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- He was apparently a farmer--is called a "daylaborer" on his children's birth certifcates, and they were protestants. He and his wife emigrated to America in 1817.
His Death certificate:
Be it remembered that on this day, to-wit: the twenty fifth of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty and the seventy fourth of the Independence of the United States of America, before me, F.M. Crozat, duly commissioned and sworn RECORDER OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS, in and for the Parish and City of New Orleans, personally appeared,
Mrs Barbara Klipfel, widow by first marriage of Charles Fields and by second marriage of John McMillen, residing in this city who by these presents declares that her father Henry Klipfel, a native of Nehwiler (Lower Rhine) "France," aged thirty eight years, died on this city of New Orleans, in the month of September eighteen hundred and nineteen. The deceased was married to Mm Barbara Meyers . . .
Thus done at New Orleans in the presence of aforesaid Mrs Barbara Klipfel as also in that of Messrs. . . . .
According to S198, which gives his immigration record, he immigrated 3-11-1817, and was born in Nehwiller. No birth year is given. No family members' named are listed, but it says that a Wife and 5 children accompanied him. No profession is given.
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