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Name: Jacques (Jacob) Gast ^{1 2}
Sex: M
Birth: 8 JUL 1834 in Menchhoffen, Alsace-Lorraine, France ³
Death: 1 MAY 1926 in Akron, Summit, Ohio ³
Burial: St Bernard Cemetery, Akron, Summit, Ohio. ³
Person Id: I369
Tree Id: 617405

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Parents

Father:

Joseph Gast: Birth: 30 APR 1802 in Waldprechtsweier, Duchy of Baden, Germany. Death: 5 FEB 1869 in Menchhoffen, Alsace-Lorraine, France

Mother:

Madelaine Kern: Birth: 1 OCT 1801 in Menchhoffen, Alsace-Lorraine, France.

Family
Marriage:

Married: Marie Elisabeth Rennier on 10 OCT 1861 at Ingwiller, Alsace-Lorraine, France.
Marie Elisabeth Rennier: Birth: 18 AUG 1833 in Lichtenberg, Alsace-Lorraine, France. Death: 1 FEB 1869 in Ingwiller, Alsace-Lorraine, France

Children:

Marie Madeleine Elisabeth Gast: Birth: 9 APR 1863 in Ingwiller, Alsace-Lorraine, France. Death: 5 MAR 1939 in Akron, Summit, Ohio
Carolina Gast: Birth: DEC 1864 in Ingwiller, Alsace-Lorraine, France. Death: 14 AUG 1917 in Akron, Summit, Ohio
Jacques [Jacob] J. Gast: Birth: 2 MAY 1868 in Ingwiller, Alsace-Lorraine, France. Death: 12 DEC 1940 in Akron, Summit, Ohio

Family
Marriage:

Married: Dorothea Wathley on 17 JAN 1870 at Ingwiller, Alsace-Lorraine, France.³
Dorothea Wathley: Birth: 1841 in France.

Children:

Madeline Gast: Birth: 1871. Death: BEF 1878
Helene Gast: Birth: 1872 in Ingwiller, Alsace-Lorraine, France.
Joseph Gast: Birth: 3 APR 1874 in Ingwiller, Alsace-Lorraine, France. Death: 22 APR 1952 in Akron, Summit, Ohio
Katherine "Kattie" Gast: Birth: 24 JUL 1877 in Ingwiler Alsace-Lorraine, France. Death: 2 APR 1954 in Canton, Stark, Ohio
Louis Gast: Birth: JUL 1882 in Akron, Summit, Ohio.

Family
Marriage:

Married: Carolina "Carrie" Loeninger on 6 JAN 1892 at St. Bernard Catholic Church, Akron, Ohio.^c
Carolina "Carrie" Loeninger: Birth: 1 JUN 1833 in Switzerland. Death: 5 JAN 1895 in Akron, Summit, Ohio

Sources

1.	Title: United States Census
2.	Title: Germans to America
3.	Title: The Klein Family Author: Margaret Ann Dannemiller Walch

Notes

a.	Note: Jacob Gast was buried from Hummel funeral home in Akron, OhioWitnesses to his marriage to Marie Elisabeth Rennie F#755996were Joseph Gast (probably his f ather), Laurenz Winnum 50, ofIngwiller, broher-in-law of Jacob Gast, Antonius Jacobi 40 friend in Ingwiller, Jacques Schultz 66 friend in Ingwiller andJoseph Weitzel, 41a friend from L ichtenburg. Marie Elisabethsfather, Jean Jacques Rennie, a doctor had died 21 Dec1850. Hermother Sophi e Sohn, was present. Both Jacob and Marie couldwrite their own names. Jacob married his sec ond wife Dorthe'Wathle' 17 Jan 1870. She had his last five children; Madeleine,Helena, Jos eph, Catherine & Louis. Witnesses to this marriagewere Laurent Winum, brother-in-law age 5 8 and Joseph Gast, age38, brother of Jacob. At age 92 Jacob was the oldest resident ofSummit County to vote. He resided at 81 Jewett Str eet in Akron,Ohio. notes taken from: Ingwiller LDS F#144841; civ. rec bmd,F#755996 Menchoffen LDS F#767967 bmd Lichtenburg LDS F#770594Ger.Baden,Malch(a)Ettlingen(Waldp) 1047556 it #1
b.	Note: Lawrence Klein remembers Jacob had a long white beard and "looked like Santa Claus".
c.	Note: rev. J. B. Broun

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