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1880 United States Federal Census about Jacob Mitchell
Name: Jacob Mitchell
[Jacob Schlemmer]
Age: 32
Birth Year: abt 1848
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1880: Madison, St Joseph, Indiana
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: France
Mother's name: Cathrine Mitchell
Mother's Birthplace: France
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Occupation: Farmer
Cannot read/write:

Blind:

Deaf and Dumb:

Otherwise disabled:

Idiotic or insane:

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Household Members:
Name Age
Cathrine Mitchell 60
George Mitchell 23
Jacob Mitchell 32

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1860 United States Federal Census about Catherine Mitchel
Name: Catherine Mitchel
Age in 1860: 39
Birth Year: abt 1821
Birthplace: France
Home in 1860: Madison, St Joseph, Indiana
Gender: Female
Post Office: Woodland
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Household Members:
Name Age
Jacob Mitchel 56
Catherine Mitchel 39
Christina Mitchel 6
George Mitchel 4
Sophia Mitchel 2
John Tlemer 18
Jacob Tlemer 13
William Tlemer 4
Benjamin Mitchel 11

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August Rinehart, Mesa, Ariz. and his Aunt Eunice Frideger whose
gen. research material is in his possession. Auston Dobie,
Auglaize Co., who had the family bible printed in 1850. The
writing was done with a goose quill and too faded to be copied.
Michael and Magdalena REINHART came to this continent in the
1830's and probably landed at a port in the south, perhaps New
Orleans, as they had come from Alsace, France. They evidently
had a destination in mind for they took a steamboat up the
Mississippi River, probably the boat that sank off of Vicksburg.
They lost two daughters, all of their possessions, including
gold and silver. As a general rule when the Captain took
passengers from an European port for America the passengers
could only bring what they could carry as the more passengers he
could get on board the more money he would make. They probably
sailed from Europe leaving many of their belongings on the dock
to be picked through by those who gathered for this purpose.
Among their possessions was a musket loader which was in the
possession of Austin Dobie of Auglaize Co., Ohio. Upon his
death it was sold at auction. Soon the family was on its way
again, up the Mississippi to Marietta, Ohio, from there to Stark
Co., where they stayed for a few years. They finally moved on
down to Auglaize and Shelby Counties. ! LDS Anc. File Apr., 1994
TRBW-JX !From: Dona Van Voorst May 2000

From the records of the Old Court House Museum, Vicksburg, MS
GRAND LAKE CUTOFF Mile 511.0 AHP. Map 28 The exact date of the
natural cutoff at Grand lake has never been determined, but the
river had already abandoned its meander loop in that area when
Zadok Cramer first saw it in 1801. Cramer said that he could
trace the old bend way by the size of the willows, which were
still smaller in the old chanel than they were on either side of
it. Some years after the cutoff occurred, a small community
called Princeton grew up on the Mississippi side of the river
opposite Grand Lake. There was a steamboat landing at
Princeton, and the steamer Oronoko had stopped in front of it on
April 21, 1838, at a very early hour of the morning. A yawl was
put in the water to go to the landing to pick up a few
passengers. As the steamer waited for the yawl to return, a flue
collapsed and scalding steam swept down the length of the
Oronoko. Cargo, crew, and many of the deck passengers were blown
into the water. It was later estimated that 100 to 150
immigrants had been on the deck of the Oronoko. They had
recently arrived in New Orleans from Europe, and taken passage
on the boat to seek employment in Louisville, Pittsburgh, and
Cincinnati. Only a few had signed the boat's register, so their
names and the exact number were never acertained. The commotion
and loud cries in front of the landing had aroused most of the
citizens of Princeton. When they saw what had happened,they
helped wrestle the Oronoko to the bank, and carried many of the
injured to their homes. The disabled steamer was then towed
down to Vicksburg, Mississippi, with about 30 of the most
severely injured victims still on board. At Vicksburg, the
people of the town opened their homes to the victims and doctors
did what the could to ease the terrible suffering, but 16 of the
unlucky passengers died the next day. On Sunday, April 21,
1838, there was a mass funeral. The strangers, whose names
still were not known, were followed to the cemetery by a
procession many blocks long. The untimely deaths of so many
immigrants who had started up the river with high hopes for the
future had shaken the citizens of Vicksburg considerably, and
they were even more shocked when they learned that another
explosion on the Ohio River the same week had taken another 150
lives. A wave of concern and indignation swept the country, and
Congress passed the first legislation requiring steamboat
owners and operators to take measures to protect the lives of
their passengers. The Steamboat Act of 1838, however, proved to
be weak, controversial, and more talked aboutthan enforced.
Explosions, fires, snaggings, and collisions continued to mangle
or kill hundreds of human beings. Just above Princeton, at
Maryland Landing, there was another spectacular steamboat
accident in 1870. The steamer Nick Wall, which had been built
the previous year, was caught in a high wind, and blown onto a
snag. The boat sank rapidly and about 40 people drowned. It was
said that most of the dead had been deck passengers en route for
Texas, where they had hoped to find new homes and more
prosperity than they had enjoyed on the Upper Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers.
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Explosion on the Oronoko

. . . a small community

called Princeton grew up on the Mississippi side of the river

opposite Grand Lake. There was a steamboat landing at

Princeton, and the steamer Oronoko had stopped in front of it on

April 21, 1838, at a very early hour of the morning. A yawl was

put in the water to go to the landing to pick up a few

passengers. As the steamer waited for the yawl to return, a flue

collapsed and scalding steam swept down the length of the

Oronoko. Cargo, crew, and many of the deck passengers were blown

into the water. It was later estimated that 100 to 150

immigrants had been on the deck of the Oronoko. They had

recently arrived in New Orleans from Europe, and taken passage

on the boat to seek employment in Louisville, Pittsburgh, and

Cincinnati. Only a few had signed the boat's register, so their

names and the exact number were never acertained. The commotion

and loud cries in front of the landing had aroused most of the

citizens of Princeton. When they saw what had happened,they

helped wrestle the Oronoko to the bank, and carried many of the

injured to their homes. The disabled steamer was then towed

down to Vicksburg, Mississippi, with about 30 of the most

severely injured victims still on board. At Vicksburg, the

people of the town opened their homes to the victims and doctors

did what the could to ease the terrible suffering,but 16 of the

unlucky passengers died the next day. On Sunday, April 21,

1838, there was a mass funeral. The strangers, whose names

still were not known, were followed to the cemetery by a

procession many blocks long. The untimely deaths of so many

immigrants who had started up the river with high hopes for the

future had shaken the citizens of Vicksburg considerably, and

they were even more shocked when they learned that another

explosion on the Ohio River the same week had taken another 150

lives. A wave of concern and indignation swept the country, and

Congress passed the first legislation requiring steamboat

owners and operators to take measures to protect the lives of

their passengers. The Steamboat Act of 1838, however, proved to

be weak, controversial, and more talked aboutthan enforced.

Explosions , fires, snaggings, and collisions continued to mangle

or kill hundreds of human beings. Just above Princeton, at

Maryland Landing, there was another spectacular steamboat

accident in 1870. The steamer Nick Wall, which had been built

the previous year, was caught in a high wind, and blown onto a

snag. The boat sank rapidly and about 40 people drowned. It was

said that most of the dead had been deck passengers en route for

Texas, where they had hoped to find new homes and more

prosperity than they had enjoyed on the Upper Mississippi and

Missouri Rivers.
pilaukikuchi

pilaukikuchi


Explosion on the Oronoko

. . . a small community

called Princeton grew up on the Mississippi side of the river

opposite Grand Lake. There was a steamboat landing at

Princeton, and the steamer Oronoko had stopped in front of it on

April 21, 1838, at a very early hour of the morning. A yawl was

put in the water to go to the landing to pick up a few

passengers. As the steamer waited for the yawl to return, a flue

collapsed and scalding steam swept down the length of the

Oronoko. Cargo, crew, and many of the deck passengers were blown

into the water. It was later estimated that 100 to 150

immigrants had been on the deck of the Oronoko. They had

recently arrived in New Orleans from Europe, and taken passage

on the boat to seek employment in Louisville, Pittsburgh, and

Cincinnati. Only a few had signed the boat's register, so their

names and the exact number were never acertained. The commotion

and loud cries in front of the landing had aroused most of the

citizens of Princeton. When they saw what had happened,they

helped wrestle the Oronoko to the bank, and carried many of the

injured to their homes. The disabled steamer was then towed

down to Vicksburg, Mississippi, with about 30 of the most

severely injured victims still on board. At Vicksburg, the

people of the town opened their homes to the victims and doctors

did what the could to ease the terrible suffering,but 16 of the

unlucky passengers died the next day. On Sunday, April 21,

1838, there was a mass funeral. The strangers, whose names

still were not known, were followed to the cemetery by a

procession many blocks long. The untimely deaths of so many

immigrants who had started up the river with high hopes for the

future had shaken the citizens of Vicksburg considerably, and

they were even more shocked when they learned that another

explosion on the Ohio River the same week had taken another 150

lives. A wave of concern and indignation swept the country, and

Congress passed the first legislation requiring steamboat

owners and operators to take measures to protect the lives of

their passengers. The Steamboat Act of 1838, however, proved to

be weak, controversial, and more talked aboutthan enforced.

Explosions , fires, snaggings, and collisions continued to mangle

or kill hundreds of human beings. Just above Princeton, at

Maryland Landing, there was another spectacular steamboat

accident in 1870. The steamer Nick Wall, which had been built

the previous year, was caught in a high wind, and blown onto a

snag. The boat sank rapidly and about 40 people drowned. It was

said that most of the dead had been deck passengers en route for

Texas, where they had hoped to find new homes and more

prosperity than they had enjoyed on the Upper Mississippi and

Missouri Rivers.
pilaukikuchi

pilaukikuchi


Explosion on the Oronoko

. . . a small community

called Princeton grew up on the Mississippi side of the river

opposite Grand Lake. There was a steamboat landing at

Princeton, and the steamer Oronoko had stopped in front of it on

April 21, 1838, at a very early hour of the morning. A yawl was

put in the water to go to the landing to pick up a few

passengers. As the steamer waited for the yawl to return, a flue

collapsed and scalding steam swept down the length of the

Oronoko. Cargo, crew, and many of the deck passengers were blown

into the water. It was later estimated that 100 to 150

immigrants had been on the deck of the Oronoko. They had

recently arrived in New Orleans from Europe, and taken passage

on the boat to seek employment in Louisville, Pittsburgh, and

Cincinnati. Only a few had signed the boat's register, so their

names and the exact number were never acertained. The commotion

and loud cries in front of the landing had aroused most of the

citizens of Princeton. When they saw what had happened,they

helped wrestle the Oronoko to the bank, and carried many of the

injured to their homes. The disabled steamer was then towed

down to Vicksburg, Mississippi, with about 30 of the most

severely injured victims still on board. At Vicksburg, the

people of the town opened their homes to the victims and doctors

did what the could to ease the terrible suffering,but 16 of the

unlucky passengers died the next day. On Sunday, April 21,

1838, there was a mass funeral. The strangers, whose names

still were not known, were followed to the cemetery by a

procession many blocks long. The untimely deaths of so many

immigrants who had started up the river with high hopes for the

future had shaken the citizens of Vicksburg considerably, and

they were even more shocked when they learned that another

explosion on the Ohio River the same week had taken another 150

lives. A wave of concern and indignation swept the country, and

Congress passed the first legislation requiring steamboat

owners and operators to take measures to protect the lives of

their passengers. The Steamboat Act of 1838, however, proved to

be weak, controversial, and more talked aboutthan enforced.

Explosions , fires, snaggings, and collisions continued to mangle

or kill hundreds of human beings. Just above Princeton, at

Maryland Landing, there was another spectacular steamboat

accident in 1870. The steamer Nick Wall, which had been built

the previous year, was caught in a high wind, and blown onto a

snag. The boat sank rapidly and about 40 people drowned. It was

said that most of the dead had been deck passengers en route for

Texas, where they had hoped to find new homes and more

prosperity than they had enjoyed on the Upper Mississippi and

Missouri Rivers.
pilaukikuchi

pilaukikuchi

I had a very difficult time identifying and tracking Peter Schlemmer. I had started my work before the Alsace records were available on the Internet, and I could not find records for the years of the French Republic. Not knowing French, I finally figured out who the family was using information, going backwards, from later-written records. There are no immigration records for this family, according to sources in France. In the United States Pierre went by the name Peter.
Peter Schlemmer was born on October 6, 1815, in the village of Erckartswiller, Elsa? Lothringen, Frankreich/Deutschland, the oldest son of Jean Pierre Schlemmer and Catharina Barbara nee Saling. He had 9 siblings, two of whom were twins namedoline and Cretien. Caroline died at birth in 1825 and in Cretien, in 1826.
Peter came to America with his family in early 1835. His youngest sibling, my great-grandmother Katharina Maria Schlemmer, was the only one of the 10 children to be born in the US. Katharina was born, on April 3, 1835, in Stark, Ohio, where family stayed for 4 years. On February 28, 1839, Peter married Catharine Elisabetha Reinhardt who had arrived in Ohio in 1838, also from Erckartswiller. Soon Peter and Elisabeth moved with the rest of the Schlemmer family to Southeast of Monroeville, Indiana.
The house they lived in still stands at the corner of Hoagland and Lortie Roads. Peter and Catharine lived there in 1840, after which they the first of the family to move to northwest Indiana. The first of their five sons was born on their fan Madison Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, in 1841. This was John David, who was born on October 26, 1841. Following him were George in 1843, Andrew in 1846, and Jacob in 1847. In 1850 the area was struck by a scarlet fever epidemic. Tragically, in May of 1850, George and Andrew both died of the fever. This must have been especially difficult for Catharine, in particular, who was pregnant at the time. Only 2 months later, in July 1850, she gave birth to a healthy baby boy whom the couple named George William.
It was extremely difficult for me to find Peter and his family in 1850. I searched through the Madison and Marshall censuses line by line until I finally found him. I read the Schlemmer name as Slimer. This made it hard for me to find whenching for him again, as the name is spelled Tlimer in the Search Index. At any rate, Peter was still alive when the census was taken on October 12, 1850. Given his early death at age 35 to 37, it is a fair assumption that he, too, died of scarlet fever sometime between October 12, 1850, and January 27, 1852, when his widow married Jacob Mitchel.

Special thanks to Nancy Riffle for her help in finding the information about Peter?s sons George and Andrew and the scarlet fever epidemic.



Marriage to Catharine Elisabetha Reinhardt
1839 22 Feb Age: 23
Carroll Co., OH



Birth calculated from death record--June 5, 1897, aged 76 y, 7 mo.,
23 days


1870 United States Federal Census
about Jacob Mitchel
Name: Jacob Mitchel
Birth Year: abt 1805
Age in 1870: 65
Birthplace: W?aeurttemberg / Wurttemberg
Home in 1870: Madison, St Joseph, Indiana
Race: Mulatto
Gender: Male
Value of real estate: View image
Post Office: Mishawaka
Household Members:
Name Age
Jacob Mitchel 65
Catharine Mitchel 49
Sophia Mitchel 12
George Mitchel 15
William Slemmer 20


1860 United States Federal Census
about Jacob Mitchel
Name: Jacob Mitchel
Age in 1860: 56
Birth Year: abt 1804
Birthplace: W?aeurttemberg / Wurttemberg
Home in 1860: Madison, St Joseph, Indiana
Gender: Male
Post Office: Woodland
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Jacob Mitchel 56
Catherine Mitchel 39
Christina Mitchel 6
George Mitchel 4
Sophia Mitchel 2
John Tlemer 18
Jacob Tlemer 13
William Tlemer 4
Benjamin Mitchel 11
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I had a very difficult time identifying and tracking Peter Schlemmer. I had started my work before the Alsace records were available on the Internet, and I could not find records for the years of the French Republic. Not knowing French, I finally figured out who the family was using information, going backwards, from later-written records. There are no immigration records for this family, according to sources in France. In the United States Pierre went by the name Peter.
Peter Schlemmer was born on October 6, 1815, in the village of Erckartswiller, Elsa? Lothringen, Frankreich/Deutschland, the oldest son of Jean Pierre Schlemmer and Catharina Barbara nee Saling. He had 9 siblings, two of whom were twins namedoline and Cretien. Caroline died at birth in 1825 and in Cretien, in 1826.
Peter came to America with his family in early 1835. His youngest sibling, my great-grandmother Katharina Maria Schlemmer, was the only one of the 10 children to be born in the US. Katharina was born, on April 3, 1835, in Stark, Ohio, where family stayed for 4 years. On February 28, 1839, Peter married Catharine Elisabetha Reinhardt who had arrived in Ohio in 1838, also from Erckartswiller. Soon Peter and Elisabeth moved with the rest of the Schlemmer family to Southeast of Monroeville, Indiana.
The house they lived in still stands at the corner of Hoagland and Lortie Roads. Peter and Catharine lived there in 1840, after which they the first of the family to move to northwest Indiana. The first of their five sons was born on their fan Madison Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, in 1841. This was John David, who was born on October 26, 1841. Following him were George in 1843, Andrew in 1846, and Jacob in 1847. In 1850 the area was struck by a scarlet fever epidemic. Tragically, in May of 1850, George and Andrew both died of the fever. This must have been especially difficult for Catharine, in particular, who was pregnant at the time. Only 2 months later, in July 1850, she gave birth to a healthy baby boy whom the couple named George William.
It was extremely difficult for me to find Peter and his family in 1850. I searched through the Madison and Marshall censuses line by line until I finally found him. I read the Schlemmer name as Slimer. This made it hard for me to find whenching for him again, as the name is spelled Tlimer in the Search Index. At any rate, Peter was still alive when the census was taken on October 12, 1850. Given his early death at age 35 to 37, it is a fair assumption that he, too, died of scarlet fever sometime between October 12, 1850, and January 27, 1852, when his widow married Jacob Mitchel.

Special thanks to Nancy Riffle for her help in finding the information about Peter?s sons George and Andrew and the scarlet fever epidemic.

eayoung19 Peter & Catherine Schlemmer: Catherine and her second husband, Jacob Mitchel had 3 children after their marriage: Christena, George, & Sophia. Christena married George Washington Schlemmer, son of Philipp Henry Schlemmer and nephew of Peter Schlemmer, Catherine Rinehardt's first husband. Christena and George Washington Schlemmer are my mother's grandparents.

Catherine married Pierre (Peter) Schlemmer on 22 Feb 1839 in Carroll Co. OH. Pierre (son of Jean Pierre Schlemmer and Catharina Sali) was born on 6 Oct 1815 in Erckartswiller, Alsace-Lorraine, France; died in 1850 in Madison twp. St. Joseph Co. Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Schlemmer
2. Jacob Schlemmer was born on 16 Nov 1847 in St. Joseph County, IN; died on 20 Sep 1921 in Bremen, Marshall County, IN; was buried in Bremen Cemetary, Bremen, Marshall County, IN.
3. George "William" Schlemmer was born on 9 Apr 1854; died on 4 Sep 1924.

Catherine married Jacob Mitchel on 27 Jan 1852 in St. Joseph County, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Christine Marguereth Munsch. Christine was born in 1794 in France; died on 21 Apr 1838 in Princeton, Mississippi.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Death
1838 21 Apr Age: 44
On the Ship Oronoko when it exploded at Princeton, Mississippi.
Either she or her mother was killed when the Oronoko exploded while coming up the Mississippi. Not all names were recorded so I can't tell for sure if it was she or her mother who was killed.




Spouse and children
George Reinhardt
1793 ? 1830

Catharine Elisabetha Reinhardt
1810 ? 1897

Carl "Charles" Reinhardt
1817 ?

Christian Reinhardt
1819 ?

Sophia Reinhardt
1822 ? 1909