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Text from Old Pennsylvannia Newspaper:
Oakland's Oldest Resident is Dead
Mrs. Henry G. Rosenfelter, 91 Years Old, Passes Away at Daughter's Home
Born in Alsace, 1817
Nearly 100 Direct Descendents Survive -- Husband Dead 30 Years
Survived by nearly 100 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Mrs. Henry G. Rosenfelter, said to have been the oldest resident of Oakland, died at 2:30 yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Caspar Schoenberger, Forbes and Boquet streets. She was in her ninety-first year, having been born on September 11, 1817, in the providence of Alsace, then a part of France, but since 1871 a possession of Germany.
Eleven weeks ago the deceased suffered a paralytic stroke, on the anniversary of the death of her husband from a similar cause, 30 years ago. Mrs. Rosenfelter's first glimpse of America was on her wedding trip, in 1936. She and her husband first made their home in Allegheny, but moved to Oakland in 1850. The wife took an active interest and shared the work of the successful truck gardening business built up by her husband . Eight children were born to them of five whom survive, as follows: Mrs. Caspar Hasley, Mrs. Caspar Schoenberger, Mrs. L. A. Keiser, Mrs. George A. Grabe and Henry P. Rosenfelter. In addition to the children her surviving descendents include 36 grandchildren and 56 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of Mrs. Caspar Schoenberger, where she died. Rev. John H. Prugh, pastor of the Grace Reformed Church, Dithridge street, will officiate.
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I (Erika Hawkins) tracked down her maiden last name through the Latter Day Saints Website and Records
References & Record #'s below:
INFO FROM LDS WEBSITE:
MAGDELENA ROSENFELTER
Sex: F
Event(s): Birth: 9 Jul 1840
Manchester, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Parents:
Father:
HENRY ROSENFELTER
Mother:
M. GERWIG
Source Information:
Film Number: 1761121
Page Number:
Reference Number:
MAGDELENA ROSENFELTER
Sex: F
Marriage(s):
Spouse:
CASPER (KASPAR) HASLEY (HOSLI)
Marriage: 22 Sep 1857
Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Source Information:
Film Number:
1903841
Page Number:
Reference Number:
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Info about Alcase I tracked down:
Alsace and Lorraine
Author : Patrick PONTET - Anglo-French Family History Society - Octobre 1996
Alsace, sometimes French, sometimes German, is not straightforward from the research point of view, because of
those swings and because of the presence in the area of so-called minority religions of which German is the dominant
language. This former province covers more or less the present-day départements of Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin and
Territoire de Belfort.
From 1648, after the 30-years war (1618-1648), the administration was run by the French and, until 1871, the royal,
republican and imperial laws were accepted as authoritive, especially in matters of registration, which began, as in the
rest of France, with the Edict of Villers-Cotterêts (1539). Those laws which were to form the base of modern civil
registration were also applied. It is important for the researcher to know that separate registers were kept for the
French Protestants and French Catholics. The Catholic clergy kept the registers according to the Edict of
Villers-Cotterêts (1539).
The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) was hardly applied and the pastors of the Lutheran church had total
freedom of worship and religious administration. This is, therefore, the only region of France where the registers of the
R.P.R. (Religion Prétendûment Réformée) are so full.
If your research takes you into this province, you will find three types of documents for births, marriages and burials
prior to 1792 : those kept in Latin, those in German and those in French.
Alsace also had an important Jewish colony. NapolEon's imperial edict of 1808 forced them to opt for a hereditary
patronymic, so that they might be included in French civil registers. This led to the establishment of lists of
concordance between the oldnames and new ones. The most interesting documents relating to this faith are the
contracts of marriage, even though they are drawn up in Hebrew, and which were to be deposited with the royal
lawyers from 1701.In 1784 there was a census of Jews settled in Alsace; this is of immense value to the researcher.
Only a few registers have survived : they were kept very well in the town of Metz from 1717 to 1792 while in the
Bas-Rhin, the registers only began in 1808. They are to be found in the respective Archives Départementales :
- de la Moselle at 1 rue du Château, 57070 St-Julien-les-Metz
- du Bas-Rhin, 5 rue Fischart, 67000 Strasbourg.
From 1792-1871, civil registration followed French legislation. Alsace remained French until 1871 when, under the
Treaty of Frankfurt, Alsace and a part of Lorraine became German once more until 1918. The language changed.
Only the Territoire de Belfort remained French.
In 1919, the Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin again became part of France and switched back to the French system of civil
registration.
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