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  • Name Wellemeyer, Edward Mathew 
    Born 16 Nov 1860  Wapello Township, Louisa County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    Moved To 1876  Garner, Hancock County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Died 23 Feb 1931  Washington, Washington County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6, 7, 8] 

    •      The following transcriptions were supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts.

      Garner Signal; 25 February 1931

      Word was received in Garner Tuesday that E. M. Wellemeyer had passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Foster Bickel, at Washington, Iowa, Monday night, 23 February at nine o'clock. One of the first days of February Mr. and Mrs. Wellemeyer left Garner for Iowa City, where Mr. Wellemeyer hoped to receive relief from a combination of ailments from which he had suffered for several years. However, the Iowa City specialists held out no hope for him, but appeared to be of the opinion that his trouble was of a nature that was not liable to prove fatal for some time at least. Iowa City is but 30 miles from Washington, so Mr. and Mrs. Wellemeyer went to the home of the daughter for a visit. His condition grew worse and the end came as we have previously stated, Monday evening of this week. News of his death was brought to Garner in a message from Mrs. Wellemeyer to Mrs. J. E. Fraser, an old time friend of the family. Data from which to prepare a biographical sketch is not available at this time, nor is there a person in Garner from whom correct dates, etc., could be obtained. For this reason approximate dates will need be used, and these gathered from memory of those of our people who have known Mr. Wellemeyer for a long, long time. E. M. Wellemeyer was 71 years of age. He was born in Wapello, Iowa in 1860. The arrival in Hancock County of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Wellemeyer and family dates back all of 60 years. The old Wellemeyer homestead where a family of nine children were raised is the property now owned by C. U. Smith in southeast Garner. In this home there were six sons and three daughters. Six of these children, along with the parents, have passed to the great beyond. The living members of the family are: George L. of Corning, Iowa; Charles of Wichita, Kansas; and Mrs. George Addicks of Warrenton, Missouri. Many years ago E. M. Wellemeyer and Miss Amelia Haefner were married. To this union two children were born: Mrs. Viola Bickell of Washington, Iowa at whose house Mr. Wellemeyer died, and Elmer D. Wellemeyer of St. Rose, Louisana. In his younger days, when health and vigor were his, E. M. Wellemeyer was a moving spirit in the affairs of Garner and vicinity. Ed was interested in everything that meant a bigger, better Garner -- a better place in which to live. Arthur Wellemeyer of Klemme, a nephew of the deceased, went to Washington Monday night and took charge of the funeral arrangements. From him we learn that the body will arrive in Garner today and that funeral services will be held at the Methodist Church tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at two o'clock. Interment will be at Concord Cemetery.


      Garner, March 11, 1931

      In the death notice of our townsman, E. M. Wellemeyer, published in last week's issue of the Garner Leader, we mentioned the fact that authentic data from which to prepare a complete biographical sketch was not available. Since that time, however, all necessary information has been obtained, and is published here. There will be some repetition of what was said last week, but we wish to make this story as complete as possible. Edward Mathew Wellemeyer was born at Wapello, Iowa on 16 November 1860. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. Foster Bickell, Washington, Iowa 23 February 1931 having attained the age of 71 years. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Wellemeyer. His boyhood days were spent on the home farm near Wapello, Louisa County. In 1876, at the age of 16, he moved with his parents to Garner. He was enrolled in Garner's first public school and completed his education here. At the age of 20 he united with Grace Methodist Church, transferring his membership to First Methodist Church with the consolidation of the two church bodies, seven years ago. He has been a member of the Methodist Church for more than half a century. For the past 34 years he has been on the official board having been appointed to that place upon the death of his father who had served in a like capacity since the erection of Garner's first Methodist Episcopal Church. June 27, 1889, he was united in marriage to Miss Amelia Haefner of Giard, Iowa. He and his bride took up housekeeping in a home which he had previously built. This was on the farm a short distance west of Garner now known as a J. N. Sprole farm and tenanted by Floyd Franklin. Into this home two children were born, Viola and Elmer. During his younger years, Mr. Wellemeyer was one of this community's most active farmers. Later he served Garner as dairyman. In more recent years, he has been engaged in such activities as his health would permit. Last fall a gradual decline in health overtook him; his ailment failed to respond to medical attention, so about four weeks ago he was taken to a hospital at Iowa City where his trouble was diagnosed as paralysis agitars, a paralytic condition of the nerves. After the trip through the clinic, he was taken to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Foster Bickell at Washington. For a short time he appeared to improve but an unexpected sharp change for the worse set in and he passed away. He leaves to mourn his death his wife; his daughter Mrs. Bickell; his son, Elmer H. Wellemeyer of St. Rose, Louisiana; three grandchildren: Verna Bickell; Marilyn and William Wellemeyer; a sister Mrs. Mary Addicks of Warrentown [sic], Missouri; two brothers George of Humiston, Iowa and Charles of Wichita, Kansas, as well as a host of relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by two sisters Lizette Minden and Amelia Neuman; and three brothers Rev. Frank H., William and H. Fred Wellemeyer.
    Buried 26 Feb 1931  Garner, Hancock County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 9] 
    • He was buried in Concord Cemetery.
    Person ID I278  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 2 Jan 2017 

    Father Wellemeyer, Henry Frank,   b. 15 Dec 1822, Kingdom of Hannover Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Aug 1899, Garner, Hancock County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Fiegenbaum, Christine Elisabeth,   b. 25 Oct 1827, Lengerich, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Feb 1918, Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Residence (family) Between 1847 and 1850  Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Married 22 Aug 1847  St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 11, 12, 13, 14] 

    •      Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts provided the following transcription of an article which she reports appeared on 26 August 1897 in the Hancock County (Iowa) Democrat.

           Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Wellemeyer of this place celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage last Saturday, 21 August. A large number of relatives and friends graced the happy occasion showing their congratulations and good wishes together with more substantial tokens of their regard upon the worthy old couple. At about half-past four o'clock the guests were called in to partake of an old fashioned wedding dinner with their host and hostess. About ninety persons partook of the bounteous repast prepared. After dinner while the friends were gathered on the lawn around father and mother Wellemeyer, a short address was made by Rev. F. H. Wellemeyer, another by Mr. August Beinke of St. Louis, Missouri, which was followed by the reading of a short poem by C. L. Wellemeyer. After the short impromptu program the whole company led by the children again filed past the old people with hearty and heart felt congratulations. It was a very affective scene and one never to be forgotten. Tears flowed on every side, but they were tears of joy. When the invited guests had taken their departure, the children and grandchildren gathered in the pleasant sitting room and closed the day with songs and speeches and happy converse. All in all a most enjoyable occasion. Gifts were as follows: $50 in gold, Mr. and Mrs. Beinke; $50 in gold from the children; $2 in gold each from Rev. and Mrs. C. Schuler, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Schneider and Mr. and Mrs. John Ulrich; $1 in gold each from Mr. and Mrs. Louis Able, Mr. and Mrs. A. Schneider, Rev. and Mrs. H. R. Fiegenbaum and Rev. and Mrs. Fiegenbaum. One dozen gold coffee spoons in a handsome case from Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Lauf; two gold tablespoons from Mr. and Mrs. H. Woestman; gold crescent pin from Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gove; chased silver cup and saucer from Mr. and Mrs. William Schneider, two gilded china cups each from Mr. and Mrs. August Grunze and Rev. and Mrs. A. Haefner; one gold salad fork from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schroeder; bread plate from Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wells and a dinner set in china and glass from the grandchildren.
    Residence (family) Between 1850 and 1875  Wapello Township, Louisa County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [15] 
    Residence (family) From 1875 to 1899  Concord Township, Hancock County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [16] 

    •      According to a passage from an obituary for Heinrich Frederick Wellemeyer:

      The rich and cheap lands of northern Iowa induced Mr. Wellemeyer to sell his Louisa County farm and buy several hundred acres of Hancock County prairie. On 4 December 1875 he moved with his family to this county and built their permanent home in Seymour's addition to Concord where they have since resided.
    Family ID F99  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Haefner, Amelia H.,   b. 24 May 1864, Giard, Clayton County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Oct 1950, Washington, Washington County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years) 
    Married 27 Jun 1889  Giard, Clayton County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [17, 18, 19, 20] 
    Children 
    +1. Wellemeyer, Agnes Viola,   b. 29 Aug 1890, Hancock County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    +2. Wellemeyer, Elmer Haefner,   b. 25 Mar 1895, Hancock County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 May 1963, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F1874  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 29, 68-69.
      Edward Matthew Wellemeyer, child of Henry Frank Wellemeyer and Christine Elisabeth Fiegenbaum, was born on 16 November 1860 at Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa.

    2. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 69.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Edward Matthew Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 11 March 1931. Although Gretchen did not identify the exact source of the obituary, it appears to have been published in the Garner Leader, of Garner, Iowa.
           "Edward Mathew Wellemeyer was born at Wapello, Iowa on 16 November 1860....He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Wellemeyer. His boyhood days were spent on the home farm near Wapello, Louisa County."

    3. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 68-69.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Edward Matthew Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 25 February 1931 in the Garner Signal.
           "He was born in Wapello, Iowa in 1860. The arrival in Hancock County of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Wellemeyer and family dates back all of 60 years. The old Wellemeyer homestead where a family of nine children were raised is the property now owned by C. U. Smith in southeast Garner. In this home there were six sons and three daughters. Six of these children, along with the parents, have passed to the great beyond."

    4. [S113] Web site, IAGenWeb Project. Burial Index for all Hancock County Cemeteries. Submitted by the Hancock County Genealogical Society, 1986.
      Accessed March 2010. (http://iagenweb.org/hancock/Cemeteries/burialindex.html). Burial Index - W (http://iagenweb.org/hancock/Cemeteries/bi_w.html).
           Wellemeyer, Edward M; born: 1860; died: 1931; cemetery: Concord.

    5. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 69.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Edward Matthew Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 11 March 1931. Although Gretchen did not identify the exact source of the obituary, it appears to have been published in the Garner Leader, of Garner, Iowa.
           "In 1876, at the age of 16, he moved with his parents to Garner. He was enrolled in Garner's first public school and completed his education here."

    6. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 29, 68-69.
      Edward Matthew Wellemeyer died on 23 February 1931 at Washington, Washington County, Iowa.

    7. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 69.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Edward Matthew Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 11 March 1931. Although Gretchen did not identify the exact source of the obituary, it appears to have been published in the Garner Leader, of Garner, Iowa.
           "He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. Foster Bickell, Washington, Iowa 23 February 1931 having attained the age of 71 years."

    8. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 68-69.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Edward Matthew Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 25 February 1931 in the Garner Signal.
           "Word was received in Garner Tuesday that E. M. Wellemeyer had passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Foster Bickel, at Washington, Iowa, Monday night, 23 February at nine o'clock."

    9. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 68-69.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Edward Matthew Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 25 February 1931 in the Garner Signal.
           "Arthur Wellemeyer of Klemme, a nephew of the deceased, went to Washington Monday night and took charge of the funeral arrangements. From him we learn that the body will arrive in Garner today and that funeral services will be held at the Methodist Church tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at two o'clock. Interment will be at Concord Cemetery."

    10. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 26-27.
      Transcription of an obituary reported to have appeared in the Garner Signal, of Garner, Iowa, on Wednesday 16 August 1899.
           Henry Frank Wellemeyer "emigrated to the United States in 1845 and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. Here he married Miss Catherine Fiegenbaum, 22 August 1847 and moved to Warrentown, Missouri where they resided for nearly three years."

    11. [S119] Harriet L. Fiegenbaum and Judith L. (Fiegenbaum) Miller, Genealogical research.
      Rev. Wellmeier and (Catherine) Christine Elisabeth Fiegenbaum; married 1905 [sic].

    12. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 24.
      Henry Frank Wellemeyer and Catherine Elisabeth Fiegenbaum were married 22 August 1847 at St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri.

    13. [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
      Original data from: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, Missouri: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm.
           Henry "Wellemeir" and Catherine Fiegenbaum were married in St. Louis, Missouri on 22 August 1847.

    14. [S113] Web site, "Julius Neumann-Amelia Catherine Wellemeyer Family Group Descendant Tree.".
      (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~drpatek/gp401.htm). D. R. Patek Family Ancestors - Rushton, Todd, Black, Neumann. 12 August 2010. Accessed 12 October 2012.
           Henry F. Wellemeyer and Katherine Elizabeth Fiegenbaum were married in 1847. No place given.

    15. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 26-27.
      Transcription of an obituary reported to have appeared in the Garner Signal, of Garner, Iowa, on Wednesday 16 August 1899.
           "Mr. and Mrs. Wellemeyer could not reconcile the institution of slavery, which then prevailed in Missouri. With their love of personal liberty, they moved to Louisa County near Wapello, Iowa, where they resided until 1875."

    16. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 26-27.
      Transcription of an obituary for "Henry Frank Wellemeyer" reported to have appeared in the Garner Signal, of Garner, Iowa, on Wednesday, 16 August 1899.

    17. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 68.
      Edward Matthew Wellemeyer and Amelia H. Haefner were married on 27 June 1889 at Giard, Clayton County, Iowa.

    18. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 69.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Amelia (Haefner) Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 25 October 1950 in the Garner Leader [of Garner, Iowa].
           "She was married to Edward M. Wellemeyer 27 June 1889. The first years of their married life they lived on a farm west of Garner, later moving to Garner where they resided until the death of her husband in 1931."

    19. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 69.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Edward Matthew Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 11 March 1931. Although Gretchen did not identify the exact source of the obituary, it appears to have been published in the Garner Leader, of Garner, Iowa.
           "June 27, 1889, he was united in marriage to Miss Amelia Haefner of Giard, Iowa. He and his bride took up housekeeping in a home which he had previously built. This was on the farm a short distance west of Garner now known as a J. N. Sprole farm and tenanted by Floyd Franklin. Into this home two children were born, Viola and Elmer."

    20. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 68-69.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Edward Matthew Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 25 February 1931 in the Garner Signal.
           "Many years ago E. M. Wellemeyer and Miss Amelia Haefner were married. To this union two children were born: Mrs. Viola Bickell of Washington, Iowa at whose house Mr. Wellemeyer died, and Elmer D. Wellemeyer of St. Rose, Louisana."


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