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• Created: 19 Sep 2019

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Memorial services for Miles Hargrove Stotts, 102, Hutchinson, were Friday at First United Methodist Church, Baldwin City. Private burial was in a Baldwin Cemetery.

Mr. Stotts died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002, at Mennonite Retirement Community, Hutchinson.

He was born May 20, 1900, in Terre Haute, Ind., the son of Fred Hargrove and Jessie Belle (McClellan) Stotts. He attended school in Clinton, Mo., and Marionville Academy, Marionville, Mo. He received his bachelor's degree in abstentia from Baker University in May1926 while he attended Boston University School of Theology. He received his Master's of Divinity on June 9, 1928.

Mr. Stotts spent 60 years in the active ministry of the United Methodist Church. He served churches in the St. Louis area, western Missouri, Elmdale, Strong City and Moline. He moved to Baldwin after he retired. He was curator of Old Castle Museum at Baker for 17 years and assistant pastor for the Rev. Kirby Hayes at First United Methodist Church in Baldwin for three years. He moved to Hutchinson in July 1993. He was a member of East Kansas Conference of the United Methodist Church, Baldwin City Rotary Club, Palmyra Masonic Lodge of Baldwin and Scottish Rite in St. Joseph, Mo.

He married Edith Pezoldt on June 9, 1928. She died in 1952 in St. Joseph. He later married Elnora Florence Knehans. She survives of the home.

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Miles married Elnora Florence Knehans on 5 Dec 1952. Elnora (daughter of Gustave W. Knehans and Amilia Katherine Hesemann) was born on 25 Jan 1914 in Beemont, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 20 Jun 2009 in South Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas, United States; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Douglas County, Kansas, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elnora Florence Knehans Stotts was the youngest daughter of German immigrants, Gustav William and Amelia Kathrina Knehans whose native language was German.. She was born on the family homestead near Beemont, Missouri on January 25, 1914. Her grandparents donated the land for the Beemont Zion Methodist Episcopal Church and her many years of service to the Methodist Church began there. She had two older sisters, Alma and Clara. As a young teenager, Elnora left home to work in St Louis, graduated fom Dotson High School and then worked for the Missouri Department of Health.

Elnora received her Bachelor of Arts from Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas in 1947, and continued her higher education at the Methodist National Training School in Kansas City in preparation for foreign missionary service. She attended Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and learned Chinese. However, political unrest in China caused her to be assigned to the Phillipines; First Methodist Church in Baldwin City was her sponsoring church. Elnora taught at mission schools for five years until her long-time friend, Rev. Miles H. Stotts proposed marriage by sending an engagement ring in the mail and asking Bishop Valencia to release her from mission service in order that she might return to the US and become the wife of a Methodist minister.

Elnora married Miles H. Stotts on December 5, 1952. Miles passed on November 12, 2002. They had two children, Miles Hargrove Stotts II and Kathrina Belle (Stotts) Juby, and five grandchildren, Amy and Sara Stotts and Andrew, Adam and Alex Juby. Miles and Elnora served six Methodist churches in Missouri and Kansas until his retirement in 1968. They returned to Baldwin City and their beloved Baker University and remained active in First Methodist Church for 25 years. Elnora was a life-long member of the United Methodist Women and served as President of the UMW at Baldwin First. In 1993 they moved to Hutchinson, Kansas to be closer to their family. She lived at the Graber House in Mennonite Manor in South Hutchinson until her death on June 20, 2009.

Funeral services were held at 10:00 AM Saturday at the First United Methodist Church, Hutchinson, with Reverend Mark Conard presiding. Graveside services were held at 6:00 PM Saturday at the Oakwood Cemetery, Baldwin City, Kansas. Friends were able to sign the register book from 9AM to 9PM Thursday and 9AM to 5PM Friday at Penwelll-Gabel Funeral Home and Crematory, Hutchinson. Memorial contributions may be made to the World Missions, in care of First United Methodist Church, Hutchinson.

Published by the Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home web-site on June 23, 2009.

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Gustave married Amilia Katherine Hesemann on 7 May 1896. Amilia (daughter of Frederick William Hesemann and Caroline Christina Plieninger) was born on 05 Sep 1876 in , Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; died on 28 Apr 1969 in , Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Beemont Methodist Church Cemetery, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Millie
• Created: 10 May 2015

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• Occupation: Farmer
• Created: 09 Jun 2015

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HESEMANN FAMILY HISTORY

The original farm near Beemont, Missourii was homesteaded by Charles and
Mary Ann Davis on a Land Grant by President James Buchanan, dated June 10, I857, consisting of 160 acres. On March 25, 1865, this land was sold to
Frederick Hesemann for a sum of $1,000. The records mention a Catherine as his wife on April 18, 1870, when ten acres was sold to Anna Kemper and after Frederick’s death in 1871, in a will filed August 22, 1871, his wifie, Maria .
Elizabeth, is names as Executrix. We are not sure how to explain this discrepancy in names. According to the will, the farm was left to Frederick W. Hesemann, his son, and $100 each to three daughters, Catherine F., Francisca S.C., and Catherine M. William and Caroline Christina Ploenniger [Plieninger] were probably married in the early 1870's. Her sister, Mrs. Catherine Ruby, lived in the house just west of the M.E. Zion church which is still standing today and according to Oscar Hesemann, she could very well have written her mother back in Germany encouraging her sister Caroline, to come over knowing that William was in need of a wife.

Upon the death of Anna Kemper, the ten acres from the original farm were deeded back to the then listed owner of record William Hesemann on March 6, 1879. We do not know if Frederick W. Hesemann is also William Hesemann or if they are two different people and William purchased the land from Frederick.
[They were the same person - Frederick William Hesemann]

William and Catherine had thirteen children, three of whom died in infancy.
On April 1, 1882, according to the records, they donated the land for the
church and cemetery in Beemont, Missouri. Their daughter, Louise, was one of two babies to be the first baptized in the new church.

William, Sr. was killed in a train accident near Jeffersberg [Jeffriesburg], Missouri, on July 28, 1904 while going to the World's Fair in St. Louis, at the age of 53. His son, Edward, was with him on this trip. William's death left Catherine to to finishraising the family, although her youngest, Oscar, was eleven at the time and her oldest son, William, was married that year in April.

Eventually Catherine traveled between her sons’ and daughters’ homes,
living for a time with each, although a room was kept for her on the home
place. She also spent considerable time with her son, William, after the
death of his wife in 1920, helping to raise his four daughters. Catherine must
have been a very strong-willed, hard working woman. All of her children
learned how to work at an early age.

Catherine died on September 15, 1928, and thereafter each year in September, a family reunion is held, including the descendants of the ten children. This year, 1978, marks the 50th anniversary of the family reunions and the church at Beemont, which Catherine and William helped establish, seems an appropriate place for this celebration.


September 17, 1978
Beemont, Missouri


Place name: Jeffriesburg
Description: A town in the west central part of Union Township. The post office had been established since 1857. It was named for some members of the Jeffries family. According to Eaton, it was Elisha Betts Jeffries (1827-1855), a wealthy Virginian who held many offices in Franklin County. While serving as a member of the state legislature, he lost his life in the Gasconade Bridge disaster on November 1, 1855, and the Legislature appropriated $150 to mark his grave at Krakow (q.v.). Kiel declares, on the other hand, that the town is supposed to be named for Achilles Whitehead Jeffries, an early settler and a friend and neighbor of George Fink, the first postmaster. He came to Franklin County from Warren County, North Carolina, in 1819, and was county sheriff in 1834. A number of other people named Jeffries lived in the neighborhood. (Postal Guide; COUNTY ATLAS 1878, 13; HIST. FRANKLIN 225, 227; Eaton; Kiel's BIOG. DIR., 204; Washington Library Records; Miss Johnson: O.E. Griese)
Source: Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943.

Frederick married Caroline Christina Plieninger on 23 Jul 1876 in , Gasconade County, Missouri, USA. Caroline (daughter of Matthaeus Plieninger and Maria Catharina Kaltschmid) was born on 05 Oct 1851 in Schornbach, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany; was christened on 12 Oct 1851 in Schornbach, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 15 Sep 1928 in Boeuf Township, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Beemont Methodist Church Cemetery, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Hesemann
• Created: 09 Jun 2015

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HESEMANN FAMILY HISTORY

The original farm near Beemont, Missourii was homesteaded by Charles and
Mary Ann Davis on a Land Grant by President James Buchanan, dated June 70,
I857, consisting of 160 acres. On March 25, 1865, this land was sold to
Frederick Hesemann for a sum of $1,000. The records mention a Catherine as
his wife on April 18, 1870, when ten acres was sold to Anna Kemper and after
Frederick’s death in 1871, in a will filed August 22, 1871, his wifie, Maria .
Elizabeth, is names as Executrix. We are not sure how to explain this discrepancy
in names. According to the will, the farm was left to Frederick W.
Hesemann, his son, and $100 each to three daughters, Catherine F., Francisca
S.C., and Catherine M.

William and Caroline Christina Ploenniger [Plieninger] were probably married in the
early 1870's. Her sister, Mrs. Catherine Ruby, lived in the house just west
of the M.E. Zion church which is still standing today and according to Oscar
Hesemann, she could very well have written her mother back in Germany encouraging
her sister Caroline, to come over knowing that William was in need of a wife.

Upon the death of Anna Kemper, the ten acres from the original farm were deeded back
to the then listed owner of record William Hesemann on March 6, 1879. We do not know
if Frederick W. Hesemann is also William Hesemann or if they are two different people
and William purchased the land from Frederick.
[They were the same person - Frederick William Hesemann]

William and Catherine had thirteen children, three of whom died in infancy.
On April 1, 1882, according to the records, they donated the land for the
church and cemetery in Beemont, Missouri. Their daughter, Louise, was one of
two babies to be the first baptized in the new church.

William, Sr. was killed in a train accident near Jeffersberg [Jeffriesburg], Missouri,
on July 28, 1904 while going to the World's Fair in St. Louis, at the age of
53. His son, Edward, was with him on this trip. William's death left Catherine
to to finish raising the family, although her youngest, Oscar, was eleven at the
time and her oldest son, William, was married that year in April.

Eventually Catherine traveled between her sons’ and daughters’ homes,
living for a time with each, although a room was kept for her on the home
place. She also spent considerable time with her son, William, after the
death of his wife in 1920, helping to raise his four daughters. Catherine must
have been a very strong-willed, hard working woman. All of her children
learned how to work at an early age.

Catherine died on September 15, 1928, and thereafter each year in September,
a family reunion is held, including the descendants of the ten children. This
year, 1978, marks the 50th anniversary of the family reunions and the church
at Beemont, which Catherine and William helped establish, seems an appropriate
place for this celebration.


September 17, 1978
Beemont, Missouri


Name: Caroline Plieninger
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 5 Okt 1851 (5 Oct 1851)
Baptism Date: 12 Okt 1851 (12 Oct 1851)
Baptism Place: Schornbach, Württemberg, Germany
Father: Matthaeus Plieninger
Mother: Maria Catharina Kaltschmid
FHL Film Number: 1184645

Place name: Jeffriesburg
Description: A town in the west central part of Union Township. The post office had been established since 1857. It was named for some members of the Jeffries family. According to Eaton, it was Elisha Betts Jeffries (1827-1855), a wealthy Virginian who held many offices in Franklin County. While serving as a member of the state legislature, he lost his life in the Gasconade Bridge disaster on November 1, 1855, and the Legislature appropriated $150 to mark his grave at Krakow (q.v.). Kiel declares, on the other hand, that the town is supposed to be named for Achilles Whitehead Jeffries, an early settler and a friend and neighbor of George Fink, the first postmaster. He came to Franklin County from Warren County, North Carolina, in 1819, and was county sheriff in 1834. A number of other people named Jeffries lived in the neighborhood. (Postal Guide; COUNTY ATLAS 1878, 13; HIST. FRANKLIN 225, 227; Eaton; Kiel's BIOG. DIR., 204; Washington Library Records; Miss Johnson: O.E. Griese)
Source: Harrison, Eugenia L. "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943.

Christened:
Name: Caroline Plieninger
Gender: Female
Baptism Age: 0
Birth Date: 5 Okt 1851 (5 Oct 1851)
Baptism Date: 12 Okt 1851 (12 Oct 1851)
Baptism Place: Schornbach, Württemberg, Germany
Residence Place: Schornbach, Württemberg, Germany
Father: Matthaeus Plieninger
Mother: Maria Catharina Kaltschmid
FHL Film Number: 1184645