Family: Johann Egli / Maria Geissert (F48)

• Male Johann Egli

  
  

  Birth	16 Jun 1781	Freistett, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  Death	28 Feb 1852	Strasbourg, Alsace, France
  Burial
  Marriage	21 Jan 1815  [1]	Eckbolsheim, Alsace, France  [1]
  Other Spouse	Katharina Muller Gerber | F47
  Marriage	4 Jan 1806	Eckbolsheim, Alsace, France
  Father	Christian Egli | F49 Group Sheet
  Mother	Veronica Ernst | F49 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Maria Geissert

  
  

  Birth	27 Jan 1782	Freistett, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  Death	1852
  Burial
  Father	Georges Geissert | F446 Group Sheet
  Mother	Marie Bernert | F446 Group Sheet

  
  

  Male John (Johann) Egli

  
  

  Birth	16 Jun 1821	France
  Death	11 Dec 1907	Minier, Tazewell, Illinois, United States
  Burial		Hopedale, Tazewell, Illinois, United States
  Spouse	Magdalena Gascho | F18
  Marriage	10 Feb 1850	Zurich, Ontario, Canada

  
  

  Male Benjamin Egli

  
  

  Birth	27 Aug 1830	Strasbourg, Alsace, France
  Death	Abt 1900	Tazewell, Illinois, United States
  Burial
  Spouse	Magdalina (Egli) | F426
  Marriage	1856

  
  

• 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.