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They had elephants, menagerie, ring performers and everything else comprising a circus. It often took a day and a half to disembark and set up the show. We'll be pleased to welcome your visit to our warm and comfortable offices. Young's Community Memorial was designed to be unlike any funeral home you've ever seen; it's truly a one-of-a-kind place. We invite you to come in and see for yourself how we're revolutionizing the way you think about funeral service. Gunzenhausen is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany.

In addition to the Yiddish name given to her at her birth, Jandel had two other personal names in her life. For clarity and continuity, I will refer to her only as Henrietta. In January 1816 Bessla and Solomon became the parents of a son, whom they named Lazarus. According to the common Jewish naming practice, their son Lazarus was named for Solomon’s deceased father. Loew and Jannet had sons named Moses and Jacob and daughters named Bessla, Kehla and Feila. We are here to support you and your family through one of life's most difficult transitions.
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Government documents agree that Mrs. Bauer’s husband died before the war, but seem to know only the name Bauer, not Smith. Jewish settlers also came to the Vicksburg and Millikin’s Bend area. They came overwhelmingly from German areas, such as Bavaria, Baden, Alsace-Lorraine, but also Prussia. “Other steamboats helped make life enjoyable for Madisonians. These were the huge and famous Showboats, some carrying a full complement of circus entertainment that was quite comparable to shows traveling by rail.
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Low Rau possibly died before 1818, as a grandson was named for him in 1818. Henrietta likely never knew or could remember any of her grandparents. Simon and Fanni were married for 36 years and had 11 children, born in the years 1829 to 1845. Simon Geissberger, born about 1790 in Bibergau, was the son of Marx and Jenta Geissberger. Marx Geissberger, born about 1750, had been about 40 years old when Simon was born.

In July of 1828, little Joseph, 3-year-old son of Simon and Bessla, died. Two months later, on September 26, 1828, Bessla and Kehla’s sister Feila, called “Fanni,” married Simon in Bibergau. Described in the Bibergau records as the widower of Bessla and Kehla, Simon was now 38 years old. Simon and Fanni’s household numbered five, with three children, namely, Lazarus , 12 years, Isaac, 6 years, and Carolina, 1 year old.
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The construction of the railroad, on which trains were regularly running to Monroe, Louisiana, over 75 miles of track, ceased in 1861. When the Union army came to the area, the Confederate army destroyed the tracks to Monroe in order to prevent the Union army from using it. For their part, the Union army burned the railway stations at Tallulah and DeSoto, Louisiana, the town across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg.
One of the old towns in Bavaria was Gunzenhausen, a town established in 1349. In the late 1700s, one family living in Gunzenhausen was the Jewish family of Loew Rau and his wife Jannet. Loew Rau was a Levite, so he is named in some records as Loew Levi.
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She was compelled to hide from the Confederates or guerrillas through fear of them. By reason of her expressions in favor of the Union cause she had to leave Madison Parish, Louisiana, and remove to what was known as Island No. 102. Henrietta had been living on the Island for a while when, in 1862 and again in 1863, Union soldiers confiscated her goods. The Union soldiers took 600 cords of wood worth $5 each, 50 hogs worth $5 each, 5 cattle worth $30 each, and 500 bushels of corn worth $1.50 each. Lizzie Reed and Thomas Staten saw the Union boat take the flat boat loaded with corn being brought from Island 102 to Milliken’s Bend.
Fanni continued to live in Bibergau as a widow after the passing of her husband Simon; her burial in the Schwanfeld Jewish Cemetery is recorded as taking place on January 4, 1876. Henrietta’s daughter Bettie, 14, was attending school in New Orleans. In Germany, Henrietta’s father Simon Geisenberg died April 4, 1865, at age 74. He was buried in Schwanfeld, a town about 8 miles from Bibergau, in the Jewish cemetery purchased in 1579 and used by the Bibergau Jewish community for hundreds of years.
In the 1840s and 1850s enterprising private operators began ferry service across the Mississippi to Vicksburg. Many Jews took part in the 1848 revolutionary uprisings in Germany. Bavaria was one of the main regions from which Jews came to America, and Bibergau was one town from which Jews left. By 1867, among 549 population of Bibergau, only 91 Jews (17% of the population) remained. At this time, in fact from the 1820’s to about 1880, Jewish immigration into the US almost entirely was made up of immigrants from Germany. She was a middle child in the family, with Lazarus 14 years older than she, Isaac, 7 years older, and Carolina, 3 years older.

Numerous excavations within the city of Gunzenhausen document that the area was occupied and there was a settlement in pre-historic time. In the year 90 the Romans expelled the Celts, occupied the inhabited areas north of the Danube, and expanded into the Gunzenhausen area. In the year 241 the Alemanni invaded the area and destroyed the fortress. A document from the year 823 supplies the first reliable written reference to Gunzenhausen. Find all the transport options for your trip from Bavarian Forest National Park to Gunzenhausen right here. Rome2rio also offers online bookings for selected operators, making reservations easy and straightforward.