Mordt, Louis Henry

Male 1910 - 2004  (93 years)


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  • Name Mordt, Louis Henry 
    Born 17 Jul 1910  Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    • He and his ten siblings were born on the family farm in Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, not far from Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri.
    Gender Male 
    Census Jan 1920  Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Census Apr 1930  Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Died 8 Jan 2004  Sun City, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 11, 12, 13
    Person ID I2841  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 4 Dec 2010 

    Father Mordt, Heinrich Friedrich Adolph,   b. 28 Nov 1868, Stemmen, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Oct 1952  (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Winter, Meta Christina,   b. 15 Mar 1884, Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Nov 1960, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Married 29 Nov 1906  Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

    •      According to their application for a marriage license and the marriage license, Henry A. Mordt, age 37, of Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri, and Meta C. Winter, age 22, of Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri, were married at Truxton by Rev. L. H. H. Winter. Rev. Winter was almost certainly Meta's elder brother, Louis Heinrich Hermann Winter, a pastor in the German Methodist Episcopal Church.
           In 1908, Rev. Winter would also officiate at the marriage of Meta's younger sister, Alma F. Winter and Herman A. Luelf.
           Following their marriage, Henry and Meta lived together on a farm in Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, not far from Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri. All of their eleven children were born at this home.
    Family ID F527  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Lansche, Nell Mae,   b. 10 Apr 1914, Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Dec 1988, Troy, Lincoln County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years) 
    Married 4 Apr 1934  Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [22, 23
    Children 
    +1. Mordt, Darryl Louis
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F1990  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Rupert, Caroline Ann 
    Married Y  [24
    • Details of the marriage are not known at this time.
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F2316  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S33] Carolyn (Fiegenbaum) Fieker, Genealogical reseach.
      Louis Mordt, son of Henry Mordt and Meta Christina Winter; born 10 July 1910.

    2. [S121] Alvina Mordt, Winter Family Genealogy (typescript, [about 1976-77?]), page 18.
      Louis Mordt, son of Henry Mordt and Meta Christina Winter; born 10 (corrected by hand to read 17) July 1910. No place explicitly cited; all of Henry and Meta's eleven children "were born on the home place."

    3. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1920 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T625, roll 966, page 5A. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1920 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 9, Enumeration District 187, sheet 5 A, enumerated 14 & 15 January 1920, dwelling 98, family 98, lines 19-26. Louis H. Mordt; son; age 9; single; born in Missouri. The reported age would yield a birth date of 1910-1911 by calculation.

    4. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1930 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T626, roll 1249, page 1B. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1930 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 110-2, sheet 1B, enumerated 3 April 1930, dwelling 16, family 16, lines 68-78. Louis H. Mordt; son; age 19; single; born in Missouri. The reported age would yield a birth date of 1910-1911 by calculation.

    5. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 103, 140-141.
      Lewis Henry Mordt, child of Henry Friedrich Adolph Mordt and Meta Christina Winter, was born on 17 July 1910 at Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri.

    6. [S104] Personal communication, From Emily Wilson to J. Mark Fiegenbaum in May 2005.
      Data from a GEDCOM file based on Emily's genealogical research.
           Louis Henry Mordt, son of Heinrich Friedrich Adolph Mordt and Meta Christine Winter, was born on 17 July 1910 at Camp Branch, Warren County, Missouri.

    7. [S232] Rootsweb.com, Social Security Death Index.
      Accessed on 3 December 2010. Original data from: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File.
           Louis H. Mordt, born on 17 July 1910, died on 8 January 2004 at the age of 93 years. He held Social Security Number 498-36-2146, issued in Missouri. The last address of record was Sun City, Maricopa County, Arizona; this was not necessarily the place of death.

    8. [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), United States Obituary Collection.
      Accessed on 3 December 2010. Obituary for Louis Henry Mordt; Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Arizona), 11 January 2004.
           "Louis Henry Mordt, 93, of Sun City, AZ and Troy, MO passed away on January 8, 2004. Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, January 11, 2004 at 3:00P.M. at Foothills Christian Church, 3951 W. Happy Valley Rd., Glendale, AZ."
           By calculation from this data, Louis would have been born about 1910-1911.

    9. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1920 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T625, roll 966, page 5A. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1920 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 9, Enumeration District 187, sheet 5 A, enumerated 14 & 15 January 1920, dwelling 98, family 98, lines 19-26.

    10. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1930 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T626, roll 1249, page 1B. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1930 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 110-2, sheet 1B, enumerated 3 April 1930, dwelling 16, family 16, lines 68-78.

    11. [S104] Personal communication, From Emily Wilson to J. Mark Fiegenbaum in May 2005.
      Data from a GEDCOM file based on Emily's genealogical research.
           Louis Henry Mordt died on 8 January 2004 at Sun City, Maricopa County, Arizona.

    12. [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), United States Obituary Collection.
      Accessed on 3 December 2010. Obituary for Louis Henry Mordt; Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Arizona), 11 January 2004.
           "Louis Henry Mordt, 93, of Sun City, AZ and Troy, MO passed away on January 8, 2004. Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, January 11, 2004 at 3:00P.M. at Foothills Christian Church, 3951 W. Happy Valley Rd., Glendale, AZ."

    13. [S22] Obituary, for Meta M. Luelf.
      STLtoday.com; posted on 30 January 2008. (http://www.stltoday.com/suburban-journals/article_0ccc3d2a-cd7c-5469-8bb7-b04b530e17d9.html). Accessed on 5 July 2011.
           "[Meta Minnie Luelf] was preceded in death by...three brothers, August, Louis and Robert; and three sisters, Lena Clara, Flora Schneider and Alvina Davis."

    14. [S33] Carolyn (Fiegenbaum) Fieker, Genealogical reseach.
      Henry Mordt and Meta Christina Winter; married 29 November 1906.

    15. [S121] Alvina Mordt, Winter Family Genealogy (typescript, [about 1976-77?]), page 18.
      Henry Mordt and Meta Christina Winter; married 29 November 1906. "...their lives were spent together on a farm near Hawk Point, Missouri. They were the parents of eleven children, namely: Alvina, August, Louis, Flora, Lena, Ella, Meta, Marie, Laura, Esther, and Robert. All were born on the home place."

    16. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1910 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T624, roll 828, part 1, page 13B. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1910 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 9, Enumeration District 172, sheet 4 A, enumerated 23-25 April 1910, dwelling 65, family 67, lines 10-14. Henry A. Mordt and Meta Mordt; both married for the first time (married for 3 years); Meta is the mother of 2 children (2 still living). The reported length of the marriage would yield date of marriage of 1906-1907 by calculation.

    17. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1920 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T625, roll 966, page 5A. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1920 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 9, Enumeration District 187, sheet 5 A, enumerated 14 & 15 January 1920, dwelling 98, family 98, lines 19-26. Henry A. Mordt and Meta C. Mordt; married.

    18. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1930 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T626, roll 1249, page 1B. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1930 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 110-2, sheet 1B, enumerated 3 April 1930, dwelling 16, family 16, lines 68-78. Henry A. Mordt (age 38 at 1st marriage) and Meta C. Mordt (age 22 at 1st marriage); married.

    19. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 103.
      Henry Friedrich Adolph Mordt and Meta Christina Winter were married on 29 November 1906 at Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri.

    20. [S22] Obituary, for Meta M. Luelf.
      STLtoday.com; posted on 30 January 2008. (http://www.stltoday.com/suburban-journals/article_0ccc3d2a-cd7c-5469-8bb7-b04b530e17d9.html). Accessed on 5 July 2011.
           "Meta Minnie Luelf...was born July 26, 1917, to Henry Adolf and Meta (Winter) Mordt in Warren County."

    21. [S25] Marriage license, from Ancestry.com, Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002.
      An online database accessed on 3 December 2010. Original data from microfilm records at the Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
           Application for License to Marry, Warren County, Missouri, 1906, Number 74, page 457. Henry A Mordt of Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri, age 37, and Miss Meta C. Winter of Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri, age 22, both single and unmarried, applied for a license to marry on 26 November 1906.
           Marriage License from page 115 issued on 26 November 1906 at Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri to Henry A. Mordt, of Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri, who was over the age of 21 years, and Miss. Meta C. Winter, of Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri, who was over 18 years of age.
           L. H. H. Winter, a minister of the Gospel, certified that he had married the above named persons on 29 November 1906 at Truxton, Warren [sic] County.
           The Certificate of Marriage was filed with the recorder of deeds on 3 December 1906 at 1:20 p.m.

    22. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 140-141.
      Lewis Henry Mordt and Nellie Lansche were married in April 1934 at Hawk Point, Franklin [sic] County, Missouri.

    23. [S104] Personal communication, From Emily Wilson to J. Mark Fiegenbaum in May 2005.
      Data from a GEDCOM file based on Emily's genealogical research.
           Louis Henry Mordt and Nellie Mae Lansche were married on 4 April 1934 at Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri.

    24. [S104] Personal communication, From Emily Wilson to J. Mark Fiegenbaum in May 2005.
      Data from a GEDCOM file based on Emily's genealogical research.
           Louis Henry Mordt and Caroline Ann Rupert were married.