Arrived in Boonville, Missouri in 1848 with his family of eight children.67 Notes from Helen Stone Woodruff68 Helen Stone’s earlier research gave his name as Maxamin or Maxamildion.66

MEISBURGER, ERASME (MAX)

Same as Page 2-Ancestor I-on original Manuscript. Born 29/31-May-1793 in Hattstatt, Upper-Rhin, France.

The birth record reads:
"Was born ERASMUS, son of PETER MEISBURGER, mason by profession of this place (Hattstatt) and of BARBARA Baur, his wife legitimate. Godfather is: JOSEPH HINNIGER, age 32 years. Godmother is MARIA ANNA STEINBRUKER."

Married 10-January-1827 In Herrlisheim, France to MARIE ANNE SCHECK, who was born 14-February-1800 ( 25 pluviose year 80), the daughter of MATHIS and MARIE ANNE SCHENCK.
The mother of MARIE ANNE SCHENCK MEISBURGER was also MARIE ANNE SCHENCK and her death was recorded:

"MARIE ANNE SCHENCK, wife of MATHIS SCHENCK, as declared by neighbors, was 44 years old, at her house °n 43 In this place known as 'graben'."

I stated in the original Manuscript that there were suppose to have been eight children come to America with MAX Meisburger, but no one bad Identified but four. There are eight recorded births in Harrlisheim, but only seven living at the time they departed for America.

From the Helen Stone Woodruff 1981 (Original) Manuscript

MEISBURGER, MAXAMIN (MAXAMILION) was born about the year 1792 in Alsace Lorraine, France, HISTORY of COOPER COUNTY, MISSOURI by W. F. JOHNSON, published in 1919 stated. "MAX MEISBURGER, with his family of eight children arrived in Boonville, Missouri in 1848. MAX MEISBURGER had served for six years as a soldier in the army of the great Napoleon and was very proud of the medals he had received for bravery. During the progress of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-73) he kept posted through the French papers which he received. When the Prussian Victory was announced, he, with clenched fists and tear dimmed eyes, declared 'If our great Napoleon had lived, he and I would never have tolerated the Prussians to lord it over our Beloved France'. He expressed the belief that his grandchildren would live to see the happy day when Alsace Lorraine would be liberated from the Prussian domination. During the time of America's participation in the World War, which resulted in the return to France of the 'lost' province, nine of his great-grandsons answered the call to the front and when the Armistice was declared in the fall of 1918, six more were waiting for the next call."
There is a Deed in the Courthouse at Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri, stating 1-Aug-1852, MAXAMIN MEISBERGER bought a lot of ground in the City of Boonville from Jeremiah Rice for One hundred and seventy five dollars. .
The 1860 Census for Cooper County list MAX MEISBURGER as a Vine Grower, with wife, HANNAH.
The only Christening in the Catholic Church at Boonville that I was able to find "MARY MAGDALENA MEISBURGER, daughter of John Meisburger and Maria Magdalena Diringer born 31-Jul-1863. Sponsers: MAX MEISBURGER, MARGARET ANNA MEISBURGER". I have found no record of the death of either. Agnes Meriwether, a direct descendant of Theresa Meisburger Immels, says she had been told that HANNAH (MARGARET ANNA) was buried on the lot of her son, Joseph, in the Catholic Cemetary in Boonville, Mo. She also said she had been told that MAX had died in the home of his daughter, Therese Immele and was buried in the St. Martins Cemetry near Pilot Grove, Mo. No one I have talked with has been able to identify more than four of the eight children,