Neudorff, Clara May

Female Abt 1887 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Neudorff, Clara May 
    Born Abt 1887  Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    • This approximate year of birth is calculated from the statement in her father's 1898 biographical sketch that Clara was 10 years old at that time.
    Gender Female 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I6400  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 20 Aug 2009 

    Father Neudorff, Frederick Franklin,   b. 5 Jul 1859, Platte City, Platte County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 May 1940, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Fiegenbaum, Lizette Clara,   b. 24 Mar 1862, Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Feb 1892, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 29 years) 
    Married 14 Sep 1881  St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

    •      According to marriage records in Buchanan County, Missouri, Frederick Neudorff and Licetta C. Fiegenbaum, both of St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, received a marriage license at St. Joseph on 13 September 1881 and they were married at St. Joseph on 14 September 1881 by Rev. H. Rienner.
    Family ID F2067  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 56.
      May Neudorff was a child of Frederick Neudorff and Lisette Fiegenbaum. No date or place of birth given.

    2. [S220] The Daily News' History of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Mo.: From the Time of the Platte Purchase to the End of the Year 1898. Preceded by a Short History of Missouri. Supplemented by Biographical Sketches of Noted Citizens, Living and Dead (St. Joseph, Missouri: St. Joseph Publishing Company, 1898), page 527.
      A biographical sketch of Frederick Neudorff.
           "Mr. Nudorff [sic] was married first to a daughter of Rev. H. Fiegenbaum, of the German Methodist Church. This lady died in 1892, leaving him two children, Julia W., now aged sixteen, and Clara May, now aged ten."
           If Clara were 10 years old when this sketch was published in 1898, she would have been born about 1887-1888.

    3. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 55.
      A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Mrs. Fred Neudorff which she reported had appeared on 7 February 1892, in the St. Joseph Herald, of St. Joseph, Missouri.
           "About twelve years ago she was united in marriage to Mr. Fred Neudorff, well and favorably known in business circles, and now at the head of the Neudorff Hardware Company. Three children, one boy and two girls, blessed the union, and the family circle, now rudely shattered by death, was one of the happiest in all St. Joseph."

    4. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 55.
      Frederick Neudorff and Lisette Fiegenbaum were married on 14 September 1881 at St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri.

    5. [S220] The Daily News' History of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Mo.: From the Time of the Platte Purchase to the End of the Year 1898. Preceded by a Short History of Missouri. Supplemented by Biographical Sketches of Noted Citizens, Living and Dead (St. Joseph, Missouri: St. Joseph Publishing Company, 1898), page 527.
      A biographical sketch of Frederick Neudorff.
           "Mr. Nudorff [sic] was married first to a daughter of Rev. H. Fiegenbaum, of the German Methodist Church. This lady died in 1892, ...."

    6. [S211] Article or notice, "Obituary; Neudorff." The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri). Friday, 12 February 1892; Page 4, Column 1.
      "Obituary; Neudorff." The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Missouri). Friday, 12 February 1892; Page 4, Column 1
      Digital copies accessed through Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (The Library of Congress) at (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90061417/1892-02-12/ed-1/seq-4/) in December 2011.
           Obituary for Clara Lissette (Fiegenbaum) Neudorff. "Clara Lissette, daughter of Rev. H. Fiegenbaum"..."was married to Fred Neudorff, St. Joseph, September 14, 1881."

    7. [S176] Published cemetery records, Mount Mora Cemetery Association. Mount Mora Burial Records. Lisette Clara Neudorff.
      (http://www.mountmora.org/). Accessed in December 2011.
           Lisette Clara Neudorff was born in 1862. She died on 9 February 1892 at the age of 29 years, 11 months, 8 days. She was identified as the wife of "Frederick."

    8. [S181] Ancestry.com (library edition), Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 (https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1171 in November 2017), Frederick Neudorff-Licella [sic] C. Feigenbaum [sic]; 1881; Buchanan County.
      Accessed in December 2011 and April 2016. A marriage license issued at St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, on 13 September 1881 to Frederick Neudorff, of St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, who was over the age of 21 years and Licetta C. Fiegenbaum, of St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, who was over the age of 18 years.
           The return certified that Rev. H. Rienner, "minister of the Gospel," did marry the above name persons at St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri on 14 September 1881 and the Certificate of Marriage was filed for record at St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, on 5 October 1881.
           I believe the Ancestry.com database has misinterpreted the spelling of the bride's given name and surname. Instead of "Licella C." the given name is actualy recorded as "Licetta C." On two occasions, the deputy county recorder, spelled the surname as "Fiegenbaum" and once spelled it as "Feigenbaum."

    9. [S182] Find A Grave, Inc, Findagrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com in December 2017), Frederick Franklin Neudorff, I. Memorial #28463798.
      (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28463798). Accessed in December 2011. Record created by "Ken Mumper" on 22 July 2008. Gravestone photos posted by "Joyce Cordonnier;" dated 01/07/2008 [i.e., 1 July 2008, judging from the state of the vegetation].
           Photo of gravestone shows: Frederick Neudorff 1859-1840.
           Ken Mumper include information not shown on the gravestone: "He [Frederick Franklin Neudorff] married Clara Lisette Fiegenbaum (1862-1892) in 1881 and had three children: Julia Neudorff, May Neudorff & Franklin Grant Neudorff."
           It is not possible to determine the original sources of data presented in this database that are not observable in photos of the grave markers.