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.
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.
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.
~ex animo~J