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• Name: Adam Eckhard
• Occupation: Meat Packer
• Religion: Evangelical

Notes:

From Home Town Sketches by Emile Palliou
Adam Eckhard

"Mistah Eckhard, I wants me a two poun' potah-house steak, and I pays you Sattidy shore!" A swift, appraising glance, then quick decision. "No, you don't, Jim, what you want is ten cents worth of liver. Here it is and you are a lucky nigger to get it."

Adam Eckhard was the original advocate of the "cheaper cuts" for the impecunious, and therewith went advice based upon such sound philosophy that should have proven of high value to the recipients, but was merely the casting of pearls before swine in most cases.

And yet, who can say the pearls were utterly lost? A rough talker was Adam Eckhard -even a ferocious man with his tongue where hypocrites and shams in general were at issue, but under the hard exterior was a heart as soft as that of a woman.

He was our next door neighbor. I fought and played with his children. When I got the worst of it, I took it out on his windows, and when his boys got licked, then our window panes suffered. The glazier was a frequent caller in our neighborhood.

Never did I see such open-handed hospitality extended to children. It seemed to me he had a thousand bushels of apples in his cellar, and great stone jars of cookies stood constantly within reach of small hands.

Fate certainly gave him a scurvy deal in return for his uprightness. His wife, an invalid for years and whom he tenderly cherished, died. His children one by one, were cut off in the flower of youth; only one daughter remains.

I saw Mr. Eckhard the year before his death and I found him a very old, lonely, brokenhearted man. It was some time before he recognized me. Then he took me out to the stable where he kept a superannuated mare in luxury. She came right up and nuzzled him. He put his old arms about her neck and the tears streamed down his cheeks. "Dixie," he said chokingly, "we are the only ones left, but it won't be for long-it won't be for long."

Lived on High Street in Boonville. Was a butcher with his shop on Water Street at the end of Seventh Street.

Adam married Brenneisen, Marie Katherine on 11 Mar 1855 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. Marie (daughter of Brenneisen, Reinhard and Frey, Mary Catherine) was born on 17 Dec 1831 in Bruchsal, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died in 1900 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried in 1900 in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Evangelical

John married Zuloff, Katherine. Katherine was born in UNKNOWN in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Silk Maker/Brewer

Reinhard married Frey, Mary Catherine on 12 Feb 1829 in Bruchsal, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Mary (daughter of Frey, Joseph and Schweickert, Katharina) was born in 1805 in Bruchsal, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 15 Aug 1873 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried after 15 Aug 1873 in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Nickname: Elizabeth
• Occupation: Housewife

Notes:

I, Magdalena Stretz, have been asked what I know about my grandfather. His name was Rhinehart Brenneisen and died in the year of eighteen hundred and forty-five or forty-six in Etlingen, Grand Duchy of Baden. He lived in Italy, in the town of Milan. All of his children were born there. Three sons and two daughters. They were: August, Joseph, Reinhardt, Anna and Theresa. Theresa was my mother. In the year 1812 my grandfather went with his family, to a convent, from Italy to Frauenalb, which belongs to either Baden or Wurtemberg. There was so much farmland all around this convent, as my grandfather often mentioned. He built a big factory. At the time the Duchess, the mother of the Grand Duke, took every thing away from my grandfather, but did not pay him for it. Before the Duchess died, she called in her three sons, namely” the Grand Duke, Duke Wilhelm and the youngest, whom she called Max, in the castle in Karlsruhe, and made them promise, in her presence, that they would pay grandfather, Reinhardt Brenneisen, everything with interest. After the death of the Duchess, they paid my grandfather 100 gulden each year, but they always promised that they would pay him in full. My grandfather died in the greatest of poverty, ninety seven years old. In the year 1845 we all went to America. Since then the Grand Duke wrote that all the heirs should receive their shares, but it was to go to any other land. We were too poor to make the visit. The oldest Brenneisen daughter remained in Germany, and received her share of 15,000 gulden. She died a long time ago.

Reinhard married Baumgartner, Maria Anna. Maria was born about 1750 in Germany; died on 25 Jul 1828 in Waldprechtsweier, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Schweickert, Katharina. Katharina was born in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]