Benjamin Egli

1830 - Abt 1900  (69 years)

• Name	Benjamin Egli
  Birth	27 Aug 1830	Strasbourg, Alsace, France   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1900	Tazewell, Illinois, United States
  Person ID	I174	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	Maria Geissert,   b. 27 Jan 1782, Freistett, Baden-Württemberg, Germany d. 1852 (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	21 Jan 1815	Eckbolsheim, Alsace, France   [5]
  Family ID	F48	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Magdalina (Egli),   b. Apr 1832, France d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1856  [3]
  Family ID	F426	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 27 Aug 1830 - Strasbourg, Alsace, France Death - Abt 1900 - Tazewell, Illinois, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S156] New York, Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1820-1850. [S1] 1870 United States Federal Census, Year: 1870; Census Place: Deer Creek, Tazewell, Illinois; Roll: M593_283; Page: 23A; Family History Library Film: 545782. Egli Benjamin_18700000_United States, Illinois, Tazewell, Deer Creek_Residence_MID370.jpg [S12] 1900 United States Federal Census, Year: 1900; Census Place: Deer Creek, Tazewell, Illinois; Roll: 347; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0136; FHL microfilm: 1240347. Egli Benjamin_19000000_United States, Illinois, Tazewell, Deer Creek_Residence_MID371.jpg [S11] 1880 United States Federal Census, Year: 1880; Census Place: Deer Creek, Tazewell, Illinois; Roll: 253; Family History Film: 1254253; Page: 412C; Enumeration District: 241. Egli Benjamin_18800000_United States, Illinois, Tazewell, Deer Creek_Residence_MID372.jpg [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.