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Johann Daniel Jacob Reiss (1796 - 1846)

Johann Daniel Jacob Reiss aka Rice, Reisz
Born in Erfenbach, Kaiserslautern, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germanymap
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Son of and
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 27 Feb 1816 in Erfenbach, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germanymap
Husband of — married 4 Jan 1828 in Erfenbach, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germanymap
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Died at age 50 in Seneca Township, Seneca, Ohio, United Statesmap
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Biography

One of many children of Johann Daniel Reiss and Anna Christina Weissman, Jacob Reiss was born in Erfenbach, Germany in 1796.

At age 20, he married a woman named Dorothea Reiss. She was the daughter of a Heinrich Reiss and Catharina Thomannin, though what, if any, relation her family had to Jacob's is unknown. They had four children together and she died in 1827.

Six months after the death of his first wife, Jacob remarried to Maria Elisabetha Scheer. They had three children while still in Germany.

In 1833 the Reiss family immigrated to America. They settled in Ohio and continued their family, adding seven more children to the mix.

Jacob passed away in late 1846, shortly after the birth of his 14th and final child.[1]

Children

With Dorothea Reiss (1800-1827)

  1. Heinrich Jacob (1818-1892) m. Eva Reimer and had issue
  2. Jacob (1822-1823)
  3. Jacob (1823-aft. 1846)
  4. Christina (1826-1827)

With Maria Elisabetha Scheer (1806-1885) (in Germany)

  1. Elisabetha (1828-1829)
  2. Daniel (1829-1917) m. Susan Henry and had issue
  3. Philippina (1831-1832)

(after immigrating)

  1. Philippena (1834-1890) m. Adam Bauer and had issue
  2. Caroline (1835-1903) m. Henry Smith and had issue
  3. Catharine (1836-1880) m. Samuel Sailor and had issue
  4. John (1838-1862) died during the Civil War
  5. Barbara (1840-1903) m. Benjamin Franklin Bowers and had issue
  6. Valentin (1844-1857)
  7. Christina (c. 1846-1898) m. Lewis Watcher and had issue

Last Will and Testament

In the name of the benevolent Father of all:- I, Jacob Reis of Seneca Township, Seneca County Ohio, do make and publish my last Will and Testament.

Statement:- I give and devise to my beloved wife in lieu of her dower the farm on which we now reside situate in Seneca Township containing eighty acres with all the stock, household goods, furniture, provisions and other goods and chattels thereon at my decease until my son Daniel Reis comes to be twenty two years of age and at the end of said Term my said wife is to have the East half of said Eighty Acres with the half of all the stock, household hoods and furniture provisions and other goods and chattels during her natural life, at the death of my said wife the real estate aforesaid and such part of said personal property or the proceeds thereof as many then remain unconsumed and unexpended I give and devise to my eight youngest children and their heirs.

Second) I devise and bequeath to my son Daniel Reis and his heirs the West half of the farm on which we now reside with the half of all the stock and farming utensils and the North End of the house and the north end of the barn until the death of my said wife and then the whole of the said house and barn shall belong to the said Daniel Reis after he is twenty-two

Third) I devise and bequeath to my sons Henry Reis and Jacob Reis of my first wife each of them one dollar they each of them having received four hundred dollars in advance. I do also hereby nominate my esteemed friend Michael Dewalt guardian of my eight youngest children until they arrive at the age of Twenty-one years.

Item 4th, I do hereby nominate and appoint Michael Dewalt executor of this my last Will and testament hereby authorizing and empowering him to compromise, adjust, release and discharge in such manner as he may deem proper the debts and claims due me. I do also authorize and empower him if it shall become necessary in order to pay my debts, to sell at private sale or in such manner upon such terms of credit or otherwise as he may think proper all or any part of my real estate and deeds to purchasers to execute, acknowledge and deliver in for simple.

I do hereby revoke all former Wills by me made.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 26 day of October in the year 1846.

Jacob Reis (seal)

Signed and acknowledged by said Jacob Reis as the last Will and Testament in our presence and signed by us in his presence.

Stephen J. Pacher Jacob Rothfuchs

Will Probate Record

And which said Proof so produced to writing reads as follows to-wit:-

The State of Ohio, Seneca County Court of Common Pleas

At a regular session of the Court of Common Pleas of said County to-wit, at the April Term of AD 1847 personally appeared in open Court Stephen J. Pacher and Jacob Rothfuchs two subscribing witnesses to a certain paper writing now exhibited to them in Court purporting to be the last Will and testament of Jacob Reis, late of said County deceased and being fully examined, cautioned and sworn respectfully dispose and say that they were present and saw the said Jacob Reis then declared it to be his last Will and testament and then published the same as such in the presence of said witnesses thereunto and requested them to subscribe it as such Witnesses as aforesaid which they severally did in the presence of the said Jacob Reis. And they further say that the said Jacob Reis at the time of executing said last Will and testament as aforesaid was now of full age and of sound mind and memory and not under any legal restraint and further they say not.

Sworn to and subscribed before me in open Court this 9th day of April A.D. 1847

I T. Dresbach Clark

By Daniel Stoner Dept. Clerke

Notes

At various points through his life, Jacob alternated between using the name Jacob and the name Daniel, with no obvious reason for the changes. This is verified by the record of his second marriage.

Further information regarding this, including a partial translation of said record, can be found in these two Reddit threads:

Sources

  1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113968519/jacob-reisz: accessed 31 July 2022), memorial page for Jacob Reisz (13 Feb 1796–3 Nov 1846), Find A Grave: Memorial #113968519 citing Reisz Cemetery, New Riegel, Seneca County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by Clint Prong (contributor 47340136).

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