISE METZ:Marriage: 1888, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany175
Witness: Witnesses were Felix Laeng and Simon Metz.175
Children of ALEXANDRE LAENG and LOUISE METZ are:i. MARY8 LAENG, b. Nov 1888, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France176.
More About MARY LAENG:Occupation: 1930, Alterations in a men's store.
ii. ELIZABETH LAENG, b. Sep 1890, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky; m. PHILIP WOODS; b. 1888,Kentucky.
Notes for PHILIP WOODS:In the 1930 Federal Census for Kentucky, Phillip Woods, age 41, value of real estate $5,000, is residing inLouisville with his wife Elizabeth, age 39 and son Norman, age 4 11/12's. Also residing with the family isMary Laeng, age 41, sister of Elizabeth. Mary's place of birth is listed as Alsace-Lorraine, France.
iii. LOUIS CHARLES LAENG, b. 21 Nov 1893, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky; d. 20 Jan 1993,Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky; m. FLORENCE ALFORD; b. 1894; d. 15 Jul 1994, Louisville,Jefferson County, Kentucky.
Notes for LOUIS CHARLES LAENG:In the 1920 Federal Census for Kentucky Louis C. Laeng, age 26, occupation - cutter in tailor shop, isresiding in Ormsby Street, Louisville with his wife Florence, age 26, son Louis, 17 days old and his mother-in-law, Mary Alford, age 62. His son, Louis C. Laeng, Jr., advised that his father was a pattern maker andworked at Enro Shirt Company.
In the 1930 Federal Census for Kentucky Louis C. Laeng, age 36, cutter/clothing, value of real estate $6.000,is residing on 3rd Street, Louisville with his wife, Florence, age 36 and son, Louis, age 10 and mother-in-law,Mary Alford, age 72. Also residing with the family are; Fred W. Reichel, age 17, nephew and machinist andCarl E. W. Reichel, age 16, nephew, apprentice printer. Louis C. Laeng parents are listed as having been bornin Alsace-Lorraine.
Don Pfaadt advised that in 1920 the Laengs resided at 21st and Ormsby which is about four blocks from theresidence of Ignatz Pfaadt, who lived at 22nd and Hale in Louisville.
More About LOUIS CHARLES LAENG:Fact 1: 17 Jun 1917, Signed his name as Louis Charles Laeng on World War I Draft Registration Form.177
Other-Begin: Louisville, Jerrferson County, Kentucky City178
Residence: Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky178
35. LOUISE7 LAENG (ALEXANDRE6, JEAN MICHEL5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born 15May 1866 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas Rhin, France, later Alsace-Lorraine, Germany179, anddied 11 Dec 1954 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania180. She married JOSEPH RHEIN 03 May 1890 inCommune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany181, son of JACQUES RHEIN and REGINE KISTLER. He was
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born 13 Apr 1866 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France, later Alsace-Lorraine, Germany181,and died 19 Mar 1927 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania182.
Notes for LOUISE LAENG:Louise Laeng and Joseph Rhein were married in St. Arbogast Roman Catholic Church of May 3, 1890.
St. Arbogast has been claimed as a native of Scotland, but this is owing to a misunderstanding of the name"Scotia", which until late in the Middle Ages really meant Ireland. He flourished about the middle of the seventhcentury. Leaving Ireland, as so many other missionaries had done, he settled as a hermit in a German forest, andthen proceeded to Alsace, where his real name, Arascach, was changed to Arbogast. This change of name wasowing to the difficulty expdrienced by foreigners in pronouncing Irish Christian names; thus it is that Moengal,Maelmaedhog, Cellach, Gillaisu, Gilla in Coimded, Tuathal, and Arascach were respectively transformed intoMarcellus, Malachy, Gall, Gelasius, Germanus, Tutilo, and Arbogast. St. Arbogast found a warm friend in KingDagobert II of Austrasia, who had been educated at Slane, in Meath, in Ireland, and was restored to his kingdomon the demise of King Childeric II. Monstrelet authenticates the story of King Dagobert in Ireland; and the royalexile naturally fled to Slane in order to be under the ægis of the Ard-Righ (High-King) of Ireland, at Tara. OnDagobert's accession to the throne of Austrasia, Arbogast was appointed Bishop of Strasburg, and was famed forsanctity and miracles. It is related that the Irish saint raised to life Dagobert's son, who had been killed by a fallfrom his horse. St. Arbogast died in 678, and, at his own special request, was buried on the side of a mountain,here only malefactors were interred. The site of his burial was subsequently deemed suitable for a church. He iscommemorated 21 July. (Source- Catholic Encyclopedia - New Advert)
I believe the Alexander Laeng married to a Louise, listed in the 1900 Federal Census in the 12 Ward, Louisville,Kentucky, enumerated on June 7, 1900, is the Alexandre Laeng, son of Alexandre Laeng and Francoise Pfaadt ofHerrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany married to Louise Metz. He is the brother of Louise Laeng, married toJoseph Rhein, who immigrated to the United States in 1890 and settled in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,Pennsylvania.
The census data for 1900 states that Alexander was born in Alsace-Lorraine, Germany. Wife is Louise, born1863, in Alsace-Lorraine. Married 12 years. This would make the date of their marriage 1888 at which timeAlexander would have been 28 years of age. Children, all born in the United States, are Mary born 1888,Elizabeth born September 1890, and Louis born November 1893.
In the 1910 Census all of the above are listed except wife Louise.
Alexander Laeng is listed in the 1920 Federal Census in the 21st Precinct, Louisville, Jefferson County,Kentucky, enumerated on January 14, 1920. His age is 60 (born 1860) in Alsace-Lorraine, France, immigrated1888, occupation is a glass blower. He has a daughter, age 31 (born 1889). It was not uncommon for theimmigrants from Alsace to list Alsace-Lorraine, Germany as their place of birth in any census taken prior to theFirst World War and their place of birth as Alsace-Lorraine, France, following the war.
Alexander Laeng died March 7, 1928 (age 67) and Louis C. Laeng January 20, 1993 (age 99) and his wife,Florence A. Laeng who died July 15, 1994 (age 100). All deaths were in Jefferson County, Kentucky. (Source -Commonwealth of Kentucky, health Data Branch, Division of Epidemiolgy and Health Planning, comp. KentuckyDeath Index)
Louis C. Laeng, son of Alexander is listed in the 1920 Federal Census, enumerated January 14 and 15, 1920,residing at Ormsby Street, 2nd Ward, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky with his wife, Florence, born inKentucky, his son Louis, age 17, born 1903 in Kentucky. Mary Asford, mother-in-law, age 62 (born 1858) inKentucky. Her parents were born in Ireland.
Social Security records lists Louis C. Laeng's date of birth as November 21, 1893 and his date of death as January20, 1993 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.
There is a high degree of probability that the above Alexander Laeng is the son of Alexandre Laeng andFrancoise Pfaadt of Herrlisheim and the brother of Louise Laeng, married to Joseph Rhein. Accordingly, I have
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entered it here. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
Due to the close relationship between Louisa Laeng Rhein of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and theGless family who resided on a garden farm in Shaler Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from about1890 to 1952, I have tentatively attached Rosalie Adam, born about 1815 to 1825 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France (later Alsace-Lorraine, Germany), a daughter of Jean George Adam and CatherineLaeng, as being married to Joseph Gless, pending further investigation. Antoine Mertzin was a witness at the Actof Birth for Adelina Gless, born October 1870 in Commune de Herrlisheim, daughter of Jacques Gless andJosephine George. Angela Mertzin was a sponsor at the baptism of Rosa Rhein, daughter of Joseph Rhein andLouise Laeng Rhein, at St. Augustine Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 17, 1891. John Schohn, fromAlsace-Lorraine, who lived in Sharpsburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania during the period 1920 to 1940 was afriend of both the Rheins and the Glesses. A Jean Michel Schohn was a witness at the Act of Birth for FrancoiseGless, Commune de Herrlisheim, July 1841, daughter of John Michel Gless and Adele Schmitt. (Note to File -JPRhein)
More About LOUISE LAENG:Burial: 14 Dec 1954, St. Augustine Cemetery, Shaler Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania182
Census: 1910, Number of children 7, living 3. Have accounted for three of the children who died in infancy. Thefourth may have been baptized shortly after birth at home and then died in infancy. No church record availablewhen baptized at home.183
Education: 1890, Emigrated to United States of America.183
Fact 2: 18 Jan 1937, Application for a Social Security Number for Joseph Peter Rhein lists her maiden name asLaeng, however, a number of records in the United States show her maiden name as Lang.184
Witness 1: 1866, Benjamin Laeng, age 40, a weaver, listed as Premier Temoin on the Act of Birth. ConstateJoseph Schohn.185
Witness 2: 1866, Michel Schiff, age 50, a field worker, listed as Second Temoin on the Act of Birth.185
Notes for JOSEPH RHEIN:Education in Alsace-Lorraine
An ordinance, dated 18 April, 1871, and issued by Count von Bismarck-Bohlen, Governor-General of Alsace,obliges every child, on reaching the age of six, to attend either a public or a private school, unless equivalentprovision shall be made in the family itself. School attendance continues to be obligatory until the finalexamination, which, for boys, takes place at the age of fourteen, for girls at thirteen. The law of 12 Februaryplaced all lower and higher education under the supervision and control of the State authorities. "In all schools,"so runs the ordinance of the Imperial Statthalter (Governor), dated 16 November, 1887 "religion, morality,respect for the State and the laws shall be inculcated by means of teaching and education." The normal curriculumof elementary schools comprises religion, German, arithmetic, geometry, drawing, history, geography, naturalhistory, natural science, singing, carpentry, and feminine handicrafts. The following are charged with the localsupervision of each elementary school: the burgomaster, the Catholic priest, the Protestant pastor, the delegate ofthe Jewish religion and, in parishes of more than 2,000 souls, one or more residents appointed thereto by thePresident of the district. The clergy are especially charged with the supervision of the religious instruction givenby the teachers in the schools; they have, besides, the right of entering the schools at all times. The greaternumber of public elementary schools are denominational. Most of the masters are laymen; most of the mistresses,sisters of some teaching order. These communities, whose members teach in public, State, and municipal schools,also maintain private elementary, intermediate, and higher girls' schools. (Source - Catholic Encyclopedia
Immigration
Joseph Rhein and Louise Laeng arrived Port of New York on May 20, 1890 from Le Havre on La Champagne, L.Boyer as Ship's Master. Joseph is passenger number 808, farmer, and Louise (surname spelled Lang) is passengernumber 197, no occupation, travelling 3rd class. I am unable to explain as to why her maiden name is listed onthe ship's manifest, other than possibly she obtained her authorization to immigrate prior to the date of theirmarriage. (Source - Examination of copy of the ship manifest, New York Passenger Lists, 1851-1891, microfilmroll 548, List number 689)
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The ship La Champagne was a 7,087 gross ton vessel, length 493.4 ft x beam 51.8 ft, two funnels, four masts,single screw and a speed of 17 knots. Accommodation for 390 - 1st, 65 - 2nd and 600 3rd class passengers. Builtby COT, St. Nazaire, she was launched for Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Lines) on May 15,1885. Her maiden voyage started on May 22, 1886 when she left Havre for New York. On August 7, 1887 shecollided with and sank the French ship Ville de Rio Janeiro, sustaining serious damage herself. Rebuilt in 1896with two masts, new engines and her 3rd class accommodations increased to 1,500. On February 17, 1898 shefractured her propeller shaft and drifted until February 23rd, when she was sighted by the Warren Liner Romanwho towed her to Halifax. Her last Le Havre to New York sailing started on January 21, 1905 and she was thentransferred to the Mexican service. She resumed Havre - New York for two round voyages in March and April1906 and then returned to the Mexico service. In 1913 she was transferred to St. Nazaire - Panama sailings and onMay 28, 1915 stranded at St. Nazaire and broke her back. (Source - North Atlantic Seaway by N. R. P. Bonsor,volume 2, page 656)
Other
The Certificate of Death for Joseph Rhein lists his father as Jacob Rhein and his mother as Regina Kistler. Itstates that Joseph was born in Lorraine. I suspect that Louise Laeng Rhein gave his place of birth as Alsace-Lorraine, which is the way she always described where they were from in Germany, and the person completingthe death certificate elected to enter only Lorraine. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
Served with the German Army in the German Territories in Africa between 1884 and 1890. I do not know inwhich of the Territories he may have been during this period. Extracts from various articles state that Germanycame late to its colonial empire, acquiring Toga, Cameroon, German East Africa (present-day Tanzania) andGerman Southwest Africa (present-day Namibia) by 1885. The Berlin Conference, called in 1884 by GermanChancellor Otto von Bismarck, established African colonial boundaries. This empire would last only 35 years,until the end of World War I (1914-1918). (Note to File - JP Rhein)
Joseph Rhein and Louise Laeng Rhein were parishioners of St. Augustine Catholic Church, 37th Street,Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
"St. Augustine was founded in 1863 as a German ethnic parish. The origin of the parish can actually be traced tothe year 1854. Germans had been settling in Lawrenceville for a number of years. They attended St. Philomena toattend Mass and sent their children to school at either St. Philomena or the English school at St. Mary. Concernedwith the distance that the children had to walk to attend St. Philomena, local Catholics in cooperation with theRedemptorist Fathers at St. Philomena established a school in a Lawrenceville home. As the number of childrenattending the school increased, the school was moved to an unused storeroom and later to a community hall.
The school's first few years were unsettled. Various teachers came and went and the school discontinuedoperations for a brief period. Eventually, local German Catholics decided that the only way to have an effectiveschool was to establish a parish to oversee it. In 1860, a meeting was held to take steps to establish a parish andschool. In April of 1860, land was purchased for a parish.
Assisting in the development of the new parish was Fr. George Kircher, who had been appointed pastor of HolyTrinity in the Hill District in 1860. In 1861, he began working with the German Catholics in Lawrenceville toestablish an independent parish. In that year, the bishop granted permission to build a church for the Germans inLawrenceville. However, they first built a school which was dedicated on December 15, 1861. Beginning onFebruary 2, 1862, Mass was celebrated in the school.
On June 22, 1862 the cornerstone of the new church was laid. In December of that year a resident pastor wasassigned to the parish. The completed church was dedicated on November 26, 1863. By the end of the century,this church needed extensive repair and renovation. Rather than expend money on the existing building, the parishdecided to build a new church. The cornerstone of the new church was laid on October 29, 1899 and thecompleted church was dedicated on May 21, 1901. The old church was renovated and turned into a parish hall.Part of the tower was removed and the transepts were closed with a wall, This building was eventually tom downin 1955.
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Beginning in the middle of the twentieth century, people began moving from the city. By the 1990'sLawrenceville could no longer sustain the number of existing churches. In 1993, St. Augustine was merged withthree other parishes to form the new Our Lady of the Angels parish. St. Augustine church remains open andserves the new parish." (Souce - Diocese of Pittsburgh)
"As far back as 1854, a little school for German children of the neighborhood was being maintained in the homeof Franz Xavier Helbling opposite the Allegheny Cemetery on Butler Street. Gradually the people interestedorganized St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church and built a little schoolhouse on the hillside of Thirty-seventhStreet. The building served as a church also from its completion in 1862 until the fall of 1863 when a church wascompleted on Butler Street between Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Streets. The school was enlarged by diggingout beneath it and making it a two story building. Until 1874 the parish was in charge of a Capuchin monk. Inthat year other members of the order arrived and established St. Augustine Monastery, which is the mother houseof the St. Augustine Capuchin Province of Pennsylvania. There is also a convent in connection with the church."(Source - Volume 2, Pittsburgh of Today, Its Resources and People, by Frank C. Harper, New York, TheAmerican Historical Society, Inc., 1931-1932)
"About 1897 or 1898 there came to Pittsburgh a young man, John T. Comes who was given the commission ofpreparing drawings for a new church for St. Augustine Parish, Thirty-seventh Street. The completion of St.Augustine's Church in 1901 marked a new era in the history of ecclesiastical arts in the diocese. It was acclaimedas a masterpiece." (Source - Catholic Pittsburgh's One Hundred Years, Published under the patronage of HisExcellency the Most Reverend Hugh C. Boyle, Loyola University Press, Chicago, Ill., 1943)
St. Augustine (Lawrenceville, PA) Parish History
HISTORY OF ST. AUGUSTINE PARISH, Lawrenceville, Pa., 1863 -- 1988(Extracted from St. Augustine Parish 125th Anniversary Book, 1863-1988)
Lawrenceville could boast of only one landmark in 1860. That was the arsenal built as a result of the war of1812. Other than that, nothing stood out in Lawrenceville. Seventy new houses went up in the district in 1860,and Butler Street was paved, but the biggest thing that happened in Lawrenceville that year was a meeting. TheCatholic leaders of the area had been meeting off and on for several years trying to establish a school for theirchildren. Every time a teacher had to resign or a bigger classroom was needed, the people got together to workout their problem. But in 1860 the meeting was more important than usual. What the people wanted was a biggerschool. And this time their plans included a church. They drew up the Society of German Catholics ofLawrenceville. With the spirit of Captain Lawrence who died ordering his men: "Don't give up the ship," thepeople living in the Borough named after him were going to move ahead against all odds.
Along with loans, the committee sponsored one picnic after another to raise funds for building. As planscongealed they obtained a German-speaking priest to say Mass for them regularly. Father George Kircher nowbecame the organizer of the parish. First the school went up. While the church was under construction serviceswere held in the school. The first Mass in the school took place on February 2, 1862, with Vespers in theafternoon. Father Kircher had Charles Bartberger sketch the plans for the church September 29, 1861. Thecommittee approved the plans the next month. At that same meeting Mr. Landelin Vogel suggested that the parishshould select St. Augustine as its patron. The reason for the choice was not any special devotion to the saint, butrather a way of expressing recognition to Mr. Augustine Hoeveler, the leading organizer of Catholic activities inLawrenceville. Right from the start, the parish was blessed with strong leaders.
In other ways the parish was still very small. At the same meeting in which the patron was chosen, the members ofthe building association made a pledge of paying ten cents monthly to the church fund. By piling up their dimes,the parishioners eventually raised the twelve thousand dollars needed to build the first St. Augustine Church. Thecornerstone was laid June 22, 1862. Even before the church was under roof, in December of 1862, BishopDomenec appointed Father Franz Schmidt as the first resident pastor of the parish. In less than a year he had toresign because of bad health. Father John Nepomucene Tamchina, a missionary Capuchin, assumed theresponsibilities of pastor just two months before the dedication of the new church.
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Bishop Domenec blessed the church Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1863. Religious organizations fromPittsburgh and Allegheny marched in procession. The new church could seat 650. Its 150 foot tower faced ButlerStreet. It was of red brick Romanesque in style, a hundred feet long. Lawrenceville had a new landmark. Duringthe next ten years the parish was busy paying off its debts. The biggest achievement of those ten years was theestablishment of the means to keep the parish thriving for the future. Father Tamchina secured Sisters for theschool. From the founding of the school in 1854 lay teachers conducted the classes. For one reason or another anew teacher had to be found each September. The perennial problem sometimes led to hasty decisions and poorlyqualified teachers. But Father Tamchina resolved the difficulty in 1871. The Sisters of St. Francis were just eightblocks away. After they opened St. Francis Hospital in 1566 they began to accept teaching assignments in theGerman parishes. November 8, 1871 the Sisters took over the responsibilities of St. Augustine School. This wasthe kind of addition which was more important than a new building. The Catholic of that age were convinced thatSisters were the best teachers in the world. According to the chronicler, even the children rejoiced. The parishtook on its first Franciscanism. Just two years later, 1873, the Franciscan influence became an intimate feature ofthe parish. The Capuchin Fathers were invited to the parish November 7, 1873. They came from Germany.Bismarck was suppressing Religious Orders as part of his program to nationalize the state. The Capuchins weretold to prepare to leave.
While the Capuchins were being expelled from Bavaria, Bishop Domenec was searching for German-speakingpriests for his parishes. Thepersecution in Germany became a blessing for Pittsburgh. Father Hyacinth Epp, O.F.M. Cap., assumed thepastorate of St. Augustine's April 19,1874. From then on the parish reflected the atmosphere of a monasteryparish. Devotions and societies were those of the Capuchins. St. Augustine's was no longer an ordinary parish.Connected to it was the headquarters of a new province of Capuchins. This would set the decisions for parishes ina dozen states where the members of the province would minister. Less than a month after he became pastor, Fr.Hyacinth established the Third Order of St. Francis in the parish. The parish intensified its Franciscan flavor. Uptill then Third Order members who migrated from Germany retained their devotion to St. Francis, but now it wasorganized into a thriving fraternity. From the opening date the monthly meetings went on to the present. The onlychange made was that of language, for, originally, the sermons at the monthly meetings were in German.
Along with the spiritual growth of the parish, Father Hyacinth had to keep pace with the increase in members.Hundreds of families had torelocate when the Union Depot was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Many of the families moved toLawrenceville, with the result that St. Augustine Church had to be expanded. A hundred-foot transept was addedin 1874, according to plans drawn by Brother Eleutherius, one of the Capuchins who arrived with FatherHyacinth. At the time of enlarging the church, Brother also carved the main altar, the pulpit and the communionrail. After the remodeling, "St. Augustine's was considered one of the finest churches in Pittsburgh." It seated athousand. Brother Eleutherius planned to carve five altars in all, but he died before completing the task. He was avictim of smallpox June 18, 1877. Brother was the first of the Capuchins to be buried from St. Augustine's. Hewas thirty-eight years old. Another interesting friar of those early days was Father Maurice Greck, 0. F.M. Cap.Father Maurice had been an officer in the German army. He became the second Capuchin pastor of St.Augustine's.
In July, 1877, striking railroad employees led a riot in Lawrenceville. The militia tried to restore order but themob forced the soldiers to retreat. In the attempt one of the soldiers was wounded in front of St. Augustine'sChurch. The Fathers immediately slipped him through the church into the monastery, where they gave him firstaid and sent him to St. Francis Hospital. In the meantime the rioters tried to force their way into the monastery tocapture the soldier. It was at that point that Father Maurice relied on his training as an officer. He just stood inthe doorway with an air of authority and ordered the rioters away. They left without further protest.
By 1888 the growing population of Lawrenceville made a new school necessary for the parish. Father Mauricewas again pastor at the time. Each wage earner pledged fifteen dollars. March 3,1889, Bishop Phelan ofPittsburgh blessed the new school. The twelve-room building cost forty-five thousand dollars. Typical of the spiritof St. Augustine's, the school was one of the best equipped in the city. Newspaper clippings of the day referred toit as one of the most modern schools in western Pennsylvania. In addition to all the subjects taught in the publicschool, the parish school conducted extra classes in the German language, and, of course, courses in religion.
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During that same year a new monastery and rectory was completed, the present quarters of the Capuchins. Thethird floor of the present building was added in 1905. Ten years after the monastery was built the existing conventwas completed. The parish constantly demonstrated a thriving growth.
The present church came not so much from the need of expansion, but because the old church needed extensiverepairs. Father Charles Speckert, O.F.M. Cap., the pastor, called on Mrs. Mary Regina Frauenheim and herdaughter Miss Rose, to ask for a substantial contribution for the renovation of the church. The Frauenheim familyhad been bountiful toward the parish in the past. The pastor was hoping that they would now pay for windows forthe remodeling of the church. The ladies quietly objected that such an old building was notreally worth expensive windows. Father Charles teasingly remarked that if the good ladies were willing to donatethe small sum of fifty thousand dollars then he would do more than renovate; he could build a new, more beautifulchurch. It seemed almost a joke at the time. The debt in the parish was already thirty thousand dollars. But theFrauenheims did not take it as a joke. They asked for time to think about it. Mr. Aloysius Frauenheim called onFather Charles a few days later to pledge the fifty thousand dollars. With such generosity among the parishioners,the pastor could hardly refuse. Sixteen houses were cleared from the site where the church now stands. Theproperty alone absorbed the generous donation, costing more than forty-eight thousand dollars. Since the projectcame so spontaneously, no one really had an idea of what kind of church to build. So they looked around, tryingto find something they would like. One of the friars in the monastery came across a picture of St. Benno's Churchin Munich. It immediately caught the pastor's fancy. That was it, Mr. John T. Comes used the picture for a modelin sketching the new church. The plans looked good, but the lowest bid looked forbidding. With a dept of thirtythousand dollars hanging over the parish, contractors were asking another one hundred thousand for the newchurch. The Frauenheimfamily relieved the situation by donating another fifty thousand dollars.
Five thousand people attended the cornerstone laying ceremony. The parishioners' interest ran high all through theconstruction of thechurch. They seemed to count the layers of vitrified brick as the masons laid the walls. Layer after layer carriedthe walls to the climax of adome ninety-two feet from the floor of the church. The towers went on for fifty feet more, twin arms raised inprayer, reaching a hundred andforty-eight feet over Lawrenceville. When the towers extended their full salute to God, the last stone in place, thepeople and clergy dedicated their church May 12, 1901. A procession from the old church carried the BlessedSacrament over a flower strewn path to the new tabernacle. As the procession moved out from the church thebells clanged their farewell. Just as the last clang of the smaller bells faded the deep, musical bells of the newchurch welcomed the procession to the bigger, more beautiful house of God. Just eleven years later FatherIgnatius Weisbruch, 0. F.M. Cap., paid off the last portion of the building debt. The date can hardly seem veryremote to older parishioners who can still remember Fr. Ignatius.
Throughout the history of St. Augustine's the main theme which arises most often is change and the ability andadaptability of the physicalstructures as well as the parishioners to accept these changes. With the promulgation of the Apostolic Instruction,Custas Fidei, in April 1969, and Immensae Cartitatis on January 23, 1973, lay persons were given permission todistribute communion both during Mass and outside Mass. On December 1, 1974, the first Parish Council wasinstalled with the concept of finding an effective way of participation by the entire Christian community in themission of the Church. Today the Parish Council is now called the Council of Ministries and is comprised ofmany dedicated people who help keep the St. Augustine Community unified and filled with spiritual values. Theroots of St. Augustine's had been firmly planted a long time ago by many dedicated people who believed theCatholic faith was the center of their lives. These values have remained constant. Once again the parishionershave been asked to contribute to the renovation of St. Augustine Church. In this the 125th anniversary of St.Augustine Parish, we have again seen the generosity and unselfishness of the parishioners who made manysacrifices to fortify, maintain and preserve our structure for another 100 years as well as the faith values which theChurch symbolizes.
On October 23, 1958, the official celebration of the 125th anniversary occurred rededicating our church, ourParish, and ourselves toGod for now and for the future. There was a Liturgy of Thanksgiving at 11 am, celebrated by Bishop Donald W.
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Wuerl, followed by an informal reception in the Parish Hall for the entire parish family. The unity and Christianlove for one another are typical qualities of the Augustine community and can be summed up by a quote of St.Augustine himself: "The Kingdom of Heaven requires no other price than yourself, the value of it is yourself; giveYOURSELF to it and you shall have it."
(This history was taken in part from the St. Augustine Tour Book and from previous anniversary SouvenirBooks.)
More About JOSEPH RHEIN:Burial: 23 Mar 1927, St. Augustine Cemetery, Shaler Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania186
Census 1: 1910, Lists number of children as seven and number living as three.187
Census 2: 1900, List number of children as four and number living as two.Education: 1866, Mother's Christian name appears as Reine on the Act of Birth.188
Immigration 1: 04 May 1890, Departed Herrlisheim, the day following the wedding, for the United States.Immigration 2: 1890, Immigrated to United States of America settling in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,Pennsylvania.189
Naturalization 1: 26 Jan 1898, Admitted as a Citizen of the United States in Western District of Pennsylvania,United States of America. Resided at 3931 Howley Avenue, 16th Ward, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,Pennsylvania. Was a native of Germany and a subject of the Emperor of Germany.190
Naturalization 2: 11 Jul 1894, In the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County, Commonwealth ofPennsylvania declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States.190
Naturalization 3: 26 Jan 1898, Witness was John (Frisch?).Occupation 1: 1920, Janitor (school janitor at St. Augustine Parish, 35th Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,Pennsylvania)191
Occupation 2: 1900, Day laborer192
Residence 1: 1920, 4007 Mifflin (later changed to Mintwood) Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania193
Residence 2: 1898, 3931 Howley Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.194
Residence 3: 1900, 16th Ward, 3931 Cabinet Alley, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Dwellingnumber 58, Family number 73) Rented.195
Residence 4: 28 Apr 1910, 211 37th Street, Ward 6, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.196
Residence 5: Aft. 1911, 4007 Mintwood Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaWitness: 1866, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jacques Kientz, hostlier, and Dominique Henninger, labourer.197
More About JOSEPH RHEIN and LOUISE LAENG:Marriage: 03 May 1890, Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany197
Witness: 03 May 1890, Peter Rhein uncle of the bridegroom and Alexander Laeng, father of the bride.197
Children of LOUISE LAENG and JOSEPH RHEIN are:i. ROSA ANGELA8 RHEIN, b. 13 May 1891, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania198; d. Bef. 1900,
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
More About ROSA ANGELA RHEIN:Baptism 1: 17 May 1891, St. Augustine Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Wintesses198
Baptism 2: 17 May 1891, Name on baptismal record is Rosam Angelam Rhein.198
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Baptism 3: 17 May 1891, Reverend Father Gregorius Maria, OM Cap., officiated at the baptism.198
Baptism 4: 17 May 1891, Sponsers Marcus Laeng and Angela Mertzin.198
Fact1: Died in infancy.
ii. JOSEPH RHEIN, b. 10 Jul 1893, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania198; d. Bef. 1895, Pittsburgh,Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
More About JOSEPH RHEIN:Baptism 1: 23 Jul 1893, St. Augustine Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania198
Baptism 2: 23 Jul 1893, Name on baptismal record is Josephum Rhein.198
Baptism 3: 23 Jul 1893, Reverend Father Paulus, OM Cap., officiated at the baptism.198
Baptism 4: 23 Jul 1893, Witnesses Joseph and Maria Centner.198
Fact1: Died in infancy.
iii. JOSEPH PETER RHEIN, b. 16 Mar 1895, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania198; d. 11 Feb 1965,Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; m. MABEL FLORENCE MCKINNEY, 06 Aug 1924, St.Augustine Roman Catholic Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania199; b. 29 May 1901, Sligo,Clarion County, Pennsylvania; d. 07 Apr 1996, Sarasota, Sarasota County, Florida.
Notes for JOSEPH PETER RHEIN:FranceAugust 26, 1918
My Dear Brothers,
I hope you are as well and happy as I am. Things here are fine. Will have many interesting stories to tell youwhen I see you again. I hope it will not be too long a while. I hope work and study is agreeing with you twoand that you may do your best until I come back. The weather here is very nice and the place where I am at isone of the most beautiful I have ever seen.Wishing you the best of success. I am with love.Your brother,Joseph P. RheinOrd. Sgt.
320th Infantry Regiment of the 80th DivisionFrance 1918
NANTILLOIS (MEUSE-ARGONNE OFFENSIVE)
On the night of October 7th, the Regiment, with the First Battalion in front, took over the right half of a newDivisional Sector north of Montfaucon, and at three-thirty on the afternoon of October 9th, started to attack inthe Bois des Ogons under cover of a creeping barrage.Heavy machine gun resistance was encountered, but by morning the battalion had advanced two kilometersthrough difficult woods and reached the road running from Cunel to Brieulles. Concentrations of machine gunfire from all directions and of artillery fire, especially from batteries across the river, caused the battalion toentrench and to employ flanking and infiltrating tactics.The attack was continued the following morning in the wake of a rolling barrage, but nothing in the way ofartillery preparation seemed to interfere with the effectiveness of the German machine gun. It's fire from allangles was terrific and, though two companies were able to reach a small trench system some three hundredyards in advance of the road, they were later withdrawn under cover of the woods to avoid useless exposure.On the morning of October 11th, the attempt was made again, and this time an advance of another kilometerwas made and maintained in the face of a most determined resistance. That night, after fifty-five hours ofalmost constant fighting in an area drenched with gas and shelled by high explosives, the Regiment wasrelieved by troops of the Fifth Division and routed via Montfaucon and Avocourt to a bivouac area in theForet De Hesse. A line drawn from Montfaucon north through Nantillois to Ancreville represents the generaldirection taken by the 320th Infantry in what may be designated, from the Regimental standpoint, as theNantillois Phase of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.After several rainy days in the woods, the troops embussed and were taken to billets in an area just south ofthe Argonne Forest. Here, with Regimental Headquarters, Headquarters Company and Machine Gun and theThird at Passavant, the men obtained baths, various items of new clothing, rest, and, what seemed the most tobe desired, freedom from the ominous hum and burst of shells. The change was not for long, however, and onOctober 27th, the Regiment marched to the western approach of Triaucourt and there embussed in French
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camions for the Neuvilly area. The debussing took place at le Neufour, in the Argonne Forest, followed by afive kilometer march to bivouac in the. woods at la Chalade.
ST. JUVIN-ST. GEORGES (MEUSE-ARGONNE OFFENSIVE)
The Regiment remained there under ideal weather conditions until the night of October 30th, when it marchedvia le Four de Paris, la Barricade, Chatel Chehery, Fleville to support position southeast of St. Juvin in theDepartment of Ardennes. On the night of October 31st, the Eightieth Division relieved the Eighty-Second,and the Third Battalion formed along the St. Juvin-St. Georges Road in preparation for an attack at dawn.The barrage which opened at three-thirty a. M., was immediately followed by a destructive enemy counter-barrage placed along the St. Juvin-St. Georges Road. The battalion jumped off at five-forty-two a. M.,meeting intense machine gun fire from the very start. The German position on the far side of a ravine (auxPierres), with an unbroken field of fire, seemed impregnable. The fighting was of the most desperate orderduring the morning but the enemy's resistance was slowly but surely broken down. Further artillery supportwas given that night and, upon continuing the attack at five-fifteen a. M., November 2nd, the Regiment madesteady progress until relieved that morning. This day of November 1st marked the last of heavy fighting forthe Division and, in fact, for substantially the entire First American Army. When that day was over, the marchto the Rhine had actually begun. The Infantry, thereafter, could not keep pace with the retreating enemy andhis rearguard action was but feebly maintained during the following days that proved to be the last of the war.The Regiment, after relief, continued the march forward through Imecourt, Sivry, Buzancy, to a bivouac areain a woods twenty-five kilometers due south of historic Sedan.On November 8th, it began a march southward which developed into a two hundred kilometer tramp througha half dozen Departments to a southern training area. The line of march went through Marcq, Boisd'Apremont (Department of Ardennes), les Islettes (Meuse), Verrieres, Givry-en Argonne (Marne), Revigny,Baudonvilliers (Meuse), Villiersaux Bois, Dommartin, St. Pierre (Haute-Marne), Fontette, les Riceys (Aube)to a training area in the Department of Cote D'Or. (Source - 320th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division, McGraw-Phillips Printing Company, Inc., New York City.)
During the few months that the 320th Infantry Regiment fought in France in the late summer and fall of 1918they suffered the following killed in action or died of wounds.
Field Officers 1Headquarters Company 5Machine Gun Company 6Medical Detachment 5Company A 28Company B 19Company C 36Company D 19Company E 16Company F 11Company G 12Company H 23Company I 25Company K 20Company L 38Company M 16
HEADQUARTERS, EIGHTIETH DIVISION AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
GENERAL ORDERFRANCE, Ilth November, 1918.
No. 19
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE 80TH DIVISION
The 80th Division only moves FORWARD.
It not only moves forward against the Enemy, but it moves forward in the estimation of all who are capable ofjudging its courage, its fighting and its many qualities.
In the operations for the period November Ist-5th, the Division moved forward fifteen and five eighths milesin an air line.
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It always led.
It captured two Huns for every man wounded.
It captured one machine gun for every man wounded.
It captured one cannon for every ten men wounded, besides large quantities of munitions and other stores.
It accomplished these results, of vast importance to the success of the general operation, with a far smallerpercentage of casualties than any other Division engaged.
It has learned by hard training and experience.
The appreciation of the Corps and Army Commanders is expressed in the following:
Telegram from the Commanding General, First Army:
"The Army Commander desires that you inform the Commander of the 80th Division of the ArmyCommander's appreciation of his excellent work during the battle of today. He desires that you have thisinformation sent to all organizations of that Division as far as may be practicable this night. He fully realizesthe striking blow your Division has delivered to the enemy this date."
Telegram from the Commanding General, First Army Corps:
"The Corps Commander is particularly pleased with the persistent, intelligent work accomplished by yourDivision today. He is further desirous that his congratulations and appreciation reach General LLOYD M.BRETT, commanding your Brigade, which has bome the brunt of the burden."
Letter from the Commanding General, First 4rmy Corps:
"The Corps Commander desires that you be informed, and that those under your command be informed, thatin addition to other well deserved commendations received from the Army Commander and the CorpsCommander, he wishes to express his particular gratification and appreciation of the work of your Divisionfrom the time it has entered under his command."
It is necessarily a great honor to be allowed to command an organization which earns such commendation.
It is likewise a great honor to belong to such an organization.
1 do not know what the future has in store for us. If it be war, we must and shall sustain our honor and ourreputation by giving our best to complete the salvation of our Country.
If it be peace, we must and shall maintain our reputation and the honor of our Division and the Army, assoldiers of the greatest country on earth, and as right-minded, self respecting men.
The 80th Division only moves FORWARD.
A. CRONKHITE, Major General.
(Source - 320th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division, McGraw Phillips Printing Company, Inc., New York City)
The World War I Meuse-Argonne American Cenetery and Memorial is located east of the village of Romagne-sons-Montfaucon (Meuse), France and about twenty-six miles northwest of Verdun. Meuse-Argonne,covering one hundred and thirty acres, holds the largest number of American Dead in Europe, a total of14,246. Most of those buried here gave their lives during the Meuse Argonne Offensive in World War I. Theimmense array of headstones rises in rectangular rows upwards beyond a wide central pool to the chapelwhich crowns a ridge. A beautiful bronze screen separates the chapel foyer from the rows upward beyond awide central pool to the chapel which crowns a ridge.
American Expeditionary Forces80th Division
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Nickname - "Blue Ridge" Division.
Background
National Army Division established by the War Department on 5 Aug 17 to beestablished at Camp Lee, VA. Draftees were from Pennsylvania, Virginia and WestVirginia. Movement overseas commenced on 17 May 18 and was completed by 9 Jun18.
Primary Units159th Infantry Brigade:317th Infantry Regiment318th Infantry Regiment313th Machine Gun Battalion
160th Infantry Brigade:319th Infantry Regiment320th Infantry Regiment315th Machine Gun Battalion
155th Field Artillery Brigade:313th Field Artillery Regiment (75mm)314th Field Artillery Regiment (75mm)315th Field Artillery Regiment (155mm)305th Trench Mortar Battery
Divisional Troops:314th Machine Gun Battalion305th Engineer Regiment305th Field Signal Battalion305th Train Headquarters and MP305th Ammunition Train305th Supply Train305th Engineer Train305th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies & Field Hospitals 317, 318, 319, 320)
Campaign Participation
Campaign Streamers (most units): Somme Offensive Meuse-Argonne Picardy 155th Field Artillery Brigade & 305th Ammunition Train: Meuse-Argonne only U. S. Victory Medal Clasps: Defensive Sector Meuse-Argonne
"The commander of the American Expeditionary Force, General John I. Pershing, fixed the Army division at979 officers, 27,082 men (about 40,000 all told), including support personnel. Pershing created this division -which was more than twice the size of its European counterpart - to acheive a capacity for sustained battlewhich would ensure that American divisions would not falter short of their objectives as British and Frenchdivisions so often had done. A division with fewer but larger regiments would facilitate a more reasonablespan of control and battle momentum. Similar to - albeit larger than - early European "square designs, theAmerican square division consisted of two infantry brigades of two regiments each, one field artillery brigade(two 75-mm regiments, one 155-mm regiment) an engineer regiment, a machine gun battalion, a signalbattalion, and division supply, and sanitary trains. Each regiment had the strength of 112 officers and 3,720men formed into three battalions and one machine gun company. Each battalion consisted of four companiesof six officers and 250 men each." (Source - The U.S. Army in the Twentieth Century)
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More About JOSEPH PETER RHEIN:Baptism 1: 31 Mar 1895, St. Augustine Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania200
Baptism 2: 31 Mar 1895, Name on baptismal record in Latin is Josephum Petrum Rhein.200
Baptism 3: 31 Mar 1895, Reverend Father Gregorius Maria, OM Cap., officiated at the baptism.200
Baptism 4: 31 Mar 1895, Witnesses Peter Centner and Emma Pfeil.200
Burial: Feb 1965, St. Augustine Cemetery, Shaler Township, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaMilitary service 1: 27 Aug 1917, Called for Military Service of the United States (Examination of Notice ofCertification dated August 28, 1917)Military service 2: 1918, The 80th Division at full strength when it sailed for France totalled 23,000 men. Itwas constituted August 5, 1917 and inacivated at Camp Lee, Virginia on June 26, 1919.Military service 3: 31 May 1918, Arrived in France as Ordnance Sergeant with Ordance Company of 320thInfantry Regiment of the 160th Infantry Brigade of the 80th (Blue Ridge) Division.Military service 4: 12 Sep 1918, Assisted the Second Cavalry Division of the French Second Colonial Corpsin pushing the enemy on the western face of the St. Mihiel salient.201
Military service 5: 25 Sep 1918, Fought at Bethincourt in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.201
Military service 6: 07 Oct 1918, Fought at Nantillois in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.201
Military service 7: 30 Oct 1918, Fought at St. Julvin-St. Georges in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.201
Military service 8: 01 Dec 1918, Authorized to wear War Service Chervon.Military service 9: 28 Feb 1919, Went on two weeks leave to visit Lyon, France.Military service 10: 20 May 1919, Departed Brest, France for New York City on the U.S.S. Mobile (formerlySteamship Cleveland of the Hamburg American Line) arriving May 30th.201
Military service 11: 01 Jan 1925, Received $1,577.00 pursuant to World War Adjusted Compensation Act(Examination of Adjusted Service Certificate)Occupation 1: 1920, Insurance Agent202
Occupation 2: Bet. 1925 - 1960, Part owner of Art Building Specialty Company, Pittsburgh.Time Line: 11 Nov 1918, World War I ends at 11 AM.
More About MABEL FLORENCE MCKINNEY:Burial: 13 Apr 1996, Buried in St. Augustine Cemetery, Shaler Township Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaEducation: 1895, Sligo had a population of 495, railroad service, a post office and an express station.
More About JOSEPH RHEIN and MABEL MCKINNEY:Marriage: 06 Aug 1924, St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,Pennsylvania203
Minister: 06 Aug 1924, Father Philip, O.M. Cap.Witness: 06 Aug 1924, Cora Lutz and Stephen Wioris(?).
iv. ALOYSIUS RALPH RHEIN, b. 01 Feb 1900, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania204; d. Jun 1978,Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania204; m. STELLA L. RITZEL; b. 06 Mar 1907205; d. Aug 1980,Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania205.
Notes for ALOYSIUS RALPH RHEIN:[Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security DeathIndex, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: Mar 28, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.54022.178]
Individual: Rhein, AloysiusBirth date: Feb 1, 1900Death date: Jun 1978Social Security #: 190-05-3152Last residence: PA 15201State of issue: PA
More About ALOYSIUS RALPH RHEIN:Baptism 1: 11 Feb 1900, St. Augustine Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania206
Baptism 2: 11 Feb 1900, Name on baptismal record is Aloysium Raphaelem Rhein.206
Baptism 3: 11 Feb 1900, Reverend Father Gregorius Maria, OM Cap., officiated at the baptism.207
Baptism 4: 11 Feb 1900, Witnesses Marcus Laeng and Margaret Centner.208
Occupation: 1920, Laborer in Steel Mill209
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Social Security Number 1: Aft. 1937, Social Security #: 190-05-3152210
Social Security Number 2: Aft. 1937, Last residence: PA 15201210
Social Security Number 3: Aft. 1937, State of issue: PA210
Notes for STELLA L. RITZEL:[Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security DeathIndex, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: Mar 28, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.54024.152]
Individual: Rhein, StellaBirth date: Mar 6, 1907Death date: Aug 1980Social Security #: 167-07-1381Last residence: PA 15201State of issue: PAZip of last payment: 15224
In the 1930 Federal Census for Pennsylvania Stella Ritzel is residing with her sister, Anna and her husbandFred W. Lang in Osweago Street in the 27th Ward of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Alsoresiding in the household are her brothers Edward H. and Richard T. Stella's occupation is listed as sales ladyin grocery store.
v. INFANT RHEIN, b. Aft. 1900, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; d. Bef. 1910, Pittsburgh,Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
vi. LOUISA MARIA RHEIN, b. 19 Aug 1902, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania211; d. Bef. 1910,Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
More About LOUISA MARIA RHEIN:Baptism 1: 31 Aug 1902, St. Augustine Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania212
Baptism 2: 31 Aug 1902, Name on baptismal record is Louisam Mariam Rhein212
Baptism 3: 31 Aug 1902, Reverend Father Augustin M., OM Cap., officiated at the baptism.Baptism 4: 31 Aug 1902, Witnesses Carl Geiss and Maria Centner212
Fact1: Died in infancy.
vii. ANTHONY JOSEPH RHEIN, b. 14 Jul 1905, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania213; d. 08 Dec 1982,Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania213; m. (1) ELIZABETH ANNA WALTERS, 19 Aug 1931, St.Augustine Roman Catholic Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; b. 1909, Pittsburgh,Allegheny County, Pennsylvania214; d. 1943, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; m. (2) WINIFREDREGINA SMITH, 03 Oct 1945, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; b. 28 Sep 1912, Pittsburgh,Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; d. 1996, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Notes for ANTHONY JOSEPH RHEIN:[Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security DeathIndex, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: Mar 28, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.54022.194]
Individual: Rhein, AnthonyBirth date: Jul 14, 1905Death date: Dec 1982Social Security #: 209-05-4322Last residence: PA 15224State of issue: PA
More About ANTHONY JOSEPH RHEIN:Baptism: 23 Jul 1905, St. Augustine Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Father Ernest,O.M. Cap., Assistant Pastor. Sponsors, Anton Metzler, age 36 and his wife, Agnes Metzler, age 39. Theyresided on Thirthy Eight Street in the 15th Ward.215
Burial: Dec 1982, St. Augustine Cemetery, Shaler Township, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaEducation: Last residence: PA 15224 (4007 Mintwood Street)216
Occupation: 1920, Office Boy - Law Office217
More About ELIZABETH ANNA WALTERS:Burial: 1943, St. Augustine Cemetery, Shaler Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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Medical Information: Died during pregancy, infant Rhein did not survive. (Note to File - JP Rhein)Occupation: 1930, Stenographer
More About ANTHONY RHEIN and ELIZABETH WALTERS:Marriage: 19 Aug 1931, St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaMarriage license: Number 14357Minister: Reverend Father Cecil Nally, O.M Cap.
More About WINIFRED REGINA SMITH:Date born 2: 1741 Jancey Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, S. W. S. Dinsmore, attending physican.Burial: 1996, St. Augustine Cemetery, Shaler Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
More About ANTHONY RHEIN and WINIFRED SMITH:Marriage: 03 Oct 1945, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
36. MARY KATHARINE7 LAENG (MARCUS6, JEAN MICHEL5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) wasborn 15 Jun 1861 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and died 24 Aug 1924 in New Washington,Cranberry Township, Crawford County, Ohio. She married JAMES MCCARTHY Bet. 1881 - 1887. He was born24 Jun 1846 in New Washington, Cranberry Township, Crawford County, Ohio, and died 26 Jun 1930.
More About MARY KATHARINE LAENG:Baptism 1: 23 Jun 1861, Holy Trinity, Lower Hill District, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania218
Baptism 2: 23 Jun 1861, Sponsers were Peter Zentner and M. Kath Dollinger.218
Burial: New Washington Cemetery, Crawford County, OhioCensus: 1900, Federal Census for Ohio recorded seven children born - six living.
Notes for JAMES MCCARTHY:I believe this was the farm in Ohio that my Father, Joseph Peter Rhein, spent the better part of the summer whenhe was in his late teans around 1914 to 1915. See pictures of the farm in the scrapbook section for Joseph PeterRhein. (Note to File - J.P. Rhein)
More About JAMES MCCARTHY:Burial: 1930, New Washington Cemetery, New Washington, Crawford County, OhioCensus: 1900, 1900 Federal Census for Ohio - was a farmer in New Washington Village, Cranberry Township,Crawford County, Ohio. Rented. His father was born in Ireland and his mother in New York.
More About JAMES MCCARTHY and MARY LAENG:Marriage: Bet. 1881 - 1887
Children of MARY LAENG and JAMES MCCARTHY are:i. FRANCIS LAWRENCE8 MCCARTHY, b. 17 Oct 1888219; d. 14 May 1913.
ii. EDWARD FLORENCE MCCARTHY, b. 18 Jan 1890219; d. 26 Nov 1925.iii. ALOYSIUS FIDELIS MCCARTHY, b. 25 Dec 1891, New Washington, Crawford County, Ohio219; d. 16 Mar
1924; m. MAGDALENE ESCHENBRENNER, 10 Oct 1922, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Tiffin, Seneca County,Ohio; b. 26 Nov 1895, Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio; d. 04 Nov 1924.
More About ALOYSIUS FIDELIS MCCARTHY:Burial: Mar 1924, New Washington Cemetery, New Washington, Crawford County, Ohio
More About MAGDALENE ESCHENBRENNER:Burial: 1924, St. Joseph Cemetery, Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio
More About ALOYSIUS MCCARTHY and MAGDALENE ESCHENBRENNER:Marriage: 10 Oct 1922, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio
iv. CLEMENT BERNARD MCCARTHY, b. 07 Jul 1893219; d. Abt. 1974; m. MARY E. HILL.v. THERESA PHILOMENA MCCARTHY, b. 21 Apr 1895, New Washington, Ohio219; d. 19 Aug 1973, Tiffin,
Seneca County, Ohio; m. LAWRENCE SYLVESTER WILHELM, 13 Jun 1932, St. Peter's Catholic Church,Mansfield, Ohio; b. 08 Oct 1895, St. Stephens, Ohio; d. 21 Jun 1972, Tiffin, Ohio.
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More About LAWRENCE SYLVESTER WILHELM:Burial: St. Peter's Church, Mansfield, Ohio
More About LAWRENCE WILHELM and THERESA MCCARTHY:Marriage: 13 Jun 1932, St. Peter's Catholic Church, Mansfield, Ohio
vi. JOSEPHINE MARY MCCARTHY, b. 23 Dec 1896; d. 26 Dec 1896.
More About JOSEPHINE MARY MCCARTHY:Burial: 28 Dec 1896
vii. FREDERICK INGATIUS MCCARTHY, b. 19 Dec 1898219; m. STELLA ???.viii. LEO JOSEPH JAMES MCCARTHY, b. 03 Mar 1901, New Washington, Crawford County, Ohio; d. 16 May
1923.
More About LEO JOSEPH JAMES MCCARTHY:Education: Died young.
ix. CECELIA IRENE MCCARTHY, b. 01 Aug 1904; d. 15 Nov 1952; m. WILLIAM FRANCIS RATHBURN.x. RICHARD MCCARTHY, b. 31 Mar 1906; d. 02 Apr 1906.
37. JOSEPH IGNATIUS7 LAENG (MARCUS6, JEAN MICHEL5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) wasborn 01 Feb 1865 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and died 07 Dec 1931 in Crestline, CrawfordCounty, Ohio. He married (1) ANNA KREIM Abt. 1890. She was born 22 Feb 1869. He married (2) MARYELIZABETH BOUVIER 29 Oct 1901 in Antwerp, Pauding County, Ohio220. She was born 17 Jul 1878 in Antwerp,Paulding County, Ohio, and died 05 Sep 1946 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio.
Notes for JOSEPH IGNATIUS LAENG:Information on this line was taken from Family TreeMaker Volume 73, Tree 1214, submitted by Caryl A.Densley, Canby, Oregon. (Note to File - J.P. Rhein)
More About JOSEPH IGNATIUS LAENG:Burial: 08 Dec 1931, St. Joseph Cemetery, Crestline, Crawford County, Ohio220
More About JOSEPH LAENG and ANNA KREIM:Marriage: Abt. 1890
More About MARY ELIZABETH BOUVIER:Burial: 07 Sep 1946, St. Joseph Cemetery, Crestline, Crawford County, Ohio220
More About JOSEPH LAENG and MARY BOUVIER:Marriage: 29 Oct 1901, Antwerp, Pauding County, Ohio220
Children of JOSEPH LAENG and ANNA KREIM are:i. WALTER8 LAENG, b. Apr 1892, Crestline, Crawford County, Ohio.
ii. ANNE LAENG, b. Jul 1894, Crestline, Crawford County, Ohio.
Children of JOSEPH LAENG and MARY BOUVIER are:iii. JENNIEVA8 LAENG, b. 1903.iv. ALICE LAENG, b. 1905.v. MARY GERTRUDE LAENG, b. 30 Aug 1906, Crestline, Crawford County, Ohio; d. 18 Mar 1992, San
Bernardino County, California; m. RALPH JONES; b. 28 Jan 1906, Kansas; d. 19 Sep 1980, Duarte,California.
vi. CLARENCE LAENG, b. 1911; d. 1962.vii. JOSEPH IGNATIUS LAENG, JR., b. 18 Dec 1918, Crestline, Crawford County, Ohio; d. 23 Oct 1974,
Compton, Los Angeles County, California; m. SARAH SALOME BAYLOR, 18 Oct 1940, Norwalk, HuronCounty, Ohio; b. 31 Aug 1921, Galion, Crawford County, Ohio; d. 29 Dec 1970, Long Beach, Los Angeles
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County, California.
More About JOSEPH IGNATIUS LAENG, JR.:Burial: 28 Oct 1974, All Souls Cemetery, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California
More About SARAH SALOME BAYLOR:Burial: 04 Jan 1971, All Souls Cemetery, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California
More About JOSEPH LAENG and SARAH BAYLOR:Marriage: 18 Oct 1940, Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio
38. MARIA MARGARET7 LAENG (MARCUS6, JEAN MICHEL5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) wasborn 26 May 1867 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and died 10 Nov 1937 in Bloom Township,Seneca County, Ohio. She married FRANK C. DANNEMILLER 1887 in New Washington, Crawford County, Ohio,son of JEAN DANNEMILLER and MARIE GROSS. He was born 04 Dec 1862 in Stark County, Ohio, and died 25Feb 1950 in Seneca County, Ohio.
More About MARIA MARGARET LAENG:Burial: St. Stephen Cemetery, Bloom Township, Seneca County, Ohio
Notes for FRANK C. DANNEMILLER:F.C. Dannemiller Funeral Tuesday. Died Saturday in Daughter's Home.
Frank C. Dannemiller, 87, retired farmer, died at 9:35 p.m. Saturday, Feb 25, 1950, in the home of his daughter,Mrs. Roman Dentinger, near St. Stephens. He had been in failing health for the last six weeks. Mr. Dannemillerwas born in Stark County, Dec. 4, 1862, to Henry and Mary Dannemiller. He is survived by three daughters, MissMinnie M. Dannemiller, Tiffm; Mrs. John Ball, Bloomville; and Mrs. Roman Dentinger, St. Stephens; and 10grandchildren and one great grandchild. His wife and one daughter are deceased. Funeral services will be held at9:30 a.m. Tuesday in St. Stephens's Catholic church and will be conducted by the Rev. R.L. Monnin. Burial willbe made in the parish cemetery. Friends may call at the home of Mrs. John Ball, near Bloomville.
Jane Losey advised me on August 22, 2004 that she had seen a postcard in the records of her mother's sister thatcontained a postcard addressed to Mr. and and Mrs. Frank Dannemiller, dated May 31, 1916, Millvale,Pennsylvania from Jos. Rhein. She is to let me know if she comes across that postcard. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
More About FRANK C. DANNEMILLER:Burial: Feb 1950, St. Stephen Cemetery, Bloom Township, Seneca County, Ohio
More About FRANK DANNEMILLER and MARIA LAENG:Marriage: 1887, New Washington, Crawford County, Ohio
Children of MARIA LAENG and FRANK DANNEMILLER are:i. PHILOMENA M.8 DANNEMILLER, b. 14 Sep 1889; d. 15 Jul 1972.
ii. DORA DANNEMILLER, b. 06 Dec 1891.iii. ROSE MARY DANNEMILLER, b. 22 May 1894; d. 04 Apr 1954; m. JOHN CORNELIUS BALL, 02 Sep 1919,
St. Stephens, Seneca County, Ohio; b. 02 Jul 1882, St. Stephens, Bloom Township, Seneca County, Ohio; d.04 Jun 1958, Bloomville, Ohio.
More About JOHN BALL and ROSE DANNEMILLER:Marriage: 02 Sep 1919, St. Stephens, Seneca County, Ohio
iv. AGNES CECELIA DANNEMILLER, b. 29 Jun 1896, Bloom Township, Seneca County, Ohio; d. 23 Aug 1974;m. ROMAN DENTINGER; b. 1898; d. 1982.
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39. WILLIAM7 SWEET (BALBINE6 LAENG, JEAN MICHEL5, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) wasborn Jan 1878 in Maine221. He married SADIE ???221. She was born 1882.
More About WILLIAM SWEET:Census: 1900, Appears of the 1900 Federal Census in Stonington Town (Palmer Street), New London County,Rhode Island. Father born in Rhode Island and mother in France. Occupation is Machinist. His mother BalbinaLaeng Sweet appears three lines above.
Child of WILLIAM SWEET and SADIE ??? is:i. WALTER8 SWEET.
40. BALBINA7 KISTLER (ALOISE6, MARIA ANNA5 LAENG, PHILIPPE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) wasborn 12 Jul 1849 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, France. She married PIERRE THOMAS II, son of PIERRETHOMAS and MARIE NOE. He was born 30 Oct 1849 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, France.
Children of BALBINA KISTLER and PIERRE THOMAS are:i. EUGENE8 THOMAS, b. 13 Jul 1875, Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany.
ii. JOSEPH THOMAS, b. 09 Apr 1877, Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany; m. MADELEINE SCHONN; b. 02Nov 1878, Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany.
iii. JEAN BAPTISTE THOMAS, b. 21 Sep 1879, Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany.
41. ALEXE7 CLAMER (MARIE LOUISE6 LAENG, MATHIEU5, MELCHIOR4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) wasborn 09 Sep 1848 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France222. He married MARIE HENRIETTAJOSEPH HORNET 05 May 1873 in Comines, France222. She was born 08 Nov 1850 in Comines, France222, anddied 29 Oct 1894 in Quesnoy sur Dele, France222.
More About ALEXE CLAMER and MARIE HORNET:Marriage: 05 May 1873, Comines, France222
Child of ALEXE CLAMER and MARIE HORNET is:i. HENRI ALBERT8 CLAMER, b. 25 Sep 1879, La Chapelle d'Amrenties, France222; d. 29 Nov 1965, Marcq en
Baroeul, France222; m. THEODOSIE MARIE LEVALLOIS; b. 17 Apr 1882, Chreng, France222; d. 05 Feb 1965,Marcq en Baroeul, France222.
42. CHARLES7 LAENG (MATHIEU6, JEAN GEORGES5, ANTOINE4, JEAN GEORGES3, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) was born10 Jun 1879 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany223, and died 02 Aug 1915223. He marriedMARIE LOUISE RHEIN 11 Jun 1914 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany lsace,France223, daughter of PIERRE RHEIN and THERESE BECKER. She was born 03 Nov 1887 in Commune deHerrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany223, and died 04 Aug 1965 in Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, France223.
More About CHARLES LAENG and MARIE RHEIN:Marriage: 11 Jun 1914, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany lsace, France223
Child of CHARLES LAENG and MARIE RHEIN is:i. MARIE MADELEINE8 LAENG, b. 17 Dec 1914, Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany223; d. 09
Aug 1987, Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, France223; m. MARIN WENGER223, 29 Jan 1938, Schiltigheim223.
More About MARIN WENGER and MARIE LAENG:Marriage: 29 Jan 1938, Schiltigheim223
43. PIERRE7 RHEIN (JACQUES6, MARIE ANNE5 KISTLER, ROSINE4 HERRMANN, CHRISTINE3 LAENG, GEORGES2,DORSCH1) was born 11 Aug 1862 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France224, and died 19 Mar1929 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France225. He married THERESE BECKER 01 Mar 1886
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in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France225, daughter of THIBAUD BECKER and MARIEFRITSCH. She was born 14 Jan 1865 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France225, and died 10Nov 1932 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France225.
More About PIERRE RHEIN:Education: 1862, Mother's christian name was Reine on the Act of Birth.226
Witness 1: 1862, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jean George Adam and Louis Pfaadt. 226
Witness 2: 03 May 1890, Was a witness at the wedding of Joseph Rhein to Louise Laeng in Herrlisheim.226
More About PIERRE RHEIN and THERESE BECKER:Marriage: 01 Mar 1886, Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France227
Children of PIERRE RHEIN and THERESE BECKER are:i. MARIE8 RHEIN227, b. 1886; m. JEAN MARTY227.
ii. MARIE LOUISE RHEIN, b. 03 Nov 1887, Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany227; d. 04 Aug1965, Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, France227; m. (1) CHARLES LAENG, 11 Jun 1914, Commune de Herrlisheim,Bas-Rhin, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany lsace, France227; b. 10 Jun 1879, Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany227; d. 02 Aug 1915227; m. (2) JOSEPH KIEFFER227, 30 Jul 1919, Bischeim, Bas-Rhin,France227.
More About CHARLES LAENG and MARIE RHEIN:Marriage: 11 Jun 1914, Commune de Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany lsace, France227
More About JOSEPH KIEFFER and MARIE RHEIN:Marriage: 30 Jul 1919, Bischeim, Bas-Rhin, France227
iii. ANGELE RHEIN227, b. 1893; m. ??? DELDEMME227.iv. CHARLES RHEIN227, b. 1895; d. 1944, Forbach; m. ??? PHILIPPS.v. MATHILDE RHEIN227, b. 06 Jun 1896; d. Apr 1971; m. JOSEPH WENGER227, 09 Nov 1943, Herrlisheim, Bas-
Rhin, France227.
More About JOSEPH WENGER and MATHILDE RHEIN:Marriage: 09 Nov 1943, Herrlisheim, Bas-Rhin, France227
vi. JOSEPH RHEIN227, b. 1899; d. 1950, Paris, France; m. CATHERINE SCHIFF227.vii. EUGENE RHEIN227, b. Abt. 1900.
viii. PAUL RHEIN227, b. 1904; m. BERTHE STADELMANN227.ix. JACQUES RHEIN227, b. 1908; d. 20 Apr 1944, Paris, France.
44. JOSEPH7 RHEIN (JACQUES6, MARIE ANNE5 KISTLER, ROSINE4 HERRMANN, CHRISTINE3 LAENG, GEORGES2,DORSCH1) was born 13 Apr 1866 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France, later Alsace-Lorraine, Germany228, and died 19 Mar 1927 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania229. He marriedLOUISE LAENG 03 May 1890 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany230, daughter ofALEXANDRE LAENG and FRANCOISE PFAADT. She was born 15 May 1866 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Strasbourg, Bas Rhin, France, later Alsace-Lorraine, Germany231, and died 11 Dec 1954 in Pittsburgh, AlleghenyCounty, Pennsylvania232.
Notes for JOSEPH RHEIN:Education in Alsace-Lorraine
An ordinance, dated 18 April, 1871, and issued by Count von Bismarck-Bohlen, Governor-General of Alsace,obliges every child, on reaching the age of six, to attend either a public or a private school, unless equivalentprovision shall be made in the family itself. School attendance continues to be obligatory until the finalexamination, which, for boys, takes place at the age of fourteen, for girls at thirteen. The law of 12 Februaryplaced all lower and higher education under the supervision and control of the State authorities. "In all schools,"so runs the ordinance of the Imperial Statthalter (Governor), dated 16 November, 1887 "religion, morality,respect for the State and the laws shall be inculcated by means of teaching and education." The normal curriculumof elementary schools comprises religion, German, arithmetic, geometry, drawing, history, geography, natural
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history, natural science, singing, carpentry, and feminine handicrafts. The following are charged with the localsupervision of each elementary school: the burgomaster, the Catholic priest, the Protestant pastor, the delegate ofthe Jewish religion and, in parishes of more than 2,000 souls, one or more residents appointed thereto by thePresident of the district. The clergy are especially charged with the supervision of the religious instruction givenby the teachers in the schools; they have, besides, the right of entering the schools at all times. The greaternumber of public elementary schools are denominational. Most of the masters are laymen; most of the mistresses,sisters of some teaching order. These communities, whose members teach in public, State, and municipal schools,also maintain private elementary, intermediate, and higher girls' schools. (Source - Catholic Encyclopedia
Immigration
Joseph Rhein and Louise Laeng arrived Port of New York on May 20, 1890 from Le Havre on La Champagne, L.Boyer as Ship's Master. Joseph is passenger number 808, farmer, and Louise (surname spelled Lang) is passengernumber 197, no occupation, travelling 3rd class. I am unable to explain as to why her maiden name is listed onthe ship's manifest, other than possibly she obtained her authorization to immigrate prior to the date of theirmarriage. (Source - Examination of copy of the ship manifest, New York Passenger Lists, 1851-1891, microfilmroll 548, List number 689)
The ship La Champagne was a 7,087 gross ton vessel, length 493.4 ft x beam 51.8 ft, two funnels, four masts,single screw and a speed of 17 knots. Accommodation for 390 - 1st, 65 - 2nd and 600 3rd class passengers. Builtby COT, St. Nazaire, she was launched for Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Lines) on May 15,1885. Her maiden voyage started on May 22, 1886 when she left Havre for New York. On August 7, 1887 shecollided with and sank the French ship Ville de Rio Janeiro, sustaining serious damage herself. Rebuilt in 1896with two masts, new engines and her 3rd class accommodations increased to 1,500. On February 17, 1898 shefractured her propeller shaft and drifted until February 23rd, when she was sighted by the Warren Liner Romanwho towed her to Halifax. Her last Le Havre to New York sailing started on January 21, 1905 and she was thentransferred to the Mexican service. She resumed Havre - New York for two round voyages in March and April1906 and then returned to the Mexico service. In 1913 she was transferred to St. Nazaire - Panama sailings and onMay 28, 1915 stranded at St. Nazaire and broke her back. (Source - North Atlantic Seaway by N. R. P. Bonsor,volume 2, page 656)
Other
The Certificate of Death for Joseph Rhein lists his father as Jacob Rhein and his mother as Regina Kistler. Itstates that Joseph was born in Lorraine. I suspect that Louise Laeng Rhein gave his place of birth as Alsace-Lorraine, which is the way she always described where they were from in Germany, and the person completingthe death certificate elected to enter only Lorraine. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
Served with the German Army in the German Territories in Africa between 1884 and 1890. I do not know inwhich of the Territories he may have been during this period. Extracts from various articles state that Germanycame late to its colonial empire, acquiring Toga, Cameroon, German East Africa (present-day Tanzania) andGerman Southwest Africa (present-day Namibia) by 1885. The Berlin Conference, called in 1884 by GermanChancellor Otto von Bismarck, established African colonial boundaries. This empire would last only 35 years,until the end of World War I (1914-1918). (Note to File - JP Rhein)
Joseph Rhein and Louise Laeng Rhein were parishioners of St. Augustine Catholic Church, 37th Street,Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
"St. Augustine was founded in 1863 as a German ethnic parish. The origin of the parish can actually be traced tothe year 1854. Germans had been settling in Lawrenceville for a number of years. They attended St. Philomena toattend Mass and sent their children to school at either St. Philomena or the English school at St. Mary. Concernedwith the distance that the children had to walk to attend St. Philomena, local Catholics in cooperation with theRedemptorist Fathers at St. Philomena established a school in a Lawrenceville home. As the number of childrenattending the school increased, the school was moved to an unused storeroom and later to a community hall.
The school's first few years were unsettled. Various teachers came and went and the school discontinued
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operations for a brief period. Eventually, local German Catholics decided that the only way to have an effectiveschool was to establish a parish to oversee it. In 1860, a meeting was held to take steps to establish a parish andschool. In April of 1860, land was purchased for a parish.
Assisting in the development of the new parish was Fr. George Kircher, who had been appointed pastor of HolyTrinity in the Hill District in 1860. In 1861, he began working with the German Catholics in Lawrenceville toestablish an independent parish. In that year, the bishop granted permission to build a church for the Germans inLawrenceville. However, they first built a school which was dedicated on December 15, 1861. Beginning onFebruary 2, 1862, Mass was celebrated in the school.
On June 22, 1862 the cornerstone of the new church was laid. In December of that year a resident pastor wasassigned to the parish. The completed church was dedicated on November 26, 1863. By the end of the century,this church needed extensive repair and renovation. Rather than expend money on the existing building, the parishdecided to build a new church. The cornerstone of the new church was laid on October 29, 1899 and thecompleted church was dedicated on May 21, 1901. The old church was renovated and turned into a parish hall.Part of the tower was removed and the transepts were closed with a wall, This building was eventually tom downin 1955.
Beginning in the middle of the twentieth century, people began moving from the city. By the 1990'sLawrenceville could no longer sustain the number of existing churches. In 1993, St. Augustine was merged withthree other parishes to form the new Our Lady of the Angels parish. St. Augustine church remains open andserves the new parish." (Souce - Diocese of Pittsburgh)
"As far back as 1854, a little school for German children of the neighborhood was being maintained in the homeof Franz Xavier Helbling opposite the Allegheny Cemetery on Butler Street. Gradually the people interestedorganized St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church and built a little schoolhouse on the hillside of Thirty-seventhStreet. The building served as a church also from its completion in 1862 until the fall of 1863 when a church wascompleted on Butler Street between Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Streets. The school was enlarged by diggingout beneath it and making it a two story building. Until 1874 the parish was in charge of a Capuchin monk. Inthat year other members of the order arrived and established St. Augustine Monastery, which is the mother houseof the St. Augustine Capuchin Province of Pennsylvania. There is also a convent in connection with the church."(Source - Volume 2, Pittsburgh of Today, Its Resources and People, by Frank C. Harper, New York, TheAmerican Historical Society, Inc., 1931-1932)
"About 1897 or 1898 there came to Pittsburgh a young man, John T. Comes who was given the commission ofpreparing drawings for a new church for St. Augustine Parish, Thirty-seventh Street. The completion of St.Augustine's Church in 1901 marked a new era in the history of ecclesiastical arts in the diocese. It was acclaimedas a masterpiece." (Source - Catholic Pittsburgh's One Hundred Years, Published under the patronage of HisExcellency the Most Reverend Hugh C. Boyle, Loyola University Press, Chicago, Ill., 1943)
St. Augustine (Lawrenceville, PA) Parish History
HISTORY OF ST. AUGUSTINE PARISH, Lawrenceville, Pa., 1863 -- 1988(Extracted from St. Augustine Parish 125th Anniversary Book, 1863-1988)
Lawrenceville could boast of only one landmark in 1860. That was the arsenal built as a result of the war of1812. Other than that, nothing stood out in Lawrenceville. Seventy new houses went up in the district in 1860,and Butler Street was paved, but the biggest thing that happened in Lawrenceville that year was a meeting. TheCatholic leaders of the area had been meeting off and on for several years trying to establish a school for theirchildren. Every time a teacher had to resign or a bigger classroom was needed, the people got together to workout their problem. But in 1860 the meeting was more important than usual. What the people wanted was a biggerschool. And this time their plans included a church. They drew up the Society of German Catholics ofLawrenceville. With the spirit of Captain Lawrence who died ordering his men: "Don't give up the ship," thepeople living in the Borough named after him were going to move ahead against all odds.
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Along with loans, the committee sponsored one picnic after another to raise funds for building. As planscongealed they obtained a German-speaking priest to say Mass for them regularly. Father George Kircher nowbecame the organizer of the parish. First the school went up. While the church was under construction serviceswere held in the school. The first Mass in the school took place on February 2, 1862, with Vespers in theafternoon. Father Kircher had Charles Bartberger sketch the plans for the church September 29, 1861. Thecommittee approved the plans the next month. At that same meeting Mr. Landelin Vogel suggested that the parishshould select St. Augustine as its patron. The reason for the choice was not any special devotion to the saint, butrather a way of expressing recognition to Mr. Augustine Hoeveler, the leading organizer of Catholic activities inLawrenceville. Right from the start, the parish was blessed with strong leaders.
In other ways the parish was still very small. At the same meeting in which the patron was chosen, the members ofthe building association made a pledge of paying ten cents monthly to the church fund. By piling up their dimes,the parishioners eventually raised the twelve thousand dollars needed to build the first St. Augustine Church. Thecornerstone was laid June 22, 1862. Even before the church was under roof, in December of 1862, BishopDomenec appointed Father Franz Schmidt as the first resident pastor of the parish. In less than a year he had toresign because of bad health. Father John Nepomucene Tamchina, a missionary Capuchin, assumed theresponsibilities of pastor just two months before the dedication of the new church.
Bishop Domenec blessed the church Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1863. Religious organizations fromPittsburgh and Allegheny marched in procession. The new church could seat 650. Its 150 foot tower faced ButlerStreet. It was of red brick Romanesque in style, a hundred feet long. Lawrenceville had a new landmark. Duringthe next ten years the parish was busy paying off its debts. The biggest achievement of those ten years was theestablishment of the means to keep the parish thriving for the future. Father Tamchina secured Sisters for theschool. From the founding of the school in 1854 lay teachers conducted the classes. For one reason or another anew teacher had to be found each September. The perennial problem sometimes led to hasty decisions and poorlyqualified teachers. But Father Tamchina resolved the difficulty in 1871. The Sisters of St. Francis were just eightblocks away. After they opened St. Francis Hospital in 1566 they began to accept teaching assignments in theGerman parishes. November 8, 1871 the Sisters took over the responsibilities of St. Augustine School. This wasthe kind of addition which was more important than a new building. The Catholic of that age were convinced thatSisters were the best teachers in the world. According to the chronicler, even the children rejoiced. The parishtook on its first Franciscanism. Just two years later, 1873, the Franciscan influence became an intimate feature ofthe parish. The Capuchin Fathers were invited to the parish November 7, 1873. They came from Germany.Bismarck was suppressing Religious Orders as part of his program to nationalize the state. The Capuchins weretold to prepare to leave.
While the Capuchins were being expelled from Bavaria, Bishop Domenec was searching for German-speakingpriests for his parishes. Thepersecution in Germany became a blessing for Pittsburgh. Father Hyacinth Epp, O.F.M. Cap., assumed thepastorate of St. Augustine's April 19,1874. From then on the parish reflected the atmosphere of a monasteryparish. Devotions and societies were those of the Capuchins. St. Augustine's was no longer an ordinary parish.Connected to it was the headquarters of a new province of Capuchins. This would set the decisions for parishes ina dozen states where the members of the province would minister. Less than a month after he became pastor, Fr.Hyacinth established the Third Order of St. Francis in the parish. The parish intensified its Franciscan flavor. Uptill then Third Order members who migrated from Germany retained their devotion to St. Francis, but now it wasorganized into a thriving fraternity. From the opening date the monthly meetings went on to the present. The onlychange made was that of language, for, originally, the sermons at the monthly meetings were in German.
Along with the spiritual growth of the parish, Father Hyacinth had to keep pace with the increase in members.Hundreds of families had torelocate when the Union Depot was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Many of the families moved toLawrenceville, with the result that St. Augustine Church had to be expanded. A hundred-foot transept was addedin 1874, according to plans drawn by Brother Eleutherius, one of the Capuchins who arrived with FatherHyacinth. At the time of enlarging the church, Brother also carved the main altar, the pulpit and the communionrail. After the remodeling, "St. Augustine's was considered one of the finest churches in Pittsburgh." It seated athousand. Brother Eleutherius planned to carve five altars in all, but he died before completing the task. He was a
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victim of smallpox June 18, 1877. Brother was the first of the Capuchins to be buried from St. Augustine's. Hewas thirty-eight years old. Another interesting friar of those early days was Father Maurice Greck, 0. F.M. Cap.Father Maurice had been an officer in the German army. He became the second Capuchin pastor of St.Augustine's.
In July, 1877, striking railroad employees led a riot in Lawrenceville. The militia tried to restore order but themob forced the soldiers to retreat. In the attempt one of the soldiers was wounded in front of St. Augustine'sChurch. The Fathers immediately slipped him through the church into the monastery, where they gave him firstaid and sent him to St. Francis Hospital. In the meantime the rioters tried to force their way into the monastery tocapture the soldier. It was at that point that Father Maurice relied on his training as an officer. He just stood inthe doorway with an air of authority and ordered the rioters away. They left without further protest.
By 1888 the growing population of Lawrenceville made a new school necessary for the parish. Father Mauricewas again pastor at the time. Each wage earner pledged fifteen dollars. March 3,1889, Bishop Phelan ofPittsburgh blessed the new school. The twelve-room building cost forty-five thousand dollars. Typical of the spiritof St. Augustine's, the school was one of the best equipped in the city. Newspaper clippings of the day referred toit as one of the most modern schools in western Pennsylvania. In addition to all the subjects taught in the publicschool, the parish school conducted extra classes in the German language, and, of course, courses in religion.During that same year a new monastery and rectory was completed, the present quarters of the Capuchins. Thethird floor of the present building was added in 1905. Ten years after the monastery was built the existing conventwas completed. The parish constantly demonstrated a thriving growth.
The present church came not so much from the need of expansion, but because the old church needed extensiverepairs. Father Charles Speckert, O.F.M. Cap., the pastor, called on Mrs. Mary Regina Frauenheim and herdaughter Miss Rose, to ask for a substantial contribution for the renovation of the church. The Frauenheim familyhad been bountiful toward the parish in the past. The pastor was hoping that they would now pay for windows forthe remodeling of the church. The ladies quietly objected that such an old building was notreally worth expensive windows. Father Charles teasingly remarked that if the good ladies were willing to donatethe small sum of fifty thousand dollars then he would do more than renovate; he could build a new, more beautifulchurch. It seemed almost a joke at the time. The debt in the parish was already thirty thousand dollars. But theFrauenheims did not take it as a joke. They asked for time to think about it. Mr. Aloysius Frauenheim called onFather Charles a few days later to pledge the fifty thousand dollars. With such generosity among the parishioners,the pastor could hardly refuse. Sixteen houses were cleared from the site where the church now stands. Theproperty alone absorbed the generous donation, costing more than forty-eight thousand dollars. Since the projectcame so spontaneously, no one really had an idea of what kind of church to build. So they looked around, tryingto find something they would like. One of the friars in the monastery came across a picture of St. Benno's Churchin Munich. It immediately caught the pastor's fancy. That was it, Mr. John T. Comes used the picture for a modelin sketching the new church. The plans looked good, but the lowest bid looked forbidding. With a dept of thirtythousand dollars hanging over the parish, contractors were asking another one hundred thousand for the newchurch. The Frauenheimfamily relieved the situation by donating another fifty thousand dollars.
Five thousand people attended the cornerstone laying ceremony. The parishioners' interest ran high all through theconstruction of thechurch. They seemed to count the layers of vitrified brick as the masons laid the walls. Layer after layer carriedthe walls to the climax of adome ninety-two feet from the floor of the church. The towers went on for fifty feet more, twin arms raised inprayer, reaching a hundred andforty-eight feet over Lawrenceville. When the towers extended their full salute to God, the last stone in place, thepeople and clergy dedicated their church May 12, 1901. A procession from the old church carried the BlessedSacrament over a flower strewn path to the new tabernacle. As the procession moved out from the church thebells clanged their farewell. Just as the last clang of the smaller bells faded the deep, musical bells of the newchurch welcomed the procession to the bigger, more beautiful house of God. Just eleven years later FatherIgnatius Weisbruch, 0. F.M. Cap., paid off the last portion of the building debt. The date can hardly seem veryremote to older parishioners who can still remember Fr. Ignatius.
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Throughout the history of St. Augustine's the main theme which arises most often is change and the ability andadaptability of the physicalstructures as well as the parishioners to accept these changes. With the promulgation of the Apostolic Instruction,Custas Fidei, in April 1969, and Immensae Cartitatis on January 23, 1973, lay persons were given permission todistribute communion both during Mass and outside Mass. On December 1, 1974, the first Parish Council wasinstalled with the concept of finding an effective way of participation by the entire Christian community in themission of the Church. Today the Parish Council is now called the Council of Ministries and is comprised ofmany dedicated people who help keep the St. Augustine Community unified and filled with spiritual values. Theroots of St. Augustine's had been firmly planted a long time ago by many dedicated people who believed theCatholic faith was the center of their lives. These values have remained constant. Once again the parishionershave been asked to contribute to the renovation of St. Augustine Church. In this the 125th anniversary of St.Augustine Parish, we have again seen the generosity and unselfishness of the parishioners who made manysacrifices to fortify, maintain and preserve our structure for another 100 years as well as the faith values which theChurch symbolizes.
On October 23, 1958, the official celebration of the 125th anniversary occurred rededicating our church, ourParish, and ourselves toGod for now and for the future. There was a Liturgy of Thanksgiving at 11 am, celebrated by Bishop Donald W.Wuerl, followed by an informal reception in the Parish Hall for the entire parish family. The unity and Christianlove for one another are typical qualities of the Augustine community and can be summed up by a quote of St.Augustine himself: "The Kingdom of Heaven requires no other price than yourself, the value of it is yourself; giveYOURSELF to it and you shall have it."
(This history was taken in part from the St. Augustine Tour Book and from previous anniversary SouvenirBooks.)
More About JOSEPH RHEIN:Burial: 23 Mar 1927, St. Augustine Cemetery, Shaler Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania232
Census 1: 1910, Lists number of children as seven and number living as three.233
Census 2: 1900, List number of children as four and number living as two.Education: 1866, Mother's Christian name appears as Reine on the Act of Birth.234
Immigration 1: 04 May 1890, Departed Herrlisheim, the day following the wedding, for the United States.Immigration 2: 1890, Immigrated to United States of America settling in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,Pennsylvania.235
Naturalization 1: 26 Jan 1898, Admitted as a Citizen of the United States in Western District of Pennsylvania,United States of America. Resided at 3931 Howley Avenue, 16th Ward, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,Pennsylvania. Was a native of Germany and a subject of the Emperor of Germany.236
Naturalization 2: 11 Jul 1894, In the Court of Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County, Commonwealth ofPennsylvania declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States.236
Naturalization 3: 26 Jan 1898, Witness was John (Frisch?).Occupation 1: 1920, Janitor (school janitor at St. Augustine Parish, 35th Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,Pennsylvania)237
Occupation 2: 1900, Day laborer238
Residence 1: 1920, 4007 Mifflin (later changed to Mintwood) Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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Residence 2: 1898, 3931 Howley Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.240
Residence 3: 1900, 16th Ward, 3931 Cabinet Alley, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Dwellingnumber 58, Family number 73) Rented.241
Residence 4: 28 Apr 1910, 211 37th Street, Ward 6, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.242
Residence 5: Aft. 1911, 4007 Mintwood Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaWitness: 1866, Witnesses to Act of Birth were Jacques Kientz, hostlier, and Dominique Henninger, labourer.243
Notes for LOUISE LAENG:Louise Laeng and Joseph Rhein were married in St. Arbogast Roman Catholic Church of May 3, 1890.
St. Arbogast has been claimed as a native of Scotland, but this is owing to a misunderstanding of the name"Scotia", which until late in the Middle Ages really meant Ireland. He flourished about the middle of the seventhcentury. Leaving Ireland, as so many other missionaries had done, he settled as a hermit in a German forest, andthen proceeded to Alsace, where his real name, Arascach, was changed to Arbogast. This change of name wasowing to the difficulty expdrienced by foreigners in pronouncing Irish Christian names; thus it is that Moengal,Maelmaedhog, Cellach, Gillaisu, Gilla in Coimded, Tuathal, and Arascach were respectively transformed intoMarcellus, Malachy, Gall, Gelasius, Germanus, Tutilo, and Arbogast. St. Arbogast found a warm friend in KingDagobert II of Austrasia, who had been educated at Slane, in Meath, in Ireland, and was restored to his kingdomon the demise of King Childeric II. Monstrelet authenticates the story of King Dagobert in Ireland; and the royalexile naturally fled to Slane in order to be under the ægis of the Ard-Righ (High-King) of Ireland, at Tara. OnDagobert's accession to the throne of Austrasia, Arbogast was appointed Bishop of Strasburg, and was famed forsanctity and miracles. It is related that the Irish saint raised to life Dagobert's son, who had been killed by a fallfrom his horse. St. Arbogast died in 678, and, at his own special request, was buried on the side of a mountain,here only malefactors were interred. The site of his burial was subsequently deemed suitable for a church. He iscommemorated 21 July. (Source- Catholic Encyclopedia - New Advert)
I believe the Alexander Laeng married to a Louise, listed in the 1900 Federal Census in the 12 Ward, Louisville,Kentucky, enumerated on June 7, 1900, is the Alexandre Laeng, son of Alexandre Laeng and Francoise Pfaadt ofHerrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany married to Louise Metz. He is the brother of Louise Laeng, married toJoseph Rhein, who immigrated to the United States in 1890 and settled in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,Pennsylvania.
The census data for 1900 states that Alexander was born in Alsace-Lorraine, Germany. Wife is Louise, born1863, in Alsace-Lorraine. Married 12 years. This would make the date of their marriage 1888 at which timeAlexander would have been 28 years of age. Children, all born in the United States, are Mary born 1888,Elizabeth born September 1890, and Louis born November 1893.
In the 1910 Census all of the above are listed except wife Louise.
Alexander Laeng is listed in the 1920 Federal Census in the 21st Precinct, Louisville, Jefferson County,Kentucky, enumerated on January 14, 1920. His age is 60 (born 1860) in Alsace-Lorraine, France, immigrated1888, occupation is a glass blower. He has a daughter, age 31 (born 1889). It was not uncommon for theimmigrants from Alsace to list Alsace-Lorraine, Germany as their place of birth in any census taken prior to theFirst World War and their place of birth as Alsace-Lorraine, France, following the war.
Alexander Laeng died March 7, 1928 (age 67) and Louis C. Laeng January 20, 1993 (age 99) and his wife,Florence A. Laeng who died July 15, 1994 (age 100). All deaths were in Jefferson County, Kentucky. (Source -Commonwealth of Kentucky, health Data Branch, Division of Epidemiolgy and Health Planning, comp. KentuckyDeath Index)
Louis C. Laeng, son of Alexander is listed in the 1920 Federal Census, enumerated January 14 and 15, 1920,residing at Ormsby Street, 2nd Ward, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky with his wife, Florence, born inKentucky, his son Louis, age 17, born 1903 in Kentucky. Mary Asford, mother-in-law, age 62 (born 1858) inKentucky. Her parents were born in Ireland.
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Social Security records lists Louis C. Laeng's date of birth as November 21, 1893 and his date of death as January20, 1993 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.
There is a high degree of probability that the above Alexander Laeng is the son of Alexandre Laeng andFrancoise Pfaadt of Herrlisheim and the brother of Louise Laeng, married to Joseph Rhein. Accordingly, I haveentered it here. (Note to File - JP Rhein)
Due to the close relationship between Louisa Laeng Rhein of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and theGless family who resided on a garden farm in Shaler Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from about1890 to 1952, I have tentatively attached Rosalie Adam, born about 1815 to 1825 in Commune de Herrlisheim,Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France (later Alsace-Lorraine, Germany), a daughter of Jean George Adam and CatherineLaeng, as being married to Joseph Gless, pending further investigation. Antoine Mertzin was a witness at the Actof Birth for Adelina Gless, born October 1870 in Commune de Herrlisheim, daughter of Jacques Gless andJosephine George. Angela Mertzin was a sponsor at the baptism of Rosa Rhein, daughter of Joseph Rhein andLouise Laeng Rhein, at St. Augustine Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 17, 1891. John Schohn, fromAlsace-Lorraine, who lived in Sharpsburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania during the period 1920 to 1940 was afriend of both the Rheins and the Glesses. A Jean Michel Schohn was a witness at the Act of Birth for FrancoiseGless, Commune de Herrlisheim, July 1841, daughter of John Michel Gless and Adele Schmitt. (Note to File -JPRhein)
More About LOUISE LAENG:Burial: 14 Dec 1954, St. Augustine Cemetery, Shaler Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania244
Census: 1910, Number of children 7, living 3. Have accounted for three of the children who died in infancy. Thefourth may have been baptized shortly after birth at home and then died in infancy. No church record availablewhen baptized at home.245
Education: 1890, Emigrated to United States of America.245
Fact 2: 18 Jan 1937, Application for a Social Security Number for Joseph Peter Rhein lists her maiden name asLaeng, however, a number of records in the United States show her maiden name as Lang.246
Witness 1: 1866, Benjamin Laeng, age 40, a weaver, listed as Premier Temoin on the Act of Birth. ConstateJoseph Schohn.247
Witness 2: 1866, Michel Schiff, age 50, a field worker, listed as Second Temoin on the Act of Birth.247
More About JOSEPH RHEIN and LOUISE LAENG:Marriage: 03 May 1890, Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany248
Witness: 03 May 1890, Peter Rhein uncle of the bridegroom and Alexander Laeng, father of the bride.248
Children are listed above under (35) Louise Laeng.
45. JACQUES7 KISTLER (JOSEPH6, ANDRE5, ROSINE4 HERRMANN, CHRISTINE3 LAENG, GEORGES2, DORSCH1) wasborn 05 Sep 1850 in Commune de Herrlisheim, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France249. He married ELISABETH LIESS.She was born 26 Oct 1854 in Drusenheim.
More About JACQUES KISTLER:Witness: 05 Sep 1850, Witness to the Act of Birth was Jacques Gross.249
Child of JACQUES KISTLER and ELISABETH LIESS is:i. LOUIS8 KISTLER, b. 16 Oct 1877, Commune de Herrlisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany249; d. 29 Jan 1945,
Germany; m. LOUISE FRANCK, 20 Feb 1905, Beinheim; b. 05 Mar 1882, Beinheim; d. 30 Apr 1965,Bischwiller, Bas-Rhin, France.
More About LOUIS KISTLER and LOUISE FRANCK:Marriage: 20 Feb 1905, Beinheim
Endnotes
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1. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc.2. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker.3. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc.4. GeneaNet - guy 222 web site at http://www.geneanet.org, submitted by Guylaine Gaffet, France, and as supplementedfurther by Christine Poirel.5. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..6. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..7. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..8. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..9. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..10. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..11. GeneaNet - guy 222 web site at http://www.geneanet.org, submitted by Guylaine Gaffet, France, and as supplementedfurther by Christine Poirel..12. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..13. GeneaNet - guy 222 web site at http://www.geneanet.org, submitted by Guylaine Gaffet, France, and as supplementedfurther by Christine Poirel..14. Le Centre Department d'Historie des Familles, France (web site).15. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..16. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..17. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..18. Le Centre Department d'Historie des Familles, France (web site).19. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information.,Derived from information of the records of the children.20. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information.,Derived from information taken from the records of the children.21. Le Centre Department d'Historie des Familles, France (web site).22. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..23. Le Centre Department d'Historie des Familles, France (web site).24. 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France..25. Le Centre Department d'Historie des Familles, France (web site).26. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..27. Le Centre Department d'Historie des Familles, France (web site).28. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Batch M838153, Source Call Number 0721713, years 1776 to 1792.29. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..30. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..31. Le Centre Department d'Historie des Familles, France (web site).32. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..33. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..34. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..35. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..36. GeneaNet - guy 222 web site at http://www.geneanet.org, submitted by Guylaine Gaffet, France, and as supplementedfurther by Christine Poirel..37. GeneaNet - guy 222 web site at http://www.geneanet.org, submitted by Guylaine Gaffet, France, and as supplemented byChristine Poirel.38. GeneaNet - guy 222 web site at http://www.geneanet.org, submitted by Guylaine Gaffet, France, and as supplemented
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further by Christine Poirel..39. 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France..40. GeneaNet - guy 222 web site at http://www.geneanet.org, submitted by Guylaine Gaffet, France, and as supplementedfurther by Christine Poirel..41. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..42. Information furnished by Christine Piorel.43. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..44. Examination of photo copy of the applicable Acts of Birth, Marriage or Death as furnished by Daniel Kistler ofSouffelweyersheim, France..45. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..46. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc., Derived from The Act of Birth of his children.47. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..48. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..49. Examination of photo copy of the applicable Acts of Birth, Marriage or Death as furnished by Daniel Kistler ofSouffelweyersheim, France..50. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..51. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..52. Examination of photo copy of the applicable Acts of Birth, Marriage or Death as furnished by Daniel Kistler ofSouffelweyersheim, France..53. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..54. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..55. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..56. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Batch M838146, Source 0721718, years 1792 to 1852.57. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Batch M838146, Source Call Number 0721718, years 1793 to 1852.58. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..59. GeneaNet - guy 222 web site at http://www.geneanet.org, submitted by Guylaine Gaffet, France, and as supplementedfurther by Christine Poirel., I thank all my known cousins who gave me permission to offer my work.60. GeneaNet - guy 222 web site at http://www.geneanet.org, submitted by Guylaine Gaffet, France, and as supplementedfurther by Christine Poirel..61. GeneaNet http://geneanet.org.62. GeneaNet - guy 222 web site at http://www.geneanet.org, submitted by Guylaine Gaffet, France, and as supplementedfurther by Christine Poirel..63. 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France..64. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..65. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..66. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..67. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..68. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..69. Information furnished by Christine Piorel.70. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..71. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..72. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..73. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..74. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..75. Examination of photo copy of the applicable Acts of Birth, Marriage or Death as furnished by Daniel Kistler ofSouffelweyersheim, France..76. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..77. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..
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78. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..79. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..80. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..81. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..82. 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France..83. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..84. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..85. 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France..86. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..87. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..88. 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France..89. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..90. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..91. 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France..92. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..93. 1880 Federal Census for Ohio.94. 1880 Federal Census for Ohio, Family History Library Film 1255066 NA Film Number T9-1066 Page number 377D.95. 1880 Federal Census for Ohio.96. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..97. 1880 Federal Census for Ohio.98. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..99. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..100. Web site for St. Meinrad Archabby, St. Meinrad, Indiana.101. New York Port, Ship Images, 1851-1891, Ancestry.com. New York Port, Ship Images, 1851-1891 [database online].Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original data: Ship images obtained from and reproduced courtesy of MysticSeaport.102. Web site for St. Meinrad Archabby, St. Meinrad, Indiana.103. New York Port, Ship Images, 1851-1891, Ancestry.com. New York Port, Ship Images, 1851-1891 [database online].Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original data: Ship images obtained from and reproduced courtesy of MysticSeaport.104. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..105. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..106. Family Tree Maker, Tree 1214, Volume 73.107. Extracted from the Archives and Records Center of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, North Craig Street, Pittsburgh, AlleghenyCounty, Pennsylvania.108. Family Tree Maker, Tree 1214, Volume 73.109. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..110. Family Tree Maker, Tree 2625, Volume 61 and/or Family Home Page, both submitted by Lewis Charles Fortwangler,Jr..111. Family Tree Maker, Tree 1214, Volume 73.112. Extracted from the Archives and Records Center of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, North Craig Street, Pittsburgh, AlleghenyCounty, Pennsylvania.113. 1900 United States Census.114. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..115. GED File, Caryl Densley, Canby, Oregon.116. 1900 United States Census.117. GED File, Caryl Densley, Canby, Oregon.118. 1900 United States Census.119. GED File, Caryl Densley, Canby, Oregon.120. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..121. 1900 United States Census.
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122. 1880 Federal Census for New Hampshire.123. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..124. GeneaNet - guy 222 web site at http://www.geneanet.org, submitted by Guylaine Gaffet, France, and as supplementedfurther by Christine Poirel..125. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..126. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..127. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..128. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..129. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..130. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..131. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..132. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..133. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..134. 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France..135. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..136. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..137. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..138. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..139. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..140. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..141. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..142. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..143. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..144. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..145. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..146. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..147. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..148. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..149. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..150. Examination of photo copy of the applicable Acts of Birth, Marriage or Death as furnished by Daniel Kistler ofSouffelweyersheim, France..151. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..152. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..153. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..154. 1836 Census of the Cantons of Bischwiller and Haguenau, Bas-Rhin, France..155. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..156. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..157. 1900 Federal Census for Ohio.158. Family Tree Maker, Broderbund Software, Volume 13, Tree 2502.159. 1900 Federal Census for Ohio.160. 1910 Census Miracode Index at Ancestry. com.161. 1900 Federal Census for Ohio.162. 1910 Census Miracode Index at Ancestry. com.163. Family Tree Maker, Volume 55, Tree 200.164. OneWorldTree, Ancestry.com. One World Tree (sm) [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc.
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165. Family Tree Maker, Volume 55, Tree 200.166. OneWorldTree, Ancestry.com. One World Tree (sm) [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc.167. Family Tree Maker, Volume 55, Tree 200.168. 1910 Census Miracode Index at Ancestry. com.169. Family Tree Maker, Volume 13, Tree 2505.170. Family Tree Maker, Volue 13, Tree 2505.171. Family Tree Maker, Volume 13, Tree 2505.172. Family Tree Maker, Volue 13, Tree 2505.173. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..174. 1900 United States Census.175. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..176. 1930 United States Federal Census.177. Examination of photo copy of the applicable Acts of Birth, Marriage or Death as furnished by Daniel Kistler ofSouffelweyersheim, France..178. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Ancestry.com. World War I Selective Service System DraftRegistration Cards, 1917-18 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2002. National Archives and RecordsAdministration. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. M1509, 4,277 rolls.Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. Roll 1653650, DraftBoard 7.179. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..180. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..181. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..182. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..183. 1910 U. S. Census for Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Code 140 R500 025 0355 0414.184. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..185. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..186. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..187. 1910 U. S. Census for Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Code 140 R500 025 0355 0414.188. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..189. 1910 U. S. Census for Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Code 140 R500 025 0355 0414.190. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..191. 1920 United States Census.192. 1900 Federal Census for Pennsylvania.193. 1920 United States Census.194. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..195. 1900 Federal Census for Pennsylvania.196. 1910 U. S. Census for Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Code 140 R500 025 0355 0414.197. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..198. Extracted from the Archives and Records Center of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, North Craig Street, Pittsburgh, AlleghenyCounty, Pennsylvania.199. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..200. Extracted from the Archives and Records Center of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, North Craig Street, Pittsburgh, AlleghenyCounty, Pennsylvania.201. 320th Infantry Regiment of the 80th Division, McGraw-Phillips Printing Company, Inc., New York City.202. 1920 United States Census.203. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..204. Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index,Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: Mar 28, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.54022.178205. Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index,Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: Mar 28, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.54024.152206. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Register
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listing marriage date, etc..207. Extracted from the Archives and Records Center of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, North Craig Street, Pittsburgh, AlleghenyCounty, Pennsylvania.208. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..209. 1920 United States Census.210. Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index,Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: Mar 28, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.54022.178211. Extracted from the Archives and Records Center of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, North Craig Street, Pittsburgh, AlleghenyCounty, Pennsylvania.212. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..213. Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index,Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: Mar 28, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.54022.194214. 1930 Federal Census for Pennsylvania.215. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..216. Brøderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index,Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: Mar 28, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.54022.194217. 1920 United States Census.218. Extracted from the Archives and Records Center of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, North Craig Street, Pittsburgh, AlleghenyCounty, Pennsylvania.219. 1900 United States Census.220. GED File, Caryl Densley, Canby, Oregon.221. 1900 United States Census.222. GeneaNet - guy 222 web site at http://www.geneanet.org, submitted by Guylaine Gaffet, France, and as supplementedfurther by Christine Poirel..223. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..224. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..225. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..226. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..227. Information furnished by Valerie Wenger Kastner, Rountzenheim, France..228. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..229. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..230. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..231. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..232. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..233. 1910 U. S. Census for Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Code 140 R500 025 0355 0414.234. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..235. 1910 U. S. Census for Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Code 140 R500 025 0355 0414.236. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..237. 1920 United States Census.238. 1900 Federal Census for Pennsylvania.239. 1920 United States Census.240. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..241. 1900 Federal Census for Pennsylvania.242. 1910 U. S. Census for Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Code 140 R500 025 0355 0414.243. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..244. Examination of copy of Certificate of Death or Register listing record of death or from inscription taken from gravesitemarker..245. 1910 U. S. Census for Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Code 140 R500 025 0355 0414.246. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..
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247. Examination of Copy of Birth Certificate, Copy of Baptismal Certificate or applicable Register listing such information..248. Examination of copy of applicable document, Birth Certificate, Copy of The Act of Birth, Marriage License, Registerlisting marriage date, etc..249. Examination of photo copy of the applicable Acts of Birth, Marriage or Death as furnished by Daniel Kistler ofSouffelweyersheim, France..
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Index of Individuals
??? -Margaret: 21Sadie: 61Stella: 59
Alford -Florence: 44
Alt -Catherine: 10Elisabeth: 7
Ball -John Cornelius: 60
Banzen -Anna: 1, 4Endres: 1
Baylor -Sarah Salome: 59, 60
Becker -Therese: 18Therese: 61, 62Thibaud: 62
Bonn -Maria: 7
Bouvier -Mary Elizabeth: 59
Bur -Catherine: 37
Centner -Joseph: 26Philomena Margaret: 26, 33
Christmann -Catherine: 18
Clamer -Alexe: 37, 61Henri Albert: 61Jacob: 37Johannes Michael: 37
Clauss -Madeleine: 16
Dannemiller -Agnes Cecelia: 60Dora: 60Frank C.: 60Jean Henri: 60Philomena M.: 60Rose Mary: 60
Deldemme -???: 62
Dentinger -Roman: 60
Dick -Esther Marie: 42
Eschenbrenner -Magdalene: 58
Franck -Louise: 69
Fritsch -Anna M.: 41, 42Marie Anne: 62
Gnmper -Catherine: 37
Gross -
Jacques: 17Marcel: 5Maria Salome: 5Marie: 60Marie Anne: 18Rosalie: 18Theresa: 18
Grun -Marie Anne: 19
Guhmann -Marie Eve: 7
Herrmann -Ambrosius: 6Anna Marie: 6Jean Georges: 6Jean Georges: 6Joseph: 6Joseph: 6Maria: 6Odile: 6Rosine: 6, 8, 9, 18, 19, 37, 39, 40, 61, 62, 69
Hill -Mary E.: 58
Hornet -Marie Henrietta Joseph: 61
Huck -Anastase: 39, 40Ursule: 39
Jones -Ralph: 59
Jung -Louis: 10Madeleine: 9Marie Anne: 10Odilie: 9, 10Phiippe: 9Philippe Jacques: 9
Kapple -Frank: 34
Keith -Jean: 37Madeline: 37
Kieffer -Joseph: 62
Kientz -Anne: 4, 5Bartholme: 4Francesca: 7, 8Joannes: 7
Kistler -Aloise: 14, 36, 37, 61Anastasia: 18Andre: 9, 18, 19, 39, 69Antoine: 9Antoine: 18Arbogast: 8, 9, 14Arbogast: 18Balbina: 37, 61Catherine: 18Charles: 14Daniel: 9, 18, 37, 40Daniel: 18
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Jacques: 19Jacques: 40, 69Jean Michel: 14Jean Michel: 14Johannes: 8Joseph: 19, 39, 40, 69Louis: 18Louis: 19Louis: 69Louise: 19Marie Anne: 9, 19, 20, 37, 40, 61, 62Regine: 18, 37, 38, 40, 41, 44Reine: 18Rosalie: 14Rosine: 9Suzanne: 18
Klein -Catherine: 8Catherine: 18, 40Mathieu: 18
Kormann -Catherine: 20
Kreim -Anna: 59
Laeng -???: 16???: 22Albert A.: 42Alexandre: 12, 22, 43, 44, 62Alexandre: 26, 43, 44Alice: 59Amelia C.: 42Anne: 59Antoine: 5, 8, 16, 17, 37, 61Antoine: 8Antoine: 26Augustus: 21, 41Balbine: 14Balbine: 14, 34, 36, 61Benjamin: 10, 20Bernard Anthony: 34Caroline: 26Caspard: 4Caspard: 5, 7, 9Catherine: 6Catherine: 8, 17Cecile: 16Charles: 37, 61, 62Christine: 5, 6, 8, 18, 19, 37, 39, 40, 61, 62, 69Clara M.: 42, 43Clarence: 59Dorsch: 1, 4-10, 14-22, 26, 34, 36, 37, 39-41, 43, 44, 58-
62, 69Dorsch: 4Elisabeth: 5Elizabeth: 8, 14, 15Elizabeth: 44Felix: 15Felix: 20, 21Ferdinand: 13Francois Joseph: 7Francois Joseph: 7Genevieve L.: 42George: 21
George W.: 42Georges: 4-10, 14-22, 26, 34, 36, 37, 39-41, 43, 44, 58-
62, 69Gertrude: 5Infant: 7Infant: 7Infant: 7Jacques: 17Jacques: 20Jacques: 22, 25Jean Baptiste: 15Jean Baptiste: 16Jean Baptiste: 12, 13Jean Georges: 5, 7-10, 14-17, 20-22, 26, 34, 36, 37, 41,
43, 44, 58-61Jean Georges: 5, 6Jean Georges: 8, 16, 17, 37, 61Jean Michel: 5Jean Michel: 7, 10, 12, 21, 22, 26, 34, 41, 43, 44, 58-61Jean Michel: 12, 21, 41Jennieva: 59John A.: 42Joseph: 17Joseph: 21Joseph: 26Joseph: 21Joseph Francis: 34Joseph Ignatius: 34, 59Joseph Ignatius , Jr.: 59, 60Josephine: 17Josephine: 10Louis: 16Louis Charles: 44Louisa: 21Louise: 13Louise: 26, 44-46, 51, 62, 68, 69Ludwig: 21Madeleine: 7, 9Madeleine: 17Madeleine: 17Madeliene: 22Marc: 22Marcus: 14, 26, 33, 58-60Marguerite: 5Marguerite: 6Maria Anna: 7, 14, 36, 61Maria Josephine: 34Maria Margaret: 34, 60Marie Anne: 7Marie Anne: 15Marie Anne: 16Marie Anne: 17Marie Anne: 26Marie Catherine: 5Marie Catherine: 5Marie Louise: 15, 37, 61Marie Louise: 13Marie Madeleine: 61Marie Salome: 5Mary: 21Mary: 44Mary Gertrude: 59Mary Katharine: 33, 58Mary N.: 42Mathieu: 8, 15, 37, 61Mathieu: 17, 37, 61
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Mathieu: 21Melchior: 5, 7, 8, 14, 15, 37, 61Michael: 21Michel: 4Michel: 22Odile: 17Peter: 21, 41, 42Peter M.: 42Philippe: 5, 7, 10, 14, 20-22, 26, 34, 36, 41, 43, 44, 58-
61Philippe: 7, 10, 20Philippe: 10Philomena: 34Rafine: 17Regine: 12Rosa: 42Rosalie: 17Rosalie: 26Theresa: 22Theresa: 34Walter: 59
Lang -Albert: 41Josephine: 41Nellie: 41Rosa: 41Rudolph: 41
Levallois -Theodosie Marie: 61
Liess -Elisabeth: 69
Lutz -Agnes: 14
Marty -Jean: 62
McCarthy -Aloysius Fidelis: 58Cecelia Irene: 59Clement Bernard: 58Edward Florence: 58Francis Lawrence: 58Frederick Ingatius: 59James: 58Josephine Mary: 59Leo Joseph James: 59Richard: 59Theresa Philomena: 58, 59
McKinney -Mabel Florence: 52, 56
Meder -Gertrude: 10
Metz -Frederic: 43Louise: 43, 44
Noe -Marie Anne: 61
Nonner -Anna Maria: 1, 4Hans Georg: 1
Pasch -Sherman Edward: 42, 43
Pfaadt -Catherina: 19Francoise: 22, 62
Jean Michel: 22Pfaff -
Benoit: 18Marie Anne: 18, 19
Pfister -Francoise: 9
Philipps -???: 62
Rathburn -William Francis: 59
Rectewald -Margaretha: 26
Rhein -Aloysius Ralph: 56Ambroise: 20Ambroise: 20Anastase: 38Angele: 62Anthony Joseph: 57, 58Antoine: 19, 20, 37Antoine: 39Catherine: 20Charles: 62Elizabeth: 20Eugene: 62Felix: 39Francois Joseph: 19Georges: 20Infant: 57Jacques: 20, 37, 38, 40, 41, 44, 61, 62Jacques: 62Joseph: 20Joseph: 39Joseph: 39, 44, 46, 51, 62, 67, 69Joseph: 52Joseph: 62Joseph Peter: 52, 56Louisa Maria: 57Luden: 20Marie: 39Marie: 62Marie Louise: 61, 62Mathilde: 62Paul: 20Paul: 62Pierre: 20Pierre: 39, 61, 62Rosa Angela: 51Rosalie: 39Theresa: 39Theresa: 39
Ritzel -Stella L.: 56, 57
Sattler -Catherine: 36, 37
Scherer -Marie Anna: 16, 17
Schertzler -Anna Maria: 1
Schiess -Louise: 43
Schiff -Catherine: 62Reine: 20
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Schmitt -Aloyse: 15Antoine: 15Bartholome: 14, 15Catherina: 5Catherine: 15Felix: 15Jean Michel: 15Marie Elizabeth: 15
Schnoering -Marie Anne: 15
Schonn -Madeleine: 61
Sieffert -Madeleine: 8
Smith -Clifford: 42, 43W. H.: 34Winifred Regina: 57, 58
Stadelmann -Berthe: 62
Sweet -George B.: 36Mary L.: 36Thomas: 34Thomas C.: 34, 36Walter: 61William: 36, 61
Thomas -Eugene: 61Jean Baptiste: 61Joseph: 61Pierre: 61Pierre II: 61
unknown -Anne nee: 41
Voltzenlogel -Georg: 10Louise: 10
Walters -Elizabeth Anna: 57, 58
Wenger -Joseph: 62Marin: 61
Wilhelm -Lawrence Sylvester: 58, 59
Wolff -Catherine: 4Theobald: 5
Woods -Philip: 44
Zilliox -Andreas: 7Odile: 7
Zinger -Catherine: 22Jean: 10Madeleine: 10, 12