Franz Joseph Jakob Singer

1804 - 1887  (82 years)

• Name	Franz Joseph Jakob Singer
  Nickname	Jakob
  Born	14 Nov 1804	Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Apr 1887	Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA
  Buried	24 Apr 1887	Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA   [6, 7]
  Person ID	I49565	Suedpfalz
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2017

  
  

  Father	Johannes Georg Singer,   b. 14 Oct 1756, Steinseltz-Cleebourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France ,   d. 18 Dec 1812, Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Apollonia Schantz,   b. 5 Oct 1774, Erlenbach bei Dahn, Pfalz ,   d. 26 Jul 1834, Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz, Bayern  (Age 59 years)
  Married	Abt 1795
  Family ID	F22750	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maria Magdalena Zwick,   b. 9 Jun 1815, Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz ,   d. 2 Jan 1896, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA  (Age 80 years)
  Married	2 Oct 1834	Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz, Bayern   [1]
  Children	1. Franz Jakob Singer,   b. 14 Oct 1834, Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz, Bayern ,   d. 12 Dec 1912, Canton, Stark County, Ohio, USA  (Age 78 years)   2. Johannes Singer,   b. 5 Feb 1838, Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz, Bayern ,   d. 1901, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA  (Age 62 years)   3. Sybilla Singer,   b. 6 Feb 1841, Bruchweiler-Bärenbach, Pfalz, Bayern ,   d. 26 Oct 1928, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA  (Age 87 years)   4. Katharina Singer,   b. 20 Mar 1843, at sea ,   d. 13 Jan 1929, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA  (Age 85 years)   5. Sister Christina Singer,   b. 23 Nov 1846, Ohio, USA ,   d. 7 Jul 1915, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA  (Age 68 years)   6. George Singer,   b. 15 Mar 1848, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 29 Jan 1934, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA  (Age 85 years)   7. Sebastian Singer,   b. 21 May 1850, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 1 Mar 1926, Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 75 years)   8. John Adam Singer,   b. 23 Aug 1852, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 27 Aug 1928, Indian Run, Washington County, Ohio, USA  (Age 76 years)   9. Francis Singer,   b. 11 Oct 1854, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 17 Sep 1914, Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 59 years)   10. William Jacob Singer,   b. 11 Jan 1856, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 21 Oct 1865, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA  (Age 9 years)  [Adopted]   11. Helena Magdalena Singer,   b. 12 May 1857, Fulda, Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, USA ,   d. 2 Jan 1939, Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia, USA  (Age 81 years)
  Last Modified	1 May 2018
  Family ID	F22756	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Franz Jacob Singer immigrated with his family to the United States in April 1843 on board the packet ship La Duchesse d?Orleans. Jacob and Magdelena already had three children, and Magdelena was pregnant with a fourth child when they left for America. While attempting to board ship in Le Havre, France, they were delayed because of a question regarding their origin and citizenship. (In 1843 "Germany" did not exist, as we know it now. It was a conglomeration of independent states.) As a result of the postponement of the family's travel plans, and Magdelena's advancing pregnancy, Jacob and Magdelena's daughter Catherine was born during the Atlantic crossing on 20 Mar 1843. Fellow passengers took up a collection and presented the Singers with the equivalent of about $200 to celebrate Catherine's birth. La Duchesse d'Orleans arrived in New York on 22 Apr 1843. The route by which the family traveled to Ohio is not known, but Jacob Singer eventually brought his family to Monroe County, Ohio. He used the $200 given to him by his fellow passengers along with other money to purchase a tract of several hundred acres of land in what is now Lewisville, Ohio on Willis Creek. He turned this area into a prosperous farm. Despi te its name, the Duchesse d'Orleans was an American ship, according to Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-Riggers on Schedule: The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), p. 286. She was built in New York in 1838 by Webb & Allen, and from 1838 to 1852 belonged of the Havre Union Packet Line, and belonged to the Baltimore registry in 1866. Her measurements were as follows: ton nage: 798 (old custom house measurement) length: 155' 6" beam: 34' 2" depth of hold: 20' 6" The master, from 1838 to 1849, was Addison Richardson (d. Brooklyn 1872). Ibid., p. 340. The Duchesse d?Orleans was still in service as late as 1891. White, James Terry, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time (J.T. White, 1895), vol. 2, p. 263. Gi ven that La Duchesse d'Orleans is described as a "ship", it is important to recall the distinction between sloops, schooners, brigs and ships. The sloop, which was generally the smallest type, had a single mast, supporting a large fore-and-aft sail. The schooner likewise had fore-and-aft sails, generally with two masts but occasionally, even then, with three. The brig had two masts, but was square-rigged; that is, each mast supported several sails, which crossed from side to side of the vessel instead of lying fore-and-aft. Finally, the full-rigged ship had three masts, all of which were square-rigged. The nautical purists are careful not to use the word "ship" as a synonym for vessel, when brigs or schooners might be included in the term. A fifth type, the bark, began to be common in the 'thirties [1830's]. It had three masts, the first two of which were square-rigged and the third fore-and-aft. In size, it usually fitted in between the brig and the ship. On the whole, the relative size of the four main classes ran up-wards from the sloop through the schooner and brig to the ship. There was considerable overlapping, however, for the largest vessels in a lower category were generally of greater tonnage than the smallest in the next higher grade. Albion, p. 13. A "packet" does not represent a "type" of vessel, but its function ? i.e., a vessel that sails a set course on a regular schedule. In this respect the packet differs from the "transient" or "tramp" (which picks up cargoes wherever it can find them and carries them to whatever port business at the moment directs, with no set course of predetermined schedule) and from the "regular trader" (which limit itself to trade between two or more particular ports, but follows no fixed schedule). In order to maintain a regular schedule, more than one ship (all true packets were full-rigged ships) was required, and packets were organized into "lines" (the origin of the term "liner"); the earliest true line was the "Black Ball" line between New York and Liverpool, and the first sailings took place in January 1818. The Havre Union Line, to which the Duchesse d'Orleans belonged, was initiated in 1823.

  
  

• Sources

  [S15] Familienregister Bundenthal mit der Filialkirche Bruchweiler 1800 - 1875, Alfons Helfrich; Andreas Drieß, (Pirmasenser Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Familienforschung, September 2007), 240. [S81] 1840 US Federal Census. [S52] 1850 US Federal Census. [S37] 1860 US Federal Census, (www.ancestry.com). [S4] 1870 US Federal Census, (www.ancestry.com). Name: Jacob Singer Estimated birth year: abt 1804 Age in 1870: 66 Birthplace: Bavaria / Bayern Home in 1870: Jefferson, Noble, Ohio [S927] Obituary. Jacob Singer's obituary was written by his grandson, Rev. Isadore G. Heil: GONE Jacob Singer Sr. of near Fulda, departed this life Friday April 22nd 1887 of typhoid symptoms at the advanced age of 82 years, 5 months. The funeral services occurred at Fulda in the Roman Catholic Church Sunday, April 24th. The departed was born at Brucheveiler, Germany November 1804 was the 3d of 8 brothers and sisters all of whom he survived. In 1819 his father died, leaving him in the sole care of his mother. Being one of the oldest surviving children and his mother having no help, he spent nearly all of his time at hard work and he enjoyed excellent health. He, however, did not neglect the cultivation of his mind, but was a careful, thoughtful reader and culled an extensive fund of useful and practical information. In 1831 he was married to Machdalena Schwick to whom he had been a dutiful and faithful husband. In 1844 he left Brucheveiler, Germany with his family for America. After a voyage of 21 days, he arrived safely at New York ; from thence he plodded his way to Wills Creek, Monroe County, Ohio. After residing in Monroe County for 11 years, he sold his farm and removed to Colorado (which has since been changed to Rado) at which place he lived 21 years and having accumulated considerable wealth, he finally conceived that he was growing old and unable to work, divided his farm of nearly 400 acres among his children and purchased a lot of 80 acres near Fulda, intending this to be his last removal until he should be removed forever -- which it was. Mr. Singer was an upright and devoted Christian all his life. "As none are free from the faults and weaknesses to which the human race is heir, so the departed one no doubt had his. He displayed traits of character truly admirable and in the deliberation with which he prepared for the hour of dissolution and in the calmness and complacency with which he awaited the certain arrival of the grim Messenger, he set an example worthy of the closest imitation." He directed the arrangements for his departure to the Great Beyond with the utmost composure. His sole anxiety seemed to be for his surviving children, calling each one separately and all together to his bedside giving them advice. All preparations being made, he expressed his feelings in one sentence: "I am ready, come when It may." The departed was the father of 13 children, 55 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren, of whom 10, 50, and 5 respectively survive him. Our grandfather is gone, but his memory will ever hold a place in the hearts of his children and grandchildren one of whom pens this brief tribute. I.G.H. Jacob Singer's tombstone is an obelisk. The top contians a broken piece of stone... it was probably topped by a cross at one time. The following inscription appears on the base of tombstone: Here he sleeps from care and sorrow And the ills of earthy life Sleeps below no sad tomorrow With its bitterness of strife. Tom Singer showed a transcription of Jacob Singer's tombstone to Ernie Thode, M.A., Director of the Washington County (Ohio) Historical Center (5th & Washington Ave., Marietta, OH). Mr. Thode studied the inscription and translated it into German. In German, the inscription is rythmic and flows, being "much easier on the ear." It is theorized that the tombstone insctiption is the stonecutter's translation from German to English. The inscription of Jacob's wife, Magdalena, is on the back of the obelisk. [S8] Information from an informant - Auskunft eines Informanten - Information d'un informateur. Proposed Change: Franz Jakob Singer (I49576)Tree: Südpfalz / Southern PalatinateLink: http://www.birkenhoerdt.net/getperson.php?personID=I49576&tree=SuedpfalzDescription: Jacob Singer's obituary was written by his grandson, Rev. Isadore G. Heil:GONE Jacob Singer Sr. of near Fulda, departed this life Friday April 22nd 1887 of typhoid symptoms at the advanced age of 82 years, 5 months. The funeral services occurred at Fulda in the Roman Catholic Church Sunday, April 24th. The departed was born at Brucheveiler, Germany November 1804 was the 3d of 8 brothers and sisters all of whom he survived. In 1819 his father died, leaving him in the sole care of his mother. Being one of the oldest surviving children and his mother having no help, he spent nearly all of his time at hard work and he enjoyed excellent health. He, however, did not neglect the cultivation of his mind, but was a careful,thoughtful reader and culled an extensive fund of useful and practical information. In 1831 he was married to Machdalena Schwick to whom he had been a dutiful and faithful husband. In 1844 he left Brucheveiler, Germany with his family for America. After a voyage of 21 days, he arrived safely at New York ; from thence he plodded h is way to Wills Creek, Monroe County, Ohio. After residing in Monroe County for 11 years, he sold his farm and removed to Colorado (which has since been changed to Rado) at which place he lived 21 years and having accumulated considerable wealth, he finally conceived that he was growing old and unable to work, divided his farm of nearly 400 acres among his children and purchased a lot of 80 acres near Fulda, intending this to be his last removal until he should be removed forever-which it was.Mr. Singer was an upright and devoted Christian all his life. "As none are free from the faults and weaknesses to which the human race is heir, so the departed one no doubt had his. He displayed traits of character truly admirable and in the deliberation with which he prepared for the hour of dissolution and in the calmness and complacency with which he awaited the certain arrival of the grim Messenger, he set an example worthy of the closest imitation." He directed the arrangements for his departure to the Great Beyond with the utmost composure. His sole anxiety seemed to be for his surviving children, calling each one separately and all together to his bedside giving them advice. All preparations being made, he expressed his feelings in one sentence: "I am ready, come when It may."The departed was the father of 13 children, 55 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren, of whom 10, 50, and 5 respectively survive him. Our grandfather is gone, but his memory will ever hold a place in the hearts of his children and grandchildren one of whom pens this brief tribute. I.G.H.Jacob Singer's tombstone is an obelisk. The top contains a broken piece of stone... it was probably topped by a cross at one time. The following inscription appears on the base of tombstone:Here he sleeps from care and sorrow and the ills of earthy life Sleeps below no sad tomorrow with its bitterness of strife.Tom Singer showed a transcription of Jacob Singer's tombstone to Ernie Thode, M.A., Director of the Washington County (Ohio) Historical Center (5th & Washington Ave., Marietta, OH). Mr. Thode studied the inscription and translated it into German. In German, the inscription is rhythmic and flows, being "much easier on the ear." It is theorized that the tombstone inscription is the stonecutter's translation from German to English. The inscription of Jacob's wife, Magdalena, is on the back of the obeliskHow to send Photo of Marker????William Vogler William Vogler