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- [S5] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Genealogical research.
Mary Elizabeth Helwig, daughter of Peter Helwig and Martha Danker; born 24 October 1857 in Lake Creek, Benton County, Missouri.
- [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880. T9, roll 1,432, pages 543-544.
1880 U.S. census, population schedule; Wisconsin, La Crosse County, La Crosse, Supervisor’s District 3, Enumeration District 57, census pages 32D and 33A, enumerated on 10 June 1880; Henry Fiegenbaum household, Ferry [Street], dwelling 290, family 313, line 50 & lines 1-8. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 1432, pages 543-544.
In the household was: 01) Fiegenbaum, Hellwig; white; female; age 28; wife; married; keeping house; born in Missouri; father born in Germany; mother born in Germany.
By calculation from the information provided, "Hellwig" would have been born about 1851-1852. For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1880 U.S. census for this person.
- [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Iowa Cemetery Records. "Peter Hellwig".
Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Accessed in July 2009. Original data is from Works Project Administration. Graves Registration Project. Washington, D.C.: n.p., n.d.
Name: Peter Hellwig. Birth date: 1817. Death date: 5 February 1897. Cemetery: 80. Town: Garner. Comment: wif: Martha D.; chi: John; chi: Dr. A. A.; chi: Edw.; chi: Mrs. H. R. Fiegenbaum; chi: Mrs. H. T.; chi: Schneider; chi: Mrs. Adam Schneider. WPA index page no.: 19. "Level info: Gravestone Records of Cemeteries in Hancock County, Iowa."
- [S182] Find A Grave, Inc, Findagrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com in December 2017), Mary Elizabeth Fiegenbaum.
Memorial #38431901. (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38431901). Accessed in July 2009. Record created by Robert Bailey on 16 June 2009. Gravestone photo posted by Robert Bailey.
Birth: 1851. Death: 1924. Burial: Wendell Cemetery; Block 08, Lot 03, Plot 01; Wendell, Gooding County, Idaho, USA. Photo of gravestone shows inscription: Mary Elizabeth Fiegenbaum, 1851-1924.
Record included information not shown on the gravestone: "She was buried 11-01-1924. This makes hers one of the oldest graves in the Wendell City Cemetery." Source not identified.
- [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1860. NARA microfilm M653, roll 222, census page 225 (image 479).
1860 U.S. census, population schedule; Illinois, Rock Island County, City of Rock Island, Ward 3, census page 225, enumerated on 6 July 1860; Peter Helvick household, dwelling 1,741, family 1,658, lines 17-26. Access through Ancestry.com in July 2009.
In the household was: 23) Mary E. Helvick; age 9; female; born in Mo. [Missouri].
By calculation from the information provided, Mary would have been born about 1850-1851. For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1860 U.S. census for this person.
- [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1900. NARA microfilm T623, roll 434, page 299A (census sheet 12A).
1900 U.S. census, population schedule; Iowa, Hancock County, Concord Township, Garner, Supervisor’s District 10, Enumeration District 120, census census sheet 12A, enumerated on 18 June 1900; Henry R. Fiegenbaum household, dwelling 235, family 237, lines 26-30. Access through Ancestry.com in June 2005.
In the household was: 27) Fiegenbaum, Mary E.; wife; born October 1862; age 47; born in Missouri; father born in Germany; mother born in Germany.
According to other sources, this year of birth and age are not correct.
For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1900 U.S. census for this person.
- [S255] John H. Hellweg, Genealogical research, Rev. Peter Hellweg family bible.
Published in 1856. From a PDF file emailed to J. Mark Fiegenbaum on 14 June 2013 containing selected pages from the bible. Birth records were entered twice, in German and in English.
German record: "Maria Eliesabet den 21ten October Abens 3 Uhr 1851; Fräncklin Caunty Missury." English record: "Mary Elisabeth 21st October 1851; Franklin Co Missouriy."
- [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Idaho, Death Index, 1890-1962.
(http://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6856&enc=1). Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Accessed in April 2014.
Adelaide Fiegenbaum Vetsch, child of R. Fiegenbaum (born in Missouri) and Mary E. Helwig (born in Iowa), was born in Iowa; no date of birth given. She died on 27 February 1936 at Wendell, Gooding, Idaho, USA. Certificate Number: 097222 (year: 1936).
- [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1860. NARA microfilm M653, roll 222, census page 225 (image 479).
1860 U.S. census, population schedule; Illinois, Rock Island County, City of Rock Island, Ward 3, census page 225, enumerated on 6 July 1860; Peter Helvick household, dwelling 1,741, family 1,658, lines 17-26. Access through Ancestry.com in July 2009.
The household consisted of: 17) Peter Helvick; age 42; male; race=[stroke]; occupation=Luthn. Clergyman; value of real estate=4000; value of personal estate=400; born in Hanover. 18) Martha Helvick; age 37; female; race=[stroke]; occupation=wife; born in Hanover. 19) Anna C. Helvick; age 17; female; race=[stroke]; born in O [Ohio?]. 20) John Helvick; age 15; male; race=[stroke]; born in O [Ohio?]. 21) George H. Helvick; age 13; male; race=[stroke]; born in O [Ohio?]. 22) Louisa Helvick; age 11; female; race=[stroke]; born in O [Ohio?]. 23) Mary E. Helvick; age 9; female; race=[stroke]; born in Mo. [Missouri]. 24) Henrietta Helvick; age 7; female; race=[stroke]; born in Mo. [Missouri]. 25) Charlotte Helvick; age 4; female; race=[stroke]; born in Mo. [Missouri]. 26) Edward Helvick; age 1; male; race=[stroke]; born in Ills. [Illinois].
- [S5] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Genealogical research.
Mary (Helwig) Fiegenbaum died October 1924 in Wendell, Gooding County, Idaho.
- [S22] Obituary, "Mrs. Adam Schneider." Garner Signal (Garner, Iowa), Wednesday, 13 June 1923; page 3, column 3.
"She ["Mrs. Henrietta Hellwig Schneider"] is survived beside by...two sisters Mrs. Dr. Schneider of Conway, Mo., and Mrs. Rev. H. R. Fienenbaum [sic] of Wendell, Idaho,...."
- [S5] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Genealogical research.
Mary Elizabeth Helwig; born 24 October 1857 in Lake Creek, Benton County, Missouri. Daughter of Peter Helwig and Martha Danker. The marriage is assumed here; no data was provided.
- [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Iowa Cemetery Records. "Peter Hellwig.".
Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Accessed in July 2009. Original data is from Works Project Administration. Graves Registration Project. Washington, D.C.: n.p., n.d.
Name: Peter Hellwig. Birth date: 1817. Death date: 5 February 1897. Cemetery: 80. Town: Garner. Comment: wif: Martha D.; chi: John; chi: Dr. A. A.; chi: Edw.; chi: Mrs. H. R. Fiegenbaum; chi: Mrs. H. T.; chi: Schneider; chi: Mrs. Adam Schneider. WPA index page no.: 19. "Level info: Gravestone Records of Cemeteries in Hancock County, Iowa."
- [S133] E. W. Henke, et al, Die Nordwest Deutsche Konferenz der Bischöflichen Methodistenkirche: Geschichtlich, Sachlich und Biographisch Geschildert (Charles City, Iowa: The Conference, 1913), pages 72-73.
Biographical sketch of Peter Hellweg.
"...und kam im Frühjahr 1841 nach Marietta, Ohio. Hier trat er in den Stand der heiligen Ehe mit Martha Danker, einer Tochter von Rev. Geo Danker." [...and in the Spring of 1841 came to Marietta, Ohio. Here he entered into holy matrimony with Martha Danker, a daughter of Rev. Geo. Danker.].
- [S133] E. W. Henke, et al, Die Nordwest Deutsche Konferenz der Bischöflichen Methodistenkirche: Geschichtlich, Sachlich und Biographisch Geschildert (Charles City, Iowa: The Conference, 1913), page 74.
Biographical sketch of Peter Hellweg.
"Gattin, drei Söhne und drei Töchter schauen ihm nach, währen drei Kinder vorangegangen sind." [The widow, three sons and three daughters survive him; three children have preceded him.].
- [S255] John H. Hellweg, Genealogical research, Rev. Peter Hellweg family bible.
Published 1856. From a PDF file emailed to J. Mark Fiegenbaum on 14 June 2013 containing selected pages from the bible. Record of marriages.
A handwritten notation in the groom and bride columns: "Peter Hellweg Martha von Danker den 12ten November 1841. Marietta Ohio." The "von" in Martha's name has been added by a different hand.
- [S274] Biographical History of Montgomery and Adams Counties, Iowa. Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with accompanying Biographies of each; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of the Counties, with Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and Leading Families (Chicago, Illinois: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892), page 269; biographical sketch of Dr. Charles A. Hillweg.
"Dr. Charles A. Hillweg, of Corning, was born in Muscatine, Iowa, June 26, 1856, the son of Rev. P. and Martha (Danker) Hillweg."
- [S22] Obituary, for Dr. C. A. Hillweg [sic]. Adams County Free Press, of Corning, Iowa; Saturday, 1 February 1913.
Volume 31, number 5; page 7, column 3.
"Charles A. Hillweg was born June 20, 1857, at Muscatine, Iowa, and was next to the youngest child of Rev. and Mrs. Peter Hillweg."
- [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1870. NARA microfilm M593, roll 387, page 40 (image 81).
1870 U.S. census, population schedule; Iowa, Delaware County, Colony, Earlville post office, census page 8, enumerated on 6 July 1870; Peter Hellwig household, dwelling 53, family 54, lines 28-31. Access through Ancestry.com in July 2009.
The household consisted of: 28) Hellwig, Peter; age 53; male; white; Clergyman; value of real property=5480; value of personal estate=200; born in Hanover; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth; male citizen of U.S. over 21 years. 29) Hellwig, Martha; age 47; female; white; keeping house; born in Hanover; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth. 30) Hellwig, Henrietta; age 16; female; white; at school; born in Miss [Mississippi?]; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth; column for "if married within the year, state month" is checked, but no month is recorded; did attend school within the year; ability to read and ability to write are not recorded. 31) Hellwig, Edward; age 10; male; white; at school; born in Ill [Illinois?]; father of foreign birth; mother of foreign birth; column for "if married within the year, state month" is checked, but no month is recorded; did attend school within the year; ability to read and ability to write are not recorded.
- [S5] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Genealogical research.
Heinrich Rudolph Fiegenbaum and Mary Elizabeth Helwig; married 27 January 1878 in Charles City (Floyd County), Iowa.
- [S133] E. W. Henke, et al, Die Nordwest Deutsche Konferenz der Bischöflichen Methodistenkirche: Geschichtlich, Sachlich und Biographisch Geschildert (Charles City, Iowa: The Conference, 1913), page 97.
Henry Rudolf [sic] Fiegenbaum and Elisabeth Hellweg; married 1878. Elisabeth was a daughter of Rev. Peter Hellweg of the German Episcopal Methodist Church. Four children were born to Henry and Elisabeth. The eldest daughter died at the age of sixteen. Still living at the time the biographical sketch in this book was written (published in 1913) were: Mrs. Fr. Vetsch of Sioux City, Iowa; Mrs. Aaron Eaton of Mesa, Washington; and Rudolf Fiegenbaum of Wendell, Idaho.
- [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880. T9, roll 1,432, pages 543-544.
1880 U.S. census, population schedule; Wisconsin, La Crosse County, La Crosse, Supervisor’s District 3, Enumeration District 57, census pages 32D and 33A, enumerated on 10 June 1880; Henry Fiegenbaum household, Ferry [Street], dwelling 290, family 313, line 50 & lines 1-8. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 1432, pages 543-544.
In the household was: 50) Fiegenbaum, Henry; white; male; age 43; married. 01) Fiegenbaum, Hellwig; white; female; age 28; wife; married.
For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1880 U.S. census for this couple.
- [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Iowa Cemetery Records. "Henry R. Fiegenbaum".
Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Accessed in July 2009. Original data is from Works Project Administration. Graves Registration Project. Washington, D.C.: n.p., n.d.
Name: Henry R. Fiegenbaum. Birth date: 1837. Death date: 11 September 1908. Cemetery: Concord. Town: Garner. Comment: wif: Elizabeth Helvig [sic]; chi: Mrs. Fred Betsch; chi: Mrs. Aron Eaton; chi: Rudolph. WPA index page no.: 13. "Level info: Gravestone Records of Cemeteries in Hancock County, Iowa."
- [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1900. NARA microfilm T623, roll 434, page 299A (census sheet 12A).
1900 U.S. census, population schedule; Iowa, Hancock County, Concord Township, Garner, Supervisor’s District 10, Enumeration District 120, census census sheet 12A, enumerated on 18 June 1900; Henry R. Fiegenbaum household, dwelling 235, family 237, lines 26-30. Access through Ancestry.com in June 2005.
In the household was: 26) Fiegenbaum, Henry R.; head; white; male; married, for 22 years. 27) Fiegenbaum, Mary E.; wife; white; female; married, for 22 years; mother of 4 children, 3 still living.
For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1900 U.S. census for these people.
- [S279] Ancestry.com (library edition), Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1940 (formerly titled Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1937) (https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8823 in December 2017), Vetsch-Fiegenbaum 1900.
Accessed in May 2016. Original data from the State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa Marriage Records, 1880–1922 (textual records); Iowa State Archives; Des Moines, Iowa; Volume: 401 (Hamilton-Osceola). The following data has been taken from relevant portions of a digital image of the source.
Return of marriages in the County of Hancock for the year ending 1 December 1900. The transcription of the marriage records compiled in this volume was certified by S. D. [Wormeldorf?], Clerk District Court, on 28 May 1901.
Number of license: [no entry]. Date of License: 13 March 1900. Bride's name: Adelaid Katharine Fiegenbaum. Bride's maiden name if a widow: [no entry]. Bride's residence: Garner, Iowa. Bride's age at NEXT birthday: 20. Bride's color: white. Bride's race: German. Number of Bride's marriage: first. Bride's birth place: La Crosse, Wisconsin. Bride's father's name: H. R. Fiegenbaum. Bride's mother's full maiden name: Elizabeth M. Fiegenbaum [sic].
For full details of this record, see the sources for the Vetsch-Fiegenbaum marriage.
- [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880. NARA microfilm T9, roll 1,432, pages 543-544.
1880 U.S. census, population schedule; Wisconsin, La Crosse County, La Crosse, Supervisor’s District 3, Enumeration District 57, census pages 32D and 33A, enumerated on 10 June 1880; Henry Fiegenbaum household, Ferry [Street], dwelling 290, family 313, line 50 & lines 1-8. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 1432, pages 543-544.
The household consisted of: 50) Fiegenbaum, Henry; white; male; age 43; married; Methodist pastor; born in Missouri; father born in Germany; mother born in Germany. 01) Fiegenbaum, Hellwig; white; female; age 28; wife; married; keeping house; born in Missouri; father born in Germany; mother born in Germany. 02) Fiegenbaum, Emma; white; female; age 16; daughter; single; at school; attended school in the census year; born in Iowa; father born in Missouri; mother born in Missouri. 03) Fiegenbaum, Charles; white; male; age 10; son; single; at school; attended school in the census year; born in Iowa; father born in Missouri; mother born in Missouri. 04) Fiegenbaum, Arthur; white; male; age 7; son; single; at school; attended school in the census year; born in Iowa; father born in Missouri; mother born in Missouri. 05) Fiegenbaum, Lulea; white; female; age 1; daughter; single; born in Wisconsin; father born in Missouri; mother born in Missouri. 06) Fiegenbaum, Adelina; white; female; age 1 month; born May [1880]; daughter; single; born in Wisconsin; father born in Missouri; mother born in Missouri. 07) Hellberg, Edward; white; male; age 20; boarder; single; at home; born in Illinois; father born in Germany; mother born in Germany. 08) Hellwig, Henriette; white; female; age 24; servant; single; servant; born in Missouri; father born in Germany; mother born in Germany.
- [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 21-22.
A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an account of the Golden Wedding Anniversary celebration for "Rev. and Mrs. William Fiegenbaum." Gretchen Leenerts reported that this account had appeared on 29 September 1899 in the Edwardsville Intelligencer, of Edwardsville, Illinois.
"The family is noted for the fact of its connection with the ministry. The three brothers, Henry of St. Joseph, Missouri; Fred of Oregon, Missouri; and Rudolph of Garner, Iowa, were all ministers, the former two now superannuated. The two sisters, Mrs. Minna Winter of Omaha, Nebraska and Mrs. Katherine Wellemeyer of Garner, Iowa, each married a minister."
- [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1900. NARA microfilm T623, roll 434, page 299A (census sheet 12A).
1900 U.S. census, population schedule; Iowa, Hancock County, Concord Township, Garner, Supervisor’s District 10, Enumeration District 120, census census sheet 12A, enumerated on 18 June 1900; Henry R. Fiegenbaum household, dwelling 235, family 237, lines 26-30. Access through Ancestry.com in June 2005.
The household consisted of: 26) Fiegenbaum, Henry R.; head; white; male; born January 1840; age 60; married, for 22 years; born in Missouri; father born in Germany; mother born in Germany; Minister Germ M. E.; 0 months unemployed; can read; can write; speaks English; rents home; home is a house. 27) Fiegenbaum, Mary E.; wife; white; female; born October 1862; age 47; married, for 22 years; mother of 4 children, 3 still living; born in Missouri; father born in Germany; mother born in Germany; can read; can write; speaks English. 28) Fiegenbaum, Elsie A.; daughter; white; female; born July 1882; age 17; single; born in Iowa; father born in Missouri; mother born in Missouri; at school; attended school for 9 months; can read; can write; speaks English. 29) Fiegenbaum, Rudolph E. D.; son; white; male; born February 1885; age 15; single; born in Kansas; father born in Missouri; mother born in Missouri; at school; attended school for 9 months; can read; can write; speaks English. 30) Schneider, Catherine; boarder; white; female; born February 1873; age 27; single; born in Iowa; father born in Germany; mother born in Germany; Saleswoman Dry good; 0 months unemployed; can read; can write; speaks English.
- [S268] Herbert Hunt and Floyd C. Kaylor, Washington, West of the Cascades: Historical and Descriptive; the Explorers, the Indians, the Pioneers, the Modern (Chicago, Seattle, Tacoma: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917), volume 2, pages 399-400; "Charles H. Fiegenbaum".
"In 1901 he [Rev. H. R. Fiegenbaum] arrived in eastern Washington, where he afterward lived a retired life, passing away in 1910 at the age of seventy-three years."
- [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 22-23.
A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Rev. William Fiegenbaum. Gretchen Leenerts reported that this account had appeared on 30 November 1906 in the Edwardsville Intelligencer, of Edwardsville, Illinois.
"Of the original family, two brothers and two sisters are living: Rev. Fred W. Fiegenbaum of Wathena, Kansas; Rev. H. R. Fiegenbaum of Connell, Washington; Mrs. Wellemeyer of Warrenton, Missouri and Mrs. Winters of Oskaloosa, Iowa."
- [S217] Book, Edward Claus Klindworth, The Life of Hein and Katie Klindworth (S.l.: s.n., 1956); pages 12-13.
Relocation from Nokomis, Illinois to Connell, Washington in September 1902 after having purchased a "relinquishment on a homestead" from "a bearded gentleman by the name of Rudolph Fiegenbaum."
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