Sweere Progress

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Aug 192006
 

I received an email this month from Hans Sweere, who is the grandson of Gerardus Sweere, b. 1870 and Hendrica de Groot. This is an exciting event because Gerardus is the oldest brother of our founding American patriarchs, Theodorus and Hendrickus Sweere by their father’s first marriage to Henrika Arts.

In the information I received from Hans, he suggests that our earliest proven Sweere, Hermannus Sweere, was married twice, first to Anna Maria Nabben and second to Henrica Creemers.

I had been aware of these marriages of Hermannus Sweere recorded in Boxmeer, but had no proof that the Hermannus is question is the same man.

The marriage records of Gerardus Johannes Sweeren, b. 1797 in Boxmeer, married 1827 to Jacoba Vermaeten states that Hermannus and Anna Maria Nabben’s are his parents.

However, I have no marriage records for Hermannus and Anna Maria to tell me who Hermannus’ parents are.

Later, I have a marriage record for Hermannus Sweere and Henrica Creemers, which states that the parents of Hermannus are Cornelis Sweere and Dorothea Verhaert. If Hans is correct and the Hermannus of both marriages are one and the same, then we have moved back a generation and now the task will be to figure out who the father of this Cornelis Sweere is.

I suspect this Cornelis is the oldest son of Adrianus Corneliszn Sweere and Anna Antonisse Anemaat but I need proof.

The digging continues.

-ex animo ~J

Late afternoon update:

I received another email from Hans stating that my suspicion is correct. His records show that the grandfather of our Hermannus, is in fact, Adrianus Corneliszn Sweere, b. 1715 Made en Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. This break through effectively takes our Sweere line to the mid-1600′s.

Cees..we’re related!

~J

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Grand Army of the Republic: Mathias Godfried Leimkeuhler

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Aug 112006
 

Mathias Leimkuhler arrived from Prussia in New York on December of 1856 with Wilhelm Duren via the ship Constitution.

Together, the two men traveled to Cazenovia in south central Wisconsin, where they carved out their homes and raised big families in Westford Township along the banks of the Little Baraboo River in Richland County.

In 1864, Mathias mustered in with 3rd Wisconsin Calvary Volunteer Infantry, 52nd Regiment, Company E to serve with the Union in the War of the Rebellion.

His name is recorded as Mattias G. Leimkiller on page 591 of The Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 and Mathias G. Limkihler on page 919 of the Fifty-second Regiment Infantry, Company E.

In 1878 at age 50, Matt Leimkuehler died the week before his eleventh child and baby daughter, Maggie, was born.

His his young wife, Gert, age 38, was left with all her eleven children under the age of 19 living in her house.

Two years later, Gertrude (Bauer) Leimkuehler and her eleven children are recorded on the 1880 US Federal Census.

Mathias Godfried Leimkuehler (1828-1878) was my third-great grandfather.
He is buried in Saint Anthony’s Catholic Cemetery in Germantown,
just outside the city limits of Cazenovia, Wisconsin.

Image of headstone base for Mathias Leimkeuhler

On 28 March, 1888, ten years after Mathias Leimkeuhler died, his seventh child, Mary Leimkuehler, married Nicholas Jax, the son of Civil War Veteran, Peter Jax, and his wife, Anna Margareta (Steffes) Jax.

Peter Jax served in the War of the Rebellion with the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer infantry, Company F.

Image of Peter Jax headstone.

On the 12th of May in 1891, Mathias’ oldest son, Hubert Alexander Leimkuehler married Anna Adelman, the daughter of his neighbor, Benedict J. Adelman, who also fought in The War of the Rebellion.

Image of Benedict Adelman's headstone.

~ex animo~J

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