The Zimmermann
Headstone in Sumner Township Kankakee
County, Illinois
The "Thuringa" the ship the family came over on in 30 April 1874,
docked in New York.
Friedrich
Zimmermann
7 November
1821- 2 May 1907
Little is know about Freidrich from
his birth to his marriage
to Johannes
Freidericke Albertine Stimm 22 March 1846.
According to the Church in Schönfeld,
on Friedrich's marriage record,
his father name is Carl
Freidrich Zimmermann from Züsedom.
His
occupation was an Arbeitmann. That's
the German name for worker.
Freidrich and Johanne had eight children,
Wilhelmine, Carl, Wilhelm,
Wilhemine Caroline, Auguste Karoline,
Caroloine, August, Freiderike.
On 15 April 1874 Fredrich left Hamburg,
Germany on board the ship "Thuringa"
arriving in Harve, France
18 April 1974 and
finally arriving in New York
30 April 1874. On board with him, his Johanne, Wilhelm,
August, Auguste,
Freiderike. From 1874 to 1880 I have no record of Freidrich. He shows up in
the 1880 census
living with son Carl in Sumner Township
Kankakee County, Illinois. He farmed with his son Carl until his death
2 May 1907. He is buried in the family
plot in Heusing Cemetery in Sumner
Township.
Freidrich
