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The Kieler · Uthe · Schumacher Heritage

Runde · Timmerman

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  • May 3, 2006. New webpage: A Great Adventurer: The Duke de Ripperda, a 1903 essay by Walter B. Harris from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. The duke, Johan Willem (John William) Ripperda and his mistress, Josefa Ramos, are great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents to my wife Deb. This essay, based largely on the 1740 Memoirs of the Duke de Ripperda, tells of his political escapades in Spain, Morocco, and other locales during the first half of the 18th century.
  • March 16, 2006. A new webpage has been added for August and Louisa (Manemann) Runde and their descendants. August and Louisa Runde are great-grandparents to my wife Deb. The webpage also includes information about August's parents, Clem and Christina (Heitkamp) Runde, and Louisa's parents, Bernard and Mary Anna (Miller) Manemann, and Louisa's grandparents, Clements and Mary Anna (Stockel) Manemann and Herman and Mary Theresa (Ripperda) Miller.
  • February 16, 2006. A new webpage has been added for Thomas and Jane (Rooney) Dunleavy and their descendants. Thomas and Jane Dunleavy are great-great-grandparents to my wife Deb.
  • Winter 2005-2006. Work continues on researching the Kieler lines, in particular the descendants of Lawrence Kieler and Elizabeth (Colligan) Kieler; Frank and Margareth (Koethe) Kieler; and George and Dorothea (Montag) Kieler. Lawrence, Frank, and George Kieler were brothers of my great-great-grandmother Barbara (Kieler) Uthe.

2005

2004

  • November 18, 2004. I've been updating the John and Christina (Loeffelholz) Uthe; John and Margaret (Brant) Uthe webpage with additonal information about them and their several children, for whom I've been locating many obituaries. John Uthe was a brother of my great-grandmother, Mathilda (Uthe) Schumacher.
  • November 18, 2004. The Joseph and Dorothea (Kieler) Richard; Joseph and Dorothea (Kieler) Richard Klaus webpage has been greatly expanded to include information about their children. Dorothea (Kieler) Richard Klaus was a sister of my great-great-grandmother, Barbara (Kieler) Uthe.
  • October 31, 2004. The John Peter and Anna Mary (Ickenroth) Winter webpage has been revised to include new information and images of their grave stone and their listing in the 1860 U.S. Census. John P. and Anna M. Winter were my great-great-grandparents, the parents of my great-grandmother, Mrs. Henry (Anna Winter) Gerken.
  • October 23, 2004. I've recently been researching the Winter · Meinhart · Huberty branch of the Winter branch of the family history. As a result, I created a separate webpage to accommodate the new information: Anna Maria Winter and George Meinhart - Anna Maria (Winter) Meinhart and Hubert Huberty. Anna (Winter) Meinhart Huberty was a first cousin of my great-grandmother Anna (Winter) Gerken, but the two Anna's were raised together in the same household as sisters as the first Anna Winter was adopted by the second Anna Winter's parents. The first Anna Winter's parents had died en route to America.
  • October 9, 2004. Obituary information for several members of the Herman and Mary Kerkhoff branch of the Gerken family have been added to the following pages:
          John and Anna (Kerkhoff) Link
          Alphonse and Susan (Grawe) Kerkhoff
          Gerhard and Rosa (Kerkhoff) Tegeler
    Mary Kerkhoff was a sister of my great-grandfather, Henry Gerken, and Anna, Alphonse, and Rosa were first cousins to my grandfather Ewald Gerken.
  • September 10, 2004. I've recently been locating and adding obituaries to the Maria Winter and Caspar Klostermann - Elizabeth Knolle and Jacob Sturm - Maria (Winter) Klostermann and Jacob Sturm webpage. The obituaries are for many of their grandchildren and spouses. Maria, or Mary, (Winter) Klostermann Sturm was a sister of my great-grandmother Anna (Winter) Gerken.
  • June 16, 2004. Obituary information for Louisa (Kieler) Schumacher was added to the Henry and Louisa (Kieler) Schumacher webpage. Louisa (or Louise) was a sister of my great-great-grandmother Barbara (Kieler) Uthe, and her husband Henry was a brother to my great-grandfather George Schumacher.
  • May 28, 2004. Obituary information for Donald Gerken, and wedding announcement information for Donald and Teresa (Gerken) McCoy, Adrian and Joan (Nemmers) Gerken, John and Mary (Gerken) Temple, William and Donna (Beresford) Gerken, and Daniel and Joyce (Murphy) Gerken have been added to the Children of Ewald and Anna (Schumacher) Gerken webpage. These are all my uncles and aunts.
  • May 13, 2004. My information on the heritage of my maternal grandmother, Anna (Schumacher) Gerken, has been revised and rearranged. There is now a contents page, The Kieler · Uthe · Schumacher Heritage, and that webpage contains the links to several branches of that family tree. All the information was previously contained on a single webpage, and so the new arrangement will hopefully make it easier for visitors to navigate through and also for return visitors to notice where the most recent revisions and additions have occurred. Again, all of my webpages have a date at the bottom indicating when the last revision occurred, and not all changes make it to this What's New? page.
  • May 6, 2004. Work continues on the Kieler, Uthe, and Schumacher Heritage, with the most recent changes being additional information on 1) Frank and Myrtle (Binhoff) Schumacher's children (Frank was my grandmother Anna Gerken's brother); 2) Additional information from newspaper articles on the 1928 tragedy of Charles Uthe, age 56, a brother of my great-grandmother Mathilda (Uthe) Schumacher, being instantly killed when he fell into the path of an oncoming train and the 1932 tragedy of a lard fire that took the lives of three people, Mrs. John (Margaret) Uthe, age 54, a sister-in-law of my great-grandmother Mathilda (Uthe) Schumacher; Mrs. Henry (Mildred) Uthe, age 26, who was Margaret's daughter-in-law, Henry being a first cousin to my grandmother Anna (Schumacher) Gerken; and Darlene Uthe, age 5, who was Henry and Mildred's daughter; 3) obituary information for John Uthe, a brother of my great-grandmother Mathilda (Uthe) Schumacher; and Harold Casey, husband of Margaret Schumacher and a brother-in-law of my grandmother Anna (Schumacher) Gerken; and Arthur Wiederhold, a first cousin of my grandmother Anna (Schumacher) Gerken.
  • April 24, 2004. Added obituary information for Ben Mormann, his son Arthur, and his daughter Evelyn and her husband Elmer Geistkemper to the Ben and Louise (Kerkhoff) Mormann webpage. Copies of the obituaries were sent by Mary Jane Lein, a granddaughter of the Mormanns.
  • April 22, 2004. Work continues on the Kieler, Uthe, and Schumacher Heritage, with the most recent changes being additional information on 1) Frank and Myrtle (Binhoff) Schumacher (he was my grandmother Anna Gerken's brother); 2) the Lawrence and Elizabeth (Colligan) Kieler branch of the family (he was my great-great-grandmother Barbara Uthe's brother); and 3) Henry Schumacher's life and death, with updates on his Civil War service and his death and funeral information (he was my great-grandfather George Schumacher's brother, and he was married to Louisa Kieler, who was my great-great-grandmother Barbara Uthe's sister).
  • April 20, 2004. Added a Ben and Louise (Kerkhoff) Mormann family photograph and replaced Ben and Louise's wedding photograph with one that included their wedding attendants on the Ben and Louise (Kerkhoff) Mormann webpage. Both photos were supplied by Mary Jane Lein, a granddaughter of the Mormanns, who has also provided additional information now included on the webpage.
  • April 9, 2004. Added a sitemap, a basic "no frills" contents page of all the webpages available at the Gerken-Larson Heritage.
  • January 25, 2004. Added two new webpages, Dyersville, Iowa, Business Directory and New Vienna, Iowa, Map and Directory, both with images, information from the 1874 Atlas of Dubuque County, Iowa. For those of you familiar with New Vienna, notice the location of the Catholic Church on the map on the latter webpage.
  • January 25, 2004. The Kieler, Uthe, and Schumacher Heritage webpage remains a work in progress as I continue to edit, amend, and add information. I've made a couple trips to the library in the last couple weeks to examine U.S. census records and newspaper articles on microfilm, and there's still much more research to be done, so this webpage promises to undergo more changes in the future. (Note that at the bottom of all my webpages there is a date indicating when the webpage was last revised, and many of these revisions do not make it onto this What's New page.)
  • January 4, 2004. I'm reorganizing the webpages I have online about Dyersville and New Vienna (histories, etc.). If you have any of the webpages saved as favorites, you'll have to find the webpages again: the new links to them are available on the Gerken Family History contents page; otherwise one wouldn't really notice the difference as the webpages themselves remain basically the same.

2003

  • December 7, 2003. Added a new webpage for a 1929 article about Kieler, Wisconsin, and the Kieler family: Founder of Kieler Gave It Name. (I previously had the information included in the Ewald and Anna (Schumacher) Gerken webpage.)
  • December 5, 2003. Added a new webpage on my Kieler, Uthe, and Schumacher Heritage. This represents an initial attempt to organize my previous research into this lineage, and is by no means complete. More changes are certain to occur in the future, and information may end up being moved to separate webpages as is warranted. My grandmother, Mrs. Ewald Gerken, née Anna Schumacher, was born to George and Mathilda (Uthe) Schumacher; Mathilda was the daughter of Frank and Barbara (Kieler) Uthe; and Barbara was the daughter of Johannes and Katharina Kieler.
  • November 19, 2003. Added obituary information for Estelle (Noethe) Kelly to the George and Margaret "Maggie" (Kerkhoff) Noethe webpage. Estelle Kelly was a daughter of George and Maggie Noethe.
  • November 17, 2003. Added funeral information for Mary Kerkhoff from a newspaper article, which was forwarded by her great-granddaughter Sheila Young, to the Herman and Mary (Gerken) Kerkhoff webpage. Mary Kerkhoff was the oldest sister of my great-grandfather Henry Gerken.
  • November 15, 2003. We are changing our internet service provider, and as a result we have a new e-mail address (which appears to the right), and I've been making the change on all the webpages. The e-mail address, however, now appears as an image, and you won't be able just to click on it to send a message anymore. Hopefully junk e-mailers will have a tougher time finding the address using this method, and it'll cut down on the voluminous junk e-mail that's been cluttering our lives every day.
  • October 31, 2003. History of the Parish at Kieler, Wisconsin, new webpage, with information and photos from the booklet prepared for the Immaculate Conception Parish centennial and dedication of new school, 1957.
  • October 25, 2003. Added a Directory of the Leading Farmers in New Wine Township from the 1906 Atlas of Dubuque County to the New Wine Township, Dubuque County, Iowa, 1906 Plat webpage.
  • October 20, 2003. New webpage includes essays about the early history of Dyersville, Iowa, and St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, also includes advertisements for Dyersville businesses, all from the 1906 Atlas of Dubuque County.
  • September 27, 2003. Added a photograph of the babes Willis and Wilfred to the Alphonse J. and Helen E. (Lais) Gerken webpage. Also made some minor revisions to that page and the Hubert and Rose (Kramer) Gerken webpage.
  • September 26, 2003. Added a photograph of Alphonse, Ewald, and Hubert Gerken to the Ewald and Anna (Schumacher) Gerken webpage. The three brothers are pictured in their World War I uniforms. I received the photo from Sally (Schumacher) Hird Pauly (a niece of the trio and first cousin to my mother) during a visit with her earlier in the day.
  • September 13, 2003.
  • September 1, 2003. Incorporated photographs previously appearing separately into the Herman and M. Catherine (Schulte) Gerken webpage.
  • August 30, 2003. Added a World War II portrait of Vernon Larson, my father, and incorporated photographs previously appearing on a separate webpage to the Vernon and Joan (Gerken) Larson webpage.
  • August 29, 2003.
    • Fellow genealogist and distant relation Tom Steichen translated the writing on the postcard that I had placed online for help in its translation. Postmarked September 6, 1913, it contained birthday greetings from Anna Gerken (my great-grandmother) to her son Ewald (my grandfather). The postcard with its translation is now located on the Henry and Anna (Winter) Gerken webpage.
    • I also added photographs of the Henry and Anna Gerken family, their home, and one of Henry Gerken with A.J. Hoefer to the Henry and Anna (Winter) Gerken webpage. These pictures were removed from a separate photograph webpage of the Gerken family in order to present them within the biographical webpage itself.
  • July 5, 2003. Added an image of the invitation to the wedding of my grandparents Oscar and Mary (Nyborg) Larson to the Vernon and Joan (Gerken) Larson webpage.
  • May 23, 2003. Added obituary information for my uncle A.J. Gerken to the Children of Ewald and Anna (Schumacher) Gerken webpage. A.J. died a week ago yesterday on May 15, 2003.
  • May 7, 2003. Added a photograph of the Noethe family to the George and Margaret "Maggie" (Kerkhoff) Noethe webpage. The photo was provided by Sheila Young, a granddaughter of theirs.
  • May 3, 2003.
    • Added a photograph of Joe and Irma Schumacher and one of Irma to the Joseph H. and Irma L. (Gerken) Schumacher webpage. The image of Joe and Irma was provided by Bruce and Theresa Keller, and the image of Irma was a postcard photo from my grandfather Ewald Gerken's collection.
    • Added a photograph of Leo Gerken to the Reverend Leo M. Gerken webpage.
    • Added a photograph of Thecla Gerken to the Clem and Thecla (Gerken) Bruggeman webpage and moved a photograph of Clem and Thecla to the same webpage from its previous placement on the William Gerken Family webpage of photographs.
  • May 2, 2003.
  • May 1, 2003.
    • Added a photograph of Herman Kerkhoff to the Herman and Mary (Gerken) Kerkhoff webpage. Herman Kerkhoff was a brother-in-law to my great-grandfather Henry Gerken.
    • Added a wedding photograph of Ben and Louise (Kerkhoff) Mormann to their webpage. Louise (Kerkhoff) Mormann was Herman and Mary (Gerken) Kerkhoff's daughter and a first cousin to my grandfather Ewald Gerken.
           Both these photographs were provided by Sheila Young, a great-granddaughter of Herman and Mary Kerkhoff.
  • March 26, 2003. Added information about Don and Rita (Bruggeman) Murray to the Clem and Thecla (Gerken) Bruggeman webpage. Thecla was a first cousin to my grandfather Ewald Gerken and Rita was Thecla's daughter.
  • March 23, 2003. New webpage contains gravestone information for the surnames Alt, Digman, Kieler, Kunkel, Lange, Manemann, Miller, Montag, Runde, Schumacher, Timmerman, Uthe, Weber, and Wiederholt in the Immaculate Conception Church Cemetery, Kieler, Wisconsin. Those surnames are of interest to both mine and my wife Deb's heritage.
  • March 14, 2003. Added a Family Tree Search webpage that contains internet search engines helpful for finding family tree information.
  • March 6, 2003. A new webpage presents Ancestral Charts for Faber and Jeanette (Timmerman) Runde, who are my wife Deb's parents.
  • February 23, 2003.
    • Added wedding day photograph of my parents, Vern and Joan (Gerken) Larson, to Vernon and Joan (Gerken) Larson. The photo includes Vern's parents and sisters.
    • Added obituary information for Richard "Dick" Westhoff to the John B. H. and Anna (Roling) Gerken webpage. John B.H. Gerken was a first cousin to my grandfather Ewald Gerken, and Dick Westhoff married to John's daughter Elizabeth "Betty."
    • Added obituary information for Mrs. Paul (Mary Elizabeth Lippert) Bruggeman to the Clem and Thecla (Gerken) Bruggeman webpage. Thecla (Gerken) Bruggmean was a first cousin to my grandfather Ewald Gerken, and Mary Elizabeth (Lippert) Bruggeman was her daughter-in-law.
  • February 22, 2003.
  • February 16, 2003.
    • Added images of memorial cards for Vern and Joan Larson, my parents, to Vernon and Joan (Gerken) Larson.
    • During the past few days, I've been adding to the Joseph and Mary Anna (Gerken) Fritz webpage. Theresa Keller, a granddaughter of Joe and Mary Fritz, and her husband Bruce have been sharing information and photographs that have contributed much to the webpage. Mary Fritz was a sister of my grandfather Ewald Gerken.
  • February 15, 2003. Added new webpages for Dominic and Anna (Kunkel) Keffeler, Paula Kunkel, and Edward and Amelia (Kunkel) Ament. Anna, Paula, and Amelia were daughters of Frank and Margaret (Gerken) Kunkel and stepdaughters of Sophia (Gerken) Kunkel. They were first cousins to my grandfather Ewald Gerken.
  • February 13, 2003.
  • Added a new webpage for Jacob "Jake" and Barbara (Kunkel) Keffeler, although the information is scant. Perhaps someone will be able to fill in the details on this family. Barbara, a daughter of Frank and Margaret (Gerken) Kunkel and stepdaughter of Sophia (Gerken) Kunkel, was a first cousin to my grandfather Ewald Gerken.
  • February 12, 2003. Added images of Ewald and Anna Gerken's memorial cards to the Ewald and Anna (Schumacher) Gerken webpage.
  • February 10, 2003. New webpage for Peter and Wilhelmina (Gerken) Winter. Wilhelmina, called Minnie," was a sister of my grandfather Ewald Gerken.
  • February 9, 2003.
  • February 8, 2003.
  • February 7, 2003.

2002

  • November 23, 2002.
  • November 20, 2002. Webpages added for Edward H. Kunkel and Margaret "Meta" (Kunkel) Beckmann. Brother and sister, they were first cousins to my grandfather, Ewald Gerken. Their mother Margaret and stepmother Sophia were sisters to Henry Gerken, my great-grandfather.
  • November 17, 2002. I've added boxes of explanation to the The Gerken Ancestry in Germany webpage for the purpose of clarifying how the people appearing on the webpage are related to Herman Gerken, my great-great-grandfather; Henry Gerken, my great-grandfather; or to myself. I've also made some other minor changes in arrangement of the information on the webpage.
  • November 14, 2002. I've been working at reorganizing the information on the Gerken family history contents webpage. Hopefully this new design makes it easier for visitors to the website to peruse and see what's available here. If you're still confused, at least I've tried.
  • November 12, 2002. Created a separate webpage for Margaret Gerken and Frank Kunkel / Sophia Gerken and Frank Kunkel. Frank Kunkel married Sophia Gerken after the death of his first wife Margaret, who was Sophia's older sister. Both Margaret and Sophia were sisters of my great-grandfather Henry Gerken. Images of Frank Kunkel and of Sophia (Gerken) Kunkel are now included; the images were furnished by Sheila Young, a great-granddaughter of Mary (Gerken) Kerkhoff, who was a sister to Margaret, Sophia, and Henry.
  • November 11, 2002. Changed the image of Elizabeth (Sudmeier) Gerken on the William Gerken and Elizabeth Sudmeier / William Gerken and Carolina Wuebbelt webpage. The new image was furnished by Sheila Young, a great-granddaughter of Mary (Gerken) Kerkhoff, who was a sister to William Gerken.
  • November 10, 2002. Added a wedding party image to the George and Margaret "Maggie" (Kerkhoff) Noethe webpage. The new image was furnished by Sheila Young, a granddaughter of George and Maggie Noethe.
  • October 6, 2002. Added obituary information for David Schumacher to the Joseph H. and Irma L. (Gerken) Schumacher webpage. David died September 14, 2002. He was a first cousin to my mother Joan (Gerken) Larson.
  • September 13, 2002.
    • Added a photograph of William A. Kunkel to his webpage. The Reverend William A. Kunkel was a son of Frank and Margaret (Gerken) Kunkel and a first cousin to my grandfather Ewald Gerken.
    • Added information about Caspar Klostermann, the first spouse of Mary Winter (a sister of my great-grandmother Anna, Mrs. Henry Gerken), and a photograph of Caspar Klostermann's grave to the Maria "Mary" Anna (Winter) Klostermann Sturm webpage. Deb, Maddy, and I drove to Luxemburg, Iowa, on August 18, 2002, to find the Caspar Klostermann grave, as well as two children who died as infants. E-mail correspondence from Helen Gaul, a relative to the Klostermanns, provided additional information.
  • August 24, 2002.
    • Added a new webpage for the Reverend William A. Kunkel, the son of Frank and Margaret (Gerken) Kunkel and a first cousin to my grandfather Ewald Gerken.
    • Added a new webpage for Anna (Kerkhoff) Link, the eldest child of Herman and Mary (Gerken) Kerkhoff. See August 17, 2002, entry below.
  • August 18, 2002. Added information from a wedding notice and a second obituary notice for Sophia (Gerken) Kunkel to the Margaret Gerken and Frank Kunkel / Sophia Gerken and Frank Kunkel webpage. Sophia was a sister to my great-grandfather Henry Gerken.
  • August 17, 2002. I created a separate webpage for Herman and Mary (Gerken) Kerkhoff. Mary (Gerken) Kerkhoff was the eldest sister of my great-grandfather Henry Gerken. I also added new webpages for four of the five Kerkhoff children: Alphonse Kerkhoff, Rosa (Kerkhoff) Tegeler, Margaret "Maggie" (Kerkhoff) Noethe, and Louise (Kerkhoff) Mormann, all were first cousins to my grandfather Ewald Gerken.
  • June 30, 2002. Added obituary information for Peggy Gerken to the Frank and Anna (Regal) Gerken webpage. A daughter-in-law of Frank and Anna Gerken, Peggy died on May 30, 2002. Her husband Jim just died last year.
  • May 19, 2002. Added an image of the first Sacred Heart Church in Dubuque, Iowa, to the biography of The Reverend Frederick William Pape, who organized the parish.
  • May 17, 2002. Added an image of the pulpit, built by John E. Gerken, at St. Wilfrid's Catholic Church, Woonsocket, South Dakota, to the Known Relatives of Herman Gerken Who Also Came to America webpage. Also corrected the year that John E. Gerken came to America.
  • May 9, 2002. New and improved images of the New Vienna postcards replace the old smaller files on the Postcards of New Vienna, Iowa webpage.
  • April 26, 2002. Added detail from 1891 plat that shows the Jacob Sturm landholdings in Jackson Township, Jackson County, Iowa, to the Mary (Winter) Klostermann Sturm webpage.
  • April 20, 2002. Added a list of proprietors to the New Vienna, Iowa, Advertisements from the Dubuque County Atlas, 1906 webpage, for search engine purposes.
  • April 14, 2002. Two new webpages are databases of landowners' names for the Dubuque County, Iowa, township of New Wine, in which the towns of New Vienna and Dyersville are located. This index is for use with images of the plats at the Dubuque County, Iowa, GenWeb Project website. The farm of Herman Gerken, Tom's great-great-grandfather, was located in New Wine Township, as well as land owned by other relatives.
  • April 9, 2002. New webpage features a 1913 plat of Jackson Township, Jackson County, Iowa. Find the Henry Sturm, John Rubel, and other farms of relations through the Mary (Winter) Klostermann Sturm branch of the family tree. (See a March 29, 2002, entry below.)
  • April 7, 2002.
    • Added information from the 1870 U.S. Census about one Mary Winter working as a domestic servant for Anna M. (Winter) Meinhart to the Maria (Winter) Klostermann and Jacob Sturm webpage. Also added obituary information for Henry and Cora (Weinschenk) Sturm. Also added an image, a detail from a 1913 plat of Jackson Township, Jackson County, Iowa, showing the Sturm homestead southwest of Springbrook.
    • Added information from an 1856 Iowa State census and additional information from the 1870 U.S. Census to the Herman and Mary Catherine (Schulte) Gerken webpage. The 1856 data has the recently arrived sister and family of Herman Gerken living in the Gerken household in New Wine Township, Dubuque County, Iowa. This information was also added to the section about Anna Marie Gerken and Michael Ostwald on the Known Relatives of Herman Gerken Who Also Came to America webpage.
  • April 5, 2002. Added a bit of information about Herman Gerken using the Combined Champion Self-Raking Reaper and Mower to the Herman and Mary Catherine (Schulte) Gerken webpage. Also added a brief introduction at the top of the page and sources at the bottom, along with other minor design changes.
  • April 4, 2002. Added information about Bob Frederick, spouse of Marian (Schumacher) Glover, to the Joseph and Irma (Gerken) Schumacher webpage.
  • March 30, 2002. During the past month I've been working on a webpage for Sister M. Ewalda, née Zita Gerken, a sister of my grandfather Ewald Gerken. Today I added another photograph of her on the webpage, one that appears to have been taken after she entered the Novitiate, receiving the habit, in 1919 but before her first profession of vows in 1921. She is standing next to some brick pillars and entryway, presumably at the convent.
  • March 29, 2002.
    • Friends of ours, Marv and Carolyn Kress, recently moved to Sioux City, and they have checked into Thecla Gerken's 1917 murder mystery for me. Unfortunately, Marv discovered that police records were burned several years ago, but Carolyn has been to the library getting articles about the murder from the Sioux City Journal. She has already sent copies of several articles, and getting them online will take some time, but I have added a picture of Thecla that appeared in the Journal at the top of the Thecla Gerken murder mystery webpage. It replaces the headstone picture, which has been moved to the bottom of the page. There's a new link at the bottom of that page that leads to a .jpg image of a 1942 Journal article that recounts the case and has a picture of the neighborhood where the murder occurs.
    • A new webpage was placed online for Maria "Mary" Anna (Winter) Klostermann Sturm (1855-1908), a sister of my great-grandmother, Mrs. Henry Gerken, née Anna Winter. Some information about her was previously part of another webpage, which Marilyn Hinkhouse, a great-granddaughter of Jacob Sturm and his first wife, Elizabeth née Knolle, came across while searching the internet. Until Marilyn contacted me, I didn't realize Jacob had been married before. She sent much information and photographs, including a great old family portrait.
  • March 27, 2002. During the previous week I added this new webpage for Joseph and Irma (Gerken) Schumacher. Joe was a brother of my grandmother Anna (Schumacher) Gerken, and Irma was a sister of my grandfather Ewald Gerken. Today I added some information from obituaries for sons-in-laws of the Schumachers.
  • March 27, 2002. I added information from Dubuque Telegraph Herald obituaries for Edward and Rita (Gerken) Kruse and Joseph Bildstein to the Frank and Anna (Regal) Gerken webpage. Frank Gerken, son of William Gerken, was a first cousin of my grandfather Ewald Gerken.
  • March 16, 2002. A photograph of F.X. and Gertrude Gerken was added to the Known Relatives of Herman Gerken Who Also Came to America webpage. Steven Boge, a great-grandson of F.X. and Gertrude, e-mailed this photo after discovering the website online while he was preparing for a trip to Germany, which was to include a stop at Hegensdorf, ancestral village of the Gerken family. F.X., often called Xavier, was a nephew of my great-great-grandfather Herman Gerken and a first cousin of my great-grandfather Henry Gerken.
  • March 10, 2002. This new webpage consists of photographs e-mailed to me by second cousin Ron Gerken, a grandson of Louis P. Gerken. Louis P. Gerken was a brother of my grandfather Ewald Gerken. Included in the pictures, among others, are Christina Gerken, Louis's wife, and George Gerken and Joe and Irma (Gerken) Schumacher, siblings of my grandparents Ewald and Anna (Schumacher) Gerken. A link to this page of photographs appears near the bottom of the Louis P. and Christina M. (Lange) Gerken webpage.

© 2002-09
Tom Larson

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