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Individual Record for: Minnie Franzen (female)
Event |
Date |
Details |
Birth |
12 JUL 1878 |
Place: Ostfriesland
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Death |
19 JUL 1899 |
Place: Platte Center, Nebraska
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Attribute |
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Religion |
LU
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- Picture:
- Gravestone of Minnie Franzen
- Picture:
- Gravestone of Minnie and George son that died
- Notes:
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THE FRANZENS
Little is known about the FRANZEN line. Lümke Heyen Franzen was born to
Heye Franzen on May 28, 1848 in Jübberde, Ostfriesland, Germany.
Names of his mother and any siblings are not known. The church book for
Remels (where the family attended church) is awaiting publication. Those
records should provide much information on Lümke's family, and I have
requested to purchase the set of books when they are available.
Lümke married Seidemina Ubben (Brunken), the daughter of Ubbe Brunken
and Zeide (Müller) Ubben from Klein-Sander, on May 8, 1874 in Remels.
Lümke and Zeide were of the Lutheran faith. Three children were born to them
in Jübberde:
Heye Lümken, born February 19, 1876
Zeidemina (Minnie), born December 19, 1877
Ubbo (Otto) Lümken, born November 1, 1879
In 1881 the Franzen family left their home from Bremen on the ship
Hohenstaufen and arrived in New York on June 22, 1881.
They settled in Nokomis, Montgomery County, Illinois, and there, on
December 9, 1881, their son, Franz Lümken Franzen, was born.
Tragedy struck two years later on December 19, 1883, when Lümke died.
According to the Montgomery County, Illinois death register, his death was
caused by dropsy which he had had for one and a half years, complicated by
convulsions. Although we believe he is buried at St. Paul's Cemetery,
northwest of Nokomis, neither a headstone nor church records confirm that
belief. The death register simply states that he was buried at the "German
Lutheran Cem."
According to the Free Press-Gazette of Friday, December 28, 1883: "Died,
on Wednesday of last week, Luemke Franzen, a German farmer residing
west of Nokomis."
On October 2, 1885, Zeide married Henry VanHeuflen, and approximately
two to four years later, the family moved to Platte County, Nebraska.
Heye (Heie) Franzen married Bertha Schlueter on April 14, 1901, at Zion
Lutheran Church in Leigh, Nebraska. Their children were: Irene Wilhelmina (m.
Carl Hoveling); Minnie Katrina; Edward Henry (m. Leona Mae Linn); Herbert
Ludwig (m. Ella Louise Harms); Albert John (m. Hildegard Anna Wurdeman);
Esther Adele (m. Ernest Marty); and Elsie Lorinda (m. Norman Meyer). Heie
died at a nursing home in Columbus on April 14, 1958.
Leona Mae Linn, born January 22, 1911, was the daughter of Francis Oliver
Linn and Inez Zoe Albert. Known siblings are: John, Edward, Millie and
Clarence (Pat). It is believed that Inez remarried some time after the death of
Francis in 1917, as her headstone reads: Inez Z Powers (1881-1955).
Mina (Minnie) Franzen married George Frederich Hellbusch on February 22,
1898 in Platte County, Nebraska. She died July 19, 1899 following the birth
of an infant on March 8, 1899. The infant was either stillborn or died later that
day.
Ubbo (Otto) Franzen married Lena Daniels on April 25, 1905. To this union
five children were born: two sons, Arthur Louis (m. Elsie Ann Becher) and
Melvin Norris (m. Eunice Irene Hunteman); and three daughters, Elaine Helen
(m. Clarence Hellbusch); Leona Ruth (m. Edgar Becher); and Lydia Loraine
(m. R. W. Korte).
Franz (Frank) Franzen married Adelaid Marie Korfhage on February 24, 1920.
They were the parents of two sons: Harold L., who married Evelyn Baker,
and Lavern, who married Mary Ann Langevin.
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