John Joseph Reichert
was
among the earlier settlers of Mercer County, Ohio. He obtained
title
to 40 acres of farmland in Marion Twp on 29 September of 1834.
John
Joseph was a native of the village of Nussloch in Baden,
Germany.
He and his wife, Anna Maria Stucke, were married at the Catholic Church
in Nussloch on 16 November 1825. They were the parents of five
young
children by the time of their immigration to America. The family
departed from LeHavre on board the Brig Antigone and arrived at the port
of Philadelphia in September of 1833. An additional five children
were born to them after their arrival in
Mercer
County.
John Joseph
Reichert
and his wife are both buried in St John the Baptist Cemetery in Maria
Stein,
Mercer County, per research of the late George Reichert. I have
found
no gravestones marking their burial site.
For those
researchers
interested in other early Nussloch families, the following links may be
helpful
Joseph Studer and
his wife Maria Anna Müller were among the early German Catholic
families to settle in Mercer County, Ohio. The family came from
Perry County, OH, where they had lived for about 9 years before moving
westward to Recovery Twp in Mercer County about 1839. Joseph,
Maria Anna, and six children ranging in ages from 1 to 14 years had
disembarked from the Oxford at the port of
Philadelphia on 9 June 1830 after having departed from LeHavre,
France. They were natives of Alsace, a territory situated on the
Rhine River which at varying times had been under the control of either
France or Germany and is currently a part of France. The Studers
were natives of the Alsatian village of Rittershoffen where Joseph was
a blacksmith as was his father, Laurent Studer. Soon after
settling in Perry County, the first of Joseph's Ohio born children,
George, was baptized on 1 Nov 1830 in Holy Trinity Catholic Church in
Somerset, Perry County. Two additional children were born and
baptized in Perry County followed by two more children born in Mercer
County. Joseph Studer died in 1864 and Maria Anna died in 1871.
They are buried in St Joseph Cemetery in Recovery Twp, Mercer County,
but only the gravestone for Marie Anna stands today.
At the time of
Joseph's
move to Mercer County, his two eldest children had already married in
Perry
County. Daughter Mary Ann Studer married in 1834 to Windal Doll
and
this family also moved to Mercer County prior to 1840. Son Joseph
Studer Jr married in 1837 to Martha Hammond and again in 1841 to
Magdalene
Fischer. They lived in Franklin County where Joseph's first three
children were born, but, by 1846, he too ventured westward and
resettled
in Recovery Twp in Mercer County.
Joseph's father
Laurent was widowed in 1827 and he also immigrated to the United
States,
arriving in New York from LeHarve on board theCharlemagne on 24 Jan
1833 along with
his daughter Marguerite and son John. Other children of
Laurent Studer also settled in Ohio. His daughter Magdalena
and
husband Michael Wagner and their children, all born in
Rittershoffen, had arrived along with her older brother, Joseph Studer,
on the Oxford
and
had settled in Perry County in 1830. And George Studer, another son
of Laurent, was in Perry County, OH, by July of 1833
when he was married at St Joseph Catholic Church in Somerset.
Thanks to thank fellow
researcher
Ruth King for her generosity in providing the OXFORD passenger list