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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:46 pm    Post subject: Stuenkel genealogy data Reply with quote

My paternal grandmother, Mary Pape, was the daughter of Louis Stuenkel and granddaughter of Conrad Stuenkel. I've been trying to track down the specific ship on which Conrad came to the U.S. but without success. Does anyone know the ship's name? [Note. See a later posting in this forum titled ''The Mystery of Conrad Stuenkel's Boat Trip to America".]


There was a Stuenkel family reunion in 2000. Some family history was printed in the Concordian. Does anyone know if any good genealogy records of the family were published? The Stuenkels were among the early settlers of Concordia and still well represented there. It would be nice to make some of the family history available.


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:02 pm    Post subject: Conrad Reply with quote

Conrad came to the USA in 1837 from the Hannover area in Germany. He had previously had some training in the blacksmithing trade, perhaps while in military service (cavalry, I believe). After some months in New York he came to St. Louis in 1838 and worked as a farmhand in Southern Illinois. In 1840 he was married to Wilhemine Gerberding in St. Louis. From 1840 they homesteaded in Lafayette County, MO. Several items of Conrad's life on his farm, adjoining what became Concordia, MO are interesting and still significant. He was one of the ten original men who determined to erect the first log church in the area (I believe in 1844). He was a county "Judge" (commissioner), a significant distinction for a German minority person in the county. One short street in Concordia bears his name.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:05 am    Post subject: Conrad Street Reply with quote

Conrad Stuenkel was the original owner of much of the land on the north side of Concordia. In particular, his main farm was the land just east of the original St. Paul’s College campus (and now part of that campus). He also owned a pasture on the west side of Concordia. The southeast corner of that land was 4th and Bismark. The land was eventually purchased by John Allen, who built a lake there.

The Stuenkel family would frequently herd their cows back and forth between the farm and that pasture, moving them directly across Concordia on 4th Street. Apparently, the children had to keep the cows from nibbling on the flowers in people’s yards along the way.

In case you haven’t noticed, the original name of 4th Street was Conrad Street.
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