I’ve really just begun research on the Zimmerman side of my family. The eldest son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Schnelbach) Zimmerman is my Great-Great Grandfather. While doing some research of their family with my new membership to Ancestry.com, I discovered what looks to be a newspaper article that includes a picture of the couple....
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Johannes Adam Pfeifer, Jr. or Adam J. Pfeifer as he was known by was my Great Great Grandfather. Son of Johannes Adam Pfeifer Sr. and husband to Cecilia Rupp, he was born in Russia and immigrated with his parents to Kansas as part of the Volga River German migration. Here’s a timeline I’ve put...
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On the 12th of September 1878, the Pfeifers first arrived in the United States after sailing out of Bremen, Germany. Originating in the Volga River valley of Russia, they arrived in the port of New York, New York State aboard the ship Leipzig, with their final destination listed as Kansas. My 3rd Great Grandfather...
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Jacob Heindselman is my 3rd Great Grandfather. His daughter Mary Catherine Francis Heindselman married my 2nd Great Grandfather William N. Ingram in Great Bend, Kansas in 1879. This is the record of his family, as complete as it was the date of this post: Jacob Heindselman Birth – 25 Dec 1829, Germany Death –...
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I found these wonderful pictures that were sent to me by Rita Stoess, who visited Olney, Illinois and was shown these grave sites by Virgil Heindselman. Caleb and Catherine were my 4th Great-Grandparents through their son Jacob Heindselman (1829-1879) who married Frances Clem (1837/38-1922). Caleb Heindselman Birth – 1800, Bader, Germany Death – 1875,...
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