Eggert Family Genealogy

♀    Caroline Dorothee Kohlmeier

Birth:        19 Aug 1822 Evesen, Petzen, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany
Baptism:      26 Aug 1822 Petzen, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany
Residence:    1853 Bückeburg, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany
Residence:    from 1853 to 1860 Franzosenbusch, Cook, Illinois, United States
Residence:    1860 Eitzen, Houston, Minnesota, United States
Residence:    from 1872 to 1885 near Lyons, Burt, Nebraska, United States
Residence:    from 1885 to 1887 Ellinwood, Barton, Kansas, United States
Residence:    from 1887 to 1892 near Lyons, Burt, Nebraska, United States
Emigration:   20 Apr 1853
Death:        30 Nov 1892 near Lyons, Burt, Nebraska, United States, age listed as 70y 3m 10d
Burial:       1 Dec 1892 near Lyons, Burt, Nebraska, United States
Religion:     Lutheran

Father:    Johann Heinrich Kohlmeyer (~1784 Evesen, Petzen, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany ✝︎1852 Röcke, Petzen, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany)
Mother:    Cathrina Margretha Strübing (*1791 Barksen, Kleinenbremen, Westfalen, Germany ✝︎1867 Eitzen, Houston, Minnesota, United States)

Married	Carl Ludwig Spannuth (*1825 Hespe, Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany ✝︎1864 Jefferson Barracks, Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri, United States)
	     10 Apr 1853 Bückeburg, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany
Children:
    1. Caroline Maria Dorothea Gertrud " Spannuth (*1854 Franzosenbusch, Cook, Illinois, United States ✝︎1886 Ellinwood, Barton, Kansas, United States)
    2. Carl Heinrich Friedrich "Fred" Spannuth (*1856 Franzosenbusch, Cook, Illinois, United States ✝︎1943 Conner, Ravalli, Montana, United States)
    3. Margarethe Henriette Anna "Anna" Spannuth (*1858 Franzosenbusch, Cook, Illinois, United States ✝︎1936 Seattle, King, Washington, United States)
    4. Maria Sophia Christina Spannuth (*1860 Franzosenbusch, Cook, Illinois, United States ✝︎1888 near Lyons, Burt, Nebraska, United States)
    5. Carl Heinrich Spannuth, Rev (*1862 Wilmington, Houston, Minnesota, United States ✝︎1939 Centralia, Lewis, Washington, United States)
    6. Heinrich Ludwig Friedrich Spannuth, Rev (*1863 Portland Prairie, Houston, Minnesota, United States ✝︎>1902)
Notes:
Caroline worked as a maidservant for a painter named Hofmeier in Bückeburg. She emigrated to America with her new husband immediately after marriage. After the death of her husband in the Civil War, she stayed on the farm near Eitzen Minnesota for a year and a half, buying 40 acres in 1865 from William and Henrietta Mussmann for $275, deed dated 4 Apr 1865. She tried to find work in Chicago but failed, so she returned to Minnesota and bought from the Mussmanns another 40 acres next to her land for $1,400, deed dated 6 Aug 1867, renting out all but 16 acres. This property was in the extreme southwestern corner of Winnebago township, put together the west half of the southwest quarter of section 31, right on the Iowa state line. She was a founding member of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Eitzen, Minnesota in 1871. She sold her farm of 80 acres to John Deters for $2,500, deed recorded 29 Oct 1872, and moved to Nebraska, arriving on 10 May 1872 with relatives, where she bought another farm from Mr. Geisler just east of the Eggert farm. In the spring of 1885, she moved to Ellinwood Kansas with two of her daughters and their families, and returned to Nebraska in the spring of 1887. She suffered from asthma.

Taufpatin: Dorothee Kuhlmanns aus Evesen.

SP.47 gives her birthday as 18 Aug 1822, but this is certainly in error. EE.1 and SFR.1 give the same date, but probably copied the error from SP.47. In her baptismal record, her father is listed as Friedrich Wilhelm Kohlmeier.

LYONSLVS says she died Tuesday night (29-30 Nov 1892).

Sources: PETZ(~1822#26), PETZ2(~1822#26), CEN1860(Proviso, Cook, Illinois), CEN1880(Oakland, Burt, Nebraska, ED41, Page 13, Sheet 339A), EE(Page: 1), SCHA(Page: 107, ID: 1475), SP(Page: 47), FYH(Page: 4, 21), SFR(Page: 1), RIM, RIM2, JP(Item: I, Page: 1–2), ASR(Dates: 19 Aug 1880–1885, 1887–1889, 1891, 1892, 30 Nov 1892, 1894, 1895, 1 Dec 1892), GTA(Volume: 5, Page: 42), LYONSM, LYONSLVS, HCOH(Page: 54), STAB(Signatur: L3 Ua Nr. 4h S.3-6), KOHL, PETZ2, KOHL4, EE4, CEN1885NE(Oakland, Burt, Nebraska, ED 96, Page 26B), REW20(Page: 27, 43), SPAN7, KOHL28, HESP2(Page: 77), CEN1865MN(Winnebago, Houston, Minnesota, Image 3), EITZEN3, SDGCEM, CIVPI1883, CEN1883NE(Burt, Nebraska, Page: 717), FINDAGRAVE(ID: 47804659), AFSL(Page: 87), AFSL(Page: 80), PRF(CD: 42, PIN: 464969, Submission: MM9R-8HN), NYPL0(Ella, 3 Jun 1853), HCOAD(Book: X, Page: 397, Date: 4 Apr 1865), HCOAD(Book: 1, Page: 520, Date: 6 Aug 1867), HCOAD(Book: 10, Page: 58, Date: 29 Oct 1872)
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