Heinrich Friederich L. Starkebaum
Heinrich Friederich L. Starkebaum was born on 1 July 1838 at Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe (often called Lippe Detmold), the sixth child of Heinrich Hermann Starkebaum and Elisabeth Ridder.
Identified on the passenger list as "Henr. Sarkebaum," he travelled in the company of his brother, Hans Hermann August on the Hansa from Bremen to New York, arriving on 30 October 1867.
He and Johanne Henrietta Luise Riechers were married in Warren County, Missouri on 19 January 1870. Four children were born to them in Warren County.
Heinrich and Henrietta Starkebaum are listed as one of two new families joining Salem Evangelical Church in Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri in the minutes of the church meeting for 14 February 1879. Six more children were born in Lafayette County.
According to his obituary, "Henry Fred Starkebaum" ...came to Higginsville and located on the farm on which he died, four miles southwest of town "while at the table eating supper, at 5 o'clock, from paralysis of the brain, at the age of 84 years, 6 months and 20 days."
He was buried in Salem Evangelical Church cemetery at Higginsville, Missouri.
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