1Betsy O'Toole Email, 4 Nov 2005 #2. "Mary Jane Levi's childhood house, home of Ezra and Rebecca Calkins Levi,."
2Census, Federal - 1860 - Newaygo, MI, Weaverville. "1860 United States Federal Census about Ezra Levi Name: Ezra Levi
Age in 1860: 42
Birth Year: abt 1818
Birthplace: Connecticut
Home in 1860: Fremont, Newaygo, Michigan
Gender: Male
Post Office: Weaverville
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members: Name Age
Ezra Levi 42
Rebrara Levi 40
Mary Jane Levi 17
Freeman J Levi 15
Corneilia Levi 13
Harriett Levi 8
Mariett Levi 6."3Census, Federal 1870, Denver, Newaygo, Michigan. ": Mary J Scoot
[Mary J Scott]
[Mary J Scott]
Age in 1870: 27
Birth Year: abt 1843
Birthplace: Connecticut
Home in 1870: Denver, Newaygo, Michigan
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Denver
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members: Name Age
Enos B Scoot 30
Mary J Scoot 27
Edwin L Scoot 8
Ella D Scoot 1."4Census, Federal 1880, David City, Butler, Nebraska. "Name: Mary J. Scott
Age: 38
Birth Year: abt 1842
Birthplace: Connecticut
Home in 1880: David City, Butler, Nebraska
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Enos B. Scott
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut
Neighbors: View others on page
Occupation: Keeps House
Household Members: Name Age
Enos B. Scott 40
Mary J. Scott 38
Edwin L. Scott 18
Ella D. Scott 11
Hattie M. Scott 6."5Census, Federal 1900, Onekama, Manistee, Michigan. "Mary J Scott
[Mary I Scott]
Age: 57
Birth Date: Nov 1842
Birthplace: Connecticut
Home in 1900: Onekama, Manistee, Michigan
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Enos B Scott
Marriage Year: 1861
Years Married: 39
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother: number of living children: 4
Mother: How many children: 7
Occupation: View on Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Enos B Scott 60
Mary J Scott 57
Gertrude Scott 14
Walter G Scott 9."6Census, Federal 1900, Onekam, Manistee, Michigan.
1Karen R S Ladd, phone, 17 Aug 2014.
1Census, Federal 1930, Prairie Du Sac, Sauk, Wisconsin. "Name: James Calloway
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1882
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: White
Home in 1930: Prairie Du Sac, Sauk, Wisconsin
Map of Home: View Map
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Lillian Calloway
Father's Birthplace: Wisconsin
Mother's Birthplace: Wisconsin
Occupation:
Education:
Military service:
Rent/home value:
Age at first marriage:
Parents' birthplace:
View Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
James Calloway 48
Lillian Calloway 44
Willard Calloway 20
Harold Calloway 16
Mabel Calloway 12
Blanche Calloway 9
Betty Calloway 7
Richard Calloway 4
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Frank Kirschstein 27
Helen Kirschstein 18."
1Ancestry.com, Adkins Familytree, owner debrazaleski485. This information is from a note attached to the tree under Jacob Demouth (b. 1765)
The note is from Kelly Kurash and is dated 9 Nov 2011.
1Ancestry.com, Adkins Familytree, owner debrazaleski485. This information is from a note attached to the tree under Jacob Demouth (b. 1765)
The note is from Kelly Kurash and is dated 9 Nov 2011.
1Ancestry.com, Adkins Familytree, owner debrazaleski485. This information is from a note attached to the tree under Jacob Demouth (b. 1765)
The note is from Kelly Kurash and is dated 9 Nov 2011.
1Ancestry.com, Adkins Familytree, owner debrazaleski485. This information is from a note attached to the tree under Jacob Demouth (b. 1765)
The note is from Kelly Kurash and is dated 9 Nov 2011.2Census, Federal 1940, Belleville, Essex, New Jersey. "Name: Elizabeth Zeiss
Respondent: Yes
Age: 40
Estimated birth year: abt 1900
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: New Jersey
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Home in 1940: Belleville, Essex, New Jersey
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: Courtlandt Street
House Number: 334
Inferred Residence in 1935: Belleville, Essex, New Jersey
Residence in 1935: Same House
Sheet Number: 3B
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 7th grade
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Arthur Zeiss 44
Elizabeth Zeiss 40
Harold Zeiss 18
Mildred Zeiss 17
Arthur Zeiss 14
Fredrick Zeiss 7."
1Ancestry.com, Adkins Familytree, owner debrazaleski485. This information is from a note attached to the tree under Jacob Demouth (b. 1765)
The note is from Kelly Kurash and is dated 9 Nov 2011.2Census, Federal 1940, Belleville, Essex, New Jersey. "Name: Mildred Zeiss
Age: 17
Estimated birth year: abt 1923
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: New Jersey
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Home in 1940: Belleville, Essex, New Jersey
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: Courtlandt Street
House Number: 334
Inferred Residence in 1935: Belleville, Essex, New Jersey
Residence in 1935: Same House
Sheet Number: 3B
Attended School or College: Yes
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 3rd year
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Arthur Zeiss 44
Elizabeth Zeiss 40
Harold Zeiss 18
Mildred Zeiss 17
Arthur Zeiss 14
Fredrick Zeiss 7."
1Jan Bender, Patsy Clark, Julie Edwards, and Margaret Ann Jenstad; about 2002, Descendants of John Jacob Wintermantel, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens.
2Letter from George Wintermantle to relatives in Germany, from papers received from Paul Wintermantel via Patsy Clark; June 2003. "January 31, 1875
Honey Creek, Sauk County, Wisconsin
Dear Relatives and Friends,
Since nearly 10 years have already passed since our emigration to America, and I have not entirely forgotten you who still live at my place of birth, I finally came to the thought to write again to you. Very likely, there are those of our relatives and acquaintances there who still think about us and would like to know how things are going with the Wintermantel family in America. This short report will give you some idea how we have fared.
After a wait of 2 days in New York we journeyed directly to Wisconsin and settled in Honey Creek, Sauk County, where we worked for the first few months for different farmers until August when our father moved a few miles farther and, in September, bought 40 acres of land for $1.00 an acre. Next spring we built a house on this land, and that is where the parents now live.
The first years father broke up 20 to 30 acres of land with the help of Jacob and William planted a vineyard and fruit trees, so that the parents have a pretty nice home. Both are still living. Father is still well and strong for his age. Mother is somewhat frail, but still pretty well. They live in well-to- circumstances and know nothing of want, for their land has produced MANY A GOOD HARVEST of wheat, oats, corn, wine and different vegetables with which you are acquainted too.
The land was still pretty wild when we arrived. The first ones came to this region about 10 years earlier, most of them from Switzerland, others from North Germany and South Germany and from the Alsace, still others from the eastern and southern states. Until 1846, wild people and wild animals were the only inhabitants of this region. And some of the original inhabitants are still present.
Now I will give you a brief report of all our relatives. M. Schmidlins live close by our parents. He had father's farm in rent for several years. but then they bought out an Irishman. The two older daughters are married. Several children were born in America, and several have died. The parents
and the rest of the children are healthy and well. Brother John Jacob was found by Brother William in Memphis in 1860 and then took the train to Wisconsin. He lived for several years with the parents. In 1865 he went to Iowa, bought land, married, sold the land again, moved farther west, bought other land at Winterset, Iowa County, Iowa, where he now lives. He is a widower, but lives in well-to-do circumstances. We never saw anything more of Brother Fredrich. According to J. J. Angaben he died in 1847 in Louisville, Kentucky. Sister Anna Maria has also died. She was married to Rudolf Jager, a
cobbler from Hanover. He died 3 years earlier in 1867. Brother George JACOB lives beside Schmidlin. He was married in 1859 to Agnes Joos, who as a little girl came from Switzerland with her parents. He does little as a cobbler, but in his farming he already has good help from his boys.
During the Civil War George JACOB'S lot came to go into the army, and he went to Petersburg and Richmond in Virginia. He returned to Wisconsin safe and sound at the close of the war. It was hard for him to leave wife and children. He told me that sometimes everything was a cemetery for the fallen soldiers. Brother William enlisted in the army in the beginning of the war. He served 3 years in the 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment, mostly under General Bloncl in the southwest, in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and in Indian Territory. He was in many battles and bloody situations, and in danger day and night between southern rebels and enemy Indians. In 1865 he moved with John Jacob to Iowa where he bought and sold farms several times, naturally not without profit. But two years ago he moved to Kansas where he again acquired 160 acres of land. Probably, according to law, every soldier with an honorable discharge was entitled to 160 acres of land. He sold a farm in Iowa, I think it was 730 acres. His wife was a daughter of a German preacher from Illinois. Sister Rosina was married in October, 1861, and lives in Minnesota since 1865. This state is west of Wisconsin. And the place where Rosina lives with her husband, Paul Heiz, is probably 300 miles from here.
Brother Christian was also in the war. He served in the 26th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment He was in some of the largest battles of the whole war, near Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville in Virginia and at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. He endured earthshaking cannon fire, he saw blood flow in streams in larger and smaller battles. After his three years of service in the army he came back hom from the war unhurt. After the war he married Mathilda Fei who came with her parents from Prussia to America. In 1867 he sowed 2 acres of hops on Father's land and made more than a thousand dollars from the hops. In the fall of 1868 he moved to the other brothers in Iowa.
Iowa, our western neighbor state, draws the people there because there it is not necessary to make a farm out of woodland like in Wisconsin, in most cases, for there on the large prairies you can see only heaven and grass for hundreds of miles. There the settlers can prepare 40, 50 or 60 acres of the nicest and fattest land with the break-plow and two teams of horses in one summer, and harvest 800, 1000 or 1500 bushels of wheat the next summer, and so with one stroke come to easy street. Of course, it does not always go so -well, but it does in many cases. The harvesting as well as the sowing and threshing is done with machines. Ten horses (5 teams) and 12 to 14 men are used for threshing when the grain and weather are dry, and 400 to 500 bushels of wheat or 700 bushels of oats can be threshed in one day, and in most cases, so well cleaned that it can be taken to the mill or to the market. Of course, the grain is cheap in the west and the workers wages are high. From myself, I cannot report such famous deeds and thrilling experiences.
Not like my brothers, I stayed in the same town and county where we settled in June, 1856. For five years I worked as a hired man for $140 a year. But in 1858 1 already bought 43 acres of land for $315. The following year I bought 20 acres more for $45. These 20 acres are hilly with much timber on them. In 1861 I made the beginning on this piece of land, and with the help of Brother Christian I cleared 8 acres of hazelbrush and burned it all in 8 days. We broke the land with a large plow and 5 yoke of oxen in 4 1/2 days. The next year I already threshed 157 bushels of wheat. The next spring I cleared five acres more on which I immediately planted corn and potatoes. Results were very good.
In December, 1862, I married Charlotte Rose, daughter of Fredrich and Katrina Rose, but after a short marriage of I year and 2 weeks, my dear Charlotte died. Eleven weeks before her death a girl was born whom I turned over to my sister, Salome, for her upbringing. She was a real mother to the dear child until I was married again the following year to Anna Kindschi. She came with her father and relatives from Switzerland to America. With her I have 5 girls. Two are going to school. They are being taught German and English.
On January 13th I received a letter from Brother Christian in Iowa in which he enclosed a letter from you which you sent to Christian Wintermantel in Iowa. Regarding this I wanted to write to you, and had a letter ready when I received 2 other letters from him, one was from you and one from my mother's oldest sister, Kathrina, very likely written by her daughter, Kathrina. The next morning I brought them to my parents and read them to them in the presence of their daughter, Salome, and the young Schmidlin. These 2 letters surprised us, and brought joy, but also sorrow. We blamed ourselves for great carelessness, that for such a long time we did not write to you, and if I should give the reason, I would not know what to say. After the letters were read, father gave me $10 which I was to send to my mother's oldest sister. But if she should not be living any more, one half of it shall go to Rosina, the other sister of my mother, but the other half to go to the oldest sister's daughter, Kathrina.
Now I could come to a close, but I cannot send empty paper to Germany. I will, therefore, write something about the price of land. Last spring a farm of 120 acres was sold in our neighborhood for $2,700. It is almost all level land, but perhaps 50 acres is usable, the other is woods. But the land is all fertile. Another farm of 200 acres, with 80 acres under plow was sold for $4,250. On it was a 2 story stone house which cost $1,200.
Now I shall also write something of the conditions of the state and church, but there isn't enough room. Finally, a hearty greeting from us all to you all. Next spring I want to write another letter, God willing. When you write again tell us how many gulden you received for the $10. Our address is,
George Wintermantel, Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.". " She was married to Rudolf Jager, a
cobbler from Hanover. He died 3 years earlier in 1867."3Census, Federal - 1860 - Sauk Co, WI, Franklin Twsp. "Name: Rudolf Jaeger
Age in 1860: 41
Birth Year: abt 1819
Birthplace: Bremen
Home in 1860: Franklin, Sauk, Wisconsin
Gender: Male
Post Office: White Mound
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members: Name Age
Rudolf Jaeger 41
Frederick Jaeger 10
Ursula Hemmy 56."
1S K Bretches, email, 3 Nov 2014. "Friedrich married Maria Salome Rohrbach on 25 Oct. 1763 in Ransweiler, Pfalz, Bavaria."
1S K Bretches, email, 3 Nov 2014. "Then it's their son Johann Ludwig Pritzius born 1773 in Bisterschied, he married Catherina Margretha Elisabetha Zimmerman abt 1795."
Catherina Margaretha Elisabetha ZIMMERMAN
1S K Bretches, email, 3 Nov 2014. "Then it's their son Johann Ludwig Pritzius born 1773 in Bisterschied, he married Catherina Margretha Elisabetha Zimmerman abt 1795."
1S K Bretches, email, 3 Nov 2014. "Then to their son, John Henry Britzius born 4 May 1800 at Bisterschied, married Catharina Kutscher in 1828 at Bisterschied. They came to America in 1832, settling in Ohio. At that time they had three children."
1S K Bretches, email, 3 Nov 2014. "Then to their son, John Henry Britzius born 4 May 1800 at Bisterschied, married Catharina Kutscher in 1828 at Bisterschied. They came to America in 1832, settling in Ohio. At that time they had three children."
1S K Bretches, email, 3 Nov 2014. "Then to their son, John Henry Britzius born 4 May 1800 at Bisterschied, married Catharina Kutscher in 1828 at Bisterschied. They came to America in 1832, settling in Ohio. At that time they had three children. My great-grandfather was one of them, Jacob Britzius, later spelled Bretches, born 14 Dec 1828, married Lydia Ann Shafer on 20 Jan 1856 in Anna, Shelby County, Ohio."
1S K Bretches, email, 3 Nov 2014. " My great-grandfather was one of them, Jacob Britzius, later spelled Bretches, born 14 Dec 1828, married Lydia Ann Shafer on 20 Jan 1856 in Anna, Shelby County, Ohio."
1McConnell, Bev, Thomas and Lucy Martindale, http://www.members.shaw.ca/bevmcconnell/. Bev Mc Connell, Edmonton, Alberta, T5Z1W6, Canada
http://www.members.shaw.ca/bevmcconnell/.
1Ancestry.com, MessageBoard. "I'm descended through John & Dianna (Harris) Martindale.
Their son Isaac Martindale married to Hannah Sexsmith." Looking For Chenoweth - Martindale - Guyer Family
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