John married Albertha LeJeune on 25 Mar 1912 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Albertha (daughter of Elysse LeJeune and Lucille Roy) was born on 5 Feb 1893 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 10 Dec 1980 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joseph Fabacher was born on 20 Aug 1912 in Louisiana, USA; died on 13 Feb 2000 in Louisiana, USA; was buried in Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum of the Ressurection, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA.
2. Marie Fabacher was born on 14 Jun 1914 in Louisiana, USA; died on 2 Nov 2009 in Broussard, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried on 4 Nov 2009 in Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum of the Ressurection, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA.
3. Alberta Helen Fabacher was born on 6 May 1916 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 10 Aug 1992 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist Cemetery, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA.
4. Clarence John Fabacher was born on 3 Jun 1918 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 28 Sep 1966 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA.
5. Francis Fabacher was born on 12 May 1920 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 3 Jul 1997 in Port Barre, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Bellevue Memorial Park, Opelousas, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana, USA.
6. Eula Mae Fabacher was born on 6 May 1923 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 20 May 1999 in Lafayette General Hospital, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum of the Ressurection, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA.
7. Ullysses Grant Fabacher was born on 25 Jan 1924 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 6 Feb 1972 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum of the Ressurection, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA.
8. Edna Marie Fabacher was born on 3 Jun 1929 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 9 Nov 2012.
9. John Lawrence Fabacher was born on 14 Jul 1931 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA; died in 0Nov 1980 in Louisiana, USA.
10. Peter Ray Fabacher

Notes:

BIOGRAPHY:
FABACHER, Joseph Henry, farmer, businessman. Born, New Orleans, August 28, 1858; son of Franz Joseph Fabacher of Busenberg, Germany, and Magdelena Frey of Rosenwiller, Alsace. Education: local schools. Married (1), 1880, Dora Ginkel (1860-1904), daughter of Abraham Ginkel and Charity Ginkel. Children: Andrew (b. 1881), Francis (Franz) Lawrence (b. 1886), Magdelena (b. 1888), Joseph (b. 1890), John Lawrence (b. 1892), Cecilia Dora (b. 1894), Albert Clarence (b. 1896), Agnes Barbara (b. 1898), Leo Peter (b. 1899), Theodore (b. 1900). Married (2), 1906, Annie Crossan (1875-1943) in 1906. One child: Hazel (b. 1906). Active in the settlement of Southwest Louisiana by German nationals. Credited with the introduction of the culture of rice in Acadia Parish. Served as postmaster in Canal, now Frey, La. Died, New Orleans, February 2, 1910; interred St. Joseph Cemetery I. L.P.C. Sources: William Henry Perrin, Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical (1891; reprint ed., 1971); Fabacher Family Papers.

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JOSEPH FABACHER, CANAL.--Joseph H. Fabacher, planter and merchant, living
twelve miles north of Crowley, was born in the city of New Orleans, August 24,
1858. He is the son of Joseph and Magdalene (Frey) Fabacher, both natives of
Germany. To them were born eleven children, nine sons and two daughters.

Our subject, when but a small boy, emigrated alone to America, landing at New
Orleans in 1837. He turned his hand to different occupations until he arrived
at man's estate In 1870 he removed from New Orleans to Acadia parish, and
engaging in the rice industry. It was through his exertions that rice culture,
which is now Acadia's best paying industry, was introduced into the parish.
In 1879 he sold his plantation and returned to New Orleans, where he engaged
in the restaurant business, and in this he is still interested. Mr. Fabacher
owns two hundred acres of land in this parish, one hundred and twenty-five of
which are in cultivation, the principal product being rice. He also, on a
less extensive scale, raises corn and oats. He has a stock of general
merchandise on his farm, in value about one thousand eight hundred dollars,
and is doing a good business. Mr. Fabacher is the post-master of Canal.

He was married, in 1880, to Dora Ginkel, daughter of Abraham Ginkel. To them
have been born six children, four sons and two daughters: Andrew,
Frank(deceased), Lawrence, Magdalene and Joseph; one died in infancy. Mr.
Fabacher and wife are members of the Catholic church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
262-263. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.

Saturday, July 09, 2005
Joseph Henry Fabacher: The Father of Commercial Rice Farming in Acadiana

During a fourteen-year period in Acadia Parish, from 1880 to 1894, Joseph Henry Fabacher was the most dominant force in the rice industry?s transformation from primitive farming methods to large-scale commercial production.

The story of rice farming in south Louisiana begins in the fall of 1871 when Fabacher was a young boy of 12. In that year Fabacher?s father, Franz Joseph Fabacher, relocated his wife and six children from New Orleans to Faquetaique (fa-ka-tay) Prairie near what is now Eunice, LA. According to the few locals who lived near that area in 1871, the prairie land was considered to be completely worthless for farming purposes. But Franz Fabacher and his ?German Colony? co-founding partner, Zeno Huber, were not to be deterred.

During the early 1870?s rice farmers grew what they called ?Providence rice? for private use in the community. Their rice crop was given this name because a healthy crop depended entirely on the weather - lots of rain and providential good fortune - during the rice-growing season. Their vulnerable dependence on Providence was about to change.

The first innovative change in rice farming was the construction of water reservoirs that were large ponds surrounded by levees. These reservoirs would collect water year-round and the water could be drained into low-lying marsh rice fields when needed. The Fabacher Colonists were the first to build these reservoirs to grow Providence rice for private use.

Then in 1878, Franz Fabacher decided he had seen enough of farming. He sold all of his property and moved back to New Orleans. The elder Fabacher tried to convince his son Joseph to live in New Orleans, but nineteen-year-old Joseph the farmer was just getting started. During the next two years Joseph ran away from New Orleans three times to continue farming, and was eventually allowed by his father to remain at Faquetaique Prairie to farm his 84 acres of land.

The Providence rice crop of 1879 was ?a dead failure? according to a local newspaper, the Opelousas Courier. But in 1880, something amazing occurred in the Fabacher Settlement that was described in the St. Landry Democrat newspaper as a small neighborhood no more than 3 or 4 miles wide.

The St. Landry Democrat article describes the astoundingly successful Providence rice crop of 1880 in the Fabacher Colony this way, ?So we have here a small neighborhood where they used to produce absolutely nothing for sale, a revenue of $16,000. The rice lands in this neighborhood, the marshes, which were once considered not only worthless but a nuisance, are the most valuable; and it will not be long before they cannot be bought for any reasonable price.? The newspaper also declared that because of that year?s bumper crop, rice is ?destined to become one of the greatest industries of southwest Louisiana.?

This was the first large-scale production of Providence rice grown in lowland marshes. But just two years later, in 1882, Fabacher would produce yet another innovative change in rice farming. He would be the first rice farmer to grow what is known as ?upland rice,? which is grown on higher land than the low-lying marshes, and his first effort was a success.

Fabacher?s upland rice was grown on dry higher land because high land reservoirs would retain rainwater for a greater period of time. This also required him to relocate his rice fields to higher land. The change in rice field location was another unprecedented innovation.

With the success of this 1882 rice crop, Fabacher purchased 162 acres of land, bringing his total acreage to 246. During his highly successful rice farming years 1883 to 1894 he acquired a total of 627 acres of farmland.

In 1885, Fabacher created yet another rice farming innovation - the deep water well.

By 1893, Fabacher had three deep-water wells, the deepest being 205 feet. These wells were 4 by 4 feet round with a 40-foot wooden ladder leading to the bottom at water level. At the bottom of the well sat a steam engine water pump that could run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week pumping fresh water into high land reservoirs, which drained water down into ?up land? rice fields through a complex series of canals. With the addition of steam powered water pumps, the Machine Age had arrived in southwest Louisiana.

When the Midland-Eunice Railroad was completed in 1894, Fabacher built a warehouse next to the railroad tracks and opened his rice storage and shipping business transporting the local farmers rice by railroad to be milled in Eunice and Crowley, and their milled rice was then transported worldwide.

The Fabacher family legacy also includes the story of Joseph Henry?s younger brother, Lawrence Fabacher, who is well known in New Orleans as the owner of Fabacher?s Restaurant and the Jackson Brewing Company, which bottled the wildly popular Jax Beer in the early 20th century.

When Joseph Henry Fabacher died in New Orleans at his mother?s home on February 2, 1910, he was the fifty-one year old father of thirteen children. Fabacher?s wife, Dora Ginkle, died six years earlier in 1904. Two years after her death Fabacher married again to Annie Crossen who bore one child. He bequeathed a sizable inheritance to his children and new wife.

Joseph Fabacher?s innovative journey transforming Providence rice from private use to commercial potential, to large-scale commercial ?up land? rice production, to shipping and storage merchant for the rice farming community, has easily earned him the title ?Father of Commercial Rice Farming in Acadiana.?

Joseph married Dora Kinkel on 2 Sep 1880 in Louisiana, USA. Dora (daughter of Abraham Kinkel and Charity Unknown) was born in 0May 1860 in Louisiana, USA; died on 14 Apr 1904 in Louisiana, USA; was buried in Lafayette Cemetery #2, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name: J. Fabacher Home in 1880: New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana Age: 51 Estimated birth year: abt 1829 Birthplace: Germany Relation to head-of-household: Self (Head) Spouse's name: Lena Father's birthplace: Ger Mother's birthplace: Ger Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Saloon Keeper Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male

Fabacher, Magdelena Birth : 14 JUL 1888 Death : 13 FEB 1966 Gender: FemaleFamily:
Marriage: 9 JAN 1908 in Crowley Courthouse, LA Spouse:
Daigle, Gilbert Birth : 12 MAY 1889 Church Point, LADeath : 21 MAY 1962 Mowater, LAGender: MaleParents:
Father: Daigle, Louis Mother: Daigle, Terese
Children:
Daigle, Joseph Alton Daigle, Alton Daigle, Dora Daigle, Lillie May Daigle, Alberta Daigle, Henry Daigle, Albert Woodrow Daigle, Barbara Daigle, Hubert

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?friend=nytimes&court=us&vol=176&invol=350U.S. Supreme Court
THORMANN v. FRAME, 176 U.S. 350 (1900)
176 U.S. 350
ANTOINETTE THORMANN, Plff. in Err., v. ANDREW J. FRAME and Magdalena Fabacher and Jacob Fabacher, Minors, by D.S. Tullar, Their Guardian ad litem. No. 341. Submitted January 22, 1900. Decided February 26, 1900.
[176 U.S. 350, 351] Joseph Fabacher died March 3, 1897, in the city of New Orleans, leaving a last will and testament dated October 29, 1896, in which he described himself as of Waukesha, Wisconsin, where the will was executed, and where he had a residence and a considerable amount of personal property. His widow and ten of his children were named as legatees and devisees. On March 27, 1897, A. J. Frame, appointed executor, presented the will for probate in the county court of Waukesha county, Wisconsin, alleging that it had been duly executed under the laws of Wisconsin, and that Joseph Fabacher was at the time of his decease 'an inhabitant of the said county of Waukesha.' Publication of the application was made according to law and the matter set for hearing May 4, 1897. On that day Antoinette Thormann, daughter of Fabacher by a prior marriage, appeared and objected to the admission of the instrument to probate, alleging herself to be, under the law of Louisiana, the sole heir of the deceased, and also setting forth matters which, it was contended, would by the law of that state disqualify the beneficiaries named in the will from taking under it, and averring, as to Joseph Fabacher, that 'continuously ever since 1843 up to and at the time of his death he, the said deceased, was domiciliated in the city of New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, and an inhabitant and resident thereof, and that this court has no jurisdiction in the probate of said alleged last will and testament and in the settlement and distribution of said estate of said deceased.' She further charged that any attempt on the part of Fabacher to acquire or create a domicil at Waukesha was in fraud of her rights; that the will was procured by undue influence; and that it was not duly executed in the manner and form required by law. It was conceded that Fabacher's adult children resided in New Orleans, but insisted that the domicil of the minor children was in Wisconsin, and a guardian ad litem was appointed as to them. Trial was had in the county court, which held the will in all respects valid; that at the time of his death and some time prior thereto, Joseph Fabacher was domiciled in the county of Waukesha, state of Wisconsin; and that the will was entitled to probate.
The case was then carried to the circuit court of Waukesha [176 U.S. 350, 352] county, and there tried before a jury, who returned a verdict sustaining the will and finding the domicil of Joseph Fabacher at the time of his death, March 3, 1897, to have been at the city of Waukesha, whereupon the circuit court made findings of fact and conclusions of law, and entered judgment admitting the will to probate and affirming the judgment to that effect of the county court. A large amount of testimony was introduced on these trials, and, among other things, it appeared that on March 29, 1897, Antoinette Thormann petitioned the civil district court for the parish of Orleans, Louisiana, to be appointed administratrix of the succession of Joseph Fabacher, her father, asserting that he 'was at the time of his death and many years before a citizen of Louisiana, domiciled and residing in the city of New Orleans; that said deceased left property in this city, and within the jurisdiction of this honorable court,' and 'that your petitioner is the sole surviving heir and legitimate child of said deceased, issue of his marriage with petitioner's mother. . . .' Letters of administration were granted by the court April 30, 1897
The inventory stated the property of deceased as 'one marble tomb in lot situated in St. Joseph cemetery, No. 2, bearing the inscription, 'Family of Joseph Fabacher;' also two (2) galvanized iron sofas and five ( 5) vases, valued by said appraisers at the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500).' An attempt was made to inventory some household effects, which, however, were claimed as the property of one of the sons.
From the judgment of the circuit court of Waukesha county an appeal was taken to the supreme court of Wisconsin, the judgment affirmed, and the record remanded to the circuit court. 102 Wis. 653, 79 N. W. 39. A writ of error having been sued out from this court, motions to dismiss or affirm were submitted.

Robert's Cove has become known throughout Acadian as the home place of a substantial German settlement. But the first German settlement in Acadia Parish was begun by Joseph Fabacher and Zen Huber on Prairie Faquetaïque between Bayou des Cannes an Bayou Mallet.
Joseph Fabacher, born in 1830 in Bavaria, came to America as a small boy. By the time of the Civil War, he had amassed a fortune operating a distillery in New Orleans and later founded the Jackson Brewing Co., which made Jax Beer.
The war interrupted Fabacher's distillery business, and it was then that he persuaded his friend, Huber, also a native of Germany, to help him found a German colony in southwest Louisiana.
Fabacher and Huber came to Prairie Faquetaïque in 1870, and the first group of colonists from Germany had arrived by January 1871. A few months later, there were 60 persons in the colony.
The Fabacher post office was established June 11, 1873, with Joseph Fabacher as postmaster. It was closed about the turn of the century. The place also became known as German Settlement, and later became known as Ritchie.

Franz married Madeleine Frey on 27 Jul 1874 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Madeleine (daughter of André Frey and Françoise Diemert) was born on 17 Mar 1840 in Rosenwiller, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 31 Aug 1914 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Lafayette Cemetery #2, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abraham married Charity Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Familienregister zu den katholischen Kirchenbüchern der Pfarrei Busenberg
1804-1875 von Helfrich und Herold
Seite 38,39

Franz married Anna Barbara Kiefer on 26 Nov 1810 in Busenberg, Pfalz. Anna (daughter of Simon Kiefer and Katharina Keller) was born on 15 Feb 1790 in Schindhard, Pfalz; was christened on 15 Feb 1790 in Schindhard, Pfalz; died on 22 Aug 1845 in Busenberg, Pfalz, Bayern. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Familienregister zu den katholischen Kirchenbüchern der Pfarrei Busenberg
1804-1875 von Helfrich und Herold
Seite 38,39

André married Françoise Diemert on 27 Jan 1829 in Dettwiller, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. Françoise (daughter of Jean Diemert and Anne Marie Nonnenmacher) was born on 13 Jul 1806 in Dettwiller, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died in in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]