MEIER JOHANN HEINRICH (VOLKMANN)

Male 1717 - 1796  (78 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  MEIER JOHANN HEINRICH (VOLKMANN) was born on 21 Nov 1717 in Ufeln, Westfallen, Prussen; took name Meier; dob may be April 1716; died on 4 Nov 1796 in Eicksen, Westfallen, Prussen..

    JOHANN married MEIER TRIN MARGAR. on 27 Nov 1746. TRIN (daughter of MEIER ERNST and SCHURMEIER MARIKE) was born in 1724; died in 1758. [Group Sheet]

    JOHANN married SPETMANN ANNE MAR. ILSABEIN (SPILKER) about 1758 in Bergkirchen Par., Westfallen, Prussia. ANNE (daughter of SPILCKER JOHANN ERNST and STRUCKMEYER ANNA ILSABE) was born on 2 Jan 1737/38 in Schurbusch, Westfallen, Prussen.; died on 15 Oct 1808 in Rothenuffeln #1, Westfallen, Prussen.. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. MEIER ZACHARIAS JOHANN CHRISTIAN  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 30 Oct 1759 in Eicksen #1, Westfallen, Prussen.; died on 7 Nov 1837 in Eicksen #1, Westfallen, Prussen.; was buried on 10 Nov 1837.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  MEIER ZACHARIAS JOHANN CHRISTIAN Descendancy chart to this point (1.JOHANN1) was born on 30 Oct 1759 in Eicksen #1, Westfallen, Prussen.; died on 7 Nov 1837 in Eicksen #1, Westfallen, Prussen.; was buried on 10 Nov 1837.

    ZACHARIAS married RODEKOFF ANNA MARIE ILSEBEIN on 24 Jan 1784 in Bergkirchen, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany. ANNA (daughter of ROHKOP JOHANN HENRICH ROKOP gen. NIEDERSTER and LIELIENKAMP ANNA SOPHIA) was born on 6 Jan 1768 in Kohlterholz #8, Unterlubbe, Kreis Minden, Westfallen, Prussen; Baptism 6/6/1768.; died on 3 Jan 1809 in Rothenuffeln #1, Westfallen, Prussen.. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 3. MEIER ANNA SOPHIE DOROTHEA MARIE ILSABEIN  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 19 Sep 1799 in Eicksen #1, Rothenuffeln, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Prussen; Dob may be 9/9/1799; died on 12 Feb 1846 in North Prairie, Hoyleton Twp., Sec. 30, Washington Co., Illinois; was buried in Field to the east of the home..
    2. 4. MEYER CHRISTINE SOPHIE MARIE ELISABETH  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 24 Oct 1801 in Rothenuffeln 1, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany; died on 30 Oct 1854 in Unterlubbe, No. 1, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany; was buried in Unterlubbe, Kries Minden, Westfalen, Germany.
    3. 5. MEIER SOPHIE LOUISE CAROLINE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Dec 1803; died in Feb 1855 in dod may be 1853.

    ZACHARIAS married LILIENKAMP ERNESTINE LOUISE DOROTHE on 14 Apr 1809. ERNESTINE was born on 29 Aug 1787; died on 6 Mar 1812. [Group Sheet]

    ZACHARIAS married WEKING ANNA MARIE ENGEL(HARTKEMEIER) on 29 Nov 1812. ANNA was born in 1760. [Group Sheet]



Generation: 3

  1. 3.  MEIER ANNA SOPHIE DOROTHEA MARIE ILSABEIN Descendancy chart to this point (2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 19 Sep 1799 in Eicksen #1, Rothenuffeln, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Prussen; Dob may be 9/9/1799; died on 12 Feb 1846 in North Prairie, Hoyleton Twp., Sec. 30, Washington Co., Illinois; was buried in Field to the east of the home..

    Notes:

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    CHAPTER 4

    Our Brink Ancestors arrived in America in Washington County in December of 1845. They were a people of high standards, high moral values, integrety, and had a strong faith in God. According to information passed on from older family members of the first generation in America, the Brinks were first associated with St. John’s Lutheran Church in New Minden, Illinois. Then as the German Methodist Conference of St. Louis provided a preacher for the circuit which included North Prairie, many of them became Methodists. See appendix 2 for location of Brink settled land in 1845.

    “WASHINGTON COUNTY IN THE 1850s” copied from the Hoyleton Centennial Celebration 1858 - 1958.

    Before the fifties, Washington County was dotted with the one-room log cabins familiar to this age; the slow, yet dependable ox-team still was here, as well as the wooden mold-board plow, the open fireplace, and the Kentucky (made in Pennsylvania) squirrel rifle. These conditions existed in general until a few years before the Civil War.
    The old log cabin will ever occupy a place in American reminiscences. It was picturesque to say the least. One end was devoted to the open hearth and fireplace; the chimney, made of split sticks of wood and clay, ran up on the outside. The clay was first made into a kind of mortar, and with this the sticks were freely plastered, to keep down the fire hazard as well as cement the chimney in place. It was referred to as a “chink-and-daub” chimney.
    Usually the fireplace was so large that backlogs for it had to be rolled in at the open door too big to be carried. The forestick and other pieces of wood rested on the “dog-irons,” so as to be above the hearth level. At one side of the hearth, on pegs driven in the logs, hung the various blackened pots, kettles, skillets. There also stood the cupboard, made of smoothly dressed walnut. The prized blue-edged dishes and pewter were kept there. In a corner usually was a rude shelf resting on oak pegs, upon which was a wooden bucket filled with water for drinking and cooking purposes. A gourd, the pioneer’s drinking vessel, always hung on a nearby peg. The dining table was usually a dextrously-made affair that had folded leaves and could be pushed against the wall to save space.
    On the other side of the fireplace, about six feet off the floor, and just beneath the low ceiling, resting on wooden hooks, was the long-barreled flintlock Kentucky squirrel rifle. The stock ran the entire length of the long barrel, was made of white walnut and from incessant use added to the original polishing of the gunsmith, had become smooth as ivory. The mounting always was of well finished brass. Near the butt of the stock was a cavity about an inch in width, an inch deep and four or five inches long, covered with a brass lid, controlled by a spring. This was used to carry tallow with which to lubricate the “patchen” that was made to cover the bullet when loading the rifle.
    Also hanging on one of the hooks on which the heavy rifle rested was a bullet pouch and a powder horn. The pouch was made of strong leather, usually buckskin; had two or three pockets to hold bullets and cloth for patchen. The powder horn originally adorned the head of a cow; the larger end was closed and into the smaller end was filled a stopper, easily removed. Pouch and horn were provided with leather straps, to be carried over the shoulder. A horn to call the dogs usually rested or was hung from another peg on the wall. If the family was prosperous, there usually was a percussion-type shotgun in a corner, to be used by the boys who were not as accurate in their shooting as father.
    Another article of furniture in the cabin was the candlestand, upon which usually reposed a worn copy of the Bible and an almanac. The one window generally contained six 6 x 6-inch panes of glass.
    The door of the cabin swung on wooden hinges, the only kind known, fastened with a wooden latch, and raised and lowered by a leather thong which passed through a hole and left the free end hanging outside. At nights, when the pioneer wished to lock his cabin, he merely pulled in the latch-string.
    The bed usually was softened by a huge feather-tick. A trundel bed rolled under the big bed in the daytime, and pulled out for the children at night. The floor of the better cabins was made of unhewn oak; on the more common, it was of puncheon-slabs smooth on one side and unhewn on the other. The loft of the cabin was usually reached by a ladder, and the rafters would be festooned with dried apples, hung on strings; dried pumpkin, dried fruits, peppers, bunches of sage with which to season the sausage; pennyroyal to “sweat” the sick ones; boneset to “break the ager”; strings of stuffed sausage, chunks of dried beef.
    Crowded as was the cabin, it had at times another article that took up a lot of floor space--the loom to weave cloth. Cumbersome as it was, the housewife was an artist on this pioneer contrivance, and from it came pants for the men, linsey for the women, pretty coverlets, counterpanes and pillow cases. The spinning-wheel was the running-mate of the loom, and upon it the carded wool was woven into thread.
    Cooking was done almost entirely in iron pots, a dextrous art for the housewife, who toiled with the heavy utensils, the spider, the iron tongs with which to pick up hot embers, the big shovel to manipulate the wood fire. Always in the cabin was the pleasant odor of burning wood; old-timers insisted that no meal could ever approach the delicacy of one cooked at an open hearth.
    With the advent of the 1850’s, matches started to come into more general use. Before this time the fire on the hearth never went out, unless by accident. If it did, someone went to a neighbor’s for live coals; or if there was no neighbor, or the weather was inclement, a bit of powder would be put into the pan of the flintlock rifle, a piece of cotton held beside it then when a trigger was pulled, a spark from the flint would ignite the powder; it in turn would set fire to the cotton, and while this was blazing, it would be hurriedly transferred to “shavings,” or other easily inflammable material under the laid kindling in the fireplace.
    Food in the pioneer days was simple: corn bread and salt pork were the staples. Wheat bread was practically unknown before the fifties. The children ate corn mush and drank copious quantities of milk, warm from the cow. In winter, kernels of corn were treated with lye, which removed the hull, after which the grains were boiled or fried. This was a wholesome food that was called “big hominy.” With the coming of the first frost, one neighbor would kill a hog and divide it with his neighbors and friends. Perhaps a little later another would kill a beef and divide it likewise. No one had a cellar in those days.
    The present method of canning fruit and vegetables did not come into vogue until about the middle of the fifties. The woods and prairies were full of blackberries, wild plums, crab-apples, wild grapes and persimmons. Pawpaws were eaten like bananas today.
    Soap was made with lye and fat, a custom that still prevails today in many rural areas. The lye was made by leaching wood ashes, and the fat came from saving all sorts of meat scraps.
    Many an early Washington County settler had to depend upon a nearby spring or the “crick” for their drinking water. The only rain water collected was that in a barrel, set under the eaves, and generally full of “wiggle-tales” as soon as the weather got warm.
    The manner of dress was far simpler than today. For everyday wear, men had shirts and jeans cut loosely; trousers were called breeches, and vests were universally known as “roundabouts.” An outer garment called a “wammus” was also popular with men. Boots came into fashion in the early fifties; working men wore heavy shoes referred to as brogans. Clocks and watches were rare, only professional people and ne’er-do-wells carried a timepiece, or owned one; time was referred to “by sun”.

    HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY SETTLERS

    When the white man came to Southern Illinois, this area was the home of the Illini Indians, mostly from the Tamaroa sub-tribe. They had been preceded by several other groups of Indians over a period of some thousand years. All left some of their artifacts behind them, which are still being found. In the War of 1812 it was the Kickapoo tribe from Central Illinois which raided this far south and killed the first settlers, the Livelys. In the same war, the Shawnee, being driven out of Indiana and Ohio, came to Southern Illinois, some to the county. The last resident Indians were removed to Oklahoma in the 1830’s. We also have a number of families who have some Indian ancestry, most often Cherokee.
    The first white settlers here were Americans who came from the southeastern coast states, part of a migration that began in the early 1800’s, when small farmers in Georgia, North and South Carolina, were being crowded out by the large spread of cotton plantations worked by slaves. While some stayed in the South in mountain valleys, others headed north and west to a new and free land. Many who came here after the War of 1812 came from Kentucky and Tennessee. They were mostly of English ancestry, a varying amount of Irish, German, Scotch, and Welsh blood, and a few free slaves. By 1830 they had spread to every part of the country.
    In 1830 there was a well organized migration from South Carolina by several groups of Presbyterians of Scottish descent. They were people with quite strong religious convictions and who were opposed to slavery. They settled in and around Oakdale. In 1837 the first Low German emigrants from north Germany came to Venedy and Hoyleton townships and in the next twenty years, they were followed by more. They spread over the northern tier of townships and then to the south. They came mostly from Westphalia, but also Hanover, Oldenburg, and Saxony. Most of the early emigrants traveled by boat to New Orleans and then up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. Later, they entered the country at New York and came west by rail. They were mostly craftsmen and farmers.
    Selected from article written by Venice Brink for the 1979 Washington County History book.

    Newspaper article re. original Zion Evangelical Cemetery in North Prairie - date of article unknown.
    HOYLETON CHURCHMEN HONOR PIONEER DEAD by Grover Brinkman

    Back in 1861, a group of eighteen farmers met at the home of Frederick E. W. Brink in North Prairie to establish a new church. Eight acres of land was purchased from F. W. Krughoff for $12.50 per acre, and preliminary plans were made for the building program, which included a church, school, parsonage and "laying-off" a cemetery. Later that year, carpenter Henry Hake was given a contract to build a church 30 x 50 feet, 16 ft. high, with eight windows and a tower. He was to receive $217 for his labor.
    The day the tower of the new church was completed, a bad storm leveled the building. Undaunted, the members set about to rebuild the church, completed it in 1863.
    Back in those days, when the infant farm congregation was being organized, prices of commodities, compared with today, are little short of amazing. For instance, when the parsonage was ready for painting, the labor amounted to $15. Later a fence was built to enclose the property, each member being required to furnish ten fence posts or contribute a dime. On one occasion, the pastor was compelled to build his own chicken house. Another pastor, desiring a porch on the parsonage, added it himself.
    Today this pioneer church is gone, its members long ago having transferred to Hoyleton, but the old cemetery remains. And recently a cemetery committee composed of Rueben Westerfeld, Clarence Hake, Roland and William Beckemeyer, were appointed to restore the long-neglected burial ground, now a thicket of hedge and bramble, dug up by marmots. Many of the old stones were gone, broken or vandalized. So, for the record, a large central marker was erected, upon which are engraved the names of all who are buried here, 85 in number. The oldest grave is that of Marie Westerfeld, born in 1832. In the photo are Reuben Westerfeld and Clarence Hake, two of the four-man committee responsible for this fine restoration. (We do not have the photo.)
    A new chain fence protects the site, which is southeast of New Minden and southwest of Hoyleton. Here is an example of pioneer cemetery restoration that is commendable. Washington County, like its sister counties in southern Illnois, has many of these old burial grounds, most of them completely neglected. Updating the same with a central marker, inscribed with all the names of those buried, seems a fine idea. See Appendix 17 for list of people buried in this cemetery.

    VILLAGE OF HOYLETON

    Hoyleton was settled in 1858 by two Ministers of the Congregational Faith. Rev. A. Bent and Rev. Ovid Miner and their group came from the state of New York. That is why Hoyleton, until 1860, was called Yankee Town. The name Hoyleton came from a man named Henry Hoyle, who donated a bell for the Seminary belfry, which was completed in 1860.
    An election was held on March 26, 1881, to incorporate Hoyleton as a village under the general incorporation laws of Illinois, 37 votes being cast, 25 for and 12 against. The first officers of the village were: president, Christ Krueger; clerk, Wm. Weigel, Sr.; treasurer, Wm. Heidler; and trustees were Henry Horst, Sr., Wm. Grote, Christ Grabenkrueger, Diedrich Rixmann, Sr., and Fred Pries, Sr.
    In 1883 the first wooden sidewalk was built and 1896 the first brick sidewalk was laid.
    In 1901 the Village Board granted H. William Rixmann and Henry F. Rixmann the right to build the first telephone line within the village limits. In 1915 the president and the board of trustees signed a franchise granting H. Rixmann the right to furnish electric current for light, heat and power and also a contract for street lights. Many improvements followed over the years.


    ELM POINT SCHOOL

    Elm Point School was district #31 and was not annexed to another school until 1947. All the young people from Huegely and the surrounding area walked to Elm Point school, some of them four and five miles.
    The Elm Point School was opened in 1896 and stood west of the Evangelical Cemetery in North Prairie. From there it was moved to a hill near the German Methodist Episcople Church to be more centrally located.
    It was a one room school, but at times had forty pupils enrolled. After the regular school year, came one month of German school taught by the pastor of the Methodist Church, for North Prairie was a tri-lingual community -- English, German and Flemish called low-German. The school was closed in 1947. See Appendix 18 for a picture of Elm Point School.


    NORTH PRAIRIE AND HOYLETON

    The North Prairie and Hoyleton Circuit, which in 1849 was founded under the leadership of Brother Hemminghaus, was originally connected to the Mascoutah Mission and counted as its original families the following charter families:
    Heinrich Bartelsmeyer, Sr.
    Christian Brink
    Frederick W. Hake, Sr.
    Heinrich Hartmann
    Louis Huck, Sr.
    Heinrich Lesemann
    Heinrich Schnake
    William Meyer
    and the names of the charter members are as follows:
    Heinrich Bartelsmeyer, Sr.
    Susan Bartelsmeyer
    Christian Brink
    Christine Brink
    Frederick Hake, Jr.
    Frederick W. Hake, Sr.
    Heinrich Hake
    Henrietta Hake
    Heinrich Hartmann
    Wilhelmina Hartmann
    Maria Hoffman
    Heinrich Hoelscher
    Ludwig Huck, Sr.
    Louise Huck
    Frederick Lesemann (could this be Hesemann?)
    Heinrich Lesemann (could this be Hesemann?)
    Louise Meyer
    William Meyer
    Heinrich Schnake
    Louise Schnake
    For a number of years services were held in private homes, but due to the rapid growth of the membership in the congregation, it was decided to build a church. This was completed in 1853, located on a tract of land owned by Heinrich Hartmann and Wilhelmine, his wife; said tract being the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section Twenty-nine, in Township One South of Range Two West, of the Third Principal Meridian, Washington County, Illinois. The Hartmanns lived in a log cabin situated on the southeast corner of the aforesaid tract, and the church was built on the north end thereof. This church site was one and a half miles south of the later North Prairie Church.
    The records of the German Methodist Church are quite vague, however, from the records of the St. Louis Conference book, we find that the Huegely family, who were one of the founders of Methodism in Nashville, established their home here in 1853.
    The lot on which the Wesley Methodist Church and Parsonage were situated was deeded to the German Methodist organization by Isaac Miller, on January 22, 1854. Rev. Boeschenz was the first German Methodist Minister to conduct services in Nashville, and later Rev. Peter Hinners was sent by the conference, and he in 1854 organized the congregation of the German Methodist Church in Nashville, Illinois. At this time North Prairie, Grand Prairie, and Little Prairie were included in the Nashville Circuit. North Prairie is often referred to as Crooked Creek Circuit.
    Charter members of the Nashville congregation were as follows:
    John Huegely
    Susannah Huegely
    Wilhelmina Hinners
    Alois Morawets
    The number of members of the aforesaid four missions are as follows:
    The Nashville Circuit 4 members
    North Prairie Circuit21 members
    Grand Prairie Circuit18 members
    Little Prairie Circuit 8 members
    The first Quarterly Conference was held at Nashville, Illinois, on December 3, 1854, when it was decided to build a parsonage, and the following were elected as a Building Committee:
    Christian Brink, North Prairie
    John Huegely, Nashville
    William Meyer, North Prairie
    The following were elected as Stewards in 1854:
    Christian Brink, North Prairie
    John Geisel, Grand Prairie
    William Grote, Grand Prairie
    Ernest Hoffman, Little Prairie
    John Huegely, Nashville
    On December 31, 1854, we find that the following were elected trustees for a term of five years:
    Christian Brink, North Prairie
    Frederick Hake, Sr., North Prairie
    Louis Huck, Sr., North Prairie
    John Huegely, Nashville
    Heinrich Lesemann, North Prairie (could this be Hesemann?)
    Ten years later, due to the rapid growth in membership and also the location, it was decided to build a new church. This took place during the ministry of Rev. H. Schulze, and was completed in the year 1863. The new church was located on the northwest corner of Christian Brink’s land.
    After Rev. Boeschenz and Rev. Peter Hinners, the following Ministers named hereafter served the Nashville Circuit:
    Rev. H. Schultz 1854-1856
    Rev. John Ritter1856-1857
    Rev. Paul Hertzel1857-1858
    Rev. H. Pfaff1858-1960
    It was during Rev. Pfaff’s ministry that the first church in Nashville was built.
    Rev. Justus Baab1860-1862
    Rev. H. Schultz1862-1865
    During Rev. Schultz’s ministry the former North Prairie Church was built.
    Rev. Wm. Kleinschmidt1865-1867
    Rev. Geo. Buehner1867-1870
    Rev. Louis Hornel1870-1871
    Rev. George Timken1871-1874
    Rev. Charles Rodenberg1874-1877.
    The North Prairie Parsonage was built in the summer of 1877.
    The Wesley Methodist Church was built in Nashville during the ministry of Rev. Rodenberg.
    The members of the Hoyleton Methodist bought the old Nashville Church and moved it to Hoyleton.
    At the annual conference in the year 1877, the Nashville Congregation, then called the Bischoefliche Methodisten Kirche, was separated from North Prairie, Grand Prairie and Little Prairie, and after that the following Ministers served the North Prairie and Hoyleton Churches:
    Rev. J. M. Rinkel1877-1880
    Rev. Wm. Kleinschmidt1880-1884
    At this time the Conference had set a limit of three years for any minister to
    serve one charge, and we have it on good authority that Frederick Hake was the
    minister from 1883-1884, but that Rev. Wm. Kleinschmidt served in his stead.
    Rev. G. E. Heidel1884-1886
    Rev. F. L. Mahle1886-1889
    Rev. C. F. Schlinger1889-1891
    Rev. Theopolilus Kies1891-1894
    Rev. H. F. Miller1894-1899
    Rev. S. Saegesser1899-1900
    It was during Rev. Saegesser’s ministry in 1900 that the annex to the church was built and rededicated. The deed given the trustees by Mr. and Mrs. Frederich Krughoff dated 1875 was recorded in December 1901 in Nashville.
    Rev. H. F. Miller1900-1903
    Rev. J. P. Hehner1903-1904
    Rev. F. D. Rademacher1904-1909
    Rev. F. H. Austermann1909-1913
    Rev. C. J. Lotz1913-1917
    Rev. E. Hemke1917-1921
    Rev. H. W. Brandt1921-1925
    Rev. Henry Idel1925-1929
    Rev. Henry Meyer1929-1931
    Rev. W. E. Browing1931-1931
    Rev. S. Albrecht1931-1936
    Rev. Albrecht was the first minister to serve the North Prairie congregation after the separation from Hoyleton.
    Rev. C. R. Buess1936-1940
    Rev. W. D. Richardson1940-1943
    Rev. Chas. Ellis1943-1944
    Rev. C. R. Yost1944-1945
    Rev. Ray E. Brown1945-1947
    Rev. Jerry Weiss1947-1948
    Rev. Melvin Byrd1948-1951
    Rev. Ray Porter1951-1952
    Rev. Wm. Suryear1953-1956
    Rev. Charles Hartman1956-1961
    Rev. Guy Watson1961-1966
    In 1951-1956 Hoyleton and North Prairie were one charge again.
    North Prairie was closed in 1966 and a shelter for the church bell was erected in the adjoining cemetery. The bell had been bought in August 1890 for some $180 by J. J. Huck and sisters and brothers as a memorial to their parents Mr. and Mrs. Louis Huck, Sr. One family member told me the church congregation had been advised that if they collected silver coins and other bits of metal and turned it in when the bell was ordered, it could be added to the metal used to make the bell and would in turn give it a better ringing quality. This person said the congregation gathered a collection of such from all its members and took it to St. Louis where the bell was made. It was picked up in St. Louis upon completion and brought back to North Prairie by oxen drawn wagon.

    In the early 1900s, probably 1903 or 1904, the congregation had approximately 160 members and the following brethren comprised the Administration Board of the Church. Finance Board included Fred Bartelsmeyer, Henry Dueker, L. Wehking, Fred Gerling, John Hake, and H. Peithman. Trustees were Louis Hake, Edward Krughoff, Fred Bartelsmeyer, Henry Dueker, A. Grote, Fr. Wacker, Wm. Huck, Chr. Stelzriede, H. Uphoff, L. Huck and E. Hake. The congregation had two Sunday schools which were attended by 125 children and there was a young people’s society with 58 members.
    The following are the names of those who entered the ministry from the North Prairie Church:
    Rev. Theodore Brink
    Rev. John J. Huck
    Rev. Karl Krughoff
    Rev. Elmer Wehking
    and we also find that a number of women from the church became ministers’ helpmates, and are as follows:
    Mr. F. D. Rademacher, nee Brink (Mary)
    Mrs. Theo. Ludwig, nee Brink (Minnie)
    Mrs. Gustav Brink, nee Brink (Bertha)
    Mrs. Carl Opp, nee Dueker (Agnes)
    Mrs. Richard Muelder, nee Huck (Esther)
    Mrs. Gail Hines, nee Huck (Helen)
    Mrs. Harold Dude, nee Kleeman (Clara)
    Mrs. William Hummel, nee Wehking (Carrie)
    The following were the current ministers and officers of the North Prairie Church in 1946:
    MinisterRev. Ray Brown
    Sunday School SuperintendentW. L. Dueker
    W. S. C. S. PresidentMrs. George Dueker
    Youth Fellowship PresidentMary Louise Dueker
    StewardsJulius Krughoff
    Charles Bartelsmeyer
    Julius Hake
    Oscar Kleeman
    Arthur Dueker
    Parsonage TrusteesAlbert Brink
    Oliver Huck
    Virgil Hoffman
    PianistsGladys Marie Hoffman
    Eunice Rixman
    TrusteesMartin Huck
    John Gerling
    Gilbert Hake
    Walter Hake
    Alfred Rixman
    UshersJohn Hoffman
    W. L. Dueker
    JanitorHenry Idel

    Most of the above information on the North Prairie Emmanuel Methodist Church was collected and written by H. L. Krughoff. In his closing words, he stated:

    “The zeal with which our forefathers worked should be an inspiration to all who read this and be inspired to greater courage and loyalty to the task of building God’s kingdom.
    We must confess that we very little realize the hardships
    that the founders of our church went through, and it behooves us to carry on this noble work as they would have us do.”

    The North Prairie Church was noted for musical talent. The original male quartet consisted of Louis Bartelsmeyer, Julius Hake, Elmer Hake and Edwin Huck. Other later members were Harvey Hake, Arthur and George Dueker and others from time to time. These men were in much demand for funerals, conferences and even political rallies. They were succeeded in later years by a men’s chorus. A concert band by H. F. W. Hake often furnished music for picnics and other programs. See Appendix 19 for a picture of the North Prairie Band.

    Of special note to the descendents of Charles L. C. Brink, Charles F. Brink, Raymond L. Brink, and Charles R. Brink is that all four generations have worked on the North Prairie Church. Charles L. C. built the original structure, Charles F. built on the annex, Raymond L. repaired and remodeled it, and Charles R. Brink with Brink and Jones Construction, using their crane removed the bell which is now in the monument they placed on the property. Then others in the community tore the rest of the building down. See appendix 20 for a picture of North Prairie Church, appendix 21 for a picture of the bell being removed, and appendix 22 for a picture of the monument.


    HUEGELY

    Huegely originally was located further south down the railroad tracks toward Nashville, Illinois. It consisted of only an elevator and a general store. Then the elevator and store were moved to the location where Huegely lies today. Huegely was mainly started by three Brink brothers: Charles F., Fred and Henry.
    Charles F., son of Charles L. C., married Emma Charlotte Finke. Their first home was an apartment above Brinks store in Huegely, Illinois. He owned the store in partnership with his brother Fred. See appendix 23 for a picture of the Brink Store. The general store was small but supplied all the needs including food, tools, clothes, etc. As money was not often available payment was made in farm products, garden vegetables, and eggs. As their family grew, Charles F. moved possibly in 1904 or 1905
    to the first house on the North side of the road as you come into Huegely from the West. It is not known if Charles F. built the home or if it was preowned. He began carpentering at this time. It is not known at what date he began moving houses. Appendix 24 shows his home in Huegely with his moving van in front of it. Appendix 25 shows a picture of the steam engine he used in moving buildings along with his moving van and wagons of supplies and tools, etc. Across the street from their home was a long building containing a blacksmith shop run by Henry and a carpenter shop on the other end run by Charles F. Above the two shops was a large room used for community gatherings.
    The second house to the east on the north side of the road was the home of Henry Brink. Later, the third home was that of Walter Dueker. Across the railroad tracks was the home of Elmer Hake. Across from Elmer Hake's and east of the mill was Rudy Lilenkamps home.
    The elevator consisted of one building that the surrounding farmers brought their wheat, corn, oats, and other grains to. Everything originally was handled in burlap sacks instead of bulk as today. It later became the first elevator in the area to have a grain dump which eliminated the use of sacks.
    West of the tracks beyond the elevator stood a creamery. At what year in history this began is unknown. They bought milk and stripped the cream. There were no inspections and several times a baby shoe would come in. People were to wash their own cans so the creamery workers would put the shoe back in the can. Yep, it came back the next time still in the can.
    Walter Dueker and Elmer Hake bought the Brink store. The date is unknown but was before 1920 when Charles F. moved to Nashville with his family. Walter and Elmer also ran the elevator which was put in by Huegley Elevator of Nashville, Illinois. Walter did this for years.
    Huegely was still pretty active in the early 1950’s due to a saw mill first owned by Ed Martin and later by his son-in-law Dale Hassell. But as the roads improved, travel by automobile improved, people began migrating to the larger towns for all their needs and leaving Huegely behind as it is today.

    See appendix 26 for a map of Brink holdings as of 1945, appendix 27 and 28 for copies of the Hoyleton, New Minden, Huegely, North Prairie area from the 1971 platbook of Hoyleton Township, Washington County, Illinois and the 1993 platbook of Hoyleton Township, Washington County, Illinois. Appendix 29 is a very early map (date unknown) showing many of the very early owned farms including Stutz Field from Charles L. C. Brink and the farm owned by Casper Finke, the father of Mrs. Charles F. Brink.

    ANNA married BRINCK JOHANN (ERNST) FRIEDERICH WILHELM on 10 Mar 1816 in Bergkirchen Parish, Westfalen, Prussen.. JOHANN (son of BRINCK FRIEDRICH WILHELM and KORFS ANNA MARIE ILSEBEIN (KARFS)) was born on 19 Oct 1788 in Eicksen #6, Rothenuffeln, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Prussen; Baptised 10/19/1788.; died on 20 Sep 1846 in North Prairie, Hoyleton Twp., Sec. 30, Washington Co., Illinois; was buried in Field to the east of the home.. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 6. BRINK CHRISTIAN ERNST HENRY WILLIAM  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 5 Feb 1818 in Eicksen # 6, Westfalen, Prussen.; died in 1873.
    2. 7. BRINK LOUISA  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1819 in Eicksen # 6, Westfalen, Prussen.; died in in Infancy; was buried in Germany.
    3. 8. BRINK WILLIAM (ERNST HEINRICH FRIEDRICH WILHELM)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 24 Jan 1820 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussen; Tombstone says 2/22/1820; died on 11 Jun 1889 in Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL..
    4. 9. BRINK CHRISTINE SOPHIE TESABEIN  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 10 Oct 1821 in Eicksen # 6, Westfalen, Prussen; dob may be 1823.; died in 1847 in New Minden, Illinois; was buried in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, New Minden, Illinois..
    5. 10. BRINK LOUISE (CAROLINE LOUISE JUSTINE)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Mar 1825 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussen.; died on 24 Jan 1904 in Beaucoup, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL..
    6. 11. BRINK FREDERICK (FREDERICH ERNST W. )  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Mar 1827 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussen; came to America September 22, 1844.; died on 8 May 1905 in Washington County, Illinois; was buried in Zion Evangelical Cemetery, Hoyleton, Illinois.
    7. 12. BRINK HENRY (ERNST HEINRICH)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Dec 1828 in Eicksen # 6, Westfalen, Prussen.; died on 2 Dec 1894 in New Minden, IL; was buried on 5 Dec 1894 in New Minden, IL.
    8. 13. BRINK CAROLINA (JUSTINE FRIEDERICKE KAROLINE)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 30 Apr 1830 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussen.; died on 19 Nov 1897 in North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL..
    9. 14. BRINK JOHN ERNST (EARNEST CHRISTIAN LUDWIG)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 4 Mar 1832 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussen.; died in 1860 in Washington County, Illinois; dod maybe 1859.
    10. 15. BRINK CHARLES L. C. (KARL FRIEDRICH LUDWIG)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 2 Feb 1835 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Preussen; tombstone has Feb. 12, 1835.; died on 7 Jan 1926 in His farm in Huegely, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL..

  2. 4.  MEYER CHRISTINE SOPHIE MARIE ELISABETH Descendancy chart to this point (2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 24 Oct 1801 in Rothenuffeln 1, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany; died on 30 Oct 1854 in Unterlubbe, No. 1, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany; was buried in Unterlubbe, Kries Minden, Westfalen, Germany.

    CHRISTINE married HUK COLON HEINRICH FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN on 24 Mar 1822 in Bergkirchen, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany. COLON (son of HUK JOHANN HEINRICH and RIEPE ANNE MARIE ELIZABETH (RIEPEN)) was born on 20 Oct 1804 in Unterlubbe, No. 1, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany; died on 24 Sep 1865 in Unterlubbe, No. 1, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany; was buried in Unterlubbe, Kries Minden, Westfalen, Germany. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 16. HUK HEINRICH FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 30 Sep 1824 in Unterlubbe, No. 1, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany; died on 29 Jun 1888 in Unterlubbe, No. 1, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany; was buried in Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany.
    2. 17. HUCK LUDWIG FRIEDRICH WILHELM (LOUIS)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 14 May 1827 in Unterlubbe, No. 1, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, Germany; died on 21 Jul 1885 in North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.

  3. 5.  MEIER SOPHIE LOUISE CAROLINE Descendancy chart to this point (2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 25 Dec 1803; died in Feb 1855 in dod may be 1853.

    SOPHIE married MEINERT FRIEDRICH WILHELM on 24 Mar 1822. FRIEDRICH was born on 11 Dec 1803; died on 15 Jul 1887. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 18. MEIER CAROLINE SOPHIE LOUISE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 9 May 1826 in Eicksen #1, Westfallen, Prussen.; died on 25 May 1865 in Eicksen #6, Westfallen, Prussen..


Generation: 4

  1. 6.  BRINK CHRISTIAN ERNST HENRY WILLIAM Descendancy chart to this point (3.ANNA3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 5 Feb 1818 in Eicksen # 6, Westfalen, Prussen.; died in 1873.

    CHRISTIAN married KRUGHOFF CHRISTENA. CHRISTENA (daughter of KRUGHOFF FREDERICK WILHELM (WILLIAM) HESEMAN and KRUGHOFF SOPHIE MARIE (MARY) ELIZABETH) was born on 22 Aug 1826; died in 1913. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 19. BRINK CHILD  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 20. BRINK MARTHA  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 21. BRINK LYDIA  Descendancy chart to this point
    4. 22. BRINK JULIUS  Descendancy chart to this point
    5. 23. BRINK CHILD  Descendancy chart to this point
    6. 24. BRINK ANNA MARIA  Descendancy chart to this point was born in in near Nashville, Washington Co., IL.; later of Moweaqua, IL.
    7. 25. BRINK MARTHA M.  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1852 in Nashville, Washington County, Illinois; died in 1914 in Marion County, Illinois (Blind at time of death); was buried in Salem Cemetery near Moweaqua, Illinois.
    8. 26. BRINK THEODORE F.  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Aug 1857 in North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; died on 17 May 1908 in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    9. 27. BRINK LOUIS  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1860.

  2. 7.  BRINK LOUISA Descendancy chart to this point (3.ANNA3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born in 1819 in Eicksen # 6, Westfalen, Prussen.; died in in Infancy; was buried in Germany.

  3. 8.  BRINK WILLIAM (ERNST HEINRICH FRIEDRICH WILHELM) Descendancy chart to this point (3.ANNA3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 24 Jan 1820 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussen; Tombstone says 2/22/1820; died on 11 Jun 1889 in Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL..

    WILLIAM married GERKEN MARY (MARIE) (MARIAGLE) WOEPKE on 25 Nov 1849. MARY was born on 25 Mar 1832; died on 31 Mar 1891 in Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL.. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 28. BRINK WILLIAM E.  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 Mar 1852 in Washington Co., Illinois; died on 24 May 1931 in Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    2. 29. BRINK CHARLES L. (CARL CHRIST LOUIS)  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1855; died in 1942 in Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    3. 30. BRINK HENRY J.  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Nov 1857 in Washington County, Illinois; died on 3 Apr 1925 in Home, Washington Co, Il.; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL..
    4. 31. BRINK JOHN  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 10 Oct 1860.
    5. 32. BRINK ANNA  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 30 Jul 1862; died in 1890 in Infancy; possibly buried 1890 in old Zion U. C. Cemetery near Hoyleton..
    6. 33. BRINK THEODORE F.  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 14 Oct 1864 in Tombstone says 1862; died in 1926 in Nashville, Illinois; was buried in Masoleum in Masonic Cemetery, Nashville, Washington County, Illinois.
    7. 34. BRINK AUGUST  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 3 Nov 1867; died on 11 May 1868 in Infancy; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    8. 35. BRINK JULIUS L.  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 10 Mar 1870; died on 25 Dec 1876 in Washington Co., Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.

  4. 9.  BRINK CHRISTINE SOPHIE TESABEIN Descendancy chart to this point (3.ANNA3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 10 Oct 1821 in Eicksen # 6, Westfalen, Prussen; dob may be 1823.; died in 1847 in New Minden, Illinois; was buried in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, New Minden, Illinois..

    Notes:

    St. John's Lutheran Church of New Minden, Illinois lists her name as Ilsabein rather than Tesabein.

    Burial records from St. John's Lutheran Church of New Minden, Washington County, Illinois show the following information:

    Christine Sophie Ilsabein Brink died of congestive intermittent fever February 11 at 8 p.m. at the age of 26 years, 2 months, and 1 day. Burial February 13 at 12 noon with a grave address. She was a Christian unmarried lady as long as she was known by others among us until her end. She experienced severe spiritual attacks before her end.

    She was the second person to be buried in their new cemetary in the year 1847. This cemetary is to the north of the church. There is no record of where they started burying the bodies and most of the stones have deteriorated and are no longer around. At that time there were no family plots. Bodies were buried in the order of death.

    Information was provided by LuAnn Sprehe, Secretary of St. John's, New Minden, on March 15, 1995.


  5. 10.  BRINK LOUISE (CAROLINE LOUISE JUSTINE) Descendancy chart to this point (3.ANNA3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 1 Mar 1825 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussen.; died on 24 Jan 1904 in Beaucoup, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL..

    Notes:

    According to obituary, came to America in 1845. Of 12 children, 7 sons and 3 daughters survived her death. Surviving children were Ted, Charles, Samuel, John, William and George Meyer of Nashville; Louis of Hoyleton; Mrs. George Lyons of Beaucoup; Mrs. Andrew Voelkel of New Memphis; Mrs. Louis Geyer of Belleville. Two brothers: ex-senator F. E. W. Brink and Charles Brink. 23 grandchildren.

    LOUISE married MEYER WILLIAM on 21 Jun 1846. WILLIAM was born on 27 Jan 1818 in Prussen.; died on 19 Jul 1898 in Beaucoup, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL.. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 36. MEYER LOUISE  Descendancy chart to this point died in in Infancy.
    2. 37. MEYER WILLIAM, JR.  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1849.
    3. 38. MEYER CAROLINE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 23 Sep 1851 in dob may be Oct. 2, 1851; Nashville, Illinois; died on 2 Dec 1917 in St. Clair County, Illinois; was buried in Walnut Hill Cemetery, Belleville, Illinois.
    4. 39. MEYER JOSEPH  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1853.
    5. 40. MEYER CHARLES H.  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1855.
    6. 41. MEYER JOHN  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1857.
    7. 42. MEYER SARAH JUNE  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1857.
    8. 43. MEYER EVA  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1862.
    9. 44. MEYER LOUIS  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1864.
    10. 45. MEYER THEODORE ADAM  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Sep 1864; died on 27 Aug 1946.
    11. 46. MEYER SAMUEL G.  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1867; died in 1911.
    12. 47. MEYER GEORGE  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1870.

  6. 11.  BRINK FREDERICK (FREDERICH ERNST W. ) Descendancy chart to this point (3.ANNA3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 17 Mar 1827 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussen; came to America September 22, 1844.; died on 8 May 1905 in Washington County, Illinois; was buried in Zion Evangelical Cemetery, Hoyleton, Illinois.

    Notes:

    Among the foreign born citizens of Washington County was Senator F. E. W. Brink, who was born on March 17, 1827 in Westphalia, a Province of Prussia. He left his native country at an early age and came to America, landing in Washington County September 22, 1844. His parents followed a year later. He went to New Orleans as a shipping clerk for 7 years and returned to Washington County on May 6, 1854 and married Carolina Hoffman who had also immigrated here from Prussia. They were the parents of ten children, namely: Fred Brink, Carolina Krueger, Louise Rolf, Mary Cohlmeyer, Henry Brink, Ann Cohlmeyer, Elizabeth Greiman, Rev. Edward Brink, and Flora Cohlmeyer. Frederich was involved in farming and stock-raising. They owned a farm in North Prairie, now owned by the Dueker family. In 1872 they moved to Hoyleton where he and William Weigel owned the Mill.

    In politics, he was a democrat. His first vote was cast for Lewis Cass in 1848. In 1874, the Repubican party nominated him for Representative in General Assembly, but he did not accept. In 1876 he was nominated for the office of State Senator on the Democratic ticket for the 42nd District. He accepted the nomination and was elected by a handsome majority. While a member of the 30th Legislature he was honored with the chairmanship of an important committee. In the 31st General Assembly, he was a member of the committee on State Charitable Institutions, the Agriculture Drainage, Miscellaneous and Manufacturing and Labor Committee. He and his wife were life-long members of the Hoyleton Zion Church, of which he was one of the founders.


    Newspaper article regarding the original Zion Evangelical Cemetery and Zion Evangelical Church in North Prairie - date of article unknown. (This cemetery is prior to North Prairie Methodist Church Cemetery).

    HOYLETON CHURCHMEN HONOR PIONEER DEAD by Grover Brinkman

    Back in 1861, a group of eighteen farmers met at the home of Frederick E. W. Brink in North Prairie to establish a new church. Eight acres of land was purchased from F. W. Krughoff for $12.50 per acre, and preliminary plans were made for the building program, which included a church, school, parsonage and "laying-off" a cemetery. Later that year, carpenter Henry Hake was given a contract to build a church 30 x 50 feet, 16 ft. high, with eight windows and a tower. He was to receive $217 for his labor.
    The day the tower of the new church was completed, a bad storm leveled the building. Undaunted, the members set about to rebuild the church, completed it in 1863.
    Back in those days, when the infant farm congregation was being organized, prices of commodities, compared with today, are little short of amazing. For instance, when the parsonage was ready for painting, the labor amounted to $15. Later a fence was built to enclose the property, each member being required to furnish ten fence posts or contribute a dime. On one occasion, the pastor was compelled to build his own chicken house. Another pastor, desiring a porch on the parsonage, added it himself.
    Today this pioneer church is gone, its members long ago having transferred to Hoyleton, but the old cemetery remains. And recently a cemetery committee composed of Rueben Westerfeld, Clarence Hake, Roland and William Beckemeyer, were appointed to restore the long-neglected burial ground, now a thicket of hedge and bramble, dug up by marmots. Many of the old stones were gone, broken or vandalized. So, for the record, a large central marker was erected, upon which are engraved the names of all who are buried here, 85 in number. The oldest grave is that of Marie Westerfeld, born in 1832.
    A new chain fence protects the site, which is southeast of New Minden and southwest of Hoyleton. Here is an example of pioneer cemetery restoration that is commendable. Washington County, like its sister counties in southern Illnois, has many of these old burial grounds, most of them completely neglected. Updating the same with a central marker, inscribed with all the names of those buried, seems a fine idea










    FREDERICK married HOFFMAN CAROLINE C. (MARIA) on 5 May 1854. CAROLINE (daughter of HOFFMAN UNKNOWN and UNKNOWN UNKNOWN) was born on 7 Jul 1834 in May have arrived New Orleans via ship President Schmidt in 1852.; died on 6 Jan 1909 in Washington County, Illinois; was buried in Zion Evangelical Cemetery, Hoyleton, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 48. BRINK FREDERICK (ERNST FREDERICK GUSTAV HENRY)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 13 Apr 1855; died on 20 Aug 1901 in Washington Co. Illinois; was buried in Zion U. C. Cemetery, Hoyleton, Washington Co., Illinois.
    2. 49. BRINK CAROLINA (LENA) (SOPHIE LOUISE CAROLINE)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 19 Jan 1857; died in 1937.
    3. 50. BRINK LOUISE F. C. (ELIZABETH)  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1858; died on 20 Feb 1950.
    4. 51. BRINK MARY (MARIA CHRISTINE FRIEDRIKE)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 23 Nov 1861 in North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; died on 1 Mar 1952 in Hoyleton, Washington Co., Illinois.
    5. 52. BRINK HENRY  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1863; died about 1867 in Infancy; was buried in Old Zion Evangelical Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    6. 53. BRINK ERNST HEINRICH FRIEDRICH WILHELM  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 Mar 1864; died in 1929.
    7. 54. BRINK ANNA WILHELMINE ELIZABETH  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 29 Dec 1868.
    8. 55. BRINK CAROLINE WILHELMINE ELIZABETH (LIZZIE)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 22 Apr 1871; died on 7 May 1871 in Infancy; was buried in Old Zion Evangelical Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois..
    9. 56. BRINK ELIZABETH (CAROLINE MARIA ELIZABETH)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 11 Dec 1873 in Hoyleton, Washington Co., Illinois; died on 11 May 1942 in Hoyleton, Washington Co., Illinois; was buried in Zion Evangelical UCC Cemetery, Hoyleton, Washington County, Illinois.
    10. 57. BRINK EDWARD  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1876.
    11. 58. BRINK FLORA (FLORA EMILIE LYDIA)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 30 Mar 1880 in Hoyleton, Washington Co., Illinois; died on 11 Sep 1952 in Greenville, Bond County, Illinois; was buried in Mt. Auburn Memorial Park, Greenville, Bond County, Illinois.

  7. 12.  BRINK HENRY (ERNST HEINRICH) Descendancy chart to this point (3.ANNA3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 25 Dec 1828 in Eicksen # 6, Westfalen, Prussen.; died on 2 Dec 1894 in New Minden, IL; was buried on 5 Dec 1894 in New Minden, IL.

    HENRY married WEIHE WILHEMINA on 16 Apr 1871. WILHEMINA (daughter of WEIHE UNKNOWN and UNKNOWN WILHELMINA) was born on 30 Dec 1840; died on 2 Jun 1891 in North Prairie, Hoyleton Township, Washington County, Illinois; was buried on 4 Jun 1891 in New Minden, IL. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 59. BRINK MINNIE  Descendancy chart to this point was born in in North Prairie, Washington County, illinois; was buried in New Minden, Washington County, Illinois.
    2. 60. BRINK WILLIAM  Descendancy chart to this point was born in in North Prairie, Washington County, illinois; was buried in Alton, Madison County, Illinois.
    3. 61. BRINK FRED  Descendancy chart to this point was born in in North Prairie, Washington County, illinois; died in in Infancy; was buried in New Minden, Washington County, Illinois.
    4. 62. BRINK LYDIA  Descendancy chart to this point was born in in North Prairie, Washington County, illinois.
    5. 63. BRINK JULIUS  Descendancy chart to this point was born in in North Prairie, Washington County, illinois; was buried in Cicero, Cook County, Illinois.
    6. 64. BRINK FREDERICK WILLIAM  Descendancy chart to this point died in 1963; was buried in Decatur, Macon County, Illinois.
    7. 65. BRINK HENRY ERNEST  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Oct 1874 in North Prairie, Washington County, illinois; died on 1 Sep 1968 in North Prairie, Washington County, illinois; was buried on 3 Sep 1968 in North Prairie, Washington County, illinois.
    8. 66. BRINK ARTHUR C.  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Sep 1890 in North Prairie, Washington County, illinois; died on 27 Jan 1975 in St. Louis City Hospital, St. Louis, MO; was buried on 29 Jan 1975 in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.

  8. 13.  BRINK CAROLINA (JUSTINE FRIEDERICKE KAROLINE) Descendancy chart to this point (3.ANNA3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 30 Apr 1830 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussen.; died on 19 Nov 1897 in North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL..

    CAROLINA married HOFFMAN EARNEST (ERNEST) HENRY on 10 Dec 1851. EARNEST (son of HOFFMAN UNKNOWN and UNKNOWN UNKNOWN) was born on 23 Nov 1827 in Westfalen, Prussen.; died on 5 Nov 1920 in Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL.. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 67. HOFFMAN FRED  Descendancy chart to this point died in in Infancy or childhood.
    2. 68. HOFFMAN FRED W.  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 69. HOFFMAN LOUIS P.  Descendancy chart to this point
    4. 70. HOFFMAN CHARLES A.  Descendancy chart to this point died in in Infancy or childhood.
    5. 71. HOFFMAN PHILIP G.  Descendancy chart to this point
    6. 72. HOFFMAN MARTHA  Descendancy chart to this point died in in Infancy or childhood.
    7. 73. HOFFMAN MARY M.  Descendancy chart to this point
    8. 74. HOFFMAN HENRY ERNEST  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 19 Aug 1853 in B. family home sw of Nashville, Illinois; died on 24 Apr 1922; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    9. 75. HOFFMAN CHRISTENA  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1859; died in Jul 1896 in Died of typhoid.
    10. 76. HOFFMANN JOHN  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1863; died in 1890; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.

  9. 14.  BRINK JOHN ERNST (EARNEST CHRISTIAN LUDWIG) Descendancy chart to this point (3.ANNA3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 4 Mar 1832 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Prussen.; died in 1860 in Washington County, Illinois; dod maybe 1859.

    JOHN married WOLFMAN ANNA MARY ELIZABETH (WULFMAN) on 28 Aug 1856 in Washington Co., Illinois; dom maybe September 25, 1856. ANNA (daughter of WOLFMAN JOHN T. OR L. and UNKNOWN MARY) was born on 23 May 1838; died on 2 Jul 1920 in Valley City, N.D. at age of 83 yrs.; was buried in Unmaked graves in Greenwood Cem., Nashville, IL on lot with oldest dau. Anna & John L. Meyer & other members of Meyer family.. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 77. BRINK JOHN FREDERICH WILLIAM (WILHELM)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Aug 1858 in New Minden, Washington County, Illinois; bapt. 5/30/58; dob maybe 4/4/1858; died on 23 Aug 1943 in Effingham Co., Il.; Buried Evan. Cem.,Bible Grove, Clay Co., Il; dod maybe 1942.
    2. 78. BRINK ANNA MARY LOUISE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Apr 1859 in Hoyleton, Washington Co., IL; died on 8 Jul 1860 in Hoyleton, Washington Co., IL.

  10. 15.  BRINK CHARLES L. C. (KARL FRIEDRICH LUDWIG) Descendancy chart to this point (3.ANNA3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 2 Feb 1835 in Eicksen #6, Westfalen, Preussen; tombstone has Feb. 12, 1835.; died on 7 Jan 1926 in His farm in Huegely, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL..

    Notes:

    Died, at his home near Huegely, Thursday, Jan. 7, 1926, at 5:15 p.m. One source states death date as June 17, 1926. This same source states birth as Feb. 12, 1835.

    Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, Jan. 11, at 1 p.m. at the family residence and at 1:30 p.m. in the North Prairie M. E. Church.
    His wife Martha preceded him in death. She was originally buried at the old Evangelical Cemetery in "Kleeman" field. She was moved to North Prairie Cemetery when her husband died. the children who died are still buried in the old cemetery in "Kleeman" field.


    BRINK REUNIONS FROM NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS

    The Brink Reunion (August 25, 1921)
    Ernst Fredrich William Brink and Anna Maria Dorothea Charlotta Ilsabein, nee Meyer, were both born in Eiksen, Westphalia, Germany in 1790 and 1798 respectively. In their native land they were united inmarriage and moved by the spirit that moved so many they migrated to this country in the year 1845 landing at New Orleans, after 75 days on the Ocean in a sailing vessel. Here they experienced some difficulties and hardships and novelties in a new country with a new language. From New Orleans they took the boat up the Mississippi River to Grand Tower, 25 miles south of Chester, Illinois. Here the Reiver became ice bound and they were detained some time. Under great difficulty anbd hardships they kept from freezing by housing the best they could in the boat and on the banks of the river in the snow. From this point they crossed over land by wagon to Washington County, Illinois arriving in the vicinity of Nashville on Christmas day 1845.
    However the change of climate seemed to have a very unfavorable effect upon their health, for within a year they both passed to the better world. Their remains are resting near the old home.
    The Brink Reunion was held under the trees on this old homestead, wehre Henry Brink now lives. It was a great day of joy and rejoicings, happy meetings and greetings making acquaintances of many relatives who had never met, happy associations and uniting hearts into closer fellowship and love and leaving pleasant memories lingering in the minds of all never be forgotton while life lasts.
    This union was blessed with 10 children, 8 of which survived the parents, two having died earlier in life: Christ, deceased in 1873, William in 1888, Louise in 1904, Fred in 1906, Henry in 1894, Caroline in 1897, John Ernst in 1860, Charles the only surviving member of the family has reached the age of 86 years.
    The union of William and Ilsabein Brink resulted as follows: 10 children, 67 grand children, 162 great grand children and 92 great great grand children making a total of 331. These are grouped under the following families:
    F. E. W. Brinnk 66, Louisa Brink Meyer 62,Christian Brink 44, carolina Brink Hoffman 43, William Brink 43, Charles Brink 31, Henry E. Brink 21, Ernst John Brink 21, A total 331. 58 of thsi number have died and gone on before. These families today are represented by 273 direct living descendants, while the makeup of the entire family including sons-in-law and daughters-in-law is 377.
    The total number present at the reunion was 194 (or more).
    The day was very happily and pleasantly spent, with plenty to satisfy the bodily needs. In making acquaintances and in associating with one another the time passed all too soon. All departing at the evening tide wishing that they could have such a reunion each year.

    Brink Family Reunion (August 7, 1932)
    Last Sunday, August 7, after the close of church services, instead of going to their homes, the various branches of the Brink family repaired to the City park at Hoyleton for a family reunion. Well-filled baskets were divested of their contents and a fine dinner enjoyed by 180 members. Two o'clock a divine service was conducted by the pastors present, Rev. Edw. Brink, Rev. Gus Brink, and Rev. F. J. Rolf. The remainder of the afternoon was spent in a social manner. Traditionally the Brink posterity meets every three years.
    The following were present: Rev. and Mrs. Edward Brink and daughter Marie of Weldon Springs, MO., Miss Rose Brink of Sedalia, Mo., Rev. and Mrs. F. J. Rolf, sons, Frederick and Robert, and daughter Helen of Rock Island, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burnett and daughter Dolores of East St. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Bride and children, Garda Jean and Gardner, Jr. of Harrisburg, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Friend and daughter Joan of O'Fallon, William and Miss Louise Brink of Huegely, Sam Meyer and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wisdom of Belleville, Mrs. Wm. C. Schnitker, A. C. Brink and Mr. and Mrs. Rudie Brink and daughter Betty of New Minden, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Brink and children, Kurt, Marie, Ruth, Carl, and Marvin of Decatur, Mr. and Mrs. Jul Brink, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Buchholz, Irvin Brink, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bruhn and son Julius and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Seyler and son of Centralia, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Greiman and son Kendreth of Hookdale, Mrs. Alvin Gilbert and daugher Kathryn of Cordes, Rev. and Mrs. Paul Brink and children, Eunice, Helen, Walter and James of Red Bud, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Gaebe and children, Betty and James of Addieville, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Brink and sons, Clarence, Wesley and Harold of Harvieel, MO., Dr. and Mrs. C. Allen Brink and sons, C. A. and Brice of Princeton, Indiana, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Brink and children, Virginia, Laverne and Lorente of Effingham, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hoffman, P. G. Hoffman and son Lawrence and Mr. and Mrs. McDonald and sons of Moweaqua, Mrs. C. A. Pruitt and son of Indianapolis, Indiana, Melvin and Irene Meyer and Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brink of St. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. Enno Karstens and son Wallace of Mascoutah, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Greiman and daughter Edna, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Greimann and sons, Alfred and Clifford, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cohlmeyer and daugher Minette, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Krughoff and daughers Frieda and Rose, Rev. and Mrs. Gus Brink and children David, Frederick, Mildred and Ruth, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rolf, Mrs. Frieda Grommet and daugher Louise, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Racherbaeumer and sons William and Milton, Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Brink and daughers, Winona and Minerva, Charles Brink and daughers Ida and Lydia, Mr. and Mrs. George Hoffman and daughers Leona and Clara, Amelia and Lydia Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. John Seyler and sons Noble and Niles, Alvin Hoffman and family and Louis Meyer, all of Hoyleton, Mr. and Mrs. Phil. Hoffman of Irvington, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brink and son Willard, Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Meyer and son Willard, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Kugler and son Kenneth Dean, George Lyons, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rumig and daughters Mildred and Ruth, Mrs. Henry Brink and daughter Miss Hannah, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Brink, son Venice and daugher, Miss Irma Finke, Mrs. Rolla Snyder and daugher Claudine, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Brink and son Raymond, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. J. Cohlmeyer, Mrs. Clara Rixman and son Harold and daughter Miss Rose, and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hohman and litle son Billy, all of Nashville.

    Brink Family Reunion Held at Hoyleton (Held approximately 1926 or 1927)
    The Brink family reunion was held at the Hoyleton park last Thursday. The first gathering of the family was held on Aug. 25, 1921, and the next one will be the first Sunday in August in 1932. There are now 449 living descendants, 25 deaths occurring in the past five years A collection was taken at the outing which netted $14.60, of which $10 was given the orphans home.
    The following were present: Fred Hoffman of Evansville, Ind., Louis Hoffman and family of Moweaqua, Wm. Rolf and family of Red Bud, Fred Brink and family of Decatur, Mrs. Rice, son and daughter of Madison, Wis., John Brink and family of Bible Grove, Fred Brink and family of Effingham, Gardner Bride and family of Harrisburg, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Friend of Columbia, Mo., Mrs. Flora Greiman and daughter and Rev. R. H. Mornhenweg of Hookdale, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Brink, Rev. and Mrs. Theo. Ludwig, P. Pruitt and family, Misses Lizzie Brink and Grace and Joy Tschudin of St. Louis, Arthur Burnett and family of East St. Louis, Rev. F. Rademacher of Nokomis, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bruhn and Julius and Wm. Bruhn of Wamac, Enno Karstens and family of Mascoutah, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fieker, Mrs. A. W. Pistorius and Miss Clara Fieker of Carlinville, Floyd Seyler and family of Centralia, Rudie Brink and family and Mrs. Minnie Schnitker of New Minden, Philip Hoffman and family of Irvington, Wm. Rolf and family, Louis Racherbaeumer and family, Mrs. Frieda Grommet and daughter Mrs. Ann Cohlmeyer, Paul Cohlmeyer and family, Chris Greiman and family, Fred Greiman and family, Albert Krughoff and family, Charles Brink and daughers, Mrs. John Seyler, Alvin Hoffman and family, Geo. Hoffman and family, Lawrence Hake and family, Wm. and Miss Louise Brink, Albert Brink and family, Misses Lydia and Amelia Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. John Hoffman and Waldo Brink of Hoyleton and vicinity, Mrs. Ted Gaebe and children of Addieville, Mrs. Henry Brink and daughter Miss Hannah, Mrs. Clara Rixman and daughter Miss Rose, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hohman, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Cohlmeyer, A. E. Gilbert and family, C. F. Brink and son, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brink and son, Mrs. Rolla Snyder, Mrs. Philip Rumig and Wm. Rumig and family of here.

    Brink Family Reunion (1936)
    The Brink family, descendants of Ernest and Anna Brink, celebrated their reunion at the Hoyleton Park Sunday afternoon. Everyone came with well-filled baskets and there was an abundance of free lemonatde and ice cream which was appreciated by everyone because of the warm weather. There was an interesting volunteer program. Each one of the eight branches of the family was supposed to contribute something to it. There were 156 present of the 465 descendants of Ernest Frederick and Ann Maria Brink, who emigrated from Germany 91 years ago and settled on the farm now owned and occupied by Waldo Brink and family. Waldo is a great-grand-son of Ernest and Anna Brink. It was decided to have another reunion three years from now.
    Those present of the eight branches of the family were: Christian, the first branch: Mr. and Mrs. Bruhn and son Julius of Centralia.
    The second branch, William: Mr. and Mrs. Julius Brink, Mrs. Lawence Brink and daughters Corneila and Betty Rose of Centralia, Charles Brink and daughters Ida and Lydia, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brink and children Williard and Beatrice, Mrs. Henry Brink and daughter Hannah of Nashville, Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Brink and daughters Winona and Minerva, and Rev. and Mrs. Gus Brink and daughters Ruth and Mildred.
    The third branch, Louisa Brink Meyer: Louis Meyer and son Lesile and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Meyer of Nashville.
    The fourth branch, Frederick: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Krughoff and Rose Leonard, Rev. and Mrs. Gus Brink and daughters Ruth and Mildred, Mrs. Lena Krueger of Scotts City, Mo., Mrs. Wm. Rolf, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Racherbaumer and son Milton, Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Gaebe and children Betty and James of Addeville, Mrs. Frieda Grommet and daughter Louise of Rock Island, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hohman and sons Billie and Rolf of Nashville, Mr. and Mrs. Enno Karstens of Mascoutah, Wallace Karstens of Ashley, Mr. and Mrs. George Cohlmeyer of Nashville, Mrs. Anna Cohlmeyer, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Gilbert and daugher Kathryn of Cordes, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cohlmeyer and daughter Mirretta, Mr. and Mrs. Christ Greiman and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Greiman and sons Cliford and Alfred and Mrs. Clara Rixman of Nashville.
    The fifth branch, Henry: Mrs. Minnie Schuitker of New Minden, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brink and son Venice of Nashville, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brink and children Kurt, Marie Ruth, Carl and Marvin of Decatur, Mrs. Rolla Snyder of Nashville and Arthur Brink.
    The sixth branch, Carolina Brink Hoffman: George Hoffman and daughters Leona and Clara, Lydia and Amelia Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. Philllip Hoffman of Irvington, Mr. and Mrs. John Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Hoffman, son Virgil and daughter Gladys, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hoffman of Moweaqua, Mr. and Mrs. John Seyler and sons Niles and Noble and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Seyler and son Jimmy of Centralia.
    The seventh branch, John Brink: Mr. and Mrs. John Brink, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brink, children Phyllis, Fay and Lorane of Winterrowd, Mr. and Mrs. Hy. Brink and children, Yvonne, Laverne, and Lorenta, Lloyd Brink and daugher Marta of Effingham, Mr. and Mrs. Edris Brink and children Joyce and Jean of St. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. Will Brink of Detroit, Michigan, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bennet of Cleveland, Ohio.
    The eighth branch, Charles: Mrs. Charles Brink and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Brink and daughter Wanda Lee of Nashville, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burnett and daughter Dolores, Mrs. Percy Friend of St. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Bride and children Garda Jean and Gardner of Harrisburg, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hake and children Kathryn, Frederic, and Lawrence of Centralia, Mr. F. D. Rademacher of Nokomis, Miss Elizabeth Brink of St. Louis, Louis and William Brink and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brandhorst and son and daughter Robert and Jean of St. Louis.

    CHARLES married KRUGHOFF MARTHA MARIE ELIZABETH on 29 Apr 1863 in Zion Evangelical Church, Washington Co., IL; dom may be 5/19/64; Carol Hotz states 5/24/64.. MARTHA (daughter of KRUGHOFF FREDERICK WILHELM (WILLIAM) HESEMAN and KRUGHOFF SOPHIE MARIE (MARY) ELIZABETH) was born on 10 Apr 1844; died on 24 Jan 1899 in Tombstone has Sept. 24, 1899; Carol Hotz states June 24, 1899/1900.; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington Co., IL.. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 79. BRINK MARY  Descendancy chart to this point died in in Infancy.
    2. 80. BRINK ERNEST HEINRICH FREDERICH WILHELM  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1864; died about 1864 in Infancy; was buried on 26 Dec 1864.
    3. 81. BRINK CHARLES F.  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Feb 1865 in Huegely, Illinois on family farm; died on 4 Apr 1933 in Nashville, Il.; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    4. 82. BRINK HENRY F. W.  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 3 Jul 1869 in Brink Farm, Huegely, North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; died on 18 Jul 1935 in Possibly Centralia, Illinois; was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Centralia, Illinois.
    5. 83. BRINK ANNA  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1870 in Huegely at Charles L. C. Brink farm.; died in 1870 in Huegely at Charles L. C. Brink farm; died at 2 days of age...
    6. 84. BRINK LYDIA  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1870 in Huegely at Charles L. C. Brink farm.; died in 1870 in Huegely at Charles L. C. Brink farm; died at 2 days of age..
    7. 85. BRINK FRED WILLIAM  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Apr 1871 in Brink Farm, Huegely, North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; died on 28 Feb 1947 in Hoyleton, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    8. 86. BRINK MARY E.  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 5 Feb 1873 in Brink Farm, Huegely, North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; died on 22 Sep 1948 in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    9. 87. BRINK CLARA  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 31 Mar 1875 in Huegely, Illinois home; died on 5 Apr 1913 in Delray, Florida; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    10. 88. BRINK MINNIE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Feb 1877 in Brink Farm, Huegely, North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; died in 1958 in Kansas City, Missouri; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    11. 89. BRINK ELIZABETH  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 Feb 1879 in Huegely, Illinois home; died on 29 Jan 1964 in Odin, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    12. 90. BRINK LOUISE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 5 Nov 1882 in Brink Farm, Huegely, North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; died on 10 Aug 1962 in Odin, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    13. 91. BRINK WILLIAM G.  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Nov 1885 in Family Farm, Huegely, North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; died on 20 Apr 1974 in Washington County Hospital, Nashville, Washington County, Illinois; was buried on 23 Apr 1974 in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.

  11. 16.  HUK HEINRICH FRIEDRICH CHRISTIAN Descendancy chart to this point (4.CHRISTINE3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 30 Sep 1824 in Unterlubbe, No. 1, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany; died on 29 Jun 1888 in Unterlubbe, No. 1, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany; was buried in Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany.

    HEINRICH married PEPER KAROLINE WILHELMINE on 16 Feb 1859 in Bergkirchen, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany;dom may be 2/16/1850. KAROLINE (daughter of PEPER HERMANN ERNST HEINRICH and RODEKOPF CAROLINE REGINE SOPHIE PEITHMANN OR) was born on 2 Feb 1833 in Unterlubbe No. 9, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany; died on 13 Jun 1894 in Unterlubbe, No. 1, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 92. HUCK CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH WILHELM  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 21 Apr 1867 in Unterlubbe, No. 1, Kreis Minden, Westfalen, Germany; died on 11 Oct 1941 in Ellis, Kansas.; was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Ellis, Kansas..

  12. 17.  HUCK LUDWIG FRIEDRICH WILHELM (LOUIS) Descendancy chart to this point (4.CHRISTINE3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 14 May 1827 in Unterlubbe, No. 1, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, Germany; died on 21 Jul 1885 in North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.

    Notes:

    Louise Peithmann (March 13, 1833 - May 27, 1873) was married March 3, 1849 to Louis Huck in Bergkirchen (Rothenuffeln) (May 14, 1827 - July 21, 1885). The second son of Colon (farmer) Heinrich Friedrich Christian Huck and Sophie Marie Elisabeth, Nee Meyer. An official entry in the church record-book a note is included to the effect that the newly married couple planned to emigrate to the U.S.A. The couple indicated that they would settle in Hoyleton Township (Washington County) in the State of Illinois. Here in the North Prairie they would devote themselves to farming. In 1853, they received a land-grant from the then, President Pierce. Up until 1880 they acquired additional acreage. They bought parcels of land of neighboring farms, as well as from the Railroad Association, the Illinois Central Railroad. The price per acre fluctuated somewhere between $4.00 per acre and $36.00 per acre. A portion of the money needed, the couple borrowed at a rate of 8-10% rate of interest. The couple had 9 children born to them in Hoyleton Township.

    When Louis Huck died in 1885, he owned approximately 600 acres. The farm was divided among 5 children: Louis, Henry, Elisabeth, John and Lydia. So that each inherited pproximately 120 acres. Two of those farms are today still in possession of descendents of Louis Huck and Louise nee Peithmann.

    Notes from a letter to Morris Huck from Lothar Teikemeyer of Bonn, Germany.

    The woman of Louis was a Peithmann-descendant. As this she comes froma double marriage between the families Peper and Peithmann. But the marrying Pepers had different mothers. My ancestor line is from the Peper-son, who was child of anna Marie Elisabeth Wiethop (1773 - 1806), the first husband of Johann Ernst Hermann Peper, Hilferdingsen 9 (1767 - 1844). Your line, by the Peper-daughter, is from Gesine (Christiane) Louise Siebe (or Sieben) (1780 - 1845), who was married by Peper in 1807. Probably this Siebe was a daughter of Johann Gottfried Siebe (1738 - ), auf Wentrups Hof, Uffeln 56 (Tothenuffeln), called 1768 "freier Burgshof", who married some daughters around that time to some farmers in the region. The mother was - only probably again - a Volckmann. There is more known about this Siebe and also about this Volckman, but I don't know, if this is really the father of your ancestor. The Wentrup Hof was a special farm house, it was not comparable to the other farms. Originally it was the home of the Vogt, an higher adminstrator, but this function was not relevant in the late 18th century. The marriages of the other Siebe-daughters were "rich marriages".
    J. E. H. Peper himself also have his riddles, as some data of this Ortssippenbuch contradict each other, So we don't know for sure, if his father was Johann Friedrich or Johann Hinrich Peper ( * 1745 - ), who was married to Ann Margaretha Peper "aus Eickhorst" (the name Peper for the woman is no error, it seems to be her birthname). Or, this contradicting data refer to two different persons, who both married a Peper-daugher "aus Eickhorst" in a common case of double marriage between Peper and Peper. About the parents of this Peper-daughters "aus Eickhorst" we don't know anything. Our ancestor Peper (Johann Hinrich or Johann Friedrich) was borne 1745 in Hilferdingsen 9 as it was the place of his son, and the son of this son, who became mine (not yours) ancestor. His father was Johann Hinrich Droste "auf Pepers Staette" (same address) (1692 - ) and Anna Margaretha Ilsabe Meyer (1712 - 1755). This Droste became heir of the Peper-household (probably in 1725, at the own marriage day), cause this marriage of an aunt with the original Peper-owner ended childless. Another son of this Droste married in 3rd marriage in the year 1800 Caroline Hohne, later woman of the invading Peithmann 1806 and therefore ancestor of our lines. At that time this son called himself Ober-Rodekopf, cause he had married before (1859) a daughter of this household (Oberster Rokop), which later became the Peithmann-household Unterlubbe 16 and was largely shown in the Peithmann-papers.
    A. M. I. Meyer was really 13 years old, when she married the 33 year old Droste. Her parents are Johan Meyer auf HInrichs Meyers Staette (1678 - 1744), Kohlte 4 (Unterlubbe), and Anna Maria Kottmeyer, 1687 - 1739, and she has a lot of other ancestors, for instance this Ernst Spilker, that I already told about, and a Hinrich and a Toennies Kottmeyer, who had the role of a "Amtsuntervogt", a sort of adminstrator under these farmers.
    From the Unterluebbe addresses, around 40 houses in 18th century, you find in the genealogy table the first 9 and some more, such indicating that our ancestors were "rich" farmers, who married their chldren with each other. Naturally some persons appear in double function in the genealogy table. This Ernst Spilker, I told about, is 4x my ancestor for instance, as 4 of his children did lead into my line.
    Actually there is one special interest of mine. One Spilker did come from America and married an aunt of mine (after the war). Later they divorced and he left again. His 2 sons, my cousins, did grow up in Rostock. Did you ever hear that a Spilker did leave Unterluebbe to go to America in the emigration time of your ancestors?

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    According to a transfer deed dated 11 Mar 1864, my great-grandfather, Louis
    Huck purchased a 40-acre tract of land (SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 32,
    Hoyleton Twp.) from Louis & Louise Wehking a few years after emigrating
    from Prussia (now part of Germany - around Minden in Westfalia). The Huck
    family still owns this land - indeed it was part of the farm upon which I
    grew up.
    As a child growing up in the late 1930's, I remember an elderly gentleman
    (also named Louis Wehking - probably a son of Louis and Louise). He was
    the official bell-ringer at North Prairie Methodist Church - more than
    likely given this job because his home was directly across the road from
    the church-yard, meaning he could be depended upon to ring the bell
    promptly and reliably in all kinds of weather and other emergencies. The
    North Prairie cemetery has several Wehking gravestones, from which one
    could reliably document birth and death dates.
    My 1973 Washington County Plat Book shows Waldo and Theodosia Wehking as
    owners of the 160 acre tract of land in Section 20, Hoyleton Twp - just
    northwest of the North Prairie Cemetery, formerly owned by the younger
    Louis Wehking. (Waldo Wehking was his son). Like many of my
    contemporaries, Waldo and Theodosia moved away from the North Prairie
    community to find employment elsewhere as consolidation of family farms
    continued following World War II.

    Morris G. Huck
    Champaign, IL

    LUDWIG married PEITHMANN KAROLINE LOUISE WILHELMINE on 22 Mar 1849 in Bergkirchen, Westphalia, Prussia; by Pastor Linkmeyer; date maybe Mar.3,1849. KAROLINE (daughter of PEITHMANN EBERHARD FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB (RODEKOPF) and PEPER MARIE LOUISE) was born on 13 Mar 1833 in #16 Unterluebbe; Kreisminden, Wesphalen (Westphalia), Prussia; died on 27 May 1873 in North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 93. HUCK FRIEDRICH WILHELM LUDWIG  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Mar 1852; died on 2 Oct 1853.
    2. 94. HUCK FRIEDRICH HENRY LOUIS (LOUIS JR.)  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 10 Jan 1855 in or 1853; farm in Hoyleton Twp., Washington County, Illinois; died on 3 Jun 1943; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    3. 95. HUCK JOHANNES HEINRICH  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 24 Feb 1857 in North Prairie, Washington County, Illinois; died on 1 Aug 1940 in Centralia, Marion County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    4. 96. HUCK MARIE ELIZABETH  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 8 Mar 1859 in Hoyleton, Washington County, Illinois; died on 30 May 1943; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    5. 97. HUCK JOHNANNES JOSEPH  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 13 Jun 1861 in North Prairie, near Hoyleton, Washington County, Illinois; died on 20 Sep 1943; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    6. 98. HUCK MARIA LOUISE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Nov 1863; died on 17 Jan 1865.
    7. 99. HUCK ANNA CAROLINA  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 11 Jan 1866 in Tombstone has June 11, 1867 or 1870; died on 23 Aug 1867; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.
    8. 100. HUCK ANNA MARIA LYDIA  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 18 Jun 1868 in Hoyleton, Washington County, Illinois; dob may be July rather than June; died on 31 Aug 1927 in Washington County, Illinois; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, near Hoyleton, Illinois.
    9. 101. HUCK EMMA MARTHA  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 8 Nov 1870; died on 31 Oct 1872; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois.

  13. 18.  MEIER CAROLINE SOPHIE LOUISE Descendancy chart to this point (5.SOPHIE3, 2.ZACHARIAS2, 1.JOHANN1) was born on 9 May 1826 in Eicksen #1, Westfallen, Prussen.; died on 25 May 1865 in Eicksen #6, Westfallen, Prussen..

    Notes:

    Through the years we heard stories that the person who bought the old Brink place in Germany was a niece to our great-great-grandmother Anna Maria Brink. We were never able to piece it all together until recently. Anna Maria's sister Sophie married a Frederick W. Meinert. Thus, Eicksen #1 became the Meinert home instead of the Meier home and is known as the Meinert home to this day. Their daughter Caroline married Karl E. F. Bokemeyer, and they purchased the old Brink home. Karl E. F. is the great-grandfather of Heinz Bokemeyer, the current owner of the home. Karl E. F. was the son of Frederick Wilhelm Bokemeyer and An. Mar. Elisab. Dreiss. So Brink relatives still own the old home place in Germany.
    See Chapter 1 for more information on the old Brink home.

    CAROLINE married BOKEMEYER KARL (CARL) ERNST FRIEDRICH on 18 Aug 1844 in Eicksen #6, Westfallen, Prussen.. KARL (son of BOKEMEYER FRIEDRICH WILHELM and DREES AN. MAR. ELISAB.) was born on 16 Feb 1815 in Rothenuffeln #43, Westfallen, Prussen.; died on 20 Apr 1892. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 102. BOKEMEYER LUISE  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 103. BOKEMEYER FRIEDRICH  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 9 Nov 1845 in Eicksen #6, Westfallen, Prussen..
    3. 104. BOKEMEYER CAROLINE  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 14 Jun 1853; died on 2 Jun 1931.
    4. 105. BOKEMEYER MARIE  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1858 in Eicksen #6, Westfallen, Prussen.; died on 16 Oct 1922.
    5. 106. BOKEMEYER KARL AUGUST HEINRICH FRIEDRICH WILHELM  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Dec 1859 in Eicksen #6, WestfalIen, Prussen; first name may be spelled Carl.; died on 1 Dec 1936 in Eicksen #6, Westfallen, Prussen..


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