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Have flowers from a local florist delivered to an upcoming service. The restored Ark and eternal light from Temple Anshe Chesed of Vicksburg is now at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, Utica, Mississippi. The course of the Mississippi River has changed over the last hundred years, and the site of “old” Milliken’s Bend is now on the east bank of the river.
Simon was again left a widower with four children, namely Lazarus , 11 years, Isaac, 4 years, Joseph, 1 year, and Carolina, a newborn infant. Henrietta’s daughter Bettie, 14, was attending school in New Orleans. 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. Several of Simon’s children were among those Jews who came to America.Joseph Geisenberg and his sister Lea Geisenberg, who married Samuel Shuster, came to the South and settled in Memphis, Tennessee.
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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.
By the time that his son Simon married Bessla in 1821, Marx Geissberger was 71 years old and a widower. Founded in 1889, the O'Neill-Hayes Funeral Home has been family owned and operated for five generations. We are one of the oldest funeral homes in Rhode Island, and the oldest funeral home on the entire Aquidneck Island. Over the past 121 years, we have become a benchmark in Newport and in the surrounding communities for compassion and service in the funeral industry. This is the cost to purchase a burial vault from the funeral home. A burial vault is required for most cemeteries, but you may choose to purchase one online or elsewhere, if you'd wish.
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Nevertheless, the railroad was good for the Parish, and Leopold and Henrietta may have attended the celebration in September 1857. When the settlement of Walnut Hills was incorporated in 1825 as the city named Vicksburg, there were twenty Jewish families living in the town. Three Jewish brothers surnamed Sartorius moved to the area in 1835, 1840 and 1845, and brought two Torah scrolls.
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. Shutzjude is a Jew who enjoyed some privilege, as, for example, a Jew who was allowed by exception to live where Jews were not ordinarily allowed to live.
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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.
Milliken’s Bend, also called “the Bend,” was a community located about miles north of Vicksburg, on the western bank of the Mississippi River in Madison Parish, Louisiana. In keeping with the practice of the time, the village had been named for the largest property owner at that bend in the river, John Milliken. With millions of names, it's an invaluable tool for genealogist and history buffs.
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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.
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.
Philippsborn reports that the first soldier wounded in this campaign was Philip Sartorius. Robinson reports that the battle marked the first major conflict between Union black troops and the Confederate army. There were about 100 acres cleared; mostly the property was woods. Henrietta hired black people, including Washington West and Thomas Staten, to cut wood from her property and she had a big wood yard at her place from which she sold wood to citizens’ boats. One record says that Henrietta and Leopold divorced and that Leo moved to St. Louis. Henrietta is said to have remarried a Louis Smith, who died shortly thereafter, and was the father of her son.
In 1880 most of the inhabitants of Milliken’s Bend relocated to a new site one mile west of the old town, due to encroachment by the river. The original site of Milliken’s Bend has ceased to exist since the last family left in 1916. The Joe Witherow family left the “old” Bend in 1910, the next to last family to leave. The Isaac Geisenberg family moved to Trenton, Louisiana, in the early 1860’s where Isaac died in 1863.
It is a time to share memories, receive condolences and say goodbye. Henrietta’s first grandchild, Bettie and Jim’s daughter Henrietta Jane Witherow was born July 18, 1874, at Waggaman, La. The following year, Henrietta’s first grandson Joseph Francis Witherow was born in December 1875. Did the new grandmother, perhaps with her daughter Jennie, make trips to Waggaman to help the new mother and cuddle the new babies?
The war had been bad, but the period of Carpetbag Rule following the war is said to have been worse and has been described as chaos. Henrietta’s life must have been chaos, as she was adjudicated bankrupt at this time. After the war, Henrietta returned with her children to Milliken’s Bend.
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Fanni’s son Low was born in February and died in August 1829. Carolina, the only child of Simon and Kehla, died in 1840, at the age of 13 years. And Simon and Fanni’s children Schela, Samuel, and Marle died shortly after their births, in 1841, 1842, and 1843. Simon was a single father for 18 months following Kehla’s death. In July of 1828, little Joseph, 3-year-old son of Simon and Bessla, died.
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