Person Sheet

Name 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)
Spouses
1 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
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)
Notes for Anna Barbara Schneider
ANNA BARBARA SCHNEIDER was born October 27, 1826 in Hoheinod, Germany. Her parents Jacob Schneider and Elizabetha of Hoheinod, Germany. Her parents settled in Franklin township, Browns Co. Ohio. But they were not alone. Anna Barbara's Grandfather, Uncles and Aunts had also immigrated to Franklin township. Many other families, also from Rheinpfalz Germany, had settled there as well. They all attended the Peace Lutheran Church in Arnheim Ohio where the services were conducted in German. Oral history has it that Anna Barbara's parents were dairy farmers. If so, she must have spent a great deal of her youth helping with the milking. In Germany traditionally milking was the responsibilty of the daughters. This meant getting up before dawn every morning to milk the cows, and then milking them every evening. Anna Barbara also surely helped with the making butter and cheese which was the main products of dairy farms before refrigeration. Anna Barbara had seven siblings younger than she was. Jacob the next oldest was three years younger, and the youngest was Margaret 19 years younger than Anna Barbara. Anna Barbara even after reaching marriable age stayed and helped her mother with the children and the housekeeping. (Her other sisters all married at about age 20.) It was not until after the death of both her parents, (her father in 1859 and her mother in 1861) that Anna Barbara married. Anna Barbara's inheritence from her father's estaste was $400. Six month after the death of her mother, Anna Barbara age 35 married John KIESEWETTER. He was widowed four months earlier and had a nine year old daughter. Anna Barbara and John stayed in the German settlement and attended the Lutheran German speaking church. They made their living farming. Anna Barbara was still milking cows and making lots of butter. In 1879 she made 500 pounds on butter! On July 7th, 1863 during the Civil War, their stable of horses at their homestead in Sardinia, Ohio was under threat of expropriation by confederate soldiers led by the Rebel Raider John Morgan. Anna Barbara let horses loose so they couldn't be rounded up. The soldiers didn't get the horses, but did take all their food. ANNA BARBARA SCHNEIDER and JOHN KIESEWETTER had four children who lived to adulthood. They were: JOHN JACOB KIESEWETTER, b. October 24, 1864, Washington Twp., Brown Co., OH. ROSINA MARGARET KIESEWETTER, b. 1866, Washington Twp., Brown Co., OH. FRANK WILLIAM KIESEWETTER, b. June 17, 1868, Washington Twp., Brown Co., OH. CAROLINE BARBARA KIESEWETTER, b. August 19, 1870, Washington Twp., Brown Co., OH. Anna Barbara also raised her step-daughter Francis Romanda b. march 6, 1852 in Austria. Anna Barbara was widowed in 1888. She died September 25, 1904 of cancer at the age of 76 in Franklin Twp., Brown Co., OH. she is buried in the Arnheim Lutheran Church Cemetery. Written and researched by Linda Rawles rawles@usa.net