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  • Name Kersten, Sophia Alwine 
    Born 16 Apr 1861  Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Female 
    Baptism 8 Jul 1861  Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • Sophia Alwine's baptism is recorded in the archives of the German Evangelical Church on Charrette in Holstein, Missouri (known since 1957 as Immanuels United Church of Christ). The sponsor was Elisabeth Kersten.
    Died 8 Jul 1861  Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4] 
    • Sophia Alwine's death at the age of 2 months, 22 days was recorded in the archives of the German Evangelical Church on Charrette (know since 1957 as Immanuels United Church of Christ).
    Person ID I4989  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 1 Sep 2006 

    Father Kersten, Ernst,   b. 7 Jul 1832, Lienen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Hölscher, Lisette,   b. 24 Sep 1841, Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 18 Nov 1859  Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 7, 8] 
    • Ernst and Sophie's marriage was recorded in the archives of the German Evangelical Church on Charrette in Holstein, Missouri (known since 1957 as Immanuels United Church of Christ). Friedrich Hölscher and Rudolph Kienker were witnesses. Pastor Rieger officiated. Ernst and Sophie lived on a farm near Holstein and became the parents of ten children, seven of whom survived into adulthood.
    Family ID F1627  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S161] Harold H. Hoeft, A History of the Kersten-Uthlaut Families, 5th edition, edited by Howard and Karen Utlaut (privately printed, 2003), page 4.
      "ALVINA, their first born, came unto them on April 16, 1861, and about three months later, she passed away."

    2. [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), p. 283.
      Death and burial records. Sophia Alwine Kersten died 8 July 1861 at the age of 2 months, 22 days. By calculation from these facts, Sophia would have been been born on 16 April 1861.

    3. [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), p. 107.
      Baptismal records. Sophia Alwine, child of Ernst Kersten and "Lisette nee Höllscher." Born 16 April 1861. Baptized 8 July 1861. The sponsor was "Elisabeth Kersten."

    4. [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), p. 283.
      Death and burial records. Sophia Alwine Kersten died 8 July 1861 at the age of 2 months, 22 days.

    5. [S161] Harold H. Hoeft, A History of the Kersten-Uthlaut Families, 5th edition, edited by Howard and Karen Utlaut (privately printed, 2003), page 4.
      "ERNST [Kersten] courted and won unto himself as his wife, LIZETTE HOELSCHER, who was born September 24, 1841 on the Simon Stock Farm west of Holstein. Whom he married on November 18, 1859; the ceremony being performed by the late [sic] Rev. J. Rieger, then pastor of Immanuel Evangelical Church, Holstein, Missouri. They went to housekeeping on the Kersten farm near Holstein...."

    6. [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), p. 248.
      Marriage records. Ernst Kersten, born in Lienen, and Lisette Hölscher, born "here," married 18 November 1859. "Friedr. Hölscher" and "Rud. Kienker" were the witnesses.

    7. [S138] Mrs. Howard W. Woodruff, Marriage Records, Warren County, Missouri: Books A and B, 1833-1860 (Kansas City, Missouri: Mrs. H. W. Woodruff, 1969), page 56.
      Marriage Book B, 1846-1860; page 312. "18 Nov. 1859 Ernst Kersten - Lisette Hoelscher." The ceremony was performed by "Joseph Reiger, German Protestant at Holstien" [sic] (p. 62).

    8. [S161] Harold H. Hoeft, A History of the Kersten-Uthlaut Families, 5th edition, edited by Howard and Karen Utlaut (privately printed, 2003), page 5.
      "Thus a family of seven living children were born to grow to adulthood and take their places in society."


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