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Meinershagen, Friedrich Wilhelm

Male 1816 - 1903  (87 years)


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  • Name Meinershagen, Friedrich Wilhelm 
    Born 7 Aug 1816  Wersen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Immigration 1836  Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    • Friedrich Wilhelm emigrated from Wersen, Tecklenburg, Prussia.
    Moved To 1882  Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    • He worked as a tailor in Higginsville until his retirement to small farm west of Higginsville, where he was living at the time of his death.
    Died 4 Nov 1903  Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9, 10] 
    Buried Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    • He was buried in the cemetery of Salem Church.
    Person ID I4625  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 27 Mar 2010 

    Father Meinershagen, Heinrich Adolph,   b. 1 Jan 1785, Wersen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 May 1870, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years) 
    Mother Meese, Maria Charlotte Dorothea,   b. 5 May 1780, Lengerich, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jan 1818, Wersen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years) 
    Married 1807  Wersen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Family ID F1721  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Brinkmann, Maria Wilhelmina,   b. 11 Sep 1823, Westerkappeln, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jul 1895, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Married 17 Feb 1841  St. Charles County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14, 15, 16] 
    • The marriage was recorded in the register of the evangelical church at Femme Osage, Missouri (founded in 1833 as Die Deutsche Evangelische Kirchengemeinde and known since 1957 as Femme Osage United Church of Christ).
    Children 
    +1. Meinershagen, Heinrich Herman,   b. 3 Mar 1843, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Dec 1900  (Age 57 years)
    +2. Meinershagen, Herman Adolph,   b. 4 Jul 1844, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Feb 1900, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years)
    +3. Meinershagen, Friedrich Jürgen,   b. 22 Nov 1845, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Jul 1925, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
     4. Meinershagen, Carl Eberhard,   b. 15 May 1847, Femme Osage Township, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Mar 1923, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)
    +5. Meinershagen, Catherine Regina,   b. 23 Oct 1849, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Apr 1922, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
    +6. Meinershagen, George August,   b. 12 Mar 1852, Femme Osage Township, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Dec 1946  (Age 94 years)
    +7. Meinershagen, Anna Elizabeth,   b. 20 Jul 1856, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Mar 1931, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F1519  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMoved To - 1882 - Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 4 Nov 1903 - Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [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 347.
      The Heinrich A. Schoppenhorst Family. Wilhelm Meinershagen (1816-1903).

    2. [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), pages 2, 3.
      Friedrich Wilhelm Meinershagen, child of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen and Maria Charlotte Dorothea Meese, was born 7 August 1816. "Birthdate recorded in Evangelical Church, Wersen and on application to emigrate agree; date in Family Bible is July 24, 1816; apparently is an error [p. 3]."

    3. [S225] William Young, Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri (Indianapolis, Indiana: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1910), Volume 2, page 606.
      Biographical sketch of Benjamin Meinershagen. "William F. Meinershagen was born in Lippe-Detmold, Westphalen [sic], Prussia, Germany,...."

    4. [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 347.
      The Heinrich A. Schoppenhorst Family. Friedrich Wilhelm Meinershagen (1816-1903) emigrated from Wersen, Tecklenburg, Prussia, in 1836.

    5. [S225] William Young, Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri (Indianapolis, Indiana: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1910), Volume 2, page 606.
      Biographical sketch of Benjamin Meinershagen. "He [William F. Meinershagen] came to the United states as a young man in 1836,...."

    6. [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), page 3.
      Friedrich Wilhelm Meinershagen and Maria Wilhelmine Brinkmann were married 17 February 1841. "Married by the Reverend H. Garlechs [sic] of Femme Osage United Church of Christ [sic], they lived in Warren County before moving to Lafayette County in 1882."

    7. [S225] William Young, Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri (Indianapolis, Indiana: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1910), Volume 2, page 606.
      Biographical sketch of Benjamin Meinershagen. "In 1882 he [William F. Meinershagen] came to Lafayette county and lived with his sons, but was a tailor by trade, and after two years with them worked at that at Higginsville, then moved to a small farm west of Higginsville, where he died."

    8. [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), p. 347.
      The Heinrich A. Schoppenhorst Family. Wilhelm Meinershagen (1816-1903).

    9. [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), p. 3.
      Friedrich Wilhelm Meinershagen died 4 November 1903.

    10. [S225] William Young, Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri (Indianapolis, Indiana: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1910), Volume 2, page 606.
      Biographical sketch of Benjamin Meinershagen. "William F. Meinershagen was born in Lippe-Detmold, Westphalen [sic], Prussia, Germany, and died on November 4, 1903, at Higginsville, Missouri." "...was a tailor by trade, and after two years with them worked at that at Higginsville, then moved to a small farm west of Higginsville, where he died."

    11. [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), p. 3.
      Friedrich Wilhelm Meinershagen was buried in "Salem U.C. of C. Cemetery at Higginsville, Mo."

    12. [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), page 2.
      Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen and Maria Charlotte Dorothea Meese were married in 1807.
           The place of the marriage is not explicitedly stated, but the narrative before and after this entry implies it took place in Wersen.

    13. [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 347.
      The Heinrich A. Schoppenhorst Family. Wilhelm Meinershagen (1816-1903) and Wilhelmina Maria nee Brinkman (1823-1895); married.

    14. [S118] St. Charles County Genealogical Society, Femme Osage United Church of Christ, Femme Osage, Missouri: Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (St. Charles, Missouri: St. Charles County Genealogical Society, no date), pages 34, 42.
      Marriage register. Friederich Wilhelm Meinershagen and Maria Wilhelmina Brinckmann were married on 17 February 1841.

    15. [S139] Fred H. Meinershagen, The Prosperous and Diligent Blacksmith from Wersen: a Genealogy of Heinrich Adolph Meinershagen, January 1, 1785 - May 22, 1870 (Columbia, Missouri: F. H. Meinershagen, 1973), p. 3.
      Friedrich Wilhelm Meinershagen and Maria Wilhelmine Brinkmann were married 17 February 1841. "Married by the Reverend H. Garlechs [sic] of Femme Osage United Church of Christ [sic], they lived in Warren County before moving to Lafayette County in 1882."

    16. [S225] William Young, Young's History of Lafayette County, Missouri (Indianapolis, Indiana: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1910), Volume 2, page 606.
      Biographical sketch of Benjamin Meinershagen. "...on February 17, 1841, in St. Charles county, he [William F. Meinershagen] married Mary W. Brinkman [sic]." "They were the parents of five sons and two daughters,...."


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