Missouri Family Group Sheet for the Heinrich "Christian" AMELUNKE Family

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Submitted by: Marcine Lohman
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Husband: Heinrich "Christian" AMELUNKE
Birthdate: 18 Sep 1796 (1)
Birthplace: Klein Rhüden (Seesen), Neidersachsen, Braunschweig, Germany (1)
Death date: Between 1852 - 1853 (2)
Place of death: Gordonville, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri (2)
Father: Johann Heinrich AMELUNKE (1)
Mother: Juliane PAGES (1)

Marriage date: 11 Nov 1823 (1)
Marriage place: Seesen-Rhüden, Braunschweig, Germany

Wife: Johanne Marie Friederike KLUSMANN (1)
Birthdate: 04 Mar 1800 (1)
Birthplace: Klein Rhüden (Seesen), Neidersachsen, Braunschweig, Germany (1)
Death date: Between 1860 - 1870 (3)
Place of death: Gordonville, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
Father: Christian KLUßMANN (1)
Mother: Marie Katharine HABEKOST (1)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Johanne Christine Wilhelmine AMELUNKE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 06 Aug 1824 (1)
Birthplace: Seesen-Rhüden, Braunschweig, Germany
Death date: 20 Nov 1842 (1)
Place of death: Seesen-Rhüden, Braunschweig, Germany
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Child No. 2: Johanne Sophie "Conradine" AMELUNGK
Sex: F
Birthdate: 27 Feb 1827 (1)
Birthplace: Seesen-Rhüden, Braunschweig, Germany
Death date: 04 Sep 1883 (4)
Place of death: Gordonville, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
Marriage date: 02 Mar 1848 (5)
Marriage place: Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
Spouse's name: Andreas (Andrew) SUEDEKUM

Child No. 3: Caroline Luise AMELUNKE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 04 Aug 1829 (1)
Birthplace: Seesen-Rhüden, Braunschweig, Germany
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Child No. 4: Johann Heinrich "Christian" AMELUNG
Sex: M
Birthdate: 26 Sep 1832 (1)
Birthplace: Klein Rhüden (Seesen), Neidersachsen, Braunschweig, Germany
Death date: 06 Aug 1903 (6)
Place of death: Pilot Knob, Iron County, Missouri
Marriage date: 05 Jan 1854 (7)
Marriage place: St. Francois County, Missouri
Spouse's name: Johanna Marie Magdalene BODENSTEIN

Child No. 5: Johann Heinrich AMELUNKE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 25 Nov 1835 (1)
Birthplace: Klein Rhüden (Seesen), Neidersachsen, Braunschweig, Germany
Death date: 26 Jul 1836 (1)
Place of death: Klein Rhüden (Seesen), Neidersachsen, Braunschweig, Germany
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Child No. 6: Johann "Heinrich" AMELUNGE
Sex: M
Birthdate: 08 Jun 1837 (1)
Birthplace: Klein Rhüden (Seesen), Neidersachsen, Braunschweig, Germany
Death date: 26 Jul 1903 (8)
Place of death: Gordonville, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
Marriage date: 15 Jun 1871 (9)
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: (1) Johanna OVERFERT, 1855; (2) Catherine SCHMIE 15 Jun 1871; (3)
Rosine SCHWEER 1871-1877

Child No. 7: Johanne Christine Juliane AMELUNKE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 18 Nov 1839 (1)
Birthplace: Klein Rhüden (Seesen), Neidersachsen, Braunschweig, Germany
Death date: 19 Jan 1841 (1)
Place of death: Klein Rhüden (Seesen), Neidersachsen, Braunschweig, Germany
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Child No. 8: Johanna S. W. AMELUNKE
Sex: F
Birthdate: 17 Feb 1842 (1)
Birthplace: Klein Rhüden (Seesen), Neidersachsen, Braunschweig, Germany
Death date: 11 Feb 1884 (10)
Place of death: Gordonville, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
Marriage date: 03 Feb 1865 (11)
Marriage place: Cape Girardeau County, Misssouri
Spouse's name: Benedict WALPERSWILLER, Sr.

Child No. 9: Andreas "Wilhelm" AMELUNCK
Sex: M
Birthdate: 14 Jan 1846 (1)
Birthplace: Klein Rhüden (Seesen), Neidersachsen, Braunschweig, Germany
Death date: After 1860
Place of death: unknown
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Documentation:
(1) Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde St. Martini Rhüden, Pfarrstr. 7, 38723 Seesen-Rhüden, Germany. Birth and Baptism records.
(2) Cape Girardeau Genealogy Society, 204 South Union Avenue, P. O. Box 389, Jackson, MO 63755. "Date of Death: Sometime between February 13, 1852 to March 13, 1853. Rev. Umbeck book indicates that under entry 36, dated February 13, 1852, that Johanna Maria Amelunke geb. Clausmann is not a widow, however in entry 76, dated March 13, 1853, it does. Wittwe means widow." Settlement of Will: Cape Girardeau County, Box 14, No. 283. Sale of Real Estate in obedience to an order of the court on August 18, 1857 of said deceased. Dated 1859. (Sold property on the Courthouse steps to pay debts.)
(3) Listed on 1860 Cape Girardeau County Census. No longer shows up on 1870 or later census records. Lived with son, Henry Amelunke.
(4) Zion Lutheran Church and Cemetery, Route 3, Box 43, Gordonville, MO 63752. "Death Record: Zion Lutheran Church, Gordonville, Missouri,. The dates in the church records are Conradina died September 4, 1883, Andrew died February 26, 1885. Previous dates taken from tombstones and other records have been - Conradina died October 4, 1883 and April 4, 1883, Andrew died September 26, 1885. I am using the church records as the correct date."
(5) Cape Girardeau County Courthouse, P. O. Box 1248, Jackson, MO 63755. "Marriage Record: Andrew Sidikum and Conradina Amelung, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Marriage Book B, Page 236, By Item 111, dated March 2, 1848 by Reverend Charles Kobler."
(6) Iron County Register Newspaper (on microfilm at the MO State Historical Society, Columbia, Missouri. "Newspaper Article, Christian Amelung Obituary: Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, August 13, 1903, Volume XXXVII, Number 8, Page 8, Column 2, Paragraph 19."
(7) St. Francois County Courthouse, Farmington, MO 63640. "Marriage Record: St. Francois County Marriage Records, Christian Armalunke to Johanne Bodensein, Marriage Book B, Page 24, by Item #147. (All Bodenstein's married in St. Francois County)."
(8) Zion Lutheran Church and Cemetery, Route 3, Box 43, Gordonville, MO 63752, Tombstone: Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Gordonville, Missouri, Johann Heinrich Amelunge, Born November 15, 1835, Died July 26, 1903.
(9) Cape Girardeau County Courthouse, P. O. Box 1248, Jackson, MO 63755, Marriage Record: Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Hy. Amelunke to Catherine Schmie, June 15, 1871. This cannot be Heinrich Andreas Amelunke as he is still married to Karoline Krieger (as of November 1865) who did not die until 1881.
(10) Zion Lutheran Church and Cemetery, Route 3, Box 43, Gordonville, MO 63752, Died February 11, 1884, buried February 13, 1884. I could not find Johanna's tombstone in the Zion Cemetery, but she may have been buried at home which was the custom back then. They lived just across the street from the Amelung farm.
(11) Cape Girardeau County Courthouse, P. O. Box 1248, Jackson, MO 63755, Marriage Record: Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Marriage Book C, Page 355, February 3, 1865.
(12) Andreas "Wilhelm" Amelunck shows up on 1860 Census; does not on 1870 census. I have not found him anywhere else.