Minden, George Ernst

Male 1838 - 1891  (52 years)


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  • Name Minden, George Ernst 
    Born 5 Sep 1838  Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 3 Jul 1891  Preston, Pratt County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2

    • The following is a transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for George E. Minden from an unidentified newspaper. In 1891, Mr. H. F. Wellemeyer, George's father-in-law, was living in Hancock County, Iowa:

      H. F. Wellemeyer received the sad news yesterday of the death of his son-in-law, George E. Minden, by lightning at his home in Preston, Kansas. The Preston Plains Dealer gives the following account of his death. The people of Preston and vicinity were shocked on Friday evening last at the intelligence that George E. Minden had been struck by lightning and instantly killed. The report was only too true. The sun was shining brightly at the time in the west, and a cloud not much larger than a man's hand came up from the south, and when nearly overhead of the field in which Mr. Minden and his force was working, a bolt suddenly struck him while in the empty header barge, entering the right side of the top of his head, coming out on the left side of his neck, and then passing down his left side tearing off his shoe. Of the three or four others in the barge at the time, only one, a little son aged about four, was in any way effected, having his eyebrows and some of his hair on his head singed. No man stood higher in this county than George E. Minden -- his word was equivalent to his bond. He leaves a widow and seven children.
    Person ID I5503  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 18 May 2008 

    Family Wellemeyer, Lisette Matilda,   b. 12 Aug 1848, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Sep 1925, Meridian, Ada County, Idaho, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Married 1869  Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
    +1. Minden, Lillian Amelia,   b. 6 Apr 1870, Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Oct 1948, Salem, Marion County, Oregon, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     2. Minden, Edward Henry,   b. 1872, Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Minden, Louis Franklin,   b. 1875, Preston, Pratt County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    +4. Minden, Charles W.,   b. 1877, Preston, Pratt County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1950  (Age 73 years)
    +5. Minden, George Ernest,   b. 1880, Preston, Pratt County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1942  (Age 62 years)
     6. Minden, [--?--],   b. 1882, Preston, Pratt County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1882, Preston, Pratt County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     7. Minden, Albert A.,   b. 1884, Preston, Pratt County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. Minden, Elsie,   b. 1886, Preston, Pratt County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    +9. Minden, Chester Carl,   b. 2 Aug 1887, Preston, Pratt County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Apr 1969, Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
    +10. Minden, Minnie May,   b. 1890, Preston, Pratt County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1950  (Age 60 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F1779  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 59.
      George Ernst Minden was born 5 September 1838 in "Southern Germany."

    2. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 59.
      George Ernst Minden died 3 July 1891 at Preston, Pratt County, Kansas.

    3. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 59.
      George Ernst Minden and Lissette Matilda Wellemeyer were married in 1869 at Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa.