First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Beardstown Weddings

"May 29, 1836 - Gottlieb JOCKISCH and Christina ELSNER - groom from Oppuch by Byern, Kingdom of Saxony, a widower, bride from Huffnersdorf by Zitten, Kingdom of Saxony."

 12  Jokisch, Louisa (March 13, 1837 Cass Co., IL- July 26,1877 Cass, IL) m: March 13,1856 Hackman, John Henry  . (1824-1874) Father: Hackman, John E. immigrated with his sons to Cass county from Germany.

13. Jokisch, Maria Paulina  (November 17, 1842-)m Nickel, Charles

1.  Jockisch, Carl Christian Gottlieb "Charles" (Mar 11,1816- Oct 4,1864 age 48 y 6 m 23 days)    Margaret (Sheidt) (Aug 4,1830- September 1,1900 Rising City, Nebraska)  

Short Biography

The first recording we are able to locate is the sale of land in Cass county to Charles (age 38) on November 17,1854. He paid a total of $72.63 for 58.10 acres at a price of $1.25 per acre in township 31. Since he had inherited 40 acres from his father, unless he sold it to purchase this, he now owned 98.10 acres.

The rest of the information is taken from the US Census records. Some of the information written on these records is illegible. Another problem was the person writing down the information: spelling. Still another problem the person giving the information did not really know the answers. Like where exactly the parents were born.

The 1855 and 1860 census's listed each person individually and assigned a family or household number. For Charles and Margarete the number was 1822 in the year 1860. This presents a challenge to locate all family members with that number. I found 7: Charles 44, Margarete age 25, Julius Jockish age 3, Theodore Jockisch age 5, Henry Jockish age 8, Arwil Jockish age 10 and a man named Rudolph Jockisch who was 35. Unfortunately, Rudolph's relationship to Charles is a mystery. We know he was not a brother.

             Charles died in 1864 according to the Jockisch Cemetery records, making it necessary for some of his children to move and obtain an income for themselves and possibly help out their mother and siblings.

Short Biography

            Nine year old Carl accompanied his parents to America and became known as Charles. He was described as industrious as a boy. By saving and hard work he was able to purchase a small farm increasing it to 350 acres located in the valley of the Illinois river. In man hood he was quiet, worked on his farm and voted Republican.

            Charles met a young German girl named Elenora Carls having come from Hanover, Germany with her father in 1843. They fell in love and were married when he was 27 . Her mother had died in Germany. They were married probably in the Methodist Episcopal Church where they were lifelong members.

            Ten children were born to them. The youngest Henry after the death of his father returned home and manage the farm. Harry J. attended Wesleyan University of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and the Illinois State Normal School and taught in the schools of Beardstown.  By the time his mother passed he was Superintendent of the school district.

            Elenora or Elenore was 50 years old when her husband died. Many of her children were still at home. Elenore's eldest child Mary became very ill and passed away just after her mother. Their funerals were joined.

            The children stayed close by and started their own farms. Their spouses and children all attended the  German Methodist Episcopal Church.

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1860 Beardstown, Cass, IL Census for (Illegible) Jockisch age 40 estimated birth yr 1820 Saxony Family number 1844 p.257

1860 Beardstown, Cass, IL Census for Ellen Jockisch age 36  estimated birth yr 1824 Hanover family number 1844 p257

Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947 for Marie Eleanora Jokisch

Death date February 2,1918 Bluffsprings, Cass, IL age 83. Birthday August  28,1834 Germany. Father Henry Carls. Parent's birth place Germany. Occupation: at home. Burial date Feb. 5, 1918.

BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF CASS, SCHUYLER and BROWN COUNTIES, Illinois - 1892 Chicago: Biographical Review Publishing Co. Page 141

JOKISCH, CHARLES GOTTHELF "Jokisch, Charles Gotthelf" , an old settler and farmer of Cass County, now deceased, was born in Saxony, Germany, February 27, 1819. He was one of nine children. His grandfather, believing that opportunities for young men were better in the United States than in Germany, urged his two sons and their families to immigrate to this country. This they did early in the thirties, and began farming in Cass County on Government land. The father of Gotthelf near fifty died in what is now Bluff Springs precinct. He had accumulated a fine property and left an estate valued at twenty-five thousand dollars. His aged father also died here. (For a fuller history of family see biography of William Jockisch.)

                  January 16,1899 Charles died from injuries caused by being gored by the horn of a vicious animal at the age of 77. Mrs. Trangott - Mary died at the age of 83. Louis and his sister Cora maintained the family home for a number of years following the mother's death

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Jokisch, Traugott - Beardstown Illinois Democrat Newspaper, March 22, 1877
Traugott Jockish of this county, died as a result of an accident due to a spirited horse.

                Jockisch, CHARLES T XE "Jockisch, CHARLES T. A good farmer and stock raiser; P. O. Bluff Springs; is a native of Saxony. Charles T. received a fair education, having attended school in Saxony six years. He engaged in the brewery business with his uncle for some time, afterward learned the cooper's and carpenter's trades, and finally became a farmer. In, this county, from this union twelve children. [ The above has to be his father!]

                Mr. Jokisch is a Republican; was Road Supervisor and School Director in 1878, and is at present School Trustee; he is a member of the German Methodist Church.

                           CHARLES T  . farmer; P. O. Bluff Springs; is a native of Saxony; born Jan. 4, 1822; son of Charles G. and Mary E. (Jacob) Jokisch, also natives of Saxony. Jokisch, Charles G., who was a farmer and distiller, was born June 20, 1796, and died in this county, Oct. 9, 1851; his wife, born in 1794, died in St. Louis, Mo., while on the way to this county, Jan. 24, 1835; they had fifteen children-nine boys and six girls. Charles T. received a fair education, having attended school in Saxony six years. He engaged in the brewery business with his uncle for some time, afterward learned the cooper's and carpenter's trades, and finally became a farmer.

                In Beardstown, this county, March 27, 1850, he married Mary E. Carls, a native of Hanover, Germany; born Aug. 28, 1834; daughter of John F. and Elizabeth Carls; from this union twelve children have been born: Louis, Phillipena, Edward B., Albert W., George F., Emma, Elizabeth, John Wesley (died March 23, 1870, aged 3 years and one month), Ida E., Richard R., Cornelia P. and Otillia.  Mr. Jokisch is a Republican; was Road Supervisor andSchool Director in 1878, and is at present School

Trustee; he is a member of the German Methodist Church.

Germany MO

BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF CASS, SCHUYLER and BROWN COUNTIES, Illinois - 1892  Chicago: Biographical Review Publishing Co. Page 145

                CARL TRAUGOTT JOKISCH, a good farmer and stock raiser of sections twenty-eight and twenty nine, township eighteen, range eleven west, was born in Germany near Bautzen, January 4, 1822. He is the fifth of his father's children and the oldest one now living. He was thirteen years of age when his parents left Germany for the United States in the fall of 1834, coming on a sailing vessel and landing in New Orleans, January 1, 1835. They came up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to Beardstown, landing February 2, 1835, and have as a family since been identified with the history of the county. The mother died in the latter part of January, 1835, at St. Louis, while the family were on the way. She was only forty two years of age. She was always a member of the German Lutheran Church, as was her husband who survived her.

                Traugott has always been a farmer in the county to which he came so many years ago. He was raised by an uncle, C. G. Jokisch, now deceased, the father having died in 1851. The father had obtained new lands in this county and here spent the remaining years of his life. (See William Jokisch, this book.)

                The farm of our subject has a beautiful location near Bluff Springs, in the Illinois river valley, where he owns a fine and well improved farm of 235 acres, with substantial farm buildings.

                He was married, in this county to Mary Ellen Carls, born in Hanover in 1834. She came with her parents to the United States and Cass county in 1845 and has since lived here, being a true helpmate to a good husband. She is an honest, good woman. She was the daughter of John Frederick and Elizabeth Carls, natives of Hanover, who came with their family to this country, but misfortune overtook them. Early after landing the father was killed by an accident while building a house for his family in Beardstown. A piece of timber fell on him and caused his death. He was then in the prime of life, being then about thirty-eight. He was a very skillful cabinet maker, a good citizen and devoted Christian for many years. His wife survived him for four years and then died, in Beardstown, in 1849, of the cholera, which was epidemic at that time. She was a Christian woman.

                Mrs. Jokisch has one sister and two brothers. The sister, a widow, is Mrs. Elizabeth Kuhl, living in Pekin, Illinois; Henry is a farmer in Montana; and John F. is a farmer in Cass county, Illinois. They are both married.

                Mr. and Mrs. Jokisch and family are members of the Methodist Church, and are very good, moral, upright people. Mr. Jokisch is a Republican in politics. Mr. and Mrs. Jokisch are the parents of twelve children, four of whom are deceased: John W. died an infant; Edward, married, left a wife and one child; Philipena died at the age of thirty-six, leaving two children; Ida died in Montana when twenty years of age. The living ones are: Louis, a teacher for more than twenty years in central Illinois, and is single; Emme, wife of Charles Wilson, farmer and fruit grower of Virginia; Elizabeth, wife of Adam Hegeman, farmer in this county; Albert W., living near the homestead, farming; George F., living in the east end of the county on a farm; Richard, at home, helping on the farm; Cora and Tillie are also at home.

              Jokisch, Carl Traugott XE "Jokisch, Carl Traugott"  - The Beardstown Enterprise, Tuesday January 17, 1899 Submitted by Ernie Launer
Death of C. T. Jokisch
             Carl Traugott Jokisch, residing near Bluff Springs, passed away yesterday, having been gored some weeks since by the horn of a vicious animal, which was a deathly wound from the time.
               He was born in Germany, near Bautzen, January 4, 1822. In the fall of 1834, when thirteen years of age, he came with his parents to this country. The landed in this city in February, 1835, coming by the way of New Orleans, and up the river to St. Louis, where his mother took sick and died. He was the father of twelve children, several of whom have passed on before.

                    He was married in this county to Mary Ellen Carls who survives him. They were both members of the German M. E. church, living consistent with the principles of their profession.

JOKISCH, Marie Eleanora (Carls)  Marie Eleanora (Carls)"  - Virginia Republican Gazette Friday, February 8, 1918 - Submitted by Ernie Launer

MRS. WILSON'S MOTHER DEAD
           Mrs. Trangott Jokisch Dies at Her Home at Bluff Springs Saturday.
Mrs. Trangott Jokisch, mother of Mrs. Chas. Wilson, of this city, died Saturday night at the family home at Bluff Springs, at the age of 83 years, 5 months and 4 days.
         Marie Eleanora Carls was born at Wimmer, Germany, August 28, 1834. She, with her parents, immigrated to America in 1845, coming direct to Cass county. On March 27, 1850, she was married to Carl Trangott Jokisch, who died January 16, 1899. To their union twelve children were born, seven of whom survive. They are; Louis H., Albert W., George F. and Richard R. Jokisch. Mrs. Chas. Wilson, Mrs. Chas. Jones and Miss Cora Jones, all residing in this county. She also leaves twenty-seven grand children and eighteen great-grandchildren. She had long been a member of the German M. E. church near Bluff Springs.
       Funeral services were held at the Bluff Springs M. E. church at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. Rev. Stokes of Bluff Springs and Rev. Wahl of Quincy, conducting the services. Interment was made in the Jokisch cemetery.

6. Jockisch, Fredericka  died in Germany

7.

Traugott Ernst "Ernest" Jockisch Traugott Ernst \"Ernest\" Jockisch  (Feb. 6,1825 Saxony-Mar 4,1898) m: Ziegemier, Margaret" " (Aug 4,1830/1 Germany  -- January 9,1907)

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            Here we have a discrepancy. It says he was born in Saxony 1829 but  other information states they arrived in America 1828.  Another discrepancy is he refers to his father's name as Gotthalf, yet other places the father's name is Gottlieb. Maybe you the reader will be able to clarify this.  If the older children are correct, he was born in America probably Texas.

JOCKISCH WILLIAM      FD  SWSE          08   17N  11W  3    40.00  000.00  WARRANT   MALE    11/06/1854  UNKNOWN[William obtain a warrant for 40 acres in Township 8']                                                                                                                                           

1860 Beardstown, Cass, IL for William Jockisch age 31 estimated birth yr 1829 Saxony.

Family number 1826 page 255.1860 Beardstown, Cass, IL Census for Elizabeth Jockish age 21est birth year 1839, IL. Family number 1826, p. 255

1860 Census: 1826 - JOCKISH - William - 31 - m - w - farmer - 4000/1000 - Saxony
Elizabeth - 21 - f - w - IL
Cathorin E. - 1 - f - w - IL

1870 IL Census for William Jockisch age 40 born estimated 1830, Saxony married to Elizabeth age 30 born 1840 IL. Children: Catharine 11, John 9, Rosina 6, Augusta 3, and Rose 1. Also living with them Charles Bartholdt age 17. He was White and born in 1853, IL.

1880 Beardstown, Cass, IL Census for William Jockisch age 51 born 1829 in Saxony, Germany. Farmer. Married to Elizabeth age 41 born in IL. Her parents were born in Germany. Children: Lizzie Jockisch age 20, Victor age 18, Ada age 16, Anna age 13, Rosa Age 11 and Rudolph age 4.

1900 Beardstown, Cass, IL Census for Wm Jockisch birth date March 1829 Germany spouse Elizabeth birthplace IL. His parent's birthplace Germany. They have been married 45 years. Estimated marriage year 1855. Immigration year 1834. Elizabeth birth date March 1839 IL. Parents birthplace Germany. Number of children 7. number of living 4. They are the only two in the Household.

1910 Beardstown ward 2, Cass, IL Census for Elizabeth Jockisch born in IL widowed living alone. Parents born in Germany

1920 Beardstown Precinct City Third, Cass, IL Census for Elizabeth Jockisch age 80 estimated birth year 1840 IL widowed. She is living alone.

       Jockisch, WILLIAM, retired, Beardstown; was born in Saxony,

Germany, March 1, 1829, and in 1833 came with his parents to America, landing in New Orleans, La., after a voyage of eight weeks. received a fair English and German education, and after his father's death purchased a part of the homestead farm, on which he followed farming until 1870, when he built a substantial residence on Sixth street, Beardstown, where he has since lived, giving his family a good education. He still owns two hundred acres of land in Beardstown Precinct; he has been a stockholder and director of People's Bank, of Beardstown, since its organization.  Mr. Jockisch married Nov. 1, 1855, Elizabeth Rahn, a native of Beardstown.  They have had five children.

            Jockisch, William   - Submitted by Ernie Launer
            DEATH ENDS USEFUL LIFE
            William Jockisch Answers Summons Of The Grim Reaper
            Died Thursday Afternoon
                        Was for Many Years an Esteemed Citizen of This City and County. By the passing away of William Jockisch, who died at 4:30 o'clock, Thursday afternoon.          Cass County loses one of its most estimable citizens, one who had labored for the up building of this city for nearly 35 years. At the time of his death Mr. Jockisch was aged 76 years, 7 months and 18 days . The end was expected at any moment, as he had been slowly sinking during the last few days.
William Jockisch was born in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany in 1829. His parents, Carl G. and Eliza (Jacob) Jockisch, were born in Saxony. Mr. Jockisch, Sr. was a farmer and distiller for some years before he and his family embarked for the United States in 1834. They went to New Orleans and then worked their way up the Mississippi river to St. Louis and there the mother died at the birth of her tenth child. Mr. Jockisch was left with his small children to make the rest of the trip alone. He stopped in Cass County for some time and then married a second time to Christina Long of Germany. Mr. Jockisch died in this county and his wife followed him some ten years later. They were at first Lutherans and later Methodists.
            William Jockisch is the youngest but one of nine children that grew to maturity. He began farming at an early age and by his good management had amassed a small fortune which he enjoyed in retirement in his comfortable and pleasant home on the corner of Sixth and Edwards streets. He was an extensive land owner. The building of the railroad has aided him greatly in making his fortune, as much of the land he owned was increased by the building of the road.
Mr. Jockisch's early life was spent in farming but in later years of his life he lived in retirement from live work. He also was one promoter and director of the National Bank of this city. He was a Member of the Methodist church held trusted and important with that denomination. In 18? was appointed public administrator of Cass County.
He was united in marriage to Elizabeth Rohn of this city. To this union were born seven children, 3 of whom have gone before. Those surviving children are Mrs. J. T. Brines, of Pleasant View, J. V., who resides on the corner of 11th and Washington streets, Mrs. J. A. Henning who resides on the corner of 11th and State streets, and R. C. living of corner of 6th and Edwards streets. An aged wife is left also to loss of an ever faithful husband.
Funeral services will occur Sunday morning Oct. 22, at the late residence on the corner of 6th and Edwards streets at 10 o'clock conducted by Rev. M. G. Coleman, pastor of M.

10..  Jokisch, Heinrich (Henry) Gottlieb   (October 25, 1832 in the German state of       Sachsen (Saxony)- -May 29, 1898) m: June 13, 1856 Eckhardt, Louise           (September. 13, 1833 in Ilsdorf, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany,-)  to Johannes and         Anna Rohn Eckhardt. Louise and her brother George immigrated to the U.S. in   1853.

                                                Short Biography by Christine Sleeter, PHD

                The following is by Sleeter  PHD, Christine   Professor Emerita at California State University Monterey Bay

        Henry Gottlieb Jockisch was born on October 25, 1832 in the German state of Sachsen (Saxony) to Karl Gotthelf Jockisch and Marie Elizabeth Jacob Jockisch.In 1834 the entire family immigrated to the U.S.; Henry was two years old at the time. They went to Beardstown in Cass County, Illinois. Beardstown is where Henry met and married my great-great grandmother, Louisa Eckhardt. Louisa had been born Sept. 13, 1833 in Ilsdorf, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, to Johannes and Anna Rohn Eckhardt. She and her brother George immigrated to the U.S. in 1853 (Other family members may have also immigrated, but I have not been able to track them). On June 13, 1856, Louisa married Henry Gottlieb Jockisch.

        At the time they were in their late teens, although Illinois was predominantly white, it had small but significant Black and mulatto population (5,540 in the 1850 census). Five young Black male laborers shared a residence in Beardstown, where they had moved to work. Three years previously, Illinois had adopted a new constitution included a provision, passed overwhelmingly as a separate measure by voters, that the state General Assembly act to prohibit the emigration of free African-Americans into the state and to bar slaveholders from bringing slaves to free them. Most whites in Illinois who opposed slavery favors deportation of free Blacks to the Caribbean or Liberia. In 1853, the state passed a law making it a crime for any Black person from another state to stay in Illinois more than 10 days. African Americans who lived in Illinois, especially in Chicago and in St. Clair County (to the south of Cass County) vigorously opposed this new law. Although the Jockisches may have given it little thought, "Black Codes" in Illinois directly linked race with the right to own property.

        In 1868, Henry G. and Louisa moved to Blue Mound township, selling the 40 acres of land in Beardstown Henry had inherited from his father to purchase land in Blue Mound. (There, one of the c’s dropped gradually out of the spelling of Jockisch, becoming Jokisch. For consistency, I have retained the original spelling here.) By 1874 the Jockisch's owned 160 acres on Blue Mound. On the bottom of the excerpt of the 1874 plat map of Blue Mound township to the right, you can see the location of the Jockisch farm. Louisa’s brother, George Eckhardt and his wife Sarah, also moved to Blue Mound township, owning a farm of 80 acres to the north of the Jockisch farm. On the plat map excerpt, you can also see Sleeter farmland and the German Methodist Episcopal Church. The dark rectangle near the top of the map is the town of Boody, and the diagonal line is the railroad. (A bit of the history of Boody appears on the Sleeter-Fahrenhorst page; William Henry Sleeter had died two years before the Jockisch's arrived in Boody, and Amelia Fahrenhorst Sleeter left shortly afterward.)

    Other members of the Jockisch family periodically came to Blue Mound township to work for a while, and one nephew (Henry A.) and his family moved there. Most of the Jockisch's, however, stayed in Cass County, where there is now a Jockisch Cemetery. There was apparently quite a bit of visiting of family members back and forth between Boody (Blue Mound township) and Beardstown, according to various articles in the local Decatur newspapers.

    The Jockisches became successful grain farmers; wheat was particularly profitable during and right after the Civil War. They were also active in Zion German Methodist Episcopal Church that William Henry Sleeter had helped to found. For example, Henry served as a Church trustee and member of the committee that planned the new church building. When the church was seeking donations for the new building in 1886, Henry Jockisch, described in the Decatur Saturday Herald as one of Boody’s “well-to-do farmers,” made a generous donation.

    Henry G. Jockisch died at home, at the age of 65 on May 29, 1898. His 160 acre estate was valued at $15,000. Henry left the property to Louisa "for life," and at her death, it was to be divided equally among the five children.

    Louisa moved in with daughters. Olivia had married George Henry Zimmerman of Boody; in 1900, Lousia was living with them and their family. In 1910, Louisa had moved into Decatur, where she was living on West Decatur Street with recently-widowed daughter Lydia Sleeter (my great-grandmother) and some of the Sleeter offspring. By then, other family members, including the Zimmermans, and Charles and Pauline Jockisch Sleeter, were also living on the same street. When Lydia relocated to Iowa to be with one of her daughters, Louisa moved in with her daughter Pauline and Charles W. Sleeter, where she stayed until she died in 1922 due to “complications of old age,” as it was put in her obituary. My grandmother Mamie Ross Sleeter spent her adolescence and early adulthood in this same neighborhood, and was friends with offspring of her generation. In a book in which she recorded gifts, she referred to Louise Jockisch as “Grandma Yokisch” (her spelling reflecting the German pronunciation.) I am struck by the close community that developed among these and other German families of Boody.

    Even though she moved away from Boody to Decatur following her husband’s death, Louisa remained active in the Zion German Methodist Episcopal Church. Henry B. and Louisa Jockisch were buried in the Zion cemetery; their headstone appears to the left.

11. Jockisch, Carl Leberecht died at birth

12.   Jockisch, Louisa    Jokisch, Louisa   (March 13, 1837 Cass Co., IL - 1877) m: Hackman, John Henry (1823-1874)