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- [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 112.
Helen Clarice Wellemeyer, child of Carl Wesley Wellemeyer and Sarah Merten, was born on 11 February 1912 at Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa.
- [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 112.
A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Helen Clarice Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on Tuesday, 31 March 1931 in the Manchester Democrat, of Manchester, Iowa.
"Miss Wellemeyer was born on the farm near Colesburg...."
- [S48] Cemetery or burial marker, IA GenWeb Project. Delaware County, Iowa Cemetery Directory. Zion Cemetery.
Gravestone transcriptions from Zion Cemetery at Colesburg, Section 6, Colony Township, Delaware County, Iowa provided by Robert Schwietert to the USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project for Iowa at (http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ia/delaware/cemeteries/zioncem.txt). File updated February 1999. Accessed 14 April 2006.
Row 29: Helen Clarce Wellemeyer; born 11 February 912 [sic]; died 29 March 1930.
- [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 112.
Helen Clarice Wellemeyer died on 29 Marrch 1931 at Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa.
- [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 112.
A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Helen Clarice Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on Tuesday, 31 March 1931 in the Manchester Democrat, of Manchester, Iowa.
"Manchester friends of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wellemeyer of Colesburg learn with profound sorrow of the sudden death, on Sunday morning, at the home of her parents, of their daughter, Helen, a young woman nineteen years of age and who had been teaching the school at Almoral for some time. Miss Wellemeyer succumbed to an attack of influenza succeeding a nervous breakdown, and her death renders the home desolate."
- [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 111.
Carl Wesley Wellemeyer and Sarah Merten were married on 12 June 1907 at Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa.
- [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 111-112.
A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Carl Wesley Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on 29 November 1933 in an unidentified Garner, Iowa newspaper.
"Departed was married 12 June 1907 to Sarah Merten. From this union came two children, one son Howard, who is working at home, and one daughter, Helen, who preceeded him in death."
- [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 112.
A transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Sarah (Merten) Wellemeyer which she reported had appeared on Thursday, 9 June 1966 in the Manchester Press, of Manchester, Iowa.
"She was married to Carl Wellemeyer of Garner 12 June 1907."
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