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about a mile west of his brother, I approach of the railroad ail of\Mann Family Was Among SectionEarly Settlers; Trail CrossingOf Little Muddy Was Mann BridgePersons who have long lived ini stuff they've got now-a-days nei* the Old Du Quoin area know the ther father or grandfather would trail crossing of Little Muddy as have died as they did, and so the Mann bridge. young.Natives of new Du Quoin are George Sr. died from an infec-familiar with Mann’s dairy on tion in a tooth cavity at the ageLaurel and Franklin streets.This later Mann was Henry,of 27. Grandfather developed 1 blood poisoning from a scratch onancbyhortabChichaTeachtof]the youngest brother of George t his finger, and died at 33. Four Mann, Sr., father of George J.^of the children died in a weekMann, 129 S. Division st.In talking of his family Georgefrom diptheria, In 1892.After Grandfather Mann'sJ# commented that “with the #jeatht Grandmother added an-LsohsioimeRe\apiCotOPAoptovlt;SUfonIlicetheHeSOTIchl Ca Dr a ! tea Ms inf ItoSt€boinronwiMr. and Mrs. Georg* Mann, Sr., neeElizabeth Schneider, were among this area's early settlers. He was born in f845 and died In 1872, She was born m 1847 and died in 1933. Both ore buried in Sacred Heart Catholic Cam-•tery. They were the paints of GeorgeMann of this city*Siother syllable to her name by marrying John Horshmann.The experiences of the maternal grandparents, the Schneiders, in coming to a new home, were pretty rough, according to their grandson, George J*Valentine Schneider was bom in Muelhousen, Beverstadt, East Prussia, Germany. He was the youngest of nine children and the only son. After his father, who was a captain, retired from the German army, died qt the age of 96, Valentine, his wife and seven year old daughter, Elizabeth, set sail for America.A week out on the Atlantic the ship was nearly lost in a terrific storm. Ropes were stretched across the deck and everyone clung to those. After the storm !io\ passed the wind * blew the ship ’ Du back to the shore from which, it started. The captain told his passengers he would refund the money if anyone wanted to back out.No one quit and the ship sailed again, this time landing, after 76 days, at the port of New Orleans in Sept. 1854. In those days the ships1 company furnished all the required food except bread. The women aboard had baked tor four weeks before sailing, making the ioaves very hard so the bread would not mold.Upon landing in New prleans the passengers found yellow fever raging in the town. They were rushed aboard a steamboat and left at once foi St Louis where the Schneider family was met by an “old-country friend from Smithton, Illinois, Frantz Haven-streidt, He took them home with him and helped them get a startin the new country.In 1864, at the age of 19, George Mann volunteered for three years [“in the war. His captain, George J Gottin signed his honorable discharge in 1866. The following year, he and Elizabeth Schneider were married at Red Bud. Soon they sold their farm in thatcoiindr!CoisnaPywlgocathassUsofamitowiDibeAtWiNjwjodheSipaElarinr. Her grave li la the Catholic cem* s* north t* the line in Perry, ciSr. Her grave ........- . ^ ^•t#ry at Pinckneyville. The photograph county. Here George J. Mann was. to bear* a Civil War’’luxury ^amp, born in 1868. . 118
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Du Quoin Evening Call
Du Quoin, Illinois, US
Sat, Sep 19, 1953
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