ELVIRA married BROWN MELVIN. MELVIN was born in in Of Georgia. [Group Sheet]

1. BROWN BRUCE KLEE
2. BROWN MELVIN CHARLES

Notes:

George was proprietor of wall paper and paint business.

GEORGE married GREEN VIOLET (VIOLA) on 11 Apr 1909. VIOLET (daughter of GREEN GEORGE A. and HOHMAN CLARA MATILDA) was born on 23 Mar 1884; died on 30 Apr 1916. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

With their infant daughter, Paulina Anna Carolina (b. 1887) and two sons, George and August, Julia (Klee) Arnsmeyer (b. 1865, d. 1905) and William Arnsmeyer (b. 1852, d. 1919) moved in 1888 to Nashville from St. Louis. Both Julia and William were of Scotch-Irish heritage, having added the "meyer" to William's original family name of "Arns". three more children were born to their union. Ruth Frances in 1893, Luella Mae (known as "Chub") in 1890, and Mayme Adelle in 1897.
George married Violet Green (a Nashville girl) and they had two children, Elvira Louise (now Brown and living in Atlanta) and Mary Elizabeth (now Drane and living in California). August married Sophie Lee (also of Nashville) and they moved to Johnson City. Paulina married Frank Guy Truman Schafer. Frank's father was an English Jewelry salesman and his mother was half Cherokee Indian. Paulina and Frank had five children, Mildred Helen (later Brink) in 1909, Vera Mae (who died in infancy) in 1914, Imogene (later Wallace) in 1915. Homer G. (who died as a young man) in 1922, and Frank Guy in 1924. Ruth married Charles "Chick" Evilsizer and they had two children, Darlith (now Warmack and living in Pennsylvania) and James, living in the metro-east area. Ruth and Chick lived all their married life in Nashville.
Luella Mae married John Engleman and they lived all their married life in Nashville also. Their children were Delene (now Anderson), Ilene (now Pratt), John Jr., Mayme (now Krause), Betty (now Pemberton) and Rank William. Mayme married Walt Reidelberger (also of Nashville). Children born to their union were Audrey (now Gaebe and living in Rhode Island), Walt Robert (now living in the Orient) and Jean (now Farmen-Farmian).



According to death certificate, William was a coal miner.

WILLIAM married KLEE JULIA RUTH on 11 Mar 1882 in St. Louis, Missouri. JULIA (daughter of KLEE AUGUST and UNKNOWN MARY) was born on 18 May 1865 in Of St. Louis, Mo.; died on 21 Oct 1905 in 40 yrs., 5 mos., 3 days; was buried in Evangelical Cemetery, Nashville, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Has a sister Mrs. Allen Blair of Portland Oregan per death notice at Nashville Historical Society. Same notice gives birth date as June 18, 1864 in St. Louis, MO. This disagrees with date family has passed down.

Notes:

George graduated from St. Louis Colleg of Physicians and Surgeons, having worked his way through college. He was a Railroad telegrapher in Wyoming, Montana and E. St. Louis before entering medical school, nites, and in summer. After graduation he opened an office for the practice of medicine at Hoyleton, Illinois, in June of 1906 and practiced there until 1920. His office in Hoyleton was in the home and the front room, which was the office, boasted of a dental chair, in addition to medical equipment. Dr. Edward Hohman, who was a dentist in Nashville, Illinois, and his brother-in-law, arrived each Tuesday to take care of dental problems. Emergencies that arose between these visits, had to be coped with by the doctor as best he could.
In those early years Dr. Green was a familiar sight riding around the country-side on horseback, ministering to his patients.
He moved to Nashville in November of 1920 and continued to practice there until his death, Jan. 6, 1948.
Like his father, who served as treasurer of Washington Co., and his brother Will who was Co. Judge for 40 years and his brother, Hugh, who served several terms in the Illinois House of Representatives, he was a staunch Republican and was completing his third term as Coroner of Washington County, when he died suddenly, slumped over the steering wheel of his car.
After the death of his wife, his sister, Martha Darrow, who was a widow, kept house for him for about 2 years until he married Mae Ankershiel Muenter.
From "Hoffmans 1662 - 1972"
Compiled by Bernice Reinhardt

GEORGE married HOHMAN CLARA MATILDA on 16 Sep 1905. CLARA (daughter of HOHMAN ERNST HENRY FREDERICK and HOFFMAN CAROLINE WILHEMINE) was born on 7 Nov 1878; died on 1 Feb 1938. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Clara attended the old "cow-bell" school and was only 14 when her mother had a stroke which paralyzed her and made her an invalid for the last 10 years of her life. Her father passed away 5 years before her mother of what was believed to be cancer. Clara continued to live in the home and help care for her mother till she died and then her brothers until they married or left home. She then held a position in the local post office and the year before her marriage went to Vandalia to live with her sister Ida and work in the Atkinson-Brink Store.
From "Hoffmans 1662 - 1972"
Compiled by Bernice Reinhardt

Per Narratives of Randolph County, Sparta, Illinois library, her last name was spelled Holeman.

Notes:

Holland Dutch.
Changed name to Arnsmeyer.

1860 Census show a D (Dietrich) H (Henry) Arnsmeyer, age 30, merchant in Nashville, Illinois, from Germany. Wife my be a Suedmeyer, age 29, from Germany. Wiliam A., age 8, born in Missouri, John age 6, born in Illinois, and Amelia, age 3, born 10/8/1857 per New Minden St. John's records, Illinois.

It appears this would be this family, especially since the William in this record was born in 1852.

These census records were received from Lucille Althoff 6/18/03.

FREDERICK married SUEDMEYER CAROLINE. [Group Sheet]

AUGUST married UNKNOWN MARY. MARY was born in in Per Harry/Barbara King name was Mrs. Mary Engelman. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Narratives of Randolph County, Hugh was a farmer near Nashville, Illinois and at one time served as Treasurer of Washington County, Illinois. The Hugh Parker Green family were industrious and led political lives and were known freely through the county.

HUGH married TROUT MARY ELIZA on 27 Feb 1866 in Ashley, Illinois. MARY (daughter of TROUT ELIJAH COL. and CARSON LUCINDA) was born on 16 May 1846 in Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky; died on 1 Jul 1933 in Nashville, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Narratives of Randolph County, Mary came to Washington County, Illinois, with her parents November 8, 1863 who settled on a farm East of Nashville, Illinois.

Notes:

William Frederick Hohman (partial article) 1979 Washington County History book.
Henry came from Seidinghausen in Northwestern Germany as a young man, having been baptized in a very old church whose foundation stones go back to the days of Charlemagne in the 9th century.
The Hohmans were farmers and shoemakers. The shoe business was continued in Nashville for three generations by Henry, son William, grandson Howard.
. . .
At time of death William Hohman was president of Turst Building and Loan and in show business with son Howard. Was a member of St. Paul U.C.C. and held various offices.
By: Ruth Hohman

Henry was born in the little village, named Siedinghausen, near Minden, in Westphalia in northwestern Germany and went to church and was baptized in a very old church (tradition has it that the church and possibly a few of its aactual foundation stones go back to the days of Charlemagne in the 9th century). It is definitely "Charlemagne territory" and lovely countryside, with rolling hills, quaint old barns and wooden painted statues of saints under the gables and a famous "kaisers denkmal", or statue on a river bend nearby, called Bergkirchen. Both Siedinghausen and Bergkirchen are really only crossroads, with Minden, for which our New Minden in Washington Co. was named, the nearest fairly large town (by 1969, it had grown to about 50,000).
The description of this area was given me by Elmo Hohman, who visited there in 1929 and again in 1958. He found the actual house where Henry lived still standing and occupied by the widow of a distant cousin named Hohman.
The Hohmans were combined farmers and shoemakers and teh shoe business was carried on in Nashville for three generations - by Henry - his son, William and William's son Howard.
Next to the church at Bergkirchen, which is very old and interesting is a cemetery which contains many names of families now living around Nashville, who are their descendants.
Henry left Germany in the 1850's, sailing from Bremen in a sailing boat to New Orleans - then up the Mississippi by river boat and on to Nashville, Illinois. He left Germany as a young man, in order to escape army duty, which was required of all young men when they reached a certain age. After arriving in America, it was said that his conscience bothered him, so he enlisted in the army here during the Civil War. He was a member of the 49th Infanatry Regiment. He was one of 8 brothers and sisters who eventually came to the U.S.
Henry's obituary said he died after a long illness (believed to have been cancer), at the age of 59. To quote from the obituary which appeared in a Nashville German newspaper, "The deceased was a good citizen, good Christian, good husband, good father, member of the church and many years Council Member of St. Paul's Evangelical Church.

ERNST married HOFFMAN CAROLINE WILHEMINE on 17 May 1866. CAROLINE (daughter of HOFFMANN JOHANN ERNST and HOFFMAN SOPHIE MARIA JUSTINA KATHARINA) was born on 7 Sep 1848 in farm sw of Nashville, IL; died on 25 Dec 1901. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Caroline, who was teh fourth child born to Catherine and John E., was, according to her pictures and those who knew her, a very pretty young lady. She was born and grew up on a farm southwest of Nashville, She was an invalid the last ten years of her life, having suffered a stroke which left her paralyzed.