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Many Jews took part in the 1848 revolutionary uprisings in Germany. Bavaria was one of the main regions from which Jews came to America, and Bibergau was one town from which Jews left. By 1867, among 549 population of Bibergau, only 91 Jews (17% of the population) remained.
Isaac’s widow Harriet remarried and shortly thereafter was again widowed. Harriet resumed the use of the name Geisenberg for the rest of her life. Thomas Staten, who was in his twenties during the war, said that “during the war when Mrs. Bauers moved over onto the island, some of us followed her over there to be with her. She was a woman that worked hard herself; she would wash and iron and cook and milk her cows and work in the garden or field if it was necessary.
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Fanni’s son Low was born in February and died in August 1829. Carolina, the only child of Simon and Kehla, died in 1840, at the age of 13 years. And Simon and Fanni’s children Schela, Samuel, and Marle died shortly after their births, in 1841, 1842, and 1843. Simon was a single father for 18 months following Kehla’s death. In July of 1828, little Joseph, 3-year-old son of Simon and Bessla, died.
In 1841, the Jews of Vicksburg formed a congregation called the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation of the Men of Mercy. “Other steamboats helped make life enjoyable for Madisonians. These were the huge and famous Showboats, some carrying a full complement of circus entertainment that was quite comparable to shows traveling by rail. They had elephants, menagerie, ring performers and everything else comprising a circus. It often took a day and a half to disembark and set up the show.
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You can send your sympathy in the guestbook provided and share it with the family. You may also light a candle in honor of Ann Marie Swift or send a beautiful flower arrangement to the funeral service. Since Simon was about 30 at the time of his marriage to Bessla, the question arises whether Simon, like Bessla, had been previously married. It is possible that Simon had previously married and that he had fathered two children, a son born in 1816 named Moses and a daughter born in 1820 named Henrietta. Fanni and Simon named their firstborn son Low, the name of Fanni’s father Low Rau and Fanni’s little nephew Low Griebel who had died in 1826.
The one document connecting Moses and Henrietta Geisenberger to Bibergau is a family Bible containing a birth entry for Moses. That entry, made no earlier than 1857 but perhaps much later, records Moses Geisenberger’s birth in May 1816 in Bibergau. The same Bible records Henrietta Geisenberger’s birth in 1820 in Traustadt.
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At this time, in fact from the 1820’s to about 1880, Jewish immigration into the US almost entirely was made up of immigrants from Germany. In addition to the Yiddish name given to her at her birth, Jandel had two other personal names in her life. For clarity and continuity, I will refer to her only as Henrietta.
The brothers were so upset that, when the opportunity arose to sell the land to Temple Anshe Chesed as a cemetery, they sold it, in August 1864. In spite of the growing prosperity of the area, Henrietta had lost all her property during the war and was unable to raise sufficient money to meet the expense of taking testimony for her claim. In the States, on April 9,1865, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
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She was not like most the white ladies around here.” Thomas Staten lived on Henrietta’s place on Island 102 for 2 years. She had told him that she would not have slaves, everybody had a right to be free. Many times she had said she wanted all the people to be free and work for themselves like she did. Likely it was in late 1860 when Henrietta gave birth to a son she named Louis. Louis appears to have used the surname Smith during his childhood, including on the 1870 federal census. On the 1860 federal census, Henrietta’s family is enumerated as household # 45.
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The government file does not reflect the disposition of the claim. Below the design on the tombstone is a line of Hebrew writing. Henrietta’s name on her tombstone reads in the Hebrew script “Hannah daughter of Simon.” Also in Hebrew is given her date of death and date of burial and the year, according to the Jewish calendar. Henrietta’s daughter Bettie, attending school in New Orleans, met James “Jim” Witherow, the younger brother of Joe Witherow.
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Government documents agree that Mrs. Bauer’s husband died before the war, but seem to know only the name Bauer, not Smith. In 1840, the white population of the parish was 1,210 and the black population was 3,923; by 1860, the whites in Madison Parish numbered 1,293 and the blacks, 9,863. Marx Geissberger, Henrietta’s elderly widowed grandfather, died in Bibergau at age 84 on Jan 30, 1835, when Henrietta was only 5 years old. Low Rau possibly died before 1818, as a grandson was named for him in 1818.
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