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She was not like most the white ladies around here.” Thomas Staten lived on Henrietta’s place on Island 102 for 2 years. She had told him that she would not have slaves, everybody had a right to be free. Many times she had said she wanted all the people to be free and work for themselves like she did. Likely it was in late 1860 when Henrietta gave birth to a son she named Louis. Louis appears to have used the surname Smith during his childhood, including on the 1870 federal census. On the 1860 federal census, Henrietta’s family is enumerated as household # 45.
The government file does not reflect the disposition of the claim. Below the design on the tombstone is a line of Hebrew writing. Henrietta’s name on her tombstone reads in the Hebrew script “Hannah daughter of Simon.” Also in Hebrew is given her date of death and date of burial and the year, according to the Jewish calendar. Henrietta’s daughter Bettie, attending school in New Orleans, met James “Jim” Witherow, the younger brother of Joe Witherow.
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Henrietta likely never knew or could remember any of her grandparents. Simon and Fanni were married for 36 years and had 11 children, born in the years 1829 to 1845. Simon Geissberger, born about 1790 in Bibergau, was the son of Marx and Jenta Geissberger. Marx Geissberger, born about 1750, had been about 40 years old when Simon was born. Shutzjude is a Jew who enjoyed some privilege, as, for example, a Jew who was allowed by exception to live where Jews were not ordinarily allowed to live.
At this time, in fact from the 1820’s to about 1880, Jewish immigration into the US almost entirely was made up of immigrants from Germany. In addition to the Yiddish name given to her at her birth, Jandel had two other personal names in her life. For clarity and continuity, I will refer to her only as Henrietta.
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In the years before the Civil War, the western movement was in progress, aided by steamboats on the Mississippi River. From its beginning in 1811, steamboat traffic on the Mississippi River steadily increased. Gertrude Philippsborn, a local historian of the Vicksburg, Mississippi, area concluded that people moved to Millikin’s Bend because it was the big harbor for Vicksburg and money was made there.
On the top of Henrietta’s tombstone appears to be a clasped hands design. Tombstone of Henrietta Bauer , Anshe Chesed cemetery, Vicksburg, MS. The Kiersky brothers bought the tract of land where the Jewish cemetery is located in 1862. The site was the scene of heavy and important fighting in the siege of Vicksburg in 1863.
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However, it was in the same year as these riots, in March 1819, that Solomon died. In January 1816 Bessla and Solomon became the parents of a son, whom they named Lazarus. According to the common Jewish naming practice, their son Lazarus was named for Solomon’s deceased father.
This is the fee for the services the funeral home will provide during a funeral or memorial service. This is generally required if you would like to hold the service at the funeral home or if you will be needing any assistance from the staff for the service. The construction of the railroad, on which trains were regularly running to Monroe, Louisiana, over 75 miles of track, ceased in 1861. When the Union army came to the area, the Confederate army destroyed the tracks to Monroe in order to prevent the Union army from using it. For their part, the Union army burned the railway stations at Tallulah and DeSoto, Louisiana, the town across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg.
Given that Bettie was only 16 years old at the birth of her first child, I suspect that she did. Perhaps Henrietta wrote to her mother Fanni about Fanni’s American great-grandchildren. Fanni continued to live in Bibergau as a widow after the passing of her husband Simon; her burial in the Schwanfeld Jewish Cemetery is recorded as taking place on January 4, 1876. In Germany, Henrietta’s father Simon Geisenberg died April 4, 1865, at age 74. He was buried in Schwanfeld, a town about 8 miles from Bibergau, in the Jewish cemetery purchased in 1579 and used by the Bibergau Jewish community for hundreds of years.
On the night of April 14, Lincoln was shot, and he died on the morning of April 15, 1865. Generals Grant and Sherman prepared to take Vicksburg with about 30,000 troops. She was compelled to hide from the Confederates or guerrillas through fear of them.
By reason of her expressions in favor of the Union cause she had to leave Madison Parish, Louisiana, and remove to what was known as Island No. 102. Lizzie Reed also lived on Henrietta’s place on Island 102 during the war, to keep from getting killed by the guerillas. In the 1840s and 1850s enterprising private operators began ferry service across the Mississippi to Vicksburg. There were also roads in the Parish, dirt roads that were dusty in dry seasons and muddy axle-deep in wet seasons.
Plank bridges lacked railings to prevent horse-drawn vehicles from falling over the sides. She was a middle child in the family, with Lazarus 14 years older than she, Isaac, 7 years older, and Carolina, 3 years older. Then there were her nine full siblings, of which she was the oldest, who ranged from Rifka, 2 years younger than she, to Joseph, 15 years younger than she. The rise of German nationalism in the 19th century was tainted with anti-Semitism. In 1819 one anti-Semitic persecution that broke out was called the “Hep!
Milliken’s Bend, also called “the Bend,” was a community located about miles north of Vicksburg, on the western bank of the Mississippi River in Madison Parish, Louisiana. In keeping with the practice of the time, the village had been named for the largest property owner at that bend in the river, John Milliken. With millions of names, it's an invaluable tool for genealogist and history buffs.
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