Illinios:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin.  O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County

GOTTHALF JOKISCH, deceased, was born in Saxony, Feb. 22, 
1820; son of Charles G. and Mary E. (Jacob) Jokisch, 
natives of Saxony, and parents of fifteen children, nine 
boys and six girls.  Charles G. Jokisch, born June 20, 
1796, was a farmer and distiller, and died in this county 
Oct. 9, 1851; his wife, born in 1794, died Jan. 24, 1835, 
in St. Louis, Mo., while on the way to this county.  
Gotthalf was always a farmer.  In this county, Dec. 12, 
1846, he married Eleanor Carls, a native of Hanover, 
Germany, born Nov. 2, 1824, who bore him ten children: 
Mary, Maurice, Philip, Matilda, Amelia, Edward, Harry, 
Theophilus (deceased), George (deceased), and Otto 
(deceased).  Mr. Jokisch was a member of the M.E. Church; 
he was a Republican.

Jokisch Jacob Carls
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