My family lines: KNOPF, KUHL, LEGNER, ARMSTADT, HORN
Donald Knopf
The Meinard Johann
KUHL line
originated in Kreis Karthaus, West Prussia. Meinard Kuhl married
Charlotte
Ernestine Gust
about 1818. Their
oldest child
was Bertha b. 1 Sep 1820 in Langbusch, Kreis Karthaus d. 10 May 1916
Metz
[Presque Isle
County], Michigan. She
married
3 times. First, to Reinhard Roy who died before their first child,
LOUISE
ROY was born. Louise b. 21 March 1842 Kozitzkau Mühle, Kreis
Karthaus married WILHELM HARDIES b. 24 June
1948 in Barlomin, Kreis Neustadt,
West Prussia. Louise and Wilhelm homesteaded in Belknap Township
[Presque
Isle County], Michigan in 1869. Louise and Wilhelm Hardies came to
America
in 1866.
My KNOPF line
originates with
Charles S. Knopf [b. 15 Aug 1833 Schneidemuhl, Kreis Deutsch Krone,
West
Prussia- d. 4
April 1914 Rogers City
[Presque
Isle County], Michigan. He married Pauline Goltz [b. 24 Sep 1839
Klausdorf,
Kreis Deutsch
Krone, West Prussia -
d. 4
April 1901 Belknap Township [Presque Isle County], Michigan. Charles
and
Pauline came to
America in 1869 with
son,
1. Herman [b. 10 April 1865 Klausdorf - d. 17 Aug 1937 Rogers City,
MI],
who married Wilhelmine
Algenstadt in Belknap
and
2. Emilie [b.11 June 1868 Klausdorf - d. 29 March 1919 Belknap
Township,
MI], who married
Friedrich Flemming in
Belknap.
Charles and Pauline's other children were: 3. Carl [b. 20 Jan 1872
Detroit,
MI - d. 20 July 1873 Detroit], 4. Albertine [b. 10 June 1874 Belknap -
d. 17 Aug 1962 Jacksonville, FL. Albertine never married. 5. Anna [b.
28
April 1876 Belknap - d. 6 Dec 1954 Belknap], who married Charles Grulke
[25 Dec 1870 - 27 Oct 1943 Belknap]. 6. Auguste [b. 17 Aug 1878 Belknap
- d. 16 Aug 1933 New Baltimore [Macomb County], MI, who married Erwin
Wendler
[8 Nov 1870 Ira Township [St. Clair County], MI - 8 July 1945 New
Baltimore [Macomb County], MI. 7. Paul [b. 30 Sep 1880 Belknap - d. 14
Sep 1966 Rogers City, MI], who married Anna Hamann [b. 13 Sep 1886
Passewalk,
Kreis Brandenburg, Vorpommern, Prussia - d. 21 Aug 1965 Rogers City,
MI].
Bertha Kuhl's 2nd marriage was to Gotthilf Wetzel [1816 - 1859]. They
had
5 children: 1. Armeade Wetzel [b. 1843] who married Rudolph Friedrich
Hoeft
and remained in Rambow, Kreis Stolp, Pommern, Prussia. 2. Julianne
Wetzel
[b. 1846] who married Heinrich Friedrich Schahr and then Johann Schulz
and remained in Lupow, Kreis Stolp, Pommern, Prussia. 3. Emilie Wetzel
[b. 1854] who married Ernst KUNATH. They came to America in 1885 and
settled
in Alpena, MI until 1928 when they went to Cleveland, Ohio. 4. Eduard
Wetzel
[1856 - 1909] married Bertha Hingst [1861 - 1936] and came to America
in
1887 with daughter, Adelheide [b. 1883], who married Wilhelm Schultz.
Jr
[1876 - 1960] and son Paul [1886 - about 1888]] and settled in Metz
[Presque
Isle County], MI. 5. Johanna Wetzel [1858 - 1943] who married Albert
Legner
[1858 - 1932]. Johanna and Albert Legner came to America in 1881 with
Albert's
father, Theodor Franz Josef Legner [1818 - 1901]. They settled in
Alpena,
MI until 1897 when they bought land in Metz, MI.
My HORN line
originates with
Friedrich Christian Horn [b. 13 April 1816 Pommern - d. 14 June 1880
Rogers
Township
[Presque Isle County],
MI,
who married Wilhelmine Henriette Teßmair [b. 1823 Pommern - d. 20
April 1894 Rogers Township, MI. Their children were: 1. Bertha
who
married Carl Henry Armstadt and lived in Moltke Township [Presque Isle
County], MI; 2. Robert Julius who married Mathilde Wenzel and
lived
in Rogers City until 1890, then in Detroit, MI until 1901 when they
moved
to Solvay [Syracuse], New York; 3. Anna who married Frederick Reif and
lived in Detroit, MI; 4. Charles who married Bertha Quade and lived in
Rogers City, MI. The Friedrich Horn family came to America in 1865 from
Klötzin, Kreis Schivelbein, Hinterpommern, Prussia.
My ARMSTADT line
originate
with Carl Henry Armstadt b. 1 April 1838 Questin, Parish Alt
Bückow,
Kreis Bad Doberan,
Mecklenburg-Schwerin,
Vorpommern
d. 15 Dec 1892 Moltke Twp [Presque Isle County], Michigan; who married
Bertha Auguste Emilie Horn b. 24 December 1845 Klötzin, Kreis
Schivilbein,
Hinterpommern, Prussia d. 12 April 1917 Moltke Twp.
Their
children were: 1. Emma Armstadt b. 23 April 1868 Utica Station [Fraser,
MI today] m. Gustave Wenzel b. 24 June 1854 Neu Körtnitz, Kreis
Arnswalde,
Brandenburg, Prussia d. 14 Nov 1934 Rogers Township; - 9 children
and lived on the Wenzel Homestead in Rogers Township. 2.
Friedrich
Armstadt b. 13 Feb 1871 Utica Station, MI d. January 1937
Moltke
- never married and lived in Moltke Township. 3. Wilhelmine
Armstadt b. 19 Nov 1872 Crawford's Quarry [Rogers City today] d.
30 June 1946 Detroit m. Hermann Knopf . Lived on the Knopf Homestead in
Belknap; 5 children 4. Wilhelm Armstadt b. 15 Dec 1874
Moltke
Township d. 26 Jan 1961 Moltke Twp. m. Francis Ledt Schmidt - no
children and lived in Moltke Township. 5. Carl
Armstadt b. 10 June 1877 Moltke Twp. d. 1940 Moltke Twp -
never
married and lived in Moltke Township. 6. Anna
Armstadt
b. 19 March 1880 Moltke Twp d. 30 Dec 1919 Rogers Township
m. Louis Ristow b. 18 June 1873 Belknap Twp d. 10 May
1949 Rogers Township: - 6 children and lived in Rogers
Township.
7. Eduard Armstadt b. 14 Oct 1882 Moltke Twp d. 28 May 1926
Moltke m. Francis Ledt Schmidt b. 4 Oct 1886 Germany
d. 16 Feb 1964 Moltke; - no children and lived in Moltke
Township.
8. Otto Algenstedt b. 28 Jan 1892 Moltke Twp. d. 27 April
1977
Moltke Twp m. Marguerite Meden b. 28 Dec 1897
Moltke
d. 12 May 1980 Moltke; - 2 children and lived on the Armstadt Homestead
in Moltke Township.
Donald Knopf
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