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- [S3] Sonstiges, www.drapers.us/Jesberg/.
Weigent Jesberg, served 18 years in the German Army and was in the Napoleon war. We don?t know if the Jesberg?s were party to any of these revolutions, or what their economical position was. But, they decided to leave and sometime between 1849 and 1852, about the age of 50, they immigrated to the United States. If they left because of the revolution, it?s ironic, that ten years later, they would have at least one son and one grandson fighting in the United States?s bloodiest war, the Civil War. Their oldest daughter, Elizabeth, had married Jacob Dersch and had 4 children in Hesse between 1866 and 1854. They came over in 1857 and had two more children in St. Joseph, MO in 1860 and 1864. The Jessberg?s second oldest child, a daughter, Agnes, and Fredrick Bauer had a daughter in Hesse in 1856. She and her daughter were in Indiana in 1860. She and Fredrick had another daughter in Indiana in 1864.
So the Jesbergs probably came to the United States with their 5 younger children. They settled in New Albany, Indiana which is situated along the Ohio River opposite Louisville, Ky. The steamboat industry was the engine of the city's economy during the mid-19th century. At least half-dozen shipbuilders were in operation, and turning out a multitude of steamboats, including the Robert E. Lee. Shipbuilding was accompanied by a wide range of ancillary business, including machine shops, foundries, cabinet and furniture factories, and silversmith shops. Its second largest business was the American Plate Glass Works. By 1850, New Albany was the largest city in Indiana.
This booming city must have been good for William?s tailoring profession. Their family continued to grow. In 1853, their daughter, Anna Gertrude, married Johannes Stadler. They had a daughter, Mary, in 1856/7 in Indiana. William?s son Henry and his wife, Mary, also had a daughter named Mary in 1856/7 in Indiana. In 1857, William?s oldest child, Elizabeth, her husband Jacob Dersch, and 4 of their children rejoined the family. They sailed from Bremen, Germany to New Orleans. They then probably traveled by paddlewheel steamboat up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to New Albany. After a few months, the Derschs moved on to St. Joseph, Missouri. In fact much of the Jesberg family eventually moved there. But William and Catherine stayed in New Albany as did their son, Henry, and his family.
St. Joseph was on the Missouri River and was a bustling outpost and rough frontier town. To the west, across the Missouri, was Indian Territory. In fact this Northwest corner of Missouri Territory had just been ?purchased? from the Indians in 1836 and St. Joseph was only incorporated in 1843. So it was ?new? country and fliers were circulating inviting settlers to the area. St. Joseph served as a last supply point and jumping off point over the Missouri River toward the "Wild West", this due largely to the fact that it was the westernmost point in the United States accessible by rail until after the American Civil War. Thus wagon trains formed here while waiting for the grass to green up enough in the spring to support the horses on the journey west. St. Joseph was the eastern end of the Pony Express route in 1860. When construction on the transcontinental line began the furthest west point for a rail service was the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad connection at the Missouri River at St. Joseph, Missouri. However, Missouri as a border state was considered too strategically vulnerable in the Civil War and so the decision was made to build the line further north. Thus St. Joseph was bypassed with the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869.
By the 1860 census:
William and Catherine Jesberg, both 60 years of age, are living in New Albany, Floyd Co., Indiana with 4 kids, John who is 25 years old, Christopher 19, Anna 30, and Catherine 15, and their granddaughter, Anna 3. William, John, and Christopher are all tailors. We don?t know were Anna?s husband was but maybe he has gone on to St. Joseph where Anna and he will eventually raise their family but he was back in 1864 to have another child in Indiana.
Henry, age 35, has moved about a 100 miles north to Bradford., IN and is also a tailor. He and his wife, Mary who is 24 have two children, Mary 3 and Kate 1.
Jacob Dersch, age 58 years, is in St. Joseph with his wife, Elizabeth, 59, and 5 children. The youngest, Louisa, was born in Missouri in 1859 or 1860. Later in Jan 1864, they had another daughter, Emma, in Missouri. Jacob is a Laborer but later he will become a tailor also.
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