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Nevertheless, the railroad was good for the Parish, and Leopold and Henrietta may have attended the celebration in September 1857. Henrietta was in the last months of pregnancy at that time. Many people moved to Madison Parish, both white and slave. In 1840, the white population of the parish was 1,210 and the black population was 3,923; by 1860, the whites in Madison Parish numbered 1,293 and the blacks, 9,863. 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.
One of the old towns in Bavaria was Gunzenhausen, a town established in 1349. In the late 1700s, one family living in Gunzenhausen was the Jewish family of Loew Rau and his wife Jannet. Loew Rau was a Levite, so he is named in some records as Loew Levi. He was also called Loew Joseph or Loew ben Joseph, which means, Loew the son of Joseph. Jannet Rau, also called by the Jewish name Schoela, had a maiden name of Ziegenheimer.
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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. Among her neighbors she was known as a Union sympathizer. Henrietta had been living on the Island for a while when, in 1862 and again in 1863, Union soldiers confiscated her goods. The Union soldiers took 600 cords of wood worth $5 each, 50 hogs worth $5 each, 5 cattle worth $30 each, and 500 bushels of corn worth $1.50 each.
Low Rau possibly died before 1818, as a grandson was named for him in 1818. Henrietta likely never knew or could remember any of her grandparents. Loew and Jannet had sons named Moses and Jacob and daughters named Bessla, Kehla and Feila. In 1880 most of the inhabitants of Milliken’s Bend relocated to a new site one mile west of the old town, due to encroachment by the river. The original site of Milliken’s Bend has ceased to exist since the last family left in 1916. The Joe Witherow family left the “old” Bend in 1910, the next to last family to leave.
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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. Henrietta’s daughter Bettie, 14, was attending school in New Orleans. Some of the children in the family died in childhood. Fanni and Simon named their firstborn son Low, the name of Fanni’s father Low Rau and Fanni’s little nephew Low Griebel who had died in 1826. Fanni’s son Low was born in February and died in August 1829. Carolina, the only child of Simon and Kehla, died in 1840, at the age of 13 years.
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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. However, he identified himself as Louis Bowers as an adult. One record says that Henrietta and Leopold divorced and that Leo moved to St. Louis. Henrietta is said to have remarried a Louis Smith, who died shortly thereafter, and was the father of her son.

Her family was from another Bavarian town named Oettingen. With heavy hearts, we announce the death of Lloyd Bartley of Tompkinsville, Kentucky, who passed away on July 3, 2022 at the age of 87. Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of Lloyd Bartley to pay them a last tribute.. In our time of sorrow and need I was so pleased to see Chris Bartley walk into my home.
From casket choices to funeral flowers, we will be there to assist you through all aspects of the funeral service, and thereafter. Henrietta’s first grandchild, Bettie and Jim’s daughter Henrietta Jane Witherow was born July 18, 1874, at Waggaman, La. The following year, Henrietta’s first grandson Joseph Francis Witherow was born in December 1875. Did the new grandmother, perhaps with her daughter Jennie, make trips to Waggaman to help the new mother and cuddle the new babies? 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.

Born in Harrisburg, PA he moved to Bradenton 50 years ago from Philadelphia, PA. . Henrietta moved to Island 102 after the Union army came to the Vicksburg area. Island 102 was an island in the middle of the Mississippi River, about 4 miles above Milliken’s Bend, where nearby Union soldiers could protect the family. Union headquarters was at Young’s Point—about 12 miles from where Henrietta lived.
Sadly, Kehla did not survive the birth of her daughter. Simon was again left a widower with four children, namely Lazarus , 11 years, Isaac, 4 years, Joseph, 1 year, and Carolina, a newborn infant. Went home to her Lord on August 26, 2022, peacefully through the night at home. Lois was born in Ashland KY, on May 25, 1956 to the late Arville and Mae Rice Hensley. She is retired from Atrium Medical Center Environmental Services..
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. Incidentally, household #46 in the village of Milliken’s Bend was that of Dr. Henry Wirz, a physician born in Switzerland. The construction of this railroad was ultimately disastrous for the future of Milliken’s Bend because the train did not run through the little port town.
Government documents agree that Mrs. Bauer’s husband died before the war, but seem to know only the name Bauer, not Smith. Jewish settlers also came to the Vicksburg and Millikin’s Bend area. They came overwhelmingly from German areas, such as Bavaria, Baden, Alsace-Lorraine, but also Prussia. 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.

From the early morning hours right after Chucks death until the funeral and beyond, the support was and is still there. I want you to be assured that you will find no better service or family to work with than that of Bartley-Anderson. Henrietta’s daughter Bettie, attending school in New Orleans, met James “Jim” Witherow, the younger brother of Joe Witherow. Jim came to New Orleans from Ireland in 1856, worked on the NO & Jackson Railroad under Union General Ben Butler during the war, and continued to follow railroading after the war. Bettie, age 15 years, and Jim, age 28 years, eloped, marrying in New Orleans on May 23, 1873.
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