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Knapheide, Clara M.

Female 1892 - 1952  (59 years)


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  • Name Knapheide, Clara M. 
    Born 27 Apr 1892  Levasy, Jackson County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    • According to her death certificate, Clara never married.
    Gender Female 
    Died 23 Apr 1952  Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    • According to her death certificate, Clara died at 9:00 p.m. in Lexington Memorial Hospital, about 16 hours after being shot in the home two miles south of Lexington that she shared with her brother, Otto, and his wife. Otto shot his sister about 5:00 a.m. with a 22 caliber rifle and then committed suicide.
    Buried 27 Apr 1952  Buckner, Jackson County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6] 
    • According to her death certificate, Clara was buried in "Buckner Hill Cemetery" but this may actually be Bone Hill Cemetery.
    Person ID I5386  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 13 Aug 2017 

    Father Knapheide, Friedrich Wilhelm,   b. 12 Apr 1849, Marthasville, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Apr 1919, Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Mother Schnieder, Maria Mathilda,   b. 14 Jan 1854, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Feb 1909  (Age 55 years) 
    Married 6 Mar 1874  Charrette Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8, 9] 
    • The marriage of "Friedrich Wilhelm Knapheide" and "Maria Mathilde Schneider" was recorded in the wedding register of the German Evangelical Church on Charrette in Holstein, Missouri (known since 1957 as Immanuels United Church of Christ). According to the published transcription of the register, parents, brothers and sisters of the couple were the witnesses.
    Family ID F1734  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S180] Frances Bonney, The American Descendents of the Knapheides of Westphalia, Germany, of the District of Tecklenberg; Lienen, Lengerich, Lladbergen, Kattenvenne, and Others (St. Paul, Minnesota: Frances Bonney, 1973), page 111a.
      Copy of selected pages provided by Byron H. Nolte in 2008. Descendants of Ernst Wilhelm Knapheide, page 1. Clara Knapheide, child of Frederick William Knapheide and Matilde M. [surname not provided], was born in 1892. A place of birth was not provided.

    2. [S155] Missouri State Archives. Online Resources and Datatbases, Missouri Death Certificates Database. (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/). March 2008.
      State Board of Health of Missouri, Standard Certificate of Death #13454. For Clara M. Knapheide. Born 27 April 1892 at Levasy, Missouri. Father's name: Frederick Wm. Knapheide. Mother's maiden name: Matilda [sic] Schnieder [sic]. Personal information provided by Paul Knapheide, of Buckner, Missouri.
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.

    3. [S180] Frances Bonney, The American Descendents of the Knapheides of Westphalia, Germany, of the District of Tecklenberg; Lienen, Lengerich, Lladbergen, Kattenvenne, and Others (St. Paul, Minnesota: Frances Bonney, 1973), page 111a.
      Copy of selected pages provided by Byron H. Nolte in 2008. Descendants of Ernst Wilhelm Knapheide, page 1. Clara Knapheide died in 1952. A place of death was not provided. She was not married.

    4. [S155] Missouri State Archives. Online Resources and Datatbases, Missouri Death Certificates Database. (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/). March 2008.
      http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1952/1952_00013452.pdf State Board of Health of Missouri, Standard Certificate of Death #13454. For Clara M. Knapheide. Born 27 April 1892 at Levasy, Missouri. Father's name: Frederick Wm. Knapheide. Mother's maiden name: Matilda [sic] Schnieder [sic]. Died at 9:00 p.m. on 23 April 1952 at Lexington Memorial Hospital, Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri at the age of 59 years, 11 months, 26 days after a stay at the hospital of 16 hours. Her usual residence was Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, 2 miles south on 13 Highway. She was single (had never married) at the time of death. She was a housekeeper in her own home. She was not a veteran; her social security number was "lost." Cause of death was "Gunshot wound of head; wound of entry-left temple; wound of exit-center of forehead. 22 calibre rifle. shot by brother who then committed suicide." Interval between onset and death was 16 hours. The death was described as a homicide; "Shot by brother with homicidal intent" at her home at Lexington, Missouri at 5:00 a.m. on 23 April 1952. There was no autopsy. Burial was to be 27 April 1952 in Buckner Hill Cemetery at Buckner, Missouri. Vernon M. Reppert, of Buckner, Missouri, was the funeral director. Personal information provided by Paul Knapheide, of Buckner, Missouri. W. E. Martin, MD, of Odessa, Missouri, had attended the deceased after death on 23 April 1952 and signed the death certificate on 23 April 1952. The certificate was received by the local registrar on 30 April 1952.

    5. [S180] Frances Bonney, The American Descendents of the Knapheides of Westphalia, Germany, of the District of Tecklenberg; Lienen, Lengerich, Lladbergen, Kattenvenne, and Others (St. Paul, Minnesota: Frances Bonney, 1973), page 111a.
      Copy of selected pages provided by Byron H. Nolte in 2008. Descendants of Ernst Wilhelm Knapheide, page 1. Clara Knapheide was buried in "Buckner Cemetery, Independence, Mo."

    6. [S155] Missouri State Archives. Online Resources and Datatbases, Missouri Death Certificates Database. (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/). March 2008.
      State Board of Health of Missouri, Standard Certificate of Death #13454. For Clara M. Knapheide. Died on 23 April 1952 at Lexington Memorial Hospital, Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. Burial was to be 27 April 1952 in Buckner Hill Cemetery at Buckner, Missouri. Vernon M. Reppert, of Buckner, Missouri, was the funeral director. Personal information provided by Paul Knapheide, of Buckner, Missouri.
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.

    7. [S180] Frances Bonney, The American Descendents of the Knapheides of Westphalia, Germany, of the District of Tecklenberg; Lienen, Lengerich, Lladbergen, Kattenvenne, and Others (St. Paul, Minnesota: Frances Bonney, 1973), page 111a.
      Copy of selected pages provided by Byron H. Nolte in 2008. Descendants of Ernst Wilhelm Knapheide, page 1. Frederick William Knapheide and Matilde M. [surname not given] were married. A date and place of marriage were not provided.

    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), Marriage Records. page 252.
      "Friedrich Wilhelm Knapheide" and "Maria Mathilde Schneider" were married on 6 March 1874. The witnesses were "parents & brothers & sisters of couple."

    9. [S237] Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates Database (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ - last confirmed in August 2017), Paul William Knapheide; Clay County; 1958; Standard Certificate of Death #58-043563.
      http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1958/1958_00043564.pdf Accessed in August 2017. Division of Health of Missouri, Standard Certificate of Death #58-043563. For Paul William Knapheide. A white, male born on 12 March 1886 at Holstein, Missouri. Father's name: Frederick Wm. Knapheide. Mother's maiden name: Mathilde Schneider. Personal information was provided by Howard Knapheide, of 115 E. Armour, Kansas City, Missouri.
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.


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