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The Five Strickert Sons and One Daughter (of Johann and Christina) and their children
Johann was the first of the Strickert sons to die, only 34 years and nine months of age on Aug. 9, 1871 (1) . On Nov. 4, 1861, he had married Louisa Wall, age 20, daughter of Frederich and Christina Wall of Logan Township (2). He was a farmer. The couple had eight children (3):
• William (b. 1862); (4)
• Louis (b. 1863); (5)
• Ada (b. 1864);
• John William (b. 1866- 1961);
• Gustave (b. 1868);
• Herman Ludwig (b. 1869- 1895);
• Emily Mary (b. July 25, 1870);
• Frederich Charles (b. April 24, 1872- June 11, 1943). (6)
Louisa married again on Aug. 5, 1876 to Paul Brown, 46, a widower and a farmer in Logan Township. In the 1881 census, only Frederick “Striker” is included. Louisa and Paul Brown had two children of their own, Ellen, 4, and Maggie, 1. Of the Strickert children it appears that William and Herman Ludwig remained in the Mitchell area of Perth County (7). Frederich Charles lived in Chicago and eventually moved to Saskatchewan. John William moved to Chicago, then Florida, and died in Chicago (8).
Wilhelm was the second youngest, yet seems to have been the first to move permanently out of the Perth area. As a result the least is known for certain about him (9b). On Sept. 20, 1868 in Logan County at the age of 27, he married Pauline Entner, age 21, (born in Peterwit, Silesia, Prussia) daughter of Charles and Julia (Schulbert). In the Logan records, two children are mentioned:
• Wilhelmina Henrietta Matilda (b. July 12, 1869);
• Charles Christian William (b. Nov. 22, 1870).
However, the Canadian Strickert family tradition has the following five children (9) :
• Thomas
• John Carl (b. Nov. 3, 1866 in Chicago)
• George (b. April 3, 1879)
• Frederick (b. Aug. 6, 1880)
• Mina (b. Oct. 8, 1882).
The death dates are recorded for two of these in Chicago: Thomas, (d. Jan. 30, 1946) and Frederick (d. Sept. 1966). John Carl moved to Washington state where he died Feb. 27, 1952.
Yet another daughter has been listed on IGI:
• Clara Striekert (b. Jan. 6, 1888 in Jefferson, Cook, Illinois). (10)
In a 1900 Illinois census record, Pauline is listed as a widow under the name Lena. It states that she had ten children altogether, six of whom were still alive. Another Illinois record shows a Pauline Strickert dying in 1935.
Wilhelm died before 1900, but the exact date of his death is unknown.(11)
Christian as the youngest (12) was the last to marry. He married Pauline Kroegel, age 22, on July 4, 1872. They remained in Perth County where they had ten children:
• William (b. Mar. 11, 1873 - 1921);
• Frederick Charles (b. June 7, 1874 - 1959); (13)
• Wilhelmina [Matilda] (b. Aug. 6, 1875); (14)
• August George (b. Nov. 29, 1876); (15)
• Mary (b. Apr. 22, 1878); (16)
• Emilia Auguste (b. Feb. 25, 1880)
• Mary (b. Sept. 18, 1881)
• Henry Christian (b. May 9, 1883); (17)
• Emma (b. Oct. 11, 1884); (18)
• Melvina (1886-1949); (19)
• Minnie (b. 1887); (20)
• Agnes (b. Apr. 23, 1889).
Apparently they were still living at the “Concession XI, 18” farm in 1891 (21). Christian died Nov. 22, 1915 at 73 years of age of apoplexy. Paulina (22) remarried on Nov. 9, 1917 to Charles Honnenberg, age 48, a widower. Pauline died Aug. 18, 1925. They were buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, Milverton, Mornington, Perth, Ontario. Many of their children are buried at Redeemer Lutheran Church cemetery, Monkton, Perth County.
Carl (Charles), the oldest of the sons, has left behind the most information, partially because a biography was included in a 1919 history of Kansas (23). He was married twice and had eight children and a step-daughter. He married Caroline Bach on Mar 4, 1861 (24), but there is no documentation either for children of this marriage or for the date of her death. He married Justine Scherbarth (25) on Oct. 22, 1865. She also had been widowed (26) and brought to the marriage a daughter Emilia Elizabeth Kriese, (9-22-1863) (27). The couple had nine children of their own (28):
• Anne (1866)
• Daniel William (12-1868 – 11-14-1870); (29)
• Maria Augusta Paulina (12-26-1869 – 11-24-1870)
• Augustina Charlotte (10-30-1871- 1897); (30)
• Charles Frederick William (2-22-1873 –Sept. 1956)
• August (5-16-1876)
• Henry (5-16-1876)
• Sophia Jane Augusta (Aug. 25, 1877- Sept. 11, 1877); (31)
• Frederick William (10-28-1880 – Aug. 31, 1925).
Charles had been a landowner in Canada. However, shortly after Scott County, Kansas, was incorporated, he moved there with his family in 1888, eventually buying 880 acres of land. According to the biography, he was unusual among settlers in Scott City in that he had enough finances to set up his farming operation completely from the start—suggesting his success in Canada. In speaking about Charles W. and his son Charles F., this source states, “Perhaps no one family has furnished enterprise in greater abundance in this community during the past thirty years than the Strickerts.” Frederich W. worked with the railroad in Denver and then purchased land of his own in Scott County. Charles died Feb. 3, 1917 and is buried at the Scott County cemetery. Carl F. took over his ranch and lived until 1956.
Friedrich (Frederick) had the largest family with 17 children altogether, although a note in the family history says that only 7 grew up. On Sept. 29, 1862, he married Wilhelminea Augusta Frederica Giermann (32), age 23, daughter of Frederich and Mrs. (born Sandhoff) Giermann of Logan Township and originally of Hardenbeck, a village not far from Weggun (33). The couple had five children:
• Herman Frederick Charles (1864-1938); (34)
• John;
• Anna (b. 1869); (35)
• Wilhelmina (b. June 2, 1870- Sept. 24, 1889); (36)
• Frederick William (b. May 4, 1872- Jan. 18, 1873).
His wife Wilhelmine died in May 13, 1872 of inflammation following childbirth. At age 34, Frederick, listed as a farmer, on Feb. 23, 1873, married Anna Walter, 29, daughter of Christoph and Elizabeth Walter, of Logan Township (37). There is no record of her death.
Frederick then married Catherine Neumann on Oct. 27, 1873 in Mitchell. She was 18 years old, the daughter of Frederick Neumann and Louisa Vent. They had twelve children, among whom are:
• Mary Anna Louise (1878-1950); (38)
• Fred Charles (b. July 22, 1880 – Sept. 24, 1880);
• Catherine Lydia Emilie (b. July 22, 1880 – Sept. 11, 1880); (39)
• Mathilda Emilia (b. Oct. 18, 1881- 1976); (40)
• Charles Frederick William (b. Nov. 20, 1883 – Dec. 23, 1883); (41)
• Henry John (Apr. 9, 1885- 1960);
• Fredericka Augusta (Dec. 8, 1886 - 1953);
• Catherine Christina (Nov. 3, 1887);
• Friedrich Franz (July 11, 1889 );
• William Charles (Sept. 9, 1891);
• Edgar Carl (1894-1927);
• Oscar William (1896-1961).
The last of these two were born in Kansas. In 1893, five years after brother Charles immigrated, Friedrich moved to Scott County Kansas. He died there in 1909. According to the 1910 Plat book of Scott County, the year after his death, Mrs. Fred Strickert was owner 1,400 acres of land (42). Catherine, who was nineteen years younger, died in 1933. Several of the children married into Kansas families. Mary Anna Louise married Henry Uppendahl and Augusta married George Uppendahl. Mathilda married Ad. Mahler and then later Fred Mahler (mentioned above). Friedrich Franz married Lena Stanke; Edgar married Flora Bockelman; and Oscar married Charity Nelson. Henry married first Etta Royer, then Minna Rook, becoming a Lutheran pastor in Missouri.
Christine Wilhelmine Sophie Strickert (she went by Wilhelmine), the only daughter of Johann and Christina Strickert, stayed behind in Germany when the family immigrated. Born in Feb 10,1832 in Weggun, she was 24 years of age at the time. On Dec. 16, 1853 (according to Weggun church records), she married Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Hoppenrath, born March 15, 1827—the son of Michael Hoppenrath and Dorothy Sophie Goetsch of Hardenbeck. They had four children:
• Friederike Albertine Wilhelmine Strickert was born January 29, 1852 (listed in Weggun church records. She is listed without a father). Her confirmation is recorded at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Chicago in 1865. (her last name is listed as Hoppenrath there).
• Wilhelmine Aug. Fried. Hoppenrath, born 5 April 1855, was confirmed in 1869, at Immanuel, Chicago. Her verse: Joh 10 27,28
• Maria A. W. Hoppenrath, born 14 (24) Juli 1857, was confirmed in 1871 at Immanuel Chicago. Verse: Joh 12, 26
• Carl Hoppenrath, born 13, November 1860, was confirmed 29 March 1874 at Immanuel, Chicago. (43)
Exit permits from Boitzenburg include a listing for Carl Hoppenrath of Hardenbeck for 6 persons on April 23, 1862. They settled in Chicago.
Christine Feuerhak Strickert lived to be 90 years old, dying in Canada on Sept. 9, 1991. She is buried at St. Peters Lutheran Church Cemetery in Brodhagen. Her tombstone reads:
Hier ruhet in Gott Here rests in God
Die Ehefrau des Herrn The wife of mister
Johann Strickert Johann Strickert
Geb. Christine Feuerhak born Christine Feuerhak
Geb. Den 24 Jan 1801 born on 24 Jan 1801
In Wichmansdorf in Wichmannsdorf
In Provinz in the province of Brandenburg
Konigreich Preussen Brandenburg of the Prussia Kingdom
Gest. A 9 Sept. 1891 died on 9 Sept 1891
Alter 90 Jahre 7 Monate 90 years 7 months old
Among the other identifiable gravestones in that cemetery is only that of her sister and her son Johann.
Johann Fredrich Strickert had been born in Prussia in 1801. At the age of 55 he had emigrated to Canada. At the age of 92, he joined his Fredrich in moving to Kansas. There he died in August 1895. He is buried in the Scott County Cemetery. (44)
Footnotes:
1. The official Perth County Death record lists his name as Johann Strickart. It lists cause of death as inflammation of the bowels for ten days.
2. Louisa was born in Stettin, Prussia.
3. Six children through Mary are listed in the 1871 census. However, Louis is not listed.
4. On Jan. 13, 1886, he married Henrietta Wood, a widow, 28, daughter of John and Margaret Stone, from Fullarton Township. Both are listed as Methodists.
5. William worked as a laborer in Mitchell. They had a daughter Mary Jane, born Mar. 13, 1891 in Mitchell. Henrietta died Nov. 12, 1916. in Mitchell.
6. Although Louis is not mentioned in the 1871 census, his marriage registration in 1889, lists him as 26 years old and son of Johann and Louisa. He is described as a mason. On Mar. 19, 1889, he married Maggie Riehl, 26, daughter of John and Catherine Riehl of Ellice Township.
7. The birth record includes an annotation: “a posthumous child, the father having died in 1872.
8. Several are buried at Woodland Methodist in Mitchell. The Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid (OCFA) lists 42 Strickert graves in Perth County altogether. See http://www.islandnet.com/cgi-bin/ms2/jveinot/search Unless noted otherwise, this data has been taken from the various family history traditions.
9. The Kansas-Missouri family tradition mentions only Frederick.
9b. At First St. Paul Lutheran Church on LaSalle Street in Chicago there is a record for a marriage of a Mr. "Stricker" in 1864. It is Record No. 2089 and Reference No. 934. http://www.karensgen.com/buch/illinois/chicago/first/saametosweenie.php
10. The difficulty here is the source since the information has been submitted anonymously on www.familysearch.org It may be significant that the name is spelled Striekert for Clara as also for her father Wilhelm Striekert and Pauline Entner.
11. I have been unable to find Wilhelm / William Strickert in the U.S. census reports of 1870, 1880, 1890, 1900.
12. There is no definite date listed for his birth in the documents. Calculating from his death registration on Nov. 22, 1915 at 73 years, 8 months, 26 days, he would have been born Feb. 27, 1842. However, according to the 1881 census, he was 37 years old or born in 1844. According to the Canadian Strickert family tradition he was born in 1849.
13. Married on Mov. 12, 1903 in Wartburg (Ellice Township) to Elizabeth Fleischhauer, age 19.
14. In 1881, she is identified as Matilda, age 5. On marriage registration, July 9, 1890 in Mitchell, she is identified as Mina Matilda, age 15, when she married Wilhelm Pehlke. His sister Anna Pehlke married Hermann Strickert.
15. He married on Mar. 12, 1902 at Lutheran Church in Rostock, Ont. To Minnie Wick, age 26 (daughter of Frederick Wick and Elizabeth Rehberg). August is listed as now living in Monkton.
16. She is not listed in 1881 census and must have died, though there is no death record.
17. He married on Nov. 11, 1903 in Rostock, Ellice Township, Perth County Sophia Wick, age 16, daughter of Frederick Wick and Elizabeth Rehberg and sister of Minnie who married his brother August George.
18. On Apr. 28, 1902 in Kinkora, Ont., she married William J. Jordan, age 30 of Logan. The bride and groom are listed as Catholics. On Feb. 9, 1903, she married John Pehlke, 30, born in Malken Germany and living in Glen Smith, Manitoba.
19. Her birth does not appear in registrations. On Feb. 24, 1903 in Elma at age 16 she married John Swint, 32, a widower.
20. Not listed in birth registrations.
21. This information is included to identify Christian who is the informant for the report of his mother’s death in 1891.
22. The marriage record lists her as 50 years old, though that does not fit her 1872 date of first marriage. According to the 1881 census, she was listed as 31 or born in 1850. Thus she was likely 67.
23. “Charles F. Strickert,” A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, 5 volumes, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919). Published online at http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1919/strickcf.html
24. The Perth County Marriage Register, 1858-1869, lists her name as Caroline Black, but I assume that Bach is the correct name from family tradition. According to the County Register, she was born in 1834 in Zohrnek, Prussia, the daughter of Theophilus and Justine Black, living in Logan Township.
25. Various spellings of her maiden name are Schurbart and Scherbert. He Baptized name was likely Augustina, so that her name is written as Justine, Gustine, and Gustave. She was born 1840 in “Borrowte” (likely Boronko, Hungary) Prussia. Her parents John Scherbarth and Ann Marquardt of Logan Township.
26. Her first husband was Johann Kriese (1837-1864).
27. Emily is not listed in household of Charles and Justine in the 1871 census although she would have been seven years old. She married Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Wilken on 1-15-1884 in Mitchell. The couple moved to Spokane, WA where she died 2-22-1948.
28. Along with Emily, only three of these names are mentioned in the family tradition: Augusta, Charles F., and Frederick W.
29. Daniel and Maria died in the same month of diphtheria. St. Peter's Cemetery mentions the large number of deaths that year singling out the family of Charles Strickert.
30. Augusta married a successful rancher Fred Mahler in Scott County, Kansas, but she died at the age of 25. “Fred Mahler,” A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, 5 volumes, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919). Published online at http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1919/strickcf.html
31. Her parents are not listed. She fits into either the family of Carl or Frederick. She died at age 17 days “sick from birth.”
32. Her name was Anglicized as Germann and Gillman.
33. This is the same village where the Strickert daughter, Wilhelmine settled with her husband Carl Wilhelm Hoppenrath.
34. The family tradition lists his birth at Feb. 7, 1864 in Chicago. On May 5, 1891, at First Lutheran, Logan Township, he married Anna Pehlke, age 16, born in Strasbourg, daughter of Michael and Marie Hellwig Pehlke of Logan. Their farm is listed at consession XV, 25, Logan County. Children include Sophia Ann Louisa (b. Aug. 5, 1892) and George Carl (b. Sept. 29, 1894), born in Canada, and four children born in Kansas.
35. Family tradition says that she was born in Chicago. On Jan. 15, 1889 in Logan Township, Annie, age 19, married John Wilkin, 28, born in Logan, but living in Kansas, son of Frederick and Sophia Wilkins.
36. Only Wilhelmina and Frederick William of these five children were registered as born in Logan Township.
37. William Hoppenrath and Christian Strickert are listed as witnesses.
38. Mary Anna Louise’s birth is not registered in Logan Township. The next nine children are all recorded in Logan Township. Then the last two were born in Kansas.
39. Cause of death for the twins was diphtheria.
40. In this birth record of Oct. 1881, Frederick is listed as living in Concession VI, 26, which later became the location of First Lutheran Cemetery. According to the 1879 Atlas, lots in this concession were owned by J. Wolff, C. Wolff, and R. Rowe. In that same atlas, Frederick is listed as owning XI, 18 and X, 20. In birth registrations for 1885, 1887, and 1891, Frederick is listed as residing in XI, 18.
41. The register lists as cause of death “weakness from birth.”
42. http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/scott
43. I have not found birth records for the last three in Germany. The first was at Weggun. There is no record of Hoppenrath births between 1855 and 1860 for either Weggun or Hardenbeck.
44. The cemetery is located one mile west on Scott County West Road 140 from US Highway 83. There are 39 Strickert graves listed in the Scott County Cemetery according to www. Several others are buried in the Grigston Cemetery in Scott County. |
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