Husband: Heinrich MAYER
Birthdate: 7 Jan 1839
Birthplace: Zeilhard, Hessen, Germany
Death date: 8 Nov 1920
Place of death: Charlestown, Redwood Co., MN
Father: Georg Heinrich Mayer II
Mother: Elisabetha Margaretha Klock

Marriage date: 22 Nov 1866
Marriage place: Lewiston, Winona Co., MN

Wife: Margaretha OEHLERS
Birthdate: 29 May 1844
Birthplace: Haresfeld, Ottensen, Hanover, Germany
Death date: 30 Jan 1919
Place of death: Charlestown, Redwood Co., MN
Father: Gerhard Oelers
Mother: Engel Hinrichs

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Henrietta Margaretha
Sex: F
Birthdate: 18 Sept 1867
Birthplace: Lewiston, Winona Co., MN
Death date: 3 Feb 1887
Place of death: Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co., MN
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: unmarried

Child No. 2: Elizabeth Engel
Sex: F
Birthdate: 8 May 1869
Birthplace: Lewiston, Winona Co., MN
Death date: 28 Feb 1932
Place of death: Charlestown, Redwood Co., MN
Marriage date: 11 Sept 1897
Marriage place: MN
Spouse's name: Henry W. Pape

Child No. 3: Margaretha Elizabetha
Sex: F
Birthdate: 22 Nov 1870
Birthplace: Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co., MN
Death date: unknown
Place of death: unknown
Marriage date: 16 Oct 1892
Marriage place: MN
Spouse's name: Carl Fredrich Otto Hensch

Child No. 4: George Gerd Henry
Sex: M
Birthdate: 25 Oct 1873
Birthplace: Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co., MN
Death date: 18 Feb 1932
Place of death: Sisseton, South Dakota
Marriage date: 25 Oct 1898
Marriage place: Blue Earth Co., MN
Spouse's name: Lydia Caroline Laube

Child No. 5: Henry John, Jr
Sex: M
Birthdate: 6 Aug 1875
Birthplace: Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co., MN
Death date: unknown
Place of death: Lamberton, Redwood Co., MN
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: Mary Rasmussen

Child No. 6: Maria Magdelena
Sex: F
Birthdate: 3 Apr 1877
Birthplace: Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co., MN
Death date: unknown
Place of death: unknown
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: unknown

Child No. 7: Anton Franklin
Sex: M
Birthdate: 24 Mar 1878
Birthplace: Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co., MN
Death date: Mar 1944
Place of death: Watertown, Jefferson Co., WI
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: Augusta Bertha Meyer

Child No. 8: Adolph Fredrich
Sex: M
Birthdate: 10 Sept 1880
Birthplace: Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co., MN
Death date: 28 Nov 1893
Place of death: Lake Crystal, Blue Earth Co., MN
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name:

Child No. 9: baby boy
Sex: M
Birthdate: 9 Jul 1882
Birthplace: Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co., MN
Death date: 9 Jul 1882
Place of death: Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co., MN
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name:

Child No. 10: baby girl
Sex: F
Birthdate: 6 Mar 1884
Birthplace: Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co., MN
Death date: 6 Mar 1884
Place of death: Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co., MN
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name:
 
 
Documentation:
* Mayer Family History by Esther Kernkamp;
* Obituaries: Sanborn Sentinel (11 Nov 1920); Sanborn Sentinel (6 Feb 1919); Lake Crystal Union (29 Nov 1893); Fergus Falls Daily Journal (Feb 1932).
* Cemetery Headstones.
* MN Death Records.

Notes:
1) Henrietta Margaretha Mayer died at age 20 from complications from chicken pox.
2) Adolph Fredrich Mayer died after drowning in Lake Crystal during a skating party.
* Both were buried near the garden on the family farm in Butternut Valley (on Lake Crystal), but their remains were buried together in the Lake Crystal cemetery when the farm was sold in 1961.