The Ship Adams passenger list from 24 Aug 1854 showing Joseph Leicht as a passenger bound from LaHarve to New York City. He is 18 years old.
Wedding Bann for Joseph Leicht and Theresa Keller 26 Feb 1884. Joseph would die less than a year later,
The 1870 US Census shows Joseph Leicht living at City Hospital and working there as a baker. The hospital was located on four acres between Plum and Central Avenues and 12th and Ann Streets. It is pictured below.
Joseph Leicht cemetery card for St. John's Cemetery - St. Bernard. As can be seen on the death record card to the right, his cause of death was listed as "Insolation". Insolation is the extreme overexposure to the sun, or in other words, heat stroke.
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Hamilton County Death Record Card for Joseph Leicht. The name has been erased and then re-typed incorrectly. However, the date of death, July 24, 1884, does match the funeral date on the cemetery card. Other mistakes are his age and his country of origin. He was Swiss, not German and he was 48, not 24. Then again, the cemetery of record matches.
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Saint John's Cemetery in Saint Bernard
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It would appear, from Hamilton County records, that a baby was born to Theresa Leicht fives months after Joseph's death. I have as yet found concrete proof that this baby George is a son of our Leicht family, but the parent's names and time frame do match.
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This Hamilton County Death Record Card for George A. Leicht would suggest that baby George lived only one year, ten months, and nine days before passing away from Membranous Croup.
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Saint Mary's Cemetery in Saint Bernard. The little tree stump marker to the right is probably for George A. Leicht. I have written to the cemetery for a plot map to see for sure if this is grave space 1. It is located at the beginning of a straight line of his relatives.
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After a visit to St. Mary I found that the lot I was seeking contained the sister of Theresia Keller Leicht, making it almost certain that Baby George is Joseph Leicht's son. |
St. Mary Cemetery in Saint Bernard - Section 2 Lot 395
What we know here is that Mathilda was Theresa Keller's sister who married Peter Kramschuster. We know that two of her brothers are buried here as well, August and Constantine Keller. We assume that George A. Leicht is Teresa and Joseph Leicht's baby. We assume that Louisa Kramschuster was Mathilda's daughter. As to the Meinekes, Valantin Schonder, and Mary Pleetz, we do not at this time know if they were family or friends, but that is not within the purview of this project. I did however, discover that Valentin Schonder arrived in the States in 1881 at the age of sixteen and enjoyed only six years here before his death at twenty-one in 1887. His will states that the executrix of his will shall be Elizabeth Schonder, so was he married? I have found no evidence of it yet.
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Obituary Notice
Our dearly beloved son and brother died on Tuesday, March
22nd at 9 p.m.
Valentin Schonder
at the age of 21. The funeral will take place on Friday
25 March at 8.45 a.m. from the funeral home, Ro. 158 Liberty
Street, to which friends and acquaintances are cordially
invited by the bereaved. Rest gently you faithful soul God
rest thee the heavens, in those bright, holy heights, we'll
see you there again.
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Okay, so we left Joseph Leicht I working at the City Hospital as a baker. This was in 1870 Cincinnati, before he married Theresa Keller in 1884. As mentioned above, Joseph would pass away less than a year after his marriage. But, I am having trouble with validating the date pertaining to Joseph I and Joseph II:
Theresa Keller Theresa was 26 years
1862-1947 younger than Joseph.
Married in 1884 She was 22 and he 48.
Joseph Leicht I
1836-1884 "Their" son born 3 years
before their marriage
Joseph Leicht II
1881-1952
For some reason I'm thinking there may have been a first marriage for Joseph Leicht from which Joseph Leicht II was born three years before the marriage of Joseph I to Theresa Keller. I have yet to find it though, if it existed. But, that was in the mid-1800s and this is 2018. Things were very different back then.
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Joseph Leicht II
We join Joseph Leicht II in 1900 where he is at that time living in the Pinar del Rio Barracks in Cuba. Joseph was a veteran of the Spanish American War.
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Joseph Leicht II
Joseph Leicht's Burial Card showing the end of his life in 1952, but now we will turn our attention to what lay between 1881 and 1952 for Mr. Leicht.
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In 1902 Joseph marries Ida Butz, but the marriage is short lived as you see from the card to the right, which shows Ida's death just shy of ten years later.
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1900 Federal Census
1910 Federal Census
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Joseph Leicht II Wed 1912
1920 Federal Census
1930 Federal Census
1940 Federal Census
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1942 "Old Man's Draft"
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After the United States entered World War II, a new Selective Service
Act required that all men between the ages of 18 and 64 register for
the draft. The Fourth Registration, or Old Man’s Registration, was held
on April 27, 1942. The purpose of this registration was to collect
information on the industrial capacity and skills of men who were born
between April 27, 1877 and February 16, 1897 (ages 45 to 64). It was not
intended that these men be drafted into military service but to determine
if their labor skills could be used in the war effort. The registration
would provide a complete inventory of manpower resources in the United
States. The men had to fill out an extensive questionnaire, but unfortun-
ately, the questionnaires have not survived.
Many of the registration cards have survived, however. Each record has
two pages. The first page has the individual’s name, birth date, birth
place, contact name etc. The second page is similar to the WWI draft
registration, with physical description: race, height, weight, hair
color, eye color, complexion, and identifying characteristics such as
scars or burn marks. This information can provide a mental picture even
if photographs of the individual don’t exist.
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Joseph Leicht II Burial
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Emma Wagner Leicht Obit
June 2, 1978
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