Jacob Friedrich (Rehfuß) Rufus (1824 - 1908)

Born 28 Mar 1824 in Loßburg, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Confederation

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine Ann (Smith) Rehfus — married about 1852 in New York, New York

Died 12 Feb 1908 at age 83 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Loßburg, Baden-Württemberg One Place Study.

Jacob Friedrich (Frederick J.) Rehfuss was born at Loßburg in the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) region of Württemberg in 1824, son of Jacob Rehfuß and Charlotte Hirschmann, left for America in 1833 with his mother and stepfather and by 1837 was in living in Brooklyn, New York, where he was listed with his family as "Frederick Kerber" in the 1850 census. Frederick was married and father of a one year old daughter by June, 1855, when he is listed in a state census. He and his family lived in Williamsburg in Brooklyn for about five or six years then moved the "Eastern District" of Brooklyn where he remained the rest of his life. He worked most of his life as a spinner in the silk industry and passed away in Brooklyn in 1908. His name appears as Rehfuss in early records in New York, but in later year it also appears as Rehfus or Rufus in the city directory and on his tombstone as Rufus.

Sources

• Taufbuch (Baptismal Register), Evangelische Kirche Loßburg, 1808-1824 in Familienbuch (Family Register), Lößburg und Röt, 1628-1904. FHL microfilm #1884551. Digital image #403 at Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61023/images/1884551-00402?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Oph2034&_phstart=successSource&pId=16877975&clickref=1100lc4yBjKD%2C1100lc4yBjKD%2C1100lc4yCnym%2C1100lc4yCnym%2C1100lc4yFHxE%2C1100lc4yFHxE&o_xid=01011l4xx5&o_lid=01011l4xx5&o_sch=Affiliate%2BExternal&adref= (lower left side).
• United States Census, 1850, New York, Kings County (Brooklyn), Williamsburg, family #1304, p. 218A. Digital image at Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8054/images/4197495-00166?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.83303574.1436334052.1603321352-1043151889.1593996198&_gac=1.26756815.1604091157.CjwKCAjw8-78BRA0EiwAFUw8LHCqJ4u1ctCkCkEqm3_Y8Aq15xJ_81UyP8eKsuDAJbtwx9DyWQ04nBoCdfAQAvD_BwE&pId=6997743
• New York State Census 1855 (made June, 1855), Kings County (Brooklyn), Dist. 2, household #800, line 40.
• United States Census, 1860, New York, Kings County, Brooklyn, Ward 13, p. 53, family #378.
• United States Census, 1870, New York, Kings County, Brooklyn, Ward 18, p. 75, p. 573. Digital image at Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7163/images/4275007_00671?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.183916710.1436334052.1603321352-1043151889.1593996198&_gac=1.247523957.1604091157.CjwKCAjw8-78BRA0EiwAFUw8LHCqJ4u1ctCkCkEqm3_Y8Aq15xJ_81UyP8eKsuDAJbtwx9DyWQ04nBoCdfAQAvD_BwE&pId=33686155
• United States Census, 1880, New York, Kings County, Brooklyn, Broome St. p. 35A, family #327. Digital image at Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6742/images/4242133-00494?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Oph2125&_phstart=successSource&pId=2055258
• United States Census, 1900, New York, Kings County, Brooklyn, Ward 28, p. 18, family #443 (with daughter and son-in-law). https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4114562_00354?pId=48860045
• New York State Census, 1905, Kings County, Brooklyn, Dist. 26, Jefferson Ave, household 1041, p. 39. Digital image at Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7364/images/004296424_00278?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Oph2079&_phstart=successSource&pId=4284408 (he states here that he had been in the United States for 72 years).
• Obituary, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 14, 1908, p. 3.
• Tombstone inscription, The Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY. Find A Grave: Memorial #190020627 no photograph of the stone. The birth year on the memorial is incorrect.