| Name |
Fredericka Gentz |
| Suffix |
(immigrant) |
| Birth |
1833 |
Dewichow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Prussia  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Emigration |
13 Jun 1850 |
"Bark Neptune," Bremen, Germany |
| Immigration |
13 Jun 1850 |
Galveston Co, Texas |
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Bark Neptune Manifest
Includes Captain Carl Vespermann's signature, information about the baque of the middle 19th century. Family members who sailed this voyage are linked to the respective pages within this file. (d)
Albert Peter (Koch) Cook (I22589)
Alvenia Emilie Marie Wilhemine (Koch) Cook (I22586)
Augusto (Koch) Cook (I22583)
Christian Rheinhold (Koch) Cook (I22588)
Dorothea Ernistine Johanna (Koch) Cook (I22585)
Frederick (Fritz) William (Koch) Cook (I22587)
Okonom Friederich (Koch) Cook (I22580)
Alwine Marie Friederike "Alvina" Gentz (I1373)
Charles* Christopher Gentz, Sr (I1326)
Ferdinand "Fred" Gentz (I417) |
| Census |
14 Nov 1850 |
Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas |
- residence 253
George Block 46 1804 Laborer Germany
Augusta 32 1818 Germany
Friderick William 14 1835 Germany
Charles 14 1836 Germany
Albert 9 1841 (attended school)Germany
George 6 1844 (attended school)Germany
Leopold 4 1846 Germany
Adolph 1 1849 Germany
Maria C.E. Wippenitz 57 Germany
Residence 251:
Patridge, Worthy 32 1818 New York assessor/collector (also census taker)
Clementine 23 1827 Louisiana
Rosalia L. 4 1846 Texas
Laura Ann 0 1850 Texas
Delano, Norman 31 1819 Ohio
Hustin, John C. 55 1875 New York
Gentz, Elvine 15 1835 Germany (dau of Geo Christian Gentz)
Residence 259:
Joseph P. Pulsifer 44 1806 druggist Massachusetts
Fredenburg, Rebecca 45 1805 Pennsylvania
McCall Francis 21 1829 seaman Pennsylvania
McCall, James 19 1831 seaman Pennsylvania
McCall John 17 1833 Seaman Illinois
Podel, Elisabeth M. 8 1842 Texas
Black, Mary Ann 23 1827
Gentz, Fredericka 16 1834 Germany (dau of Geo Christian Gentz)
looks like perhaps a rooming house.
residence 259/259 (last residence, following this,
the census taker entered his certification.(pg 38)
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Prussian Immigrants
A closer look at the Gentz, Maass, Knupple, Koch and Block families in Southeast Texas in 1850. (d) |
| Other-Begin |
1854 |
Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas |
| courthouse |
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Jefferson County Courthouse 1854
The first Courthouse here was completed in 1854. Built by John A. Beaumont, it was a two story square structure surrounded by a six-foot picket fence. Baptist and Methodist congregations conducted Sunday services in the building and during the Civil War it was leased to D. T. Inglehart, a Confederate surgeon, for use as a hospital. http://www.co.jefferson.tx.us/historical_commission/hist_courthouse.htm |
| Census |
13 Jul 1860 |
Grigsby Bluff, Port Neches, Jefferson Co, Texas |
- Residence 392
Behlke Frederick 64 1796 Germany
Behlke Menah 36 1824 Germany
Behlke Henry 14 1846 Germany
Behlke Menah 10 1850 Germany
Residence 393
Gantz Christian 66 1794 Germany
Gantz Charlotte 62 1798 Germany
Gantz William 22 1838 Germany
Gantz Charles 20 1840 Germany
Gantz Ferdinand 16 1844 Germany
Residence 394
Beaumont John 53 1807 Pennsylvania
Frederica 26 1834 Germany
Josephine 17 1843 Texas
Residence 394
Beaumont Jacob 23 1837 Pennsylvania
Beaumont Luiza 6 1854 Texas
Beaumont Hellen 4 1856 Texas
Beaumont James A 3 1857 Texas
Beaumont John C 1 1859 Texas
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1860 Texas, Jefferson County, Grigsby Bluff census
Charles Gentz and John Beaumont families |
| Death |
1879 |
Grigsby Bluff, Port Neches, Jefferson Co, Texas |
| Burial |
Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas |
- I called Magnolia today (10/18/2010 -- updated 11/17/2014; see below) and lady there said that she would have no record of Fredericka since the cemetery was established in 1887 and she died prior to that (1879). "Sapphire on the Neches" book written by local historian William T. Block, stated she was buried there by one of her sons. She had two sons, James Alexander Beaumont who died 1 Nov 1941 and buried in Magnolia and John Christian Beaumont. John had lived in Kountze, so apparently James is who she is next to -- well, he was apparently buried by her if she died in 1879.
The girl at the cemetery looked up James and found Jim A. Beaumont, that he was buried in a section they call the Public Grounds, and that it didn't state if he had a headstone. They had no record of her. The spaces and blocks are not mapped in that section. It was just an open place that McFaddin allowed indigents and others to bury their folk. (also, his d.c. states he was buried in Magnolia)
I really doubt now that Fredericka is there. Mr. Block would have had to find some documentation that she was buried there, and Magnolia doesn't have that documentation. James' survivors would have had to know where she was in order to put m next to her. So -- seems unlikely to me - if she died in 1879.
Besides, they were living in Grigsby Bluff (by Port Neches Park) and her father, George Christian, who died in 1868 was the first buried in Oak Bluff Cemetery. So, seems likely that's where she would be.
I do know Block tried to be as thorough as he could, but he also was prone to surmising. I talked with him a couple of times about the Blocks and the Gentz, who he thought were somehow related -- and indeed, there was some kind of connection. I just don't know what evidence he had that Fredericka was buried in Magnolia, but it's not following logic.
You might want to read this that I wrote about them all getting here
http://sherrysharp.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I16515&tree=Roots
"At this time in 1850 the Blocks were already in Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co. Of interest, Christian Gentz had traveled with 5 children, 3 boys and two girls. The sons are with him in Tyler, and the girls, Fredrika, 16, and Alwine 15, are found in separate households in Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co. Fredrika seems to be in a boarding house in res 259/259, and Alwine is staying with the town assessor/collector and his family. He was from NY and was actually the census taker. That household was res 251/151. The Blocks were in res 253/253, right in between the two sisters. The oldest Gentz daughter, Charlotte Maass, is recorded in 1850 Jasper census in December, one month after this census was taken; and by then her brothers Charles and Fred are listed with her. So, those two young boys (Charles is my direct ancestor) got counted in two counties. Perhaps times were really rough and they sent the girls either with or to the Blocks, or they knew they were going to Sabine Pass soon at the behest of the Blocks and they sent the girls on ahead."
Also, one of the Gentz men -- I'm forgetting which one at the moment but it's in my file - somewhere - moved up closer to the DuPont area and had a family cemetery there. That's the one that got moved around 1956 The McFaddin Cemetery - TF Smith Homestead But she is not listed in the official records. However, those official records were from surviving family members years later trying to remember who all was buried in that site. The link will tell you who all they were.
The most logical in my thinking is that she is in Oak Bluff.
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update 1/17/2014: Fredericka is indeed in Magnolia. Her headstone was located and posted to findagrave with the note "Wife of John A. Beaumont and daughter of William Gantz. Her monument lies in the old McFaddin section of the cemetery up on the hill."
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Magnolia Cemetery - Public Grounds Section
Section where many local deceased were buried, indigents, as well as others needing a burial site. The section is not mapped by rows or sections. One of those buried in this section is James A (Jim) Beaumont. Location of this section: turn in middle, main entrance across street from offices. Turn right at the street by the flagpole. The road will dip, and in that dip to the left where there are few headstones is the Public Grounds.
According to W.T. Block, Fredericka Gentz Beaumont is buried here, and her son James A "Jim" Beaumont next to her. Please read the notes concering her burial for further analysis of her burial site. It is confirmed that Jim Beaumont is buried within this section. |
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Magnolia Cemetery, Main Entrance
2291 Pine Street; Beaumont, Texas
Magnolia Cemetery History webpage
http://www.magnoliacemetery.org/index.asp?page=history
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| Notes |
- Xtiane=Christiane!! Frederika Xtiane (Gentzen)
1850 Jeff Co Census (taken Nov 14, 1850): Living with Joseph P Puslefer (b 1806 Mass), druggist
others in his household were wife Rebecca Fredenberg (b 1805 PA);
Francis McCall (b 1829 PA) seaman;
James McCall (b 1831 PA) seaman, who married Anna Garner (Jacob A and Matilda "Hays" Johnson)
John McCall (b 1833 IL) seaman, who married Martha Ann Garner (Jacob A and Matilda "Hays" Johnson);
Elisabeth M Nodel (b 1842 TX); and Mary Ann Black (b 1827 FL).
She married John A. Beaumont on 23 January 1852 in Jefferson Co. He was born in 1807 in Pennsylvania. He was a cabinet maker by trade. In 1850 he was shown in the Jeff Co Census as living with Charles N Baxter.
Sapphire on the Neches: "Only two families can be identified as living at Grigsby's Bluff in 1850, namely a widower, John A. Beaumont, age 42, of Pennsylvania; his son, Jacob; and daughter Josephine, ages 11 and 8... Beaumont apparently d in Texas in 1840 for his daughter was born here in 1842, but he evidently came too late and was omitted from a land grant by the county's Board of land Commissioners, which met between 1838-1840."
John Beaumont died sometime between 1860 and 1870 when the census shows Frederika as head of household in Sparks Settlement, with four children, Louise, Helen, James A, and John Christian, still living with her. (Sapphire on the Neches saysy had at least 5 children).
She is buried at Magnolia Cemetery beside one of her sons.
John Christian Beaumont married Emma Lee, daughter of Samuel Lee and ELIZA "ELIZABETH" JANE SPARKS, daughter of John S. SPARKS and Melinda JONES. Information about their family is listed under ELIZA SPARKS.
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| Person ID |
I1335 |
Roots |
| Last Modified |
8 May 2015 |
| Family |
John Adams Beaumont, b. 11 Jul 1807, Pennsylvania d. 01 Dec 1863, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age 56 years) |
| Marriage |
23 Jan 1853 |
Jefferson Co, Texas [3] |
- Name: John A. Beaumont
Marriage Date: 23 Jan 1853
Spouse: Frederika Gints
Marriage County: Jefferson
Marriage State: Texas
Source: Texas Marriages, 1814-1909
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| Children |
| | 1. Louise Beaumont, b. 05 Nov 1853, Jefferson Co, Texas d. 10 Mar 1940, San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas (Age 86 years) |
| + | 2. Helen Beaumont, b. 11 Aug 1855, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas d. 02 Apr 1930, San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas (Age 74 years) |
| | 3. James Alexander Beaumont, b. 19 Jun 1856, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas d. 30 Oct 1941, Port Arthur, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age 85 years) |
| + | 4. John Christian "Jack" Beaumont, b. Sep 1859, Jefferson Co, Texas d. 11 Dec 1943, Kountze, Hardin Co, Texas (Age ~ 84 years) |
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| Family ID |
F205 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
10 Feb 2011 |
1833 - 1879 (46 years)
