Franz Joseph Dauenhauer Daunhauer

1795 - 1890  (94 years)

• Name	Franz Joseph Dauenhauer Daunhauer
  Nickname	Joseph
  Born	12 Oct 1795	Dahn, Pfalz   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Feb 1890	Ferdinand, Dubois County, Indiana, USA
  Person ID	I143164	Suedpfalz
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2017

  
  

  Father	Markus Dauenhauer,   b. 12 Dec 1767, Dahn, Pfalz
  Mother	Anna Maria Mayer,   b. 1769
  Married	Abt 1790
  Family ID	F59156	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sophia Reichert,   b. 24 Aug 1802, Dahn, Pfalz ,   d. 4 Jan 1861, Ferdinand, Dubois County, Indiana, USA  (Age 58 years)
  Married	27 Nov 1821	Dahn, Pfalz, Bayern   [1]
  Children	1. Simon Dauenhauer Daunhauer,   b. 7 Dec 1821, Dahn, Pfalz, Bayern ,   d. Spencer County, Indiana, USA   2. Peter Dauenhauer,   b. 17 Jan 1824, Dahn, Pfalz, Bayern ,   d. 26 Jan 1893, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA  (Age 69 years)   3. Maria Anna Dauenhauer,   b. 21 Mar 1826, Dahn, Pfalz, Bayern ,   d. 20 Apr 1918, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA  (Age 92 years)   4. Georg Dauenhauer,   b. 16 Dec 1828, Dahn, Pfalz, Bayern ,   d. 5 Jun 1829, Dahn, Pfalz, Bayern  (Age 0 years)   5. Jakob Nikolaus Dauenhauer Daunhauer,   b. 21 Jul 1830, Dahn, Pfalz, Bayern ,   d. 28 Nov 1911, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, USA  (Age 81 years)   6. Francis Joseph Daunhauer,   b. 1832, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. Troy, Spencer County, Indiana, USA   7. Catherine Daunhauer,   b. 12 Apr 1835, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 19 Nov 1895, Indiana, USA  (Age 60 years)   8. John Dauenhauer Daunhauer,   b. 18 Feb 1837, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 27 Mar 1928, Ferdinand, Dubois County, Indiana, USA  (Age 91 years)   9. Mary Magdaline Dauenhauer,   b. 1840, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 19 Nov 1895, Ferdinand, Dubois County, Indiana, USA  (Age 55 years)   10. Franklin Xavier Daunhauer,   b. 1843, Ferdinand, Dubois County, Indiana, USA ,   d. 23 Sep 1913, Daviess County, Kentucky, USA  (Age 70 years)   11. Franziska Margaret Dauenhauer,   b. 22 Oct 1844, Ferdinand, Dubois County, Indiana, USA ,   d. 21 Nov 1921, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, USA  (Age 77 years)
  Last Modified	1 May 2018
  Family ID	F59662	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  When Fr. Joseph Kundek invited German Catholics from the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville areas to come and settle in the new town of Ferdinand, many stout-hearted Germans came down the river to Troy and set out over land to the town. Many of them had seen advertisements published in 1840 in Der Wahreheitsfreund, a German-language Catholic weekly. The advertisement read: "The German Catholic congregation in Jasper, Dubois County, Indiana, has laid out a new town with the name ?Ferdinand? twelve miles south of Jasper on the Troy Road, about eighteen miles from the Ohio. In the middle of the town there is a Catholic church; in the neighborhood of the town there are about forty farmers, and more than 120 sections of Congress land - The region is healthful, the soil fertile. A German Catholic priest is appointed for it as soon as the congregation increases." The first arrivals expected to find a cluster of cabins set up in a clearing in the woods. Instead they only found a clapboard nailed to a big oak tree with the name ?Ferdinand? burnt in with an iron. Plans for the town existed merely on paper. Some of the settlers continued on to Evansville, but others decided to help build the town of Fr. Kundek?s dreams. Philip Wagner bought the first plot of land from Fr. Kundek, just south of the town limits. He built a two-story log house there, and it was here that Fr. Kundek celebrated the first Holy Mass in Ferdinand on April 22, 1840.

  
  

• Sources

  [S78] Familienregister Dahn 1805 - 1875, Alfons Helfrich, Gabriele Herold, (Pirmansenser Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Familienforschung, April 2000), 47. [S52] 1850 US Federal Census. Name: Joseph Downhuer Age: 55 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1795 Birth Place: Germany Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Ferdinand, Dubois, Indiana Family Number: 557 [S37] 1860 US Federal Census, (www.ancestry.com). Name: Joseph Daunhauer Age in 1860: 65 Birth Year: abt 1795 Birthplace: Bavaria / Bayern Home in 1860: Ferdinand, Dubois, Indiana Gender: Male Post Office: Ferdinand [S4] 1870 US Federal Census, (www.ancestry.com). [S38] 1880 US Federal Census.