26 Dec 2009

Flachsbarth Family History

Tombstone of William Flachsbarth
and Elise Kleinwort, 2005 ilhelm (William) Flachsbarth is the ancestor of his generation about whom the least information is known. William was born about 4 Nov 1840 in Germany, possibly Hannover, and may have emigrated to the United States c.1868. He apparently did not come directly to Kansas. The 1875 state census of Kansas shows that he lived in Connecticut before moving to Kansas, however, the same census in 1885 shows Canada. Either or both places could be correct at different times, so suffice it to say that he lived elsewhere in North America prior to settling in Kansas.

Kansas

Flachsbarth Daughters,
1939 By the spring of 1875, William was farming in Shannon Township, Atchison County, Kansas. He married a widow named Elise Henriette Kleinwort who brought three children from her previous marriage into their new family. William died 3 Jul 1903 due to asthma and was buried in Mt. Vernon Cemetery in Atchison, Kansas. Elise died 20 Feb 1932 and was buried with him. The couple had six children together:

1. Elizabeth Katharine "Lizzie" (1879-1945) who married Lawrence H. "Lon" Boyle.
2. Bertha Katharine (1881-1974) who married Frank Brox 1901.
3. Salome Emma (Emma S.) (1883-1955) who married Ernst Alvin Conrad "Cooney" Handke 1906.
4. Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm (Will F.) (1885-1972) who married Elizabeth A. Biddle 1909.
5. Henry Paul Christian (1887-1972) who married Ruby Jeanette Ennis 1912.
6. Wilhelmina Theodore "Minnie" (1891-1985) who first married John Henry "Harry" Berlin in 1910 and second married John C. Schwab in the mid-1930's.

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Links

• Wilhelm (William) Flachsbarth {fam group, lineage, fam hist, query?}
• Elise Kleinwort {fam group1, fam group2, lineage, fam hist}