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Hope Elizabeth Yordy, 58, of Newport, R.I., passed away on Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. She left us far, far too soon, after a brave battle with stage IV lung cancer.
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. Lizzie Reed also lived on Henrietta’s place on Island 102 during the war, to keep from getting killed by the guerillas. In the 1840s and 1850s enterprising private operators began ferry service across the Mississippi to Vicksburg. There were also roads in the Parish, dirt roads that were dusty in dry seasons and muddy axle-deep in wet seasons.
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In 1841, the Jews of Vicksburg formed a congregation called the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation of the Men of Mercy. “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. 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.
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At that time, Simon was about 35 years old, and his bride Kehla, about 25 years old. Sadness hit the family only a few months later, with the death of Low Griebel, 8 years old, in November of that year. In March 1827, only weeks shy of her first wedding anniversary, Kehla gave birth to a daughter they named Carolina. Bessla did not survive Joseph’s birth, and died on June 23, 1825, at age 37.
Given that Bettie was only 16 years old at the birth of her first child, I suspect that she did. Perhaps Henrietta wrote to her mother Fanni about Fanni’s American great-grandchildren. 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. 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.
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She was not like most the white ladies around here.” Thomas Staten lived on Henrietta’s place on Island 102 for 2 years. She had told him that she would not have slaves, everybody had a right to be free. Many times she had said she wanted all the people to be free and work for themselves like she did. Likely it was in late 1860 when Henrietta gave birth to a son she named Louis. Louis appears to have used the surname Smith during his childhood, including on the 1870 federal census. On the 1860 federal census, Henrietta’s family is enumerated as household # 45.
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General Grant saw the importance of Milliken’s Bend, a mere miles from Vicksburg on the Louisiana side of the river, and hoped from there to capture Vicksburg. General Sherman took his Union troops to Milliken’s Bend as early as Jan 1, 1862, where the Union troops found beautiful homes abandoned by their Confederate owners. Soon thereafter, both Union and Confederate troops were foraging on the countryside. The construction of this railroad was ultimately disastrous for the future of Milliken’s Bend because the train did not run through the little port town.
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. Henrietta moved to Island 102 after the Union army came to the Vicksburg area.
Government documents agree that Mrs. Bauer’s husband died before the war, but seem to know only the name Bauer, not Smith. In 1840, the white population of the parish was 1,210 and the black population was 3,923; by 1860, the whites in Madison Parish numbered 1,293 and the blacks, 9,863. Marx Geissberger, Henrietta’s elderly widowed grandfather, died in Bibergau at age 84 on Jan 30, 1835, when Henrietta was only 5 years old. Low Rau possibly died before 1818, as a grandson was named for him in 1818.
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