Historical records matching Franz Ignatius Meyer
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About Franz Ignatius Meyer
( Addition added on by Vern Haberkorn1863 came to US alone at age 14, arriving in Buffalo, NY. Remained in Alsace to complete schooling, then joined family. Franz was born in the province of Elsace- Lorraine originally Germany but now French. If you are German it is Elsace. If French Alsace. Franz was able to speak German and French fluently as was my grandmothet Albertina Bitch Meyer. In all my years i remember only 1 of my Aunts claiming to be Alsace France. We still know that Blasiard the French, Meyer the German, Link the German and Bitsch the German classes us as German in the Franz Meyer family. His brother's families may have a different national division. John B Meyer I married a French girl named Catherine Blasiard. Catherine's sister married an Ellerbach, another sister marrieds an Ehl. all 3 families came to America and settled around Balltown and Sherrill. Sherrill is where the Haberkorn's lived. So Franz was cousin to the Ehls, and Ellerbachs. Later Meyer and Haberkorn and Leibold got together. So this is why this tree is so large. I put this under Franz Meyer since I have also something under Aloysius Haberkorn and I originate from both those families. Judy Meyer Owens is Meyer family and her great great grandmother was Anna Walburga Haberkorn a sister to Adam Haberkorn who came to Sherrill. So this family covers all areas of Dubuque County , Iowa. I could go on forever on stories of the Franz Meyer and Aloysius Haberkorn families and I did in my family tree published books on both. Meyer family 1982, Haberkorn in 1981 and 2000 with over 300 pages .Many stories.
With this large family Franz had to really work hard to keep them fed and clothed. The boys had to learn about work on the farm at an early age. The girls had to learn to cook and sew. Most of there clothes were sewn at home, as were rugs weaved, bedspreads, quilts, etc., all learned to be sewn, crocheted, weaved or braided. Each one had their job to do and it better have been done and done right. The girls each had to learn to sew and mend from bolts of cloth to be made into a dress, shirt or whatever. Then they learned to knit gloves, mittens, caps or any knit clothes. Rugs were made by braiding together old rags. My mother had many rugs of this old style in her house. For a leisure form of work they would make beautiful spreads or doilies by crocheting or embroidering. All bed blankets and quilts were made at home on a quilting frame. The boys , to keep busy, even had to pull weeds by hand out in the fields. They boys did all the outside chores as well as learn to work in the garden. Franz was a county Trustee and ha to investigate any crime or foul play or accidental death or anything that an authority was needed on. So the story is that late one night Franz was summoned to a farmhouse between Balltown Ridge and Rickardsville Road. What he discovered left him with a terrible memory and impression, that he would find more terrible every time he would tell anyone. He came up to the door, knocked and no one answered so knowing that he had been summoned, walked in. There was blood all over the house and he discovered the mutilated bodies of several children and the mother. They had been chopped with an ax and their heads cut off. Upstairs he found the father who had done the murders and then taken his own life with the ax. Franz had to visit and check households during the diphtheria epidemic at that time. He was fortunate that he never caught the disease or carried it home to his family. When Mary died Franz married Albertina Bitsch (pronounced like Beach or Bitts). The first farm Franz has was near Waupeton and later he move to the Balltown Ridge. His son Frank took the first farm over and his son George took the second one over. After Franz quit farming he built a new house in Balltown. After retiring and working very hard all his life, he only got to enjoy the new home a very short time. He contracted cancer of the stomach and only lived 2 years after retiring. When his first wife May died her funeral was one of the largest ever attended around the area. Over 100 teams and wagons were in the procession to the Church and Cemetery at Holy Cross, Iowa. When Franz died there were also many in the procession to his funeral at St. Francis, Balltown. Both were very well liked by neighbors and friends alike. Mourned deeply by their family. Memories cherished of them for a long time.
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Franz Ignatius Meyer's Timeline
| 1849 |
November 23, 1849
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Neidertraubach, Haut Rhin, Alsace, France
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| 1873 |
December 1873
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Waupeton, Iowa, United States
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| 1874 |
October 19, 1874
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Waupton, Clayton, Iowa, United States
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| 1876 |
July 11, 1876
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| 1878 |
April 21, 1878
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Waupeton, Dubuque, Iowa, United States
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| 1879 |
September 9, 1879
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Waupeton, Dubuque, Iowa, United States
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| 1881 |
July 23, 1881
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Balltown, Clayton, Iowa, United States
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| 1883 |
March 12, 1883
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Waupeton, Dubuque, Iowa, United States
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| 1885 |
November 17, 1885
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Waupeton, Dubuque, Iowa, United States
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