Johann Peter Ringhouse (1797 - abt. 1859)

Born 2 Mar 1797 in Nidda, Büdingen, Hessen, Germany

Ancestors

Husband of Catharina Elisabeth (Riddel) Ringshausen — married 6 Nov 1823 in Nidda, Germany

Descendants

Died about Nov 1859 at about age 62 in Illinois, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

John Ringhouse migrated from Germany to USA.

Born 2 March 1797 in Nidda Hessen Germany, he was the youngest child of Johan Heinrich Ringshausen and Anna Margaretha Orth. ^[1]

He married on 6 Nov 1823 Catharina Elisabeth Riddel.^[2] They immediately started a family with children including:

1. 20 February 1824 Margaretha Christina Elisabeth Ringshausen
2. 25 October 1826 Catharina Ringshausen
3. 25. October 1826 Heinrich Ludwig Ringshausen
4. 10 November 1827 Ludwig 'Lewis' Ringshausen
5. 21 June 1829 Johann Peter Ringshausen

In Germany he was a master glassworker (Bürger und Glaser-Meister zu Nidda, ausgewandert nach Amerika)

In 1832 he immigrated from Germany to Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and children^[3]. Three years later they moved to St. Louis, Missouri. After a few months they went by steam boat up the Illinois river to Havana, Illinois (1836) settling on a farm in Quiver Township.

John Peter Ringhouse is mentioned in a biographical sketch in "Portrait & Biographical Record of Tazewell & Mason Counties, Illinois":

John Peter Ringhouse, the father of our subject (Peter Ringhouse), was a native of Germany, where he was a well-to-do farmer, and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth (Riddle) Ringhouse, was also born in the fatherland. There the parents were married, and after emigrating to America in 1834 lived for a twelvemonth in Baltimore, Md., and for the same length of time were residents of St Louis, Mo. In 1836 they came to Mason County and settled on section 11, this township, where they were classed among its earliest residents. They made their permanent home in this section, and although owning at first only a quarter-section of land, by hard labor and economy accumulated an estate comprising six hundred acres. They later moved to Havana, where the father's decease occurred. The mother died in Iowa.^[4]

On 23 Nov 1850 at the time of the 1850 US Census, head of household Peter Ringhous (age 53, born in Germany) was employed as a Farmer and living in Mason, Illinois with his wife Elizabeth Ringhous (age 50, born in Germany), son Lewis Ringhous (age 24, born in Germany), daughter Catherine Ringhous (age 24, born in Germany), and son Peter Ringhous (age 22, born in Germany). ^[5]

He died about November of 1859 and was buried at Fullerton Cemetery Havana, Mason County, Illinois.^[6]

John Ringhouse migrated from Germany to United States.

John Ringhouse has German Roots.

Research Notes

Last name appears with spelling Ringhausen and Renghausen, but Ringshausen is the correct German version used in his records and should be his LNAB.

"Portrait & Biographical Record of Tazewell & Mason Counties, Illinois" (published 1894): John Peter Ringhouse, the father of our subject (Peter Ringhouse), was a native of Germany, where he was a well-to-do farmer, and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth (Riddle) Ringhouse, was also born in the fatherland. There the parents were married, and after emigrating to America in 1834 lived for a twelve months in Baltimore, Md., and for the same length of time were residents of St Louis, Mo. In 1836 they came to Mason County and settled on section 11, this township, where they were classed among its earliest residents. They made their permanent home in this section, and although owning at first only a quarter-section of land, by hard labor and economy accumulated an estate comprising six hundred acres. They later moved to Havana, where the father's decease occurred. The mother died in Iowa.

The History of Menard and Mason Counties, Illinois (pub 1879) - page 636: ...In the summer of 1837, Henry Seymour came and settled east of Lybarger's. About one month later, Peter Ringhouse, who had been stopping a short time in St. Louis, came and settled about midway between the ones already mentioned, though a short distance further west. Ringhouse was originally from Germany, but had lived some years in Baltimore before coming West. William Atwater came from Connecticut, and located in the immediate neighborhood in 1838. He had served an apprenticeship and for a number of years had followed the silversmith's trade. He erected a frame building, doubtless the first in the township, and began improving his farm. For some two years after coming, he led the life of a bachelor, and farmed with about the usual amount of success that all old bachelors are permitted to enjoy. The climate did not seem to agree with his constitution, and for some considerable length of time he was annoyed with chills and fever. So thoroughly dissatisfied did he become at one time, that he determined to exchange the best eighty acres of his quarter section for a horse and wagon, and the tail-end of a stock of goods in Havana. These latter articles he intended to peddle through the country, and with the proceeds and avails he hoped to be able to flee the country and make good his return to his native State. But he was destined to become one of the early permanent settlers of Quiver Township, however slow he might be to accept the situation. On communicating his intentions to one of his neighbors, he remonstrated with him at the folly of his proposition, and suggested the propriety of his taking a helpmeet and beginning life in earnest. Mr. Atwater acted upon the suggestion, and what we know is, that not many months afterward, Miss Elizabeth Ringhouse became Mrs. Elizabeth Atwater. The alliance thus consummated led to a life of happiness and prosperity. He continued to live at the place of his first settlement till the date of his decease, which occurred some eight or ten years ago. His widow yet survives him, and occupies the old homestead...

Sources

1. ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch bürgerlicher Familien, Band 94, 1937, pg 376
2. ↑ https://gedbas.genealogy.net/person/show/1040893174
3. ↑ "United States Index to Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic and Gulf Ports, 1820-1874," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KDR4-F7K : 13 March 2018), Peter Ringohouser, 1832; citing Immigration, NARA microfilm publication M334 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 418,308.
4. ↑ Clark, Faye and Vaughn, Kristin. Portrait & Biological Record of Tazewell & Mason Counties, Illinois. Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, USA. 1894. Page 495. Accessed online by Cynthia Larson on 18 Nov 2018 at http://genealogytrails.com/ill/mason/1894/495ringhouse.html
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M85Z-6VZ : 12 April 2016), Elizabeth Ringhous in household of Peter Ringhous, Mason county, Mason, Illinois, United States; citing family 946, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #224159280

• Genealogisches Handbuch bürgerlicher Familien, Band 94, Hessisches Geschlechterbuch Band 9, 1937
• Houtz, Vern. Geneology and Family History of the Atwater Family, Printed in the USA. Revision: 10 June, 2009. pg 6
• "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHBJ-T2H : 24 August 2015), Peter Ringshouse, Tazewell, Illinois, United States; citing p. 25, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 71; FHL microfilm 7,644. Note son-in-law William Atwater on same page.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M85Z-6VC : 12 April 2016), Peter Ringhous, Mason county, Mason, Illinois, United States; citing family 946, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NQRS-Q9Z : 8 March 2018), John Peter Ringhouse in entry for Elizebeth Kroell, 13 Sep 1916; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,530,825.