Daniel J. Kortenkamp (April 28,
2007)
e-mail: dkortenk@uwsp.edu
The earliest documented Kortenkamp in this history is Johann Christoph Korttenkamp. [ See Heinrich
Kortenkamp Ancestor Tree in the Appendix
] It is not known where he was born,
but he was born about 1707. The name of
his father is not known; however, his mother’s name was Christina [maiden name
unknown]. Where she was born is not
known, but she was born about 1670, and died sometime after 1748.
Johann Christoph Korttenkamp married Anna Maria Westhuss on November 5, 1745, in St. Lucia
Church, Harsewinkel, Kreis
Wiedenbrück, Prussia
[now Harsewinkel, Kr. Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]. Anna Maria Westhus was born about 1725, but
where is not known. She did not live in
Harsewinkel before her marriage.
Johann Christoph and Anna Maria [Westhuss] Korttenkamp lived in the Bauershaft Oester at Marienfeld
(near Harsewinkel), Westphalia, Prussia
[now Harsewinkel-Marienfeld, Kr. Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]. A Bauerschaft is a group of farms treated as
a village, but with no village center (perhaps, more correctly, a “farm
collective.”). Johann Christoph
Korttenkamp was an “Eigenhörig” (“serf”) to the Cistercian “Kloster”
(monastery) at Marienfeld (established 1185).
Johann Christoph Korttenkamp is also listed as a “Kötter.” Typically, a Kötter was a man on a farm with
a little cottage and a little land to help feed his family. They and their family usually had side jobs
to supplement their income. Many wives
and children spun and wove flax into linen.
Some would make brooms and brushes, and some would knit socks. They were peasants, very poor and desperate
people.
While living at Harsewinkel, Johann Christoph and Anna Maria [Westhuss] Korttenkamp had several children:
Johan Christoph, baptized March 19, 1748. Died May 3, 1797, Herzebrock, Westphalia. Burial in
- married Anna Maria Gnegel, August 7, 1782, St. Lucia Church,
Harsewinkel.
- children:
Catherine Elisabeth (died age 3 weeks), Everhard ( ), Otto Henrich ( ), Jacob ( ), Johann Henrich (Elisabeth
Strothoff), and Peter Henrich ( ).
[ Mrs. Johann Christoph (Anna Maria Gnegel) Kortenkamp was baptized March 13, 1763, Herzebrock, Westphalia,
Prussia (Germany); daughter of Johann and
Anna Catharina (Kerstien) Gnegel. She
died July 14, 1798,
at Herzebrock; burial in . ]
Johann Friderich, baptized January 10, 1751. Died December 26, 1768?, at Harsewinkel?
- married
- children:
Anna Christina, baptized November 26, 1752. Died
- married
- children:
Jacob, baptized August 16, 1756.
Died
- married Anna Maria Johanfrans, October 28, 1783, St. Lucia Church,
Harsewinkel.
- children: Anna
Catharina (died in infancy?), Anna Maria (Mrs. ), Anna Catharina
(Mrs. ), Johann Everhard
( ), Ann Elisabeth
(Mrs. )
Anna Maria, baptized July 25, 1759. Died
- married
- children:
Johann Christoph Korttenkamp may have died January 28, 1764, at Harsewinkel. It is not known when or where Anna Maria
[Westhuss] Korttenkamp died.
On October
30, 1770, after the serfs marched on the monastery protesting
burdensome taxes and other abuses, the new enlightened abbot of the monastery
signed an agreement freeing the serfs.
Two-hundred and forty-four serfs signed the agreement. They were now free to hold public offices,
join guilds, bake their own bread, brew their own beer, sell their possessions,
and move elsewhere. One of the serfs
signing the agreement was “Eberhard Kortenkamp.” It is not known if or how he is related to
the Kortenkamps in this history.
Johan Christopher Kortenkamp, son of Johann Christoph and Anna Maria [Westhuss] Korttenkamp, married Anna Maria Gneigeler/Gnegel, August 7, 1782, St. Lucia
Church, Harsewinkel (witnesses: Jacob Kortenkamp & Anna Catharina
Holtshöt?). Anna Maria Gnegel was born
at Herzebrock, in the Bauerschaft Groppel, and baptized on March 13, 1763, in St. Christina
Church, Herzebrock, Kreis Wiedenbrück, Westphalia,
Prussia [now Herzebrock-Clarholz,
Kr. Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]. Her parents were Johann and Anna Catharina
[Kerstien] Gnegel.
While living at Harsewinkel, Johan and Anna Maria [Gnegel] Kortenkamp had several children:
Catharina Elisabeth, baptized September 16, 1783. Died October 11, 1783, Harsewinkel.
Everhard, baptized September 8, 1784.
Died
- married
- children:
Otto Henrich, baptized December 22, 1786. Died
- married
- children:
Jacob, baptized December 18, 1788.
Died
- married
- children:
Johann Christoph and Anna Maria [Gnegel] Kortenkamp then moved about 5 miles south to the
Bauerschaft Bredeck at Herzebrock, where he was a hired man. They had at least two more children:
Johann Heinrich, born August 29, 1791.
Died October 17,
1856, at Münster, Westphalia. Burial in St. Lambert Cemetery.
- married Elisabeth Strothoff, July 6, 1830, in St. Mauritz Church, Münster.
- children:
Gertrude (Mrs. Ignatz Summer), Stephen Anton (Catholic
priest), Caspar Heinrich (died in infancy), Caspar Heinrich (Joesphine Schermer), Herman Anton (single),
Franz Joseph Ignatz (single).
[ Mrs. Johann Heinrich (Elisabeth Strothoff) Kortenkamp was born ,
1803?, at Füchtorf, Westphalia,
Germany,
daughter of . She died.December 6, 1856, in her “52nd
year”; burial in St. Lambert Cemetery,
Münster. ]
Peter Heinrich, born March 23, 1794. Died ,
at Burial in
- married
- children:
Johann Christoph Kortenkamp died May 3, 1797, at “age 48”; and his wife
Anna Maria [Gnegel] died July 14, 1798, at “age
27”(??). Both died at Herzebrock.
Johann Heinrich Kortenkamp, son of Johann Christoph and Anna Maria [Gnegel] Kortenkamp, eventually moved
to Münster, Westphalia, Prussia [now Münster, Kr. Münster.
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]. He married Elisabeth Strothoff on July 6, 1830, in St. Mauritz Church, Münster. Elizabeth Strothoff was 27 years old and had
been born in Füchtorf, Kreis Warendorf, Westphalia [now Füchtorf, part of
Sassenberg, Kr. Warendorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]. Her father was a “Heuermann” (hired man).
Johann Heinrich Kortenkamp, a “Tagelöhner” (day
laborer), lived with his wife, Elisabeth [Strothoff], on a farm at Bauerschaft
Mecklenbeck Nr. 2, about two miles SW of Münster. This farm area is now a suburb of Münster,
and there is a street here named “Kortenkamp.”
Johann Heinrich
and Elisabeth [Strothoff] Kortenkamp had six
children:
Gertrude T., born ,
1832. Died June 19, 1884 ["in her 52nd year"],
at Dyersville, Iowa.
Burial in
- married Ignatz Summer, May 4, 1869, in St. Francis Xavier Church, at
Dyersville.
- children: none.
[ Ignatz Summer was born December 4, 1845, Weiler, Voralberg, Tyrol, Austria;
son of Frank Joseph and Barbara (Peter) Summer.
He was the eighth child in a family of fifteen. His father was very wealthy -- engaged in the
mercantile business, owning a hotel and a large estate. He spent much time hunting, and was
accidently killed during one of his hunts.
At the age of sixteen, Ignatz went to Switzerland to learn fine art
painting. He immigrated in 1867. Several of his brothers also immigrated. He spent three years in Dubuque following his profession of painting
and decorating. He then came to
Dyersville, where he became a prominent business man -- operating a carriage,
wagon and plow factory (Eagle Point Plow and Wagon Works), owning a grocery store,
being a member of the School Board, and being Alderman. After his wife Gertrude (Kortenkamp) died, he married Elizabeth
Holscher on January 7, 1885,
Dyersville. They had several
children -- Henry J. (Millie Brockman), Caroline T. (Mrs. Al Gaynor), Ida M. (Mrs. Charles Lippert), Coletta (Mrs. Frank Ryan),
Hilda K. (Mrs. Lester Schuster), Marcella M. (Mrs. Herman J.
Lott) and Clarence (Lucille Biwer). Ignatz Summer died October 24, 1905, in Dubuque. Mrs. Ignatz (Elizabeth Holscher) Summer died January 28, 1932. Burial for both was in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville. ]
(Stephen) Anton, born March 13, 1834.
Died September 14,
1889, at Dyersville. Burial
in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery.
- ordained a Catholic priest, November 4, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa.
Caspar Heinrich, born September 2, 1836.
Died in infancy.
(Caspar) Heinrich/Henry, born July 7, 1839.
Died December 14,
1926, at Dyersville. Burial
in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery.
- married Josephine Schermer, April 17, 1866, in St. Francis Xavier Church,
Dyersville.
- children:
Dorothea (Mrs. Henry Heiring), Anton (Catherine Stoeckl),
Henry, Jr. (Catherine Barrington), Simon (Catherine Stoeckl),
Gertrude (Mrs. John Jaeger), Anna (Mrs. John Holscher), Josephine (Mrs. Adolf
Stoeckl), Joseph (Clara Meyer), and August (died in
infancy).
[ Mrs. Heinrich/Henry
(Josephine Schermer) Kortenkamp was born October 26, 1848, Charleston, South
Carolina; daughter of Simon and Dorothea (Empting-Grawe) Schermer. She died July 1, 1888; burial in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville. ]
Herman (Anton), born August 9, 1842.
Died February 14,
1912 ["age 70"], at Petersburg,
Iowa. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier.
- single.
(Franz Joseph) Ignatz, born July 8, 1845.
Disappeared about 1873, in New
York City.
- single.
(Caspar) Heinrich/Henry Kortenkamp, son of Johann Heinrich and
Elisabeth [Strothoff] Kortenkamp, grew up near
Münster and worked in a brickyard as a brickburner. According to his daughter, Josephine, he told
her that his name is stamped on bricks used to build a “cathedral on the Rhine.” He also
told her that he and Ignatz placed fish traps made from willow branches in a
river by Münster, getting up at 4 a.m.
to empty their traps and sell the fish in the morning market before going to
their other work.
Henry Kortenkamp's father, Johann Heinrich,
died October 17, 1856,
and his mother, Elisabeth [Strothoff], died less than two months
later on December 6, 1856,
in her “52nd
year.” Burial for both was in St. Lambert Cemetery, Münster.
In 1848, Henry Kortenkamp's older brother, Anton, at
the age of 14, entered the Gymnasium at Münster for study of the classics. He graduated on August 19, 1858. Anton then entered the Academy/University in
Münster on October 20 to study philosophy and theology in order to become a
priest. With both of their parents deceased, it was
Henry's earnings in the brickyard and fish market that helped pay for Anton's
studies. In 1861 Anton came to America and was ordained by Bishop Clement Smyth
in Dubuque, Iowa,
on November 4, 1861. After three months as Assistant Pastor at St.
Mary's Parish (the “German Church”), Dubuque,
Rev. Kortenkamp was assigned as pastor to St. Francis Xavier Parish, Dyersville, Iowa,
on February 4, 1862. The first Mass he celebrated in St. Francis
Xavier Church was attended by twenty families.
Eight years later the parish had grown to two hundred and forty
families.
Rev. Kortenkamp is described as “a man of powerful physique
... soft-spoken, reserved and tactful.”
He lived in the homes of his parishioners for the first year and a half
before building a rectory. His first duties
as a priest were to furnish the new brick church whose floors and walls were
completely bare. He also started a
parochial school in a rented building in the fall of 1863, and in 1865 built a
frame schoolhouse.
In addition to being pastor at St. Francis Xavier,
Dyersville, Rev. Kortenkamp also attended to missions near Dyersville --
at Worthington, Delhi and Luxemburg. In 1868 he organized the Worthington
Catholics into a parish, served as pastor, and began the building of a church --
St. Paul’s. When the church was finally completed about
1871, Rev. Kortenkamp read Mass at Worthington
one Sunday of every month, winter and summer, until 1875 when St. Paul’s received its first resident
pastor. He also established the church
at Luxemburg.
Rev. Kortenkamp often drove many miles visiting sick
parisheners. One spring he was called to
Buffalo Creek about 20 miles SW of Dyersville, and almost drowned attempting to
cross a swollen stream. The water was so
intensely cold, that as a result he developed a severe rheumatic disease. During the following years his rheumatism
became severe. In 1885 he began to
suffer from “dropsy” (edema, i.e., fluid retention, often due to kidney or
heart disease). For two years previous
to his death, Rev. Kortenkamp was confined to his room, sitting in a chair day
and night.
By 1886 the Dyersville parish had outgrown the old church --
there were 260 persons confirmed that year.
Despite his failing health, Rev Kortenkamp began formulating plans to build a larger
church. He patterned this new church
after the Cologne Cathedral in Germany. The stone foundation for the new church was
begun in September, 1887. Rev.
Kortenkamp's brother, Henry, used his expertise at brickmaking and selected the
brick for the church.
At this time, Rev. Kortenkamp's illness was so severe that
he requested and was assigned an assistant priest. In the autumn of 1887, Rev. Joseph Brinkmann took over the duties of the parish, including
supervision of church construction. The
new St. Francis Xavier Church was completed in 1889 and dedicated December 3, 1889. Sadly, Rev. Kortenkamp did not live to see
this dedication. He had died that autumn
on September 14. In fact, the last
service to be held in the old church was the funeral of Rev. Kortenkamp. Burial was in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville. In 1956, because of its
great size and beauty, Pope Pius XII proclaimed St. Francis Xavier Church a
Basilica (among only nine other Basilicas in the USA at that time, and it is still
the only Basilica in a rural area).
When Rev. Kortenkamp finished his studies for the priesthood in Germany and went to America, Henry left his job in the
brickyard. On November 9, 1861, he joined the
Prussian Army and became a drummer in the 9th Company, 5th Westphalian
Infantry, Regiment #53. He served during
the Danish-Prussian War of 1864 (also called the “Schleswig-Holstein War of
Succession”, or the “Second War of Schleswig”).
For his service in this war he received three medals – a campaign medal
for combatants in the battles of Wielhoi, Düppel, Alsen, Friedericia, and
Rackebuell; the Düppel Cross for “brave participation in the Battle of
Düppel, April 18, 1864” (accompanying certificate signed by Col. Von Treikov,
Regiment Commander); and the Alsen Cross “for brave participation in the
Battle of Alsen, June 29, 1864” (accompanying certificate signed by General
Hermarth Von Bittenfeld).
The Battle of Düppel (“Dybböl” in Danish) involved the heaviest artillery bombardment in
history to that time – 126 guns and mortars fired thousands of shells at the
Danish positions for weeks. At 4 am, April 18, the final bombardment
began. In 6 hours 8,000 shells fell on the
Danish positions. At 10 am the Prussian soldiers left their trenches
and to the sound of the York
melody attacked the Danes (37,000 well equipped Prussians against 11,000 tired
Danes). By 11:30 am the surviving Danes
had retreated to the island
of Alsen.
The battle of Alsen was one of the last battles of the
war. Most of the Danish Army had
retreated to a fortress on the island
of Alsen off the east coast of Denmark in the Baltic Sea. The following is a summary translation from Spamer's
Illustierte Weltgeschieste (Spamer's Illustrated World History), 3rd Ed., 1898:
From the high fortifications on the island the Danish
soldiers could fire down on any boats trying to reach the island. The night of June 28/29, 1864 was dark and
foggy. At 2:00 a.m. in the morning, 2,500 Pussian infantrymen, with
oars wrapped in cloth so they would be soundless, started rowing silently
across the 800 yard channel to the island.
Just halfway across, in the earliest gray of the morning, the Danish
sentries spotted the boats and immediately opened fire. The Prussian soldiers began to give war cries
and row faster. Then the Danish cannons
began their thunderous bombardment of the defenseless boats. The Prussian cannons on shore answered, their
shells flying high over the boats into the Danish fortification. With bullets and cannon shells hitting the
water around them, the Prussian boats finally reached the shore, stormed the
fortifications and captured the island.
Henry had his picture taken in his military uniform with his
drum and helmet, with a couple army friends.
In Henry’s photo album are several other pictures of Prussian
soldiers. One picture has the name and
address of the photo studio on the back – “F. Brandt, Photographisches Atelier,
Flensburg”. Flensburg
is the northern-most German town on the Danish border. Friederich Brandt took many pictures of the
Danish-Prussian War.
Henry was discharged from the army on December 18,
1864. In his discharge paper he is
described as 6' 2" tall, of slender build, and blond. He was very proud of his military service and
his combat medals, and he wore them in later years for several portraits.
The following year Henry left for America. He arrived September 27,
1865 . He supposedly worked for awhile in a
brickyard in Dubuque,
but soon went to Dyersville to join his brother, Rev. Anton Kortenkamp. Rev. Kortenkamp actually financed Henry's
immigration to America,
and also helped Henry purchase a farm 2 miles NE of Dyersville, on the south
bank of Hewitt Creek, January 11, 1866. [
See Dyersville Area Map in the Appendix
] Rev. Kortenkamp did this as
repayment for the years Henry worked in the brickyard paying his brother's
expenses while studying for the priesthood.
However, for a short time after arriving in America, Henry worked as a
brickmaker.
Following Henry to America was his older sister,
Gertrude. According to Josephine
[Kortenkamp] Stoeckl, Gertrude
worked in Germany as a cook
for Prince Solms “at Frankfurt.”
Gertrude left Germany
from the port of Bremen
on the clipper steamship Hermann, and
arrived at Castle Garden, port
of New York, on April 30, 1866. She
married Ignatz Summer in 1869 in Dyersville.
Ignatz Summer was
born in Weiler, Voralberg, Tyrol,
Austria, on
December 4 (10?), 1845. He was the 8th
child in a family of 15. His father was
a wealthy merchant and owner of a hotel and large estate. Ignatz studied painting in Switzerland
until immigrating to the U.S., landing on April 20, 1867. He worked as a painter three years in Dubuque before moving to
Dyersville where he established a painting and decorating business. About 1876 he founded the Eagle Point Plow
and Wagon Works on the east side of Dyersville known as Eagle Point. He employed 20 or more men. Gertrude died in her 52nd year in
Dyersville on June 19, 1884. They had no children.
Ignatz Summer remarried, to Elizabeth Holscher on January 7, 1885, and they had several
children – Henry (Millie Brockman), Caroline (Mrs. Al Gaynor), Ida (Mrts. Charles Lippert), Coletta (Mrs. Frank Ryan), Hilda (Mrs. Lester Schuster),
Marcella (Mrs. Herman J. Lott), and Clarence (Lucille Biwer). In 1889, Ignatz added a large grocery store
to his business. He served as an
Alderman in Dyersville. Ignatz died October 31, 1905, at Mercy Hospital,
Dubuque. According to his obiturary he was survived by
brothers John and Alois in Colorado, Michael,
George and Henry in Germany,
and Jacob in New Vienna, Iowa, and by sisters Barbara, Celistine Mary and
Josephine (Sr. Mary Martha) in Germany. Mrs. Ignatz [Elizabeth Holscher] Summer died January 28, 1932.
Burial for both was in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville.
In 1872, Henry Kortenkamp’s younger brothers, Herman and
Ignatz, left Germany from
the port of Bremen
on the clipper steamship Nemesis, and
arrived at Castle Garden, port
of New York, on July 12, 1872. Herman declared for citizenship on August 10, 1891, Dubuque County.
He never married, and was considered somewhat retarded. He worked as a farmhand and gardener, and as
a painter for Mr. Summer in his Dyersville wagon shop. ,erman died at Bear Grove, Petersburg,
Delaware County, Iowa, on February 14, 1912. Burial was in St. Francis Xavier
Cemetery, Dyersville.
According to a story told by Raymond Kortenkamp, Henry's
youngest brother, Ignatz, stayed for a short time in Dyersville, but didn't
like it and went back to New York City,
intending to eventually return to Germany. He worked in New York
City for a hotel as a roof gardener to make enough money for the
return trip to Germany. However, one day about 1873 he disappeared,
leaving his cloths and possessions in his hotel room. Some
investigation by Henry through correspondence with the hotel concluded that
perhaps Ignatz was murdered and his body sold to a medical school.
Henry Kortenkamp married Josephine Schermer, daughter of Simon and
Dorothea [Empting-Grawe] Schermer, on April 17, 1866, in St.
Francis Xavier Church, Dyersville. [
Note: The name "Grawe" was
pronounced "grave." ]
Josephine Schermer was born in Charleston,
Charleston County, South Carolina, on October 26, 1848, to Simon and
Dorothea [Empting-Grawe] Schermer.
Josephine's father, Simon Schermer, was born August 2, 1804, at Wormerveer, North Holland, The Netherlands. He was the only son of Pieter Jan and Maria
[Koorn Groen] Schermer.
His mother had been married before to
;and they had one son – Klaas Groen.
The Schermer family has been traced back in Holland to an Adriaan
Jansz Schermer, born about 1640. Other
surnames in this ancestry are Appel, Elberts, Groen, Grootewal, Grootsant, Kistemaker, Koorn, van der Kruijse/Cruysse, Pieters, Prins, van Scherpenhof, Simons, and Spoelder. [ See Simon
Schermer Ancestor Tree in the Appendix]. The given name Simon appears already as the
name of Adriaan Schermer's grandson (1695-1770) who worked for the Simon
Schermer & Zoonen firm in Holland. This firm was founded by Simon’s father, Jan
Adriaansz Schermer, on May
22, 1703. The firm consisted
of merchants, ship owners, and owners of oil mills and snuff mills. This Simon's grandson, also named Simon
(1747-1810), served as a member of the Dutch Parliament from 1796 to 1801. It was his grandson, Simon, who immigrated to
Charleston
about 1835.
It is said that Simon was educated at a Jesuit College
in Lier (French: Lierre), Antwerp
Province, Belgium
(then the southern part of The Austrian Netherlands), the same college his
father had attended. After college he
was a member for five years of the Simon Schermer & Zoonen firm. However, the firm was ruined and lost in 1835
by the irresponsibility of Simon’s half-brother, Klaas Groen.
About this time, Simon immigrated to Charleston (perhaps on the Barkship Sophia Cecelia). He worked with a railroad company as a
supervisor of trains, going inland with passengers and merchandise, and doing
some trading with the Indians. The first
railroad in Charleston
began scheduled runs on Christmas Day in 1830.
The entire 176-mile route inland to Hamburg, South Carolina,
was completed by October, 1833, to become the longest continuous railroad in
the world at that time. Later, Simon
worked in an office for a Mr. King.
Simon eventually started a cotton and cheese import-export
business with his cousin Theodorus Schermer (1805-1871), a member of the Haantjes &
Schermer firm, founded 1770. This was a
firm of cheese merchants and ship owners.
Simon exported cotton to Holland, and
imported cheese to Charleston.
Simon Schermer (1804-1854), who immigrated to the United States about 1835, filed notice for
naturalization to become a U.S.
citizen on December 28,
1844, in Charleston. On December 30, 1845, he married Anna Dorothea [Empting] Grawe at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Charleston, South
Carolina. She
was the daughter of Ferdinand and Anna Elizabeth [Wals] Empting. She was a widow.
Anna Dorothea Empting was baptized in St. Cornelius & Cyprianus Church, St. Mary Magdalena Vicary, on September 6, 1812, at Westbevern, Westphalia, Prussia
[now part of Telgte, Kr. Warendorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]. Her parents were Anna Elizabeth [Wals] and Ferdinand Empting. [ See Dorothea
(Empting) Grawe Ancestor Tree in the Appendix ]
Dorothea’s father, Ferdinand Empting, worked as a
"Förster" (forester) and "Jäger" (hunter) at Westbevern,
probably in the service of the Beverförde family.
Ferdinand Empting was born about 1772 (place unknown, but he was not
born in Westbevern or Münster). On October 22, 1803, he
married Elisabeth Wals at St.
Servatii Church, Münster, Westphalia,
Prussia [now
Münster, Kr. Münster. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]. It is not known where or when Elisabeth Wals
was born, but she was not born in Westbevern.
While living in Westbevern, Ferdinand and Elisabeth [Wals] Empting had six children:
Maria Anna Bernardina, born August 27, 1804. Died
- married
- children:
Friedrich Wilhelm, born April 23, 1806. Died
- married
- children:
Johan Petrus, baptized August 4, 1808.
Died
- married
- children:
Agnes, born 1811? Died
- married
- children:
(Anna) Dorothea,
baptized September 6, 1812. Died June 16, 1897, at Dyersville. Burial in
St. Francis Xavier
Cemetery, Dyersville.
- married Heinrich/Henry Grawe, , in Church,
- children:
Adeline (died October
3, 1843 "age 4 yrs. 3 mos. at Charleston Neck" [now Charleston], South Carolina,
of yellow fever).
[ Heinrich/ Henry Grawe was born 1808?,
near Paderborn, Westphalia, Germany; son of . He immigrated to Charleston, South Carolina,
about 1836. He died October 2, 1843 "age 35, at
Charleston Neck" [now Charleston]
of yellow fever; burial in Cemetery.
]
- married Simon
Schermer, December 30, 1845, in St. Patrick Catholic Church, Charleston.
- children: Josephine
(Mrs. Henry Kortenkamp), and Simon (Mary Wacha, Anna Wacha).
[ Simon Schermer was born Aug 2, 1804, Wormerveer, North
Holland, The Netherlands; son
of Pieter J. and Maria (Koorn-Groen) Schermer. He immigrated to Charleston, 1834?, and worked as an
importer/exporter. He died , 1854, Charleston; burial in . ]
- married Thomas Kesch May 4, 1858, in St. Boniface Church, New Vienna, Iowa.
- children: none
[ Thomas Kesch was born December 13, 1822, , Bohemia
(i.e., Czechoslovakia), or Austria;
son of .
He immigrated May 10,
1854, and declared for citizenship April 19, 1856, Dubuque County. He died September 9, 1885, burial in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery.
]
Christina Josephine, baptized August 29, 1819. Died
- married
- children:
In 1812, Ferdinand Empting and his family were living in #9
"Dorf" (cottage) in Westbevern.
Also living with them was Elisabeth Reckmann, age 70. Her relationship to the family is not known.
When or where Ferdinand and Elisabeth [Wals] Empting died is not known.
Dorothea Empting, daughter of Ferdinand and
Elisabeth [Wals] Empting, married Heinrich/Henry Grawe
(place/date unknown). Henry
Grawe was born about 1808 near Paderborn,
Westphalia [now Paderborn, Kr. Paderborn, North
Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]. He immigrated to Charleston, South Carolina,
about 1836. Dorothea also immigrated to Charleston; but it is not known if they were
married before or after they immigrated.
Henry Grawe’s half-brother (Bernard?) Hermann Grawe (born near Paderborn, December 26, 1821) also immigrated to Charleston, about 1844. About 1852/53 he married Anna (maiden name
unknown), born about 1832, a young lady who converted to Catholicism at the
time of her marriage. [ Note: There is a May 17, 1850, baptismal record for Herman
Bowlage(?) aged one week; parents Herman Bowlage(?) and Catherine Grawe;
sponsors Gerald Plosporl(?) and Ursula? Farbach, St. Patrick Catholic Church, Charleston, SC.]
Dorothea's husband Henry Grawe and their only child, a daughter named
Adeline, died the same night in October 1843 at Charleston Neck [now part of Charleston] from yellow
fever. Henry died October 2. His death record says he was age 35, and had
lived in Charleston
for 7 years. Adeline died October
3. Her death record says she was 4 years
and 3 months old. The place of their
funeral and burial is not known.
Dorothea is thought to have gone back to Germany, then decided she liked Charleston better, so
returned. Here, she married Simon Schermer
on December 30, 1845,
St. Patrick Church. They lived in Charleston Neck at #53 on the
east side of Saint Philip Street
in a house purchased for $850 on January
7, 1847.
While living in Charleston Dorothea and Simon had two
children:
Josephine, born April 26, 1849.
Died July 1, 1888,
at Dyersville. Burial in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville.
- married Henry Kortenkamp, April 17, 1866, in St. Francis Xavier Church,
Dyersville.
- children:
Dorothea (Mrs. Henry Heiring), Anton (Catherine Stoeckl),
Henry, Jr. (Catherine Barrington), Simon (Catherine Stoeckl),
Gertrude (Mrs. John Jaeger), Anna (Mrs. John Holscher), Josephine (Mrs. Adolf
Stoeckl), Joseph (Clara Meyer), and August (died in
infancy).
[ Henry Kortenkamp was born July 7, 1839, Münster, Westphalia, Germany,
son of Johann and Elisabeth (Strothoff) Kortenkamp. He immigrated September 27 (October 6?),
1865. He worked as a brick burner in Germany, and also served as a
drummer in the Prussian Army. At
Dyersville, he was a farmer. He died December 14, 1926; burial
in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville. ]
Simon, born April
30, 1850. Died July 24, 1927, at
Dyersville. Burial in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery.
- married Mary Wacha, April 14, 1873, St. Mary’s Church, Dubuque, Iowa.
- children:
Thomas C. (Tillie Frommelt), Simon (Josephine Losser), Mary (Mrs. William Arens), Anna (Mrs. George Beckmann), Josephine (single),
Francis/"Frank" (single), Anton (Frances Klostermann), Henry J. (Elizabeth Braun), John (died age 12), Celia
(Mrs. Norton Bloom), Elizabeth (Mrs. Joseph Mahoney), Loretta (Mrs. Charles Frith), and Albert (Myrtle May).
[ Mrs. Simon (Mary
Wacha) Schermer was born ,
1857, , daughter of . She
died May 8, 1901,
within one hour after seeing her 12-year old son, John, fall and break his neck
when the horses pulling the hay wagon he was driving became frightened and
bolted; burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery, Dyersville. ]
- married Anna Wacha, , 1906(?), in Church,
at
- children: none
[ Mrs. Simon (Anna Wacha) Schermer was born ,
, ; daughter of . She died ;
burial in
Simon Schermer and his family
are listed in the 1850 Federal Census for Charleston,
Charleston County, under “Simon
Carmer”.
Dorothea's second husband, Simon
Schermer, “died in bed in Charleston
in 1854” (quote in a letter from Simon
Schermer, Amsterdam, March 1, 1979,
p. 4). The exact date of death is
unknown
. A hurricane in the summer of 1854
resulted in an increase in mosquitoes, and over 600 persons died of yellow
fever in Charleston
that summer.
Simon Schermer was quite wealthy when he died. Quoting from Rev. Arthur Halback’s Dyersville:
Its history and its people (1939),
p. 374:
After her husband’s death, Mrs. Schermer found it necessary to make a trip to Holland to settle his
estate. [There
she met with Jan Schermer, a notary public] On her return journey to Charleston she noticed a young girl, Mary
Schaupmann, was lonesome. Mrs. Schermer was kind to her and told her
not to worry about the future, that she had a fine home and sufficient means to
take care of her. Thus Mary became a
member of the Mrs. Schermer family for some years. When Mrs. Schermer moved to Iowa
and settled at New Vienna
in 1857, Mary came with her and helped in the household duties caring for her
two children, Simon Jr. and Josephine, besides providing room and board for
Father Orth. Here Miss Schaupmann was
living at the time of her marriage to Joe Feldmann.
In 1855 (according to a letter from Simon Schermer, Amsterdam) Dorothea traveled alone to Holland to settle her late husband's estate. However, Dorothy and her two children are
listed on the passenger list of the Hansa which sailed from the German
port of Bremen
and arrived at New York City
on October 9, 1854.
After a couple more years in Charleston,
Dorothea and her children moved to New Vienna, Dubuque County, Iowa. Her first husband's half-brother, (Bernard?)
Herman Grawe, also moved with his wife and six month-old
daughter Dora from Charleston to Delaware County, Iowa,
about 1853/54. The earlier deaths of
Dorothea’s two husbands and daughter had persuaded them all to leave “the
unbearable heat and dangerous fevers” of Charleston.
Dorothea married for a third time -- to Thomas Kesch on May 4, 1858, in St. Boniface Church, New Vienna. He had been born in Bohemia
(i.e., Czechoslovakia), or Austria,
on December 13, 1822. He was a master carpenter and house
painter. They moved to Dyersville in
1859. That year Dorothea loaned the St.
Francis Xavier Parish $1,000 in gold to complete construction of the first brick
church in Dyersville; and demanded that the loan be repaid in gold. When Rev. Kortenkamp came to Dyersville in 1862, he stayed with
Dorothea and Thomas Kesch until a rectory could be built. He also conducted catechism classes in their
home until a school could be built in 1863.
Thomas Kesch died on September
9, 1885. Dorothea died on June 16, 1897, at the age
of 84. She had outlived all three of her
husbands. Burial for both was in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville.
Josephine Schermer, daughter of Simon and
Dorothea [Empting-Grawe] Schermer, married Henry
Kortenkamp on April 17, 1866, in St. Francis Xavier Church, Dyersville, Iowa. Before marrying Henry Kortenkamp, Josephine
had worked as a hat-trimmer. However,
Henry had purchased a farm shortly before marrying Josephine. She now became a farmer's wife. Their farm was just 2 miles NE of Dyersville
on the south side of Hewitt Creek.
[ See Dyersville Area Map in
the Appendix ]. The farm is now part of the Dyersville Golf
Course.
Henry and Josephine [Schermer] Kortenkamp had nine children:
Anna Dorothea, born March 23, 1867.
Died February 8, 1887,
at Dyersville. Burial in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville.
- married Henry Heiring, May 4, 1886, in St. Francis Xavier
Church, Dyersville.
- children:
none.
[ Henry Heiring was born ,
, ; son of Henry &
? Heiring. After the death of his wife Anna Dorothea,
he married(?) . He died ;
burial in . ]
Anton, born June
24, 1869. Died July 19, 1902, at
Dyersville. Burial in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery.
- married Catherine/”Kate” Stoeckl, April 5, 1869, in St.
Francis Xavier Church, Dyersville.
- children: one
child died in infancy.
[ *Mrs. Anton (Catherine/”Katie” Stoeckl) Kortenkamp was born July 3, 1874, Dyersville; daughter of Joseph
and Theresia (Tierschal) Stoeckl who immigrated about
1860. After her husband Anton Kortenkamp
died she married Joseph Wessel. She died , ; burial in . ]
Henry, Jr, born October 14, 1871.
Died August 23, 1953,
at Dyersville. Burial in St. Francis
Cemetery.
- married Catherine Barrington, , in Church, at
- children:
none. [ They raised Frank Heisler (1898-1936). ]
[ Mrs. Henry (Catherine Barrington)
Kortenkamp, Jr., was born November 5, 1863,
Dyersville; daughter of Thomas and Mary (McGillicuddy, a widow) Barrington.
Thomas was from Ireland,
and had gone to California
during the Gold Rush of 1849. Thomas and
Mary were married in the Cathedral, Dubuque. They came to Dyersville in 1857. Thomas ran the “California House” hotel in
Dyersville, until buying a farm.
Catherine died November
29, 1941, Dyersville; burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery. ]
Simon/”Sam” (Albert), born January 20, 1875. Died October 21, 1956, at Oelwein, Iowa. Burial in St. Albert
Cemetery, Lamont, Iowa.
- married Catherine Stoeckl, April 18, 1899, in St.
Francis Xavier Church, Dyersville, Iowa.
- children:
Albert (died in childbirth), Leonard (Marcella Schindler), Raymond (Alice Cashen),
Anton (Ruth Tegeler), Henrietta (Mrs. John Cashen), and Richard (died age 5).
[ Mrs. Simon (Catherine Stoeckl) Kortenkamp was born June 6, 1880, Dyersville; daughter of Adam
& Magdalena (Braun) Stoeckl. She
died April 23, 1972,
Oelwein, burial St. Albert Cemetery, Lamont,
Iowa. ]
Gertrude, born March 17, 1877.
Died October 30,
1944, at Geddes, Charles
Mix County, South Dakota. Burial in St. Mark Cemetery, Lake Andes, Charles Mix County, SD.
- married John Edward Jaeger, Jr., May 4, 1897, in St. Francis Xavier
Church, Dyersville, Iowa.
- children: Mary
(Mrs. John Ryan), Reinilda (Mrs. Herman Moneke), Dorothy (Mrs. Thomas Ryan),
Coletta (Sister Olota), Martha (Mrs.
Sylvestor/”Sal” Moneke, Mrs. Oliver Strand), Justine (Mrs. Frank Tarpy, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. ), Anthony (Teresa Temme), Romanus (Irene Winder), Alphonse (Doris
Swans), John Edward, Jr. (Harriett Weber), Gertrude (Mrs. John Wons), and Cletus (Ethal Georgean
Muschitz). [ John
Edward, Jr., and Cletus were taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines during WWII, and sent to Japan. Cletus wrote a book – Six More Months
(1988) -- about their 42 months in captivity. ]
[ John Edward Jaeger, Jr.,
was born March 17,
1871, Worthington, Dubuque County, Iowa;
son of John, Sr., & Catherine
(Tierschel/Tuerscherl) Jaeger. He sold and repaired windmills in the Geddes,
SD, area. John Edward, Sr.,
died September
10, 1944, burial in St.
Mark Cemetery,
Lake Andes, Charles Mix, SD. ]
Anna J., born May
21, 1879. Died September
12, 1956, at Dyersville.
Burial in St.
Francis Cemetery,
Dyersville.
- married John H. Holscher, October 12, 1899, in St. Francis Xavier Church, at Dyersville.
- children:
Joseph (Margarete Dunn?), Albert (Leona Brunken), and Bernard (Lorraine Loes).
[ John Holscher was born November 12, 1879; Dyersville; son of Bernard
and Elizabeth J. (Stoeckl) Holscher. He worked as . He died December 23, 1967, burial in . ]
(Johanna)
Josephine/”Phinie,” born September
20, 1881. Died December 3
(5?), 1973, at Lamont, Iowa.
Burial in
- married Adolf Stoeckl, 1900, in Church, at
- children:
Ralph (Irene ),
and Wilfred (Rose Burnett, adopted).
[ Adolf Stoeckl was born July 28, 1877, Dyersville, son of Adam and Magdalena (Braun) Stoeckl. He farmed near Aurora,
Iowa, and retired to Lamont, Iowa. He died November 15, 1949, Lamont, burial in . ]
Joseph (Thomas), born January 27, 1884. Died March 26, 1949, at Aurora,
Iowa. Burial in St. Albert Cemetery,
Lamont, Iowa.
- married Clara E. Meyer, February 9, 1909, in Church, at Aurora?, Iowa.
- children:
Clarence (born 1910, died 1919, suicide), Ester (Mrs. Glen Cowell), and Leona/”Onie”
(Mrs. Rudolph/"Rudy" Pollock
[ Mrs. Joseph (Clara Meyer) Kortenkamp was born February 7, 1888, at ; daughter of Henry and Theresa
(Schindler) Meyer. She died January 14 (15?), 1972; at Oelwein, Fayette County, Iowa;
burial in . ]
August, born June
16, 1888. Died August 27, 1888, at
Dyersville. Burial in
Josephine [Schermer] Kortenkamp died on the farm from "milk leg"
following the birth of her ninth child, August.
The date of her death was July
1, 1888. She was 39 years
old. [“Milk leg” or "phlegmon
dolorosa alba" -- a painful swelling of the
leg, caused by infection (beta hemolytic streptococci), inflammation and clotting (thrombosis) in the femoral
veins, usually as a result of infection during childbirth; sometimes called
“phlebitis.” At one time it was thought
to be due to excess milk being directed to the legs.]
Henry Kortenkamp continued farming until selling the farm in
1900 and retiring. He spent his last
years with his daughter, Anna (Mrs. John Holscher), at 505 West
Victoria (now 2nd Ave),
Dyersville. He died there December 14, 1926. Burial for both Henry and Josephine was in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville.
The only descendant of Henry and Josephine [Schermer] Kortenkamp to marry and have children who carried on the
Kortenkamp name was their son Simon. He
married Catherine Stoeckl on April 18, 1899, in St. Francis Xavier Church,
Dyersville. She was the daughter of Adam
and Magdalena [Braun] Stoeckl.
Catherine Stoeckl was born at Dyersville on June 6, 1880. Her parents were Adam and Magdalena
[Braun] Stoeckl, who farmed one mile NE of Dyersville,
along the north side of Hewitt Creak -- just across the creek from the Henry
Kortenkamp farm. [
See Dyersville Area Map in the Appendix ]
The parents of Catherine Stoeckl, Adam and Magdalena [Braun] Stoeckl, were both born in Bavaria, and came to America with their parents as
children.
Catherine Stoeckl's mother, Magdalena [Braun], was born December 27, 1841, at
Teunz, Oberpfalz, Bavaria
[now Teunz, Kr. Schwarendorf,
Bavaria, Germany].
Magdalena's
father was Adam Braun, who was born 1810(?) Antelsdorf (about 2k west of Oberveichtach, Bavaria). His parents were Georg and Barbara [Achatz] Braun. Magdalena’s
mother (Maria) Margaretha [Zwack] was born at Teunz, April 7, 1810. She had a brother, Sebastian, born January 20, 1805. Their parents were Andreas and Barbara
[Rothmayer/Rothmahr] Zwack, living at Teunz #30. [ See Magdalena Braun Ancestor Tree in the Appendix ]
On September 10, 1845, Adam Braun, an unmarried farmer’s son
from Antelsdorf, bought the property of the Zwack family in Teunz (house number 33), and signed
a marriage contract with Margaretha Zwack.
The marriage contract also states that the children of Adam Braun and
Margaretha Zwack, which were born before their marriage, should be
legitimized. Adam Braun and Margaretha
Zwack were married four days later, September 14, 1845.
Adam and Margaretha [Zwack] Braun had at least four children while living at
Teunz:
Magdalena, born December 27, 1841. Died January 30, 1921, at Dyersville. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Adam Stoeckl, Sr., October 12, 1860, in Church, at
- children:
Elizabeth (died in infancy), Elizabeth (died in infancy), Ann (Mrs.
George Billmeyer), Margaret (Mrs. Theodore
Goerdt), Adam, Jr. (Frances Belm), Joseph (died in infancy),
Theresa (died in infancy), Michael (Agatha Christoph), Mary (Mrs. Anton Schindler), Wolfgang Adolf/”Dolf” (Josephine Kortenkamp), Catherine (Mrs. Simon
Kortenkamp), and Joseph (Caroline Meyer).
[ Adam Stoeckl was born September 15 or 17, 1834(?),
Zeinried, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. He immigrated with his parents in 1845. He farmed at Dyersville until retiring to
Dyersville in 1900. He died April 9, 1916, burial in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville. ]
Michael, born ,
1844?. Died January 9, 1848, at .
Burial in
Margaretha, born June 13, 1848.
Died ,
at . Burial in
- married
- children:
Michael, born February
5, 1851. Died June 11, 1916, in Boise County, Idaho. Burial in
- married Anna Billmeyer, October 14, 1873, in St.
Francis Xavier Church, Dyersville,
Iowa.
- children: Adam
Wolfgang (single?), Mary Magdelena/”Lena”
(Mrs. ) , Michael ( ), John George (Katherine Evans, later Mrs. Ernest Gothier), Maria (died in infancy?),
Joseph (died in infancy?), Louis Henry ( ), Katherine Franziska/”Katie”
(Mrs. ), Anna (Mrs. ), Margaret (died in
infancy?), Grace (Mrs. ),
Rose (Mrs. ), Edward H.
( ), and Frank Jacob ( ), and 4 children unknown.
[ Mrs. Michael (Anna Billmeyer) Braun was born about April 2, 1857, , Iowa; daughter of Michael & Catherine
( ) Billmeyer. In the 1920 Federal Census for Boise, Ada County,
Idaho, Anna is living with her
sons Adam, Lewis, and Frank. She died April 19, 1925, at Boise, Idaho;
burial in Cemetery. ]
Adam and Margaretha [Zwack] Braun, with their children Magdalena and Michael, received Bavarian government
consent to emigrate in July 1856. Magdalena was 14 years old, Michael was 5. They sailed aboard the Washington
from Hamburg, Germany;
and arrived in New Orleans
on October 30, 1856. They settled on a farm east of Dyersville in
1857.
Adam Braun died November 18, 1883, at Dyersville. Burial in Cemetery. Margaret [Zwack] Braun died , at . Burial in Cemetery.
Catherine Stoeckl’s father, Adam Stoeckl, was
born September 15 or 17, 1834?, at Zeinried (Teunz Parish), Oberviechtach, Oberpfalz, Bavaria [now
Zeinried-Teunz, Kr. Schwarendorf,
Bavaria, Germany].
Adam Stoeckl’s parents were Joseph Stöckl, born 1807? at Zeinried, and
Margaretha [Bauer], born 1807(?) (1805?). [ See Adam
Stoeckl Ancestor Tree in the Appendix
] On January 27, 1834, Joseph Stöckl
received house #12 in Zeinried after the death of his father, Thomas Stöckl,
from the widow Katharina [maiden name unknown] and the other heirs – Johann
Stöckl in Ritzlersreuth, Elisabeth Stöckl in Zeinried, Andreas Stöckl in Teunz,
and Adam Stöckl in Zeinried. Perhaps
these were the mother and siblings of Joseph Stöckl. There is a Johann Stoeckl, born October 18, 1794, died at
Dyersville on August 10,
1863, with burial in the St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
Joseph Stöckl entered into a marriage agreement with
Margaretha Bauer on the same day he inherited the house in
Zeinried. She was a farmer’s daughter
from Fuchsberg; the name of her father was Mathias Bauer. He may have been the Mathias Bauer who lived
at #19, Fuchsberg, who was married to Anna Maria Scheuer of Fuchsberg #13. They had a son, Johann Michael, born March 19, 1810, who may
have been a brother to Margaretha. It
can be assumed Joseph Stöckl and Margaretha Bauer were married shortly after
the marriage agreement.
Joseph and Margaretha [Bauer] Stoeckl had several children while living at Zeinried:
Adam, Sr., born
September 15 or 17, 1834?. Died April 9, 1916, at Dyersville. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Magdalena Braun, October 12, 1860, in St. Francis Xavier
Church, Dyersville.
- children:
Elizabeth (died in infancy), Elizabeth (died in infancy), Ann (Mrs.
George Billmeyer), Margaret (Mrs. Theodore
Goerdt), Adam, Jr. (Frances Belm), Joseph (died in infancy),
Theresa (died in infancy), Michael (Agatha Christoph), Mary (Mrs. Anton Schindler), Wolfgang Adolf/”Dolf” (Josephine
Kortenkamp), Catherine (Mrs. Simon
Kortenkamp), and Joseph (Caroline Meyer).
[ Mrs. Adam (Magdalena Braun) Stoeckl, Sr., was born December 7, 1841, Teunz, Oberpfalz, Bavaria,
Germany;
daughter of Adam and Margaretha (Zwack) Stoeckl. She emigrated with her parents in July
1856. She died January 30, 1921, burial in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville. ]
Elizabeth,
born November 15, 1840? Died July, 5 1913, at Dyersville. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery, Dyersville.
- married Bernard Holscher, February 1, 1859, in St. Francis Xavier Church, Dyersville.
- children: Mary
Elizabeth (Mrs. ),
Bernard H. (died at age 2), Anna M. (died in infancy), Joseph (died age 24),
Catherine (Mrs. ),
Elizabeth B. (Mrs. Joseph Pilmaier I), Henry ( ), Anna (Mrs. Henry Goerdt), and John (Anna Kortenkamp).
[ Bernard Holscher was born April 30, 1830, Telgte, Westphalia, Germany,
son of . He served in the Prussian Army, and sailed
from Bremen May 5, 1857, arrived Baltimore, June 29, and Dyersville, July
7. He and his brother Henry ran a
grocery store and saloon. Henry died in
February 21(23?), 1883. Bernard sold the
business in 1890, and engaged in stock and grain buying until his death. He also was president of the German State Bank from 1883 until his death. Bernard and Elizabeth (Stoeckl)
Holscher were quite wealthy and made many large donations for the building and
remodeling of St. Francis Xavier
Church and School, and established a
scholarship fund at Loras College, Dubuque. Bernard Holscher died March 6, 1892/93?);
burial St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery, Dyersville. ]
Barbara, born October 22, 1842.
Died January 9, 1929,
at Dyersville. Burial in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville.
- married Adam Wombacher, May ?, 1864, in St. Francis
Xavier Church, Dyersville.
- children:
Adam, Jr. ( ),
Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry Berger).
[ Adam Wombacher was born , , ;
son of . He first lived in Dubuque, and his first wife was Lubeack. She died after nine months of marriage. He then moved to Dyersville. He worked as a tailor and also ran a saloon
in Dyersville. He died June 6, 1871; burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery, Dyersville.]
- married Louis Kiebler, , 1873, in St. Francis Xavier Church, Dyersville.
- children:
Joseph ( ), and
Henry ( ).
[ Louis Kiebler was born , , ;
son of . He worked as .
He died April 29, 1904; burial St. Francis Xabier
Cemetery, Dyersville. ]
Joseph, born September
25, 1845. Died December 8, 1895, at
Dyersville. Burial in St. Francis Cemetery.
- married Theresia Tierschal, September ?, 1865, in St. Francis
Xavier Church, Dyersville.
- children:
Anna (Mrs. George Haeusler), Magdalena
(Mrs. John Teschler), and Catherine (Mrs. Anton
Kortenkamp, later Mrs. Joseph Wessel).
[ Mrs. Joseph (Theresia Tierschal) Stoeckl was born November 9, 1842, Neubeiern,
Germany (Neubau, Austria?);
daughter of Michael and Margaret (Nachtmann) Tierschal, who immigrated to
Dyersville in 1856. She died February 4, 1911, burial in . ]
Adam Stoeckl, Sr., was about ten years old
when his family, along with several other families and individuals, left the
Oberpfalz area of Bavaria,
about June 1845. Adam's little brother,
Joseph, is said to have been born September 25, in the port city of Hamburg, Germany,
while the family was waiting to board ship for America.
On about October 14, this group
of families and individuals boarded the ship Charlemagne (a 3-masted,
square-rigged sailing ship -- 124 feet long; 28 feet wide, and 14 feet deep at
the hold). There were 175 passengers, 68
of them in the Bavarian group. Two
passengers died during the voyage. The
following families and individuals from the Oberpfalz area of Bavaria
are listed on the New Orleans
passenger manifest:
Anton
Reitinger, age 37 (farmer from Tiefenbach), Barbara (34), Michel (5), and Joseph
(1/2).
Sebastian Betz , age 30 (farmer from
Breitenried), Theresia [Schmidt] (32), Michel (6½), and Johann (2½).
Adam
Hildebranth, age 50 (farmer from Altenschieburg), Catherine (45), George (7½),
Catharina (5½), and Anna (1½).
Michel
Stoecker, age 33 (linen weaver from Irlach), Ann [a sister to George Schindler] (30), Anna (4), and Jacob (3).
Elisabeth
Tergl, age 30 (weaver from Irlach).
Michel Hutter age 35 (weaver from Irlach), Sabine
(9) and Michel (3). [Mrs. Hutter is
thought to have died during the voyage, with burial at sea.]
Catharina
Krapfl, age 44 (miller from Katzelsried), children George (23), Andreas (19),
Michel (17), Anna (11), Jacob (9), and Johann (3). [Mr. Jacob Krapfl died during the voyage,
with burial at sea.]
Joseph
Hurdwagon, age 40 (linen weaver from Oedmishach), Elisabeth (40), Barbara (15),
Franziska (11), Cristiana (8), Anna (4), and Michel (1½).
Andreas
Stöckel, age 42 (farmer from Teunz), Margarethe (35), Barbara (12), Wolgang
(9), and Johann (5).
Joseph Stöckel, age 38 (farmer from Zeinried), Margaretha (38), Adam (11), Elisabeth
(5), Barbara (3).
Johann Stöckel, age 51 (from Zeinried)
George Hecht, age (farmer from Grossenschwand), and Margaretha (27).
Athea
Turnburger, age 44 (farmer from Schneeberg), Susanna (43), Johann (23), Anna
(14), Wolfgang (12), Michel (9), Susanna (4), and Catharina (1½).
Jacob Leibl, age 53 (farmer from Burchhardberg), Maria (50), Michel (29), George
(21), and Margaretha (11).
Johann Fritsch, age 28 (farmer from Burchhardberg), Barbara (28), Andreas (5), Thomas
(3½), Catharina (1½)
The Atlantic crossing took 46 days. After arriving in New
Orleans on November
29, 1845, some of these families and individuals traveled to St.
Louis, probably by steamship, which would have taken
about nine days. They spent the winter
of 1845-46 with two other Bavarian families -- the George, Sr., & Barbara [Gebhard] Schindler family, and the Michael & Anna Barbara
[Deml] Christoph family.
The Schindler family had
emigrated in 1842 from Irlach or Katzelsried, and lived in Buffalo, New York,
until moving to St. Louis about 1844/45. The Christoph family had emigrated in 1844
from Strahlfeld, Oberpfalz,
Bavaria, to St. Louis. There are parish records for some of these
Bavarian immigrant families (and the family of Joseph and Anna [Miesel] Stangl/Stangel)
at the St. Vincent de Paul Church in
St.
Louis. Records
for this parish begin in February of 1844 (the cornerstone was laid March
1844).
In the spring of 1846 eight families (and a bachelor, “Mr.
Urbang”) traveled to Dubuque,
Iowa:
Joseph &
Margaretha [Bauer] Stoeckl and four children -- Adam, Elisabeth (Mrs.
Bernard Holscher), Barbara (Mrs. Adam
Wombacher), and Joseph.
George, Sr., & Barbara [Gebhard] Schindler and two children – John (George?), and
Catherine (Mrs. ). [In Bavaria,
George was a weaver.]
Michael & Anna Barbara [Deml] Christoph and five children -- John, Elizabeth (Mrs.
John Schindler), Barbara (Mrs. Val Weber), Christopher, and Theresa
(Mrs. Heinrich William Lampmann).
Mrs. Catherine
[Rampf] Krapfl (her husband, Jacob, had died during the ocean
crossing) and her six children -- George & his wife, Michael, Andrew,
Jacob, Anna (Mrs. Fred ), and John.
George Krapfl
and his wife.
Stephen Hutterer (his wife had died during the ocean crossing)
and five daughters -- ? (Mrs. Pegler), Anna (Mrs. George Steger),
Barbara (Mrs. Theodore Goerdt), ?
(Mrs. Anton Reittinger-Plathe), and ?
(Mrs. John Pillmaier).
Michael &
Anna [Schindler] Stoecker/Stackerl and three children – Jacob, Anna (Mrs.
Christopher Christoph), and Barbara (Mrs. John Noethe).
Joseph &
Anna [Meisel] Stangl/Stangel and son -- John (born
in St. Louis). .
These families were met in Dubuque
by Anton Reitinger and his family, who had come by train from Chicago.
The railroad terminated someplace in Illinois,
and the family had to walk to Dubuque. Mrs. Reitinger and her youngest son, Joseph,
caught pneumonia, and died two months later.
A son Michael survived. Anton
Reitinger later married Suzanna Hutterer, and they had three children.
The following is from Rev. Arthur A. Halbach’s book, Dyersville:
Its history and its people (1939):
Early in 1846 these nine families took the boat up the Mississippi to Dubuque
where, after transferring their possessions to wagons drawn by oxen, they moved
westward from Dubuque.
It is entirely plausible that these
Bavarians possessed information about the German-American settlement at New Vienna; or, lacking this, they were told about it by
Bishop Loras, who eagerly awaited Catholic settlers at the Dubuque boat landing. Acting upon such information, the settlers
took the Dubuque-Delhi Road,
which had now become a well-known highway for land seekers. At the end of the first day, these intrepid
families made a stop-over near an inn along this road which was for many years
known as the “Seven Mile House.” Here
the settlers slept in their wagons on the open prairie, the following day
resuming their journey. At the east edge
of Farley, a fork in the road confronted them, showing a main traveled road to
the southwest toward Rockville and Delhi, and a less
impressive trail to the northwest. This
was the original Dubuque-Fort Atkinson Road [“Old
Mission Road”]. Since they wished to go northwest, they chose
the trail.
The line of wagons crept along the banks
of Hewitt’s Creek. They moved on until they reached a point
about two and a half miles northeast of the future site of Dyersville. Here was a spot that challenged their
interest. A half hour’s brisk walk to
the north would bring them to the Fangmann Settlement at New Vienna.
A mile ahead to the west ran the North Maquoketa
River, spring-fed and
wreathed in dense timber. After
exploring the vicinity around their temporary camping place, Messrs. Schindler, Stoeckl, and Hutterer climbed a little hill a quarter of a mile
southward whence they looked down into a gentle valley whose quiet loveliness
thrilled them into the unanimous decision: “This will be our home.” pp. 58-60
These families passed near the “McKee Settlement” 5 miles NE of the future town of Dyersville. This settlement was a group of about five
families named McKee from Pennsylvania
who had arrived several weeks before.
They were primarily dairy farmers.
All the McKee families had moved west by the time shortly after the
Civil War.
It was April 1846 when the Bavarian pioneer families
purchased land from the USA Land Office, built log cabins, and became the first
European settlers in the Dyersville area (some purchased land in Bremen Twp., Delaware County).
Joseph Stoeckl purchased 40 acres on April 13, for
$1.25/acre. This land was the “North
East quarter of the South East quarter of Section Twenty nine in Township
Eighty nine North of Range Two West of the fifth Principal Meridian in the
District of Lands subject to Sale at Dubuque Iowa.”
The Stoeckl farm was just 2 miles NE of Dyersville, on the
north bank of Hewitt Creek.
[ See Dyersville Area Map in the Appendix
] In 1859 Joseph Steockl, George Schiindler,
Theodore Goerdt, and Frank Schulz
would mortgage their farms and loan $250 each to St.
Francis Xavier Parish to complete construction of a brick church (south of the
present St. Francis Xavier Basilica).
Michael Christoph, George Schindler,
Sr., and Anton Reittinger signed
declarations of intent to become American citizens in Dubuque on April 27, 1846; Joseph Stangl on April 30; George Krapfl and Michael Stackerl on May 1; and Joseph Stoeckl on May 3.
The following is a quote from Celebrating Our Chritian
Heritage, 1859-1984, 125th Anniversary, Saint
Francis Xavier Parish (1984):
Four or five miles to the southwest [of this Bavarian settlement] on the Maquoketa
river was the thriving village of Rockville with its large water-operated mill,
its well-built stone Methodist church, and its stores and business
establishments. Rockville
already had a U.S. post office in
1846. The Bavarian colony maintained a
rather exclusive existence. On Sundays they walked or rode in wagons or on
horseback to New Vienna
to attend Mass in the newly erected St.
Boniface church. Strangely
enough, however, there seem to have been few social contacts with these
Westphalian Catholics to the north of them.
Rockville
to the south of them was the mercantile center for their occasional purchases
of supplies and farm materials, and for the sale of their grains to the
mill. [p.
6]
In 1848, an Englishman named James Dyer took up land along
the Maquoketa River.
He was followed by other English merchants. In 1851 and 1852 they laid out lots and
streets for what was to become the town of Dyersville.
In 1856 Mr. Dyer and the other merchants convinced the Dubuque-Pacific
Railroad to construct its first terminal in Dyersville rather than Rockville (completed April
1857). Soon
Rockville
became a deserted village.
Joseph Stoeckl,
one of the original Bavarian pioneers, drowned on January 28, 1865. After attending a wedding in the Colesburg
area, the Stoeckl family and some
other families were crossing the flood-swollen Bear Creek west of Dyersville
when the bridge collapsed. All were
rescued accept Joseph Stoeckl, who
was swept away in the current while trying to save a child. Margaretha [Bauer] Stoeckl
died November 21, 1888. Burial for both was in St. Francis Xavier
Cemetery, Dyersville. [On Joseph Stoeckl’s
gravestone is written “Born in Zeinrieth, Kinigl Landg Wohnstraus, Baiern.”
This translates as “Born in Zeinried, Royal County of Vohenstrauss, Bavaria”]
Adam Stoeckl, son of Joseph and Margaretha
[Bauer] Stoeckl, married Magdalena Braun, daughter of Adam and Margaretha
[Zwack] Braun, on October 30, 1860, in St. Francis Xavier
Church, Dyersville. While Adam Stoeckl
and Magdalena Braun were engaged to be married, Adam lost his left arm at the
shoulder in a thrashing accident (he was taken in a grain wagon to a doctor in Dubuque). Later, he asked Magdalena
if she still wanted to marry him, a man with only one arm. She said, “Yes.”
Adam and Magdalena [Braun]
Stoeckl had twelve
children, four of which died in infancy:
Elisabeth, born June 27, 1861.
Died in infancy. Burial in
Elisabeth Margaret, born June 23, 1862. Died in infancy. Burial in
Anna, born August
5, 1863. Died April 4, 1935, at Earlville, Delaware
County, Iowa. Burial in
- married George Billmeyer, April 10, 1888, in St.
Francis Xavier Church, at Dyersville.
- children: Mary
(Mrs. Harry B. Frank), Joseph George (Edna Mae Scovel),
William (died about age 7), France/”Fanny” H. (Mrs. Howard Westlake).
[ George Billmeyer was born July 9 1856, at Dubuque; the son of Joseph & Anna Mary (Kandler) Billmeyer. He worked as a . He died October 9, 1945, at Earlville, Delaware County, Iowa;
burial in .
]
Margaret, born August 27, 1864.
Died June 15, 1949,
at Wendell, Grant Co., Minnesota. Burial in St. Gall’s Cemetery, Tintah,
Traverse Co., Minnesota.
- married Theodore Goerdt, Jr., April 3, 1883, in St. Francis
Xavier Church, Dyersville.
- children: Theodore
( ), Albert
(Harriet ? ), Mary Anna (Mrs. Peter Thies), Amelia (Mrs. Otto Keller), Anthony ( ), August ( ), Raynold ( ), John (died at age 28),
Cornelius ( ), and 4
sons and 2 daughters who died in infancy.
[ Theodore Goerdt was born June 23, 1859?, Dyersville, Iowa;
son of Theodore and Barbara (Hutterer) Goerdt. His father was born in Larborchum, Westphalia, Germany,
and immigrated to NYC, May
24, 1850. He operated a
stone quarry in Section 20 north of Dyersville.
His mother was born in Bavaria and
immigrated to New Orleans
in 1845. He farmed at Dyersville until
moving to a farm at Tintah, Traverse Co., Minnesota, March 1909. He died at Tintah July 18, 1921, burial in the St.
Gall’s Cemetery, Tintah. ]
Adam, Jr., born August 10, 1865. Died June 21, 1933, at Dyersville. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Frances Belm, April 8, 1891, in St. Francis Xavier Church,
Dyersville.
-
children: Olga A. (Mrs. Henry T. Kenny), and Magdalen E. (Mrs. Osterhaus).
[ Mrs. Adam (Frances Belm) Stoeckl, Jr., was born , ,
at ; daughter of . She died
, , at ;
burial in .]
Joseph, born June 11, 18 ?.
Died in infancy. Burial in
Theresa, born October 28, 18 ?. Died in infancy. Burial in
Michael J., born February 21, 1873.
Died May 28, 1954,
at Dyersville. Burial in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery.
- married Agatha Christoph, April 10, 1894, in St. Francis Xavier Church,
Dyersville.
- children:
adopted (from an Orphan Train) Anton (died in young adulthood; WWI?),
Alma (Mrs. Ray Ayers), Leo (died in childhood?), Elenore (Mrs. Frank
Henry), John ( ), Hilda C. (single), and
George ( ).
[ Mrs. Michael (Agatha Christoph) Stoeckl was born October 20, 1874, Dyersville, Iowa;
daughter of John and Anna Maria (Schwetzler) Christoph. She died of Bright’s disease (kidney infection), November 14, 1922; burial
in St.
Francis Cemetery.
]
Mary, born October
25, 1874. Died January 27, 1954, at . Burial in the Catholic
Cemetery, Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
- married Anton Schindler, January 17, 1894, in St. Francis
Xavier Church, at Dyersville.
- children:
Thomas (adopted from an Orphan Train) (single), William (May
Woestman, ? ), Matha M. (Mrs. Peter G. Woestman), and Alfred/”Fritz” (Grace ?
, Grace’s sister.
[ Anton Schindler was,
born December , 1871, at Dyersville; son of John and
Elizabeth (Christoph) Schindler. He worked as a farmer at Aurora,
Iowa, Rib Lake,
Wisconsin, and Trempealeau, Wisconsin. He died of complications from diabetes 1949,
at Trempealeau; burial in Catholic Cemetery.
]
(Wolfgang) Adolf/”Dolf”, born July 27 (28?), 1877. Died November 15, 1949, at Lamont, Iowa. Burial in
- married Josephine/”Phinie” Kortenkamp, 1900?, in Church, at
- children:
Ralph (Irene ), and
Wilfred (Rose Burnett Noethe, adopted by Bernard and Mary
Noethe).
[ Mrs. Adolf/”Dolf” (Josephine/”Phinie” Kortenkamp) Stoeckl was born September 20, 1881, Dyersville, Iowa;
daughter of Heinrich/Henry and Josephine (Schermer) Kortenkamp. She died December 3 (5?), 1973, Lamont, Iowa; burial in St. Albert Cemetery,
Lamont, Iowa.
]
Catherine, born June 6, 1880. Died
April 23, 1973,
at Oelwein, Iowa.
Burial in St. Albert Cemetery, Lamont,
Iowa.
- married Simon
Albert Kortenkamp, April 18, 1899, in St.
Francis Xavier Church, Dyersville.
- children:
Albert (died in childbirth), Leonard (Marcella Schindler),
Raymond (Alice Catherine Cashen), Anton (Ruth Tegeler), Henrietta (Mrs. John Elmer
Cashen), and Richard (died age 5).
[ Simon Kortenkamp was born January 20, 1875, Dyersville, Iowa;
son of Heinrich/Henry and Josephine (Schermer) Kortenkamp. He farmed near Dyersville; later at Tintah, Minnesota; Rib Lake, Wisconsin; and
finally near Aurora, Iowa,
before retiring to Oelwein,
Iowa, in 1937. He died Oct 21, 1956, Oelwein; burial in St. Albert Cemetery,
Lamont, Iowa.
]
[ Catherine was given a set of ceramic frog salt & peper
shakers by her sister Anna. This set is
now in the possession of Elizabeth Kortenkamp, Middleton, WI.
]
Joseph, born June
18, 1882. Died January 1, 1962, at Dubuque. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Caroline Meyer, ,
in Church, at
- children:
Viola (Mrs. Sal Thoeni).
[ Mrs. Joseph (Caroline Meyer) Kortenkamp was born , , at ; daughter of . She died , , at ; burial in .
]
In 1900, Adam and Magdalena Stoeckl retired from farming and moved to
Dyersville. In 1910 they celebrated
their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Adam
died April 9, 1916. Magdalena
died January 30, 1921. Burial for both was in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville.
Simon Albert Kortenkamp, the only descendant of Henry
and Josephine [Schermer] Kortenkamp to pass on the
Kortenkamp name, married Catherine Stoeckl, daughter of Adam and Magdalena [Braun] Stoeckl, on April 18, 1899,
in St. Francis Xavier Church, Dyersville.
Simon and Catherine lived for a year with Simon's father,
Henry. They then moved to Michael
Stoeckl's farm where they built a new house on 15 acres,
and Simon worked driving a milk route.
Here their first baby died during childbirth on August 27, 1900. There second child Leonard was born in
1902. After three years they moved to a
farm 5 miles north of Dyersville ("Evers place"), but stayed only a short
time. It was here that Raymond was born
in 1904. The next few years saw Simon
and his family make many moves to various farms. It was while farming one mile east of Aurora,
Buchanan Co., Iowa,
("Macken farm") that Henrietta was born in 1906.
About 1909, at the invitation of Catherine's sister,
Margaret (Mrs. Theodore Goerdt) farming near Tintah,
Traverse County, Minnesota, Simon moved his family, farm equipment, and animals
(by train) to Norcross?, Grant County, Minnesota. There were heavy rains that spring and crops
couldn't be planted. Simon and his
family moved again in 1909 to a farm NE of Rib Lake, Taylor County,
Wisconsin. Catherine's sister Mary (Mrs.
Anton Schindler) and her family also moved to
Rib Lake at this time. Simon wrote in a letter (January 10, 1910):
… everybody is busy hauling forest products like hemlock
bark for the tannery which was peeled last summer, and pulp wood for paper of
which balsam makes the finest paper in the world, and bass wood is used for
making excelsior, and R.R. ties are shipped from here, 110,000 went out last
year, and a good many logs for lumber. I
am working for my neighbor and will have work all winter and he thinks the
winter will be to [sic] short at that because we got good sleighing so late, it
is quite cold to be out on the road all day at 28 below zero which makes my
wiskers [sic] full of ice, as though I were in search of the North pole but it
is healthy just the same and a person will get used to it, we had but little
stormy weather here so far, but the cold makes the sleigh track too dry then
they go over it with a tank and wet it
… the people here are very
friendly, jolly and good natured, a good many came from Chicago and have
relatives there …Well John [Holscher?] we have a good many kinds
of beer here. I will mention a few that
I know Duluth Malting & Brewing,
Jung, Walters, Gund, Michel, Blatz, & Golden Grain Belt, haven’t you got apptite
[sic] for any yet, the saloons are open at night as long as they please
sometimes all night and sundays beside.
It was while at Rib
Lake that Anton was born
in 1910. Farming at Rib Lake
was impossible -- very wet with little cleared land. In 1911 Simon moved his family, equipment,
and animals back Aurora, Iowa.
They rented the same farm ("Macken farm") east of Aurora,
which they had sold when moving to Minnesota. The milk cows, upon entering the barn after
two years absence, went straight to their old individual stanchions.
After one year they moved to the "Kreglow place" 3 miles NW of Aurora.
After a few years they moved again to the "Dr. Davis place", 5 miles south of Aurora. Here Simon
bought his first car – a used 1914 Model T Ford. During this time Anton started school in a
one-room country school about a mile east; and Richard was born in 1916. Simon
and his family finally settled, in February 1918, on a farm one mile west of Aurora owned by Simon's father, Henry. That
year Simon received his draft notice
for WWI, and had to go to Des Moines
for his physical. However, several days
after returning home he received a telegram saying the war had ended and he did
not need to serve. It was whle living
here that Simon traded in his Model T for a new 1923 Model A with electric
lights and starter.
Altogether, Simon and Catherine Kortenkamp had six children:
Albert, born August
27, 1900. Died in
childbirth. Burial in
(Henry) Leonard, born February 8, 1902.
Died January 30, 1984,
at Oelwein, Iowa.
Burial at St. Albert Cemetery, Lamont,
Iowa.
- married Marcella Schindler, May 6, 1925, in Church, at Trempealeau, Wisconsin
- children:
Gladys (Mrs. Merlin Pins, later Mrs. Marvin Johnson), Kathryn (Mrs. Elmer Goedken), and James (Mary Jo Sheely).
[ Mrs. Leonard (Marcella Schindler) Kortenkamp was, born May 6, 1906, Dyersville, Iowa;
daughter of Theodor and Anna (Digmann) Schindler. She died August 5, 1992, Oelwein,
Iowa; burial in St.
Albert Cemetery, Lamont, Iowa.
]
Raymond (Adam), born May 9, 1904. Died May 31, 1993, at Oelwein,
Iowa. Burial in St. Albert
Cemetery, Lamont, Iowa.
- married Alice Cashen, October 18, 1927, in St.
Mary’s Church, at Lamont, Iowa.
- children:
LIVING CHILDREN DELETED
[ Mrs. Raymond (Alice Cashen) Kortenkamp was born April 10, 1909, at ; daughter of John and Gertrude
(Ringold) Cashen.
She died November
14, 1994, at Oelwein, Iowa; burial in St. Albert
Cemetery, Lamont, Iowa.
]
Henrietta (Anna Veronica), born July 19, 1906. Died August 19, 2001, Oelwein.
Burial in St. Albert Cemetery, Lamont,
Iowa.
- married John (Elmer) Cashen, April 19, 1927, in St. Mary’s
Church, at Lamont, Iowa.
- children:
LIVING CHILDREN DELETED
[ John Cashen was born May 23, 1905, at ; son of of John and Gertrude (Ringold) Cashen .
He was a farmer at Aurora, Arlington, and Fairbank, Iowa; retiring near Arlington. He died August 4, 1985, at Arlington,
Iowa; burial in St.
Albert Cemetery, Lamont, Iowa.
]
unnamed child (stillborn), 1908.
Anton/”Tony” (Albert), born June 18, 1910.
- married Ruth Tegeler, November 4, 1936, in St. Francis Xavier
Church, Dyersville.
- children: LIVING CHILDREN DELETED
[ Mrs. Anton (Ruth Tegeler) Kortenkamp was born April 3, 1915, New Hampton, Iowa; daughter of
Victor and Mathilda (Meyer) Tegeler.
She graduated from high school in Arlington,
Iowa; and worked at St.
Joseph Hospital, Waterloo, Iowa,
until marrying. She died August 17, 2000, at Allen Hospital,
Waterloo, Iowa. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery, Dyersville. ]
Richard (George), born January 25, 1916. Died August 23, 1921, Aurora,
Iowa (from tetanus after stepping
on a nail while playing). Burial in St. Albert Cemetery, Lamont.
Simon and Catherine retired in 1937 to 710 2nd Ave. SW, Oelwein, Fayette County, Iowa. Sam and Kate (as they were known to their
friends), celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1949.
Simon died October
21, 1956, and Catherine died April 23, 1973, at Oelwein. Burial for both was in St. Albert Cemetery,
Lamont, Delaware Co., Iowa.
Anton Albert Kortenkamp, son of Simon and Catherine
[Stoeckl] Kortenkamp, married Ruth Tegeler on November 4, 1936, in St. Francis Xavier Church, Dyersville, Iowa. Ruth Tegeler is the daughter of Victor and
Mathilda [Meyer] Tegeler.
The earliest documented Tegeler in this genealogy is Johann Joseph Tegeler,
who died in 1800. He lived in Hollage,
Hanover [now Wallenhorst-Hollage,
Kr. Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany].
The name of his wife is not known.
They had five children:
Franz Heinrich, born ,
1780. Died 1852, at . Burial in
- married Catharina Maria Agnes Lübbe, , 1811, in Church,
- children:
Catharine Maria (Mrs.
), Maria Agnes (Mrs.
), Johann ( ),
Heinrich ( ), Maria
Elizabeth (Mrs. Johann Stephan Witte),
Franz Joseph ( ), and
Stephan ( ).
[ Mrs. Fanz Heinrich (Catharina Lübbe) was born , , ; daughter of . She died , , ;
burial in . ]
Catherine Maria Agnes, born ,
1783. Died , 1855, at .
- married Tepe, ,in Church,
- children:
[ Tepe, was born , , ; son of . He worked
as a . He died , ; burial in . ]
Gerhard Heinrich, born ,
1786. Died 1808.
Burial in
- married
- children:
Johann Bernard Stephan, born ,
1791. Died . Burial in
- married
- children:
Johann Heinrich, ,
1793. Died , 1829.
Burial in
- married (Maria) Elizabeth
Droppelmann, 1825, in Church
- children:
Gerhard Heinrich (Antonnetta Belm).
[ Mrs. Johann (Maria Elisabeth Droppelmann) Tegeler was born June 3, 1795, Thiene, Hanover, Germany, daughter of Herman Henrich
& Margaretha Maria (Herbort) Droppelmann.
After her husband Johann died, she married Johann Heinrich Lampe in 1831.
She died March 10,
1835, Thiene; burial in .
]
Johann Heinrich Tegeler married Maria Elisabeth Droppelmann in 1825.
Johann was a shephard. Maria
Elisabeth Droppelmann was born June 3, 1795, at Thiene, Hanover [now Alfhausen-Thiene,
Kr. Osnabrück, Lower Saxony,
Germany], daughter of Herman Henrich (born about 1770) and Margaretha Maria
[Herbort] (born about 1775) Droppelmann. They were married about 1794.
While living at Thiene, Johann Heinrich and Maria Elisabeth
[Droppelmann] Tegeler had their only child.
[See Gerhard Tegeler Ancestor Tree in the Appendix ]
Gerhard (Heinrich), born January 18, 1827. Died December 27, 1900, at Dyersville, Iowa. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Antonetta Belm, February 17, 1852, in St.
Boniface Church, Quincy, Illinois.
- children:
Henry (Anna Burkle), Catharine (Mrs. Gerhard
Sudmeyer), Gerhard (Anna Brunsmann), Bernard (Theresa Beckmann), John (Catholic priest),
Joseph (Margaret Eilers), and Louis (Mary Steffen).
[ Mrs. Gerhard (Antonetta Belm) Tegeler was born August 26, 1824, Rieste, Hanover. She was the daughter of Heinrich and Margaretha [Richter] Belm. She immigrated with her family about 1851 to
Quincy, Illinois. She died December 9, 1901, Dyersville,
Iowa; burial in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery.
]
In 1829, when Gerhard was only two years old, his father
died. On September 20, 1831, his mother married Johann
Heinrich Lampe, who was born about 1800, Plaggenshale, Hanover.
They had two children, half brothers to
Gerhard. The first was Johann Herman
Henrich Lampe (1832-1912). The second
child, Bernard Heinrich, died in infancy in 1835. Gerhard's mother, Elizabeth [Droppelmann-Tegeler] Lampe, also
died that year (March 10), when he was 8 years old. His stepfather, Johann Herman Lampe married
again in 1835 to Maria Catherina Rechtien (born about 1800). They had two children: Johann Bernard Lampe
(1836-1917), and Anna Maria Catherina Lampe (1839- ).
Thus, by the time Gerhard Tegeler was twelve years old he was essentially living
as an orphan with a stepfather, stepmother, half brother, stepbrother and
stepsister. And they all had the surname
"Lampe".
Gerhard is thought to have worked as a seasonal migrant
farmhand in Holland.
Many people in the Westphalia/Hanover/Oldenburg area worked in Holland each year as
“Hollandgaengerei” to supplement their meager income at home. He was discharged from military service on May 4, 1848, at
Bersenbrück. He immigrated to the U.S.
about 1849. He worked in Cincinnati, Ohio, and
then moved to Quincy, Adams
County, Illinois (there were
families with the surname Lampe living in Quincy during the mid-1800s). Gerhard arranged for his future wife,
Antonetta Belm, to come from Hanover
and join him at Quincy.
Belm Genealogy
Antonetta Francisca Johanna Belm was born August 26, 1824, at Rieste (Lage Parish, now St. John the Baptist Catholic Church) Kreis Bersenbrück, Hanover
[now Rieste, Kr. Osnabrück, Lower Saxony,
Germany]. This is not more than two
miles from Thiene where Gerhard Tegeler was born. Antonetta's parents were Margaretha Maria
[Richter] and Johann Heinrich Belm. Margaretha Richter was born about 1796;
Heinrich Belm about 1795. They were
married November 21, 1823,
Lage Parish, Rieste (witnesses: Joane Henrico Josepho Fleddermann and Margaretha Maria Theresia Richter). [ See
Antonetta
Belm Ancestor Tree in the Appendix ]
Heinrich and Margaretha [Richter] Belm had at least four children:
Bernard/”Barry”, born . Died 1880?,
at Quincy(?). Burial in
- married Catharina Haarmeier/Hahrmeyer, January 6, 1857, in Church, Adams County, Illinois.
- children:
? , Maria (died in infancy,
1859), Henry (died in childhood, 1863), Elisabeth (died in infancy, 1863), Anna
(Sister Mary Modesta), Frances (Mrs. Adam Stoeckl), and Theresa (Mrs. William
Tyre).
[ Mrs. Bernard (Catharina Haarmeier) Belm, was born , , ; daughter of . She died , , ;
burial in . ]
Antonetta, born August 26, 1824.
Died December 9, 1901
at Dyersville, Iowa.
Burial in St. Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Gerhard Tegeler, February 17, 1852, in St.
Boniface Church, Quincy, Illinois.
- children:
Henry (Anna Burkle), Catharine (Mrs. Gerhard
Sudmeyer), Gerhard (Anna Brunsmann), Bernard (Theresa
Beckmann), John (Catholic priest), Joseph (Margaret
Eilers), and Louis (Mary Steffen).
[ Gerhard Tegeler was born January 18, 1827, Thiene, Hanover;
son of Johann Heinrich and Maria Elizabeth (Droppelman) Tegeler. He immigrated about 1849. He was a farmer. He died December 27, 1900, Dyersville,
Iowa; burial in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery.
]
Anna Maria Elisabeth, born October 8, 1827. Died
- married
- children:
Gertrude Bernardina, born October 26, 1829. Died
- married Gerhard
Heinrich Bohne, November 12, 1855, Lage Parish, Rieste, Hanover.
- children:
[ Gerhard H. Bohne was born August 8, 1822, in Neuenkirchen, Oldenburg,
son of Joseph and Anna Maria [Osterloh] Bohne. He was a . He died ;
burial in . ]
Antonetta came to America 1850?, at the age of
26. She perhaps made the Atlantic
crossing with Gerhard's adoptive family -- the Lampes. Gerhard's stepparents, his half brother
Johann Herman Lampe, his stepbrother Johann Bernard Lampe, and stepsister Anna
Maria Catherina Lampe, all immigrated about 1851 and settled in Dubuque County,
Iowa, at the Dixon/Dickson Settlement, about 2 miles west of Luxemburg. Antonetta's parents and brother Bernard also
immigrated. There were other Belm and Lampe families living in Quincy
and Adams County in the mid-1800s. Gerhard's stepfather, Johan Henrich Lampe,
died December 8, 1875,
Dyersville, Iowa.
Heinrich Belm died in Quincy
on November 15, 1856,
in his 61st
year. Margaretha [Richter] Belm died in Quincy on December 30, 1864, in her
68th
year. Burial for both was in St.
Boniface Cemetery.
Gerhard Tegeler and Antonetta Belm were married at Quincy on February 17, 1852, in St. Boniface
Church. Gerhard worked as a
plasterer. Their first child, Henry
Tegeler, was born at Quincy,
September 19, 1852.
In 1855, Gerhard moved his family onto a 40-acre farm at
Pine Hollow, Dixon/Dickson Settlement, west of Luxemburg, Dubuque County, Iowa
(about a mile south of the present White Pine Forest Preserve). The land was unbroken and had no buildings,
but he immediatley built a log cabin for his family. Here several more children were born. Gerhard became a USA
citizen on November 19,
1856, Dubuque
County.
After about 9 years Gerhard and his family moved to a farm
at the McKee Settlement, 5 miles northeast of Dyersville in
Dubuque County. [See Dyersville Area Map in the Appendix]
“A German farmer, Gerhart Tegeler, was [an] early purchaser
of McKee land in
Section 23, New Wine Township. He had a horsedrawn corn planter with a hand
trip lever operated by a boy riding next to the seed corn box. Tegeler was hired by Appleton McKee to plant his crop with this
speedy device. Appleton later sold his land to Mr.
Tegeler.”
Polder, Emmett. (2003). North Fork
Nostalgia, p. 33.
Gerhard Tegeler became the first German to settle among the
Irish McKee settlers.
Altogether, Gerhard and Antonetta [Belm] Tegeler had eight children (seven survived):
Henry, born September
19, 1852. Died July 8, 1932, at Dyersville, Iowa. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery, Dyersville.
- married Anna Burkle, October 18, 1877, in St.
Francis Xavier Church, Dyersville,
Iowa.
- children:
Antonetta Cecelia (Mrs. Joseph Beckman), Aloysius Gerhardt (Adeleid
Gerken), Frank (Cora Mae Lewis), Anthony (Celia Luther), Anna (Mrs. John Drees), Leo (Veronica White), Hugo (Anna Meyer), Victor (Mathilda Meyer), Irene (single), Eleanor
(Mrs. Henry Schafer), Hildegard (Mrs. Marcellus
Drexler), Modesta (single), and Waldemar/Walter
(Marguerite Schultz).
[ Mrs. Henry (Anna Burkle) Tegeler was born October 25, 1859, Dyersville, Iowa;
daughter of Raphael and Maria (Heinrich//Henry) Burkle. She died October 16, 1951, Dyersville,
Iowa; burial in St. Francis Cemetery. ]
(Maria) Catherine, born January 8, 1855. Died February 14, 1932, at Petersburg, Iowa. Burial in SS. Peter & Paul Cemetery,
Petersburg.
- married Gerhard Wenceslaus Sudmeyer, January 2, 1874, in St.
Boniface Church, New Vienna, Iowa.
- children:
Bernard (died age 2), Gerhard (died in infancy), Aloysius/Louis (Lucy
Jaeger), Antonette/”Nettie” (Mrs. John Ovel), Anna Maria/Mary (Mrs. Henry
Steffen), Elizabeth (single), Joseph (Rose Drees), Bernard (Agatha Menke), John V. (Frances Brueggeman), and William Leander
(single).
[ Gerhard Sudmeyer was born February 20, 1850, Cincinnati
area, Ohio?;
son of John Wenzeslaus and Anna Margarethe (Poggeman) Sudmeier. He was a farmer. He died April 16, 1923, Petersburg, Iowa;
burial in Cemetery. ]
(Johann) Gerhard, born May 15, 1856.
Died November 3, 1938,
at Dyersville, Iowa.
Burial in St. Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Anna Brunsmann, April 20, 1880, in St. Francis Xavier Church,
Dyersville.
- children:
Gerhard/”Jerry” A. (Alma Heming), Clara (Mrs. John Recker), Catherine/”Katie” (Mrs. Tony Heiring), Veronica (Mrs. Antone J.
Billmeyer), Gregor/Gregory
(Mathilda/”Tillie” Billmeyer, Dolores Schlarmann), Ida (Sister M. Sanctina), twins George (died in
infancy) & John G. (Margaret M. Mayer), Edward (Helen Heming), and
Joseph C. (Mary Heiring).
[ Mrs. Gerhard (Anna Brunsmann) Tegeler was born April 20, 1864, at Luxemburg, Iowa;
daughter of Joseph and Maria Kathryn (Wernke) Brunsmann. She died January 9, 1948, Dyersville; burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery, Dyersville. ]
Bernard, born October
7, 1857. Died May 4, 1928, at Dyersville, Iowa. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Theresa Beckmann, Februrary 1, 1881, in St.
Francis Xavier Church, at Dyersville.
- children:
Gerhard/”Jerry” H. (Rosa Kerkoff), Antonetta/”Netta” (Mrs.
Henry J. Wessels), John/”Jack” H. (Agnes
Althaus), Catherine/”Kate” (Mrs. Henry H. ), Isidore/”Ike” B. (Alvina
Schemmel), Agnes/”Aggie” (Mrs. Fred Nabor), Ulrich/”Ole” G.
(Eugenia/”Gene”/”Regina”? Milbert), Bernard/”Ben” C. (Leona
Ebelheiser), Peter J. (Loretta Konzen), Olivia Mary (single), and
Hilarius/”Larry” (died May 5, 1928, age 21), and 3 children died in infancy
including twins boy and a girl.
[ Bernard Tegeler worked as a farmer. ]
[ Mrs. Bernard (Theresa Beckmann) Tegeler was born January 28, 1863, Dyersville; daughter of
Gerhard and Agnes [Kramer] Beckmann. She died May 7, 1928, ;
burial in St. Francis Xavier
Cemetery. ]
John, born March
19, 1859. Died October 27, 1908, at St. Paul, Iowa. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- ordained a Catholic priest, May 31, 1890, by Rt. Rev. Bishop
Cosgrove, Davenport, Iowa.
Joseph, born March
29, 1861. Died March 31, 1942, at Dyersville, Iowa. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Margaretha/"Maggie" Adalaide Eilers, June 24, 1891, in St.
Francis Xavier Church, at Dyersville.
- children:
Albert/”Bert” Gerhard (Josephine Maree Ruemmele), Raymond Frank (Clara Claus), Timothy
Joseph (single), Odelia Helena (single),
Vera Ann (Mrs. Wayne Corwin), Margaret Theresa (Mrs.
Charles Martini), and Orlinda Evelyn (Mrs. Irwin Clements),
[ Mrs. Joseph (Margaretha/"Maggie" Eilers) Tegeler was born about January 1865, at Guttenburg(?);
daughter of Henry and Anna [ ]
Eilers. She died March 5, 1959, Council Bluffs, Iowa;
burial in ,
Dyersville. ]
Louis, born August
1, 1865. Died November 28, 1958, at Dyersville, Iowa. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Mary Steffen, April 15, 1891, in Church, at
- children:
unknown (died in childhood), Frances (Mrs. Ben Schwartz), Lawrence (single?), Martha
Ann (Mrs. Leo Schmitz), Arthur (single?), Mary
Catherine (Mrs. Leo Sherlock), Isabel Ann (Mrs. Paul
Friedman), Leona Ann (Mrs. Jacob Billmeyer), Marcella (Mrs. Thomas
Krapfl), and Clarence (single?).
[ Mrs. Louis (Mary Steffen) was born May 30, 1872, at ; daughter of .
She died November
11, 1931, at ;
burial in . ]
About 1880, Antonetta's brother Bernard Belm and his wife Catharina died at Quincy. Their orphaned daughters moved to Dyersville
and were raised by Gerhard and Antonetta Tegeler. These children were, Anna (Sr. Mary Modesta), Frances (Mrs. Adam Stoeckl), and Theresa (Mrs William
Tyre). There may have been another daughter and a
son. Gerhard's stepmother, Maria Catherina
[Rechtein] Lampe, was also living with Gerhard and Antonetta in
her 80s toward the end of her life.
Gerhard and Antonetta Tegeler retired from the farm in 1892, and moved to
126 Vine, the NE corner of Vine and Victoria (now 2nd Ave. and 2nd St; 126 2nd
Ave, SW), in Dyersville. Gerhard died there on December 27, 1900. Antonetta died there December 9, 1901. Burial for both was in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery,
Dyersville.
Henry Tegeler, the oldest child of Gerhard
and Antonetta, received his early education in a rural school near
Luxemburg. Later he attended St. Francis Teachers College in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, starting in 1870. In 1873, at the age of 21, he became a
teacher in the one-room Rock
School located 2 miles
northeast of Dyersville. On October 18, 1877, he
married Anna Burkle, daughter of Raphael/Ralph
and (Anna) Maria/Mary [Heinrich/Henry] Burkle.
Raphael/Ralph Burkle
was born October 24, 1831, at Trillfingen, Hohenzollern,
Prussia [now
Trillfingen-Haigerloch, Zollernalbkreis (Balingen), Baden-Württemberg, Germany]. He emigrated ("entwischen" =
escaped, fled) with his brother Markus in 1849, arriving at New York City aboard the barkship Highland Mary on July 2, 1849.
The earliest documented Bürkle in this genealogy is Michael
Bürckhle, born about 1644, Trillfingen. He was a “Meßner”/”Messner” (church
sexton). [ see Raphael Burkle Ancestor Tree in the Appendix ] There were many
Bürkle families living in Trillfingen at this time; their names variously
spelled Birkle, Birckle, Birikle, Bürckle, Bürckhle, Bürkhle, etc. Other surnames in this genealogy are: Bingmer, Bieger, Blatzin, Eberhart, Haydin, Heim, Horn, Hünlin, Keßler/Kessler, Sell, Stelzer, Stöhle/Stehle, and Weckler.
Michael Bürckhle married Anna Weckler June 20, 1704. They
had
Mathias Bürkle married Maria Stöhle/Stehle, February 1 1706, Trillfingen. They had at least two children:
Maria Catherina, born April 17, 1706.
Died
- married
Josef Nikolaus, born March 2, 1717.
Died October 21(27?), 1757, Trillfingen.
Burial in
- married Magdelena Stehle , January 8, 1741, Church, Trillfingen.
- children:
Melchior (Franziska Schellhammer), Joseph (Catharina Stelzer), Christina (Mrs. ?), Mathias (Christina Keßler/Kessler), Dominik (Elisabeth Stehle), Fidelis ( ), and M. Regina (Mrs. ).
[ Magelena Stehle was born August 13, 1716, Trillfingen; the daughter of
Nicolaus and Maria (Eberhart) Stehle.
She died ,
Trillfingen. Burial in . ]
Mathias Bürkle died December 22, 1728, Trillfingen. When or where Maria [Stehle] Bürkle died is not known.
Josef Nikalaus Bürkle, son of Mathias and Maria [Stehle]
Bürkle, married Magdelena Stehle on January 8, 1741, at Trillfingen. They had a dispensation to marry because they
were first cousins ("4. grade verwandt"). Magdelena Stehle was born August 13, 1716, Trillfingen,
daughter of Nicolaus and Maria [Eberhart] Stehle. [ See Magdelena Stehle Ancestor Tree
in the Appendix ]
Josef and Magdelena
[Stehle] Bürkle had eight children while living at
Trillfingen:
Melchior, born December 28, 1741.
Died
- married Franziska Schellhammer, January 12, 1761, in Church, Trillfingen.
- children:
Joseph Anton ( ),
Maria Catherina (Mrs. ),
and Maria (Mrs. ).
Joseph, born March
8, 1744. Died March 20, 1792, Trillfingen.
- married Catharina Stelzer, February 11, 1772, in Church, Trillfingen.
- children: Elisabeth (Mrs. ), Magdelena (Mrs. ), Konrad ( ), Stanislaus ( ), and Zozilia/Cazilia (Mrs.
Simon Bürkle
).
[ Mrs. Joseph (Catharina Stelzer) Bürkle was born November
(February?) 2(20?), 1744; daughter of Adam? and Eva (S?/V?Wegblin/Waibel?) Stelzer. She died March 8, 1823(?). ]
Christina, born August 24, 1746.
Died January 4, 1758?,
at
Mathias, born June
25, 1749. Died April 28, 1827,
Trillfingen.
- married Christina Keßler/Kessler, July 21, 1781, Church,
- children:
[ Mrs. Mathias (Christina Keßler/Kessler) Bürkle was born
August(April?) 14, 1761, Trillfingen; daughter of P/Thadius and Anna (Keßler)
Keßler. She died April 2, 1843, Trillfingen. ]
Dominik, born July (June?) 26, 1752. Died October 22, 1844, Trillfingen.
- married Elisabeth Stehle, January 26, 1779, Church, Trillfingen.
- children:
Veronica ( ),
Jisidor/Isidor (Monica Stelzer), Genofiva/Genevieve (Mrs.
Mathias Hahnle), infant (died in infancy),
Melchior (Johanna Horn), Joseph ( ), Julianna ((Mrs. Jacob
Bürkle), Gabriel (Helena Beck, Emmerenz Stehle), Gertrud (Mrs. Georg Higg)/Higi?, and Maria (Mrs. Ignatz Horn).
[ Dominik Bürkle was a "Meßner/Messner" (church
sacristan, sexton). ]
Fidelis, born July
14, 1755. Died
- married
- children:
M. Regina, born February 6, 1758.
Died
- married Henricus Huber?, 1780?, Church, Trillfingen? (Weildorf?)
- children:
[ Henricus Huber was born , Weildorf?, Hohenzollern, Prussia;
son of . He worked as .
He died , at . ]
Josef Nikolaus Bürkle died October 21, 1757, Trillfingen. It is not known when or where his wife
Magdelena [Stehle] died.
Dominik Bürkle, born July 26, 1752, Trillfingen, son of
Josef and Magdelena [Stehle] Bürkle, married Elisabeth
Stehle, January 26, 1779. She was born March 1, 1756, Trillfingen,
daughter of Jacob and Anna Maria [Beitter] Stehle.
Dominik and Elisabeth [Stehle] Bürkle had ten children
while living at Trillfingen:
Veronica, born January
6, 1781. Died
- married
- children:
Jisidor/Isidore, born March 30, 1782. Died February (January?) 4, 1865, at Trillfingen.
- married Monica Stelzer, March (May?) 20, 1806, Church, Trillfingen.
- children: Leo
( ), Elisabeth (Mrs. ), Joseph (died age 11),
Venanz ( ), Clara (Mrs. ), Ludovika ( ), Daniel (died age 3), boy
(died at birth), girl (died at birth), and girl (died at birth).
[ Mrs. Isidore (Monica Stelzer) Bürkle was born February 14, 1784; daughter
of Wendel and Eva (Stelzer) Stelzer. She
died February 27, 1826,
at . ]
- married Elisabeth Lohmüller, January 22, 1828, Church, Trillfingen.
- children:
Adolph ( )
(immigrated to USA
in 1851), Rud__? ( ) (immigrated to USA in 1851), and Gustav ( ) (immigrated to USA in
1851).
[ Mrs. Isidor (Elisabeth Lohmüller) Bürkle was born October 13, 1791; daughter
of Johan and Theresia (Jahem?) Lohmüller, of Höfendorf. She died ,
at . ]
Genofiva/Genevieve, born December 31, 1783. Died October 12, 1862, Trillfingen
- married Mathias Hähnle, January 23, 1809, Church, Trillfingen
- children:
Fidelis ( ),
Georg ( ), Philippina
(Mrs. ), Maria
(Mrs. ), Gregor ( ), Barbara (Mrs. Norbert Stelzer), Constantin ( ), and Engelburt (Magdelena
Heim).
[ Mathias Hähnle was born November 3, 1787; son of Johann and Maria
(Eberst) Hähnle.
Mathias was a weaver. He October 10, 1855, at . ]
infant, born November 16, 1785. Died at birth.
Melchior, born January 3 (31?), 1787. Died April 27, 1837, Trillfingen.
- married Johanna Horn, August 3, 1824, Church, Trillfingen.
- children:
Maximillian ( ),
Joseph ( ), Markus (Anna
Maria Mersch), Raphael/Ralph (Anna Maria Heinrich/Henry), Felix ( ), and Elisabeth (Mrs.Theodor
Lauter).
[ Melchior Bürkle was a "Schuster" (shoe maker).
]
[ Mrs. Melchior (Johanna Horn) Bürkle was born May (March?)
12, 1801, Trillfingen, daughter of Wendel and Elisabeth (Stelzer) Horn. Wendel Horn was a "Bauer"
(farmer). She died February 13, 1864. ]
Joseph, born July
5, 1788. Died April 19?,
1809?, at
Julianna, born February 12, 1792.
Died , , 1900, at . Burial in
- married Jacob Bürkle, August 2, 1813, Church,
Trillfingen.
- children:
Helena (Mrs. )
(immigrated to the USA
in 1854), Valentin ( ),
Brigita (Mrs. )
(immigrated to the USA),
Felizites ( ), Gabriel
( ) (immigrated to the USA in
1854), Maria (Mrs. )
(immigrated to the USA
in 1854), and Luzianna? (died age 2?).
[ Jacob Bürkle was born July 22, 1779; son of Johan and Magdelena (Eberst?) Bürkle. Jacob was a wagoner. He died May 11, 1849, at Trillfingen. ]
Gabriel, born March
25, 1794. Died August 19, 1837, at
Trillfingen.
- married Helena Beck, January 28, 1823, Church, Trillfingen.
- children:
none.
[ Mrs. Gabriel (Helena Beck) Bürkle was born August 19, 1793, at
Trillfingen, daughter of Anton and Rosina (Stehle) Beck. She died December 07, 1823, at Trillfingen. ]
- married Emmerenz Stehle, April 27, 1824, Church, Trillfingen.
- children:
Martin (died age 1 month), and Adolph (died age 4 months). [ Emmerenz
Bürkle raised her nephew Raphael after his father died in 1837. Raphael was 5 years old. ]
[ Mrs. Gabriel (Emmerenz Stehle) Bürkle was born January 10, 1794; at
Trillfingen; daughter of Martin and Magdelena (Hähnle) Stehle. Her parents and many of her siblings
immigrated to the USA in
1850, settling in a rural area north of Detroit. She died January 6 (16?), 1868, at
Trillfingen. ]
Gertrud, born March
14, 1796. Died [ emigrated to America about September 15, 1837 ]
- married Georg Hipp, July 17, 1827, Church,
Trillfingen.
- children:
Franziska Burkart (born January
29, 1816; step daughter, not daughter of Georg Hipp), Helena Rapp
(born December 11, 1823;
step daughter, not daughter of GeorgHipp), Maria Anna (Mrs. ), Adam ( ), Cecilia (twin of Adam)
(died at birth), and Maxmillian (
).
[ Georg Hipp was born April 17, 1802, at Trillfingen;
son of Johann and M. Anna (Stehle) Hipp. Georg worked as a shoemaker. He immigrated to the US about 1837. He died .
]
Maria, born September
12, 1799. Died , 1871, at .
Burial in
- married Ignaz Horn, March 21, 1822, Church, Trillfingen.
- children:
Kunigunda ( ) (came
to US in 1854), Markus (died age 6), Philipp (Rosalia Fischer), Richard (died age 21),
Melchior (died age 22), Jakob (died age 1 week), Markus (died age 22), Dominik
(died age 2 weeks), Isidor (
), Dominik (died age 1 month), and Magdelena (Mrs. ).
[ Ignaz Horn was born January 2, 1798, at
Trillfingen; son of Johann and Barbara
(Stehle) Horn.
Ignaz was a mason. He immigrated to the USA with his family in 1837. He died February 5, 1851, at . ]
Dominik Bürkle died October 22, 1844,
Trillfingen. His wife Elisabeth [Stehle] Bürkle died March 25, 1819,
Trillfingen.
Melchior Bürkle, born January 3, 1787, son of Dominikus and
Elisabeth [Stehle] Bürkle, married Johanna Horn August
3, 1824, at Trillfingen.
Horn Genealogy
Johanna Horn was born March, 1801, at Trillfingen. Her parents were Wendel and Elisabeth
[Stelzer] Horn.
[see Elisabeth Stelzer Ancestor Tree in the Appendix] Wendel Horn was born October 7, 1781. He was a "Bauer" (farmer). Elisabeth Stelzer was born September 30, 1781, Trillfingen.
Wendel Horn and Elisabeth Stelzer were married November 18, 1800, at
Trillfingen (they were related and had a dispensation to marry – “dispensati in
edo et 3 tio gradu ?gsgnttis? [or cssgnths?]”).
Wendel Horn was a "Bauer" (farmer). While living at Trillfingen, Wendel and
Elisabeth [Stelzer] Horn had eight children:
Johanna, born May (March?) 12, 1801. Died February 13, 1864, Trillfingen.
- married Melchior Bürkle, August 3, 1824, Church,
Trillfingen.
- children:
Maximillian ( ),
Joseph ( ), Markus (Anna
Maria Mersch), Raphael (Anna Maria Heinrich/Henry), Felix ( ), and Elisabeth (Mrs. Theodor
Lauter).
Maria, born November
20, 1802. Died January? 1,
1871, Trillfingen.
- married ,
February(?) , 1833
- children:
Mechtild, born April 29, 1805.
Died November 11,
1871, Trillfingen.
- married Jacob Nesle, July 4, 1848, Church,
Trillfingen.
- children: no
children?
[ Jacob Nesle was born April 29, 1820, Trillfingen; son of Dominik and ?
(Stelzer) Nesle. He died May 21, 1880, Trillfingen. ]
Elisabeth, born July 2, 1807. Died
- married
- children:
Monika, born April
28, 1809. Died February 16, 1883,
Trillfingen.
- married
- children:
Andreas (illegitimate son of Carl Widungen von Rhorburg(?), born November 27, 1831, died April 19, 1833).
Sidonia, born May
30, 1813. Died October 21, 1836,
Trillfingen.
- married
- children:
Kunigunde, born March 3, 1816.
Died January 7, 1824, Trillfingen.
Fidelis, born March
24, 1819. Died March 9, 1873, Trillfingen.
- married Anna Nesle, March 16, 1850, Church,
- children:
[ Mrs. Fidelis (Anna Nesle) Horn was born July 2, 1827, Trillfingen; daughter of Mathias
and Antonia (Horn) Nesle. She died January 23, 1893,
Trillfingen. ]
Wendel Horn died July 10, 1820, Trillfingen. His wife, Elisabeth [Stelzer] Horn died October 8, 1841,
Trillfingen.
Melchior Bürkle, born January 3, 1787, son of
Dominik and Elisabeth [Stehle] Bürkle, married Johanna Horn, daughter of Wendel and
Elisabeth [Stelzer] Horn, on August 3, 1824, at
Trillfingen.
Melchior, a
"Schuster" (shoe maker), and Johanna [Horn] Bürkle had six children
while living at Trillfingen:
Maximilian, born April 27, 1825.
Died May 19 (9?), 1847, Trillfingen.
Joseph, born June
6, 1827. Died October 4, 1854,
Trillfingen.
Markus, born April
25, 1829. Died October 13, 1910, at Stevens Point, Portage
County, Wisconsin. Burial in St.
Stephen Cemetery.
- married Anna Maria Mersch, May 30, 1865, in St. Francis
Xavier Church, Dyersville, Iowa
- children: Anna
Marie/”Annie” (Mrs. Arthur Allen Miller), Mathias Charles/”Mathew”
(Barbara Isabelle McDonald), Joseph Nicholas.
(Elenor/"Ella" Bibby), and
Genevieve/"Eva" (single).
[ Mrs. Markus (Anna Maria Mersch) Burkle was born September 26, 1844, , Luxembourg(?); daughter of Michel
and Catherine (Wantz) Mersch. They were
from Platen, Luxembourg. She emigrated at age two with her family,
leaving Antwerp, Belgium, on June 26, 1847, aboard the Belgian bark Anversois (broker: Breguigny). They arrived New York City on September 11, 1847. They first lived in Franklin,
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin;
but by 1860 they were living in Epworth, Dubuque
County, Iowa. She died January 2, 1924, Stevens
Point; burial in St.
Stephen Cemetery.
]
Raphael, born October 24, 1831.
Died June 2, 1889,
at Dyersville, Iowa.
Burial in St. Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Anna Maria Heinrich/Henry, February 5, 1854, St. Joseph Church, 108 Franklin St., Rochester,
New York.
- children:
Maria Elizabeth (died age 8), Johanna/”Hanna” (died age 6), Maria Anna
(Mrs. Henry Tegeler), Katherina
Emmerenzia/"Emma" (died age
1), Raphael/Ralph (Elizabeth
Fortmann), Joseph Ralph (Mary Klassen), Anna
Elizabeth/”Lizzie”/”Lilly” (Mrs. Christopher, Christian/”Chris” A. Klassen), and Ludwig/"Lewis" (died age 3).
[ Mrs. Raphael (Anna Maria Heinrich/Henry) was born October 9, 1830, Rineck, Baden; daughter of Michael and Eva Catherine (Reichert) Henrich. She died Aug 11, 1900, Dyersville; burial in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery.
]
Felix, born January
14, 1834. Died , at . Burial in
- married ,
, in Church,
- children:
Elisabeth, born September 9, 1836.
Died March 2, 1905,
at
- married Theodor Sauter, June (January) 27, 1863, in Church, Trillfingen.
- children:
Josephian (Mrs.
), Friedrich Wilhelm (Ludovika Straub, Bertha Haid), Maximilian (died
age 1 month?), and Johann ( ).
[ Theodor Sauter was born Febuary 24, 1836, Trillfingen; son of
Bernhard and Monika (Beuter) Sauter. Theodore was a “Bauer”, i.e., farmer. He died October 14, 1882. ]
Melchior Bürkle died April 27, 1837. His
son Raphael was only five years old.
There is a story that Raphael’s mother, Johanna, was unable to support
all her children, and placed Raphael with his widowed aunt, Emmerenz Bürkle,
living in Lichtenstein, Hohenzollern, Prussia [now Lichtenstein,
Baden-Württemberg, Germany], or living in Vienna, Austria. Aunt Emmerenz Bürkle had also lost her
husband, Gabriel, in 1837, and her two children had died in infancy. She was able to help her sister-in-law,
Johanna, by raising Raphael. She gave
him a good education including music lessons.
Raphael's mother, Johanna [Horn] Burkle, died February 12, 1864.
Raphael emigrated ("entwischen" = escaped, fled)
from Germany with his
brother Markus in 1849, arriving at New
York City aboard the barkship Highland Mary on July
2, 1849. It had sailed from London. Raphael and Markus settled in Rochester, Monroe
County, New York. Raphael worked as a carpenter in an organ
factory. On February 5, 1854, Raphael married Anna Maria
Heinrich/Henry at St. Joseph Church, Rochester.
(Anna) Maria Henrich (Heinrich/Henry) was born at Rineck, Baden
[now Rineck, Kr. Neckar-Odenwald (Mosbach), Baden-Württemberg, Germany],
on October 9, 1830. [ See Anna Maria Henry/Heinrich/Henrich Ancestor
Tree in the Appendix ] Her parents were Michael and Eva Catherine
[Reichert] Henrich. They had a least two children while living at
Rineck:
Joseph (Karl), born July 3, 1816. Died March 8, 1905 ("88 years"), at Dyersville, Iowa. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Maria Anna
Münch, May
28, 1841, in Church,
- children:
Joseph Karl ( ), Johann Martin (Anna
Catherine Evers?) ),
Maria Anna (Mrs. Nickolas Weber), and Karl/Charles ( ).
Lena (Mrs. Matthew Drasda).
Albert/”Alfred”/”Alois”
( ), and William ( ).
[ Mrs Joseph (Maria Anna Münch) Henry was born ,
at ; daughter of
. She died , 1855, Dyersville; burial is thought to have
been at New Vienna, Iowa. ]
[ After the death of Mrs. Joseph [Maria Anna Münch] Henry, the children were separated
and taken in by different families, especially the Stoeckl and Theodore Goerdt families. ]
- married Shreve, , in Church,
- children: John
( ).
[ The second Mrs. Joseph Henry (
Shreve) was born ,
at , the daughter of . She
died in childbirth on ,
at Dyersville. Burial was in the first
cemetery north of Dyersville, which was abandoned a few years later. Her body, by some oversight, was never
transferred to the new cemetery. The
first cemetery came under cultivation, and when Joseph wanted to move her
remains the exact location of her grave could not be determined. ]
- married Theresia Brockert, May 5, 1860, in Church,
- children:
Louis ( ),
Teseanna? (Mrs. ), Anna
(Mrs. ), George ( ),
Anton (Mary A. ? ), Ralph (single), August ( ), Josephine (Mrs. John Smith) ,
Anna Elizabeth (Mrs. William Hoelker, Mrs. John Connolly), Elizabeth/”Lizzie” (Mrs. N. P. Kremer), Clara (Mrs. Leonard Digman), and Bertha E. (Mrs. William Cunningham).
[ Mrs. Joseph (Theresa Borchert) Henry was born January 3, 1835, at Münster, Westphalia, Germany,
daughter of .
She came to New Vienna about 1859, and worked at the home of Father Pape’s parents until her
marriage. She died , 1897, at
Dyersville. Burial was in . ]
(Anna) Maria/Mary, born October 9, 1830. Died August 11, 1900, at Dyersville, Iowa. Burial in St.
Francis Xavier
Cemetery.
- married Raphael Bürkle, February 5, 1854, in St.
Joseph Church, 108 Franklin St., Rochester, New York.
- children: Mary
Elizabeth (died age 8), Johanna/”Hanna” (died age 6), Maria Anna (Mrs. Henry
Tegeler), Katherina Emmerenzia (died age 1), Raphael/Ralph (Elizabeth Fortmann), Joseph Ralph (Mary
Klassen), Anna Elizabeth/”Lizzie”/”Lilly” (Mrs. Christopher, Christian/”Chris” A.
Klassen), and Ludwig/”Lewis” (died age 3).
[ Raphael Bürkle was born at Trillfingen, Hohenzollern,
Prussia [now
Trillfingen-Haigerloch Zollernalbkreis (Balingen), Baden-Württemberg, Germany],
on October 24, 1831,
the son of Melchior and Johanne (Horn) Bürkle. He immigrated, with his brother Markus,
arriving at New York City aboard the Highland Mary on July 2, 1849, from London.
They then went to Rochester, Monroe County, New
York. He
worked in an organ factory. He later
moved to Dyersville, Iowa, where he worked as a carptenter,
school teacher, church organistand choir director. He later became a farmer at Worthington, Iowa. He retired to Dyersville. He died June 2, 1889, at Dyersville; burial was in St. Francis
Xavier Cemetery.
]
It is not known when or where Michael and Eva Catherine
[Reichert] Henrich, the parents of Anna
Maria Henrich/Heinrich/Henry, died.
(Anna) Maria/Mary Henrich (Heinrich/Henry) probably came to America
about 1850. She perhaps came with her older brother, Joseph, his wife and three
children. She may have stayed in New York City with Joseph’s family before they all moved
to Rochester, Monroe County, New York,
about 1853.
Maria/Mary Heinrich (Henry