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Kehl, Catherine

Female 1805 - 1880  (75 years)


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  • Name Kehl, Catherine 
    Born 18 Mar 1805  Meisenheim, Département de la Sarre, First French Empire Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    • Catherine's surname has been reported as either Kohl or Kehl. At the time of her birth, the town of Meisenheim was part of former German territory on the left (west) bank of the Rhine River occupied and governed by the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte. Since 1969, the city has been part of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland).
    Gender Female 
    Immigration 1857  Henry County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    Died 4 Aug 1880  Henry County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9, 10, 11] 
    Person ID I5704  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 27 Nov 2013 

    Family Neumann, Wilhelm Gottlieb,   b. 26 Jul 1790, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 15 Feb 1832  Meisenheim, Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 12, 13, 14, 15] 
    • According to biographical sketches of Julius Neumann published in 1888 and 1917, Wilhelm and Catherine married in Catherine's hometown of Meisenheim and settled shortly thereafter not far away in Langenlonsheim. They were the parents of twelve children (nine sons and three daughters); Julius was the eleventh child. Four of the sons (Frederick, Valentine, Charles and Jacob) served in Illinois military units during the U.S. Civil War.
    Children 
    +1. Neumann, Julius,   b. 7 Jul 1848, Langenlonsheim, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Mar 1927, Wymore, Gage County, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F1854  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 65.
      Julius Neumann, child of William Neumann and Catherine Kehl, was born on 7 July 1848 at "Longenglonsheim, Bingen, Germany."

    2. [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.
           Catherine Kohl was born in 1805 in Germany.

    3. [S246] Portrait and Biographical Album of Gage, County, Nebraska, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of all the Govenors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States (Chicago, Illinois: Chapman Brothers, 1888), biographical sketch of Julius Neumann; pages 175-176.
      "The mother, Mrs. Catherine (Kehl) Neumann, was born March 18, 1805, at Meisenheim, and was the daughter of well-to-do parents, with whom she was reared, and remained with them until her marriage."

    4. [S140] Hugh Jackson Dobbs, History of Gage County, Nebraska: a Narrative of the Past, with Special Emphasis upon the Pioneer Period of the County's History, its Social, Commercial, Educational, Religious, and Civic Development from the Early Days to the Present Time (Lincoln, Nebraska: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, 1918), biographical sketch of Julius Neumann; pages 760-761.
      "[Gotlieb Neumann's] wife, who bore the name of Catherine Kehl, was born at Meisenheim, Germany, March 18, 1805...."

    5. [S113] Web site, The Neumanns. Compiled by Kim A. Frick.
      (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/i/Kim-A-Frick/index.html). Updated 18 July 2012. Accessed 15 October 2012.
           Catherine Kohl (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/i/Kim-A-Frick/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0034.html) was born on 19 March 1805 at Meisenheim, Germany.

    6. [S246] Portrait and Biographical Album of Gage, County, Nebraska, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of all the Govenors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States (Chicago, Illinois: Chapman Brothers, 1888), biographical sketch of Julius Neumann; pages 175-176.
      "In the fall of 1857 Mr. Neumann [William G. Neumann] with his family emigrated to America, settling first in Henry County, Ill., where he secured a tract of land, upon which he followed farming until his death, which occurred on the 25th of December, 1861."

    7. [S140] Hugh Jackson Dobbs, History of Gage County, Nebraska: a Narrative of the Past, with Special Emphasis upon the Pioneer Period of the County's History, its Social, Commercial, Educational, Religious, and Civic Development from the Early Days to the Present Time (Lincoln, Nebraska: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, 1918), biographical sketch of Julius Neumann; pages 760-761.
      "In 1857 [Gotlieb Neumann] immigrated to America and settled on a farm near Cambridge, Henry county, Illinois....His wife, who bore the name of Catherine Kehl, was born at Meisenheim, Germany, March 18, 1805, and died August 4, 1880, the last years of her life being spent in the home of her son Julius."

    8. [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.
           Catherine Kohl died in 1880 in Illinois.

    9. [S246] Portrait and Biographical Album of Gage, County, Nebraska, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of all the Govenors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States (Chicago, Illinois: Chapman Brothers, 1888), biographical sketch of Julius Neumann; pages 175-176.
      Mrs. Catherine (Kehl) Neumann died on 4 August 1880. She resided with her son, Julius Neumann, for the last six years of her life. According to the biographical sketch, Julius resided in Illinois until moving to Nebraska in the spring of 1882. It would follow that Catherine died in Illinois.

    10. [S140] Hugh Jackson Dobbs, History of Gage County, Nebraska: a Narrative of the Past, with Special Emphasis upon the Pioneer Period of the County's History, its Social, Commercial, Educational, Religious, and Civic Development from the Early Days to the Present Time (Lincoln, Nebraska: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, 1918), biographical sketch of Julius Neumann; pages 760-761.
      "[Gotlieb Neumann's] wife, who bore the name of Catherine Kehl, ...died August 4, 1880, the last years of her life being spent in the home of her son Julius."

    11. [S113] Web site, The Neumanns. Compiled by Kim A. Frick.
      (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/i/Kim-A-Frick/index.html). Updated 18 July 2012. Accessed 15 October 2012.
           Catherine Kohl (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/i/Kim-A-Frick/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0034.html) died on 4 August 1880 at Cambridge, Henry County, Illinois.

    12. [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.
           Wilhelm Gottlieb Neumann and Catherine Kohl were married. No date or place given.

    13. [S246] Portrait and Biographical Album of Gage, County, Nebraska, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of all the Govenors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States (Chicago, Illinois: Chapman Brothers, 1888), biographical sketch of Julius Neumann; pages 175-176.
      William G. Neumann and Catherine Kehl were married in Catherine's home town, Meisenheim, Germany. They settled at Langenlonshime, Germany. They were the parents "of twelve children, nine sons and three daughters, all of whom lived to mature years, and of whom our subject [Julius Neumann] was next to the youngest."

    14. [S140] Hugh Jackson Dobbs, History of Gage County, Nebraska: a Narrative of the Past, with Special Emphasis upon the Pioneer Period of the County's History, its Social, Commercial, Educational, Religious, and Civic Development from the Early Days to the Present Time (Lincoln, Nebraska: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, 1918), biographical sketch of Julius Neumann; pages 760-761.
      "[Gotlieb Neumann's] wife, who bore the name of Catherine Kehl...." "Of the family of twelve children, nine sons and three daughters, all grew to maturity. Four of the sons each served full three years in the Civil war. Frederick and Valentine were in the Forty-second Illinois Infantry, Charles in the Seventh Illinois Cavalry, and Jacob in the Forty-eighth Illinois Cavalry. All of the sons are living except Valentine, who died in May, 1917. The oldest lives in the city of Omaha at the age of eighty-five years. Julius was the second youngest."

    15. [S113] Web site, The Neumanns. Compiled by Kim A. Frick.
      (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/i/Kim-A-Frick/index.html). Updated 18 July 2012. Accessed 15 October 2012.
           William Gottlieb Neumann (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/i/Kim-A-Frick/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0033.html) married his second wife, Catherine Kohl, on 15 February 1832 at Meisenhiem Germany. They had eleven children: Hugo, Adolph, August, Lissettie, Frederick, Valentine, Charles, Sophia Caroline, Jacob, Julius, and Henry.


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