Fiegenbaum, Wilhelmine Louise

Female 1856 - 1937  (81 years)


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  • Name Fiegenbaum, Wilhelmine Louise 
    Born 10 Jul 1856  Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    • Wilhelmine's parents recorded in their own hands the following information about their daughter:

           Unser Kind Wilhelmine
           Luise geboren den 10
           Juli Morgan um 3 uhr 1856

      In translation:
           Our child Wilhelmine
           Luise born on the 10th of
           July at 3 o'clock in the morning 1856
    Gender Female 
    Baptism 10 Aug 1856  Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • Wilhelmine Luise's baptism is recorded in the archives of the German Evangelical Church on Charrette in Holstein, Missouri (known since 1957 as Immanuels United Church of Christ). The sponsor was Wilhelmine Wehrmann.
    Census Aug 1860  Charrette Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Confirmation 15 Apr 1870  Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    • Wilhelmine's confirmation is recorded in the archives of the German Evangelical Church on Charrette in Holstein, Missouri (known since 1957 as Immanuels United Church of Christ).
    Census Jun 1870  Charrette Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    • According to the 1870 U.S. enumeration, Louise Fiegenbaum, a 13 year old female, at home, who had attended school with the year, lived on a farm served by the Hopewell post office with Herm [sic] Fiegenbaum, a 46 year old male farmer; Florent [sic] Fiegenbaum, a 35 year old female keeping house; and six other children: Florent [sic] Fiegenbaum (female, age 15); Henry Fiegenbaum (male, age 10); Fred[erei?] Fiegenbaum (male, age 8); Anna Fiegenbaum (female, age 5); Mary Fiegenbaum (female, age 3); and Frederic Fiegenbaum (male [sic], age 1) On the basis of other information, it seems likely that this youngest child was actually Friedericke Wilhelmine Fiegenbaum, a daughter born in August 1869.
    Died 27 Dec 1937  Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 11, 12
    Buried Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13
    • Wilhelmine was buried in the cemetery of the Zion Methodist Church at Truxton, Missouri.
    Person ID I238  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 10 Apr 2016 

    Father Fiegenbaum, Hermann Heinrich,   b. 15 Apr 1823, Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jul 1898, Mayview, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Wehrmann, Wilhelmine Florentine Charlotte,   b. 7 Oct 1834, Almena, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Feb 1903, Mayview, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
    Married 18 Feb 1853  Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
    • Hermann and Florentine's marriage is recorded in the archives of the German Evangelical Church on Charrette in Holstein, Missouri (known since 1957 as Immanuels United Church of Christ). Wilhelm Steineker and Ernst Büscher were witnesses (Ernst was also a witness at the marriage of Florentine's sister, Friedricke, about one month earlier).
    Residence (family) 1863  Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [21
    • In 1863, Herman, identified as a 40 year old married farmer, was enumerated in a Civil War draft registration conducted in the Ninth Congressional District of Missouri ("7th sub-district in Warren County").
    Census (family) Jun 1870  Charrette Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    • According to the 1870 U.S. enumeration, the household served by the Hopewell post office consisted of Herm [sic] Fiegenbaum, a 46 year old male farmer, born in Prussia and a citizen of the U.S.A; Florent [sic] Fiegenbaum, female, age 35, keeping house; and seven children: Florent [sic] Fiegenbaum (female, age 15); Louise Fiegenbaum (female, age 13); Henry Fiegenbaum (male, age 10); Fred[erei?] Fiegenbaum (male, age 8); Anna Fiegenbaum (female, age 5); Mary Fiegenbaum (female, age 3); and Frederic Fiegenbaum (male [sic], age 1) On the basis of other information, it seems likely that this youngest child was actually Friedericke Wilhelmine Fiegenbaum, a daughter born in August 1869.
    Census (family) Jun 1880  Charrette Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [22
    • According to the 1880 U.S. enumeration, the household consisted of Herman Fiegenbaum, a 57 year old farmer and his wife, Florentine Fiegenbaum, age 46, keeping house, and their seven children: Henry Fiegenbaum (age 20); William Fiegenbaum (age 18); Mary Fiegenbaum (age 13), in school; Frederike Fiegenbaum (age 10), in school; Frederich Fiegenbaum (age 8), in school; August Fiegenbaum (age 4); and Martha Fiegenbaum (age 2).
    Family ID F76  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Starkebaum, Hans Hermann August,   b. 6 May 1843, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Mar 1900, Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Married 9 Mar 1877  Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [23, 24, 25, 26
    • August Starkebaum and Wilhelmine Fiegenbaum's marriage is recorded in the archives of the German Evangelical Church on Charrette in Holstein, Missouri (known since 1957 as Immanuels United Church of Christ). Wilhelmine was August's second wife. Twenty years after August died, Wilhelmine Luise married her recently deceased sister's husband, Heinrich Friedrich Christian Winter (1852-1942).
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F47  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Winter, Heinrich Friedrich Christian,   b. 29 May 1852, Lippstadt Gemeinde, Elkhorn Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Dec 1942, Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Married 20 Oct 1920  [27, 28, 29, 30

    •      Twenty years after the death of her first husband, August Starkebaum, Wilhelmine married her recently deceased sister's husband, Heinrich Friedrich Christian Winter.
           According to marriage records in Warren County, Missouri, "H. F. C. Winter," age 68, of New Truxton, Warren County, Missouri, and "Mrs. Wilhelmina Louisa Starkebaum," age 64, of Higginsville R.F.D, Lafayette County, Missouri, applied for a marriage license at Warrenton on 18 October 1920.
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F533  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - 10 Aug 1856 - Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsConfirmation - 15 Apr 1870 - Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 9 Mar 1877 - Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S33] Carolyn (Fiegenbaum) Fieker, Genealogical reseach.

    2. [S70] German language manuscript from the Hermann Heinrich and Wilhelmine Florentine Charlotta (Wehrmann) Fiegenbaum family detailing births, baptisms, deaths and burials of their children. Original in the possession of Jane M. (Fiegenbaum) Paget.
      "Unser Kind Wilhelmine / Luise geboren den 10 / Juli Morgan um 3 uhr 1856." My translation: "Our child Wilhelmine / Luise born on the 10th of / July at 3 o'clock in the morning 1856."

    3. [S35] Immanuels United Church of Christ, The History of Our Church, 1839-1989: One Hundred Fifty Years (Holstein, Missouri: Immanuels United Church of Christ, 1989), Baptism record; page 99.
      "Wilhelmina Lousia" child of "Hermann Fiegenbaum" and "Florentina Wehrmann," was born on 10 July 1856 and baptized on 10 August 1856. The sponsor was Wilhelmine Wehrmann.

    4. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), NARA microfilm M653, roll 659, page 309. Access through HeritageQuest Online July 2004.
      Herman Fiegenbaum household, 1860 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Charrette Township, page 181, enumerated 4 August 1860, dwelling 1279, family 1273, lines 13-19. Wilhelmina Fiegenbaum; age 4; female; born Missouri. The reported age would yield a birth date of 1855-1856 by calculation.

    5. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1870 U.S. census, population schedule.
      NARA microfilm 593, roll 824, image 653/page 696. Missouri, Warren County, Charrette Township, Hopewell post office, census page 38, enumerated on 18 June 1870; Herm. Fiegenbaum household, dwelling 320, family 284, lines 32-40. Access through HeritageQuest in July 2004 and Ancestry.com in July 2009.
           In the household was: 35) Fiegenbaum, Louise; age 13; female; white; born in Missouri; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth.
           By calculation from the information provided, Louise would have been born about 1856-1857. For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1870 U.S. census for this person.

    6. [S121] Alvina Mordt, Winter Family Genealogy (typescript, [about 1976-77?]), page 4.
      "...Grandfather [Henry Fredrick Christian Winter] remarried, to Mrs Minnie Fiegenbaum Starkebaum, a sister of his first wife." In a hand-written addition, Alvina notes that Minnie was born 10 July 1856.

    7. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 15.
      Wilhelmina Louisa Fiegenbaum, child of Hermann Heinrich Fiegenbaum and Florentina Wilhelmine Charlotte Wehrmann, was born on 10 July 1856 at Hopewell, Warren County, Missouri.

    8. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), NARA microfilm M653, roll 659, page 309. Access through HeritageQuest Online July 2004.
      Herman Fiegenbaum household, 1860 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Charrette Township, page 181, enumerated 4 August 1860, dwelling 1279, family 1273, lines 13-19.

    9. [S35] Immanuels United Church of Christ, The History of Our Church, 1839-1989: One Hundred Fifty Years (Holstein, Missouri: Immanuels United Church of Christ, 1989), pages 205-206.
      Confirmation record for "Wilhelmine Louise Fiegenbaum." Confirmed 15 April 1870. No birth dates entered for this class of confirmands.

    10. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1870 U.S. census, population schedule.
      NARA microfilm 593, roll 824, image 653/page 696. Missouri, Warren County, Charrette Township, Hopewell post office, census page 38, enumerated on 18 June 1870; Herm. Fiegenbaum household, dwelling 320, family 284, lines 32-40. Access through HeritageQuest in July 2004 and Ancestry.com in July 2009.
           The household consisted of: 32) Fiegenbaum, Herm [sic]; age 46; male; white; farmer; real estate value=$5,000; personal estate value =$1,5000; born in Prussia; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth; a male citizen of the U.S.A. over the age of 21. 33) Fiegenbaum, Florent [sic]; age 35; female; white; keeping house; born in Prussia; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth. 34) Fiegenbaum, Florent [sic]; age 15; female; white; at home; born in Missouri; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth; attended school within the year. 35) Fiegenbaum, Louise; age 13; female; white; at home; born in Missouri; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth; attended school within the year. 36) Fiegenbaum, Henry; age 10; male; white; at school; born in Missouri; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth; attended school within the year. 37) Fiegenbaum, Fred[erei?]; age 8; male; white; born in Missouri; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth; attended school within the year. 38) Fiegenbaum, Anna; age 5; female; white; born in Missouri; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth. 39) Fiegenbaum, Mary; age 3; female; white; born in Missouri; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth. 40) Fiegenbaum, Frederic; age 1; male [sic]; white; born in Missouri; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth.

    11. [S5] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Genealogical research.
      Died December 27 1937 in Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri.

    12. [S121] Alvina Mordt, Winter Family Genealogy (typescript, [about 1976-77?]), page 4.
      "...Grandfather [Henry Fredrick Christian Winter] remarried, to Mrs Minnie Fiegenbaum Starkebaum, a sister of his first wife." In a hand-written addition, Alvina notes that Minnie died 27 December 1937.

    13. [S121] Alvina Mordt, Winter Family Genealogy (typescript, [about 1976-77?]), page 4.
      "He [Henry Fredrick Christian Winter] and his two wives are buried in the Zion Cemetery, near Truxton, Missouri."

    14. [S5] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Genealogical research.
      Hermann Heinrich Fiegenbaum and Florentina Wilhelmine Charlotte Wehrmann; married 4 May 1853 in Holstein, Warren County, Missouri. The bride was the daughter of Adolph Wehrman and Wilhelmine Kater.

    15. [S1] Hermanda (Lagemann) Fiegenbaum, Genealogical research.
      Hermanda reports that Hermann married "Florentine Charl. Wehrmann geb. 07.10.1834 in Lippe Detmold, gest. 01.02.1903." She does not give a date.

    16. [S25] Marriage license.
      Photocopy of record of marriage license in Book A-B, Page 216 [in Warren County records?]. "State of Missouri, County of Warren: I certify that I have joined in matrimony on the 18th day of February, 1853, Mr Herman Fiegenbaum and Miss Florintine Wehrmann, both of this County and state. Given under my hand and seal this 4th day of May A.D. 1853. Recorded June 10th 1853. Jos. Riegur {seal}. Thoman J. Marshall, Recorder."
           Joseph Riegur certified two other marriages just above this entry and in both of those cases he was identified as a "German Evangel. Minister." Joseph Rieger was the Pastor of the German Evangelical Church on Charrette in Holstein, Missouri from 1847 to 1860 (the church has been known as Immanuels United Church of Christ since 1957).

    17. [S35] Immanuels United Church of Christ, The History of Our Church, 1839-1989: One Hundred Fifty Years (Holstein, Missouri: Immanuels United Church of Christ, 1989).
      Marriage record for "Hermann Fiegenbaum Jun" [sic] and "Florentina Wehrmann;" p. 245. Married 18 February 1853. Hermann is identified as coming from "Teklenburg" and Florentina as coming from Lippe Detmold. Witnesses: Wilhelm Stieneker and Ernst Büscher.

    18. [S77] Manuscript.
      Hand-written note in German among documents of the Herman and Florentine (Wehrmann) Fiegenbaum family, giving the date as "18 Februar 1853".

    19. [S87] Anna Lucille Luehrman Price and Richard Luehrman, Genealogical research, Names. Full date. County, state.

    20. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880 U.S. census, population schedule.
      NARA microfilm T9, roll 740, pages 667B and 668C. Missouri, Warren County, Western Charrette Township, Supervisor’s District 3, Enumeration District 152, census pages 2B and 3C, enumerated on 2-3 June 1880; Her. Fiegenbaum household, dwelling 17, family 18, lines 48-50 and 1-6. Access through HeritageQuest and Ancestry.com in 2004, 2009, and 2012.
           In the household was: 48) Fiegenbaum, Her; white; male; age 57; married; and, Fiegenbaum, Florentine; white; female; age 46; wife; married.
           For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1880 U.S. census for these individuals.

    21. [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865. "Homan Figgenbaum".
      Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Accessed on 18 April 2011. Original data: Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registrations, 1863-1865. NM-65, entry 172, 620 volumes. Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau (Civil War), Record Group 110. ARC Identifies: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 1 of 1. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
           9th Congressional District, Missouri; 7th sub-district in Warren County - all persons subject to military duty; [enumerated in June 1863?]; W. F. Switzler, Provost Marshal. Line 32 [number 316]: Herman Figgenbaum [sic] [not "Homan" as reported in the Ancestry.com index]; resident of Holstein; age 40 (on 1 July 1863); white; farmer; [marital status not recorded]; born in German.

    22. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880 U.S. census, population schedule.
      NARA microfilm T9, roll 740, pages 667B and 668C. Missouri, Warren County, Western Charrette Township, Supervisor’s District 3, Enumeration District 152, census pages 2B and 3C, enumerated on 2-3 June 1880; Her. Fiegenbaum household, dwelling 17, family 18, lines 48-50 and 1-6. Access through HeritageQuest and Ancestry.com in 2004, 2009, and 2012.
           The household consisted of: 48) Fiegenbaum, Her; white; male; age 57; married; farmer; born in Prussia; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia. 49) Fiegenbaum, Florentine; white; female; age 46; wife; married; keeping house; born in Prussia; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia. 50) Fiegenbaum, Henry; white; male; age 20; son; single; laborer; born in Missouri; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia. 1) Fiegenbaum, William; white; male; age 18; son; single; laborer; born in Missouri; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia. 2) Fiegenbaum, Mary; white; female; age 13; daughter; single; attended school in the census year; born in Missouri; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia. 3) Fiegenbaum, Frederike; white; female; age 10; daughter; single; attended school in the census year; born in Missouri; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia. 4) Fiegenbaum, Frederich; white; male; age 8; son; single; attended school in the census year; born in Missouri; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia. 5) Fiegenbaum, August; white; male; age 4; son; single; born in Missouri; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia. 6) Fiegenbaum, Martha; white; female; age 2; daughter; single; born in Missouri; father born in Prussia; mother born in Prussia.

    23. [S33] Carolyn (Fiegenbaum) Fieker, Genealogical reseach.
      Name of husband and wife. Full date. City and state.

    24. [S35] Immanuels United Church of Christ, The History of Our Church, 1839-1989: One Hundred Fifty Years (Holstein, Missouri: Immanuels United Church of Christ, 1989), page 253.
      Marriage record for "August Starkebaum" and "Wilhelmine Fiegenbaum." Married 9 March 1877. Witnesses recorded as "parents and relatives of couple."

    25. [S54] Curtis and Alice (McNeer) Starkebaum, Genealogical descendancy charts of the Starkebaum family (1984 and 1989).
      Hans Herman August Starkebaum and Wilhelmina Louisa Fiegenbaum were married 9 March 1877. No place given.

    26. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 15.
      August Starkebaum and Wilhelmina Louisa Fiegenbaum were married on 9 March 1877 at Holstein, Warren County, Missouri.

    27. [S54] Curtis and Alice (McNeer) Starkebaum, Genealogical descendancy charts of the Starkebaum family (1984 and 1989).

    28. [S121] Alvina Mordt, Winter Family Genealogy (typescript, [about 1976-77?]), page 4.
      "In October, 1920, Grandfather [Henry Fredrick Christian Winter] remarried, to Mrs Minnie Fiegenbaum Starkebaum, a sister of his first wife. They left the farm and made their home in Truxton, Missouri, until the death of his second wife, in December, 1937."

    29. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 15.
      Heinrich Friedrich Christian Winter and Wilhelmina Louisa Fiegenbaum were married on 20 October 1920. No place given.

    30. [S181] Ancestry.com (library edition), Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 (https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1171 in November 2017), Accessed in January 2011.
      Warren County marriage records for 1920. Original data from microfilm records at the Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
           An application for license to marry (number 941, page 473) filed on 18 October 1920 for H. F. C. Winter, of New Truxton, Warren County, Missouri, age 68, and Mrs. Wilhelmina Louisa Starkebaum, of Higginsville R.F.D, Lafayette County, Missouri, age 64.