Hi Tami, have you tried to get his death certificate. You have his death date and where he died. The death certificate could give you also the mother's maiden name which then could give us a lead back to Prussia. Do you know where he is burried? I have tried all kind of search enginges, but couldn't find anything. Mississippi seems to be your link. Do you have his sister's death certifcate? Where is she burried? My thinking is that the civil war scattered the family and that's why you can't find them in censuses. As I said the mother's maiden name could be of importance. I also looked in my German Names book and there is no Kiezel, but Kiesel. Yvonne in California ----- Original Message ----- From: <familyresearcher123@gmail.com> To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:09 AM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Fw: Kiezel/Keezel > Wow! Thanks Yvonne. I am going to get a copy of the news article. I > only wish I could find something with his age. > > Thanks again! > Tami > > > >> >> >>> Hi Tami, >>> I might have found a little piece of the puzzle, but can't be sure. I >>> found a Jacob Kiezel in an article in the "Exchange of Prisoners. >>> List of >>> Officers and Privates Delivered by the United States to the ??? >>> A News Article >>> Date: 1863-02-27 Paper: Times-Picayune >>> >>> List of Officers and Privates Delivered by the United States to the >>> Confederate Authorities. >>> The Era (?), of yesterday afternoon, contained the following >>> official list >>> of the officers and privates who were paroled and sent from this >>> city on >>> the steamer Empire Parish, and subsequently conveyed up the river >>> under a >>> flag of truce, on the steamer New Brunswick: >>> >>> Rolls of Privates: >>> >>> Keezel, Jacob, private, 18 th La(?) Voln, co D >>> >>> Source: Genealogybank.com ( I have a subscription) >>> >>> Then I put Jacob Keezel through Ancestry.com but only searched for >>> military results >>> >>> 1. U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 >>> Jacob Keezel >>> Enlistment Date: 1862 >>> Military Unit: Eighteenth Infantry, J-L >>> >>> 2. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 >>> Name: Jacob Keezel >>> Regiment: Louisiana >>> Regiment Name: 18 Louisiana Infantry >>> Regiment Name: 18th Regiment, Louisiana Infantry >>> Company: D >>> Rank In: Private >>> Rank In Expanded: Private >>> Rank Out: Private >>> Rank Out Expanded: Private >>> Film Number: M378 Roll 15 >>> >>> 3. Confederate Research Sources, Volume 2, K page 512 >>> Keezel, Jacob, Pvt, Co. D, 18th Regt. La. Inf. Appears on >>> Register of >>> Prisoner of War, Captured at Brashear City, La., Nov. 17th, 1862. >>> Exchanged from Str. Frolic, near Baton Rouge, La., Feb. 23, 1863 >>> >>> >>> >>> Hope this helps a little for now. >>> >>> Yvonne in California >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Tami Johnston" <familyresearcher123@gmail.com> >>> To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:14 AM >>> Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Kiezel/Keezel >>> >>> >>>> Hi: >>>> >>>> I am looking to breakdown a brickwall of years now. >>>> >>>> Peter Keizel/Keezel b. 1808 in Germany married Catherine ?? . They >>>> married >>>> before 1838. They had 3 children: >>>> Catherine b. 1838 in Germany >>>> Magdlena b. 1843 in Louisiana, USA >>>> Jacob b. 1847 in Mississippi, USA >>>> >>>> I would love to find out when and where they entered America at. I >>>> was >>>> able >>>> to locate them in the 1850 Harrison County Mississippi Census >>>> under the >>>> surname "Kleissel". Then I have not been able to locate them in >>>> any other >>>> census. In 1863, I found Magdlena marrying Alexander Henry >>>> Johnston (A.H. >>>> Johnston) in New Orleans, LA. I found Jacob Kiezel living with the >>>> "White" >>>> family in the 1880 census. Then dying in New Orleans in 1896. The >>>> remaining >>>> years for this family has been a mystery. I am wondering if anyone >>>> else >>>> is >>>> researching this family or can assist me with recommendations on >>>> researching >>>> this family. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> Tami Johnston - New Orleans, LA, USA >>>> >>>> www.johnstonfamily.tribalpages.com >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>>> without >>>> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >