Antoine Nuber (1796 - 1857)

Born 27 Jul 1796 in Soufflenheim, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France

Ancestors

Husband of Margaretha (Ludwig) Nuwer — married 11 Apr 1818 in Soufflenheim, , Alsace, France

Descendants

Died 4 Dec 1857 at age 61 in Alden, Erie, New York, United States

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Biography

Anton Nuwer and his wife Margarethe Ludwig arrived in New York City on October 24, 1844. They were accompanied by their son, Francis X Nuwer, and their daughter, Celestina Nuwer. Their oldest son, John Nuwer, had arrived in Lancaster the year before.

Erie county records find that Anton Nuwer purchased land on December 11, 1844. The parcel was the "east part of lot 48 ... containing 58 acres." This land was in Alden on the Erie road (today it is called Kieffer road). Anton paid $712.^[1]

In April 1847 Anton Nuwer purchased the adjoining 100 acres to his west. The deed says there were three buyers of this parcel: Anthony Nuwer, John Kieffer, and John Nuwer. Although it is not clear John Kieffer was probably the senior. They paid $1000 for the land.^[2]

The 1850 Agricultural Census reported Frank Nuwer working 90 acres of land and John Kieffer (assumed junior) was working 71 acres, both in Alden. These 161 acres are most likely the land in lot 48 that Anton purchased.

Five years later, in 1855, John Kieffer, Jr. was living in Lancaster and the New York State Census for Alden reported Frank X Nuwer farming 100 acres while Anthony Nuwer was farming 50 acres. Again these are likely the two parcels of land in lot 48.

John Kieffer, Sr. died in 1852 and his last Will gave his real estate to John Nuwer. We presume this included the Alden land. Anthony Nuwer died in 1857. He has no probate folio in Erie county records, but his widow and three children were heirs and they would have inherited Anton's interests in the land.

Indeed, in 1859 a series of land transfers were made. In February, "Francis Nuwer and Catherine his wife, Margaret Nuwer (widow) ... and John Kieffer and Celestina [Nuwer] his wife..." sold 35 acres (the eastern most part of lot 48) to John Nuwer for the sum of $800. Then in April the remainder of Anton Nuwer's land was transferred to John Kieffer, Jr. Kieffer paid John Nuwer, Catherine [Kieffer] Nuwer (his wife), Frank Nuwer, Catherine [Bach] Nuwer (his wife), and Margaret Nuwer (widow) $2,000 for the 100-acre parcel. In addition, he paid the same people $800 for 25 acres out of the 58-acre parcel. (Of course, John Nuwer's 35 acres and John Kieffer's 25 acres is more than 58 acres. I don't know what to make of that discrepancy.) ^[3]

John Kieffer retained and farmed the same 125 acres of land for the remainder of his life (he died in 1905). His son Henry inherited the farm and worked it until his death in 1929.

The parcel owned by John Nuwer was sold in March 1893 to Ferdinand Mathis for the sum of $2,300. John Nuwer's estate (probated in 1897) included a mortgage to Ferdinand Mathis for $1,400.^[4]

Image: A section from an 1880 land map showing lot 48 in Alden. Town Line road is on the east, Westwood road is on the north. Erie Road (and the railroad) cut through the lot. Today Erie road in Alden is called Kieffer road and was extended to the east (Two Rod Road was not there in 1880). John Kieffer, Jr. and John Nuwer (spelled Noover) were the owners of eastern most parcels in 1880.

For more details see Planting Roots: A Nuwer family history by Michael Nuwer

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99W6-VG3F?i=31
2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9W6-VRZ5?i=608
3. ↑ Land to John Nuwer:
   https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9WX-F94P?i=230 Land to John Kieffer:
   https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9WX-39MY-T?i=415
   https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WX-399C-J?i=414
4. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WX-X357?i=334

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