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The brothers were so upset that, when the opportunity arose to sell the land to Temple Anshe Chesed as a cemetery, they sold it, in August 1864. Did Henrietta and her son travel to Vicksburg for the auspicious occasion of the dedication of the new Temple? If she did, was she overcome with feelings upon hearing Jewish hymns sung in her native German language. The war had been bad, but the period of Carpetbag Rule following the war is said to have been worse and has been described as chaos. Henrietta’s life must have been chaos, as she was adjudicated bankrupt at this time.
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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Jannet Rau, also called by the Jewish name Schoela, had a maiden name of Ziegenheimer. Her family was from another Bavarian town named Oettingen. The one document connecting Moses and Henrietta Geisenberger to Bibergau is a family Bible containing a birth entry for Moses. That entry, made no earlier than 1857 but perhaps much later, records Moses Geisenberger’s birth in May 1816 in Bibergau. The same Bible records Henrietta Geisenberger’s birth in 1820 in Traustadt.
After the war, Henrietta returned with her children to Milliken’s Bend. Perhaps Henrietta followed the wartime career of her former neighbor Dr. Henry Wirz. During the war, Captain Wirz commanded the Confederate prison at Andersonville, GA. 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. Lizzie Reed and Thomas Staten saw the Union boat take the flat boat loaded with corn being brought from Island 102 to Milliken’s Bend.
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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. On the 1860 federal census, Henrietta’s family is enumerated as household # 45.
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Turner Johnson was in the 49the Infantry, a black Union Army unit. Those he would visit told Turner Johnson that Henrietta was a good woman for them to be with, that she treated them right and was on the Republican side, that she was on their side. On Island 102, Henrietta lived on her own place, bought before her husband died.
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.
Isaac Geisenberg, son of Simon and Bessla, married a young woman named Harriet Dreyfus, also from Bavaria, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Dec 1, 1849. The couple settled across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg in the community of Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana, and Isaac became first a planter and then a grocery keeper. Marx Geissberger, Henrietta’s elderly widowed grandfather, died in Bibergau at age 84 on Jan 30, 1835, when Henrietta was only 5 years old. 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.
Simon was a single father for 18 months following Kehla’s death. In July of 1828, little Joseph, 3-year-old son of Simon and Bessla, died. Two months later, on September 26, 1828, Bessla and Kehla’s sister Feila, called “Fanni,” married Simon in Bibergau. Described in the Bibergau records as the widower of Bessla and Kehla, Simon was now 38 years old. Simon and Fanni’s household numbered five, with three children, namely, Lazarus , 12 years, Isaac, 6 years, and Carolina, 1 year old. Since Simon was about 30 at the time of his marriage to Bessla, the question arises whether Simon, like Bessla, had been previously married.
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Addison, VT; Laurie Shelburne, VT; Deanna Payne South Burlington, VT, and foster daughter Debra McDurfee of Colchester. Sixteen grandchildren, Twenty-two great grandchildren and six great-great grandchildren. A sister Lorraine Mathieu, Williston, VT, and many nieces and nephews. The Jewish cemetery at Schwanfeld, the final resting-place for the Geisenberg family in Germany, is today in very good condition, maintained by the Hempel family.
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. 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.
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