through his son john carbiner/carbiener 1822-1894
and john's first wife, salomi ortz 1820-1856
then traced from john carbiener 1822-1894 and second wife, catharine zinzinca ott walmer 1856-1891
georges carbiner
(born
about 1800 in Prinzheim, Alsace, France; unknown date and location of death)
is our earliest known Carbiener patriarch. We do not know his parents' names
or his siblings.
However, we do know that Georges' brother had a son named Jacques Carbiener,
born 6/23/1828,
who was a cousin to Georges' son Jean Carbiner. (Jacques Carbiener had a son
Jacques
born in 1852, a grandson Jacques born in 1888, and a great-grandson Georges
born 1911, died 1938.)
georges carbiner married
marguerite barbe faber,
mother of john carbiner.
On August 3, 1822, Marguerite Barbe Faber
Carbiner gave birth to son John (George's first child)
and died shortly after. She lived from 1800-1822. Georges married Catherine
Rehm in 1823,
and John would have two know half-brothers and five unknown half-sisters.
Catherine would be the only mother John would ever know.
The family resided in Prinzheim, Alsace, France. John Carbiener (Jean
Carbiner) is our patriarch.
John Carbiener (Jean Carbiner)
Born 8/3/1822 Printzheim, Alsaas or Alsace, France;
Died 8/22/1894 Bremen, Marshall Co. IN
Scenes from Alsace France that would have been familiar to John Carbiener.
Three Medieval Structures in Alsace
standing for centuries
Three
Views of the Vosges Mountains in Alsace, France;
Below are two views of the city of Printzheim, France, where Jean Carbiner
resided:
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Alsace (and Lorraine), unlike the other French Regions, abound
in both French and German influences. The region is situated in
mid-eastern to north-eastern France. It is bound to the north by
Germany and to the east by the Rhine River (with Germany across
the Rhine), to the south by Switzerland and to the west by the
beautiful Vosges mountains which divide Alsace from Lorraine.
Much of Alsace is found on a fertile plain between the Rhine
River and the Vosges mountains in the west. The lower area that
rises from the Rhine is checkered with vineyards. The higher
slopes are forested and sprinkled with monasteries and old
castles.
john's father georges then married catherine rehm.
Below is information about the two sons of Georges and Catherine Rehm Carbiner: |
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George Carbiner (10/28/1823 Alsace, Germany - 12/10/1897 in St. Joseph Co. IN) George probably emigrated at age 26 to NYC in 1849 (found document in Ancestry.com that appears to be him. Immigrants to New York from 1850-1897 were not indexed.) He moved to eastern Ohio in 1850. In Indiana in 1851, George then married Catherine Siefer (6/10/1828 Germany - 6/30/1869 St. Joseph Co. IN). They raised a family in Union, St. Joseph Co. IN. In 1860 U.S. Census, George (36) resided with Catherine (31), Mary (10 OH), Jacob (7 OH), George (5 OH), Catharine (3 IN), Elizabeth (2 IN), and Hellen (1 mos. IN) "Corbaner" near Lakeville. Cannot locate the family in 1870. Catherine was deceased by the 1880 U.S. Census. George (56) was widowed, residing with George W. (24), Elizabeth (21), Anna (19), Sarah (17), William (15), and Matilda (13) in St. Joseph Co. IN. George died 12/10/1897 in St. Joseph Co. IN. |
george and catherine siefer carbiner children: mary carbiner (1850)
jacob carbiner
(born
5/1852
OH) married Susan (born 6/1851
OH) in 1825. They moved to Indiana in 1860 and to Bremen, Marshall
Co. IN by 1900. Children: Clarence (1852 IN), Nora L. (7/1880 IN),
Arthur Jacob (1/5/1883 IN), Earl G. (3/31/1886) who married Blanche.
George W. carbiner
(Carbiener)
(8/7/1854-5/16/1937), who married
Lydia
Enders (born 1865 IN) on 10/18/1885 in St. Joseph Co. IN. Their
three children were Oliver, Hattie and Ervin George Carbiener. Lydia
may have died around 1892. (Ervin's obituary specifically names
Lydia Enders as his mother.)
George's children were:
Elizabeth Hellen CARBINER
(1859); |
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Michael Carbiener
or "Michel Carbiner"
was born 3/6/1833 in Prinzheim, Alsace, France - died 8/15/1886 in
Marble Rock, Floyd, Iowa). His wife Mary Hammon was born 5/9/1834 in
Germany - died 1/7/1886 in Marble Rock, Floyd, Iowa. He settled
first in Indiana, then Illinois, then Iowa. See details in history
below. He and Mary Ann married in 1860 and had 12 children. They
settled in Union, Floyd, Iowa in 1870 U.S. Census. His name was
misspelled as Carbiner, Carevena, Carbaner, Carpenter, Corpenna in
the U.S. Census records, but his Iowa cemetery death record name
spelling is correct. In 1880 U.S. Census "Micheal Carbaner" (47) resided with Mary (47), Sarah (17), George (15), Marggaret (13), Jacob (13), Lizzie (11), Micheal (9), Loui (8), Frederick (4), and William (2). Iowa State Census records for 1885 are posted on Ancestry.com. Mary died in January of 1886 and Michael died in August of 1886 in Marble Rock, Floyd, Iowa.
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Michael and mary carbiener children:
Mary C. CARBIENER
(1/8/1861 Iowa-1940
Marble Rock Iowa)
married William Theiman (7/11/1850 Germany-1/1940 Marble Rock, Iowa)
on 1/16/1879 in Marble Rock, Iowa. Their children were:
john CARBIENER
(3/6/1862) Died
at birth. GeorgE CARBIENER (4/23/1864 IL-1918 IOWA) possibly married an Ella. Margaret CARBIENER (5/26/1865 IL) 1n 1889 married Folkert Boone (born about 1864 in Germany) and had children William H. Boone (6/26/1889 Iowa), Wayne F. (1895 Iowa), and Clifton F. (1900 Iowa). Jacob CARBIENER (2/23/1867 Marble Rock, Iowa-9/17/1925 Marble Rock, Iowa) married Lilla Eldora "Matilda or Tillie" Mills (1/21/1868 Marble Rock Iowa-10/1/1912). Son Johnnie lived a few days; son Clyde lived a year. Double wedding on 11/10/1888 in Floyd, Iowa: Lilla Mills married Jacob Carbiener at same time as her brother Ulysses Mills married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Carbiener! Ulysses and Lilla Mills were siblings; Jacob and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Carbiener were also siblings.
EMMA CARBIENER (7/1/1868) Died at birth.
Elizabeth "Lizzie" CARBIENER
(12/29/1869 Marble Rock, Floyd, Iowa - 11/22/1957 Rockford Iowa)
who on 11/10/1888 married Ulysses Samuel Mills (4/14/1866 Marble
Rock, Floyd Iowa-3/23/1937 Marble Rock, Floyd Iowa) and had the
following children: lewis CARBIENER (3/6/1872 Iowa-1928 Marble Rock, Iowa) married Margaret (born 1879 Germany) and had son Clyde D. (1897 Iowa). He and Margaret divorced before 1920. He was an auto driver in a garage in 1920. Frederick CARBIENER (8/8/1875 Iowa) married Anna (born about 1878, father from Canada, mother from Germany). They had Edward (born 1899 Iowa) and Pearl M. (born 1908 Iowa). William or wilhelm martin CARBIENER (3/7/1877 Iowa). When he was 22, both parents Michael and Mary died. William married Vera Evelin Leaman (1/1879 Iowa) and had children Thelma M. (3/1898 Iowa); Mary A. (2/1900); Marvin D. (9/24/1902-5/23/1973 Ft Myers, FL) who married Aruella (1902 Iowa); and Dorothy P. (1905 Iowa). |
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History
of Floyd County, Iowa Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co., 1882. Union Township submitted by Kathy Gerkins Michael Carbiener Pages 1094 1095 Was born in France in 1833. He was a son of George and Catharine Carbiener. At about the age of twenty he came to America, locating first in Indiana, where he resided about two years, when he went to Illinois, near Frankfort; there he lived about seven years. At this date he came to Iowa, locating in Floyd County, purchasing his farm of 300 acres, where he still resides, on section 15, about one and one-half miles southeast of Marble Rock. This farm is one of the finest in the county. It is beautifully situated, presenting one of the grandest views of the surrounding county we ever saw. Mr. Carbiener has, by his own hard labor, cleared the farm of rocks and grubs, and turned it from a wild, raw prairie, to a beautiful farm, all being under a splendid state of cultivation. He built a fine house and barn, and with nicely arranged shade trees has his surroundings beautified so that he has one of the nicest homes in the Northwest. He puts in crop, yearly, about 270 acres. A portion he farms himself, and rents a part, besides keeping from eight to ten head of horses and colts, and from twenty to twenty-five head of cattle, and from forty to fifty head of hogs, some years even exceeding this number. Mr. Carbiener was married in 1860 to Mary Hammon, a native of France. They have ten children Mary, married to William Theman, and resides five miles west of Marble Rock; Sarah, George, Margaret, Jacob, Elizabeth, Michael, Lewis, Fredrick and William. The nine younger children still reside at home. Both Mr. and Mrs. Carbiener are members of the German Lutheran church. Politically, we are pleased to say that Mr. Carbiener always votes for the best man, if he knows him, but when it comes to State or United States election he votes the Democratic ticket. Mr. Carbiener is among those men who helped lay the successful and solid foundation to the history of Floyd County. He is a man who has been very successful, and has by his own exertions placed himself among the sound, able and wealthy farmers of our county. Not only this, but he has the best word and wishes of all his neighbors and is social and pleasant to all, and has a host of friends. A undocumented possibility: Georges and Catherine Rehm carbiner, John's father and stepmother, George and Michael's parents, may have emigrated to America. A Mr. and Mrs. Georges "Charpentier", both age 75 (born about 1795) left Le Havre, France, and emigrated to America, arriving 5/20/1870 NYC on the ship "Lafayette". They are not found in the 1880 U.S. Census, so may have died in that ten year period. Carbiener was misspelled every which way in all the documents I examined, so we cannot be sure. |
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john carbiener's 1850 immigration to america:
John Carbiener married Salomi Ortz in
Germany around 1844.
(Salomi was born 1830 Prinzheim, Alsace, France-1856 Union Twp, St. Joseph
Co. IN).
John (27) immigrated in 1850 with Salomi (20), alternate spelling Salome,
and their three children:
Salomi (listed as age 3, but probably born 9/13/1845 or 10/14/1844 in
France, died 10/1/1913 or 10/10/1913
in Wilson KS), George (listed as age 2),
and Marie (listed as age 1) aboard the ship "Gallia" which left
Le Havre, France, and arrived in NYC on May 9, 1850. They emigrated after
stepbrother George
(who emigrated in 1849), and before stepbrother Michael (emigrated in 1869).
[SIDE NOTE: Salomi would die in 1956 at age 26 when her children were young:
Sally would be about 11, John 9, George 8, Marie 7
(these three were born in France), and the yet unborn Daniel (born after
emigration, in Ohio, on 1/16/1853) would be 3
when his mother Salomi died.
They
also had a son named John who was born in 1847 and emigrated
about the same time as his parents and siblings in 1850,
but does not show up on the ship manifest and does not live with them in any
u.s. census we can document.
We have no answers for this mystery.
John would marry Catherine Ott Walmer the year Salomi died, 1956. She would
have four children
from her previous marriages, Mary Ott 1842, Thessia Ott 1844, John 1846 Ott,
and Joseph Walmer 1854;
then she would have five more with John in Indiana: David 1957, Peter 1959,
Samuel 1862, Benjamin 1862, and Emma 1866.]
more Information on John and Salomi's
daughter Salome, later called "Sally":
Daughter
Salome (10/14/1844 or 9/13/1845
France-10/10/1913 Wilson KS) was the second wife of Charles Ferdinand
Schmidt
or Smith (1833 Merseburg, capitol of
Prussia-3/5/1908 Plymouth Twp, Ellsworth KS, buried in Wilson Cemetery)
who immigrated to South Bend IN in 1851
and married Salome in 1864.
Salome or Sally's religious affiliation
was the German Evangelical Church in Indiana.
She moved from South Bend to Kansas in
1876 and her religious affiliation there was the Methodist Episcopal Church.
[Charles' first
wife, Mary Emeline Oyler (1837 OH) gave birth to son Louis Colfax Smith
(7/7/1860 St. Joseph Co. IN-5/9/1938 South Bend IN)
who was a farmer/factory
worker/woodworker and had children Mayme L. (2/22/1888 Union City
IN-9/16/1979 Portland IN) and
Karl Russell (5/23/1893 Mishawaka, St.
Joseph Co. IN-11/5/1970 South Bend, St. Joseph Co. IN).]
Children of Charles Ferdinand
Schmidt and Salome Carbiener were:
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Clara A. Smith (11/20/1865 South Bend
IN-1931 McPherson KS)
who married William H. Bathurst (1862 KS) and had children
Lizzie 1892, William M. 1894, John W. 1896, James E. 1899,
Lillie A. 1901, Pearl F. 1904, Ethel G. 1906. John E. Smith (7/12/1867 South Bend IN) Mary Emma Smith (6/16/1869 South Bend IN) Ella Smith (6/16/1871 South Bend IN) Julius Smith (10/1872 South Bend IN) Ida Salomia Smith (11/28/1874 South Bend IN-10/8/1933 Beaver Co OK) who married Luther Woods Moore (1871 IL), lived briefly in KS, then resided in OK with children Ora D. 1900, Lena M. 1901, Sallie W. 1903, Arthur L. 1905, Herbert H. 1911, Clarence 1913, Ida S. 1914, Willard 1916. Emma Smith (11/30/1876 South Bend IN) Daniel G. Smith (1/18/1880 Wilson KS-6/26/1962 Lucas KS) who married Myrtle Bayas (1881-3/15/1969 Lucas KS) and had children Charles W. 1904, Edna V. 1905 in Lucas, Russell KS. [Note that Salomi's father John Carbiener and his second wife Catherine Carbiener would have sons David and Benjamin as well as Catherine's son Joseph Walmer from her previous marriage who earlier became well-known merchants in Lucas KS.] Charles P. Smith (9/18/1883 Wilson KS-11/21/1969 Salina KS) who married Olive Van Brown (2/10/1883 Nashville TN-3/24/1978 Salinas KS). William Smith (2/15/1886-1965 Omaha NE) married Lillian Josephine Smutney (1887-11/14/1977 Omaha NE). Bertha Jennie Smith (7/19/1888 Wilson KS-12/4/1965 Hunter KS) who married Sidney Wey Tuttle (8/6/1890 Missouri-6/1975 KS) and had children Donald G. 1919, George S. 1922, Wey Jr. 1926. Cora M. Smith (8/2/1891 Wilson KS-3/21/1979 Placerville CA) who married Herman C. Walter (12/30/1892 Wilson KS) and had children Genevieve 1915, Otto B. 1920, and D. Melvin 1920. Cora had divorced Herman before the 1930 U.S. Census. Lydia S. Smith (2/14/1895 Wilson KS-8/17/1984 Lucas KS) who married David L. Cahill (1889-5/27/1958 Lucas KS) and had children Maurice D. 1920 and Mildred E. 1926. |
No information on John and Salomi's other children, George and Marie.
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Why Did They Leave France? In 1848 Louis Philippe was driven from the throne and a provisional government set up "national workshops" to reduce unemployment. The French national assembly opposed the workshops, and as a result workmen, newspaper journalists, students and some of the young men of the aristocratic class began an uprising in June of 1848. They threw up barricades in the narrow alleys of Paris and fought hand to hand. 30,000 soldiers from all of the provinces were sent in and the rebellion was crushed with unbelievable bloodshed. The play "Les Miserables" is based on this 1848 revolution. In the small province of Strasbourg (which is in Alsace) lived a carpenter, Francois Xavier Pequigney, with his wife and twin children. Strasbourg was a meeting point for trade routes and its name means "town of roads". Strasbourg was first a Roman province, then the Germans invaded, and then the French. In 1848 Strasbourg was under French rule. After the rebellion of 1848, Francois decided to take his wife and babies and leave the land of their birth. His cousin, Francois X. Grisez had left Strasbourg ten years earlier. He had written about the new country of America where he was free to make a living and was not continuously oppressed by the government. In 1851 over 20,000 French immigrants left France for America. Many were political refugees fleeing from the failed 1848 revolution. Economic depression and crop failures from the preceding three years was a great contributor to the French immigration to America. Most of the immigrants set sail from the port of Le Harve, France. The Gallia made two crossings in 1850, one that arrived in NYC on January 7, 1850; the other on May 9, 1850. John and his family were on the second passage. |
john and salomi carbiener in
america:
John
and Salomi settled in Ohio for about four years, then in 1854 arrived in
Union Twp., St. Joseph Co. IN.
They had a son Daniel 1/16/1853.
(Cutler's Kansas history lists Daniel as partner in Barton & Carbiener
Hardware.
He first came to Wilson, Kansas in the spring of 1877. This would make him a
half brother of Samuel.)
Salomi died in 1856, possibly in childbirth.
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john carbiener (8/3/1822 Alsace, France - 8/11/1894 St. Joseph Co. IN)  |
John
Carbiener was born in Printzheim, Alsace, France, the son of Georges
Carbiener and Marguerite Barbe Faber. John's mother Marguerite died
in childbirth or shortly after.
John Carbiener
probably had five children from his marriage to Salomi before she
died in 1956: +John Carbiener had a son
John born 1/18/1847 in Wurttemberg near Strasburg, Alsace, Germany,
and died 11/23/1924 at the home of his son Joseph in Sumption
Prairie). [Strasbourg, Alsace, was about 30 miles from the French
border. In 1847, Alsace was under French rule. Wurttemberg is the
German state that borders Alsace.] In 1870 Census, this son John is
listed as age 22 and living/working on the farm of Andrew Longley.
See more information later under Catherine Buhler and
Fredericka Soloma "Hattie" Buhler, who married this John Carbiener. |
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