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Subject: Pine Township: Peter's Corners and FAUSCH
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Surnames: fausch, manthai, manthei, manthey, faust, montine, klug, kluge, clough,
molkentin, hasse, rotzien
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yi.2ADE/481
Message Board Post:
I've two elusive mysteries which don't seem to be solving themselves. The first
may or may not have anything to do with Porter County, but searches in LaPorte Co. have
yielded nothing additional.
"Peters Corner"
There are five (perhaps more) entries in the transcriped publication of the church books
of St. Paul's EV in Otis which mention a location of "Peters Corner". In
some cases the notation of the transcriber includes "near Otis" and at other
times, the brackets denoting a transcriber's notion are missing implying that the
"nea Otis" was what the minister wrote. (Unfortunately, the transcriber Delores
Rensberger Niendorf, has passed on and isn't available for clarification.) The
possibility that "Peters Corner" was some sloppy German mispronounciation of
Beatty's Corners has not escaped me, but in such a case, I would suspect that the
transcriber's bracketed notes would have said "Beatty's Corners" rather
than "near Otis."
In a second case, in the church books of St. John's EV of Michigan City (or perhaps it
was St. Pauls) there is also an entry which shows "Peters Corner". It is
entirely possible that both book entries were made by the same minister. I believe that
Rev. Hadrat of St. John/St. Paul MiCi circa 1876 also handled St. Paul Otis for a brief
period during his tenure.
The names associated with the Peters Corner entries are "August Fausch" [twice]
(brother of Fred Fausch of Michigan City and Eva Rotzien of Beatty's Corners),
"Peglow" (Wilhelm & Rosa, obit of dau Mathilda age 9 in 1881, seen in
Coolspring TWP in 1880 census).
At one point (circa 1870) Fred Fausch (August's brother) lived in Coolspring TWP
rather than Michigan City, and is believed by me to be the "F. Faust" who owned
80 acres in 1874 1/4 into LaPorte County on Hwy 20 from Pine TWP. The 40 acre parcel to
the west is owned by a "F. Peters" on the county line. (by 1880 F. Fausch was in
MiCi and by 1892 the land (Fausch's & Peters') was owned by F. Miller.)
The second part of this querry perhaps is related to the first part. In Nov. 1899 a
Carolina Fausch age 92 10mo 23 da was buried in Beatty's Corners Cemetery via St.
Paul's EV in Otis. The Michigan City News and/or Dispatch, the Westville Indicator,
the LaPorte Herald Argus and the main Porter Co. weekly don't mention this. The
Porter County Vidette, Nov 30, 1899 has the very brief mention "Mrs. Fausch, an old
resident of Pine township, died this week aged 93 years.."
Two possibilities on who this Carolina Fausch may be are:
- In 1880 August Fausch of "Peters Corner" married widow Justine Peglow. In Apr
1881 Justine Fausch died. In Jun 1881 August Fausch of Peters Corner married Caroline
Kluge. At the time of August's death in 1895, mention of his having been married was
made, but no disposition of said spouse/ex was given. The notion that Kluge and Clouge
(as in Samuel Clough, 3/4 mile into Pine TWP on US 20 from the old "Faust"
parcel is not lost on me. The rough spot is that if this is Caroline Kluge, she would
have been about 20 years older than August when they married.
- In 1869 a Wilhelmina Fausch and grandchild Gotlieb "Manthei" (per GTA) came
over on the same ship as the William "Manthai" family. The settled in Goshen,
the Manthai using the name Montine, with "Minnie Fausch, mil, born circa 1806 living
with them. Wilhemina Fausch had two other sons, Gottlieb and Frederich who came over in
1867 and settled in Goshen, but earlier than that, in 1866 her son August came over,
married to Rosalie Warnako in a civil marriage in LaPorte in 1866, and their first child
(buried in Goshen) was baptised in St. John's, Michigan City with the birthplace given
as a ditto mark, four entries above showing Furnessville, thus giving the Goshen Fausches
a Pine TWP and/or MiCi connection. [It seems to me that the seven consecutive
entries/dittos in the church books for Furnessville are an error mistakenly assumed for
MiCi at the time of entry.]
It is my understanding that the surname "Manthey" pops up in Furnessville, and
given the previous form of the Montine name... well, nothing will surprise me.
One final possibility that I will mention (although not the only uncovered possibility) is
that this 93 yo Carolina Fausch in 1899 may be the unobserved mother of Fred & August
Fausch & Eva Rotzien of MiCi, OR the mother of the John Fausch of MiCi who died in
1863 and whose widow became a Schneider/Snyder in Beatty's Corners.
[They're all related... I just can't prove it... yet. <g>)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~maxfield/fausch/
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