[44-28] JACOB RINEWALT, s Adam and Hannah (Price) Rinewalt [44-12]; m MARIA. DE DOLORES MONTERDE Y TIRADO; dau Francisco Monterde.
Jacob Rinewalt went to Mexico as a young man and married a young woman “of the Spanish Nobility. Mr. Rinewalt joined the Catholic Church in order to be married by that ceremony. Her full name was said to have been Maria de Dolores Monterde y Tirado.
Mr. Rinewalt is said to have established the first stage routes between the towns of Mexico and Pueblo, finishing the same in 1823. He engaged in railroad enterprises later and is said to have employed 500 men at one time in this construction. Mr. Rinewalt is reported to have accumulated a great deal of wealth and his wife was also a woman of wealth.
Mr. Rinewalt’s father was very unwilling to have his son so far away from home, and was desirous of having him come North. The son was making plans to do so when he and his two children were stricken with cholera and all died.
Adam Rinewalt, Jr., a brother, corresponded with J acob’s widow, ‘through an interpreter, for some time, but after a time the replies from Mexico ceased to come and it was: reported that the widow had entered a Catholic Convent, and had given all her wealth, in addition to that given her by her husband to that institution.
A report is extant that Jacob Rinewalt was killed by a band of robbers, but the above account is given by Mrs. Charlotte Ingersoli, Williamsville, N. Y., who, as a girl, read some of the letters from the Spanish noblewoman.
Mrs. Ingersoll also has in her possession a photograph of Jacob Rinewalt and wife, as well as a photograph of their marriage license, which is printed in Spanish. . [See Plate.]
Mrs. Ingersoll also has a diary which her father, Adam Rinewalt, wrote entitled “Excursions through the northern and western states.’’ He started on the 14th of October, 1835, visiting his brother, George, in Indiana and made his first visit to Williamsville, New York. He reached Fort Wayne, Ind., the 22d of November. “‘From Wayne I traveled about 60 miles to Huntstown, a small village, and from there 214 miles southwest to brother George.” The following day he and his brother George went to Indianapolis, a-distanee of 35 miles.
Parents’ family: [44-12] Adam Rinewalt and Hannah Price