Jacob Egli

1810 - 1879  (69 years)

• Name	Jacob Egli
  Birth	27 Mar 1810	Strasbourg, Alsace, France
  Gender	Male
  Death	9 Jul 1879	Lockridge, Jefferson, Iowa, United States
  Person ID	I188	rrss
  Last Modified	26 Aug 2017

  
  

  Father	Johann Egli,   b. 16 Jun 1781, Freistett, Baden-Württemberg, Germany d. 28 Feb 1852, Strasbourg, Alsace, France (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Katharina Muller Gerber,   b. 1785   d. 21 May 1814 (Age 29 years)
  Marriage	4 Jan 1806	Eckbolsheim, Alsace, France   [1]
  Family ID	F47	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Barbara Roes,   b. 26 Jan 1817, Logelbach, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France d. 20 Aug 1888, Lockridge, Jefferson, Iowa, United States (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	10 Apr 1838	Alsace, France
  Family ID	F50	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 27 Mar 1810 - Strasbourg, Alsace, France Marriage - 10 Apr 1838 - Alsace, France Death - 9 Jul 1879 - Lockridge, Jefferson, Iowa, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S158] Amish Mennonites in Tazewell County, Illinois, Volume 3, page 196. Recalling footnotes from STAKER: Johannes/Jean Egli was born at Friestett, Baden June 16, 1781. On Jan. 4, 1806 at Eckbolsheim, Lower Alsace he married Catharina Müller, a daughter of Christian Müller and Maria Reis of Friestett. Their civil marriage entry gave their ages as 29 and 21. Catharina died at Eckbolsheim May 21, 1814. On Jan. 21, 1815 at Eckbolsheim Johannes/Jean remarried to Maria Geisert (found on the entry as 'Marie Geissert'). Their civil marriage entry described the groom as a cultivator living at Eckbolsheim, the widower of Catherine Miller, and a son of the deceased Chrétien Egli and Véronique Ernst. The bride was born at Friestett, Baden Jan. 27, 1782, a daughter of the deceased Georges Geissert who had died at Freistett Jan. 20, 1811, and Marie Bernert, who was present and consenting According to Dominique Dreyer's Emigrants Haut-Rhinois en Amérique 1800-1870, 36-year-old shop owner [Fr. proprietaire] Jacques Egli applied for a passport for himself, his wife, two brothers, and a servant at Colmar March 4, 1847. He came from Eckbolsheim and Wintzenheim, and gave his intended destination as New York. Jacob/Jacques Egli and his two half-brothers Johannes/Jean/John and Benjamin sailed from Le Havre on the Caspian, and arrived at New York April 3, 1847.