How Rider Was Found in Germany
- A little information relating to how the REUTER line was determined to be the line back on Rider.
- I had been looking for Rider for some time. I have looked for naturalization records for Adam Rider and Elizabeth Philippi. All my searching has been negative. I found their marriage license and found out that Adam could not write. He put an X as his mark on his application to marry Elizabeth Philippi, and it was attested to by the clerk. They are on the 1860 OH census of marion county. I ordered a copy of the death certificate on Elizabeth Philippi, from the Ohio Historical Society, and it gave her fathers name as Nicholas Philippi and mother listed as unknown. Elizabeth is buried in Marion cemetery. My first cousin, Janice, took pictures of the grave markers of her, her daughter, and her daughter-in-law. I could never find Adam Rider's father and mother. I ordered a copy of a death document on him and the Ohio Historical Society said there was no death record on him for about 1900. I was searching surnames one night on the internet and found Nicholas Philippi. The individual said she had four pages of information. I E mailed her and it was the beginning of a trio of people looking for basically the same information, trying to get back to Germany on the Philippi surname. We found the grave of Nicholas Philippi in marion county, richland township, in Berringer cemetery. Then my first cousin, Janice, went to the cemetery and took pictures of the grave marker. She related there had been a lot of damage done to the cemetery, markers broken and tipped over. She said there was a double lane grass road back to it and that it was small, only about one quarter acre in size. We got the information from the marion county genealogical society web site. This person was Denise, from WA. She had been in contact with another person looking for Nicholas Philippi as well, Len, from CA. She sent me a 500k file and he sent me a 2.2 meg file. I sent them my file on Rider and Philippi. Len has a 5 meg file with pictures that he is willing to share with me also.
- Anyway, Len was looking at the 1850 OH census of Tuscarawas county, dover township, for Nicholas Philippi. He sent me the information by E mail of what he had found. At the top of the page, there was a Justice Rider with a son named Adam and age 14 or 16, it is hard to make out. He did not realize that he had just found our Adam Rider Sr as a teenager. In the census enumeration, Adam Rider and Elizabeth Philippi, who later married, lived only three houses from each other. On this census, it says that none of the Rider kids attended school during the census year. I imagine they were needed to work on the farm.
- Then, when I was visiting Mexico, Denise found that a new database had been added to the marion county genealogy site of Allen Potts. It was a ships passenger list. She went down through it and found the names that were on the 1850 census, except that the name was REUTER, not Rider. The first names matched up to those on the census, not exactly but really close. And in genealogy, that is a good thing. They were passengers on the Barque Hortensia that sailed from Antwerp, Belgium and arrived in Baltimore, Maryland, on 6 July 1838. I think this ship has registry in south america, and I am looking for a picture of it, so I can include it in my family tree, on the Rider family line. Denise had been E mailing me, and finally phoned me, and wanted to know why I had not answered her E mail. I told her I was in mexico and just got home.
- The next day, Denise went to her family history center, and found them on the international genealogy index, addendum, that was last updated in August 1997. She looked up the name of the submitter and told me that too. I went to the family history center and found all the information, and printed it out.
- I wrote to the submitter of the information, Pat, on 3 Jun 1998, and on 6 Jun, she called me, and said, "Hi cousin." She lives in Salt Lake City, UT. We talked about what we both had and she sent me a printout of data, and I sent her the ships passenger list, that, by the way, contains 13 people she has been searching for, and copies of the 1850 and 1860 census. She had a man go to Germany and film all the church records at Huttengesass. She told me that Huttengesass in German means "little out house." She said the priest kept coming in to see him and asking him when he was going to eat. The priest was afraid he would get sick if he did not eat. He did not take breaks and filmed as fast as he could and it still took him two days to film all the records. He took two rolls of microfilm. He also took pictures of the area in and around Huttengesass, Hessen-nassau, Prussia, Germany, of the old castles and such.
- I want to get a GEDCOM file of these names and also want to get copies of the original church records from the submitter on REUTER. I want to get copies of the pictures too. These are the only microfilms taken of the church records and were not filmed by or for the LDS Family History Center. Then Pat told me that she either left one roll at the library or loaned it to someone, and cannot find it. I am hoping my line is on the one she still has. She invited me to visit her when I go to Salt Lake City again.
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