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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:32 am    Post subject: Scheele Family Reply with quote

Names of many of the original settlers of Concordia are still well represented in the area. On the other hand, a number of the surnames have disappeared. One of those is the Scheele family. Based on some recent correspondence with Julie Middendorf, a descendant of the family, I have pieced together some interesting information about them.

Thirty three year old Henry Scheele and his twenty four year old wife Dorothea Maria (nee Brackmann) immigrated to the U.S. on board the SS Astracan, arriving in New Orleans from Bremen on Dec. 23, 1844. The passenger list includes three young children; Christina (5), Louisa (2), and Friedrich (infant). While Henry listed his occupation as tailor, it is not clear whether he practiced this trade after arriving in the U.S. or became a farmer like many other immigrants.

Their journey prior to arriving in Concordia is not known. There are a number of Scheeles in the St. Louis area, so they may have spent some time there. However, they were living in Concordia by 1846 because daughter Louisa Sophie appears in the St. Paul’s baptismal records during that year. The Bureau of Land Management records show that Henry purchased 40 acres in the area from the government on Feb. 1, 1851. [Note. BLM records indicate the date when the purchase was recorded in Washington, DC, not the actual date of purchase. This could have been as much as several years earlier.] That may not have been the first place they lived, but was the first land they received directly from the government. This farm was located just east of Concordia at the corner of the sharp bend in the current Emma Rd. According to the 1877 plat map, the land was purchased by H. Henke and by 1930 it was owned by the Flandermeyers. It was the Droege farm when I was growing up in the area.

The Scheele name shows up prominently in the St. Paul’s Church records in the mid 1800s. It includes eight baptisms, seven confirmations, the marriages of three daughters, and seven funerals. While there were at least four sons, none of them reached adulthood; having died either in infancy or in their youth. Interestingly, the gravestone of father Henry is the only one listed in the early St. Paul’s cemetery records, none of the children.

After Henry Scheele’s death in 1867, widow Dorothea married Heinrich Stuenkel (who was also widowed) and the two families were merged. As the daughters grew up and married, some moved out of the area. Rosine married Ferdinand Kurz and the couple eventually moved to Nebraska. The youngest daughter Emma married Louis Stuenkel (son of Fritz Stuenkel and Charlotte nee Frerking) and moved to Kansas. The oldest daughter Christine married Henry Oetting. Sophie married Henry Lampe, grandfather of Shady Rest’s Henry and Fred Lampe. So, while the surname disappeared from the Concordia area, some of the blood lines are still present.

Getting back to the 1844 passenger list of the SS Astracan, there are other connections to the Concordia area. The list can be found at http://immigrantships.net/v3/1800v3/astracan18441223.html. (Although, looking at the original handwritten records makes it possible to decipher some of the names.) The notes at the end of the transcriber's listing provide some interesting information. Also on that voyage was the Friedrich Oelschlager family who settled in the area. I’ve copied some of the notes below. One of the most interesting is that submitted by Donna L Hay. There are other familiar names that may also have a Concordia connection.

*Correspondence 10/25/00 Passengers 143-151 Heimsoth*
The Herman Henry Heimsoth family from Armsen, near Verden, Kingdom of Hanover. They settled in the Lake Creek area northeast of Cole Camp, Benton County, Missouri where descendant Neil Heimsoth <mailto:heimat@iland.net> resides today. Herman Henry Heimsoth Sr. died in Benton County 1866.

*Correspondence 10/25/00 Passengers 153-158 Koester*
The Cord Henry Koester family, who also came from Armsen and settled near the Heimsoth's. Cord Henry Koester died in Benton County 1864. Descendants moved to Lafayette County, Missouri and Crawford County, Kansas.

*Correspondence 04/09/02 passenger #67 & #97 Dankenbrink & Heydorn*
#67 is Henry Dankenbrink, a 32 year old shoemaker from Mardorf, Germany, who traveled with his brother-in-law, Freiderick Heydorn, #97 a 30 year old weaver, also from Mardorf. Freiderick was married to Henry's younger sister Dorothy. Dorothy emigrates in 1848 on the Oneco with Henry's fiance Sophia Dankenbrink, who had been married to Henry's older brother. Henry becomes the stepfather to his brother's sons. They all settle in the Concordia, Missouri area. Dankenbrink is also spelled Dankenbring; Heydorn is also spelled Heidorn. DonnaLHay

Another name in the listing that caught my attention was passenger no. 126, a 21 year old Charlotte Frerking. Contrary to what was commonly thought, Sophie “Charlotte” Frerking, one of the thirteen children of Johann and Dorothee Frerking, was not on the 1845 SS Gen Washington voyage with her mother. The Sophie in that passenger list was a different age and in a different, but probably related, family. The age of this Charlotte matches. So it is possible that she came a year earlier to Concordia where some of her brothers had already immigrated.
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