Meinershagen, Carl Eberhard

Male 1847 - 1923  (75 years)


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  • Name Meinershagen, Carl Eberhard 
    Born 15 May 1847  Femme Osage Township, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Moved To Oct 1871  Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • Carl and his wife moved to Lafayette County in October 1871. The traveled by boat up the Missouri River to Berlin, Missouri, located about two miles northwest of Dover. They farmed west of Higginsville for nearly 50 years.
    Died 18 Mar 1923  Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Buried Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • He was buried in the cemetery of Salem Church.
    Person ID I6951  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 27 Mar 2010 

    Father Meinershagen, Friedrich Wilhelm,   b. 7 Aug 1816, Wersen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Nov 1903, Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years) 
    Mother 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  [5, 6, 7, 8
    • 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).
    Family ID F1519  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hackmann, Anna,   b. 29 Dec 1852, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Oct 1941  (Age 88 years) 
    Married 31 Mar 1871  Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F2226  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMoved To - Oct 1871 - 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. [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 3-4, 14.
      "Charles Edward (Carl Eberhard) Meinershagen," son of Friedrich Wilhelm Meinershagen and Maria Wilhelmine Brinkmann, was born on 15 May 1847 "near Femme Osage."

    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), page 14.
      Charles Edward (Carl Eberhard) Meinershagen and his his wife, Anna Hackmann, "came to Lafayette County in Oct. 1871. Coming up the Missouri River by boat, they landed at Berlin. Berlin was located about two miles northwest of Dover, Mo.; or nine miles north of Higginsville." "Charles farmed west of Higginsville for nearly 50 years."

    3. [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 3-4, 14.
      Charles Edward (Carl Eberhard) Meinershagen died on 18 March 1923.

    4. [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 14.
      Charles Edward (Carl Eberhard) Meinershagen was buried "in United Church of Christ Cemetery, Higginsville."

    5. [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.

    6. [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.

    7. [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."

    8. [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,...."

    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), page 14.
      "Charles Edward (Carl Eberhard) Meinershagen" and "Anna (Hannah) Hackmann" were married on 31 March 1871. Anna Hackmann was "a sister of Mrs. F. G. Meinershagen" [i.e., Marie Wilhelmine Hackmann, daughter of "Johann Heinrich Hackmann of Warren County (p. 13)]."