_Jacob DEMOUTH ______+
| (1763 - 1835)
_James DEMOUTH ______|
| (1798 - 1859) m 1825|
| |_Deborah ____________
| (1767 - 1833)
|
|--Jesse DEMOUTH
| (1842 - 1863)
| _____________________
| |
|_Elizabeth LOZAW ____|
(1800 - ....) m 1825|
|_____________________
[4613] Jesse was a private in Company L of the 27th New Jersey Volunteers Infantry. He drowned while crossing the Cumberland River in Kentucky.
_Andread KNOLL __________
|
_Johann Adam KNOLL ______|
| (1778 - 1826) m 1808 |
| |_Susanne Marg STURMFELS _
|
|
|--Elizabeth Dorothea KNOLL Kneil Knell
| (1809 - 1888)
| _Philipp SCHODT _________
| | (1738 - ....) m 1760
|_Anne Margarethe SCHODT _|
m 1808 |
|_Anna Margarethe ________
m 1760
[1219]
1880 census for son Philip lists mother's birthplace as Darmstadt. Children were born in Canada.
Julie Rose - Christian Zimmerman Family Sheet 3 gives 1809 as birth year.
From Anna Zimmerman Nelson story:
Another person important to our family who came to Canada in 1832 was Elizabeth Knoll. Her home, Rolland discovered, was about four houses from the Zimmerman home. Whether the decision to come to Canada was mutual, or whether, as Anna Nelson recalled, their friendship on the long trip was the inspiration for their later marriage, we will never know.
Elizabeth's father had died and left the mother with a family to raise. Elizabeth had the same dream that many early colonists brought
to America ... that this was a land where one could get rich quickly and
then return home and make the lives of their loved ones easier. She
was determined to come to Canada. Her mother was very opposed to this
idea. She feared she would never see her child again. Elizabeth told
her Mother not to feel badly, that she would soon be back with a nice
little fortune to help her fatherless family. But she never went back.
Her
mother and grandmother lived to be very old, both reaching the, ripe old
age of about ninety years.In later years, she often spoke to her children about her brother, Philip,who seemed to have been an exceedingly clever and successful man. Her mother and Grandmother lived to be very old, both reaching the ripe old age of about ninety years.
Elizabeth and Christian complied with the custom of those days which was that a wedding must be announced for three successive Sundays in the church before the young people could be married. They were devoted to each other, and their wedded life was exceedingly happy. Elizabeth was a great help to her husband, not only in making a happy home for him, but also in clearing the timber from the land. She helped him pile and burn brush, and sometimes get the logs off the land. She did whatever else there was to do that a woman could do. She was always well, happy and busy, being of the industrious type of woman. She was of medium size and weight, with slightly rounded shoulders. In her later years, she became decidedly round-shouldered. Her eyes were very dark blue, and her hair a very dark brown, almost black. Her hair never turned gray, even in her last days.
.........
Elizabeth lived with her children in Minnesota until her death, October 18, 1888, at the Adam Zimmerman home three or four miles north of Preston. She was ill only a very short time. Early in the evening of October 18, when asked how she felt and whether she would have any supper, she replied that she did not need any supper, and that by ten o'clock she would be gone to her home in Heaven. Adam's family thought she was delirious, but really not seriously ill. Just before ten o'clock that evening, she passed quietly and peacefully away. No one realized she was going until she was gone. Then they remembered that she had said she would be gone by ten o'clock. She was 78 years and 9 months old. She is buried in the Preston cemetery, with services being held at the German Evangelical Church. Elizabeth had a certain strain of severity in her nature which, occasionally when conditions were right, showed itself. She was a fine disciplinarian and seemed to understand human nature better than most people. She was very tidy about her person, and her room, and was quite saving. She was always fair in her dealings with her fellow-man, but she also expected them to be fair with her. She disliked pictures and statuary very. much, and used to say, "ach solcha gotza" (Oh, such idols!) To her, they suggested images, and made her think of idolatry, which was considered a sin. This probably is the reason that we have only one photograph of her, and none of her husband. She was always glad to help along any good cause, but always had so little money to spend. Something always happened to her property because of Henry's mismanagement. She said she did not care much for money for her own use, but that she would like to have had money so that she might give to the church, and help the poor, and give wherever there was a need. She loved to go to church, but it hurt her not to have more to give. Hers was a beautiful life of hardship, sorrow and trials, culminating in a great and glorious victory, and how can we know but that the discipline of this lower life perfected her, and made her ready for that higher service above. "A home in Heaven; what a joyful thought As the poor man toils in his weary lot, His heart oppressed, and with anguish drives From his home below to his home in Heaven."
p. 28 The wife of the emigrant Christian Zimmerman from Altheim, Hauptstraze 35, was Elizabeth Knoll, who likewise came from Altheim. She came from the house at Hauptstraze 27 (today Hergert), therefore only a few houses farther on the same side of the street. Elizabeth Knoll emigrated to Canada in May of 1832 as did Christian Zimmerman. Therefore they did not become acquainted on the emigrant ship as descendants assumed, rather they must have decided together, back in Altheim, to emigrate to Canada. Elizabeth Knoll was born in Altheim. In earlier times, Altheim was also called Spitzaltheim, because the church in Altheim had a high pointed (spitzen) tower. Elizabeth Dorothea Knoll was born January 30, 1809, and died October 18, 1888 on the Adam Zimmerman farm in the U.S.A. at Preston in Minnesota, allegedly at the age of 76 years, 9 months. Her father in Altheim was Johann Adam Knoll, born October 21, 1778 in Klein-Umstadt (a neighboring village) son of Andread Knoll and Susanne Marg, nee Strumfels. He died in Altheim on January 26, 1806. He married Anne Margarethe, nee Schodt, in Altheim on June 2, 1808. She was from Altheim Hauptstraze 27. Of the eight brothers and sisters of Johann Adam Knoll, two died while yet children, three girls married into families from Altheim, Schaatheim and Harpertshau. Johann Adam Knoll was born August 30, 1813, and remained in the house and continued the line. The oldest daughter, Elizabeth Dorothea Knoll went, according to the traditions of the descendants, to Canada to help out the fatherless
p. 29 family with money. The father died at age 48 in 1826. However Knoll family was not without means at that time. Her mother's parents owned what for Altheim was quite a good piece of property at Hauptstraze 27. The parents, Philipp Schodt, born 1738, and Anna Margarethe Schodt, (married 1760) had two sons. Johann Martin and Johann Philipp who married someone from outside Altheim. The daughter, Anna Margarethe Schodt, stayed in her parents home and married Johann Adam Knoll from Klein Umstadt. In 1804 the property consisted of a two story house (that still stands today and has an arched gate), a barn and stable, on fourth Morgen (a measure of land six to nine tenths of an acre) garden, thirty four Morgen fields, three and three-fourths Morgen meadows, value of the property 200 florins. In 1848 the property was passed on to the son (inherited) who was again called Johann Adam Knoll, born August 29, 1813, and married Katherine Elizabeth Appell on June 12, 1836 (first wife). The son, Johann Nikolaus Knoll I took over the house and farm in 1871. His son was Johann Nikolaus Knoll II. His oldest daughter, Anna Marie Knoll, born February 5, 1817 married the farmer, Friedrich Heinrich Funck, who died at an advanced age, and passed the property on to the Hargert family. The farm yard had 617 sq. meters and the meadow 428 sq. M.
[9296] From a family history chart given to Dianne Stevens on 22 Apr 2006
_Enoch STEVENS ______+
| (1793 - ....) m 1811
_William STEVENS _____|
| (1823 - ....) |
| |_Sarah ELLIOTT ______+
| (1791 - ....) m 1811
|
|--Frederick STEVENS
| (1860 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Ellen Roxanna SMITH _|
(1840 - ....) |
|_____________________
Line 34 Household 14 Family 14
Stevens, William 45 M Farmer RE $10,000 personal $2000 b. Nova Scotia
Ellen 30 F Keeping House New Brunswick
Frederick 10 M MN
William4 M MN
Robert2 M MN
Smith, Emily 40 F New Brunswick
also listed with the family are three farm laborers
_William STEVENS __________+
| (1785 - 1869) m 1810
_Charles STEVENS _____|
| (1829 - 1917) m 1864 |
| |_Hannah HIGGINS ___________+
| (1787 - 1869) m 1810
|
|--Ina STEVENS
| (1869 - 1954)
| _John Carpenter PATRIQUIN _+
| | (1792 - 1884) m 1813
|_Catherine PATRIQUIN _|
(1835 - 1920) m 1864 |
|_Ann MATTATALL ____________+
(1797 - 1876) m 1813
[812]
Ina and her husband were witnesses for the wedding of Ina's brother Edmund to Flora Balis.
Ina taught at Spring Valley Center School, a one-room schoolhouse.
Paul R. Stevens personally knew Uncle Lennie and Aunt Ina whom he visited many times in Brodhead where they lived. When we moved to Reetz Road there was a lovely couple, the Dedricks, who lived 4 houses down. She was Mary. I don't recall his name. When they told me they were from Brodhead I thought it was interesting. At that time I knew about the Derricks but not the Dedricks. Unfortunately they moved away before we ever made the connection.
Line 15 Dwelling # 202 Family # 210
Dedrick Leonard Head b Sep 1871 age 28 m 3 yrs WI NY WI Farmer Rents
Ina wife Oct 1869 30 m 3 yrs Can/Eng Can/Eng Can/Eng Na 0 ch b./0 living
[817] next door is Leonard's birth family Peter and Sarah Dedrick, with 4 of their children.
Upper Londonderry Family # 25
Stevens, Mary age 58
Charles 39 - Farmer
Addison 5
Catherine 34
Jennie 2
Calvin 4
[819] I don't know if this census shows "Jane" for whom we have a birth record, or Ina for whom we have a history.
[9026] Contained in the papers received from Lonnie McManus on 23 Jan 2006.
_Johann Peter ZIMMERMAN _+
| (1773 - 1852)
_Johann Valentin ZIMMERMAN _|
| (1810 - 1837) |
| |_________________________
|
|
|--Johann Nickolaus ZIMMERMAN
| (1859 - 1916)
| _________________________
| |
|____________________________|
|
|_________________________
p.29 The son, Johann Nickolaus, born February .21, 1859 and died April 10, 1916, remained again in the house. (Family Book III, page 74). On February 9, 1873 he married Marie Gobel, born August 22, 1848, and died April 2, 1924. The three children were Katharine, born October 21, 1873; Elise, born June 10, 1879, and Johann Georg, born October 5, 1882.
P. 30 In 1907, Nikolaus Zimmerman had the old half-timbered house torn down, and the present house built with attic and superstructure over the gate, finished on the outside with rock or brick. In 1973, the sonin-law, Karl Hunkel, gained extra living space by adding a construction over the gatehouse. In the upper story, Karl Hunkel and his wife Hildegard, nee Haag, and their children Regina, Matthias and Carmen, live. The yard has 621 square meters, the meadow and grassed area behind it has 767 square meters.
p.29 The son, Johann Nickolaus, born February .21, 1859 and died April 10, 1916, remained again in the house. (Family Book III, page 74). On February 9, 1873 he married Marie Gobel, born August 22, 1848, and died April 2, 1924. The three children were Katharine, born October 21, 1873; Elise, born June 10, 1879, and Johann Georg, born October 5, 1882.
P. 30 In 1907, Nikolaus Zimmerman had the old half-timbered house torn down, and the present house built with attic and superstructure over the gate, finished on the outside with rock or brick. In 1973, the sonin-law, Karl Hunkel, gained extra living space by adding a construction over the gatehouse. In the upper story, Karl Hunkel and his wife Hildegard, nee Haag, and their children Regina, Matthias and Carmen, live. The yard has 621 square meters, the meadow and grassed area behind it has 767 square meters.