Conrad Heinrich Adolph Wehrmann
1825 - 1886
Adolph, as he seems to have been commonly known, was born in Almena, Principality of Lippe (in northwestern Germany).
At about the age of 26, he; his father; his step-mother, Wilhelmine (nee Meier); his sisters, Friederike Henriette Wehrmann and Wilhelmine Florentine Charlotte Wehrmann; and his half-sister, Dorothea Charlotte Wehrmann, emigrated from Germany. The family departed Bremen aboard the ship Rebecca and landed in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 4, 1851.
The family settled in eastern Missouri, very likely in Warren County.
On 3 February 1854 at Bistrup, Principality of Lippe, Conrad Heinrich Adolph Wehrmann and Friedericke Florentine Charlotte Höfer were married.
It is likely that the couple did not tarry long in Germany. At the time of the 1860 U.S. census, an "Adolf Werman," age 34, his wife, "Charotte" age 32, and two daughters, Wilhelmine (age 5) and Anna (age 2), both listed as born in Missouri, were living in Charette Township, in Warren County. The birth and baptism of both girls was recorded in the baptismal register of the German Evangelical Church on Charrette, located at Holstein, Missouri.
Also living in the same household were four members of the Freitag family (ages 50-14) and August & Louise "Hofer" and their son, Gustave (age 1). August "Hofer" were likely related to Adolph Wehrmann's wife.
Before the end of that decade, the Wehrmanns had moved west to Lafayette County, Missouri. They "adopted" their three year old neice, Friederiecke Charlotte Begemann, when her mother died 1868 and her father remarried within a year. The wedding of Friederiecke and Heinrich Landwehr took place at her aunt's home in February 1887.
Adolph died in Lafayette County, Missouri in 1886 and was buried in the cemetery of Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church, at Higginsville.
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Conrad Heinrich Adolph Wehrmann's family
His father's 1st marriage
His father's 2nd marriage
Friedericke Florentine Charlotte Höfer's family
Wehrmann - Höfer family
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