| Name | Johann Kiesewetter  |
| Birth | 21 Jan 1818, Austrian Empire |
| Death | 29 Feb 1888, Sardinia, Brown Co., Ohio, USA |
| Burial | Arnheim lutheran cemetery, Brown Co., Ohio, USA |
| Occupation | farmer |
| Religion | joined the Peace Lutheran church 1861 |
| Father | Joseph Kiesewetter |
| Mother | Magdalena |
| 1 | Christina Schubert |
| Birth | 1831, Austria |
| Death | Jul 1860, Sardinia, Brown Co., Ohio |
| Burial | Beihn Family Cemetery, Sardinia |
| Mother | Rosalie Schubert |
| Children | Frances (1860-1930) |
| 2 | Anna Barbara Schneider |
| Birth | 27 Oct 1826, Hoheinod, Rhineland Pfalz |
| Death | 25 Sep 1904, Franklin Twp., Brown Co., OH |
| Burial | 28 Sep 1904, Arnheim, Brown Co., Ohio, USA |
| Father | Johann Jacob Schneider (1797-1859) |
| Mother | Elisabetha Catarina Schilpp (1803-1861) |
| Marriage | 12 Nov 1861, Franklin Twp., Brown Co., OH |
| Children | John Jacob (1864-1947) |
| Caroline Barbara "Carrie" (1870-1951) | |
| Frank William (1868-1955) | |
| Rose Margaret (1866-1924) |
Came to America by sailing ship (three month voyage?)
(Ethellou Kiesewetter has a blue pitcher that came on this voyage. )
Also brought a German (Lutheran translation) Bible that was printed in Basel, Switzerland, 1725 by Friedrich Battier and M. Theodore Gernler--pastors of St. Alben and St. Elisabethen. With an introdctory chapter by Martin Luther. Now in the basement of the Cincinatti museum center in the Cincinnati Historical Society Libray Nippert Collection of German Methodism.
Owned a signet with the family crest. Included a crown (at top), a shield and initials "JK"
Johannes Jacob Kiesewetter, the son of Joseph and Magdalena Kiesewetter, was born January 21, 1819 in Austria. At the age of 38 he came to America by sailing ship. He left Austria May 23, 1853 and landed in New York July 17, 1853. He was probably accompanied by his wife Christine Schubert, daughter Franciskah Romanda, and possibly his mother-in-law Rosalie Schubert. They settled in Maurystown, Ohio. In 1855 Johannes bought 46 acres in Brown County Ohio. He was declared a United Sates citizen May 31, 1859 in Brown Co. His first wife Christine died July 7, 1860 and is buried beside her mother Rosalie Schubert in the Biehn Family Cemetery.
On the 12 of November 1861 Johannes remarried. He married Anna Barbara Schneider at the German Lutheran Church at Arnheim, Brown Co. She was born 28th of October 1827. Anna Barbara Schneider and her parents immigrated from the village of Hoheinod in the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz, just north of the French border).
Johannes and Anna Barbara lived in a German settlement and attended a Lutheran German speaking church. Johannes was a successful farmer. In 1880 Johannes owned 186 acres: 20 acres woodland, 10 acres hay, 25 acres indian corn, 20 acres oats, 20 acres wheat,and less than an acre of sorghum and tobacco, as well as pasture. Johannes had 4 horses, 4 milk cows, 17 other cattle, 7 sheep, 19 pigs,and 56 chickens and other poultry. Long after his death, Johannes was remembered in the community for his generous gifts of money to relatives Europe to pay for their passage to America.
During the Civil War, July 1863 his stable of horses at his homestead in Sardinia, Ohio was under threat of expropriation by raiding Confederate soldiers led by the notorious John Morgan. His wife let his horses loose so they couldn't be rounded up. The soldiers didn't get the horses, but did take all their available food.
Johannes and Anna Barbara had four children who lived into adulthood.
John Jacob b. 24 October 1864 (married Maggie Freeh Aug. 3, 1890)
Rosina Margaretha b. 1866 (married Charles W. Hauke Jan. 2, 1890)
Franz Wilhelm b. 17 June 1868 (married Minnie Dunn about 1893)
Carolina Barbara b.19 Dec. 1870 (married Charles Biehn Sept. 11, 1892)
Johannes Kiesewetter died 29 of February 1888 and was buried in the Arnheim Lutheran Church Cemetery in Brown Co. Ohio. He was survived by his widow Barbara, their four children and grandchildren, and his daughter from his first marriage.
biography written Linda Rawles 2004 rawles@uas.net