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Maria married Johannes Jakob Fabacher on 6 Feb 1781 in Busenberg, Pfalz. Johannes (son of Markus Fabacher and Katharina Margaretha Heller) was born on 3 Mar 1759 in Busenberg, Pfalz; was christened on 4 Mar 1759 in Busenberg, Pfalz; died on 3 Oct 1827 in Busenberg, Pfalz, Bayern; was buried on 4 Oct 1827 in Busenberg, Pfalz, Bayern. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

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Elisabetha married Johannes Georg Wegmann on 15 May 1838 in Busenberg, Pfalz, Bayern. Johannes (son of Michael Wegmann and Magdalena Lagasse) was born on 30 Dec 1809 in Bundenthal, Pfalz; was christened on 31 Dec 1809 in Bundenthal, Pfalz; died in 1872 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katharina married Michael Kuhn on 21 Nov 1836 in Busenberg, Pfalz, Bayern. Michael (son of Georg Adam Kuhn and Maria Eva Mock) was born in 1804 in Pfalz; died on 23 Feb 1853 in Busenberg, Pfalz, Bayern. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katharina married Franz Joseph Bardon on 16 Feb 1858 in Busenberg, Pfalz, Bayern. Franz (son of Johannes Georg Bardon and Maria Magdalena Linkenheld) was born on 5 May 1808 in Busenberg, Pfalz; died on 5 Aug 1882 in Busenberg, Pfalz, Bayern. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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have been researching the Fabacher line for many years. I have some info on henry and corine. I take the Fabacher line back. Henry was son of Peter Fabacher and Sophie Wendling. Peter was son of Catherine Bahlis and Jacob Fabacher. Jacob was born 1823 and dien in New Orleans on May 31 1854. The couple had lost a baby in April of that yearalso. Catherine lived until 1883 [?] have recently found somemore info and putting it together. Peter, wife, mother and several children are burried in family tomb in St Joseph #1. Jacob and baby are buried in Lafayette #1 [ near commanders palace] I have not located this grave but the St Jospeph grave is easy, across from Joseph Fabacher and next to Elizabeth Wegmann. These are aunt and uncle[siblings of jacob].

Johannes married Katherina Böhler about 1843. Katherina was born in 1825 in Pfalz, Bayern; died in 1883 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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 Marie Anne Frey on 13 May 1850 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA, and was divorced. Marie (daughter of André Frey and Françoise Diemert) was born on 20 Dec 1829 in Rosenwiller, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Franziska Scherrer. Franziska was born on 24 Jul 1826 in France; died in in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Ottilia married Peter Klein on 30 Jan 1862 in Schindhard, Pfalz, Bayern. Peter (son of Simon Klein and Katharina Köhler) was born on 22 Jul 1831 in Schindhard, Pfalz, Bayern; was christened on 23 Jul 1831 in Schindhard, Pfalz, Bayern; died on 29 Jul 1917 in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Name: Peter Wegman Age: 83 yrs Death Date: 17 Feb 1924 Color: W Page: 418 Volume: 188

Peter married Barbara Schweickhardt about 1868. Barbara was born in 1838 in Bayern; died on 23 Jun 1893 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Caroline Grubenbacher on 18 Sep 1894 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Caroline was born in 1843 in Unknown; died on 8 Oct 1902 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Wegmann Family Tree
Entries: 121 Updated: Mon Jun 24 12:18:41 2002 Contact: Samantha Lutfi-Proctor berrydance@earthlink.net
Veteran of Franco-Prussian war, arrived in New Orleans in 1871; his brothers came over first and he followed after the war. His obituary of 4 February 1908 states that he died as the result of complications from a gunshot wound suffered as a bistander to a robbery in 1891. George and his brothers founded the Lafayette Brewery and the Lafayette fire insurance company in New Orleans. He is buried in st. Josephs cemetery.

IMMIGRATION:
New York Passenger Lists, 1851-1891
Name: Georg Wegmann Arrival Date: 1 Dec 1871 Estimated Birth Year: 1848 Age: 23 Gender: Male Port of Departure: Hamburg, Germany and Le Havre, France Destination: United States of America Place of Origin: Germany Ship Name: Westphalia Port of Arrival: New York Line: 11 Microfilm Roll: 351 List Number: 1183

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1900:
Name: George Wegman Home in 1900: New Orleans Ward 11, Orleans, Louisiana Age: 51 Estimated birth year: 1849 Birthplace: Germany Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Head Immigration year: 1871 Image source: Year: 1900; Census Place: New Orleans Ward 11, Orleans, Louisiana; Roll: T623 574; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 108.

Georg married Caroline Holderith in 1875. Caroline (daughter of Chrisostome Holderith and Barbe Rinck) was born on 17 Jan 1854 in Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 27 Jul 1940 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elisabetha married Andreas Wilfert on 8 May 1879 in Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana, USA. Andreas (son of Vitus Wilfert and Rosalia Heuer) was born on 16 Oct 1853 in Absrach, Kreis Eger, Österreich; died on 31 Oct 1935 in Eunice, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried in St. Paul's Cemetery, Eunice, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Franz married Anna Catherine Lambert on 25 Apr 1878 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Anna (daughter of Johannes Lambert and Margaretha Pöhlmann) was born on 1 Apr 1860 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 20 Jan 1928 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Saint Joseph Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johannes married Elizabeth Wessing about 1879 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Elizabeth was born in 1859 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 22 Apr 1914 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Georg Fabacher. Georg was born in 1845 in Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 31 Dec 1899 in St. Louis City, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jakob married Maria Anna Schehl on 1 Aug 1874 in Busenberg, Pfalz, Bayern. Maria (daughter of Stephan Schehl and Barbara Mock) was born on 29 Feb 1852 in Busenberg, Pfalz, Bayern; was christened on 1 Mar 1852 in Busenberg, Pfalz, Bayern; died on 3 Mar 1926 in Busenberg, Pfalz, Bayern. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Name: Peter Farbacher Home in 1880: New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana Age: 38 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842 Birthplace: Germany Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's Name: Sophie Father's birthplace: Ger. Mother's birthplace: Ger. Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Drayman Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male

Name: Peter Fabacher Age in 1910: 67 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Birthplace: Germany Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Germany Mother's Birth Place: Germany Spouse's Name: Sophie Home in 1910: New Orleans Ward 11, Orleans, Louisiana Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Year of Immigration: 1839

Peter married Sophia Koehler about 1864. Sophia was born in 1848 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died in in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Sophia Kiefer about 1882 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Sophia was born in 0Jul 1860 in Louisiana, USA; died on 4 Feb 1924 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Matthias A. Troye on 20 Jan 1870 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Matthias was born in 0Oct 1835 in Österreich; died on 13 Apr 1890 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Chalmette National Cemetery, Chalmette, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Charles August Wilhelm Thormann on 23 Apr 1891 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Charles was born on 27 May 1857 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 8 Nov 1914 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andrew married Christina Rempp on 5 Nov 1881 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Christina was born in 1861 in Louisiana, USA; died on 29 Dec 1933 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ludwig married Agnes Mayer about 1889 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA, and was divorced. Agnes (daughter of Unknown Mayer) was born in 0Feb 1870 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 27 Sep 1937 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ludwig married Mathilda Barbara Boos on 22 Nov 1899 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Mathilda (daughter of Joseph Boos and Maria Luke) was born on 26 Feb 1865 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 27 May 1947 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

Joseph married Anna Crossen on 18 Jan 1905 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Anna was born in 0Jul 1875 in Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Albert married Christina Kentzel about 1884 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Christina was born in 1859; died on 31 Dec 1886 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Albert married Louisa H. Napp on 7 Jun 1887 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Louisa was born in 0Oct 1866 in Louisiana, USA; died on 15 Aug 1936 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Take a monumental tour
Posted by Keith I. Marszalek July 26, 2007 11:32PM
For a short course in names that figure prominently in the city's culinary history, take a drive through Metairie Cemetery
By Judy WalkerFood editor
She wears a crown with a star, and a pair of wings. One hand holds a corner of her overskirt, which is filled with flowers. Her other hand gracefully holds out a small blossom.

She is frozen in time, an angelic statue atop the Grunewald tomb in Metairie Cemetery. Imagine her skirt filled with fruit -- or maybe bananas and coffee and sugar cane -- and she could well stand as an emblem for a new cemetery tour organized to educate the local culinary and hospitality community.
A century ago, Louis Grunewald's hotel in downtown New Orleans had a basement "cave," complete with stalactites on the ceiling, which is thought to be the city's first nightclub. His Grunewald Hotel became the Roosevelt Hotel, then the Fairmont. Grunewald was interred in his beautiful tomb in 1915.
The Grunewald tomb is one of about 30 stops on the Culinary History Tour, which on Aug. 5 will take hospitality industry workers past tombs and monuments chiseled with well-known local food-related names -- Arnaud, Brennan, Broussard, Brocato, Copeland, Fertel, Schwegmann, Zuppardo -- as well as earlier names less known now, but of people who helped put New Orleans on the culinary world map.
Right now, the tour of Metairie Cemetery is scheduled one time only, and only for those in the culinary and hospitality industry, but it might be offered to the public later, depending on the response, said Louise Saenz, executive director of Save Our Cemeteries, which developed the tour.
"We don't want to build (the tour) and just put it in a file," Saenz said.
The tour came about when Saenz met Ann Rogers, founder of Tales of the Cocktail, the annual shindig centered on cocktail culture that is produced by the nonprofit New Orleans Culinary and Cultural Preservation Society, which raises funds to benefit hospitality industry members.
"We thought, 'What can we do together?' " Saenz said. Rogers' idea was the culinary tour, which is being sponsored by the Culinary and Cultural Preservation Society. "What better way to educate the culinary and hospitality industry about their history?" Saenz asked.
The tour was researched and put together by Joyce Cole, a fifth generation New Orleanian and Save Our Cemeteries tour guide since 2003. Cole, who spent hours driving up and down each of the cemetery's streets, is still tracking down details. She invites anyone with information about relatives interred in Metairie Cemetery who were in the food business to call Save Our Cemeteries.
The tour may be the first of its kind for the local cemetery.
"We do tours, and are known for historical tours, but I don't know if anybody has really thought about the food connection or the restaurant-entertainment type connection," said Denise Westerfield, media relations manager for Stewart Enterprises, the company that owns Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home and Cemeteries, which includes Metairie Cemetery.
"I think it's a great idea. How important is food in New Orleans?" she added. "It's an interesting tie."
Some of the discoveries made as the culinary tour was researched might be included this fall in the guided walking tour of the cemetery S.O.C. offers after its annual fundraising 5-K race around the cemetery, a former racetrack. This year's race is scheduled for Nov. 4, and attendees pay $5 for the tour.
In the meantime, here's a sampling of stops on the culinary history tour, which you can use to create your own tour:
Grunewald's tomb is next to the miniature Gothic chapel marked A. Monteleone, for Anthony Monteleone, who started with a shoe store on the corner of Royal and Bienville streets. Monteleone's other memorial is, of course, the hotel that still bears his name.
Equally elaborate is the Pizzati tomb. Capt. Salvatore Pizzati became a leading importer of tropical fruit and the principal benefactor of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. According to Henri A. Gandolfo's "Metairie Cemetery: An Historical Memoir," Pizzati's favorite rocking chair is said to be in the receptacle below the crypt containing his casket.
Other tombs commemorate other kinds of culinary enterprises. Pascal Almerico, for example, owned Old Reliable Distributing Co. and Almerico Wine into the 1930s. Isaac Delgado, whose name lives on via the college that bears it, was a sugar factor, or sugar broker.
Margaret Porpora and her husband, Charlie, owned the Gumbo Shop from 1948 to 1977. Anthony LaFranca acquired Delmonico's in 1911, and the restaurant was in the family until 1997. Diamond Jim Moran (whose tomb is behind Louis Prima's) owned Moran's restaurant and Absinthe House.
Restaurateurs are widely represented. The Broussard family tomb is near the tomb of colorful "Count" Arnaud Cazenave, who founded Arnaud's and drank Champagne for breakfast every day. He rests in peace with his daughter, Germaine Leontine Cazenave Wells, who ran Arnaud's for 30 years after he died, and whose Carnival costumes remain at the restaurant.
The tour is also a study in diversity. The tomb of husband and wife Lee Bing and Yip Shee, founders of the fondly remembered House of Lee on Veterans Boulevard (and parents of, yes, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee), is one of several memorials in Metairie Cemetery engraved with Chinese characters as well as English names and dates.
Other tombs illustrate the entwining of brewing history and German heritage. Fritz Jahncke was on the initial board of directors for Jax Brewery. Valentine Merz, who died in 1929, ran a popular boardinghouse, similar to a bed and breakfast, and sold his place to Conrad Kolb, who built Kolb's restaurant at the location. Merz was also in the brewery business.
One of the most beautiful tombs on the tour is that of restaurateur and Jackson Brewing Co. president Lawrence Fabacher, who was buried in 1923 in the uniform of the Knights of St. Gregory, an honor conferred on him by Pope Pius X. He made his money in the restaurant business and lived in a showplace on St. Charles Avenue. Fabacher's obituary noted that his restaurant at Royal and Iberville streets "meant New Orleans wherever gourmets and epicures gathered."
One of the newer culinary tombs is near the fountain entrance and is marked "Copeland," a name familiar to contemporary restaurant-goers. Another large tomb built in modern times is the Fertel-Duke tomb, which is surrounded by immaculate landscaping and is the resting place of Ruth Fertel of Ruth's Chris Steak House fame.
"It's beautifully kept," Saenz said. "I remember when this was built. They put up a big white tent and invited their friends and the priests and had a party."
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Lawrence married Antoinette Louise Wagner on 17 Nov 1885 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Antoinette (daughter of Martin Wagner and Luise Hess) was born on 20 Jun 1863 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 13 Jan 1930 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Mary Amelia Billhartz on 22 Oct 1890 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Mary was born in 0Jul 1869 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 29 Oct 1923 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Peter married Mary Catherine Josephine Sporl on 17 May 1892 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Mary was born on 13 Oct 1869 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 8 Jan 1940 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Catharine Unknown. Catharine was born in 1876 in Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aloysius married Maude Davis on 25 Oct 1905 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Maude (daughter of Lem Davis and Jenny Unknown) was born in 0Sep 1881 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 27 Dec 1955 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barbara married Joseph Theodore Broderick on 9 Feb 1893 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Joseph (son of Joseph Daniel Broderick and Caroline Engel) was born on 11 Oct 1868 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died in 0Apr 1955 in USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maria married Vincent Robert Lamia on 6 Jun 1905 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Vincent was born on 31 Aug 1873 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 3 Sep 1940 in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married Blanche Agnes Murphy on 21 Sep 1904 in Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan, USA. Blanche (daughter of Patrick H. Murphy and Helen MacMulen) was born on 2 Mar 1879 in Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan, USA; died on 12 Oct 1938 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Saint Joseph Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]