1. | Casper Heinrich Engelbrecht was born on 03 Jan 1828 in Jöllenbeck, Regierungsbezirk Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; was christened on 6 Jan 1828 in Jöllenbeck, Regierungsbezirk Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (son of Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Engelbrecht and Anne Margrethe Elisabeth Seving); died on 04 Jan 1877 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Zoar Cemetery, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- familyserch.org ID: 2YGB-FR7
- Naturalization: 1862, , Gasconade County, Missouri, USA
- Created: 08 May 2015
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HISTORY OF THE CASPER ENGELBRECHT FAMILY
Casper Engelbrecht b: Dec. 6, 1828 d: Jan. 4, 1877 married on 25 Aug 1854 in St. Louis: Anna Marie Schlomann b: May 21, 1834 d: Jan. 6, 1877.
Casper Engelbrecht was born in Minden Prussia, Germany on December 6, 1828. He came to America to St. Louis in 1852 at the age of 24 years. He was married in his native land, but his bride died shortly after they arrived in St. Louis.
On the same ship from Germany came also many others including Anna Marie Schlomann and her parents and brother. She also came from the same locality in Germany and they were married in St. Louis in 1854. They moved to near Drake, Mo. known as the Henry Jungblute place.
Casper Engelbrecht and wife were farmers and joined the Zoar Methodist Church in 1860 which was then located about 2 miles west of Drake. They stayed faithful members of his church until their death. Casper Engelbrecht died at the age of 49 years and his wife Anna died the day of his burial at the age of 42 years. Baby Marie was born the same day. The eleven children were orphaned and were all separated each going to some relative and friends except Minnie who was married at the time.
They were blessed with 12 children. Two died in infancy.
The first—Minnie b. Nov. 15, 1855
Married Henry Berger and 7 children were born—Henry, Emma, Albert, Clara, Otto, and Elmer. Lived near Union, MO and were farmers.
The second—Henry b: Oct. 9, 1857 d: 1918
Married Minnie Kemper and 5 children were born—Edward, Henry Jr., Emma, Anna, and Ida. Were farmers. They lived north of Rosebud.
The third—Anna b: July 13, 1859 d: 1925
Married August Witte and 5 children were born—Otto, Elizabeth, Ida, Emil, and Ben. Lived at Wittenberg and were farmers
The fourth—William b: June 22, 1861
Married Caroline Pohlmann and no children were born. Lived at Wittenberg, was a farmer and a carpenter.
The fifth—Emma_ b: May 10, 1863 d. 7 Mar 1941
Married Rev. Johann Oswald Jacob 1885 (Methodist) and 2 children were born—Amelia and Elmer.
Rev. Jacob died 8 Oct. 1887 (age 29) and Emma married Kasper Henry Schaper and 5 children were born—Anna, George, Emma, Marie, and Esther. They farmed at Wright City, MO. Buried Zoar Cemetery near Troy, MO.
The sixth—Louise b: Aug. 20, 1865 d: Feb. 17, 1873 (Died age 7)
The seventh—John b: Aug. 27, 1867 d: Mar 15, 1945
Married Anna Hilkerbaumer and 7 children were born—Alvina, Elmer, Theodore, Florence, Erwin, Laura, and Hilda. -He was a Doctor of Medicine, lived at Berger and Stonyhill, MO.
The eighth—Ernst b: Feb. 23, 1869 d: 1928
Married Amanda Boeger and 7 children were born—Hulda, Hedwig, Milton, Stella, Waldo, Daniel, and Ruben. He was in partnership with his father-in-law Simon Boeger at the Bay Mercantile Store. Later he was a cashier at the State Bank of Bay.
The ninth—Joseph b: March 7, 1871 d: April 16, 1943
Married Anna Biermann and 11 children were born—Rev. Arthur, Paul, Joseph, Eleanor (died in infancy), Ella, Anna, Walter, Wilbert, Gerhardt, Helen, and Raymond. He was a farmer, 4 miles north of Rosebud. In 1922 after the death of his wife, he moved to Bay, Mo. and owned and operated the Bay Flour Mill. Later he married Charlotte Brink Kemper who was raising a foster daughter Johanna Stoer.
The tenth—Gustav b: March 3, 1873 d: April 1, 1960
Married Florentine Austermann and 5 children were born—Dorothy, George, Agnes, Gilbert, and Winnifred. They moved to Nebraska and were farmers.
The eleventh—Sophia b: May 23, 1875 d: July 11, 1966
married Henry Oberg and 5 children were born—Ida, Walter, Alvin, Minnie, and Viola. He was a schoolteacher, later partner in Bay Mercantile Co. and was Postmaster of Bay, Mo.
The twelfth—Marie b: Jan. 6, 1877 d: March 20, 1877 (2 mo. old)
Husband of Anna Maria Engelbrecht. One grave stone.
Wife Anna died 2 days after Casper, she was pregnant at the time and daughter Maria Lydia was born that day. Maria Lydia only lived until Mar 30.
Daughter Louisa died at age of 7 in 1873.
Marriage to Anna Marie Schlomann
25 Aug 1854
Age: 25
St Louis, MO, USA
1860
Age: 32
Boeuf, Gasconade, Missouri
Residence
1860
Age: 32
Boeuf, Gasconade, Missouri
Death
4 Jan 1877
Age: 48
Drake, Gasconade, Missouri, USA
POSSIBLE:
Name: Casper Hch Engelbrecht
Arrival Date: 19 Nov 1851
Port of Arrival: United States
Birth Date: abt 1830
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Bremen, Germany
Ship Name: Oregon
Birth:
Possible:
Name: Caspar Henrich Engelbrecht
Gender: Male
Baptism Age: 0
Birth Date: 3. Jan 1828 (3 Jan 1828)
Baptism Date: 6. Jan 1828 (6 Jan 1828)
Baptism Place: Evangelisch, Joellenbeck, Westfalen, Prussia
Residence Place: Jöllenbeck (Oberjöllenbeck), Westfalen, Preußen, Germany
Father:
Friedrich Wilhelm Engelbrecht
Mother:
Anne Margrethe Elisabeth Seving
FHL Film Number: 582999
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
Naturalization:
Record Group Gasconade County Circuit Court
Series Circuit Court Record Books
Subseries Petition for Naturalization
County Gasconade
Reel Number C 4056
Box
Folder
Volume Book C 185
Page p479
Name Engelbrecht, Caspar
Current Residence
Record Date _ _, 1862
Native Country Prussia
Age
Witness 1
Witness 2
Note
Source Gasconade Historical Society
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https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/archives/archivesdb/naturalization/Detail.aspx?id=211697
Died:
DRAKE, MISSOURI JANUARY 7, 1877
The grace of Lord Jesus Christ be with you! Amen!
My dear friends, Henry Berger and wife, nee Miss Minnie Engelbrecht, H. W. Tappmeyer and H. Buchholz are comforting you brothers and sisters, who are alone this Sunday evening. Strange you may think this to be, but it is nevertheless true, for God’s ways are often inscrutable. I am obliged to convey the sad intelligence to you that Father and Mother Engelbrecht are now in eternity. I shall endeavor to give you the details as well as I can.
You knew that Father Engelbrecht was ill all winter, often had high fever and was in a weakened condition. A few days before Christmas he was so ill that he had to remain in bed. Severe pains in his abdomen made the calling of the physician imperative who mitigated the pain; however, Father Engelbrecht had little resistance. His inflamed urinary bladder caused great distress; usually he left his bed to relieve the pressure, but since last Wednesday he was unable to do this. Though weak and exhausted, and no longer able to speak, he remained rational. He breathed his last at one o’clock on Thursday afternoon, falling asleep peacefully, trusting in Jesus. He witnessed triumphantly Tuesday evening, while I visited him, that his soul was hidden in Jesus and that he prayed to depart with Jesus. We grant him this heavenly rest, knowing that he has been a crossbearer and yearned to be released. Mother Engelbrecht and your brothers and sisters nursed him tenderly and seldom left his bedside. He was laid to
Mother Engelbrecht seemed to bear up bravely, but as you know, she was pregnant, and on Friday evening preceding the burial on Saturday, the midwife was called; however, the labor pains subsided until we left the home with the body of Father Engelbrecht. Toward evening that Saturday a daughter was born. Complications set in which necessitated the calling of the physician, who, however, was powerless to aid. Only the Lord could help, but He deemed it wise to call her from the midst of her children. This morning at four o’clock she finished her course, and on Tuesday morning at ten o’clock we shall bury her. Strange indeed, are the ways of the Lord! One is inclined to question the wisdom of God in calling both parents when so many children still need the loving care of devoted parents, but it behooves us to yield and to trust, confident that the Lord knows best and does not err.
This sad announcement must grieve your sorely, dear friends, as it has us, especially since we are concerned about the infant and are thinking of its future welfare. The Wehmhoners will in all probability take care of the child. Their daughter is with us this evening and is nursing the infant.
My beloved, I must hasten to a conclusion. I find it rather difficult to give you all of the details, because I was not present at all times. The children are grief-stricken and requested me to write to you. Please, write soon, and remember your sorrowing brothers and sisters in prayer. Let us all bow ourselves under the hand of God and trust Him, for He has promised to exalt us in due time and to care for us if we cast all our care on Him.
The Lord be with you and you with Him!
Written in response to the request of the Engelbrecht children.
Greetings to all!
Translation of Obit from German:
Brother Casper Engelbrecht
no longer resides on earth. He died 4 January 1877, believing in the Lord after twelve years of suffering from a pelvic (lower abdomen) disease. Brother Engelbrecht was born in Lower-Göllenbeck, governing district of Minden, Prussia. He reached an age of 49 years and his wife, Anna Elsebein Engelbrecht, nee Schlomann, died unexpectedly but not unprepared in her 42nd year of life on the 7th of January, on the morning of the funeral of her husband of a heart attack. Sister Engelbrecht was born in Upper-Göllenbeck, governing district of Minden, Prussia. Brother and Sister Engelbrecht joined our church in the year 1860 and were loyal members until the end. Their marriage was blessed by 12 children, 11 surviving, 1 deceased.
Signed Henry Vosholl
[NOTE - name of town name misspelled - should have been Lower-Jöllenbeck]
Casper married Mary Ann Hussmann on 4 Jul 1853 in St. Louis, (City of St. Louis), Missouri, USA. Mary died on 5 Jun 1854. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Notes:
Married:
Pastor's name is Louis E Nollau, who was the pastor at St. Peter's Evangelical Church 1852-1860
Source: https://stlgs.org/research-2/congregations/clergy-by-name?surname=nollau&surname-type=b&givenname=&givenname-type=b&place=&place-type=b&year=&postid=8351&api_key=f56e763e68bf54baa6f71a86ae1016d9&search=true
Translation:
Translation:
In the year of the Lord 1853, on July 4th, have joined in marriage here and were wedded by me:
Caspar Heinrich Engelbrecht and Anna Marie Husemann from Jöllenbeck, Westphalia.
Witnesses: Johann Friedrich Wehmüller und Hanna Wilhelmina, his wife.
L. Nollau, Pastor
Casper married Anna Maria Ilsabein Schlömann on 25 Aug 1854 in St. Louis, (City of St. Louis), Missouri, USA. Anna (daughter of Johann Heinrich Schlömann and Anna Maria Ilsabein Siekmann) was born on 7 May 1836 in Jöllenbeck, Regierungsbezirk Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; was christened on 15 May 1836 in Jöllenbeck, Regierungsbezirk Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; died on 06 Jan 1877 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Zoar Cemetery, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Notes:
Married:
Pastor's name is Louis E Nollau, who was the pastor at St. Peter's Evangelical Church 1852-1860
Source:
https://stlgs.org/research-2/congregations/clergy-by-name?surname=nollau&surname-type=b&givenname=&givenname-type=b&place=&place-type=b&year=&postid=8351&api_key=f56e763e68bf54baa6f71a86ae1016d9&search=true
Children:
- Wilhelmine Engelbrecht was born on 15 Nov 1855 in St. Louis, (City of St. Louis), Missouri, USA; was christened on 9 Dec 1855 in St. Peter's United Church of Christ, City of St. Louis, Missouri, USA; died on 21 May 1941 in Union Township, Barton County, Missouri, USA.
- Henry Casper Engelbrecht was born on 09 Oct 1857 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 01 Sep 1918 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; was buried in St. James UCC Cemetery, Gerald, Franklin County, Missouri, USA.
- Anna Maria Engelbrecht was born on 13 Jul 1859 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 20 Mar 1925 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; was buried in St. James United Church of Christ Cemetery, Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA.
- William Engelbrecht was born on 25 Jun 1861 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 8 Dec 1937 in St. Louis, (City of St. Louis), Missouri, USA; was buried in St. James United Church of Christ Cemetery, Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA.
- Emma Engelbrecht was born on 10 May 1863 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 7 Mar 1941 in Troy, Lincoln County, Missouri, United States; was buried in Zoar Cemetery, Lincoln County, Missouri, .
- Louisa Engelbrecht was born on 20 Aug 1865 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 17 Feb 1873 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Zoar Cemetery, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA.
- John Engelbrecht, M.D. was born on 27 Aug 1867 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 15 Mar 1945 in Stony Hill, Gasconade County, Missouri, United States; was buried in St. James United Church of Christ Cemetery, Stony Hill, Franklin County, Missouri, USA.
- Ernst G. Engelbrecht was born on 23 Feb 1869 in Bay, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 13 Mar 1928 in St. Louis, (City of St. Louis), Missouri, USA; was buried in Bay Bethel Cemetery, Bay, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA.
- Joseph A. Engelbrecht was born on 07 Mar 1871 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 16 Apr 1943 in Bay, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; was buried in St. James United Church of Christ Cemetery, Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA.
- Gustave F. Engelbrecht was born on 03 Mar 1873 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 01 Apr 1960 in Oxford, Furnas County, Nebraska, United States; was buried in Oxford Cemetery, Oxford, Harlan County, Nebraska, USA.
- Sophia Engelbrecht was born on 23 May 1875 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 11 Jul 1966 in Bay, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Zion Cemetery, Bay, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA.
- Maria Lydia Engelbrecht was born on 06 Jan 1877 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 20 Mar 1877 in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Zoar Cemetery, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA.
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