Eggert Family Genealogy

♂    Wilhelm Hermann Brethauer

Birth:        10 Apr 1845 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany
Baptism:      20 Apr 1845 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany
Emigration:   16 Jun 1883
Death:        28 Feb 1914 Scotia, Greeley, Nebraska, United States
Burial:       2 Mar 1914 Scotia, Greeley, Nebraska, United States
Religion:     Lutheran

Father:    Heinrich Dietrich Hermann Brethauer (*1817 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany ✝︎1880 ⊙)
Mother:    Pauline Marie Dorothe Louise Holste (*1823 Berlin, Germany ✝︎1883 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany)

Married	Marie Dorothea Louise Caroline Vogeler (*1852 Mardorf, Hannover, Germany ✝︎1926 Scotia, Greeley, Nebraska, United States)
	     5 Sep 1869 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany
Children:
    1. Heinrich Dietrich Wilhelm "David" Bredthauer (*1870 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany ✝︎1944 Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States)
    2. Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Bredthauer (*1872 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany ✝︎1877 ⊙)
    3. Hermann Dietrich Wilhelm Bredthauer (*1873 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany ✝︎1961 St. Paul, Howard, Nebraska, United States)
    4. Dorothee Caroline "Lena" Bredthauer (*1876 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany ✝︎1939 Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States)
    5. Dorothee Caroline Sophie Emma Bredthauer (*1878 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany ✝︎1880 ⊙)
    6. Wilhelm Hermann Dietrich Bredthauer (*1880 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany ✝︎1953 Scotia, Greeley, Nebraska, United States)
    7. Adolph Heinrich Dietrich "Ed" Bredthauer (*1882 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany ✝︎1964 San Diego, California, United States)
    8. August Bredthauer (*1885 Nebraska, United States ✝︎1885 Ord, Valley, Nebraska, United States)
    9. Dorothea Bredthauer (*1887 Nebraska, United States ✝︎1887 ⊙)
   10. Henry Fred Bredthauer (*1888 Ord, Valley, Nebraska, United States ✝︎1948 Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States)
   11. Albert Carl "Dick" Bredthauer (*1891 Ord, Valley, Nebraska, United States ✝︎1951 Scotia, Greeley, Nebraska, United States)
   12. Amelia W Bredthauer (*1893 Elyria, Valley, Nebraska, United States ✝︎1969 Scotia, Greeley, Nebraska, United States)
   13. Frieda Bredthauer (*1897 Nebraska, United States ✝︎1898)
Notes:
Born in Steinhude Nr. 138. Baptized as Wilhelm Hermann Brethauer, later spelled as W.H. Bredthauer. Master baker in Nr. 138 Steinhude. A short, jolly fellow, he met his wife at a dance, perhaps on Wilhelmstein, the island in the Steinhuder Meer. He came to the US on the ship Fulda (of the Norddeutsche Lloyd line), landing in New York on 16 June 1883, with his wife and four children. He came to be known as William Bredthauer. They first settled on Turtle Creek, near Elyria, Nebraska. In 1890 he bought the southwest quarter of section 30, Elyria township, Valley County. William became a naturalized citizen on 27 May 1893. Later the family moved to a farm just south of the Chalk Hills at Scotia Nebraska, with land in sections 21, 22, and 28. After they moved to 406 Greeley St., Scotia, his son, William, lived and farmed the place. The farm was occupied by Daryl Holt, a great-grandson, as of 1982. The original home place on the farm burned down and was replaced. The six youngest children, three of whom survived childhood, were born in Nebraska. He opened the Bredthauer Department Store at 110 South Main in Scotia, later operated by sons Dick and Henry, then by Dick alone. In the 1910 census he is listed as a retired farmer. In 1911, he owned land in sections 21, 22, and 28 in Greeley County. He was a member of the German Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in Scotia.

Taufpaten: Hermann Wilhelm Brethauer 5, Wilhelm Holste 59 Großenheidorn

B2, B3, B4, B6, SROBIT, BDB, MMTHOPE, and FINDAGRAVE give his birthdate as 1 Apr 1845, against the 10 Apr date from STEIN. STEIN gives his marriage date as 12 Sep 1869, against the 5 Sep 1869 date given by B2, B3, B4, B6, SROBIT, and AB795#D. B2 gives his immigration year as 1882.

Sources: B2(Page: 6), CEN1900(Michigan Township, Valley, Nebraska, ED199, Sheet 1B), CEN1910(Scotia, Greeley, Nebraska, ED128, Sheet 3B), STEIN, EFS, AB193, MARDF(Page: 2), RRS2(Page: 1, 10, 11), OA85(Page: 1, 4), VNEM(Book: 3, Page: 258), HB2(Page: 9, 10), SROBIT(1), HB4(Page: 2, 4), GNEP, B3(Page: 8), AB795(Item: D, Page: 0, 2, 3), GTA(Volume: 46), BDB(Page: 6), MARDF3(Page: 143), B4(Page: 1), GNEEH, MTHOPE, B5(Page: 1), GNEPL, GNEEH2(Page: 23), GNEOBIT2, FINDAGRAVE(ID: 91377485), CEN1885NE(Eureka, Valley, Nebraska, ED 760, Page 33C), B6(Page: 1), NYPL0(S.S. Fulda, 16 Jun 1883, p8), BLM(Accession Nr.: NE0830__.229), FSNENATI(Digital Folder: 103172582, Image: 01453), B7(Page: 1)
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Last changed: 27 Nov 2023