Catherine Neumann Family

The Neumann Family
by Tillie Mahler (Matilda Strickert, 1881-1976, daughter of Fredrich and Catherine Neumann Strickert)

[Frederick Niemann's (Neumann) father lived in Germany, but traded with the English. He married an English woman who was a widow and had a hotel where he stayed while in England on business. Frederick Niemann was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1812 and immigrate to Canada in 1851, where he changed his name from Niemann to Neumann. In 1839 Frederick Niemann had married Louisa Caroline Wendt who had been born in 1819 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Frederick was an expert cabinet maker. He died in 1859 in Canada. Louisa died in 1893 in Detroit.]

My grandparents, Theodore [or Frederick?] and Louisa Wendt Neumann, were both born in Germany, also were married there, and came to Ontario, Canada several years later. I think uncle John Neumann was born in Germany. The other children were born in Ontario near McKillop (or McKillon).

Theodore and Carl were married and lived in Detroit. My mother's (Catherine's) youngest brother Adam died of T.B. within two years.

I remember mother telling us that Carl left his widow and I think four children. His widow married again and I do not remember mother speaking of them. Theodore also left his widow with two boys and two girls.

I think it was in the fall of 1934 that Uncle Fred Mahler and I went to Detroit and Ontario. Three of Uncles Theodore's children were still living at that time. We stayed with John the oldest son and they invited Adam and Anna over for dinner and to spend the evening. These were my first cousins and all have died.

John had three sons: Theodore, George, and Carl. I still hear from them at Christmas time and George's wife always encloses a letter.

So many of the Neumann family are buried in Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit.

George and Verna Neumann were kind enough to go to the cemetery and look up the date of grandmother's (Louis Wendt Neumann) birth and death.

Uncle John also lived in Detroit and he and his wife and their only child are buried on the same lot with his mother and his wife's mother.

Mother's (Catherine) one sister, Minnie, also lived in Detroit with her husband Jake Siemon. They had no children. Two of mother's brothers, Henry and Fred, lived in Preston, Minnesota. Henry and wife Lena Neumann had no children.

Fred and wife had six sons, Paul, Walterm John, William, Arnold, and Otto, and two girls, Emma and Minnie.

I had never seen any of the family until 1957-58. Leona took me and the children and drove to Minnesota. My uncle and aunt had both died several years before, but Paul the oldest son was sort of head of the family. He and William and Otto and their sister Minnie lived in the home in Preston. None of them had married. Paul was about the same age as your grandfather. John had married and lived about a block away. He had no children.

Walter had been a mail carrier in Austin, Minnesota, and was retired, and he and his wife lived near a lake resort. I did not get to see him.

Emma, the older daughter, was married and lived in Wisconsin. She had several children and Minnie wrote me last Christmas that Emma jad severa; grand-children. I did not see her. Arnold had died several years before and Paul died in June 1959.

I have been so glad that I got to visit them. Paul and I had corresponded after the death of his parents. He loved flowers and gardening, and we were both interested in Glads an Peonies. He had a lovely yard and had not been able to work for several years. Minnie writes me for Christmas.

Mother's oldest sister Annie Rock lived about two miles distance from our home, so we were together quite often. She had three daughters and three sons. The children have all died.

The youngest son Frederick John died at the age of 77 on Nov. 29, 1965. I got a letter from a second cousin Anne Grube who lives with her brother Alvin who visited us in 1949. They are both single. Their mother was Lena Rock Grube. I also hear from Minnie Rock Wittig's two daughters. They both live in Stratford, Ontario.

Frederick Neumann (b. 1812, Mecklenburg-Schwerin; d. 1859, Canada)
                married 1839 Louisa Caroline Wendt (b. 1819, Mecklenburg-Schwerin; d. 1893, Detroit)
        nine children
        John Neumann married Sophie (Detroit)
                    no children
        Charles Neumann married Mary (Detroit)
                    four children
        Theodore Neumann married Minnie Albright (Detroit)
                    three children
                    John F. Neumann (b. Dec. 14, 1871, Bonholm, Ontario; died Nov. 19, 1938, Detroit;                                     Clergy Rev. Francis Keller, Schmalzriedt Sons Chapel, burial                                         Riverside Cemetery, Plymouth, Michigan]
                    Adam Neumann
                            2 children
                    Annie Neumann married Louis Neiman (secretary to Henry Ford)
        Henry Neumann married Caroline (Minnesota)
                    no children
        Fred Neumann married Catherine (Minnesota)
                    7 children
                    Emma Neumann married Feuerhak
        Adam Neumann died age 2
        Anna Neumann married Christian Rock (Bornholm, Ontario)
                    6 children
                    Mary Rock married John Gloos (or Gloor?)
                    Minnie Rock married George Wittig (Stratford, Ontario)
                                2 children
                                Lavinia Wittig married Louis Zeller (wholesale candy)
                                Kate (Catherine) Wittig married ____ Heinbeck (undertaker)
                    Caroline Rock married William Grube (near Stratford, Ontario)
                                large family
                    John Rock
                    Charles Rock
        Minnie Neumann
        Catherine Barbara Neumann (b. 1855 in Logan, Ontario) married Frederick Strickert.