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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.
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 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.)
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.
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.
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. 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
immigrated 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.
"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 to 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.
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 she was told 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. Stephen Westfall's research says it was 1/6/1796.
Walter Sprankel's research in Asmushausen says 1/1/1796, which seems
most likely, 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