DESCENDANT CHART
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356 |--- DUTE ( - )| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
070 | |HEINRICH DUTE (1753-1829) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
359 | |+ANNA MARGARETHE GLEIM (1758-1828) | | | | | | | | | |
062 | | |ANTON DUTE (1793-1868) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
641 | | | |JULIUS PHILIPP DUTE (1821-1843) | | | | | | | | |
358 | | | |HEINRICH DUTE (1824-1842) | | | | | | | | | | |
920 | | | |MARIE DUTE (1826- ) | | | | | | | | | | | |
921 | | | |CONRAD AUGUST DUTE (1829- ) | | | | | | | | |
922 | | | |ELISA DUTE (1836- ) | | | | | | | | | | | |
923 | | | |EDUARD DUTE (1841- )| | | | | | | | | | | |
924 | | | |AUGUSTA DUTE (1846- ) | | | | | | | | | | |
925 | | | |ANNA MARTHA DUTE (1849-1913) | | | | | | | | | |
063 | | |ELISABETH DUTE (1790- )| | | | | | | | | | | |
064 | | |+PETER ROHRBACH ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | |
065 | | |ANNA CATHERINE DUTE (1787-1814) | | | | | | | | | |
066 | | |CATHERINE ELIZABETH DUTE (1796-1879) | | | | | | | |
067 | | |+HEINRICH DOELLEFELD (1773-1840)| | | | | | | | | |
068 | | |ANNA MARTHA DUTE (1798-1870) | | | | | | | | | | |
069 | | |+JOHN HENRY HASENPFLUG (1800-1888) | | | | | | | | |
060 | | |JOHANN GEORGE DUTE (1799-1875) | | | | | | | | | |
061 | | |+ANNA CATHERINE MILLER (1804-1868) | | | | | | | | |
058 | | | |CASPER DUTE (1827-1900)| | | | | | | | | | | |
059 | | | |+MARY HEIDENREIC (1829-1906) | | | | | | | | | |
044 | | | | |JOHN GEORGE DUTE (1851-1916) | | | | | | | | |
170 | | | | |+MARY SHUPE ( - )| | | | | | | | | | |
045 | | | | |CATHERINE ANN DUTE (1853-1911) | | | | | | | |
171 | | | | |+FERDINAND ESCHTRUTH (1849-1910)| | | | | | | |
046 | | | | |ELIZABETH DUTE (1854-1930)| | | | | | | | | |
172 | | | | |+NATHAN MILLER (1849-1923)| | | | | | | | | |
047 | | | | |JOHN ANTON DUTE (1856-1896) | | | | | | | | |
163 | | | | |+AURELIA HEUSSNER (1856-1899)| | | | | | | | |
048 | | | | |ANTON DUTE (1858-1921) | | | | | | | | | | |
173 | | | | |+MARY ESCHTRUTH ( -1940) | | | | | | | | |
049 | | | | |ANNA MARTHA DUTE (1859-1932) | | | | | | | | |
174 | | | | |+FRED LAU ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | |
050 | | | | |J. HENRY DUTE (1861-1943) | | | | | | | | | |
175 | | | | |+ELIZABETH MERTZ ( - ) | | | | | | | | |
051 | | | | |JULIUS VALENTINE DUTE (1863-1951) | | | | | | |
176 | | | | |+MARTHA ESCHTRUTH ( - )| | | | | | | | |
052 | | | | |ANNA DORA DUTE (1865-1933)| | | | | | | | | |
177 | | | | |+JOHN KRUGMAN (1865-1939) | | | | | | | | | |
043 | | | | |AUGUST ANTON DUTE (1867-1951)| | | | | | | | |
077 | | | | |+ELIZABETH ALICE MILLER (1873-1959)| | | | | | |
053 | | | | |AURELIA MARIE DUTE (1869-1927) | | | | | | | |
178 | | | | |+ALBERT KERN (1869-1935) | | | | | | | | | |
054 | | | | |HARVEY DUTE (1870-1925)| | | | | | | | | | |
055 | | | | |JACOB DUTE (1872-1954) | | | | | | | | | | |
179 | | | | |+ELLA PEMBER ( - ) | | | | | | | | | |
056 | | | | |CASPER GLEIM DUTE (1875-1948)| | | | | | | | |
180 | | | | |+MARY HOLZHAUER ( - ) | | | | | | | | |
057 | | | | |ORLIE FERDINAND DUTE (1876- )| | | | | | | |
DESCENDANT CHART
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932 |(JOHANN) HEINRICH HEIDENREIC (1795-1879) | | | | | | | | |
933 |+ANNA KATHRINA HILT (1788-1856) | | | | | | | | | | | |
059 | |MARY HEIDENREIC (1829-1906) | | | | | | | | | | | |
058 | |+CASPER DUTE (1827-1900) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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400 |MARTIN DUTE (1812-1865)| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
ID: 043
Name: AUGUST ANTON DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Oct. 2, 1867
Birth place: Amherst, Ohio
Date of death: Apr. 1, 1951
Age at death: 83 years, 5 months, 30 days.
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: ELIZABETH ALICE MILLER (077) (1873-1959)
Wedding: 12/24/1890, Amherst, Ohio
Child 1: RUTH ESTELLA DUTE (037) (1891-1952)
Child 2: HOMER AUGUST DUTE (141) (1894-1918)
Child 3: WILLIAM ERWIN DUTE (140) (1898-1987)
Child 4: GLENN ALLAN DUTE (142) (1907-1988)
Note: "Gust"
Note: "Baba"
In the family Bible, his name looks like Anton Auhust to me.
He is mentioned in the 1870 census for Lorain Co., Ohio, when he
was 3. He was living on the old family homestead then, in Amherst. 11
children are mentioned there, but there were 15 altogether. And in
1896 there is an A. A. Dutes (sic) listed under N. Amherst Village as
a freeholder in Lorain right next to J. V. Dutes and C. Dutes ("Atlas
and Directory of Lorain County").
He grew up speaking German. Worked at the steel mill in Lorain. A
letter written to him by his brother-in-law Fred Lau makes it clear
that in 1889 he was thinking about going out to Nebraska if he could
get a job there on the railroad. He and his wife are buried in the
North Amherst Cemetery, the corner of which is just a couple houses
down from their home at 779 Cleveland Avenue.
He's listed in the 1900 census as a day laborer.
Valerie says he helped build some sort of terraced fountain in her
home, which she still lives in, at 439 Shupe Ave., around the time of
her first marriage. That's when he told her that he had been married
in that house, in front of the fireplace. This may actually have been
before Valerie's family moved in there. "Yes, I figured that they may
have known the former occupants. However, it's hard to really
determine, but when he told me the story" - in 1944 - "we were
standing in front of the fireplace and it was either my impression or
did he really mention my grandparents by name. I was really more
interested in my own upcoming marriage.... The deed says 1891 but they
often didn't registered those documents promptly." That deed ought to
tell when the house was bought, though, even if they didn't take it
down to the recorder's office til later.
I asked Valerie what church they went to. "Gust wound up
Methodist, I believe, but he didn't go to church much that I ever
knew." E-mail, 5/25/2001. Maybe his wife had been a Methodist.
"I was at Gust's house when he had his stroke. It was shortly
before he passed away. My ex-husband, my mother and I were down there
while the doctor was there. I think Glenn and Bill were also there- I
can't remember the funeral at all. Perhaps it was on a day when I was
teaching." Valerie, 5/9/2000.
He was my father's grandfather. Dad, 9/27/92: "I believe that my
mother's troubles with me" - asthma - "had something to do with the
fact that I was frequently farmed out to her parents in Amherst. This
was good for her, and it was great for me, as I came to love my
grandparents (Elizabeth and August Dute) and I looked forward eagerly
to the days and weekends spent there. They were both such dear people.
They paid scads of attention to me, their first grandchild, and I
soaked it up. In my baby talk, I called them Nanny and Baba, and these
stuck with them, even into my adulthood." Baba, in Hessian dialect,
means "father".
"Their house was on Cleveland Avenue," - 779 Cleveland Ave.,
Amherst, 44001, just east of St. Joseph Drive; now owned by John and
Angela McKitrick with their daughter Emily - "and I think was built
mostly by Elizabeth's brother William Miller (Uncle Will). What I
remember are the chicken coop, the goldfish pond, the corn field and
the cherry trees.
"There was a marvelous basement, where Baba would go to smoke his
pipe. Nanny made him smoke in the cellar, instead of smelling up the
house. While down there, Baba and I had great times, as he
demonstrated to me how he used his various hand tools, which he kept
in a special chest. He showed me how he made fish glue and other
incredible things. As time went on, he began to trust me with the
tools, as I tried out my own pet projects. The basement was also where
Baba slaughtered the chickens when required, and where the homegrown
popcorn was hung out to dry. I think I can still smell that basement
on a clear day.
"Another thing that grandpa enjoyed was teaching me to speak
German. He was proud of his heritage, and so he got me to say the
German alphabet and numbers, and to learn certain useful phrases, such
as ja wohl, wie geht's, ganz gut, schmierkaese (Limburger cheese) and
schmaltzgesicht (lard face)." Lois says he taught them to count from 1
to 10. "These lessons were light-hearted ones, delivered with a
chuckle. I guess they demonstrate that German was the language of
currency in Caspar's and Mary's household. They certainly were the
best-learned lessons of my life.
"At Easter, Baba made a big deal out of building a 'nest' for the
Easter rabbit. He then hid the necessary eggs for cousin Lois and me.
He was such a sweet and gentle man; my eyes still fill with tears when
I think about him."
At the end of the letter, Dad says this: "I could go on about
various matters, such as the family's political discussions, grandpa's
radio favorites, long continued mourning over their lost Homer, my
mother's death and funeral, etc. However, at this point, I can only
thank my good luck for placing me in the midst of this vital family of
Dutes. I feel the effect every day; they are in my fiber.
"There is one thing that has puzzled me about my grandfather's
relationship with his siblings. Baba always bragged about how big his
family was, something like fourteen brothers and sisters. I recall
talk about Uncle Jule and the Eschtruth family. Ethel Eppley and Ada
Braun were also names that I heard frequently. However, I do not
remember ever seeing any of Grandpa's siblings or their families.
Where were they?" Dad goes on to ask the other Dute descendants their
perceptions on this. Valerie has this to say: "...those who lived in
town visited often.... I know for a fact that the Wellington people
visited often, because thay would come to town on a Sunday--go to
Ada's, Gusts and us. My aunt used to get put out because they always
landed at our place at meal time. Martha from Nebraska would come for
a long stay and usually stayed with Gust, Rill from Michigan came
often. Those from Elyria and Lorain probably didn't make the effort
because of the roads." E-mail, 9/22/2000.
Cousin Lois: "Grandpa was quiet and had the nicest smile. He was a
gentle man who was a true farmer and a hard worker. He loved his
garden and tending the chickens. He loved the Laurel & Hardy movies
and if one was at the 'picture show' he would take me and then he
would laugh so hard. I always enjoyed watching him more than the
movie. They always took me to the Wellington Fair and I looked forward
to it. Every summer I would spend a couple of weeks with them. I know
your Dad did too."
Elizabeth Ann Dute Cody, 4/28/96: "Your great-grandparents, Anton
August" - she gets the first two names in the same order as in the
family Bible - "and Elizabeth Alice Miller Dute were married and had
their 50th anniversary in the living room of the house in which
Valerie" - Eppley Jenkins - "Gerstenberger lives, owned then by her
grandparents, John Anton and Mary Aurelia (Rilla or Orilla) Heussner
Dute." Valerie doesn't remember her grandmother being named Mary, just
Aurelia. And she says the 50th wedding anniversary was actually at
Casper's, but that depends where Casper was living then. "Valerie's
mother, Ruth Dute" - my records say her name was Ethel Elizabeth Dute
- "was a newborn at that time, but your great-grandfather told Valerie
about it many times over the years. When I visited Valerie last fall,
she showed me the very spot in the parlor where the bridal couple
stood during the ceremony, the minister with his back to the
fireplace."
And, on 5/3/96: "Bob's recollections of his grandparents, August
and Lizzie, are quite similar to mine. I did not know them (especially
grandma) as well as your father did probably because we usually went
to Amherst as a family of five on Sundays for the family dinners and
get-togethers. Rare was the opportunity for undivided attention. There
were a handful of weekends that I spent with these quiet and gentle
people. I idolized grandpa and trailed after him everywhere; it was a
treat being his 'helper' when he went to the field to get corn for
dinner or to pick red or black raspberries. Feeding the hens in the
chicken coop was a major deal. For this I got to examine the several
hens which were in separate cages. This is where he isolated the
aggressors who enjoyed pecking and injuring other hens (they went for
the eyes and the injuries were disgusting) and he always seemed to
have a couple which were on the mend. Accompanying him to the grocery
was special. We always walked which seemed so far for me but 'the
machine', as it was called, was used as little as possible." And
parenthetically: "My brother has a wonderful picture of your
grandmother at the wheel and father next to her with the
great-grandparents in the back seat." Continuing: "At grocery time
grandma would go to the kitchen cupboard (I can see the precise
location) and take down the small black coin purse. From this she
extracted the exact amount needed for the purchases plus 2 extra
pennies for a stop at the candy store on the way home. Grandpa's
favorite were the sugar-coated gelatin orange slices" - me, too -
"which you can still buy today and seeing then always reminds me of
him. My mother said that even in the early years when August worked in
the Lorain steel mills, he handed his money over to Lizzie who
controlled the purse strings. My father must have learned from her
because he adopted her frugal spending habits to the point of not
allowing my mother to knowe how much he was making or had in the bank.
He believed that the family shouldn't know how much money they had
because if there wasn't much they'd worry and if there was a lot,
they'd turn into spendthrifts.
"Ah yes, the basement. After dinner I would tag along with grandpa
to sit on his lap while he smoked his pipe. The preparation was
fascinating -- the banging of the last bits of old tobacco into a
Beechnut coffee tin, the packing of the pipe with the new tobacco from
a brown leather pouch, the lighting and puffing ritual which I can
still hear. Rocking with grandpa in tha old black leather chair is my
favorite memory of childhood. It was so peaceful and comforting. I
wouldn't trade that memory for anything in the world. When I visited
the old house last fall, seeing the basement was of the greatest
interest to me. I believe I could pinpoint the location of the old
rocker, and it was easy for the memory to drift back to those times
more than 50 years ago when I sat in it. It was so wonderful having
these grandparents. I'm so glad they were a part of my life."
ID: 044
Name: JOHN GEORGE DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Apr. 27, 1851
Birth place: Amherst
Date of death: Mar. 31, 1916
Age at death: 64 years, 11 months, 4 days.
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: MARY KREUZBERG (170) ( - )
The birthdate is from the family Bible that Elizabeth in Texas has,
which can be found on my website, wherein he's called Johan George
Dute. On the other hand, Elizabeth Alice Miller's date book says he
was born Apr. 25, 1851 and died at age 65. Valerie, for her part,
says, "I have a family Bible in which Johann George was the first born
April 27 1851." He's listed as 18 in the July 1870 census, which, for
what it's worth, implies he was born 1852.
He was given the same name as his grandfather and always used his
middle name, as did his grandfather, which was a common practice with
Germans then.
During the campaign when President Cleveland was elected, he was
going to march in a Democratic parade in support of Cleveland. He had
a big picture of Cleveland in his window, which he was proud to think
his Democratic friends would all see when they marched by. They saw
it, alright, but unfortunately it had been turned upside down. His
wife was a Republican.
They had two kids, Walter (who graduated from Amherst High School
in 1898, implying he was born about 1880; but he died young), and Ada.
Valerie says Walter died in 1916, same year as his father, and "I was
told by my mother that Walter died of Bright's Disease" (11/7/2000).
Ada married Philip Braun and they had two kids, Betty Marie and Paul.
Paul (John Paul or J. Paul) was the same age as Cousin Valerie, and
they spent a lot of time together. Paul was the valedictorian of
Amherst High in 1931, and his wife Ruth Morrow was an award-winning
artist who worked in silver. Ruth and Betty both died in May 1999,
same month as Paul's birthday.
"In Amherst's Salem Class of 1867 there is listed George Dute",
says Nancy Meyers.
John George is 28 in the 1880 census, in Black River, with his
wife Mary F. (26), and son Walter S., b. 11/1879. Valerie says they
went to the Congregational Church.
In the Elyria Republican, 2/13/1890, there's this note: "Mr. Ed.
Kretzberg, living in the northwest part of Amherst, was accidentally
thrown to the ground near Brownhelm station, and severely injured
about the head and under jaw. He was riding on the reach of his lumber
wagon, and a sudden start of the horse threw him off, and one of the
wheels passed over him, inflicting the wounds. He is at his
brother-in-law's, George J. Dute, and under the treatment of Dr.
Hall." George J. Dute married Mary Kreutzberg Shupe.
Deb Bromley provides his death date and adds, "m1: Elizabeth
Battham (b:1856, d:1876), married est. 1874, one daughter Hannah
b:Dec. 10, 1875, d: 1916) George's second marriage was to Mary Ann
Kreutzberg Shupe (b:1853, d:1932) in 1879. They had two children:
Walter S. (b:Nov. 28, 1879, d:Oct 16, 1916) and Ada Florentine
(b:1886, d:1963) who married Philip Braun and had J. Paul and Betty
Marie." E-mail, 8/28/2000. Deb also says his death cert adds that he
had Bright's disease for 10 years preceding his death, he died single,
he was a printer, and his mother was born in Amherst (e-mail,
11/27/2000). George's first marriage, though, and daughter Hannah,
seem doubtful. Valerie: "I called Paul this evening. He said he never
heard of a first marriage of his grandfather. When I told him of the
possibility that the first wife may have died in childbirth and the
baby too, he said he was sure he would have heard about it. I agree. I
think I would have heard something about it, too." E-mail, 9/23/2000.
She also says George did not die single. "That is far from the truth.
George died when I was 3 years old. I don't remember him, but his wife
Mary I remember very well. She died when I was in my late teens -
perhaps even into my twenties. I will check with Paul, her grandson.
Anyway, I visited Aunt Mary George many, many times. Paul's family
lived with her when Paul and I were in junior high and high school.
Aunt Mary had her own private apartment. The Braun's had the rest of
the house." E-mail, 10/5/02. Valerie adds, 5/9/08: "George's only
daughter to my knowledge was Ada born May 16, 1886. George would have
been 35 years old--so it is possible that he was married before. His
grandson and I were playmates and we never heard about it." She thinks
he may have gotten mixed up with a George from one of the other lines,
like the George Dute who died by hanging in Russia Twp., or someone
from Martin Dute's branch.
ID: 045
Name: CATHERINE ANN DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: Apr. 24, 1853
Birth place: Amherst
Date of death: Oct. 10, 1911
Age at death: 58 years, 5 months, 16 days.
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: FERDINAND ESCHTRUTH (171) (1849-1910)
Wedding: 4/16/1873, Lorain Co.
Note: Listed as 16 in the census taken in July 1870.
Note: "Kate". Anna Kathrina in the family Bible.
Catharina Dute is found in the 1867 Salem (Sunday school?) Class,
according to Nancy Meyers.
She died of liver cancer, according to Deb Bromley. Had one kid,
Elsie, who married Harry Parsons and moved to Clearwater, Fla. They
had two kids, Jerald and Joan. Cousin Valerie: "Joan, although one
year younger than Jerald wanted to grduate with her brother so she
took two years in one. This ambitious accomplishment caused her health
to deteriorate. However, both of them went on to attend the University
of Tampa. Jerald was accepted on a music scholarship. He later went
into the Navy....
"Joan's daughter, Carol, and granddaughter, Holly, have both been
in modeling. Carol won many beauty contests. Holly won third place in
the Miss Florida beauty pageant. She is now the Clinical Research
Coordinator at United Specialists in Clinical Research in Tampa.
Christina, the daughter of Boots, was just listed in Who's Who in
American High School Students. She expects to attend Vanderbilt
University and major in mechanical engineering.
"Elsie and Harry adopted Diane, the daughter of Harry's niece.
Diane has spent much of her life as a pop singer. She first started
with Benny Bartlett's Band as lead singer when she was still a child.
She continued to sing in night clubs with major bands for many years,
and travelled with the road show of 'Damn Yankees' in which she also
had a lead. Her stage name is Avril Ames."
Elsie's daughter Joan tells me that Elsie and Harry moved to
Florida because Joan had a bad case of whooping cough, and they liked
it there so they decided to stay. Valerie tells me (10/5/02) they
didn't actually stay but went back to Ohio for a few years, then sold
their house and business and bought property in Florida. They did not
go there because Joan's grandmother Kate Dute Eschtruth lived there,
as Valerie states in her Dute family history, but because Joan's
Parsons grandparents did. Joan says Elsie died at 50, and Joan's
husband died when Joan was 35. Valerie says (5/28/2000) that Joan
lives in a small apartment out behind the house of her daughter Joan
(AKA "Boots"). "She sold her antiques business, but has been unable to
collect from the buyers."
On a couple of other relatives: "There was another relative who
lived in St. Pete and that was Annia M. Ames. There also was another
relative Donald Eschtruth 2611 Espanola Ave. Sarasota Fla." From Joan
Allen's letter of 11/10/2000.
Joan unfortunately died on 7/21/2003, after a stroke on April 30.
Valerie: "Did I ever mention to you that strokes are what has taken
many of the Dute clan. My aunt, my mother, Harvey, Casper, August,
Anton, Anna, Eliza, Henry, Jake, Julius. There have been numerous in
my mother's generation. I know of only one cancer, Martha." E-mail,
7/22/03.
I reconstruct the following tree from Joan Allen's letter
postmarked 6/6/2000 ("I hate to write letters because I am not a brain
like Valerie", she says).
Catherine Ann Dute
+ Ferdinand Eschtruth
Elsie Dorothy Eschtruth 3/14/1887-1/26/1943; b. in Amherst
+ Harold Redfern Parsons 8/10/1885-2/10/1966
Joan Catherine Parsons m. in Hollywood 1938
+ Ira Franklin Allen
Carol Joan Allen; flower girl at Val's 1st wedding
+ --- Brown
Joan "Boots" Allen
+ --- Loughridge
ID: 046
Name: ELIZABETH DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: Oct. 7, 1854
Birth place: Amherst
Date of death: June 1930
Age at death: 75 or 76
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: NATHAN MILLER (172) (1849-1923)
Note: Liza; called Eliza in the 1870 census. Listed as 14 years
Note: old then. Anna Elisabt Dute in the family Bible.
Anna Elizabeth Dute in Elizabeth Alice Miller's date book. Of the
Wellington clan - they lived down south in Wellington. Nine kids. Lots
of engineers and redheads in this part of the family. Son L. G. Miller
was a lifelong friend of Uncle William E. Dute. "He and his wife Ruth
Miller stood up for my step-mother Lucille and my Dad when they were
married. I use to carry my car insurance with LG when I was first
married. They lived in Elyria.... He had red hair. Very nice people."
Lois, 6/12/2000.
Nancy Meyers: "In Amherst's Salem Class of 1867 there is listed...
Elizabeth Dute". Salem was the name of a church where Casper Dute's
farm was located, according to a local genealogist Valerie knows.
ID: 047
Name: JOHN ANTON DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Apr. 13, 1856
Birth place: Amherst
Date of death: Jan. 8, 1896
Age at death: 39 years, 8 months, 26 days.
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: AURELIA HEUSSNER (163) (1856-1899)
Wedding: 12/7/1881
Child 1: AMELIA MAY (MARY) DUTE (164) (1884-1952)
Child 2: ETHEL ELIZABETH DUTE (166) (1890-1980)
Note: Johann Anton Dute in the Bible. He was always called John.
Note: The birthdate here is also from the Bible.
Cousin Valerie says he was born in 1856, and Elizabeth Alice Miller's
datebook agrees; he was 12 in the 1870 census which implies 1858 but
that must be wrong. The datebook also seems to have the date of death
as June 9th 1896. Married someone with a German last name, as did most
of The Patriarch's children. Lived in a house on the bride's parents'
farm. John Anton and Aurelia were Cousin Valerie's grandparents.
Valerie: "One might say that the family experienced its own form of
tragedy. They moved from Henrietta to 439 Shupe Avenue, Amherst" -
where Valerie still lives - "about 1891. In 1893 Aurelia's father,
Adam Heussner, died. It is probably at this point that Aurelia's
mother moved in with her daughter and husband. Three years laterin
1896, John Dute died which left the family without any male member.
Just what they did is not known, but they managed to keep the Amherst
house." The Patriarch was still alive then, so he may have helped out.
John A. Dute is in the 1880 census, age 24, living in the house of
Adam Heussner, his future father-in-law, in Henrietta. Aurelia was
living there, too, age 24. Her parents and his all b. Germany. There
is also a Jno. A. Dute listed as a freeholder in Lorain in 1896
("Atlas and Directory of Lorain County"). Anton John Dute is also in
this book as A. Dute, Birmingham listed under Henrietta Twp. John Dute
went to the Congregational Church.
"Three years later in 1899 Aurelia died leaving the grandmother to
care for Amelia and Ethel, ages nine and fifteen. The following year
the grandmother passed away leaving the 'girls', as they came to be
known, without a family at all. In a matter of six years they had lost
their entire immediate family. They were taken in by Anton Dute and
his wife, Mary who were childless and near the age of the 'girls''
parents. This caused understandable turmoil in the lives of two very
young girls."
Valerie, in answer to a question I asked about education and the
Dutes: "Never having known my grandfather, John I can't really say
about him. I was only 8 when great uncle Anton died and I don't
remember hearing anything said about education. Although my mother
finished high school which was a bit unusual in her day, at least for
a girl. So perhaps Uncle Anton was pro education since he was her
guardian from the time she was 10. She took a test at the county seat
after she graduated from high school and was certified to teach school
which she did. However, after my father died and she went back to
teaching it wasn't long before teachers had to have at least 2 years
of college to become a certified teacher in Ohio and that requirement
kept growing so she had to keep going to school and teaching for many
years. It was quite a challenge with a small child, no car and the
nearest college 50 miles away. She spent many summers away from
home."
ID: 048
Name: ANTON DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: July 29, 1858
Birth place: Amherst, OH
Date of death: Aug. 7, 1921
Age at death: 63 years, 0 months, 9 days.
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: MARY ESCHTRUTH (173) ( -1940)
Note: Listed as 10 in the 1870 census, where he's called Anthony.
Red hair. Had a dry goods store and then sold insurance. Clarence Earl
Cooper took over his insurance business, and was the uncle with
whom Valerie and her mother wound up living. Anton is in the 1880
census, living in the house of Mikel Rheinhardt, age 21, dry goods
clerk. Valerie says he went to the Evangelical (now Old Stone
Methodist) Church.
There is an A. Dute listed as a freeholder in Birmingham in
Henrietta Twp. in 1896 ("Atlas and Directory of Lorain County").
He's in the 1900 census as a salesman, with wife Mary and nieces
Amelia and Ethel. He and Mary were childless, says Valerie, and they
took in the orphaned Ameila and Ethel in 1900.
In 1907, among the congregation officers of Old Stone Church was
Anton Dute, according to Nancy Meyers, and he was in the Lend a Hand
class.
His death certificate says he died of apoplexy (stroke), and it
also supplies the death date here.
Valerie has his baptismal certificate. It has lots of fancy
graphics around the border, and the printing on it is in Fraktur with
the blanks filled in in the old German Suetterlin script. It gives
Mary Heidenreich Dute's name as Annamaria, which is new info. The
baptismal witnesses are Anton and Elissa Hassenpflug (which is hard to
read and may actually be Anton and Elisa Hasenpflug), who must be
Casper's first cousin Rev. Anton Hasenpflug and his wife Elizabeth
Heussner. It reads:
Geburts- und Taufschein
Den beiden Ehegatten, als: Caspar Dute
und
seiner ehelichen Hausfrau Annamaria
eine geborne Heidenreich ist ein Kind zur
Welt geboren den 29ten Juli im Jahre
unsers Herrn 1858. Dieses Kind wurde geboren in
Lorien Caunti
im Staate Ohio
in Amhorst und wurde getauft mit
dem Namen Andon
am 21ten Januar im Jahre unsers
Heern 1859 von Herren G. Reider
Die Taufzeugen waren: Anton Hassenpflug
u Elissa Hassenpflug
In English this is:
Birth and Baptismal Certificate
To the two honored spouses, namely: Caspar Dute
and
to his honored wife Annamaria
nee Heidenreich, was a child born
to the world on the 29th of July in the year
of our Lord 1858. This child was born in
Lorien Caunti
in the State of Ohio
in Amhorst and was baptised with
the name Andon
on the 21st of January in the year of our
Lord 1859 by Mr. G. Reider
The baptismal witnesses were: Anton Hassenpflug
and Elissa Hassenpflug
Valerie: "I am sure the way I arrived to possession of this
document is because Uncle Anton was named guardian of my mother and
her sister Amelia.... Their grandfather Heussner died in 1893. In
1896 their father died and in 1899 their mother died. This left them
here in this house" - on Shupe Ave. - "with their grandmother,
Elizabeth Hasenphlug Heussner who died in 1900. (Incidentally, most
of the deaths occurred in the spring March,April and May. My mother
and her sister have April birthdays. My mother's sister, Amelia also
died in April as did her husband. (I have some apprehension when those
months roll around.)". 7/19/04.
ID: 049
Name: ANNA MARTHA DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: Nov. 8, 1859
Birth place: Amherst
Date of death: 1932
Age at death: 72 or 73
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: FRED LAU (174) ( - )
Note: 8 years old in 1870. Anna Marta Dute in the Bible.
Note: "Marthy"
She and her husband settled out west in Nebraska sometime before 1899.
Cousin Valerie: "Aunt Marthy had very thick hair that she wore in a
braid around her head. Her hair was dark, but it had tints of red.
Marthy came quite often to Ohio to visit her brothers and sisters and
their families."
"She gave me a quilt top that was pieced in red white and blue. I
never had it made into a quilt and finally sold it to an antique
dealer. It was supposed to be for my trousseau." Valerie, e-mail,
11/6/2000.
ID: 050
Name: J. HENRY DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Oct. 20, 1861
Birth place: Amherst
Date of death: Oct. 13, 1943
Age at death: 81 years, 11 months, 23 days.
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: ELIZABETH MERTZ (175) ( - )
Wedding: 1872
Note: 7 years old in the 1870 census. The name is not clearly
Note: written in the Bible, but it looks like Johen or Johan Heinrig Dute.
Cousin Valerie: "Henry and Lizzie lived on Maple Street in Amherst. It
appears that this may have been the most married of the Dute brothers
and sisters. After Lizzie died Henry married three times. The count is
not certain. The first marriage produced five children." They were
Harry Dute Sr. (who had one son), Casper John Dute (Little Cass),
Viola Dute, Lulu Dute, and Rev. Henry Dute, a Methodist minister.
Valerie says J. Henry went to St. Peter's, the same church the Martin
Dutes went to.
Deb Bromley says his second wife was (Mrs.) Carrie Gillette (dau
of Ormel/Orimel/Oramel Barney and Elizabeth A. Crocker), born Oct 1858
according to the 1900 census; her first husband was Buel S. Gillett,
1848-1922 (though the 1900 census says he was born July 1853 in OH);
they were m. 1876 in Amherst and had a son Jay B. Gillett b. abt. 1877
(May 1872 in 1900 census) in Amherst, mother's name Carrie Fannie
Barney. Deb also has Henry's death date as 9/27/1926, but that's
probably wrong.. Valerie thinks he had a third marriage but can't
remember who. She says his third wife was from Darke Co. (11/28/2000).
On the other hand, Clare Reinhard says that "Henry's first wife was
from Greenville, Ohio in Darke County" (Valerie, 11/8/2000). Or maybe
she was from Lima. Apparently J. Henry lived there with his third wife
and is buried there; one of them died shortly after they were married.
Deb: "Since Henry Dute's first wife, Lizzie Mertz, didn't die until
1930, and Carrie died in 1932, it would seem they married at a very
old age and would have only have had barely a year together before she
died." Valerie has a copy of their marriage license - "Carrie signed
her name Carrie L. Gillette June 5, 1931." (There was also an Amelia
Baumann who married a Henry Dute, but that's the Martin Dute line.)
Regarding Viola, Valerie says she "died in 1976" - not the same
year her brother Henry died, as reported in the Cemetery Inscription
Book for Lorain Co. "The reason I remember it so well is that I was
president of the the Amherst Historical Society and in charge of a lot
of parade activity for the bicentennial. When Viola was in the funeral
parlor waiting for burial, I was walking past ringing a bell at the
head of our unit. I felt so guilty that I hadn't been able to visit,
because Viola was at our house a lot." E-mail, 5/3/2001.
Valerie says (9/23/2000) Viola Dute "married three times and said
she was looking for her fourth". The first was Reinhard - a shotgun
wedding, apparently. The second was Will Berg from Oberlin, and the
third was Arnosk. Viola had a daughter named Kunigunda after Henry
Reinhard's mother. Kunigunda died when she was two. Clare's family
told Valerie "that Kunigunda arrived shortly after Viola and Henry R.
were married and that Viola said that was why they lost her so soon."
Hard to see what the connection would be, but Viola subsequently had
three sons. "Two of the boys, the eldest" - Walter Reinhard - "and
youngest" - Clare Reinhard - "owned and operated their own restaurants
in Oberlin. The middle boy, Lloyd, owned an interest in Walter's
famous Wishbone restaurant on Route 10, Oberlin. It was a very popular
place to go for a good old-fashioned chicken dinner....
"Viola sent Lloyd to live with her brother Rev. Henry Dute in
Tonawanda. Here Lloyd graduated from high school. He found his niche
and decided to become a pilot. He became one of the major pilots for
American Air Lines. His final job as Assistant Chief Pilot resulted in
his death. There were 5 pilots who were flying a 707. One of them did
something wrong which could not be corrected and all pilots were lost
in the waters of Long Island." Lloyd's grandson Steven Brian Jaekle is
also a pilot.
Clare was a radio operator in the service during the war. "After
the war he and his wife settled in Oberlin" - he still lived there as
of 2000 - "where they bought and operated the Pen and Pencil
Restaurant on W. College Street. From 1956 to 1966 many college
students found their way to the restaurant for nourishment of the mind
and body. It was THE place to go for college students as well as
residents. They became famous for their hot fudge sundaes which were
made from a recipe that Clare obtained from Ohly, a pharmacist who
served ice cream at his Oberlin store. The recipe can be found in a
book called The Peculiar Palate by Friends of Oberlin. The sundaes
sold for 25 cents. Also popular with the college crowd were
Obieburgers and bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches. The students
not only enjoyed the food, but cramming, studying and even classes
were sometimes held in the restaurant. The meals could be put on a
tab. The day of the 69-cent dinner can no longer be found in Oberlin
or anywhere else." Clare had 6 kids who are now scattered. He died
March 25 2007. Valerie says there is an error in the newspaper article
about him: it says he had a sister named Lulu. "He had an aunt Lulu,
his mother's sister." Clare was the last of J. Henry's grandchildren,
but I gather had a sister-in-law Beverly Reinhard Warrenfeltz in CA.
Valerie: "...one of Clare's boys evidently has had several wives....
It seems to run in the family."
Walter Reinhard had a daughter Gloria Reinhard of Riverside CA who
died in 2000 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in S. Amherst where
her parents and sister are. (Valerie, 11/7/2000.)
Casper John Dute (Little Cass) had 4 kids: Roy Casper (d. 1970),
Dorothy, and Joyce (Dute Buswell) and Jerald (twins). Roy was in the
Army Corps of Engineers. Deb Bromley says he was in the plaster
business. His wife's name is Donna and she lives in S. Amherst. Roy's
son Roland Roy was Valedictorian in 1965 for South Amherst High
School. "He repeated this record by graduating from Ohio State
University in 1969 cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa." He
got a Master's and a Ph.D. in Botany, and has taught at various
universities, most recently at Auburn University in Alabama. He has a
slight interest in genealogy. Ray Dute (of the Jacob line) tells me
there is a Ray in this part of the family too, by the line Casper John
(b. 1887), Jerald Howard of Lagrange, and Ray Alan.
Dorothy Charlotte Dute Kuraczi, daughter of Little Cass and
Elizabeth of Park Ave. in Amherst, d. 1970 and had a son Dan Kuraczi
Jr., who has some interest in genealogy, and a daughter Donna. (E-mail
from Dan, 3/2/2001).
ID: 051
Name: JULIUS VALENTINE DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: May 29, 1863
Birth place: Amherst
Date of death: Aug. 26, 1951
Age at death: 88 years, 2 months, 28 days.
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: MARTHA ESCHTRUTH (176) ( - )
Note: 5 in the 1870 census. Valentin Julius Dute in the Bible.
Jules and Marthy had 3 kids: Jay, Nelson, and Reuben. Cousin Val:
"Jay, according to family, was born prior to their marriage." County
records say Jay's father was actually a man named Henry Keller
(Marilyn Tyler: "poor child she was only 15 when she had him") and he
was born 9/9/1877 in Sheffield. Nancy Dovci says after Jay was born he
was taken into Marthy's family and treated as the youngest child, as
his mother's youngest brother. Then after Jules married Marthy, Jules
adopted Jay. Valerie: "He lived in Michigan and sometimes went by the
name of Eshctruth and sometimes by Dute. Little else is known of him."
Deb Bromley (1/5/02) suggests that he married Anna Eliza Selig.
Valerie: "Reuben married and lived near his parents in a house that
has also been torn down" - along with the parents' house. "Reuben was
a farmer as was his father.
"The only grandchildren of Jules are those of Reuben's."
Granddaughter Eleanor was the head of the Cataloging/Processing Dept.
of the Lorain Public Library. She has a son who works for Hughes
Aircraft in Ca.
There is a J. V. Dutes listed as a freeholder in 1896 in Lorain
under the heading N. Amherst Village ("Atlas and Directory of Lorain
County"). Valerie says Julius went to the Evangelical, now Old Stone
Methodist, Church.
Julius Dute is a cattle buyer in the 1900 census, listed with
Martha, wife, b. May 1863, and sons Nelson and Reuben.
J. V. Dute and Reuben Dute are in the 1915 list of the men's class
of the Old Stone Church according to Nancy Meyers.
Valerie says she knew Reuben and his parents very well. She knows
"where they once lived and where the greenhouse once was. The space
is now a car agency."
Here's a partial family tree. Some of this info comes from Kristin
Dute:
Julius Valentine Dute
+ Martha Eschtruth
Jay
Nelson
Reuben
Eleanor
James - engineer
Wendy
John - works for Hughes Aircraft
Tom Dute - of Amherst
+ Carol
Erik
Kristin Dute
Ronda - Grew up on Reuben's 65-acre farm in Amherst
Jetaime
Kenny - in Air Force, depolyed to Iraq 2005, age 22
Ross
Ryan
ID: 052
Name: ANNA DORA DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: Feb. 27, 1865
Birth place: Amherst
Date of death: July 17, 1933
Place of death: Elyria Memorial Hospital
Age at death: 68 years, 4 months, 20 days.
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: JOHN KRUGMAN (177) (1865-1939)
Note: 4 in the 1870 census. Anne Dore Dute in the Bible.
Cousin Valerie: "Anna and John Krugman had 1 boy and 3 girls. One
girl, Ruby may be ahead of any other Dute descendants in the number of
children and grandchildren. However, Elmer is the one with children
who shone at one of the last Dute reunions held at Viola's place in
Oberlin. Elmer's four boys entertained the relatives most of the
afternoon with their music. Going by the only picture available we
think the youngest was Norman who played the jug and who was the
darling of the day. The eldest, Ralph, played the guitar. The next was
probably Oscar who played the ukelele, and Earl on the harmonica."
In addition to Elmer, Lauretta, Ruby, and Dorothy, Cousin Elizabeth A.
Dute says Anna and John had sons Paul Louis (2/12/1894 - 11/7/1976)
and Henry (b. 12/30/1897).
The death date and place here come from Deb Bromley, who found the
death certificate. It also says she lived at 315 11th St. in Elyria
and is buried in Ridgelawn Cemetery.
ID: 053
Name: AURELIA MARIE DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: July 6, 1869
Birth place: Amherst
Date of death: 1927
Age at death: 57 or 58
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: ALBERT KERN (178) (1869-1935)
Note: "Rill". 1/2 year old in the 1870 census. Her name is spelled
Note: Orilla there. It's Maria Orilla Dute in the Bible.
Cousin Valerie: "Aurelia went to live in Michigan. One son, Arthur,
went on to run for the office of mayor of Detroit. Arthur's wife,
Emma, and Arthur are retired to Florida." She says he died 4/5/1952. I
had no luck finding any other info on him. Ray Dute, 10/6/1999: "I
could never find Arthur Kern, either, but he had a habit of changing
his name (could be incognito) being from Detroit area."
Deb Bromley says Aurelia married "Albert H. Kern on July 8, 1896
in Lorain County. I have only one child, Arthur H. Kern. There's a
hypothesis that Albert Kern was from Kentucky, and that Arthur (born
1897) married Elsie Telford in Illinois in 1920 and eventually ended
up with family back in Kenton County, Kentucky, passing away there on
April 2, 1979 at the age of 82. Arthur H. may have a son named Arthur
H.??? This hypothesis just comes from someone's vague recollection in
my notes..." From an e-mail of 7/26/2000.
I asked Joan Allen, a Catherine Ann Dute descendant who lives in
Clearwater, Fla. whether the Kerns had ever lived in St. Pete. "Uncle
Albert and Aunt Rill never lived in St. Pete. After Aunt Rill died" -
1927 - "Uncle Albert came down every winter and stayed with my Father.
My Mother had died the year before so they were company for each
other." In her letter of 11/27/2000 she says her mother actually died
in 1943. In any case, "The last year he came down he met a young girl
when he got home and married her." From her letter of 11/10/2000.
ID: 054
Name: HARVEY DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Jan. 16, 1871
Date of death: Feb. 15, 1925
Age at death: 54 years, 0 months, 30 days.
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Note: "Harv". Johanes Harwe Dute in the Bible
Cousin Valerie: "Harvey was the only one of the Dute children who did
not marry. He worked on the farm of Henry Kolb. One morning he was
found in the barn, dead of a heart attack." She doesn't remember him,
but she remembers when he died. "I distinctly remember my uncle coming
home and telling us about it. Harvey had a stroke and passed out in
the barn." Karen Krugman dug out his obit, which can be found on my
website. It says he died, at age 54, on Mefster Road. She corrects
this to Meister Road, but Valerie says it was actually on Kolbe Road
(which road was, by the way, named after one of Valerie's ancestors).
Deb Bromley supplies his death date and says he was born
1/16/1871. His birthdate in the Dute family Bible agrees, but it is
hard to read and it may be 1870. The 1900 census says he was b. Jan.
1871. If he died at 54, that implies he was born 1871. So he was
probably born in 1871 rather than 1870.
ID: 055
Name: JACOB HENRY DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Aug. 15, 1872
Date of death: Apr. 5, 1954
Age at death: 81 years, 7 months, 21 days.
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: ELLA PEMBER (179) ( - )
Wedding: Christmas Day, 1900
Note: Heinrig Jacob Dute in the Bible.
Note: "Jake".
Cousin Valerie: "Jacob always thought that 13 was his lucky number
because he was the 13th child. He was still active at his chosen
occupation, blacksmithing, well into his eighties. He claimed that he
could feel down on waking in the morning, but the smell of the forge
would put him 'in the pink'. He took his apprenticeship with Henry
Claus in Amherst and while he was there he also learned wagon making.
At the completion of his apprenticeship he went to work for Henry
Frederick Buggy Shop on Broadway and 10th street in Lorain. He kept
this position for 33 years and then went out on his own. At first he
had a shop in Wellington then he moved to Amherst and set up his
itinerant shop by converting a Model T Ford to a blacksmith shop. He
finally settled in Berlin Heights, but he continued his rounds.
"Jake once related to a news reporter how shoeing was a difficult
job. One had only 3/8ths of an inch thickness in which to drive the
nail that held the shoe to the hoof. If it is driven in at the wrong
angle the hoof could split or the horse might die of lockjaw in a few
days. (The above information was taken from a news clipping when Jake
was interviewed in 1952.)
"Jake married Ella on Christmas morning and they were together for
54 years." Ella Pember graduated from Amherst High School in 1898, in
the same class with her husband's nephew Walter Dute. She had silver
hair from age 17. She claimed to be descended from Sir Francis Drake.
"He has been described as an ornery man who walked a mile each way to
the Teaco Inn every day for a beer. Although he had experienced the
hard work of a black-smith, in his later years he enjoyed raising
flowers, and vegetables. He also raised rabbits to sell. In the
evenings he would sit in his favorite chair and listen to the
Cleveland Indian ball games. In his younger days, Jake had made the
first truck body for Lorain Towel Supply Company."
Ray Dute adds, "Jacob was proud of his German background and
always kept 'bottled beer in a bucket' tied to a rope and cooled in a
cistern next to the back door of his home. When he would rest in the
house, in his oversized home-made rocker next to the window, he could
keep an eye on the cistern cover." He was the last traditional
blacksmith in Erie County, Ohio. He raised several hundred rabbits at
a time.
Jake had 4 kids: Edna, Warren, Leonard, and Sylvester. Valerie
thinks Edna married a Shauver. "Jake's eldest child, Edna was an
excellent seamstress. Her nieces benefited from her willingness to sew
all kinds of clothes for them. Edna taught piano and could play just
about anything by ear. Many good times are remembered at her home....
"Leonard was managing editor of the Ashtabula News for many years.
He started by working for the Sandusky Star Journal, Lorain Times
Herald, East Liverpool Gazette and a newspaper in New Mexico. He
always had a mustache, and freckles. Those freckles were a family
trait that were inherited by a good many of the Dute clan.
"Sylvester was known to the family as Bus or Buster. He is
described by his daughter as a kind man who never wanted to see anyone
in trouble. He worked two jobs most of the time. He was a policeman
and mailman in Huron. When his daughter, Joanne, had her hair that
reached down to her waist cut into a short ducktail he cried.
Sylvester divorced Otilla by whom 8 children were born and married
Georgia Murphy.... (Most of the information about Jake's family was
taken from a family history by Joanne Grant, grand daughter.)"
Joanne Dute married Lynford Grant in 1959, then they were divorced
about 1985 then remarried in 1986. Ray Dute is the other main
researcher in this line. Ray's wife is related to Walter Sprankel who
did some Dute research in Germany. Their descendancy is:
Jacob Dute
Sylvester Jacob Dute 3/16/1918-6/24/1981
Joanne Margaret Dute b. Berlin Heights, OH
Raymond Donald Dute b. Norwalk, OH
+ Judith Ann Sprankel
ID: 056
Name: CASPER GLEIM DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Jan. 30, 1875
Date of death: July 11, 1948
Age at death: 73 years, 5 months, 11 days.
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Spouse: MARY ANN HOLZHAUER (180) ( - )
Note: "Cass"
Ran a grocery and dry goods store in Amherst. His parents' 50th
anniversary was held at his house, but Valerie isn't sure where that
was because he moved around a lot; and she thinks he always rented.
Had a son Harold Lorenz who served briefly during WW I. Harold was
born 12/29/1899 (what a birthdate) according to his daughter Barbara
Dute Hart (e-mail, 1/22/2001). I gather that Barbara had a daughter
Barbara Leslie Hart, and that Harold married Mary Frances Fergus on
6/14/1922 in Franklin Co. Barbara says her father Harold was a dentist
but his avocation was cabinetry and he made her many pieces of
furniture. "My son has inherited his talents and also builds
furniture, and wooden boats." Her gr-grandfather Lawrence Holzhouer
was a cabinet-maker too. (E-mail, 2/20/02.)
Valerie says that Casper's wife was a Holzhauer, not a
Hollingsworth as she reported in her book "Dute Family History and
Genealogy". (E-mail, 7/12/02.)
Harold's daughter Barbara Dute Hart had this to say about her
family: "Harold Lorenz Dute-b.Dec.29,1899 in Amherst,Ohio married Mary
Frances Fergus on June 14,1922. Graduated Ohio State University with
degree DDS in June,1922 Practiced dentistry in London,Ohio and
Columbus,Ohio until he entered the Army in 1930" - no mention of
service in WW I -"when he was commissioned as a first Lieut. in the
Medical corps.Served at Camp (now Fort) Knox,KY and Fort Hayes in
Columbus,Ohio and at various CCC camps in Ohio,Indiana,and
Kentucky.Transferred to the Army Air Force in 1940 and served at
Bolling Field,DC and Langley Field,Virginia until his retirement as a
Colonel in 1946. Became chief dental officer at Veterans hospitals in
Michigan,Illinois and California.Retired to Poquoson,VA where he
designed and built a home and where he served on the Poquoson School
board. Children- Mary Barbara-born April 28,1923 in Columbus,Ohio John
Casper-born September 1,1928 in Columbus,Ohio He died in his home in
Poquoson,VA on July 8,1970.Cause of death-heart fibrilation.from which
rescue could not revive him. Barbara married Leslie Freeman Hart on
July 17,1943 at Langley Field Chapel. Two children- Barbara Leslie b.
Dec 31,1948 in Washington,DC.and Kevin Dute Hart b.March 19,1951 in
Pittsburgh,Pa John Casper married Jean Monroe Nov.,11,1949.Three
children Susan Lee,b June 1,1952,Mary Nancy,b.April.6,1956 and John
Fergus b.June 28,1957. John Casper was divorced in 1980 and married
Rachel Legg March 15,1980." From Valerie's e-mail of 10/6/04 8:03 PM.
Regarding Casper G. Dute's middle name, it looks like Gleim in the
Dute Bible, and we now know that that was his father's father's
mother's maiden name. Valerie: "Barbara and I have both verified Gleim
from Uncle Cass's own signature and from some documents that Barbar
had." It's Casper Glime Dute on the back of a wedding picture Barbara
sent me. German "Gleim" is pronounced the same as English "Glime".
Barbara says he always signed his name Casper G. Dute; and that's the
way his signature is on the division of property after his mother
died; and Valerie found it that way in some church records (7/12/02).
Valerie has it as Cleine in her history of the Dute family, and Casper
Cleine means Little Casper, so this also makes sense. I've heard
"Cleine" used that way in a German name before. But she also tells me
he was called Big Cass, and had a nephew who was called Little Cass;
this may reflect the state of affairs at the time Valerie was young.
She says the mixup started with the Heussner record, which has
"Cleine" with a question mark next to it, and it got propagated from
there. My guess is his middle name unofficially morphed from Gleim to
Klein somewhere along the line. (And in the Hessian dialect G and K
were often confused.)
Valerie: "Many years ago, when I was too young to care about such
things I remember my mother commenting as we passed a certain house on
Main Street here in town" - Amherst - "that it was where Casper lived.
I don't know if she meant Casper Sr. or Casper Gleim." She continues:
"I am guessing it was Casper Gleim because when Barbara was here she
was quite excited excited about seeing it. Uncle Cass lived in
another house on the same street. That I know for sure". See her
e-mail of 5/14/2008. She promises to get the address. She says it's
just before a curve.
In the same e-mail Valerie attributes to her mother that "one of
the grandmothers came from Alsace. She supposedly spoke better German
than the others." The German they speak in Alsace is called High
German, which some imagine to be better German than other dialects; on
the other hand they speak High German in Hessen, too. More on Alsace
below.
Barbara sent Valerie a medal that came from Casper G. Dute. It
says, in German, "To the brave person from Hessen", dated 1821, on one
side; and "God broke the enemies' power and Hessen was free",
1814-1815, on the other. (E-mail, 9/22/02.) Who did this medal come
from? Napoleon first fell from power in 1814, and Waterloo was in
1815, and he died in 1821. Henry Heidenreich fought in the Napoleonic
wars, but according to his obit he fought for Napoleon, not against
him; so it's hard to say where the medal came from.
On the possible Alsace origins of the Dute family, Barbara Dute
Hart's mother Mary Frances Dute (nee Fergus) always claimed Dute was
Alsatian and used the acute accent on the "e", "but she was a bit of a
snob so I didn't pay any attention.My brother uses the accent also and
our mother made both of us take French in high school."
ID: 057
Name: ORLIE FERDINAND DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: May 23, 1876
Birth place: Ohio
Date of death: Feb. 10, 1877
Place of death: Amherst
Age at death: 0 years, 8 months, 18 days.
Mother: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Father: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Note: Died young. Orle Feodenand (?) Dute in the Bible.
Note: The cause of death looks like "Inf. lungs".
ID: 058
Name: CASPER DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Jan. 28, 1827
Birth place: Rotenburg, Hesse, Germany
Date of death: Apr. 13, 1900
Age at death: 73 years, 2 months, 16 days.
Mother: ANNA CATHERINE MILLER (061) (1804-1868)
Father: JOHANN GEORGE DUTE (060) (1799-1875)
Spouse: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Wedding: 3/1/1850, Amherst, Oh.
Child 1: JOHN GEORGE DUTE (044) (1851-1916)
Child 2: CATHERINE ANN DUTE (045) (1853-1911)
Child 3: ELIZABETH DUTE (046) (1854-1930)
Child 4: JOHN ANTON DUTE (047) (1856-1896)
Child 5: ANTON DUTE (048) (1858-1921)
Child 6: ANNA MARTHA DUTE (049) (1859-1932)
Child 7: J. HENRY DUTE (050) (1861-1943)
Child 8: JULIUS VALENTINE DUTE (051) (1863-1951)
Child 9: ANNA DORA DUTE (052) (1865-1933)
Child 10: AUGUST ANTON DUTE (043) (1867-1951)
Note: Kasper Dute in the family Bible.
The Patriarch. Came from Asmushausen Parish, in Rotenburg-an-der-
Fulda, in Hessen-Cassel, in Germany. According to Walter Sprankel, a
researcher in Germany, he was born 1/28/1827 at 6 PM and baptized
2/9/1827 in Asmushausen. His father brought the family here in 1834,
though I can't find any Dutes in 1840 or 1850 Ohio.
After first holding their meetings on John Berg's farm and then
Adam Hasenpflug's, for 15 or 18 years the Emmanuel Evangelical Society
held their meetings in Lorain on the Dute farm (startign 1848?). That
would probably have been George's farm at that point. "The conference
then went to Huron for their meetings where there were cottages of
sorts. Linwood, known by another name, became available and thus was
born Linwood Park." Valerie gets this out of "Evangelical Church in
Ohio" by Roy Leedy. Though they started out Evangelical, many of the
Dute children joined the churches of their spouses, or were not really
churchgoers at all.
Casper and 7 of his children are listed with his father George in
the 1860 census for Amherst. They are:
Geo Dute, 63, farmer, real estate $6000, personal estate $1000;
Ann C, 57;
Casper Dute, 33;
Mary, 31;
George, 9;
Catharine, 7;
Eliza, 5;
John, 4;
Anthony, 2;
Martha, 8 mos.;
John, 28. <--- Who was this? A cousin? Just some farmhand?
All these people are listed as being born in Hessen-Cassel, though
this was of course untrue for Casper's children. Family tradition says
Casper was an only child, so there is no telling who John was. There
is no reference to him by name in any of the George Dute letters.
On 3/13/1866 Casper bought three pieces of land in Amherst Twp.
from Ira O. Fairchilds for $3465. They were 1) 38 acres in the east
part of Lot 38; 2) about 36 square rods of land in lot 39, with a road
thru it and it bordering on the State Road; 3) 16,940 square feet of
land in the south center part of lot 39. The deed, which came down
thru the family, says it was recorded 4/24/1866 in book 24, p. 371.
Casper, his wife, his father, and 11 of his 15 children are in the
1870 Ohio census on p. 1 for Lorain County:
George, 70;
Casper, 42;
Mary, 41;
George, 18;
Catherine, 16;
Eliza, 14;
John, 12;
Martha, 8;
Anthony, 10;
Henry, 7;
Julius, 5;
Anna, 4;
August, 3;
Orilla, 1/2.
Casper, George, and Mary all born in Hessen-Cassel, everyone else in
Ohio. The old family homestead in Amherst on Cooper-Forest Park Rd.
was valued at $16,400 then, and his personal estate was valued at
$3100.
On 5/25/1875 George Dute deeded part of lot 125 in North Amherst
to Casper for $100, the deed not to take effect til George's decease.
In 1880:
Casper, 53, farmer;
Mary, 51, housekeeping;
Elizabeth, 26, house servant;
John, 24, laborer;
Anton, 21, clerk (?);
Martha, 20, house servant;
John H, 18, farm laborer;
Julius, 17, farm laborer;
Anna D, 14, attends school;
August, 12, attends school;
Mary A., 11, attends school;
Harvey, 9, attends school;
Jacob H., 7, attends school;
Casper K, 5;
All the kids born in Ohio, Casper and Mary born in Kurhessen,
everyone's parents born in Kurhessen.
C. Dute is listed as being a freeholder in N. Amherst, under Black
River Twp, in 1896 ("Atlas and Directory of Lorain County"). There's
also a C. Dutes (sic), Lorain, under N. Amherst Village, and a C.
Dute, N. Amherst, under Amherst Twp.
Much of the information in this part of the database comes from a
Dute family history and genealogy put together by Valerie Eppley
Jenkins Gerstenberger, granddaughter of John A. Dute. She quotes the
following from the "History of Lorain County Ohio" by the Williams
Brothers, 1879:
"Casper Dute was born in Ruttinburg, Germany, on the 28th of
January, 1827. He was the only child of George and Ann Catherine
Miller Dute. The latter, George, had one brother and four sisters; the
brother died in Germany and two of the sisters emigrated to this
country, whither George Dute also came in 1834, landing at Black River
on the 18th of September that year, and located in Black River
Township, about one mile and a half north of the present residence of
his son Casper, and half a mile from the lake shore. A crude log
cabin, floorless and generally dilapidated, was then standing on the
farm, which with slight repairs, was used by the family for a dwelling
for nine years. They then sold the place and purchased the one upon
which Casper Dute now resides. An opening had to be made in the then
unbroken forest, and a log house was erected for the use of the
family. The farm contained fifty-one acres. The parents of the subject
of this brief sketch are both dead. His mother" - father, probably -
"died August 9, 1875. They were a worthy and highly respected couple,
and were among the pioneers of the town in which they passed so many
years of their lives.
"Casper Dute married Mary Heidenreich March 1, 1850. By this union
were born fifteen children, of which fourteen are living, namely: J.
George, Catherine, Elizabeth, John A., Anton, Anna Martha, J. Henry,
Julius Valentine, Annie Dora, Anton August, Mary Orelia, John Harvey,
Henry Jacob, Casper Cleine, Orlie Ferdinand. Of these, two are married
-- J. George and Catherine: the former to Mary Shupe, the latter to
Ferdinand Eschtruth." (Regarding the youngest, there is a Ferdinand
Dute who died 2/10/1877 in Amherst at age 8 mo. 13 days, apparently of
mumps.)
"In politics Mr. Dute is a democrat," - the party of immigrants
then and now - "and has always acted within that party. He has been a
liberal contributor to religious as well as to educational interests.
By unremitting industry and careful managementof his affairs, he has
become possessed of quite an extensive property, consisting of over
three hundred acres of land." Actually he got about 330 acres from his
father - see George Dute's record. "A sketch of his farm and building
is inserted in this work," - we have a copy of that sketch that came
down thru the family - "as one of the finest in the town. Mr. Dute has
always held a prominent position among his own countrymen."
Cousin Valerie says the original cabin was on the west side of
Kolbe Road outside of Amherst near Beaver Creek. Deb Bromley says he
built at least two cabins - the first "was 1/2 miles south of Lake Rd.
on Kolbe Rd. (nice area -- considered western Lorain) and the other
was further south at the southeast corner of Kolbe Rd. and Cooper
Forest (probably just over the border in Amherst". Valerie: "Their
second home was on the southeast corner of Kolbe Road and Cooper
Forest Park Road. Here is where they built another log cabin. Later
they built a house that is (at this writing) used for the parsonage of
the Church of the Nazarene."
Valerie, e-mail, 5/6/2000: "Originally the Dutes were Evangelical
which is now Evangelical United Methodist. As I think about it, there
weren't many that did go to church. Viola Dute Reinhard went to the
Evangelical Reform which is now Evangelical United Church of Christ;
Ada Dute Braun had the children baptized in my church Congregational
which is now Congregational United Church of Christ."
Casper was married 50 years. An article about their 50th wedding
anniversary that Valerie has says they got a gold-handled cane and
gold-handled umbrella for it. The cane wound up with Uncle Glenn and
his daughter Lizzie has it now; the umbrella went to Uncle Bill who
gave it to Valerie, thought Glenn apparently wasn't happy about that.
His funeral cost $58. He was a member of the German Evangelical
church, now the United Methodist Church. My great-grandfather Anton
August Dute was the executor of his will. "You asked how Gust got to
be executor. I looked at the children older than he. It didn't give
me much of a clue. Two older boys were already dead. By looking at
maps, Casper's property almost backs up to Gust's which was also
closest to Mary's (his mother) place. My uncle had a hand in some of
the settlement. I think it was becausehe was an insurance agent and
liked law, although he had no training, a lot of people trusted him
and asked him legal questions almost as often as they did of lawyers.
If we had the marriage dates we could tell how many moved out of the
house and when. Some of the girls may have been sent to be a
housekeeper. For sure more than two slept in a bedroom." Valerie,
e-mail to me, 5/12/08.
I can't find an obit for him, but there's a note saying "Anthony
Dute, of John Lersch & Co's. store was called to North Amherst Friday
morning, by a message announcing the death of his father.", from the
Elyria Daily Reporter, 4/14/1900.
In addition to the unexplained John Dute in 1860, there are some
other unclaimed Dutes in America:
1) In 1880 Amherst, Adam Dute, 35, with wife Annie, 27, both born
in Kurhessen, daughters Liza (5) and Mary (3). He's also listed in
1900, in Henrietta, age 53, b. 11/1846, farmer, with wife Annie (49)
and a daughter Annie (12). Deb Bromley: "Found a marriage record for
Adam Dute and Anna Kravich, married Dec 21, 1873. I wonder if this is
the 'Annie' buried at Birmingham with Adam and Katie." See also the A.
A. Dute mentioned in Gusts's record. He's probably also the one on
ellisisland.org. Deb Bromley also says there was a Katie in that
family who died in 1940, the same year as he did, so maybe she was a
second wife.
2) In Amherst, Martin Dute, son Henry Dute et al. See Martin's
record in this DB.
3) In Russia Twp, Lorain Co., George Dute, 35 in 1880, b.
Hessen-Cassel, wife Mary, 24, daughters Annie (4) and Maggie (2).
There is a picture of this George on my website. There's a George E.
Dute in the Cleveland St. Cemetery, 1844-1899. And Cousin Valerie says
there was a George Dute who died by hanging in Russia Twp. on
3/12/1899 who lived 54y5m16d. She suggests it was a suicide. He may
actually have lived in Wellington, which is farther south. He's on p.
15, Lorain Co. Death Records, 1890-1908 Bk 3-4-5. (She also found a
very similar record for a Dute who died at age 5, but I suspect that's
a typo.) And, in "Germans to America", there's a George Dute of
Prussia, 23, farmer, who arrived in New York on the "New York" from
Bremen on 8/19/1867. He seems to have had a son Charles O. Dute,
4/29/1885-11/1967, and a daughter Eliza, 24 in 1920.
4) In 1880 Green Twp. in Ashland Co., there are a George Dute, 19
(who is listed as disabled) and a Charles Dute, 18. Their parents are
listed as born in France. They are step-sons of Michael Buitenbek (?),
49, so their mother must be Margaret, 45, b. in France. This is the
line of William R. Dudte who wrote a book about this family (it's in
the ACPL). He says they came out of Bosselshausen in Alsace-Lorraine.
5) In 1880 Goshen Twp. in Tuscarawas Co., there are Edward Dute,
25, with wife Carrie, 24, and daughters Ida May (?), Mary, and Cora.
Edward is listed as born in Ohio, his mother as born in Pa., and it
doesn't say where his father was born.
6) In the 1850 mortality schedules, there is a John Dute in Wayne
Co. He was 85, died in December of old age, born in Germany, no
occupation listed. He must have been born about 1765, which puts him
at least a generation before George the immigrant. Can't find him in
1840. There is no evidence that any of our Dutes ever lived in Wayne
Co.
7) In 1870 Amherst there's a Catherine Dute, 56, b. Hessen Cassel,
who must be the same as the Catherine Dute who died in Amherst
2/20/1899, age 84, who must also be the same as the Anna Dute buried
in Lorain Co., 1814-1899.
8) An Anna Maria Dute of Rockensuess, age 22, is listed as
immigrating in 1860 ("German Immigrants, Bremen to NY, 1855-1862",
Zimmerman). She's also in "Germans to America", arriving 6/28/1860 on
the "Herzogin von Brabant".
9) Catherine Dute of Hesse, 18, servant, arrived in NY from
Bremerhaven on the "Anton" on 4/21/1870 (?1872), destination
Cleveland.
10) Joh. Dute, 25, laborer, arrived on the "Thuringia" 4/30/1872,
from Hamburg and Havre to NY; there were a Heussner and a Heydenreich
on the same boat.
11) The earliest American Dute I've found is Hans Georg Dute, who
arrived 10/16/1751 on the "Duke of Wirtemberg/Wirtenberg" into
Philadelphia, from Rotterdam, Holland, last from Cowes (Isle of
Wight), Captain Montpelier. (From "30,000 Names of Immigrants", I.
Daniel Rupp, p. 268. The ship's list is also available on Rootsweb,
and next on it after Hans is David Duette.)
It's interesting to note that most of the Dute children who had
trouble of one kind or another seem to have been late in the birth
order.
ID: 059
Name: MARY HEIDENREIC
Sex: F
Birth date: May 28, 1829
Birth place: Hessen-Cassel, Germany
Date of death: Nov. 20, 1906
Place of death: Amherst, Oh.
Age at death: 77 years, 5 months, 23 days.
Mother: ANNA KATHRINA HILT (933) (1788-1856)
Father: (JOHANN) HEINRICH HEIDENREIC (932) (1795-1879)
Spouse: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Wedding: 3/1/1850, Amherst, Oh.
Child 1: JOHN GEORGE DUTE (044) (1851-1916)
Child 2: CATHERINE ANN DUTE (045) (1853-1911)
Child 3: ELIZABETH DUTE (046) (1854-1930)
Child 4: JOHN ANTON DUTE (047) (1856-1896)
Child 5: ANTON DUTE (048) (1858-1921)
Child 6: ANNA MARTHA DUTE (049) (1859-1932)
Child 7: J. HENRY DUTE (050) (1861-1943)
Child 8: JULIUS VALENTINE DUTE (051) (1863-1951)
Child 9: ANNA DORA DUTE (052) (1865-1933)
Child 10: AUGUST ANTON DUTE (043) (1867-1951)
Note: Mary Heidenreich. Annamaria in son Anton's baptismal cert.
Note: Married 50 years. Her funeral cost $69.
Her name is Maria Heitenreich in the Dute Bible. Heitenreichs are even
scarcer than Heidenreichs in the Ohio censuses. Heiden means heathen,
Reich means kingdom. It was a popular name among the crusaders,
implying power over the heathens.
She's listed in the 1900 census in North Amherst Village in
Amherst Twp. with her sons Harvey and Jacob:
Mary Dute, head of household, b. May 1829, age 71, widowed,
m. 50 yrs, 15 kids, 13 living, she and parents b. Germany,
immigrated in 1833, 67 yrs. in US, could read, write and
speak English, home owned free;
Harvey Dute, son, b. Jan. 1871 (sic) in Ohio, age 29, farm
laborer, single, could read and write;
Jacob H. Dute, son, b. 8/1872 in Ohio, age 27, single,
blacksmith, could read & write.
A deed where George Dute sold some land on 5/9/1863 was witnessed
by Maria Dute.
I can't find any Heidenreichs in 1840 or 1850 Ohio. There's one in
1860 Cincinatti, but there is a Henry Heitenreich in 1860 Black River
who is surely her father. There are a few Heidenreichs or Hidenreichs
in Cleveland in 1880. There's also a "Dute, Mary, N. Amherst" listed
under Sheffield Twp. in 1896 in the "Atlas and Directory of Lorain
County", but there was more than one Mary Dute in that neighborhood
then.
Her obit says "Mrs. Casper Dute, 82 years of age, and mother of 15
children, all of whom are living in this vicinity, died at her home
here yesterday afternoon from the effects of old age. She was one of
the long time residents of the village." The village was Amherst. If
the age is right, she must have been born in 1823 or 1824. This is
from the Lorain Times Herald, 11/21/1906.
Another obit for her came from Deb Bromley. I don't have the date
for it or the newspaper it came out of, but the headline says, "Mother
Gives Oldest Daughter a Small Legacy". The body of it reads: "The will
of Mary Dute, late of Amherst, has been filed for probate. She leaves
$25 to her daughter, Catherine Eschtruth, with the further provision
that 'this is absolutely all that I leave to her.' The son, August
Dute, gets $150; Harvey, Jacob, and Casper Dute get $190 each, and
Harvey Dute the household goods and furnishings.
"The balance of the property will be divided between all the
children equally, with the exception of Catharine Eschtruth. The
grandchildren, Amelia and Ethel Dute, are to receive the portion which
would otherwise go to their father, John Dute, who is dead." Why her
estate should be divided up this way remains unexplained, especially
why Catherine Eschtruth seems to have gotten such short shrift. My
guess is Gust owed her $40. Harvey seems to have had a harder time of
it than her other kids, maybe that's why she left more to him.
Valerie: "I never heard of Ethel, my mother and sister Amelia getting
anything from the grandparents, but then she died when they were 16
and 22. However, they talked a lot about such things. It's strange
that I never heard about what they inherited." Maybe there was still
enough tension in the family over the issue that they just kept quiet
about it. "Uncle Anton was guardian of their affairs and took care of
the house where I live for them until they were married. Maybe they
got it and he kept it for them until they married. My aunt would have
been out of the house and earning her own money by that time. However,
there was a mention of property. I don't know what property that
would be. Your great grandfather was executor of Mary Dute's estate."
From her e-mail of 8/5/07.
Lorain Co. has no will for Mary Dute, though Valerie thinks she
remembers seeing it once. "The Eschtruths were a colorful family",
Valerie adds. "They lived directly in front of us."
The following poem was written for Mary and Casper's 50th wedding
anniversary:
Goldne Erinnerungen
(Male Chorus66.)
Wenn als Kinder wir der Sonne
Strahl wie Gold im Westen sah'n,
Dann gedachten wir mit Wonne,
Dass die Abendstunden nah'n
Chorus:
Jene stillen Abendstunden,
Wenn die Eltern, fromm und Klug,
Uns erzaehlten von den Wunden,
Die man uns'rem Heiland schlug.
Und die Eltern sind nun heute
Fuenfzig Jahr im Ehebund!
Welche Wonne, welche Freude
Hatten wir doch bis zur Stund'--
(Chor.) In den stillen Abendstunden &c.
Doch dies mahnet uns, ihr Lieben,
Dass der Abend nicht mehr fern,
Wenn die lieben Eltern drueben
Schauen Ihn, den treuen Herrn!
(Chor.) Darum denkt der Abenstunden &c.
Translation:
Golden Memories
When as children we saw the sunbeam
Like gold in the west,
Then we thought happily,
The evening hours drew near
Chorus:
Those quiet evening hours,
When our parents, pious and wise,
Told us about the wounds
That were inflicted on our Saviour.
And our parents are now today
Fifty years in the bond of marriage!
What joy, what happiness
Did we have toward the hour--
(Chorus) In the quiet evening hours...
This surely warns us, you loved ones,
That the evening (is) no longer far away,
When our dear parents up there
Will gaze on you, the true Lord!
(Chorus) Therefore think of the evening hours...
The authorship of the above is doubtful. There are two sources for it:
a handwritten copy, in Roman script, on which it says "Compose by Mary
Dute" (this was the wife of Anton b. 1858), and in her handwriting;
and the newspaper article about the event from the North Amherst
Argus, 3/8/1900, in which it says, "After the gathering the
entertainment was opened with a song by six of the sons, written by
Rev. F. A. Willmann for the occasion, and by special request of the
family is printed as a part of this report." It would be interesting
to find the music for this if it still exists. Since it was sung by
six of the sons, maybe a descendant of one of them has it.
The next poem came out of the same article. It says, "Mrs. A.
Dute" - this was the wife of Anton Dute, 5th in the birth order, b.
1858 - "and Mrs. Willmann sang the following poem, written by Mrs. A.
Dute:"
DIE ERNSTE FRAGE.
Wenn die lieben Eltern drueben,
Einst am Throne stehn,
Werden sie dann ihre Lieben
All' dort wieder sehn?
Chorus:
Lasset uns als liebe Kinder,
Folgen Jesu Wort,
Dass wir einst als Gottes Kinder
Landen alle dort.
Werden wir einst alle drueben
Einnew Lobgesang
Stimmen an mit unsern lieben
Eltern, Gott zum Dank?
O wie Herrlich wird es klingen,
Vor des Heilands Thron,
Wenn wir all' sein Lob besingen
Unter Harfenton.
Translation:
THE EARNEST QUESTION
When our dear parents someday
Stand at the throne on high,
Will they then see again
All their loved ones there?
Let us as dear children,
Follow Jesus' word,
So we may someday as God's children
All end up there.
Shall we all someday on high
Strike up a new (?) song of praise
With our dear parents
To thank God?
Oh, how glorious it will sound,
Before the Savior's throne,
When we all celebrate His praise in song,
To the sound of a harp.
The article also says: "Not many families have the pleasure of
celebrating the anniversary of a golden wedding, especially in these
days.
"The pleasure of such an anniversary took place at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Casper Dute on Main street last Thursday evening, March 1,
1900, on which day it was just fifty years since the above-named
parties were united in holy matrimony.
"The gathering, which took place without any previous knowledge
of the jubilee parties was, indeed, a very pleasant affair. Eight
sons and one daughter of this place, and their children, and a nephew,
Mr. Grant Selig and wife, of Lorain, gathered at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Dute about seven o'clock in the evening.
"Four daughters could not be present on accout of living so far
distant....
"...Mr. Dute received a very beautiful gold-headed cane and Mrs.
Dute a fine silk umbrella with gold knob." The cane came down to Uncle
Glenn and is now in the possession of his daughter Lizzie in Texas;
the umbrella went to Uncle Bill and is now in the possession of
Valerie Gerstenberger.
* * * *
There was a Joseph Heidenreich who lived from 1753 to 1821 and who
did a woodwind arrangement of Mozart's "Magic Flute" according to a CD
Dad has. He wasted no time in taking advantage of its popularity:
"within four months of the opera's premiere he was advertising the
availability of the harmonie arrangement of Mozart's last opera." He
probably had to hurry so as not to let someone else (Mozart himself,
say) beat him to it.
ID: 060
Name: JOHANN GEORGE DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Apr. 7, 1799
Birth place: Asmushausen, Germany
Date of death: Aug. 9, 1875
Age at death: 76 years, 4 months, 2 days.
Mother: ANNA MARGARETHE GLEIM (359) (1758-1828)
Father: HEINRICH DUTE (070) (1753-1829)
Spouse: ANNA CATHERINE MILLER (061) (1804-1868)
Wedding: 3/21/1826, Asmushausen
Child 1: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Note: The name seems to be "George" rather than "Georg" in all
Note: the old German documents, including church & civil records.
He was always called by his middle name, as was common in those German
families. They would make the first name that of a saint (maybe even
give all the children the same first name) then the middle name was
the one that they were actually called. The Asmushausen church
records give his first name.
Regarding his birthdate, Cousin Valerie's history says 1797. The
Dute family Bible says 4/7/1800. The civil records in Kassel say
4/7/1800. The Asmushausen church records as reported by Walter
Sprankel say 4/7/1799. His age is 70 in the 1870 census and 63 in
1860.
The marriage info here also comes from Walter Sprankel, as does
his baptism date of 4/13/1799. He also says George was a linen-weaver
like his father. Stephen Westfall, on the other hand, says his
marriage date was 5/21/1826.
The civil records also say his godfather was George Gleim and he
was confirmed in 1814. I can think of three theories about where the
name Johann George came from: 1) If the Anna Margarethe b. 1757 was
his mother, it was taken straight from his uncle Johann George Gleim;
2) His older brother who died young was named Johannes, whose
godfather was Johannes Dute of Rockensuess. Neither of these is given
a middle name in the civil redords. Maybe they took the name Johannes
and added George Gleim's first name to it to get Johann George. 3)
Johannes Dute who died young was really Johannes George Dute (and
maybe the same was true for Johannes Dute of Rockensuess), so they
just took the name straight from him. Support for this theory comes
from the Heussner record, which says the one who died young was named
George. But I think it's equally likely that Elver Heussner just got
the name wrong.
George Dute brought his family from Germany in 1834. He and his
family are listed in "The Germanic Genealogist", #15, 1978: they came
from Asmushausen, County of Rotenburg; he, his wife, and 1 child came,
with a "Power" (I guess that means money) of 300 taler.
There is also a passenger arrival record for George and wife and
son at the National Archives. They came on the Brig Bremen Packet,
from Bremen, into New York on Sept. 1, 1834; George's occupation is
hard to read but it may be farmer; and the wife's first initial looks
like "M" for some reason. George is 34, the wife 29, and Casper 7. If
they came into New York they probably went west via the Erie Canal.
George Dute, colonist in America, was godfather of brother Anton's
6th child who was born 5/17/1834 in Germany; so George must have
emigrated before that - maybe he was even in transit then. Hard to
believe the trip could have taken from May all the way to September
just to get to New York; maybe the trip down the river to Bremen was a
long one. Then, George's wife was the godmother of Anton's 8th child,
b. 8/5/1839, and George was in Blackriver at that point.
"George Dute settled in an abandoned run-down log cabin on Kolbe
Rd.Sept. 18, in 1834. (He had settled in Huron, Ohio which is 25 miles
west of here on Lake Erie. I don't know why but it may have been the
ship that he was on from Buffalo that didn't stop in Cleveland. I
don't know how long he stayed in Huron.)" Maybe he left Huron and came
to Lorain Co. because he had friends there. He was the first of his
family to come to America, so it couldn't have been for that. Or maybe
he came to Lorain County because it had a familiar name:
Alsace-Lorraine was probably the original Dute homeland. "I believe
one record (not sure where I found it) stated that the cabin had a
dirt floor.... He remained in that log cabin for 9 years." In response
to my question whether the cabin still exists, she said, "No. Twenty
or more years ago your great grandfather claimed that he could still
see remnants of rotted wood. It's not in an accessible place. All
overgrown with trees and vegetation." Anyway, "Our pastor was educated
in Germany and I commented that it was strange that he stayed in that
old wreck of a log cabin so long. His response was that Germans are
habitually very frugal. Since Casper was 7 when he arrived with his
parents, in 9 years he would have been 16. Perhaps that is why George
thought it was time to move. He then bought 51 acres on both sides of
a road now named Cooper Foster Park --He built another log cabin.
Finally he built a small house. Everyone has wondered abut the large
family in such a small house." Valerie, e-mail, 5/12/08.
"One day George Dute, still a young man and understanding very
little of the English language, was going north on the present Levitt
road when he came to a school house where a Methodist minister was
preaching in the English language. The subject of his discourse was
'Man's Duty to God'. Mr. Dute tarried at the service and was surprised
to hear the minister call him by name, for every time he referred to
man's duty to God, he supposed the preacher made reference to him".
Amherst's Story, Armstrong, p. 112.
He was naturalized on 2/17/1844 in Elyria. The probate court in
Elyria also says a George Dute was naturalized in April 1879, but our
George died in 1875 so this may be the George Dute who later died by
hanging in Russia Twp.
On 5/21/1844, George Dute of Amherst bought from George Keller and
wife 51 acres of land in lot 21 in Amherst for $500. It's described in
two parts, one a 50-acre rectangle in the east part of the lot, the
other a 1-acre square bordering on the rectangle, just west of it.
Keller's wife is called Mary, but she signed her name Anna Maria with
a last name that's quite unreadable. Recorded 6/6/1844, apparently in
book Q, p. 371.
On 1/23/1855, George and Catherine Dute of Black River sold 60
acres for $2000 to Catherine and Margaret (Rosina?) Keller. It was the
south part of lot 10 in great lot 2 in Black River. It was a part of
105 acres that George Dute owned, but 45 acres of that were reserved
for George Keller for the rest of his life. Recorded 3/22/1855.
On 2/6/1857 George and Catherine Dute of Lorain County sold 12
acres in Amherst Twp. for $600 to Lewis Schlich, the southwest part of
lot 39 and the south part of a tract of 25 acres of land "as per the
original survey of said lot deeded by Julius C. Sheldon to said George
Dute." Recorded 7/6/1857.
On a plat map of 1857, George Dute has some land straddling Black
River and Amherst, right near H. Heidereich's farm and next to the
Evangelische Kirche in Black River. Looks like he has 48 1/2 acres in
Tract 2, Section 1 of Black River and 51 acres in Section 21 of
Amherst.
On 1/25/1861 George and Catherine sold John Gonderman 6.69 acres
in Amherst Twp. for $1000, part of lot 21. Recorded 2/8/1862.
On 5/9/1863, George and Catherine sold 21 1/2 acres in the center
part of lot 45 in Amherst Twp. to Sardis N. Barnes for $1100, "subject
to a certain Mortgage given by George Dute to Nathaniel Bemis dated
April 19th 1861." It was witnessed by Maria Dute, who I suppose was
Casper's wife. "On this deed was a two dollar United States Internal
Revenue stamp cancelled." Recorded 11/26/1863.
On 4/23/1863 John and Maria Gonderman sold the 6.69 acres they had
bought from George Dute back to him, for $850. This I got from one of
the deeds that came down thru the family, not from the recorder's
copy. The deed says it was recorded 10/12/1863 in book 18, p. 268.
On 11/15/1864 George and Catherine sold village lot 20 in block 2
in the village of La Port in Carlisle Twp. (actual acreage not given)
to Uriel McCombs for $250. Payment was to be spread out over 5 years.
Recorded 12/27/1864.
In Amherst's 1867 Salem Class, George Dute is listed twice. The
other one may be Casper's eldest son. Salem was apparently the name of
a frame church on the Dute farm property. See the e-mails from MennoTy
of 12/24/03.
The name George Dute appears on an addendum to a list of members
of St. Peter's Church in Amherst from 1870. No telling whether this is
George Sr. or George Jr. or the George who was hung in 1899.
There are two deeds from 5/11/1870 in which George gave several
parcels of land to Casper "for the consideration of the natural love
and affection which the said George Duty hath and beareth unto his son
Casper Duty of Amherst". Notice how the last name is spelled - that
indicates it was being pronounced the American way by then. All the
parcels in the first deed were in Blackriver Twp: 1) 100 acres in the
NE part of lot 9; 2) 50 acres in the north part of lot 2 in great lot
2, excepting 7 1/2 acres off the south side of lot 2 - this is
probably the 50 acres owned by John Holshauer in the 1857 map
mentioned above; 3) 23 1/4 acres in lot 9 in tract 2 - ditto; 4) 48
1/4 acres and 15 rods in lot 1 in gore 2 - this must be the land
George owned in 1857. The ones in the other deed are all in Amherst
Twp: 5) 50 acres in the east part of lot 21; 6) 1 acre in lot 21 -
these last two are the 51 acres he bought 5/21/1844, and are on the
1857 map; 7) about 38 acres next to Widow Catherine Shupe's land; 8)
16 1/2 acres off the northwest part of lot 39; Casper still owns this
on maps I have from 1874 and 1896. This all adds up to about 330
acres. Both deeds are signed in George Dute's handwriting. The first
was recorded 6/20/1870 in book 32, p. 45, and the second on 5/31/1870
in book 32, p. 41.
In addition to all that, on 5/25/1875 George Dute of North Amherst
sold for $100 part of lot 125 "in the additional town plat of North
Amherst" to Caspar Dute, the deed not to take effect til after his
decease. The acreage is not given, but it's about the right size for a
house. Maybe it's where George lived. I can't find a lot 125 in
Amherst Twp., but maybe that's inside the town of North Amherst. It
was recorded 5/29/1875. We have a deed for this piece of land from
1868 when it was sold by Lewis Martin to John A. Fauk, but there's no
mention of any Dutes in this deed.
Lorain County has no will for him, he probably didn't need one.
He's buried in the Cleveland St. Cemetery in Amherst.
We have 9 letters written to George Dute in the old Geman script,
and one little notebook containing some documents relating to a court
action in 1821, and some incantations or spells or something. The
letters range from the late 1830's to 1860; four of them are from
George Dute's brother Anton in Germany.
There is a description of the place where he grew up in the letter
from his brother Anton of 3/9/1856: "To my mountain" - hill? - "which
I'm sure you still recall, my favorite place, I so seldom go. I
haven't been to Asmusshausen for 10 years. It's said to have gotten
much more beautiful. The road from Bebra to Cornberg leads through
Asmushausen, which has helped the beautification a lot. Also our old
house and barn and stable, as well as our brother-in-law Rohrbach's
house torn down and the yard, all changed into a magnificent garden.
The times are changing." Then he goes into a description of how bad
the inflation was. This seems to be the reason why so many Hessians
left around that time. A lot of the Hessians went to Lorain County.
Most of the people who left Germany for America (especially after
1848) were democratically-minded folks tired of the prevailing
political climate there. They usually had a little more money than,
say, the Irish immigrants who were fleeing the potato famine, so they
could come inland where the good land was and not be stuck on the
Eastern seaboard.
Outside of George, Anton et al, a number of other relatives and
friends are mentioned in George Dute's letters. The complicated
relationship of Cousin Johannes Dute who married Anna Catherine
Rohrbach is explained in sister Elizabeth Dute's record. Cousin
Roesinger is mentioned in Anton's letter of the late 1830's, as is
Vicar Vilmar; and "Our cousin Heinrich Gleim" - surely the nephew of
Anna Margarethe Gleim - "of Wasenburg is Vicar in Sachesnhausen by
Treysa, and got married last winter..." The names Roesinger and Gleim
are also mentioned together in the court documents that came out of
the little notebook. George Roessinger is the one who is ordered to
pay some money to the plaintiff, and one of the documents is signed at
the bottom by Gleim and Schwartz. There is also a Martin Roesinger,
brother-in-law of Heinrich Hasenfluch, mentioned in George Brandau's
letter of 12/15/1846. J. P. Ulm's 1851 letter implies there's a Cousin
Doellefeld in New York then. But the George Brandau letter of
12/15/1846 gives the most information about friends and relatives.
George Brandau was living in Lawrence County, Ohio then, and it looks
like he and George Apal and Martin Claus are interested in buying some
land in George Dute's area. Brandau seems to have just come across the
ocean, and his wife (probably named Anna Catherina) died. The Heinrich
Hasenfluch in this letter must be the John Henry Hasenpflug who
married George Dute's sister, and whose daughter married Andreas
Brandau. Another part of this letter seems to have been written by a
brother of George Brandau who bought 61 1/2 acres 32 miles west of
Cleveland. The last part of this letter adds the names Anton Andreas
Brandau and Martin Riesinger, and another that might be Peter Sauger,
to the above. The names Brandau, Claus, Sauer, and Doellefeld are all
mentioned in "Studies in the History of St. Peter's Church, Amherst,
Ohio", 1966, by Hageman.
The little notebook mentioned above also contains spells of a
practical nature, for how to cure bleeding and such. For example:
"Your blood, I command that it should stand still, as Christ commanded
the Jordan that it should stand still. That I am telling you for
penance." Most of them end with this last sentence. Another: "For
ringworm say this: Today is Friday, that is when the Jews have their
Saturday, then they eat no pig meat, then they drink no red wine, worm
worm worm stop your biting, that I am telling you for penance. You
must say this 3 times and blow on it 3 times." Another: "For
intestinal goiters of horses: 3 knife-tips full 3 ---, and a pint of
sweet milk - mix them with each other and pour into the horse. It is a
good invention."
Valerie says her mother told her the Dutes came from
Alsace-Lorraine. This is partially confirmed by Karen Lewis (e-mail,
7/7/2000) whose grandfather was the son of Charles O. Dute and who
says her grandfather's family came from Alsace-Lorraine; but we don't
know where they fit in the tree yet. It is also possible they came
from the Ile de Re, an island on the Atlantic coast of France, next to
La Rochelle, north of Bordeaux. It was a stronghold of Huguenots, the
French Protestants who were chased out of France starting with Louis
XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Many of the Huguenots
were born there, and many of them came from elsewhere to use it as a
jumping-off place. "Du Tay" means "of the Tay"; where or what "Tay" is
I don't know, but there is a town called Thaire (e-acute) southeast of
La Rochelle. Another bit of evidence that the Dutes came from this
area is that Heinrich Dute made cognac, and cognac is made in this
part of France. Plus, Barbara Farr, a Dute descendant in Germany, says
she had heard the family came out of France, and were Huguenots. More
work needs to be done, though.
In "History of the Huguenot Emigration to America" by Charles
Washington Baird, there is a long footnote describing the peasant from
Re, here translated from French: "Very sober, a hard worker,
appreciating and desiring education, the peasant from Re is estimable
among all. More than any other native small-island inhabitant, he has
the will and the aptitude to do everything by himself: he is at the
same time sailor, fisherman, cultivator, salter, vintner, mason,
carpenter. At first sight, it's easy to smile at some of his habits:
after reflection you recognize the imprint of true and rare qualities.
Truly good, he keeps the animals that help him with his work to the
point of spoiling them and making them headstrong and skittish, like
indulged children."
Some of the Huguenots went to Hessen-Cassel, but I don't know if
any of them actually went to Rotenburg.
ID: 061
Name: ANNA CATHERINE MILLER
Sex: F
Birth date: Dec. 14, 1804
Birth place: Germany
Date of death: 1868
Age at death: 63 or 64
Spouse: JOHANN GEORGE DUTE (060) (1799-1875)
Wedding: 3/21/1826, Germany
Child 1: CASPER DUTE (058) (1827-1900)
Note: Anna Kathrina Miller in the Dute Bible.
Walter Sprankel has her name as "Anna Catharina, daughter of Kaspar
Mueller in Asmushausen." Stephen Westfall confirms the father's name
as Caspar. Elizabeth Cody's Dute Bible, the Heussner record, Barbara
Dute Hart's Bible, and the land records all agree on her first name.
On the other hand, Valerie saw in July 2004 two headstones on the
Dute plot in the Cleveland St. Cemetery in Amherst that she hadn't
noticed before. They were George 1800-1875 and Elizabeth (sic)
1804-1868. Could this be a mistake?
She is in several of her husband's deeds, signing her name with a
mark.
Lorain County has no record of her death nor does it have a will.
Catherine A. Dute's burial records say she lived 1804-1868. Karen
Krugman and Ray Dute both say she died 12/22/1868 in Amherst, but
neither says where this info came from. The birthdate here came out of
the family Bible.
ID: 062
Name: ANTON DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: July 19, 1793
Birth place: Asmushausen, Hesse
Date of death: May 18, 1868
Place of death: Rotenburg-Altstadt
Age at death: 74 years, 9 months, 29 days.
Mother: ANNA MARGARETHE GLEIM (359) (1758-1828)
Father: HEINRICH DUTE (070) (1753-1829)
Wedding: 5/28/1823, in Rotenburg
Wedding 2: 1845
Child 1: JULIUS PHILIPP DUTE (641) (1821-1843)
Child 2: HEINRICH DUTE (358) (1824-1842)
Child 3: MARIE DUTE (920) (1826- )
Child 4: CONRAD AUGUST DUTE (921) (1829- )
Child 5: ELISA DUTE (922) (1836- )
Child 6: EDUARD DUTE (923) (1841- )
Child 7: AUGUSTA DUTE (924) (1846- )
Child 8: ANNA MARTHA DUTE (925) (1849-1913)
Note: Taught school for over 50 years in Rotenburg-an-der-Fulda,
Note: according to the Heussner record.
The birthdate here comes from the parish records of Rotenburg, as
reported by Walter Sprankel, doing some research for Ray Dute. Notice
that it would make him 66 on 4/5/1860, which doesn't quite agree with
the age of 68 that Anton gives for himself in his letter of that date.
Sprankel also says he was baptized 8/1/1793. Stephen Westfall found
Anton and all of his kids in the church records at the archives in
Kassel and says that he was born 8/1/1793. But another record there
says Anthon's birthdate is 7/29/1793, and the birthplace is
Asmushausen; no confirmation recorded. The godfather was Anthon Gleim,
a teacher in Ottrau (about 15 km SE of Schwalmstadt); this must be the
same Anton Gleim who was a teacher in nearby Sachsenhausen in 1804,
father of Heinrich Gleim the minister.
Anton Dute of Asmushausen, teacher, was granted citizenship in
Rotenburg on 3/20/1830 (StAM 330/2759, from S. Westfall).
Married twice. The Kassel archives say he married Emilie Ziegler
(10/14/1806-6/28/1843) in Rotenburg-Altstadt parish on 5/25/1823. She
was the daughter of Landbereiter (gardener?) Philipp Ziegler and
Barbara Elisabeth Noll. Walter Sprankel: "She died and then he married
1845 in Rotenburg Maria Elisabeth Ulm, born March 1. 1809, daughter of
the deceast master tailer and church warden Johannes Ulm and his wife
Anna Catharina Biel. Anton was girl's teacher and sacristan in
Rotenburg." The Kassel archives say the second marriage was on
3/30/1845 and Maria died 5/27/1881. He had nine children by his first
wife (up thru Eduard) and the rest by his second.
In addition to the 8 children for Anton in this database, the
Kassel archives also list no less than 5 who did not live: 1) A
stillborn daughter born 7/15/1831 at Eulengasse 110, 5th in the birth
order. 2) Next in the birth order, Eduard Heinrich Hermann George,
5/17/1834-11/13/1835, born at Eulengasse 210, with two baptismal
sponsors: Heinrich Hermann Leidorf, Forstamtscribent (probably some
kind of bureaucrat at the forestry office); and George, colonist in
America, the father's brother. 3) 8th, after Elise, was Ernestine,
8/5/1839-5/13/1840, also with two baptismal sponsors: Elisabeth Krass,
daughter of late teacher Johannes Krass; and Anna Catharina nee
Moeller, wife of farmer George Dute in ---river, Ohio. 4) A son,
stillborn on 4/5/1848, 11th in the birth order. 5) Last in the birth
order, George Paul Theodor, b. 1/23/1854 (on Eulengasse with no house
number), d. 1854. The godfather was the child's father, which was
pretty unusual; maybe he only lasted a day or two.
The birth order of his children is to some extent confirmed by the
Heussner record, which lists 3 children for him in this order: Julias,
Edward, and Mary; and by Anton's letters, from which the approximate
birthdates of Eduard, Augusta, and Anna Martha can be guessed. In the
3/9/1856 letter he says Marie is his oldest daughter; and as a rule
Anton seems to list his children in order of birth. Also, if he was
born 7/19/1793, then he was 30 when his son Heinrich was born, and 29
when he married Emilie Ziegler. This agrees with what he says in his
letter of 3/9/1856, where he refers to "both my daughters of my
current wife", meaning Augusta and Anna Martha, implying that the
other two daughters, Marie and Eliza, were from the first wife.
The info about second wife Maria Elisabeth Ulm explains John Paul
Ulm, who calls George Dute brother-in-law in his letter of 8/24/1851.
None of George's sisters are known to have married anyone named Ulm,
so J. P. Ulm was probably the brother of Maria Elisabeth (about three
years older) and used the term brother-in-law loosely.
The death info for Anton is from the Kassel archives, which also
give his address at that time as Taubengasse 210. Two of his
children's records give it as Eulengasse 210. Stephen Westfall can't
find a Leichenpredigt for him.
Anton Dute was a good writer and a man of some intelligence, with
a sense of the ironic. One gets the impression from his letters that
life wasn't very much fun in Hesse in those days. He was also pretty
religious. From his letter of 3/9/1856: "We have promptly received
your letter from HE. Holl from Rockensuess and were all right heartily
glad about it, when we understood, that you are all still healthy and
it's going well for you in body and soul. God sustain you healthy
still further and conduct you into peace and eternity through this
short earthly life, into the eternal imperishable life, there no more
parting takes place, there all persecution, all tribulation and all
suffering come to an end and all sadness is overturned into
happiness." Later in the same letter, after describing his daughter's
respiratory problems: "Also I am now in the years, when I can say,
they do not agree with me. Regarding that, you should know further,
that I have gotten an abcess on my left hand, because of which this
hand has become quite lame and unuseable. Now I still quite fulfill my
duties; only who knows, how long? I look forward then to no good
future. If I get my pension, then I will receive maybe a 50
Reichsthaler pension and that is for my family too much to die for and
too little to live for. Whoever then of this earth has goods and sees
his neighbor go without and locks up his heart to him - how can God's
love remain with him? You dear brother look forward, as I have heard
from HE. Holl, to a better future. Yet I don't get out much." Then he
goes into a description of the house he grew up in - see George Dute's
record. Then he talks about how bad the inflation is, all except for
the housing prices, which have gone down - because everyone was moving
away, I guess. Then: "My wife caused me last fall, when HE. Holl
arrived here in Rotenburg from America, some unexpected happiness, but
she was only playing a joke on me. She told me, that you, dear brother
had arrived here, were staying at the Angel Hotel, and I only had to
go get you. So incredible did it seem to me, I couldn't hide my
happiness about it. Have you then no desire, to visit your old
fatherland and acquaintances one more time? The District-office
Scribent Homburg often asks about you. If my wallet and my body
permitted it, then I would visit you all in America once; but neither
gives their consent."
In his letter of 4/5/1860, he says he's 68, and gives a
description of himself: "...I still indeed have my school, but for
several years I have been sickly and weak. I have the illness that my
deceased mother was troubled with, arthritis. My left hand is quite
lame, and my right hand stiff. Therefore writing is difficult for me,
so I am dictating this letter to my daughter. I am now in the 68th
year of life; these are the years when one says: they please me no
more! And when I can no longer discharge my duties, then I will have
to struggle with the cares of life," - aggravations of making a
living? - "and these years will please me no more. Yet I am confident
in these words: Up to now God has helped me, so he will help further."
Then he goes into a description of his children. Then: "Now a picture
(that is, a description) of me. My feet no longer want to stand, my
legs no longer want to go; my back does not allow me to stoop; my
stomach can no longer endure. But my heart! it does not despair." Note
that he says he still has his school, which implies that he ran the
school and didn't just teach there. But Valerie says teachers often
speak that way about the school where they teach.
ID: 063
Name: ELISABETH DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: Dec. 19, 1790
Birth place: Asmushausen, Hesse
Mother: ANNA MARGARETHE GLEIM (359) (1758-1828)
Father: HEINRICH DUTE (070) (1753-1829)
Spouse: PETER ROHRBACH (064) ( - )
Wedding: 12/12/1813, Asmushausen
Note: Married Peter Rohrbach & moved to Poland.
Her godmother was Elisabeth, widow of Johannes Gleim. She was
confirmed 1805 in Asmushausen. The marriage info came from Deb Bromley
who came across it in the LDS records. She was also godmother in 1836
for Anton's daughter Elisa - she and her husband were living in
Asmushausen then. (From the church records in Kassel.)
According to the Elver Heussner record, she and her husband Peter
Rohrbach had 5 children: Catherine, Martha, Anton, George, and
William; and they moved to "Russia Poland".
The 1837 letter to George Dute from brother Anton explains why
they went to Poland. Their daughter Anna Catherina Rohrbach married
the son of Anton's cousin Johannes Dute. That means it was a second
cousin marriage. It ended unhappily. About 4 weeks into the marriage
he got up one morning, made coffee for himself and his son from his
first marriage, and told her that if she wanted any coffee she could
go back home and get her mother to make her some coffee. Then he
locked up all the cupboards and things in front of her, and told her
he couldn't stand her (probably because she didn't have much money),
and that she could go back where she came from. "She followed this
advice," says Anton, "and that's how they are again, and separated
quite far from each other at that, because being upset over this my
sister has declared herself ready to follow the will of her husband
and children and to emigrate to Russian-Poland, where many Germans are
now moving." Anton himself was nonetheless against this idea, since it
took money to get into Poland and he was afraid they'd be turned back
at the border, but they had to sell their land because of debts so
they didn't wait and left on 5/2/1837. The unhappy bridegroom, for his
part, took up with a girl named Dickel.
A bit later in the letter Anton says another reason Peter Rohrbach
wanted to go to Poland was because on the last Busstag (day of
repentance) he had had to pay a fine (this may have been for
maintenance of the Church, or because he couldn't afford the
spreading-stuff to put on the road in front of his house when
conditions were icy, which was an obligation the people had then).
Then he mentions George Dute's godchild Johannes George, a "good,
clever, and diligent boy", to whom he had suggested he might go to
America, but he went to Poland anyway since it was uncertain whether
arrangements to get him to America could be made. This implies
Johannes George was probably the Rohrbach's son George.
Also in this letter: "I feel sorrier for no one more than my
sister and her sick quite crippled Heinrich. This one is quite
deformed, so that they must carry him from one place to another". This
must be a reference to his sister Elizabeth and her son ---rich who
died (see below), but there is still a possibility he was talking
about Catherine Elizabeth Dute (Doellefeld) who also had a son
Heinrich who died rather young (age 39) in Ohio. Maybe both families
tried to get into Poland.
The Rohrbachs are also mentioned in sister Catherine Elizabeth
Dute Doellefeld's letter to George Dute of 3/18/1846. We gather that
two of their family members have died; that they moved to Russia and
did OK there where they lived about 4 hours away from Wilhelm
Hasenpflug (brother of Cath. Eliz. Dute's brother-in-law Johannes
Heinrich Hasenpflug) whom they would sometimes visit; and that Russia
was not considered a free country by the Germans then. The two who
died were Martha (Anna Martha?) and ---rich (probably Heinrich).
Regarding where they moved, I have a map from 1871 which has an
area called Russian Poland, which includes Warsaw.
Brother-in-law Rohrbach is mentioned in passing in Anton's
3/9/1856 letter where he's describing how the house they grew up in
had been torn down, along with Rohrbach's, implying they were
next-door neighbors.
Not many Rohrbachs ever came to Ohio. There is a Christina
Rohrbach in Henrietta Twp, Lorain Co, in 1880 - she's 58, b. in
Germany like her parents, keeping house for Herman Brown, whose
parents were b. in Hessen. This is the line of Bob Oliphant of
Westford, MA. He says she was the widow of Henry Rohrbach who d. 1874
and came out of Mecklar down by Bad Hersfeld. Hart found a Dale
Rohrbach who says Henry "was one of three known brothers that came to
America. The others were George, who ended up in Lenawee county
Michigan, and Johannes, my grandfather, who ended up in woodson county
kansas. they all came from Mecklar (now Ludwigsau) Germany..."
ID: 064
Name: PETER ROHRBACH
Sex: M
Spouse: ELISABETH DUTE (063) (1790- )
In the Heussner record the name Rohrbach is not clearly written and it
looks rather like Rosebeck. In English Rohrbach means "reedy brook".
ID: 065
Name: ANNA CATHERINE DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: Aug. 25, 1787
Birth place: Asmushausen, Hesse
Date of death: Mar. 11, 1814
Place of death: Asmushausen, Hesse
Age at death: 26 years, 6 months, 14 days.
Mother: ANNA MARGARETHE GLEIM (359) (1758-1828)
Father: HEINRICH DUTE (070) (1753-1829)
Catharina Dute, daughter of Heinrich Dute and Anna Margarethe Gleim,
born 8/25/1787 in Asmushausen, was found in the civil records by
Stephen Westfall. Godmother was the mother's sister; comfirmed 1801 as
Anna Catharina in Asmushausen; died 3/11/1814, at age 27. This matches
up with the Anna Catherine in the Heussner record who died single. She
is not mentioned in any of George Dute's letters, which were all
written later. Neither was she found by Walter Sprankel in his search
of the Asmushausen church records.
ID: 066
Name: CATHERINE ELIZABETH DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: Jan. 1, 1796
Birth place: Asmushausen, Hesse
Date of death: Oct. 9, 1879
Age at death: 83 years, 9 months, 8 days.
Mother: ANNA MARGARETHE GLEIM (359) (1758-1828)
Father: HEINRICH DUTE (070) (1753-1829)
Spouse: HEINRICH DOELLEFELD (067) (1773-1840)
Wedding: 8/13/1826, Schwarzenhasel
The civil records in Kassel as researched by Stephen Westfall say she
was b. 1/6/1796 (but see below), her godmother was Catharina Elisabeth
Brandau, and she was confirmed 1810 in Asmushausen.
The Kassel archives say that in 1836 she (wife of Heinrich
Doellefeld, master shoemaker in Schwarzenhasel) was the godmother of
Anton's daughter Elisa.
She and her family were mentioned in Anton Dute's letter to his
brother George of 1837; at that time she was married and still in
Germany.
We have a letter she wrote to her brother George in America, dated
March 18th, 1846. She talks a lot about how hard life was in Germany
and how much she wanted to come to America. She says she was always
sick and weak in 1844/45, because of which she ran up some debts. Her
husband Doellefeld died 10/27/1840 leaving 6 children (which does seem
to be the right number - see below); the underage children were still
very small, and the ones from the first marriage couldn't help because
none of them had learned the smith's trade yet. She mentions a
Christoph who was a smith by 1846. She talks quite a bit about how
hard life was in Germany then and how much she wanted to come to
America. She says that as of 3/20/1846 she was with her brother-in-law
H----flug (but this isn't Johannes Heinrich Hasenpflug, who must be in
America because she addresses him later in this letter). She sends
greetings from George Doellefeld; this must be her son who was b. 1833
and came to America. The next part of the letter seems to be in
George's words as told to her: he calls Casper Dute his baptismal
comrade, and implies that he has both male and female cousins in
Ameica. He plans to enter confirmation school in 1847, and come to
America if he gets confirmed. Besides Christoph the smith, whom he
calls his brother, he also mentions two other people he calls
brothers: Johannes, a shoemaker (he and Christoph still in Germany)
and Heinrich, who had gone to America but didn't have the money to get
any farther than New York, and so stayed there and learned the
cabinet-maker's trade. He also refers to a sister Anna Marth. in this
part of the letter. He also calls Christoph, Johannes, and Anna Martha
- but not Heinrich - step-siblings (though the church records indicate
they were really George's half-siblings and Catherine's
step-children). Then, apparently in her own voice again, Catherine
pitches George Dute for some travel-money and says "son Heinrich is
leading the way", which may mean Heinrich Jr. came here first.
There is some corroboration from other sources for a lot of this:
1) the children as she lists them - step-children and real children -
are listed the same way in the Kassel church records; 2) George and
Anton are listed as her children, and Christoph, John, Henry, and Anna
Martha are listed as her step-children, in The Scroll of Albert H.
Ernst (though Henry was surely her son); 3) Henry, George, and Anton
Dellefield are listed as her sons in the Elver Hessner record - the
others aren't mentioned; 4) there is a Henry Dellefield in 1860 Iowa
who is a carpenter, not too different from a cabinet-maker; later his
family shows up in Amherst; 5) there is a John Dellefield, b. c. 1826,
in 1860 and 1870 Amherst who is in fact listed as a shoemaker in 1860;
6) John's birthdate makes him old enough to have learned the
shoemaker's trade by 3/18/1846; 7) Johann Dellfeld, age 30, shoemaker,
arrived in NY on 6/20/1855 on the Hudson from Bremen ("Germans to
America"); 8) there is in 1870 and 1880 Lorain Co. a Christopher
Dellefield, though he's not a smith, he's a tanner and then a
quarryman (anything but farming, I guess); 9) the sister Anna Martha
who is apparently still in Germany would normally be taken to mean
Anna Martha Dute who married Henry Hasenpflug, but later in the letter
Catherine addresses this second Anna Martha who must therefore be in
America by then; 10) in the two censuses where Cath. Eliz, shows up,
she is without a husband, and Herr Doellefeld died before the rest of
his family emigrated; 11) she says Christoph, John, Anna Martha and
herself all wanted to come to America, and all but Anna Martha did
that.
"I also recently found what I believe is Catherine Dute Doellefeld
on the Brig Amazonia that arrived in NY May 18 1847. It lists the
Widow Dollefeld age 52, her son Anthon age 10, and son George age 14.
(the last name was mispelled and looked more like Dullwald). I
previously found her son Heinrich's ship record arriving in NY from
Bremen on the Ship Adler on June 24, 1845 at age 18." Deb Bromley,
7/13/07.
Regarding son Henry who went to New York, I can't find any
evidence for him in the New York directories or censuses, so probably
the money came through and he went out west. J. P. Ulm's 1851 letter
to George Dute implies that there was a Cousin Doellefeld living in
New York then, and there are in fact some Delafields in the NYC
directory then.
Anton Dute sends his greetings to Catherine Elizabeth Doellefeld
in his letter to George Dute of 4/5/1860, so she's still alive, and in
America in George Dute's neighborhood, and not remarried at that time.
He also greets her son and family; he must be talking about George,
with whom she lived in 1860; and younger brother Anton also lived
there with them. Henry was in Iowa then. John, to be sure, was also in
Ohio by 1860.
She bought about 52 acres from Wm. and Barbary Shubert in Elyria
Twp. on 4/10/1857, recorded 5/5/1857, so she had immigrated by then.
She deeded the same land to her son George on 12/15/1857, recorded
next Feb. 6. Also on 12/15 George signed a special deed giving her the
use of it for life along with food, clothing, and so on "in a manner
becoming children to parents."
She's in the 1870 census, in Elyria, living with her son George
Dellafred (sic). She's 75 and born in Germany. She also seems to be
in the 1860 census in Amherst, again with son George, where her age is
64, and her birthplace is given as Baden but that must be a mistake.
Her tombstone in the Cleveland Street Cemetery says she died Oct.
9, 1879 and was born 1/1/1795. The "History of the Western Reserve",
on the other hand, says 1872, at age 77 - which makes the birth year
match up, at least. A typewritten sheet in German Marilyn Tyler found
on Babelfish that gives her baptismal info from the Evangelical Church
in Asmushausen says her birthdate was Jan. 8 1796 and her baptism Jan.
10 (it also says her father was Heinrich Dute, her mother Anna
Margaretha nee Gleim, and her godmother Catharina Elisabeth Brandau;
this info was extracted 10/23/2003). Stephen Westfall's research says
her birthdate was 1/6/1796. Walter Sprankel's research in Asmushausen
says 1/1/1796, so there are two sources for this date, so that's what
I'm going with. He also says she was baptized 1/10/1796. On the death
date, an affidavit signed by her daughter-in-law Anna Margaret
Dellefield on 3/9/1923 says she died 10/8/1872.
The following chart of her descendants and Heinrich Doellefeld's,
drawn from the censuses up thru 1910, Stephen Westfall's research at
the archives in Hesse, Marilyn Tyler, Deb Bromley, and other sources,
involves some guesswork:
Heinrich Doellefeld 5/23/1773-10/27/1840; all kids b. Schwarzenhasel
+ Elisabeth Doench d. 1/18/1814 ae 44y3m2w - no kids found
+ Anna Gelasia Doench d. 3/3/1826 ae 45y - maybe sister of 1st wife -
m. 3/9/1817 in Schwarzenhasel
Anna Martha 3/12/1816-3/3/1880; godm. Anna Martha Dellefeld; conf.
1830; illegitimate; probably never came to Ameica
Justus b. 8/22/1817; godf. Justus Doellefeld of Braunhausen
Matthaeus b. 12/16/1818; godf. Matthaeus Blackert, farmer
Justus 10/2/1821-9/30/1831; godf. Justus Doellefeld of Braunhausen,
shoemaker, father's brother
Christopher Daniel Dellefield 5/6/1823-2/11/1891; godf. Christoph
Doellefeld of Bebra; imm. 7/27/1867 into NY from Bremen; b.
Schwarzenhasel, d. Amherst
+ Martha Elizabeth Landgrabe 4/24/1830-1/13/1909 b. Ger. imm. 1843
Elizabeth b. 4/15/1854 probably at Luedersdorf Kreis, near Bebra
+ Anthony Ernst b. 11/1847
Kathryn
+ --- Salot
Rebecca Ernst
+ --- Breeler
Anna Catherine Ernst
+ --- Burham
Elizabeth Caroline Ernst
+ --- Richards
Mary Catherine Ernst b. 12/1881
+ --- Miller
Henry Christopher Ernst b. 2/1884
Nallie Ernst
+ --- Mathias
Lillian Ernst b. 10/1888
+ --- Spuhler
Tenie (Elizabeth Christine) Ernst b. 9/1890
Louis Albert Ernst b. 10/1892 - of The Scroll
+ Mary Mahlke - she and Albert had no children
Alma Ernst b. 6/1894
+ --- Deiner
Ann 2/1/1860-3/18/1950
+ Daniel Chrisopher Haag
Eliza (?Eloise) B. born circa 1865 in Kurhessen
+ Albert A. Lambert
Catherine Elizabeth 3/1/1869-1969 b. Ohio - lived to be over 100
+ Louis Schubert
John H. b. c. 1873; he and family living on father's farm in 1941
+ Dorothy Marie Eitam or Eidane b. c. 1877
Elvera E. b. c. 1896
+ E. C. Schubert
Oliver
John Dellifield 9/14/1824-2/6/1893; godf. Johannes Doench of
Dorheim, mother's brother; imm. 6/20/1855 on the "Hudson"
+ Anna (Margaret? Martha? Elizabeth?) Neiding (Nating?) 1836-1866
(Deb Bromley says she died in childbirth in Jan of 1865).
+ Louisa Schaeffer (Hendricks?) 1826-1899; m. 5/20/1866
George Dellifield b. 3/9/1860; of Henrietta (or Kipton?)
+ Emma K. Weidman 12/4/1858-10/15/1925; b. Hersfeld, d. Henrietta
Bertha b. 10/1888
+ P. H. Latteman
Martha b. 10/1890
Lewis b. 5/1893; hung himself in a barn near Birmingham (Ray)
Maynard
Shirley
Christine b. 1/1864
+ Peter J. Leimbach b. 2/1860 - of Clarksfield, Huron Co.
Carl G. Leimbach b. 2/1890
Leona (?Carolina) M. Leimbach b. 1/1892
+ --- Keller
Elizabeth M. Leimbach b. 12/1892
+ --- Iceman
Ruth L. Leimbach b. 5/1894
+ --- Perkins
Martha A. Laimbach b. 3/1897
+ --- Byron
Louis W. Leimbach
Lawrence R. Leimbach b. c. 1905
Mary Ann 1/1/1864-5/27/1913; d. Warren Co OH; bur. in Carlisle;
doctor's name at death was H. J. Death
+ Charles? Husted
Anna? Christian? b. c. 1868
+ Mr. A. Howard
Heinrich Doellefeld (3rd marriage)
+ Catherine Elizabeth Dute
Henry Dellefield 1/24/1827-4/30/1866 or 1865; godf. Heinrich
Hassenpflug of Asmushausen; imm. 1845
+ Christina Hohmann 5/4/1832-5/25/1912 - mother was Elizabeth Dute?
Catherina 1852-1853
Catherine b. c. 1854, d. 6/28/1947
+ Fred Albrecht 4/28/1850-6/28/1905
George Henry 4/3/1857-9/4/1880 - killed by lightning
Charles Anthony 12/4/1859-9/4/1880 - ditto
Mary Elizabeth 10/7/1863-2/18/1934; bur Ridgehill Memorial
+ John Roemer 1/11/1855-6/21/1948
Lena, of Lorain
+ William Newman
Casper L. (or Casper Samuel) 3/6/1866-2/16/1930; in Amherst, 1920
+ Anna Helena (Lena) Appeman 2/26(5?)/1871-10/29/1931; death cert
says "DIVORCED from Samuel Dellefield" tho he predeceased her
Alden Newton 8/12/1893-10/12/1927
Florence Katherine 10/30/1894-4/18/1978
+ Herman Edward Essig 4/8/1894-11/17/1980 - of Oberlin
Robert Herman Essig b. in Lorain. Genealogist.
Jack 1922-1922
Raymond b. 5/30/1924
Kenneth b. 4/6/1933
Belloua C. (or Belvera Tina, or Vera) 12/25/1896-9/22/1978
+ --- Young
Viola Anna 2/6/1899-1940
+ --- ?Bonsor
+ --- ?Keenan
Samuel Casper (Jr.) 4/23/1904-12/8/1959; of R.D. #2, Amherst
Edith Marie b. 2/6/1899
Anton 6/8/1829-11/1/1832; godf: Anton Dute of Rotenburg
Anna Catharina 5/8/1831-10/4/1832; godm. Anna Cath., wife of
George Tude (!) of Asmushausen
George Michael Dellefield 6/20/1833-4/14? 15?/1901; godf. George
Tude (!), Koethner zu Asmushausen; imm. 6/1848
+ Mary Ann Schmitkons c. 1836 - 2/17/1873, cousin of
+ Anna Margarethe Schmitkons 9/2/1849-6/7/1927 b. Ger (Nuernberg?)
?Christina F. c. 12/3/1858-3/15/1863 - bur. in Cleveland St. Cem.
John F. 12?/1861?-3/1864 - bur. in Cleveland St. Cem.
Anton 8/3/1863-9/24/1863 - bur. in Cleveland St. Cem.
John Henry b. 11/13/1864
+ Susan K. Davies b. 1/1869
Laura Marie b. 9/10/1895
Harold John Edgar b. 5/11/1902
Linda; of Arizona
+ --- Whitted
Randall; died in crash of Flight 427
George Michael b. 8/30/1866 - lived on Griswold Rd. in 1920 census
+ Eliza Ernst b. 6/1870
Mayme Marie 12/30/1890-1960; changed name to Mary Elizabeth
+ --- Pallas
Elmer Charles 5/24/1892-7/14/1928
+ Lillian Reese
Pearl Barbara 10/1894-8/29/1913
+ Fred Tuthill
Earl Anthony 2/1897
+ Lucille Florence Stark
Irvin Charles 11/24/1898-7/27/1939
+ Mary Mahlke - widowed; remarried Albert Ernst of The Scroll
Irvin Charles, electrician, 2/11/1921-11/4/1999; WW II vet
+ Agnes J., d. 6/20/1999
Esther L., of Elyria
+ --- Groner
Lois 3/19/1923-12/16/1965
+ --- Krueck
Robert Charles Dellefield
+ Clara Rose Palko
Kathy
Melanie
Danny
Jeffrey
Sandra
William
Marijane "Molly" Dellefield
+ Fred Marshall, of Elyria
Anthony A. 7/16/1870-5/13/1940
+ Mary Ernst b. 6/1870 - 1 kid
Annie
+ Violet Jane Younger 5/21/1877-1944
Ida May
+ Adelbert Leo Kastler 1915-1996
Marilyn Jane b. 1946 - genealogy fan
+ Tracy Latham Tyler b. 1946
Heather Anne b. 5/23/1981
Melissa Jane b. 6/10/1985
James Adelbert b. 1949
+ Bonnie Jean Fuller b. 1952
Jennie Renee Kastler b. 1976
Adam James Kastler b. 1979
Julie Kastler b. 1983
Annie d. at age 2
Henry d. 12/31/1876 at age 3y2m when he fell backwards and hit
his head trying to shut a door. Margarethe's first born.
Christopher 9/1875-10/23/1918. Black sheep.
+ Grace Booth
William F. b. 12/1877
+ Anna Sobel/Zabel b. c. 1881
Harris b. c. 1904
Grant T. Dellefield b. c. 1908
+ Thelma Dellefield
Laurel Dellefield
+ Roger Edleman
Deborah Joyce Edleman - genealogy fan til hard drive crashed
+ --- Bromley
Grace b. 9/1877
Eve? Barbara b. 5/1879; her Bible exists; has some German in it
+Claude Robbins
? ?
Barbara - lives in Fla, has her grandmother's Bible
(Anna) Marie b. 6/1881
+ (David) Grant Freeland; b. 8/1876 in W. Va. (1900 census)
Milton Freeland d. 10/29/1999
+ Eda
Christine (Tena) b. 11/1882, m. 3/13/1900
+ Rollin G. Baus 4/9/1876-7/16/1938; mother maybe from Hasenpflugs
Hazel b. 10/13/1902
+ Rollin Leidheiser
Nora b. 1/10/1904
+ Robert Blakey
Julie b. 7/21/1910
+ Donovan Granger
Marjorie Lillian 8/25/1917-5/22/2000; m. 8/14/1937
+ Dorrell D. Murch
Linda Jane; rescued from frozen river at age 10 by Teddy
Schneider
+ --- Brannan
Son - high school salutorian, engineer for Motorola
Lila Anne b. 11/15/1946, d. 15 days later
Gerald Ellsworth
+ Joseph Egry
Phyllis; m. 10/16/1948
+ William Sadler
Peter H. b. 6/1885
+ Rosa Roepke b. c. 1887
Walter C. b. c. 1907
Leonard H.
Howard C.
Helen
Richard - moved to Missouri, then back to Oberlin
+ Lena Lorine H. 1917-1943 - LaPorte Cem. (Deb Bromley)
Joice
David
+ Netty Dean Greene
Donald - has an old Dellefield Bible and prayer book
Gailard
Victor
Donna
Henry C. b. 5/1888
+ Carrie C. K. Cook
Anna Margarethe 10/4/1890-3/27/1891; b. Town Line Rd, Amherst
Carl b. 2/1895
+ Elsie Schroeder
Norma
Anton Dellefield 11/27/1835-1/13/1913; godf: Anton Dute, teacher in
Rotenburg; imm. 1847 (1900 census) or '48
+ Margaret Daneng/Neiding 1/26/1843-10/17/1910 b. in Ger, imm. 1857
Augustus b. 1/1864 (1900 Soundex) - died young
Christine b. 1866 - must be the one with Uncle George, 1880
+ William Hill
Mary b. 10/28/1867
+ A. Cable
George 1869-1957
+ Elizabeth G. Pape b. c. 1883 in Mich. d. 8/14/1971 in Huron
Katherine b. 1872
+ George Stoll
Margaret 1874-1932 - buried in Camden Cem., Camden Twp.
+ Arthur J. Holden - ditto
Elizabeth b. 1877
+ A. Howard
Barbara b. 1879
+ A. Pratt
Anna d. 8/18/1977
+ A. Funk
Henry b. 7/1883, d. CA; may have gotten a postcard from someone
on the Titanic (Deb Bromley)
+ Edna (Coombs?)
Martha 3/1886-8/15/1983
+ A. Eckelberry
The Freelands (of the George Michael clan) have a connection with
Lincoln and Grant. David Grant Freeland's aunt remembered being rocked
by Lincoln on the porch of the White House. I gather that Mary Todd
Lincoln and her sister were at her wedding and gave her two Limoge
vases which are still in the family. She lived to 106, and when she
turned 100 the Grant trust sent her a special glass dish with Grant's
picture in it. (Marilyn, 7/31/200.)
There is an obit about George Henry Dellefield and Charles Anthony
Dellefield, the two that were killed by lightning, in the Elyria
Constitution, 9/9/1880. They were struck just after driving into the
barn and unhitching their team. They were killed instantly, and a
neighbor with them, Edward B. Lewis, was also struck but he recovered,
and went and told their mother "who who was almost overcome with
heartrending grief.... It was enough to wring all hope out of the
stoutest heart." Her husband Henry had also died young (age 39). There
is also an article from the Elyria Republican, 9/6/1880, which says,
"They were standing in the barn about eight feet from the open door, a
pitchfork, as we learn was near them, with its prongs toward them. An
electric current came in from over the door, striking the handle of
the fork detaching it from the handle, and dividing on the pongs,
instantly killing the young men, then passing upward through a mow of
hay, yet not sitting it on fire."
On the black sheep Christopher Dellefield (1875-1918): "Milton
Freeland said he was arrested when he drove his vehicle up the
courthouse steps in Elyria. Uncle Carl Dellefield said he was obsessed
with the perpetual motion machine". And, "He was listed as divorced
and I show no children but that may or may not be true". (Marilyn,
8/10/2000.) He opened Lorain's first junkyard in 1917. Marilyn says he
may have been hit in the head with a hook possibly at the junkyard
(8/16/2000). He probably died in a mental hospital in Stark Co. It
might be possible to get his medical record from the mental hospital,
and if there was a court action that committed him, it should be
possible to get the record of that too.
As for George Dellefield (1833-1901), his obit says: "At one time
he was pretty well supplied with this world's goods, but his generous
disposition led him to trust everybody and he died a poor man. The
deceased was 67 years old and had lived in this vicinity for years."
Apparently he was a soft touch for anyone who needed a co-signer. The
Linda Whitted papers: "Mr. and Mrs. George Dellefield were known for
their many kind deeds, altho they had a large family there was always
room for one more many a wayfarer found refuge there and as a small
child I can remember a grandfather and grandmother there who were
always treated with kindness." The grandmother may have been Catherine
Elizabeth, but it's hard to say who the grandfather was.
George, Henry, and Anton Dellefield were all members of St.
Peter's Church in Amherst, going back maybe as far as 1857 when it was
founded.
ID: 067
Name: HEINRICH DOELLEFELD
Sex: M
Birth date: May 23, 1773
Birth place: Landefeld, Hesse
Date of death: Oct. 27, 1840
Place of death: Schwarzenhasel, Hesse
Age at death: 67 years, 5 months, 4 days.
Spouse: CATHERINE ELIZABETH DUTE (066) (1796-1879)
Wedding: 6/9/1822 in Asmushausen
Note: Veretinary surgeon, blacksmith, Napoleonic soldier.
Note: "Dellefield" in German is "Doellefeld".
The date of death comes from his wife's letter to her brother George
Dute of 3/18/1846. The church archives in Kassel have it as the 28th.
The place of death and the birth info and the blacksmith occupation
are also from the Kassel archives.
The Kassel archives say he was married three times: first to
Elisabeth Doench of Dorheim (no children); second to Anna Gelasia
Doench who seems to have been the sister of the first (says Stephen
Westfall), and who was the mother of two of his children who came to
America (Christoph and John) and also of the illegitimate Anna Martha,
the oldest; and third to Catherine Elizabeth Dute, mother of Henry,
George, and Anton, his other three children who came to America. Now,
The Scroll of Albert H. Ernst says Heinrich Dute had daughters Anna
Marie and Catherine Elizabeth, who both married Heinrich Doellefeld in
succession; but it appears that the two sisters he married were really
the Doench sisters; and there is no other evidence for the existence
of Anna Marie, so I think she can be discounted.
There is some info about Heinrich and his son John in "Standard
History of Lorain County", 1916, by Wright, in a description of a
George Dellifield who "was born in Amherst Township of Lorain County
March 9, 1860, a son of John and Anna (Neiding) Dellifield. Both
parents were natives of Germany. The father was born in that country
October 25, 1825," - though the church records say 9/14/1824 - "and
was the son of Henry Dellifield, who was a veterinary surgeon. John
Dellifield came to America when a young man and was married in Lorain
County to Miss Neiding, who was born in Germany in 1836. She died in
1866, and the father survived until February 6, 1893.... By trade he
was a shoemaker and was employed in that line at North Amherst for
some years, but he subesquently bought a small farm and resided there
until his death." Some of this is confirmed in 1860 and 1870 Amherst
censuses: the John in the censuses is a shoemaker in 1860 and a farmer
in 1870. And in 1860 the age is 34, and in 1870 it's 45. And the book
says he was born in Germany, and the censuses say Hessen-Cassel.
Regarding his wife, though her name is given in the book as Anna
Neiding, and in 1860 it's Margaret, her age (which looks like 23 in
the census) matches up pretty well with the birth year of 1836 in the
book, as does her birthplace, which is Germany in the book and
Hessen-Cassel in the census. And the book says she died in 1866, and
by 1870 he's married to a 42-year-old named Louisa. Add to all this
the fact that he's called a shoemaker in his mother's 1846 letter. I
think it's pretty safe to conclude that we're talking about the right
Henry and John here, though the discrepency in John's birthdate does
leave some room for doubt.
Anyway, was his name Heinrich or was it George Michael? Besides
the evidence above that John's father was named Henry, there are three
other reasons to believe it was Heinrich. The Kassel church records
call him Heinrich. In the "History of the Western Reserve", 1910 (see
below), George M. Dellefield's grandfather is called Henry. And in the
Cleveland Street Cemetery, Catherine E. Dute Dellefield
(1/1/1795-10/9/1879) who is buried with some of the Dellefields, is
described as "Wife of H." The only contradictory evidence is this: in
The Scroll, a wall-sized family tree done by Albert H. Ernst in 1950,
his name is given as George Michael Dellefield, and this info came
from 4 handwritten pages in the possession of Linda Dellefield Whitted
(whose line is Harold John Edgar, John Henry, George Michael the
immigrant) of Arizona. Probably it was written in 1941 by either Mrs.
John Henry Dellefield (Susan K. Davies) or their daughter Laura Marie
Dellefield. Neither of them knew The Patriarch since he died in
Germany before they were born. So Heinrich seems most likely.
There is more on Heinrich Doelllefeld and his other children in a
bio of George M. Dellefield in "History of the Western Reserve", 1910,
by H. T. Upton, p. 1814 that says: "Henry Dellefield, grandfather of
George M., was a life-long resident of Germany, where his birth
occurred about 1776. Serving under that brilliant soldier, Napoleon
Bonaparte, he was with him in his Russian campaign, spending the
winter near Moscow. He was twice married. His second wife," - third
actually - "whose maiden name was Dute, was the mother of his son
George. She survived him, and with her three sons, Henry, George, and
Anton, came to the United States, locating in Ohio, where she died in
1872, aged seventy-seven years." That's a little off. "Henry, the
eldest son, died in Amherst, Lorain County, in 1865. Anton, the
younger son, now resides in Birmingham township, Erie county, Ohio."
This confirms the names of three of them, and the birth order, and who
their mother was; and the same three names are given in the same order
in the Heussner record. Henry and family are in Iowa in 1860; then in
1870 his wife Christiana show up in Amherst with the same kids. The
third son Anton is in Amherst with his brother George in 1860, in
Elyria in 1870, and in Erie County in 1900. Regarding second son
George, the book goes on to say: "Born in Germany, June 20, 1833,
George Dellefield came to Lorain county, Ohio, in 1847, going first to
Amherst, where he secured employment with Judge Harris, grandfather of
the present postmaster general of the United States." It goes on to
say he acquired 240 acres in Elyria Twp.; died 4/14/1901; married Mary
Schmitkons (d. 2/7/8673) and it lists their 7 children; then he
married her cousin Margaret Schmitkons and they had 10 children.
George Dellefield is in the censuses for Amherst in 1860 and Elyria in
1870 & 1880, and the info there for him matches up well.
There is a bit more on George Doellefeld in a couple church
baptismal records Marilyn Tyler found. They're from the Schwarzenhasel
baptismal book, 1833, on page 10; one is #52 and the other #56b. His
birthdate is 6/20/1833; one gives his baptism as 6/28/1833, the other
as 6/30. His fahter was Heinrich Doellefeld, his mother Catharina
Elisabeth nee Dude/Tude and his godfather was George Dude/Tude of
Asmushausen - this was presumably his uncle, who came to America the
next year.
Sons Henry and George are mentioned in Catherine Elizabeth's
letter of 3/18/1846 to her brother George: Henry is already in New
York, learning to be a cabinet-maker; and George sends his greetings.
(Anton is only about 9 at this point.) There are also three people
mentioned who are called George Doellefeld's step-siblings: Christoph,
a smith, Johannes, a shoemaker, and Anna Martha.
Regarding Anna Martha Doellefeld: were there two Anna Marthas? The
church records only list one, born in 1816. The Scroll of Albert H.
Ernst suggests there were two, one born 1831 and the last child in
Heinrich's first family, the other 1838 and the last child in his
second family. (The 1838 one looks like it was added later.) This
implies the first one died young. But the letter implies she was in
the first since it lists her in the same paragraph with the children
of the first family, and calls Christoph, John and Anna Martha
George's step-siblings. Also, the Linda Whitted papers only mention
one. So it would seem that there was only one Anna Martha, a member of
Heinrich Doellefeld's first family, and still alive in 1846 when the
letter was written. (There is also, by the way, an Anna Martha, wife
J., 11/23/1835-1/15/1863, buried with the Dellefields in the Cleveland
Street Cemetery.)
To be sure, there is another way to parse these two families. The
Scroll puts Christoph (b. 1823), John (1825), and Henry (1827) in the
first family, and George (1833) and Anton (1836) in the second. When
you look at their birthdates, this grouping seems plausible. We've
already assigned Anna Martha to the first. Now, the Heussner record
and the "History of the Western Reserve" both list three sons for her
(Henry, George and Anton) and in the same order. It is possible that
this is because they were the first three to come to America - Henry
probably in 1845, George in 1847 or 1848, and Anton in 1847 or 1848.
(John didn't come til 1855, and Christoph til 1867.) But I still think
the family is as listed in the Kassel archives, mostly because those
records are closest in time to the events in question.
Marilyn Tyler (e-mail, 5/26/01) has a lead on Heinrich
Doellefeld's parentage. She heard from a Rainer Doellefeld in Germany
who traces his family back to Johann Justus Toellefeld/Doellefeld b.
1/26/1782 (with "Landefeld" written under the date), making him the
right age to be the younger brother of Herinrich Doellefeld. Now,
Heinrich's son Justus of his second marriage had as his baptismal
sponsor "Justus DOELLEFELD of Braunhausen, shoemaker, father's
brother", according to Stephen Westfall. Johann JUSTUS Tollefeld's
parents are given as Anna Martha Ludwig (ca. 1750, Landefeld) and
"Anthonius Tollefelds/1738?/Schwarzenhasel?/Landefeld". Marilyn says:
"Next comes 14.05.1851 Schuhmachermeister Bebra" - if this means
Anthonius died in Bebra as a master shoemaker, then the occupation of
Anthonius the father and Justus the son in Braunhausen matches up.
Connecting the two Justuses would be even more convincing if we could
put them in the same location, and I can't find Landefeld on my map;
but if it's near Schwarzenhasel, Schwarzenhasel is right next to
Braunhausen, and both are just north of Bebra, so maybe that's good
enough.
ID: 068
Name: ANNA MARTHA DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: Apr. 5, 1798
Birth place: Asmushausen, Germany
Date of death: Aug. 17, 1870
Place of death: Brownhelm, Lorain Co. Oh.
Age at death: 72 years, 4 months, 12 days.
Mother: ANNA MARGARETHE GLEIM (359) (1758-1828)
Father: HEINRICH DUTE (070) (1753-1829)
Spouse: JOHN HENRY HASENPFLUG (069) (1800-1888)
Wedding: 6/9/1822 in Asmushausen
Note: Came to America. 4 kids.
I found a record of her birth on microfilm at a Mormon library. It
spells her name Duthe, gives a birthdate, says her parents were named
Duthe and Kline (sic), and says she was born in Asmushausen. I suspect
that the source of this was the Heussner record.
The big microfilm listing for "Women in the Western Reserve" says
she came to Brownhelm in 1846, but see her husband's record.
She and her husband are buried in Brownhelm Cemetery, Brownhelm
Twp., Lorain Co. She was living in Black River when she died. The
Brownhelm Cemetery records say she died 8/17/1870, but they give her
age as 72y1m12d meaning she was born 7/5/1789. Walter Sprankel of
Germany says it was 3/3/1798, and she was baptized 4/1/1798 in
Asmushausen. The Heussner record says 4/5/1798. The church records in
Kassel agree with a 4/5/1798 birthdate, and give Asmushausen as the
birthplace, and Anna Martha, daughter of Wilhelm Brandau, as her
godmother, and 1812 as her year of confirmation; but there is a
mystery regarding her death date: it gives 1/31/1882 in Asmushausen,
she never having married (from Stephen's e-mail of 4/13/2000); but in
another place her death entry of 1883 is crossed out (e-mail of
4/19/2000).
In Anton Dute's undated letter to his brother George of the late
1830's he implores him not to live in strife with his sister and
brother-in-law: "Why do you want to embitter a short life for
yourselves? I would not like to live in dissension with strangers, but
much less to leave the world unreconciled with brothers and sisters."
He doesn't name the sister, but it must be Anna Martha because the
only other married sister who is known to have come to Ohio was Anna
Catherine, and she was still in Germany then. He also doesn't say what
the problem was.
In Anton's letter of 3/9/1856 he sends his greetings to his sister
Anna Martha and his brother-in-law H. Hasenpflug and their son who
seems to be his godson. And the Hasenpflug's only son was named Anton.
In Anton's letter of 4/5/1860, he sends his greetings to sister
Catherine Elizabeth and his brothers and sisters, but not specifically
to Anna Martha.
An incomplete chart of her descendants, compiled mostly from the
censuses up thru 1910, and some of which came from Patricia Smith
Hoyt's book "Heussners of Lorain County, Ohio", or from Hartley J.
Smith, or Valerie, etc:
Anna Martha Dute (4/5/1798-8/17/1870)
+ Johannes Heinrich Hasenpflug (4/10/1800-10/10/1888)
Ann Liza Hasenpflug b. 1820
Anton Philip Hasenpflug, Rev. (1821-1896)
+ Elizabeth Heussner (1822-1892)
Mary Hasenpflug b. 5/24/1844 in Black River (LDS)
+ Jacob Schneider, Dr.
Louis Schneider
Catherine Elizabeth Hasenpflug (6/6/1825-11/30/1880)
+ Andreas Brandau (2/1818-12/11/1890)
John Henry Brandau b. 5/1844 in OH, parents b. Germany; farmer
+ Amanda (Aganda?) Elnora Leuszler b. 3/1851 in PA
Bertha? A. Brandau b. c. 1871
Clara A. Brandau b. c. 1873
Ruth E. Brandau b. c. 1874
Frederick? W. Brandau b. 6/1875, quarryman
Harvey C. (L?) Brandau 1/1879-1943, school teacher
+ Charlotte Elizabeth Brandau
Henry - lost a leg in a railroad accident (Valerie)
Margaret
John Harvey
Marian A., daughter, b. Jun 1888 in OH
Elizabeth Brandau b. c. 1846
Martha Brandau b. c. 1848
John W. Brandau b. 4/1850. 1900: b. OH, parents b. Ger. Merchant
+ Emily b. 11/1857, parents b. NY
Grace Brandau b. 11/1881? 1878?; teacher
James H. (W?) Brandau b. 7/1883; at school and messenger in 1900
Clarence J. Brandau b. 5/1889
Carl A. Brandau b. 12/1892
Francis (Frances?) K. Brandau, daughter, b. 1/1900
Frederick Anton Brandau b. c. 1850
Mary M. Brandau b. c. 1852
Julius A. Brandau b. c. 1854
Amelia Mary Brandau b. c. 1858
+ Arthur Adam Hasenpflug
Bertha
+ Rev. Henry A. Stick - b. Brownhelm, d. 5/1961 in S. Amherst.
Congregationalist minister to Zulus in Africa for 36 years.
daughter
+ Fred E. Christian (see e-mail from Deb Bromley, 7/25/01)
Anna M. M? L? Brandau b. 5/1861
+ Polantus Johns b. 10/1856
Charles O. Brandau b. c. 1862?
Elizabeth Hasenpflug (1827-5/10/1900) - see below
+ Adam Heussner (6/5/1820-3/11/1893) b. in Germany
William Henry Heussner (6/11/1844-7/11/1877)
+ Mary Lapp (1843-1918)
John Adam Heussner (7/19/1847-12/5/1882)
+ Martha Fuller (7/27/1852-1/2/1892)
Elver Seymour Heussner (10/11/1874-8/14/1917)
+ Victoria Ann St. John (5/11/1869-8/20/1949) b. Canada
Blanche Elizabeth Heussner (7/31/1894-5/1/1988)
+ William Henry Harrison Vanakin
Louisa Martha Heussner (6/1/1896-1/1/1965)
+ Thomas Griffin
+ Lawrence Shinskey
Adam Seymour Heussner (5/2/1898-3/8/1975)
+ Lenore Waters d. 1920
+ Esther Downing
Marella Anna Heussner (7/26/1901-3/10/1968)
+ Carle
+ Ralph Shire
+ James Legan
John Elver Heussner (11/12/1902-4/24/1903)
Letitia "Letty" Savannah Heussner (3/5/1904-8/10/1992)
+ Ted Smith
Patricia Ann Smith (author of Heussner book)
+ Paul Dean Hoyt
Josephine Marie Smith
+ John Lamison Talbott
David Theodore Smith (12/24/1938-7/30/1993) m. 4 times
Dorothy Louise Smith
+ Eric Charles Grenia
George Luman Heussner b. 9/30/1908
+ Josephine Anscers
Carl John Heussner (10/3/1880-1/30/1907)
Albert Theodore Heussner (10/23/1850-4/25/1852)
Mary Elizabeth Heussner (3/16/1853-3/17/1879)
Aurelia Heussner (3/15/1856-4/11/1899)
+ John Anton Dute, son of Casper and Mary
(this is Cousin Valerie's line)
Edward Heussner (8/24/1859-12/29/1939)
+ Anna B. Forbes b. 7/1862
Clyde E. Heussner b. 3/3/1887
Lena M. Heussner b. 10/1888
Jane A. Heussner b. 7/1890
Gladys L? Heussner b. 10/1895
Peg Breitweg's info on Elizabeth Hasenpflug and Adam Heussner is a
bit different from what is given above. She says Eliz. N. Heussner d.
5/8/1900 at 73 years 27 days, and Adam Heussner d. 3/18/1893. She also
sent me a plat map of 1857 showing Hasenpflugs, Heussners and Brandaus
owning quite a bit of land in the southeast corner of Brownhelm and
northeast corner of Henrietta.
The Heussner book says Elver S. Heussner's ancestor chart says
they came out of "Kalckobes Kreis Hersfeld Hessen Kassel Germany".
John Adam Heussner and Martha Fuller both contracted tuberculosis and
died young. Their son Elver and his daughter Marella came down with it
too. The recommended treatment was to move to a warm, dry climate,
which is how they wound up in Arizona.
ID: 069
Name: JOHN HENRY HASENPFLUG
Sex: M
Birth date: May 10, 1800
Birth place: Oberaula, Hesse
Date of death: Oct. 10, 1888
Place of death: Lorain Co., Ohio
Age at death: 88 years, 5 months, 0 days.
Spouse: ANNA MARTHA DUTE (068) (1798-1870)
Wedding: 6/9/1822, Asmushausen
Note: "Hase" means rabbit and "pflug" means plow.
Karen Krugman says he died 10/18/1888 and is buried in Brownhelm
Cemetery. The Brownhelm Cemetery records don't list him, but that
doesn't mean he's not buried there. Peg Breitweg, on the other hand, a
genealogist in Avon Lake, says he died 10/10/1888.
He was the son of Michael Hassenpflug (11/26/1759-4/2/1833) and
(Anna) Elizabeth Wittich (1771-1803) though S. Westfall researching
the archives in Kassel says her name may have been Anna El. Berger. At
age 35 farmer Hasenpflug and his wife Ann Martha Dute and three of
their 11 children arrived in Baltimore on 10/1/1835. First they
settled in Amherst Twp. and in 1845 moved to Brownhelm. They're buried
in Brownhelm Cemetery. (This is all from Patricia Smith Hoyt's book on
the Heussners.) Michael and Elizabeth had 6 children: Anna Elizabeth
(b. 6/1/1789; she m. Burkhard Kleinschmidt and moved to Cleveland),
Johannes (b. 12/18/1791), Adam Heinrich (b. 2/8/1795), Anna Elizabeth
(b. 5/23/1798), Johann Heinrich (b. 5/10/1800), and Wilhelm (b.
8/31/1802 - moved to Russian Poland and lived about 4 hours away from
Peter Rohrbach and family). All of them were born in Oberaula, which
is SW of Rotenburg, between Bad Hersfeld and Schwalmstadt. Michael was
the son of Johannes Hassenpflug (1723-1/20/1814), and Anna Elizabeth
Wittich was the dau. of Johann Wilhelm Wittig. Michael also had 10
children by his second wife Anna Sohle. At least two of Michael's
children by his second marriage came to America: Adam Heinrich
Hassenpflug and wife Anna Catherina Riesinger came to Brownhelm; and
Elizabeth Hasenpflug and husband Nicholas Angersbach came probably
about 1854.
Walter Sprankel adds that Michael was a farmer and gives the
marriage date for Heinrich and Anna Martha.
"I just discovered through a relative who has done a lot of
research on the Hassenpflug family that we may be related to the
Brothers Grimm of fairy tale fame. Charlotte Grimm married a Ludwig
Hassenpflug." Valerie, 9/9/04. Valerie is related to herself, being
descended both from the J. H. Hasenpflug line and the Casper Dute
line. "From a National Geographic article of some years ago we learned
that... Charlotte Grimm married Ludwig Hassenpflug around 1822. We
can't find a Ludwig in our genealogy. Michael, the one who is
patriarch of the America Hassenpflugs, came to America with his only
son in the mid 1800's which is about mid-life of the Grimm
Brothers.The article also states that Marie Hassenpflug , friend of
Charlotte Grimm, was a great source of fables used by the Grimm
brothers. Marie was a housekeeper for Wilhelm Grimm's in-laws."
Valerie, 9/11/04. Valerie's e-mail to me of 11/2/04 adds that the
National Geographic article is from December 1999, p. 107. It says
Charlotte was a sister of the Brothers Grimm. Her picture now hangs on
the wall in Wolfgang Hassenpflug's house in Rinteln. Charlotte married
Marie's brother Ludwig Hassenpflug. Marie grew up in a French-speaking
Huguenot family in Hanau. The Grimms were from Hessen. Jakob Grimm
never had any children, and when Wilelm's daughter died in 1919 the
Hassenpflug family inherited much of their property and they retain it
today. The French Huguenots brought their storytelling tradition with
them when they came to Hessen. Whether there is a connection between
Marie and Ludwig Hassenpflug and our line of Hassenpflugs is unknown,
but contacting Wolfgang Hassenplfug might be a good place to start.
Marie Hassenpflug was probably about the right age to be a sister to
John Henry Hassenpflug.
One of the Hasenpflug researchers is Hartley J. Smith (website:
my.treeway.com/hassenpflug/), even though he's only an in-law. His
descent is:
Michael Hasenpflug 1759-1833
+ Anna Sohle - m. 1804
Anna Elizabeth Hassenpflug 1819-1897
+ Nicholas Angersbach 1814-1902
George P. Angersbach 1860-1936
+ Lottie Miller 1873-1949
Theo-Mae Angersbach 1900-1961
+ John T. Bradley 1892-1937
Margaret Mae Bradley
+ Hartley J. Smith, Jr.
ID: 070
Name: HEINRICH DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Nov. 8, 1753
Birth place: Rockensuess, Hessen, Ger.
Date of death: Jan. 22, 1829
Place of death: Asmushausen, Hessen
Age at death: 75 years, 2 months, 14 days.
Father: --- DUTE (356) ( - )
Spouse: ANNA MARGARETHE GLEIM (359) (1758-1828)
Child 1: ANTON DUTE (062) (1793-1868)
Child 2: ELISABETH DUTE (063) (1790- )
Child 3: ANNA CATHERINE DUTE (065) (1787-1814)
Child 4: CATHERINE ELIZABETH DUTE (066) (1796-1879)
Child 5: ANNA MARTHA DUTE (068) (1798-1870)
Child 6: JOHANN GEORGE DUTE (060) (1799-1875)
Note: Of Asmushausen.
H. G. Kittelmann says he was a producer of brandy. The French seem to
be the main producers of brandy (called cognac in French) - in
particular, the Ile de Re is in the Cognac region, and the town of
Thaire is not far from the town of Cognac. Walter Sprankel, a
researcher in Hesse, on the other hand, says he was a day-laborer and
linen-weaver.
Even though the Heussner record says he was born in Rockensuess
(see below), the Dute family doesn't show up in the area til about the
1760's, so I think it's likely he was born elsewhere.
Stephen Westfall (6/13/2000) says, "A Johann Heinrich DUTT was
confirmed in Rockensuess in 1771. Unfortunately his parents are not
given. Assuming that he was 13-15 years old at his confirmation, this
Heinrich would roughly match your Asmushausen Heinrich Dute. There is
no mention of him elsewhere in the records. This Heinrich should also
be identical with the Hessian soldier Heinrich DUDE, who served in the
Regiment von Buenau in the American Revolution." I couldn't find any
reference to him in the Hessian books at Sutro. "As was often the case
with soldiers, he may have moved around quite a lot after returning
from America and may have married Anna Margarethe GLIEM while
stationed in another town. She seems to have been from Asmushausen."
That wouldn't explain why we can't find any earlier records of him,
though. Stephen also says (6/20/2000) that there were no Dutes living
in Rockensuess in 1745 based on the land records, or in 1750 (StAM 49d
Rotenburg 242), but they were there by 1770 (StAM KAT I Rockensuess
B12).
Valerie: "A long time ago I found a Dute listed in , I believe a
list of Hessians, who had come here in the 1700's." E-mail, 6/14/2000.
She also says (4/22/08) there is a genalogist who has Heinrich's name
as Ferdinand.
Stephen also says Heinrich could be a son or brother of Johann
Adam Dute who lived in Rockensuess and married Anna Christina Landau.
They had a string of children but the first one he found was born
1761, a good eight years after Heinrich was born, and Anna Christina
was only about 15 then. In any case, none of their children's
godparents were Dutes, implying they may have come from elsewhere.
The Kassel archives say Heinrich Dute was godfather of his
grandson Heinrich (son of Anton) born 4/2/1824 in Rotenburg-Altstadt.
Stephen Westfall provides his date and place of death and says he
lived 75y2m14d, from which I calculate his birthdate. Walter Sprankel
also says he was dead by 1845. None of the George Dute letters mention
him, and the earliest of these letters is from 1837.
Stephen Westfall also gives Dutt as an alternate spelling of his
last name, and says it wasn't uncommon to drop that final "e".
The name Heinrich or Henry has a long history in this family.
Heinrich's son Anton, the teacher, had a son Heinrich. His other son
George who came to America only had one son, Casper, but Casper had a
son John Henry Dute and a son Jacob Henry Dute. John Henry Dute had a
son Rev. Henry Dute, and a son and grandson named Harry. And so on.
Much of the info about Heinrich and his children and grandchildren
comes from a family tree written by his great-great-grandson Elver S.
Heussner, who was born in 1874, in Lorain County I take it, the right
time and place to be a speaker of German, but it's apparent that he
never really learned how to write it - "Kassel" is "Castle",
"Rotenburg" is "Rodenburg" or "Rotenberg", "Rohrbach" looks like
"Rorebeck" in one place and "Rarebuck" in another. And Heinrich Dute's
birthplace is given as "Rockenseg" though it should be "Rockensuess" -
and "ss" can be written in German with a grapheme that he might have
mistaken for a "G", implying that he took this from a source written
in German, maybe an old family Bible or something.
Anyway, about Heinrich Dute, the Elver Heussner record gives only
his last name and spells it "Duthe" (but with no accent mark over the
"e") and says, "Born Rockenseg Kreis" - district - "Rotenberg Hessen
Ger.", and "74 yr old". And about his wife he says, "Born in
Ausmushausen Hessen Castle Ger", "74 yr old" and gives her last name
as "Kline" - probably a misspelling of "Klein", but her name was
really Gleim.
Five of the children listed for Heinrich in this database are well
attested. They seem to have been preceded by two others as well, who
died young: 1) Johannes, b. 3/21/1785 in Asmushausen, godfather
Johannes Dute of Rockensuess, d. 5/8/1794 in Asmushausen (from Stehpen
Westfall). Walter Sprankel didn't find him in the Asmushausen church
records, though. 2) Anna Catharina b. 8/25/1787, who has her own
record in this database. Now, the "History of Lorain County", 1879,
says George Dute had one brother and four sisters, and two of the
sisters came to America. Discounting the Johannes Dute who died young,
there are three sisters and one brother who are well-documented in the
George Dute letters and elsewhere: Elisabeth who went to Poland,
Catherine Elizabeth who came to America, Anna Martha who came to
America, and Anton. That leaves room for one more sister, who must
have been the Anna Catherine who died young.
A conservative estimate indicates that Casper Dute's 15 children
probably have about 320 living descendants. Those 15 were Heinrich
Dute's great-grandchildren. He also had 52 other great-grandchildren
in America: Henry Dellefield had 6 children, George Michael Dellefield
had 18, Anthony Dellefield 11, Anton Hasenpflug 1, Catherine E.
Hasenpflug 10, and Elizabeth Hasenpflug 6. 15 + 52 = 67
great-grandchildren total; and if that 15-to-320 ratio holds, then a
little math shows that Heinrich Dute must have at least 1430 living
American descendants.
ID: 077
Name: ELIZABETH ALICE MILLER
Sex: F
Birth date: Aug. 1, 1873
Birth place: Greenville, Pa.
Date of death: Sep. 23, 1959
Place of death: Oberlin, Oh.
Age at death: 86 years, 1 month, 22 days.
Mother: CAROLINE FALK (078) (1845-1885)
Father: ADAM MILLER (079) (1846-1917)
Spouse: AUGUST ANTON DUTE (043) (1867-1951)
Wedding: 12/24/1890, Amherst
Child 1: RUTH ESTELLA DUTE (037) (1891-1952)
Child 2: HOMER AUGUST DUTE (141) (1894-1918)
Child 3: WILLIAM ERWIN DUTE (140) (1898-1987)
Child 4: GLENN ALLAN DUTE (142) (1907-1988)
Note: Grandma Dute
Note: "Nanny"
Cousin Lois: "Grandma Dute was a 'straight laced' lady and a hard
worker. Not one to laugh easily but she was very kind." She doesn't
remember her ever speaking German. She has a wedding picture of Gust
and Elizabeth.
Cousin Virginia McKalip: "Aunt Lizzie was such a good cook. I'll
never forget her delicious Grape Kucken for breakfast with real
cream."
Dad, 9/27/92: "Nanny was the boss of the establishment. She set
the moral tone, and the social schedule, what there was of it. She was
by no means heavy-handed, and she never squawked or tried to impose
values on others. But she had her standards and she lived by them. One
day her principles were tested, when she and grandpa decided to
arrange a special treat for Lois Jean (Lois was always Lois Jean in
those days) and for me, by taking us to see a movie in downtown
Amherst. However, she was suspicious of possible evil influences that
might corrupt young minds, so she phoned up the box office to find out
whether the movie were 'suitable for children.' She was assured that
it would be; not surprising, as the star of the show was Shirley
Temple! Nanny took a razzing for this, and she sheepishly laughed
about it herself." I wonder if Gust set her up.
Valerie says the house she and Gust lived in, at 779 Cleveland
Acve., has a Catholic church and school next to it now, as well as a
small street, really a long driveway, that goes down to it. The
driveway is on Gust's old property, as is a big sign for it that says
"St. Joseph Drive", right on the front lawn. "Aunt Lizzie would have a
spittin fit if she knew that. She was very anti-Catholic." Valerie,
e-mail, 9/22/2000. And, "What used to be his corn field (a small
patch) is now part of St. Joseph School", she says with some pictures
she sent of it, 11/9/2000.
Her obit says her services were held from the Garland Funeral
Home, she died at the Haulk Rest home in Oberlin following an illness
of 1 month, and she had lived in Amherst most of her life. "She
attended the Amherst Methodist Church." She died with 10 grandchildren
and 4 great-grandchildren, 3 of which would have been me and my
brothers, I guess, even though none of us ever met her except Lew.
Also, 2 sisters, "Miss Estella Miller and Mrs. Peral Aspden," - who's
this? - "both of McDonald, Ohio." She was to be buried at Ridge Hill
Memorial Park Cemetery. (Amherst News Times, 9/24/1959).
She wrote the following poem upon the death of her son Homer in WW
I. "It was many many a year before Lizzie and Gust (especially Lizzie)
were able to put their grief aside", says Cousin Elizabeth, who has
the original:
No more will we hear his voice,
No more wil we see his smile,
His manly form, his cheerful face,
Is forever gone from our sight.
Oh that the rulers of the land
The anguish could feel that we mothers do,
The cruel wars that are planned and fought
Would cease ere a gun was fired.
The best of the land torn away from their friends,
They whose lives are as dear as our own;
But the call of the rulers must be obeyed
In this land of the free and the home of the brave.
May the time soon come when the rulers will fight
Their battles alone and unarmed;
May the time soon come when brotherly love
takes the place of the sword and the gun.
Oh God that murder and envy would cease,
That the rulers would think of the pain and the grief
That the mothers and wives of the boys must endure,
May they banish forever the weapons of war.
ID: 163
Name: AURELIA HEUSSNER
Sex: F
Birth date: Mar. 15, 1856
Date of death: Dec. 29, 1899
Age at death: 43 years, 9 months, 14 days.
Spouse: JOHN ANTON DUTE (047) (1856-1896)
Wedding: 12/7/1881
Child 1: AMELIA MAY (MARY) DUTE (164) (1884-1952)
Child 2: ETHEL ELIZABETH DUTE (166) (1890-1980)
Note: "Rilla". Heussner is pronounced like "Hoyssner" in German,
Note: but in America the first syllable rhymes with "ice".
ID: 170
Name: MARY KREUZBERG
Sex: F
Spouse: JOHN GEORGE DUTE (044) (1851-1916)
"Mary Kreuzberg Shupe was Geo's wife. She was really Mary Kreuzberg.
She added the Shupe because she was a foster child - sort of- of the
Isaac Shupe family who lived in the big house next door to mine. It
was one of the 'mansions' of the day and Mary was a hired girl, but
they treated her like one of their own. She thought it gave her some
prestige to be a Shupe. Jacob Shupe,father of Isaac was the original
settler. There was a large family and they owned about half the
township. However, I don't think she inherited anything from them."
E-mail from Cousin Valerie, 9/22/2000.
"George's only wife that I knew of was Mary Kreutzberg" -
Kreuzberg and Kreutzberg are pronouinced the same in German - "who
had been a housekeeper for Isaac Shupe who built the house next to
mine. My mother always said that Aunt Mary liked to go by the name of
Shupe because she lived there and was treated somewhat like a foster
child---and they were rich. Evidently she didn't go home much. Her
parents lived on Jacson street not too far from where she lived after
marrying George. I go past the house where she lived with George
everytime I go to town or church. I spent many , many hours in their
home." Valerie, 5/9/08. Valerie adds, in her e-mail of 10/5/02, that
Isaac and Minerva Shupe were childless.
In the 1900 census Deb Bromley says she's called Mary F. Dute, b.
May 1852 in OH. On the other hand, Deb says her name was Mary Ann
Kreutzberg Shupe, and they were married in 1879, in her e-mail of
8/24/01.
ID: 171
Name: FERDINAND ESCHTRUTH
Sex: M
Birth date: Oct. 19, 1849
Date of death: Nov. 22, 1910
Age at death: 61 years, 1 month, 3 days.
Spouse: CATHERINE ANN DUTE (045) (1853-1911)
He's in the 1900 census:
Ferdinand Eschtruth, Head, b. Nov 1851 in OH, parents b. GER, painter
Anna C., wife, b. Apr 1853 in OH
Elsa D., daughter, b. Mar 1887 in OH
ID: 172
Name: NATHAN MILLER
Sex: M
Birth date: June 18, 1849
Date of death: Apr. 20, 1923
Age at death: 73 years, 10 months, 2 days.
Spouse: ELIZABETH DUTE (046) (1854-1930)
Note: Killed by a train when he mistakenly drove his horse and
Note: wagon up on the tracks. Nathan Branch Miller according to Deb Bromley.
ID: 173
Name: MARY ESCHTRUTH
Sex: F
Date of death: 1940?
Spouse: ANTON DUTE (048) (1858-1921)
Artistic and musical. She was born with one deformed hand. And both of
her kids were stillborn. She and her husband raised their orphan
neices Ethel and Amelia.
Marilyn Tyler says Nancy Dovci (an Eschtruth descendant) tells her
someone in that clan was an artist with a withered hand who did
wonderful paintings and Nancy still has a couple. Her husband cut off
his own leg because he had something wrong with it (so the story
goes, but that's pretty hard to believe, and Valerie never heard
anything about this). Must be Mary and Anton.
Hartley J. Smith says they had a child Jessie L. Dute,
6/28/1886-8/17/1888.
ID: 174
Name: FRED LAU
Sex: M
Spouse: ANNA MARTHA DUTE (049) (1859-1932)
They had two kids: Edna, who died young, and Clarence.
He wrote a letter, now in the possession of Cousin Valerie, to his
brother-in-law August Dute. He talks mostly about finding a job for
Gust on the railroad out west:
Weeping Water Neb.
April 22/89.
Brother Gust
We have received your letter and seh that you ar well and hope that
thies few lines will find you the same again we ar all well except
the Baby has been sick but is better now. we have got fine weather out
here nachst week i am going to cominst planting corn that is the 28 of
April Marthas Garden stoff is all up and going nice I planted over 100
trees this spring. you said i ther was a Round house or a Machine shop
clost by you would come out here the B & M. R. R. got a Machine Shop.
in Platts mouth ther is over 400 or 500 Mann working ther the M. P. R.
R. said that the would put ther Machine down to weeping Water but i
dont no for shure wether thes will or not
(next page)
or not that is the toulk
Grant Seelig i think is up in Wymore Nebraska about 60 or 70 Miles
from her South West that ---- henry Seelig wrote to us that he was
going to Wymore Neb if you would Write to Grant you proble (?) would
get a job ther i will try down her in Plattsmouth and seh if I cane
get a job for you i have got some friends ther and i will walke down
and seh i will go down after corn plantyng and seh wat i can do for yo
ther. i you cane get a job ther you can have work sommer and Winter
write (?) long. this i all for this time your Brother
Fred Lau
This is a good Country and after you been here a while you will like
it and i think it is better for a poor Man the land her isnt coming
down it is going up all the time
(next page)
a good many folks ar going to Oklahoma from her
Good By.
Fred Lau.
you better tell Georg if he wants a good home to come west and cane
Get just as much land as his father got and be just as rich time he
gets as old as hes father is
I will close becouse i am going down to weeping water yet -
His penmanship is pretty good even if his spelling isn't. Besides
the usual 19th century curiosities in his English ("cominst" for
"commence", "clost" for "close"), there are some German-isms too:
"nachst" for "next", "stoff" for "stuff", "seh" for "see", "Mann" for
"men", "sommer" for "summer", "yet" in the sense of "now".
ID: 175
Name: ELIZABETH MERTZ
Sex: F
Spouse: J. HENRY DUTE (050) (1861-1943)
Note: "Lizzie"
ID: 176
Name: MARTHA ESCHTRUTH
Sex: F
Spouse: JULIUS VALENTINE DUTE (051) (1863-1951)
Note: "Marthy"
ID: 177
Name: JOHN KRUGMAN
Sex: M
Birth date: Oct. 21, 1865
Date of death: July 29, 1939
Age at death: 73 years, 9 months, 8 days.
Spouse: ANNA DORA DUTE (052) (1865-1933)
ID: 178
Name: ALBERT KERN
Sex: M
Birth date: 1869
Date of death: May 27, 1935
Age at death: 65 or 66
Spouse: AURELIA MARIE DUTE (053) (1869-1927)
ID: 179
Name: ELLA PEMBER
Sex: F
Spouse: JACOB HENRY DUTE (055) (1872-1954)
In the 1900 census as Ella E., b. Aug 1879 in OH,typesetter, daughter
of Albert Pember, house painter.
ID: 180
Name: MARY ANN HOLZHAUER
Sex: F
Spouse: CASPER GLEIM DUTE (056) (1875-1948)
Wedding: 1897
Note: "Aunt Mary Cass"
Daughter of Lawrence and Elizabeth. Deb Bromley (e-mail, 1/4/02) found
her sister's obit:
Name: Miller, Martha Elizabeth
Date: Jul 21 1964
Source: Plain Dealer; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #136.
Notes: Miller. Martha Elizabeth Miller (nee Holzhauer), beloved mother
of Thelma Russ, Elton, Bert, grandmother of James Russ Jr.
great-grandmother of three, sister of Mary Dute (deceased), Katherine
Williams, Lurain, O., Albert Holzhauer. Port Clinton, O., Saturday,
Jul 13, 1964, her home was at 1823 Vasser Ave....
"Her mother died when Mary Ann was about 15", says Barbara Dute Hart.
Barbara also believes Mary Ann was related to the John Holzhauer of
the Johann Heinreich Heidenreich clan. And, "I recall my father" -
Harold Lorenz Dute - "saying his Grandfather Holzhauer would only
allow German to be spoken in his home and didn't permit my gather" -
father? - "to go to school as long as he lived with him.My
grandparents lived with him after their marriage and until my father
was seven."
ID: 356
Name: --- DUTE
Sex: M
Child 1: HEINRICH DUTE (070) (1753-1829)
His name may have been Johannes or Johannes George, since the full
name of his grandson, my ancestor, was Johann George Dute who seems to
have been named after his oldest brother Johannes who died young. The
name was probably recycled for my ancestor at the first available
opportunity.
The Heussner record says his son Heinrich was born in Rockensuess.
Stephen Westfall finds a confirmation record for Johann Heinrich Dute
there in 1771. Another Rockensuess link is that the godfather of
Heinrich's oldest son was Johannes Dute of Rockensuess. There was a
Johann Adam Dute of Rockensuess then, who m. Anna Christina Landau and
d. 5/8/1802, a "Leinweber" just like Heinrich. Was he Heinrich's
father? He had 12 children in the Rockensuess records but none of them
was named Heinrich. He was born c. 1732 which makes him old enough to
have been the father of Heinrich b. 1753. The earliest of his children
recorded in the Kassel archives was baptized in Rockensuess in 1761, a
good eight years after Heinrich was born, and Johann Adam first shows
up in the Rockensuess land records in 1752, when he owned a house and
barn next to Adam Mueller's children (and his signature is there - the
lions' share of his farm went to Henrich Wittich, while Martin Dute
was left with almost nothing). Now, Johann Adam apparently came from
elsewhere - none of Johann Adams' children's godparents were Dutes,
which implies they came from far away, plus Stephen says Johann Adam
wasn't born in Rockensuess - but if he was there in 1752 then Heinrich
should be in the records. Another problem is that his wife Anna
Christina Landau was baptized 11/14/1739, which would make her only
about 15 at Heinrich's birth - possible but not that likely. Maybe
there was an earlier marriage. Another possibility is that Heinrich
was Johann Adam's brother, not his son - the problem here is that the
21-year gap between them would put them at opposite ends of the birth
order. So the relationship between Johann Adam and Heinrich, while
likely considering the scarcity of Dutes there, is hard to guess at.
(See Stephen's e-mails of 4/13/2000, 4/19/2000, 7/3/2000, 6/26/2000,
and the Doellefeld one of 7/22/2000.)
Whatever his identity was, another branch of his family can be
partially reconstructed from the Kassel records and from Anton Dute's
letter to brother George of 1837. In this letter he describes the
unhappy end of the marriage between Anna Catherina Rohrbach and the
son of Johannes Dute. Anton describes the bridegroom as "the oldest
son of our cousin Johannes Dute in A. whse wife had died". And since
Anna Catherina Rohrbach was the daughter of Elisabeth Dute, sister of
Anton, that means this was a second-cousin marriage. Now, Stephen
Westfall found a Nicolaus Dute, son of Johannes, whose second wife was
Anna Cath. Rohrbach. This is sketched out here:
--- Dute - subject of this record
Heinrich Dute
+ Anna Margarethe Gleim
Elisabeth
+ Peter Rohrbach
Anna Catherina
+ Nicolaus Dute <-- 2nd cousin
--- Dute
Johannes Dute, day-laborer, linen-weaver; m. 3/17/1805
+ Elisabeth Ackermann, dau of Johannes
Nicolaus 2/1/1806-9/21/1889; b. & d. Asmushausen;
godfather Nicolaus Rohrbach; later a mason
+ Cath. El. Rohrbach
+ Anna Cath. Rohrbach <-- 2nd cousin
+ Martha El. Schaub
Anna Maria b. 5/19/1800 Asmushausen; gp. Anna Maria, wife
of Anton Ackermann
Caspar 1/15/1811-1/26/1811, Asmushausen; gp. Caspar Claus,
laborer
Wilhelm b. 5/23/1812 Asmushausen; gp. Wilhelm Rohrbach
Catharina b. 11/19/1816 Asmushausen; gp. Cath., wife of
Adam Dute, Rockensuess (this may be Cath. El. Schmauch)
Stephen Westfall thinks Johannes Dute, cousin of Anton and father of
Nicolaus, was probably a son of Johann Adam Dute of Rockensuess who d.
1802, who unfortunately seems to have named all his sons Johannes. But
this lead would be a good one to research.
There was a Johannes Duth who was a teacher in Blankenbach in
1597; and a Johannes Thutt was a pastor in Suess in 1580. Both places
are less than 10 miles east of Asmushausen. This would tend to argue
against the French origins of the family. Stephen Westfall found this
(7/3/2000) in a biographical dictionary of the Reformation that lists
Hessian pastors.
ID: 358
Name: HEINRICH DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Apr. 2, 1824
Birth place: Rotenburg-an-der-Fulda
Date of death: Nov. 13, 1842
Age at death: 18 years, 7 months, 11 days.
Father: ANTON DUTE (062) (1793-1868)
Note: Baptized 4/19/1824 in Rotenburg-Altstadt parish.
From Anton's undated letter of 1837: "Heinrich, who will be confirmed
next Whitsuntide, is going into instruction with Vicar Vilmar, he
wants to learn the trade, and shows interest in going to America. What
do you say to that? Little Marie and Heinrich are now going to dancing
school." Neither he nor his brother Julius are mentioned in any later
letters.
The death info here comes from the Kassel archives, as do the
confirmation date of 1838 and his two baptismal sponsors: grandfather
Henrich Dute of Asmushausen, and Henrich, son of Anton Gleim, teacher
in Wasenburg. (Stephen Westfall has the spelling as "Henrich" for all
three of these.)
ID: 359
Name: ANNA MARGARETHE GLEIM
Sex: F
Birth date: c. 1758
Date of death: Feb. 25, 1828
Place of death: Asmushausen
Age at death: 69 or 70
Spouse: HEINRICH DUTE (070) (1753-1829)
Child 1: ANTON DUTE (062) (1793-1868)
Child 2: ELISABETH DUTE (063) (1790- )
Child 3: ANNA CATHERINE DUTE (065) (1787-1814)
Child 4: CATHERINE ELIZABETH DUTE (066) (1796-1879)
Child 5: ANNA MARTHA DUTE (068) (1798-1870)
Child 6: JOHANN GEORGE DUTE (060) (1799-1875)
The birth and death dates come from Stephen Westfall's research in the
civil records in Kassel. He says she lived about 70 years. (E-mail,
4/13/2000.)
He also says Elisabeth Dute (Rohrbach) b. 1790 had Elisabeth,
widow of Johannes Gleim, as her godmother; but it's hard to say who
this would have been. (NB: Stephen says before 1790 all the
Asmushausen entries are in the Schwarzenhasel records. There is an
overlap in the records 1790/91. "The Schwarzenhasel records have a son
Johannes instead of Elisabeth. Godfather was Johannes Gleim, the
mother's brother. This was copied into the Asmushausen records and
corrected later.")
In the Heussner record her last name is given as Kline. The
Asmushausen parish registers say Gleim. The Hessians often get "K" and
"G" mixed up, so the two names are actually almost the same. The name
Gleim (no first name) appears on one of the court documents in George
Dute's earliest papers. In Anton's letter to George of 1837 he says
"Our cousin Heinrich Gleim of Wasenberg" - 5 km south of Schwalmstadt
- "is Vicar in Sachsenhausen" - 5 km west of Schwalmstadt - "by
Treysa," - probably part of Schwamlstadt now - "and got married last
winter; whether he has married well, I can't say; because I still
don't know his wife." Stephen Westfall found out some more about
Heinrich Gleim: he was born 7/28/1804 in Wasenberg and died 3/2/1839
in Sachsenhausen. His parents were Anna Catharina Hoeller and Anton
Gleim, who was a teacher in Wasenberg and must have been Anna
Margarethe Gleim's brother (and Anton Dute's godfather). Heinrich
studied at Marburg and was pastor in Sachsenhausen 1836-39. He married
Ernestine Friederike Caroline Luise Froelich of Ernsthausen, and they
had one son, Karl Georg, who later became pastor in Lingelbach,
Metropolitan of Neukirchen and Superintendent in Ziegenhain, which
Stephen says is pretty high in the church hierarchy. It would be worth
looking for a funeral oration for one of them.
Stephen found two people in the Asmushausen records who may be my
ancestor Anna Margaretha Gleim. One was bapt. 12/10/1757, dau. of
Johannes Gleim bapt. 2/27/1729 and Catharina ?Kreckeler; gm. Anna
Margarethe, wife of Paul Claus, the father's sister; conf. 1772. The
other was bapt. 5/6/1761, dau. of Anton Gleim and Elisabeth Claus;
same godmother; conf. 1774 or 1775. They were first cousins since they
both had the same grandfather: Johannes Gleim of Bebra who m. Anna
Catharina Schaefer 11/19/1714 in Asmushausen. The first one would seem
the best candidate since 1) her birthdate matches up pretty well with
the 1758 one Stephen found before, and 2) she had a brother Anton and
her cousin didn't (and we know Heinrich Gleim's father was named
Anton. And Heinrich's father must have been the brother of Anton
Dute's mother, if in the the 1837 letter "cousin" means "first
cousin".) And 3) she had a brother Johann George and her cousin
didn't; this was probably George Gleim the godfather of my ancestor
(Johann) George Dute. And 4) Stephen found that Anna Margarethe Gleim
who was daughter of Johann Anton Gleim (1729-1783) married a Johann
George Apel (this is based on the 1791 baptism entry for their
daughter Elisabeth; e-mail, 7/15/2001). This Johann Anton Gleim is
probably identical with the Anton Gleim bapt. 2/27/1729. And the Anna
Margarethe we're looking for m. Heinrich Dute, not Johann George Apel.
So on the basis of all this I'd say it's safe to conclude that my line
goes back through Johann George Dute b. 1799, to his mother Anna
Margarethe Gleim bapt. 1757, to her parents Johannes Gleim and
Catharina ?Kreckeler.
Parenthetically, the daughter Elisabeth of Johann George Apel and
Anna Margaretha Gleim (the ones who are NOT my direct ancestors) had
as her baptismal sponsor Elisabeth, wife of the deceased mayor Anton
Gleim. Stephen found an Anton Gleim who owned the largest farm in
Asmushausen, in the 1784 land records. He was mayor of the village.
ID: 400
Name: MARTIN DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: July 14, 1812
Birth place: Hessen Cassel, Germany
Date of death: June 9, 1865
Place of death: Ohio?
Age at death: 52 years, 10 months, 26 days.
I don't know where Martin Dute fits in the family tree, so this record
is not connected to the rest of the database.
The following list of his descendants does involve a bit of guesswork.
It is taken from the censuses and other sources including Jack Minch's
letter to me of 12/16/2000, whence comes the info of Gladys and Carl,
but I'm not sure where they fit in the birth order. He also says there
may have been an Albert who was the oldest:
Martin Dute
+ Catherine born circa 1818 in Hessen-Cassel
?Katherina, George Dute's godchild; probably confirmed in 1846
Elizabeth b. c. 1841 in Hessen-Cassel
Christine b. c. 1843 in Hessen-Cassel
Henry Dute (1/4/1846-9/27/1926) born in Hessen-Cassel. Tanner.
+ Margaret Helena Moeller 1847-12/2/1918 b. Hesse, d. Stark Co.
Henry M. b. 1874 in Ohio
+ Ella b. c. 1879 in Ohio
+ Amelia Baumann 9/30/1886-9/7/1978; b. Switzerland
John Adam August Dute b. c. 1877 in Ohio
+ Louise Hahn b. c. 1880 in Wurttemberg. "Lizzie".
Florence Marie (12/7/1901-3/8/1995) b. Oh., d. N. Olmstead Oh.
+ Wilbur Minch (1/15/1900-7/1973)
Jack Dute Minch; b. 8/1/1925; of Miami; only child
Glade of Jackson, Al.
Brent of Nashville
E. Kathryn (2/10/1881-8/17/1972) b. in Ohio, d. in Amherst
Lydia A. Dute (4/12/1888-3/27/1972) b. in Ohio, d. in Amherst
Gladys Dute; d. in childbirth with first-born
Carl Dute
+ ---
Ruth - adopted
son - adopted
John b. c. 1854 in Ohio
Martha E. b. c. 1856 in Ohio
Buried next to Martin in the Cleveland Street Cemetery are Anna,
1814-1899, who may be his wife except that she doesn't quite match up
with his wife in the census; and "Martha G., illegible".
The dates for Florence Marie Dute come from Jack Minch, who says
she was an only child. There is also a Florence Minch in the SSDI, but
the dates don't quite match up so it's probably a different one.
I have an obit for Amelia Baumann Dute, born in Switzerland, died
in Oberlin. It says her late husband was Henry Dute. Valerie tells me
this was not J. Henry son of Casper, but Henry of the Martin line, who
was the brother of Lydia and Kathryn, so I figure she was the second
wife of Henry M. The Baumanns have published a book on their family.
(E-mail, 9/23/2000.)
Deb Bromley found a death cert which may be for Ella, the first
wife of Henry M. Dute above. She d. 2/13/1913 in Lorain, father's name
was Kohl/Rohl, informant was Henry M. Dute. (E-mail, 11/27/2000.)
Researcher Stephen Westfall in Marburg, Hesse found a record of
Martin Dute's Renunciation of Allegiance at the Marburg archives. It
was filed 14-18 Feb. 1846. He was a Tageloehner (farmhand) in
Berneburg, 33 years of age, bound for North America with 150
Reichsthaler. With him were a son of 4 weeks (close enough to be
Henry), a daughter 3 years of age (must be Christine), and a daughter
5 years of age (Elizabeth). No mention of the oldest daughter
Katherina - maybe she was old enough to stay in Germany; as far as I
know there's no record of her in America. There's also no mention of
his wife in this document, but according to Stephen that's not
unusual.
Martin Dute was an early (maybe charter) member of St. Peter's
Church in Amherst. His signature appears on a list of 16 church
members made between 1857 and 1863. His name also appears on another
list which may be from about the same time of builders and first
members. In 1865 he gave $5 so the church could get a new bell. There
is also a Heinrich Dute in an 1870 list of church members who may be
Martin's oldest son. ("Studies in the History of St. Peter's Church,
Amherst, Ohio", Hageman, 1966.)
There was a sandstone house owned by Martin Dute at 8263 Oberlin
Rd. outside of Elyria, Ohio. It was taken down and may someday be
reconstructed by the Amherst Historical Society. The last occupants of
it were two old-maid sisters, mentioned above, and they both died in
1972: Kathryn, and Lydia who was a receptionist in a doctor's office.
They left their estate to the church, according to Valerie.
We have a letter written in German, from Germany, by Martin Dute
to George Dute on 4/4/1846. It's probably the same Martin Dute as the
one who filed the Renunciation of Allegiance, and as the later one in
Ohio, since the info we have about them matches up well. The
handwriting in the letter is pretty close to the Martin Dute signature
in the church list above. In the letter he mentions his oldest
daughter Katherina, George's godchild, who all she ever talks about is
going to America, and she's due to be confirmed this year, so she's
probably in early adolescence, born maybe around 1835. He also says
there are six of them, implying four children; and there seem to be
three children with Martin in the 1860 census who were born before
4/4/1846: Ellizabeth, Christine, and Henry b. 1/4/1846; and the census
says these three were born in Hessen-Cassel, and the later ones in
Ohio. So if we add Katherina to this list, that makes four.
Martin also tries to talk George into advancing him some money to
get to America, "because you know a day-laborer" - farmhand, at the
bottom of the socioeconomic scale - "here has his burden and it gets
worse almost with each year." He says he can probably scrape up enough
money to get to New York, and: "Should you wish that we come over
there to you" - he probably means all the way to Ohio - "and if you
think that I would be better off there, then be so good and write to
me an answer very soon and say if you want to advance enough money to
me to come all the way to you, then we want with God's help to embark
on the trip in the coming year." It's not known when he actually came.
This letter implies 1847, and he's not in Germans to America so it was
probably before 1850; but it sounds like he came into New York so the
National Archives may have a record of it.
Regarding other people mentioned in this letter, he says, "My
brother Heinrich, who has been over there 10 years now, has already
for three years let nothing be heard of himself. If you could give us
some nearer news on him, it would make us very happy." He also
mentions a sister: the letter starts out, "From our local parish" -
Rockensuess - "travel this year 8 families about 43 heads strong, over
to you there to North America, my sister herself travels with them,
which is how you're getting this letter." George's brother in
Rotenburg is mentioned three times; this must be Anton. Martin also
mentions his wife twice.
ID: 641
Name: JULIUS PHILIPP DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Oct. 10, 1821
Birth place: Rotenburg-Altstadt
Date of death: Oct. 1, 1843
Age at death: 21 years, 11 months, 21 days.
Father: ANTON DUTE (062) (1793-1868)
From Anton's undated letter of 1837: "My Julius is in Hersfeld at the
high school and is making very good progress (though he costs me 100
-- a year)." This is the only letter Juilus is mentioned in. He is
also mentioned in the Heussner record as the first of the three
children listed.
The birth and death info here is from the Kassel archives, which
also say he was a student of theology, illegitimate, and confirmed in
1836. It was not uncommon for a first-born to be illegitimate in old
Germany, since the authorities would make you jump thru all these
hoops regarding land ownership and such before they would let you get
married.
ID: 920
Name: MARIE DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: Mar. 13, 1826
Birth place: Rotenburg-Altstadt Parish
Father: ANTON DUTE (062) (1793-1868)
The Marie in Anton Dute's letters matches up well with the Maria who
was b. 3/13/1826 according to H. G. Kittlemann, even though her
parents aren't given. She was baptized March 28th in
Rotenburg-Altstadt, and her godmother was her mother's sister.
The info from the Kassel archives is similar but different: Maria,
daughter of Anton, was b. 5/13/1826, the sponsor was the mother's
sister, she was confirmed 1840, and she was married 7/30/1848 to
Stephan Ziegler (b. 12/29/1823), teacher, son of shoemaker Ludwig
Ziegler and Catharina Meyer. There's no death date for her.
Anton Dute's letter of 1837 says little Marie and Heinrich were in
dance school.
And in hs letter of 3/9/1856: "... my oldest daughter, little
Marie, is in Hanau married to a teacher named Ziegler. The latter has
a very weak chest, strong cough and will therefore certainly not count
many years in this life."
Described by her father in 1860: "My little Marie at Hanau" - in
southern Hesse, near Frankfurt - "is very weak and ill."
There is a Mary Duthe listed as one of Anton's children in the
Heussner record.
ID: 921
Name: CONRAD AUGUST DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: May 8, 1829
Birth place: Rotenburg-Altstadt
Father: ANTON DUTE (062) (1793-1868)
From father Anton's letter of 1837: "August, who is now 8 years old,
is a good and lively child, he already plays good keyboard. This one
will probably be a schoolteacher..."
In his letter to George of 3/9/1856, Anton says, "Now August is a
teacher at a private-institution in the grand-duchy of Baden..."
"August is a teacher at Carlshafen" says his father on 4/5/1860,
who couldn't expect any help from him because "he has his own
burdens". Bad Karlshafen is not more than about 30 miles down the
river from Kassel, near Uslar.
August Dute, student (Candidat) of Theology and teacher is in the
Rotenburg citizenship records as being granted citizenship 4/1/1864
(from Stephen Westfall).
The Kassel archives give the first name of Conrad (elsewhere he is
just called August), and the birthdate. His godfathers were Conrad
Kranz, a teacher in Hersfeld; and Andreas Roese of Marburg. He was
confirmed in 1843, called August.
ID: 922
Name: ELISA DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: Feb. 16, 1836
Birth place: Rotenburg-Altstadt
Father: ANTON DUTE (062) (1793-1868)
From the Kassel archives come her birthdate, her two baptismal
sponsors (her aunt Elisabeth, wife of Peter Rohrbach of Asmushausen,
and aunt Catharina Elisabeth, wife of Henrich Doellefeld, master
shoemaker in Schwarzenhasel), and her confirmation date of 1850. No
marriage or death date.
From father Anton's undated letter of 1837: "...the youngest is
named little Elisa, she is now 1 1/2 years old; this is also a clever
and lively child; whether she's the last little nest-owl, I don't know
yet."
In his letter of 3/9/1856, Anton says, "...my little Elisa,
namesake of sister Catherine Elisabeth, is at the Rhein, to educate
herself in woman's work, as well as in the French and English
languages..."
"Elisa is a teacher in Scotland", says her father in 1860.
ID: 923
Name: EDUARD DUTE
Sex: M
Birth date: Apr. 5, 1841
Birth place: Schoolhouse?
Father: ANTON DUTE (062) (1793-1868)
From the Kassel archives: the birthdate and place, his baptismal
sponsor (Johannes Li---, Quaestor [bursar?] at the University of
Marburg), and confirmation date of 1855.
In his letter of 3/9/1856, Anton Dute says when talking about
coming to America, "If my Eduard, who is now 15 years old, had shown
an interest in farming" - land management? economics? - "then I would
have sent him over to you, only he showed no interest in it and has
now decided to be a schoolteacher."
"Eduard is at the seminary in Homberg, and I must support him",
says Anton in 1860. There is a Homberg a few miles west of Rotenburg.
He's also one of three children listed for Anton in the Elver
Heussner record.
ID: 924
Name: AUGUSTA DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: Mar. 7, 1846
Birth place: Rotenburg-Altstadt
Father: ANTON DUTE (062) (1793-1868)
From the Kassel archives come the birth info (where she is called
Catharina Elisabeth), the godmother (Catharina Elisabeth nee Ulm, wife
of master dyer George Heinrich Schweinsberg), and the confirmation
date of 1860 under the name of Cath. El. Auguste.
From her father's letter of 3/9/1856: "Both my daughters of my
current wife, of whom the oldest is named Augustchen" - little Augusta
- "and is 10 years old and the younger is named Martchen" - little
Martha - "and is 7 years old, are healthy and lively and send you all,
even though they have never met you, right heart-felt greetings."
Anton, 4/5/1860: "...and my two youngest children, Augusta and
Anna Martha, are still schoolchildren, and they still require care and
attention from me."
ID: 925
Name: ANNA MARTHA DUTE
Sex: F
Birth date: Mar. 18, 1849
Birth place: Rotenburg-Altstadt
Date of death: 1913
Age at death: 63 or 64
Father: ANTON DUTE (062) (1793-1868)
Note: Still a schoolgirl in 1860.
From the Kassel archives comes the birthdate (she was born at
Eulengasse 210). Also, the godmother was Anna Martha nee Ulm, wife of
choirmaster (Cantor) Heinrich Stuebinger, she was confirmed 1863, and
married on 6/20/1873 to Dietmar Bachmann (b. 5/21/1847 in Rhuenda),
teacher, son of Johannes Bachmann, teacher in Maden, and the deceased
Anna Martha Moelller.
Anton Dute's letter of 3/9/1856 says she's 7 years old. And on
4/5/1860 he says she's still a schoolchild and still needs care and
attention from him.
Deb Bromley says Anna Martha (1851-1913) is buried in Birmingham
Cemetery on South St. in Erie County, OH (this would be right across
the county line from Amherst) along with a couple other Dutes. The
birthdate is a couple years off, though.
ID: 932
Name: (JOHANN) HEINRICH HEIDENREIC
Sex: M
Birth date: June 9, 1795
Date of death: Jan. 8, 1879
Place of death: Brownhelm, Lorain, Ohio
Age at death: 83 years, 6 months, 30 days.
Spouse: ANNA KATHRINA HILT (933) (1788-1856)
Child 1: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
Note: Heitenreich, not Heidenreich, in the Dute Bible. He himself
Note: seems to have spelled it Heidenreich.
He seems to have had three daughters and no sons: Catherine b.
5/189/1823, Anna Eliza b. c. 1826, and Mary b. 5/28/1829.
According to the 1900 census, his daughter Mary immigrated in
1833, when she was about 4, so that must have been Henry's year of
immigration too.
On 7/30/1838, Henry Heidenreich of Black River sold 15 acres in
Black River to Henry Hahn for $180; wife Catherine, for her part, got
$1 for OK'ing the deal. Henry signed his name in the old German script
and Catherine with a mark that looks like three plus signs in a row.
Then Henry Hahn sold that land to William McCrumb, who sold it to
George Keller, who sold it back to Henry Heidenreich 7/22/1842 for
$210 this time; Catherine Heidenreich witnessed this deal.
I can't find him in 1840 or 1850 Ohio.
His daughter Mary was married in 1850, so one would expect him to
be living in the neighborhood of the Dutes then. And on a plat map of
1857 that Peg Breitweg found, in Tract 2, section 2, bordering on
Amherst, H. Heidereich has a 40-acre farm. It's right near G. Dute,
and right next to three pieces of land owned by John Holshauer which
add up to 173 acres.
In 1860 Black River Twp, Lorain Co. Ohio, there are:
Henry Heitenreich, 65, farmer, $1500 real estate,
$350 personal estate, b. Hessen-Cassel
Luther Field, 38, male (sic; see below), ?farmer
On 4/1/1865 Henry Heidenrich of Amherst Twp. bought 53 1/4 acres
in lot 62 of Brownhelm Twp. from Aaron Mattison for $2500. Then, a
week later on 4/8/1865, Henry Heidenrich - of Black River this time -
sold 7 1/2 acres in Black River to John Horn for $2850, off the
south-east corner of 50 acres owned by John Hol-auer.
He's in the index for 1870 Ohio, in Brownhelm, even though in the
census itself (p. 395) his last name is hard to decipher. In any case:
Heidenreich, Henry, 77, farmer, rl est. $2650, pers est. $700,
b. H. Cassel, parents of foreign birth
Field, Lydia, 49, house keeper, b. H. Cassel
Valerie (7/25/07) says his farm in Brownhelm is pretty remote.
"It's at least eight or ten miles distance" from where George Dute
lived. "Heidenreichs were closer to my cottage which by measurement is
exactly eleven miles.... It is still very remote from neighbors and
anything except one other large farm. The road to their house winds
back from the main road with only one other house. Its high above the
bank of the Vermilion River." And, "A farm in the area of Mill Hollow
off North Ridge Road in Brownhelm shows a Heidenreich owning a portion
of Lot 62 in Range 19 of Brownhelm Township. Heidenreichs (Johann and
Catherina) are buried in Cleveland Street Cemetery in Amherst, Ohio."
In "Cemetery Inscriptions of Lorain County" there are Catherina
Heidenreich, d. 4/1/1856 age 67y9m11d, and Johann Heitenreich, d.
1/5/1879 age 83y8m. (The tombstone itself says Johann Heinrich
Heidenreich.) There is also a Merle Heidenreich, a farmer and artist
who d. 1965. (Merle Heidenreich may have been descended from George E.
Heidenreich, a sculptor in Cleveland, b. 1855, whose father was from
Mutterstadt near Mannheim - this from "Cleveland and its Germans",
1897/98 edition, newly translated by the Western Reserve Historical
Society.)
But I'm using 1/8/1879 as his death date because that seems most
likely after looking at his obit, though 1/1/1879 is also possible,
depending what day the obit was published. Anyway, the obit goes:
"An Old Veteran Gone
"Henry Heidenreich, an old German veteran, died in Brownhelm on
Wednesday of last week, aged 84 years. The deceased claimed the
distinguished honor of having served Napoleon Bonaparte in the
capacity of hosteler" - taking care of the horses - "during his great
war campaign. He immigrated into this country from Germany forty years
ago, and during his stay here has been a resident of Black River,
Amherst, and Brownhelm townships."
Napoleon ruled Hesse from 1806 to 1815. He made some liberal
reforms, which probably helped his popularity.
The Lorain County Courthouse can find no death or naturalization
record for Henry Heitenreich.
His 32-page estate record is on file in Elyria. His name is
consistently spelled Henry (or Heinrich) Heidenreich throughout. And
to further confuse the date-of-death issue, the processing of his will
seems to have begun on 1/3/1879, and he is described as deceased then.
In his will of 4/12/1865 he gives $833 to his beloved daughter Mary
Dute; $833 to his beloved daughter Anna E. Seelig; $833 to the heirs
of his beloved deceased daughter Catherine Holsour; and his farm to
his beloved son-in-law Valentine Seelig (53 1/4 acres in lot 62 in
Brownhelm). In a codicil to his will, done in 1870, he gives to his
servant Luder (?) Field, should she (sic) live with him til he dies,
$100 plus a new bedstead and some other furniture, and "one Medical
Book & machine for doctoring uses." And to the children of his
daughter Catherine (Adam, Mary, Eliza, Catherine, Elizabeth and John
?Holtsouver) he gives an extra $500 dollars; and to daughter Mary Dute
an extra $500. In the Application for Letters of Administration are
listed these people as his only heirs:
Eliza Selig daughter Butler P. O. Wash. Co. Kansas
Adam Holzhauer grandson Huron, Ohio
Eliza Henry granddaughter Dunkirk P. O.
Mary Dute daughter North Amherst, O.
Elizabeth Holzhauer granddaughter " "
John grandson " "
Katie granddaughter Toledo, O.
His estate owed about $714 to various people, which may be why they
had to auction some of his stuff off. An old wagon and an old buggy
were bought by E. H. Bacon, some old barrels went to Hassenpflug and
Estereth, a lot of old traps went to Dute and Bacon, a brass kittle
(sic) went to T. Hill, a light stand went to Kate E. (Eschtruth?), a
hand cider mill was bought by Michael (who?), a dinner table and 5 old
chairs were sold to G. Delffield, a bob sled and stone boat went to T.
Wood, 40 chickens and 5 ducks went to an Eastereth, and an old chest
from Germany went to son-in-law C. Dute who paid 60 cents for it (it
was valued at 50). The most expensive thing sold that day was a pair
of mules for $40 though they were valued at $65.
Henry's 53 1/4 acre farm in lot 62 in Brownhelm was sold at
auction by the administrator of his estate to Ferdinand Eschtruth on
10/20/1879 for $1850, considerably less than he paid for it.
Regarding the Holzhauer branch, I reconstruct the following tree
from various sources including the will; the "History of Erie County"
by Aldrich, 1889, p. 581; Muriel Hall; Deb Bromley; and also an
unnamed source on the Web. If you do a little math on Charles F.
Holzhauer's birthdate, you'll see it's not entirely clear who his
mother is:
John Holzhauer b. Weiterode, Hessen Kassel 1810; orphan; imm. 1837
+ Anna Dorothea "Orta" Shaup, m. 1838, d. 4/4/1844
Caroline
Henry, Civil War, Co. E, 124th Reg under Col. Paine. 37 in 1880
+ Clarissa; 30 in 1880 OH
Katie; 10 in 1880 OH
Wm. C.; 4 in 1880 OH
Henry Jr.; 1 in 1880 OH.
+ Catherine Heidenreich, 5/19/1823-12/2/1862; 8 children; bur.
Clevel. St. Cem under Holzhener; m. 3/1847
Charles Frederick, in Civil War, d. in hospital in 1865, age 19
Adam, 34 in 1880 OH; farmer; d. 11/18/1927 in Huron Co
+ Elizabeth Haley; 32 in 1880 Huron Co OH
Jennie; 12 in 1880 OH
Emma; 7 in 1880 OH
Franklin; 2 in 1880 OH
John; 10 mos. in 1880 OH
Anna Eliza, of Dunkirk
+ Rev. Fred Heinrich
Clare 4/9/1872-10/12/1872; bur. Clevel. St. Cem, "dau Rev. G."
Catherine, of Toledo
Libbie, of N. Amherst
+ Charles Patterson
Sophia C. b. 4/1858-5/31/1863; in CSC rcds under Holzhener
John Casper Holzhauer of N. Amherst; 9/16/1859-1916, b. Huron OH
+ Ellen Martin m. 5/3/1883, Amherst. Sister of Val's grandma.
M. 2nd John Springer.
Edith L. 1884-1889
Mildred Eliza - Valerie's 3rd grade teacher
+ Clayton Springer - son of John Springer by previous marriage
Muriel Ruth
+ Harry Hall; mother was a Schmitkons
Larry Calvin
John Clayton
Karen Louise
Heidi Ann 9/17/1954-11/1982
Joyce; lives in the house in Amherst built by her father &
her grandfather Springer, & next door to one built by
her grandfather John Casper Holzhauer.
+ Larry Gates
Timothy Allen
Andrew Charles
Jessica Lynn
Rebecca Joy
Nancy Carol: www.godthoughts.com
+ Dale Spiegelberg; now divorced
Lauren Kay
William John
Louis Martin
Ruth Elizabeth - Valerie's 1st gr. teacher; 1891-1945; no kids
+ Charles Jauch
John Newton, 1886-1960; bur. in Brownhelm Cem.
+ Christina Elizabeth Holl, 1887-1956, bur. with husband
Ralph Newton Holzhauer
+ Phyllis Ingalls Buck; of Maysville, MI. Genealogy fan
James B.
Christine Rice Holzhauer
+ Michael K. Mallon
Lucas "Luke" Buck Mallon of Wenatchee WA - genealogy fan
Kathryn C.
Ann
Mark; of Colorado; genealogy fan
Janice Ellen Holzhauer - of Lakewood OH
+ John Brown
Clarcy, probably died young if she existed
Mary, ditto
+ Mrs. Margaret Krop Smith, b. 1818 in Hessen Kassel
The unnamed Web source also says John Holzhauer the immigrant was born
8/1839 (seems unlikely) and died 1/15/1900. Deb Bromley (e-mail,
1/4/02) says he "was in Erie County in 1863 after second wife died
spent 1870 and 1871 in Lorain, and then returned to Huron... I may
have found John and his third wife at Scott Cemetery in Milan (also
very close to Vermilion and Huron -- its south. BTW, Milan is where
Thomas Edison was born.) with others Holzhauers buried there, but I
can't find the dates. It has a John and Mary M. -- hopefully Mary
Margaret Krop..." The Scott Cemetery records she found (on Rootsweb)
are: HOLZHAUER, Clarissa HOLZHAUER,Elizabeth (HALEY) HOLZHAUER,
Jennie HOLZHAUER, John HOLZHAUER, Katie L. HOLZHAUER, Mary M.
HOLZHAUSER, Christ HOLZHAUSER, Christian.
Deb Bromley (1/5/02) thinks Adam Holzhauer may have wound up in
Michigan. "Saw someone selling Jennie Holzhauer's picture from Amherst
-- the picture was found in LaSalle, Michigan. Since Adam's wife
Clarissa and some children are buried here," - in Lorain County - "but
Adam and others are missing, maybe he remarried and moved to Michigan
at some point...".
"Holz", by the way, means "wood", and "Hauer" is related to "hew".
And "Shupe" sounds just like the German word "Schub", which is related
to "shove"; "Shaup" might be a variant of it.
Regarding the marriage date of Catherine Heidenreich, Alan Schafer
says it was actually 7/7/1844, which would mean her first son was
legitimate; this from early marriages for Ohio (e-mail, 7/19/2000).
Valerie on John Newton Holzhauer: "I was related to Newton too. He
is well known and remembered in this town because he carried on an
affair with the mayor's wife for many years. She would leave a
signal--a shade or lamp in the window. He always took a walk in the
evening. Then they would meet in the post office. Where they went from
there I don't know." E-mail, 8/31/2000.
On the Seelig connection: daughter Anna Eliza Seelig of Washington
Co. Kansas signed over her interest in the estate ($833; you'll notice
she's not mentioned in the codicil) to Ferdinand Eschtruth for $600.
That would leave Ferdinand with the extra $233; but for some reason he
was actually paid $580.14 for his trouble. And one of the witnesses to
the will, John ?Leuzler, was living in Washington Co. by the time
Henry died. Ferdinand Eschtruth was probably the husband of Kate Dute
Eschtruth b. 1853, daughter of Casper & Mary, granddaughter of Henry
Heidenreich and niece of Anna Eliza Seelig. Ferdinand was b.
10/19/1849 and d. 11/22/1910. Their daughter Elsie wound up in
Clearwater, Fla. Also, in the article about Casper and Mary's 50th
anniversary, a nephew Grant Selig and wife of Lorain are mentioned -
must be a son of Anna Eliza. Grant seems to have been in Wymore,
Nebraska in 1889, according to a letter from Fred Lau to Gust; Henry
Seelig is also mentioned in that letter.
Valentine Seelig and family did indeed live in Kansas: in 1870
Washington Co., Lincoln Twp. are him at age 36, b. Hessen; Anna E.,
44, b. Hessen; Henry, 12; Mary, 9; Anna, 7; John, 4; and Chas. G., 1.
The cook/housekeeper/farmer named Field may actually have come out
with more than she was bequeathed in the will. It seems she had been
paid $30 a year for the 13 years she had worked for him (1/1/1865 to
1/1/1878) which works out to $390, but she was actually owed $1 a week
which is $676, the difference being $286. It's unclear whether the
difference was ever actually delivered to her. And if those dates are
correct, that means she moved in not long before his wife died, and
moved out about a year before he died. (Remember, the will said she
had to be living there when he died? Maybe he just outfoxed her.) Her
name is spelled Charlotte Fields in English, but her signature
(written in the old German script in an unpracticed hand) looks like
Scharlote Viel. Scharlote (pr. "Sharlotta") could easily be
abbreviated to Luter or Luder.
ID: 933
Name: ANNA KATHRINA HILT
Sex: F
Birth date: June 21, 1788
Date of death: Apr. 1, 1856
Age at death: 67 years, 9 months, 11 days.
Spouse: (JOHANN) HEINRICH HEIDENREIC (932) (1795-1879)
Child 1: MARY HEIDENREIC (059) (1829-1906)
The Dute Bible says her birthdate was 12/14/1790, but this seems
doubtful because it gives the same date for Casper's other
grandmother, and because on her headstone it says she lived 67 years 9
mos. 11 days. This would make her birthdate 6/21/1788, so that's what
I'm using. In either case she's a few years older than her husband.
Lorain County has no will for her.