Family/Spouse: SCHNITZER, Phillipina. Phillipina (daughter of SCHNITZER, Charles S and Lena ///) was born on 18 Nov 1894 in New York; died in Sep 1984 in Niagara Falls, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married CRITTSINGER, Lumana Francis on 22 May 1895 in Trinity Episcopal Church, Lancaster, NY. Lumana (daughter of CRITTSINGER, George P and PAYNE, Mary Eva) was born on 9 Feb 1875 in Lockport, NY; died on 2 Oct 1958 in Gowanda, NY; was buried on 6 Oct 1958 in Riverdale Cemetery, Lewiston, NY - Section 5, Lot 51, Grave 6. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

May have been born in Frankfort-
E-Mail response from Linda Reinumagi - Niagara Falls Library History Department - St Mary's Cemetery Records:
On the south side of driveway, reading north to south - row 10 - Carrie Regenhardt
On the north side - row 6 - Carrie Weber/wife of/Herman Rieger/born Apr 4 1873/died Feb 1 1896
On the north side - row 96 - Frank Lauer
On the north side - row 97 - Elizabeth/wife of/Henry Lauer/diedMay 2 1890/aged 81 years/Lauer Henry Lauer/died/July 19 1897/aged 80 years Frank Lauer/1858-1908
Hope this helps.

Linda Reinumagi
Charsoos@aol.com wrote:

Hi Linda

Thanks for the reply. I know the area you mean - I think. They are still
using that cemetery and it's between Oakwood and the old Trott school. Am I
correct?

Meanwhile, could you check the information you have for Henry Lauer who died
on July 27, 1897 and according to the death certificate was buried there.
Also, I have no knowledge of his wife Elizabeth's death but believe it was in
1890, if you could also check for her I sure would appreciate it.

Now, her family were Rieger's. If you see any of them or of the Regenhardt
family, that information would also be helpful.

If this is too much to ask, I will be in Niagara Falls at the end of June and
could check your records myself, if you are still open. I understand that
there is a problem with the library budget and perhaps no-one really knows what
are going to be happening by then.

Thanks again sooooo much.

Char Soos

Reply:

I guess you mean Annette Burgert's books: her master index shows:
LAUER Christian immigr. 1733 from Wolfersweiler
LAUER Jacob 1737 also
LAUER Michael 1737 also.
I don't have her Wolfersweiler volume.

Index also shows
LAUER Johann Theiss immigr. 1753 from Westerwald
LAUER Henrich 1753 Westerwald.
I do have this book, so will send scans of 3 pp. and title page --
they're separate because otherwise I find my machine hanging up.

Jan

Henry married RIEGER, Elizabeth H in 1857. Elizabeth (daughter of RIEGER, Jacob and NUSS, Rosalie) was born in 1829 in Katzenthal Mosbach, Baden Germany; died on 2 May 1890 in Suspension Bridge, Niagara County, New York; was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Niagara Falls, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1880 Census lived at 54 Genesee St., Lockport, NY Page 39 Dist 11, Enumeration District 203 Page 576; should this age be born in 1857 per 1920 Census???
Note: 1870 Census says he was born in PA - living at hotel in Lockport
1900 Census says he was born in Sept 1854 and was living in Lancaster, NY at that time

George married PAYNE, Mary Eva on 18 Jun 1874 in Lockport, NY. Mary (daughter of PAYNE, Alexander and WOODWARD, Mary) was born on 6 Jun 1860 in Lockport, NY; died on 23 Jan 1914 in Niagara Falls, NY; was buried in Riverdale Cemetery, Lewiston, NY - Section 5, Lot 51. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1930 says Lewis Moyer Crittsinger's mother was born in Vermont
1920 Census says they had 5 children - 4 living

Jean married SCHNEIDER, Elizabeth Louise on 10 Mar 1812 in Hirzweiler, Ottweiler, Germany. Elizabeth (daughter of SCHNEIDER, Nicolus and WEINGARD, Elisabethe) was born about 1796 in Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jacob Rieger and his wife, Rosalie Nuss, with their five children: Boniface, Elizabeth, Frank, Catherine and Frances with their families came to the United States in 1854 and settled at Suspension Bridge (now a part of Niagara Falls) in New York State. The two older children of the 2nd generation Jacob Rieger came to this country after receiving their education. per Joan Nelson (Kindred Konnections)-deceased in 2001

Jacob + NUSS, Rosalie. Rosalie was born about 1794 in Katzenthal Mosbach, Baden, Germany; died in 1861 in Suspension Bridge, Niagara County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Info confirmed in census 1850 Amherst - shows name as Kretzsinger also shows children - Catherine, Polly, Mary, Barbara, William and Frederick Stefan living with them; 1875 Map shows property owned by J Cretsinger in J dist No. in Pendleton on Tonawanda Creek Road about 1 mile west of Transit Road
Info confirmed in census 1860 Amherst - shows name as Kretsinger also shows children - Kate, Pauline, Maria, Barbara, William, Caroline, Lucy, John and George (Geo. age 7) in Clarence

Niagara Gazette - 12/11/1878

John Cretsinger, a wealthy farmer,
sixty-five years of age, residing near
Sulphur Springs, four miles west of the
city of Lockport, committed suicide Monday
morning by shooting himself with a
revolver. Cretsinger is said to have
been mentally unsound for some tfrne,
and the fatal act was probably committed
while the unfortunate man was laboring
under temporary insanity. The
Lockport Union of Monday gives the
following particulars of the affair:
Last night about five o'clock he started
from home, saying he was going to call
on Ins son, who lived near. He not returning
home, inquiry was made, when
it was learned that he had not visited
his son. The family dog was then put
on the track ot the missing man, when
ho was found in a piece of woods be.
tween 4 and 5 o'clock this morning. His
son came up to him and put his hand
ou his father s shoulder to detain him,
when, without warning, the old gentleman
turned and discharged a revolver at
his son, but fortunately missed him.
Mr. Cretsinger then suddenly placed the
weapon against his own person and fired.
He sank to the ground and expired in
about ten' minutes. - A messenger was
dispatched at once for Dr. Kittenger,
who found that' the ball had entered at
the base of the sternum and undoubtedly
ruptured some of the large arteries of the
heart. Deceased leaves a wlfe and three
grown up children.

Johann married ROSSMANN, BarbaraDarmstadt, Germany. Barbara was born on 7 May 1820 in Auerbach, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany; died on 7 Sep 1887 in Erie Co., NY; was buried in Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Town of Amherst, Erie, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander + WOODWARD, Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]