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- From 2Manitowoc.com website:
https://www.2manitowoc.com/freissjacobfamhist.html
JACOB FREISS
Philipp Jacob Freiss was born 20 Feb 1810 in the small town of Krastel in the Hunsrück region of the Rhineland. His parents were Franz Adam Freiss and Anna Margaretha Printz. Jacob was the youngest of nine children, six of whom died in infancy. His parents both had died by the time Jacob was four years old. Also surviving was a sister, Catharina Margaretha, age 14, and a brother, Philipp Nicolaus, age 7. It’s not known who raised the children.1
In Kastellaun on 30 Dec 1837 Jacob married2 Maria Margaretha Schneider (born 08 Mar 18083 in Hasselbach to Johann Nicolaus Schneider and Maria Catharina Leonhard [Lenhardt]). They resided in Hasselbach, where he farmed and learned to weave, and where Anna Catharina was born 24 Jan 18394 and Maria Margaretha was born 04 Mar 1840 5.
The family relocated to Silesia about 1841, where son Friedrich was born 12 Nov 18426. They emigrated in 18537, arriving in New York in May, apparently going directly to Manitowoc County and settling in Centerville. Shortly before emigrating they posed for a family portrait in Staucha8, Silesia.
Philipp Jacob Freiss family (ca. 1852) l.to r. standing – Friedrich, Anna Catharina, Maria Margaretha seated – Maria Margaretha (nee Schneider), Philipp JacobThey farmed in Centerville. Wife Maria Margaretha died in the spring of 1870 and was probably buried in a Centerville cemetery, though there is no known formal record of her death in the county records nor a pertinent entry or marker from any of the cemeteries. That same year Jacob and his son Friedrich moved to Gibson and bought farms. He wove the rug for the altar of St. John Lutheran Church in Gibson in 1882. On 22 Oct 1883 he was in the field cutting red clover for seed when he had a stroke, went home to bed, and half hour later was found dead9. He is buried in St. Johns Cemetery, Gibson10.
Jacob & Maria Margaret Freiss, ca. 1869Daughter Catherine married in Two Rivers in 185611 to Joseph Edward Schwab, who had emigrated from Polnischwette, Silesia, in May, 185412, and they lived in Two Rivers where Joseph operated a retail store. They had one child, Mary13. They also raised their nephew, Joseph E. (Staeffler) Schwab (see below). The elder Joseph died in Two Rivers, 27 Nov. 188614; Catherine died 08 Oct. 191215 while visiting relatives in St. Paul, Minn. Both are buried in Pioneer Rest Cem., Two Rivers16.Daughter Maria Margaretha married in Two Rivers on 18 Oct 185617 to Friedrich Staeffler18, (the son of Johann Christian Staeffler and Maria Catharina Christ) who in 1851 had emigrated from Kastellaun in the Hunsrück19. The couple had five children before Maria Margaretha perished in a fire in March 186620. Her youngest child, 4-month old Joseph Edward, was given to her sister Catherine to raise, he assuming the Schwab surname. Maria is buried in Schwartzwald Church Cemetery in Sheboygan Co. Friedrich Staeffler remarried in Sheboygan Co., 17 July 186621, to Louisa Prueter (daughter of Carl Heinrich Daniel Prueter) who had emigrated from Neu Bucko, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. They had ten children, eight of whom reached maturity and married. Fred Staeffler died 13 August 1914 in Herman Twp., Sheboygan Co., and is buried in Rockville Cem., Kiel, Manitowoc Co. Louisa died 04 Apr. 1932 in Kiel and is buried alongside her husband22.Son Friedrich Freiss married in Eagle River, Keweenaw Co., MI, on 31 Dec 1864, to Maria Ernestine Jaehnig (daughter of John Jaehnig and Johanna Frank) who had emigrated with her parents about 185623 from Saxony to Manitowoc County. Friedrich and Ernestine settled in Centerville, but in 1870 acquired farmland in Gibson. They had thirteen children, twelve of whom reached maturity and married. In the winter of 1881-81, while Fred was cutting wood, a splinter flew into one eye. Despite visiting doctors in Milwaukee, by March 1881 he was permanently blind in that eye24. The Manitowoc Pilot of 05 July 1888 announced that he had sold his farm and “will remove to Dakota”. He, Ernestine, and eight of the children went by wagon to Britton, Marshall County, Dakota Territory25. There he farmed very successfully until death claimed him 09 Sep. 1907; Ernestine followed him in death 31 Aug. 190826.
Friedrich and Ernestine Freiss, ca. 1900The three Jacob Freiss children produced 19 grandchildren; they in turn produced 77 direct great-grandchildren. Some descendants dropped the terminal “S” (Freis), including a large contingent around Kiel. Also, some public records inverted the “ei” to “ie”, but the traditional Hunsrück spelling as “Freiss” largely survives.Some of Jacob’s “in-laws” followed him from the Hunsrück to Manitowoc County:A nephew, Adam Freiss, together with wife Maria Catherine Bauer, came in 185827 and settled near Two Rivers; after her death and Adam’s remarriage, he moved to Centerville and is buried in the Saxon Cemetery there (Freis)28.Adam’s sister, Maria Catherina Freiss, with her husband Franz Lenhardt and three children, came to Mishicot about 186829.A grandson of Jacob’s brother, Friedrich Freiss, arrived in Sep. 188130 He settled in Mishicot and in 1883 married his cousin Catherine Maria Lenhardt, Franz’s daughter31. Harold E. BergmanPompano Beach, FLJuly 2010==============================================================1 All vital references in this paragraph from Bell (Kr. Simmern) Evangelical Church, FHL films #049282 and #0492983.2 Stadtverwaltung, Kastellaun, Kr. Simmern3 Bell (Kr. Simmern) Evangelical Church, FHL film #0492983.4 Stadverwaltung Kastellaun, Kr. Simmern.5 Ibid6 Mueller, Theodore L. (1918-1998), Lena, WI, unpublished notes, "Freiss Family". Also - 1900 United States Census, South Dakota, Marshall County, Pleasant Valley Township, ED 236, Page 2A. 7 Citizenship Petition, 06 Oct 1856.8 Photographer’s location on back of picture.9 Mueller, Theodore, Op. Cit.10 2manitowoc.com, cemetery transcriptions.11 Bergman, Irene Schwab, notes, birthday book, address book.12 Birth town per manifest of Brig Rio Plata arriving New York City from Bremen 20 May 1854.13 Nov. 1857; 1900 U. S. Census.14 Obituary. 02 Dec 1886, Lake Shore Times, Manitowoc Co., WI15 Bergman, Op. Cit.16 2manitowoc.com, cemetery transcriptions.17 Manitowoc County, WI, Marriages, Book 1, page 139.18 Kastellaun, Kr. Simmern, Standesamt, 1829, Nr. 14.19 1910 U. S. Census.20 Tombstone, Schwartzwald Cemetery, Sheboygan Co, WI21 Obituary, Tri-County Record, Kiel, 07 Apr 1932, p. 1. 22 Ibid23 Mueller, Op. Cit.24 Manitowoc Tribune, entries 01 Feb 1877, 21 Feb 1882, and 07 Mar 1882.25 Ancestry World Tree Project:Marshall County SD Data.26 Both deaths in South Dakota Death Index, 1905-1955.27 1900 U. S. Census28 2manitowoc.com, cemetery transcriptions.29 Obituary of Maria Katherine Lenhart, Two Rivers Chronicle, 18 Aug 1908.30 Manifest of ship Braunschweig, arriving Baltimore 31 Aug 1881.31 Nord Westen, 14 Jun 1883.
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