Notes:

Baptized April 19, 1955

FREDERICK married BECKMEYER SOPHIA M. A. (BOKEMEIER BOEKMEIER) on 20 Apr 1880. SOPHIA (daughter of BECKMEYER HEINRICH WILHELM BOKEMEIER (BOEKMEIER) and EICKMEYER ANNE MARIE KATHERINE SOPHIA) was born on 3 May 1860 in (dob may be March 5, 1860); died on 18 Jun 1934 in Washngton Co. Illinois; was buried in Zion U. C. Cemetery, Hoyleton, Washington Co., Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Millie was a good christian woman with a generous nature and she was well liked by everyone who knew her. She grew up on a farm and was teh only girl of four children. She attended elementary school at a one-room country school but attended the Evangelical school her eighth grade year when she was confirmed into the church.
She married Albert Krughoff and moved to the Kroghoff homeplace where the newly wedded couple shared the house with the older Krughoffs. Millie and Albert occupied the basement rooms and several rooms on the first floor of the house. At the death of the older Krughoffs, the couple continued to live in the house and raised their family there.
Millie had many activities to pass the day. She subscribed to the Chicago Tribune which was delivered by mail and the mail was usually delivered about 1:00 p.m. After reading the news, she enjoyed doing the crossword puzzle. She also played the piano and in later years she had an electric organ. She displayed a china dog collection on the radiator in the living room. Fred Hotz won a blue plastic dog at a picnic and gave it to her and she always kept it in the collection. She liked to listen to the radio soap opera's. Fred Hotz remembers three of her favorites were: Helen Trent, Our Gal Sunday, and Ma Perkins.
Millie liked to work outside in her garden and would rather be there than inside doing housework. She raised vegetables, strawberries, and flowers. She had a rock garden on the side of her house at one time. While she was outside she also took care of the chickens and gathered the eggs in her apron. She especially enjoyed the baby chicks.
Millie enjoyed needlework, especially crocheting. Many samples of her handiwork were found in her house. She also could sew her own clothing.
Often on Saturday she was found in the kitchen baking. In the winter she put the dough on the kitchen radiator to rise. She usually had fresh loaves of bread and coffee cake ready for family or company. She also enjoyed canning the fruits and vegetables from her garden.
On summer evenings after a hard day's work, she and Albert and any family or friends that were visiting gathered on the front porch. Here the family reminised about days gone by. It was their way of passing family history on to the younger oens.
On Sunday she and Albert attended Sunday School and church in Hoyleton at the Evangelical Church where she had gone all her life. She was also active in the Women's Fellowship, and the Adult Fellowship.
Millie corresponded with family left in Germany. During World War II when the family in Germany was in distress, Millie sent care packages to them. It was much appreciated by the German family.
Fred Hotz remembers Millie was always willing to let him build or repair things. He built a wren house when he was young and put a new ceiling in the hall when he was older. She always had praise when the job was finished.
By Carol Hotz in her book, Brink/Beckmeyer Family History 1999

MILLICENT married KRUGHOFF ALBERT CARL in 1905. ALBERT (son of KRUGHOFF FREDERICK JOHAN WILHELM and PEITHMANN FRIEDERIKE WILHELMINA CHRISTINE) was born on 6 Jul 1880; died on 14 Aug 1953; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

There is a copy of a newspaper clipping in the Brink unknown file that I believe is the wedding announcement of Gustav and Bertha Brink. It is written in German. wlg

FAREWELL SERVICE WELL ATTENDED
Sunday evening the largest gathering of people that has assembled at any local function for the past several months, was present in St. Paul's Evangelical Church to celebrate the farewell service given in honor of Monroe County's quota of the drafted army. Automobiles and conveyances of all kinds from all parts of the country were lined along our streets, but the attendance showed the extreme interest at heart which the entire population of the county has for those boys who have been called to defend "Old Glory".
A program, very fitting to an occasion of this kind, was carried out and due credit must be given Rev. C. F. Brink, the pastor, and Prof. C. Struckmeyer, organist, for their capability in arranging the affair. Rev. Brink's sermon, the songs by the choir and those by the congregation all conformed and tended to bring out the main subject of the evening, which was to trust not along in our physical and moral strength, but also in a spiritual strength, and to remember that without the help of the Almighty we can do nothing--with Him we can accomplish everything.
Rev. Brink's sermon must be lauded as it was an eloquent talk, short and to the point. He dealt with the human being glorying in his strength, and compared it with our soldier boys who now go forward to glory in theirs. He criticised those people who are going about and questioning the patriotism of the German-Americans. Who was it that helped our country gain its independence from England? Why, the good German-American populace, and as they fought and did their duty in those days, they will again help the Star Spangled Banner in this world war. Rev. Brink explained that he would not try to tell the young men of any military points, as that was the duty of others who are more disciplined in army tactics than he was: he warned them to trust always in the Almighty, and finally their reward will be reaped. He closed with a wish of godspeed to all the young men, and with hope that they will gain glory and honor by the side of the "Red, White and Blue."
The boys were presented with handsome covered programs as a remembrance of this parting occasion, the front page of which contained the picture of the church. They were bound together with red, white and blue ribbon, by the young ladies of the congregation.
The church choir rendered two appropriate songs during the evening's entertainment, and the members and their Instructor deserve credit for their efforts. Two songs by the congregation were also on the program. After the Lord's prayer, spoken in unison, and a blessing, the affair came to a close with the singing of the first verse of the national hymn, "America" by all present.

GUSTAV married BRINK BERTHA A. on 15 Jul 1915 in At Bride's Home. BERTHA (daughter of BRINK HENRY J. and HOFFMAN WILHELMINE (MINNIE) CATRIENE MARIA) was born in May 1887 in Washington County, Illinois; dob may be May 1886; died on 7 Dec 1964 in Washington Co., Il.; was buried in Zion Evangelical Cemetery, Hoyleton, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Paul was a minister in Redbud, Illinois at teh Evangelical Church (now The United Church of Christ). One Fourth of July his brother Gus's family came to visit. Paul and Gus filled wheat straws with gun powder adn shot them off like bottle rockets. One straw was crooked and it took a turn and went right through the neighbor ladies dress. She was not too happy!
by Carol Hotz in Brink/Beckmeyer Family History 1999

PAUL married MOLZ KATHARINA HEDWIG on 12 Jun 1917 in Wichita, Kansas. KATHARINA (daughter of MOLZ CHARLES and ACHENBACH ELISABETHA) was born on 1 Dec 1894 in Kiowa, Kansas; died on 28 Jul 1973 in Hardtner, Kansas. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

When Leonard was a young boy his father died. His mother eventually remarried and the new family moved to Missouri. Leonard had many sep-brothers and sisters. Life was not so happy and when it was time for him to be confirmed he moved back to Hoyleton to live with his sister Millie and her husband Albert. Shortly after Rudie came to live with them too. Leonard was a prankster and loved to tease Frieda, Millie's daughter, when she was growing up. Leonard attended prep school and college in Elmhurst, Illinois.
As an adult Leonard was a band and music teacher in Okawville, Illinois. He wrote and arranged music for the many musicals he produced.
Leonard was good at woodworking and had a shop with a lathe and other necessary tools in a building next to his home in New Minden, Illinois. He built a tall grandfather clock for his yard. He also built a reed organ and he used a vacuum, cleaner to blow air into it so he would not have to pump it with his foot.
He was also an avid painter. He liked working with oil paintings and had many samples of his work hanging in his home.
by Carol Hotz in Brink/Beckmeyer Family History 1999
Grave at North Prairie Cemetery: Footstone - GHS-Mus US Army WW1

LEONARD married GLEIBER FRIEDA. FRIEDA was born in in Possibly Waterloo, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

LEONARD married HAKE ALBERTA F. on 12 May 1939 in Red Bud, Illinois. ALBERTA (daughter of HAKE J. A. FRANK and KRUGHOFF LYDIA MARTHA) was born on 20 Sep 1904 in Hoyleton Twp., Washington County, Illinois; died on 18 Jun 2002; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

My father, Rudie, was born 21 Aug 1900 at the home of his parents. The date is not sure since the birth certificate was not filed properly. His father died when Rudie was about two years of age. His father's death may have been related to a fall in a barn because he had severe head pains for years after the fall. Rudie's mother Sophie was allowed to stay on the farm and did for a while. As the boys grew up they chose not to farm. Sophie met a man, formerly from Hoyleton, who courted her. After their marriage the family moved to Scott City, MO (near Lebanon). Once there Sophie took care of her two youngest boys, Leonard and Rudie and also her new husband's family. By this time Millie and Paul were married and stayed in Hoyleton. The boys lived with their mother in Missouri for a while but first Leonard moved back to Hoyleton to stay with Millie and her husband Albert Krughoff. Shortly after, when he was 13, Rudie moved to Millie's home too. They both liked Millie and Albert Krughoff's home. Albert was more than a father figure to Rudie; He was father--and Albert never complained.
My father met Emilie at church. They married and 1928 I came. We were on a farm near Hoyleton. Dad did some farming in summer and taught country school. It was depression time.
All the boys had been to Elmhurst. It was runby the Evangelical Church (now UCC) and was an inexpensive place to go to be educated. My father was a night time worker at the Chicago Tribune and also had other jobs while in school. I don't believe Sophie helped any money wise. She died when I was eight. She had cancer and the operation in those days was very crude. Sophie had a few of her things left--so--Paul and Rudie went to have things settled. They filled their car with trinkets and quilts and came home. I'm sure she was brought back to a grave in Hoyleton to be buried with her first husband. We never saw mauch of the step-family she raised in Missouri. I alwayhs had a feeling the step-brothers weren't members of the "good-guys club".
Music ruled the Brinks; all the boys played instruments and Millie loved to play the piano and organ. My father had the Venedy Band, New Minden Band, Nashville Band and other school bands such as Hoyleton. He also had a drum and bugle corp for Nashville.
He was an avid collector of Indian relics. He hunted many in the area of Hoyleton and New Minden. Kent, my oldest son, now has his large collection.
The house he bought in New Minden gave him the privilege of planting all kinds of shrubs, trees and a large vegetable and flower garden. He spent many hours in the garden.
Dad's leaving us in 1976 left mother in a town where she needed transportation and she couldn't drive a car. She came to live with my family in Columbia, Illinois in July 1976 and departed her life at the Waterloo Nursing Home on 17 Jan 1991. She had been there only 12 weeks.
by daughter, Betty Brink as found in
Brink/Beckmeyer Family History 1999

CHARLES married WEHKING EMILIE. EMILIE was born in 1903; died on 17 Jan 1981. [Group Sheet]

FRIEDA married HOTZ EMIL F.. EMIL was born on 8 May 1907; died on 28 Apr 1966; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

ROSE married WACKER WALDO O.. WALDO (son of WACKER FREDERICK WILLIAM and GARNHOLZ ANNA E.) was born on 18 Oct 1908; died on 28 Apr 1991; was buried in North Prairie Cemetery, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Engagement announcement in Centralia Sentinel.
Rev. and Mrs. G. F. Brink of Hoyleton announce the betrothal of daughter, Ruth, to Mr. Gerald R. Thorp, who is the son of Rev. and R. L. Thorp of Centralia.
In 1935 Miss Ruth Brink was graduated from Centralia Township School where she was May Queen attendant her junior and senior years. Since then she has been in radio work in St. Louis Stations KWK and __________. She has also been engaged in commercial photography. She attended the Nashville High School during the time her parents resided there.
Mr. Thorp was graduated from Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa in 1936. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and ________ Delta Chi, professional fraternity. He is now City Editor of the Centralia Evening Sentinel, accepting the position in July following his graduation from college.
A late fall wedding is planned.

RUTH married THORP GERALD R. on 8 Nov 1938 in Hoyleton, Illinois. GERALD was born in 1914; died on 22 Nov 1966 in Centralia, Illinois; was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Centralia, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Living married LONG G.O. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Professor, Columbia, S. C.; attended Washington University; Doctor's degree from S. I. U., Edwardsville. Bachelor - never married.
Hoffman book states birth as January 1922.

Notes:

Graduate of McKendree College, Lebanon, Illinois. Works as a Computer Maintenance Man. No children.

DAVID married COLLINS JACQUELINE on 29 Aug 1949 in Date May be August 20, 1949. [Group Sheet]

HELEN married HALLACK BERNARD FRANK on 12 Jun 1943. BERNARD (son of HALLACK NEIL LUCIUS and HORTON JESSE) was born on 4 Apr 1916; died on 23 Jun 1994. [Group Sheet]

WALTER married SCHENCK MILDRED. [Group Sheet]

WALTER married Living (daughter of HOOVER BOBS ATKINSIN and HALLMAN MARGIE) [Group Sheet]

Living married Living (daughter of PIETSCHMAN ALBERT and GROESCHEL ELEANOR) [Group Sheet]

Living married MANN K.C. (son of MANN CHARLES and MANN EMMA) [Group Sheet]

Living married POE C.. [Group Sheet]

Living married UNKNOWN N.. [Group Sheet]

Living married STANLEY G.. [Group Sheet]

Living married DENBO J.. [Group Sheet]

Living married GRAEF R.. [Group Sheet]

Living married CULLER J.C., III. [Group Sheet]

Living married FRANCIS L.. [Group Sheet]

Living married Living (daughter of HIPPI EWALD and BERGER RUTH) [Group Sheet]

TERI married Living (son of MELLO JOSEPH and LAWRENCE ELEANOR) [Group Sheet]

Living married Living (son of KELLY RUFUS SOLOMON and CROW ARDYCE) [Group Sheet]

Living married ROTH D.. [Group Sheet]

Living married SCHATZ W. [Group Sheet]

Living married BARTELS D.. [Group Sheet]

Living married Living (son of SPLITTER WALTER and UNKNOWN EVA) [Group Sheet]

Living married Living (daughter of HOUTZEEL ALEXANDER and FROELICH HELGARD) [Group Sheet]

Living married STERLING J. (daughter of STERLING HAROLD and UNKNOWN NONA) [Group Sheet]

Living married THOMPSON S.J. (daughter of THOMPSON FRED and ACRE NELL) [Group Sheet]

Living married Living (son of GENTRY VIRGIL and CARR JEAN) [Group Sheet]

Living married Living (son of LESTER WARREN HAROLD and BRADLEY JOAN VIRGINIA) [Group Sheet]

Living married Living [Group Sheet]

Living married Living [Group Sheet]