My Genealogy Hound

Robert Jackisch (deceased). Among those who came from the hospitable shores of Germany to Gasconade County, in 1854, should be mentioned Robert and Fredericka Jackisch, both born in Prussia, he in 1827 and she in 1828. After taking passage to America, and after being on the ocean a week, the vessel was wrecked, and was obliged to return to Liverpool for repairs. They at last set sail and reached New Orleans, finding their way from that city to Gasconade County, Mo. He was a saddler by trade, and for about fourteen months during the war worked for the Union army. After the war he pumped water at a tank on the Missouri Pacific Railroad for about seventeen years. While reading one day the safety valve of the engine gave way, and the steam escaping so rapidly, blinded him and he was unable to find his way out, and was so severely scalded that he died in a few days (1882). He was an honest, industrious man, and a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, an Odd Fellow and a Republican in politics, as were all his boys. His widow still lives, and is also a member of the Lutheran Church. Of their family of five children, Charles F. married Bertha Rosin, and has two daughters; Adolphus G. married Katie Schumacher, who died, leaving two daughters; Frederica H. is married and living in Kansas; Bertha S. is still at home, and Daniel R. married Emma Wolter. Charles is running the farm, Adolphus took his father’s place at the pump, and Daniel began merchandising in Gasconade City in 1887. All the children received their educations in both the English and German languages, and are well informed and respected citizens.