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Died:
Whooping cough

Buried:
Section 3, Lot 58, Grave 4

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• Confirmation: 16 Apr 1916, Trinity Lutheran Church, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
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April 10, 1957
Acquisition of a site for the new St. Andrew Lutheran Church is announced by Luther Hahs, temporary chairman of the congregation; the four-acre tract secured fronts 416 feet on Kingsway and is just north of the Alvarado; the lot was acquired from Freeman Lewis and T.R. Regenhardt.
-Southeast Missourian Newspaper

Postmaster - Cape Girardeau, Missouri:
Theodore R. Regenhardt Acting Postmaster 05/03/1957
Theodore R. Regenhardt Postmaster 05/28/1957
Russell J. Fowler Officer-In-Charge 04/03/1970
Russell J. Fowler Postmaster 03/20/1971

THEODORE R. REGENHARDT
Biographical Research

DATE: 29 Dec 1900
NEWSPAPER: DAILY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
A thirteen pound boy. That was the Ed Regenhardt's Christmas
present this morning (12/26/00), and Ed is as happy as a boy with
his first pair of pants.


FROM: Record of Births - City of Cape Girardeau

454. NAME: Regenhardt, Theodore Rossevelt
LOCALITY: Sprigg St.
DATE: Dec. 26, 1900 Wednesday
RESIDENCE OF PARENTS: Sprigg St. - Cape
ATTENDING PHYSICIAN: J.D. Porterfield

Southeast Missourian - Out of the Past

Jan. 11, 1954
Figures released by County Collector Ted Regenhardt show county residents and corporations poured $1,097,488.11 into their school systems, county government and miscellaneous adjuncts in taxes they paid during final three months of 1953.
Dec. 5, 1955
Regenhardt Construction Co. of Cape Girardeau was the award winner for a $1,027,518 highway paving project in three parts of Madison County, Illinois.
July 6, 1956
Ted R. Regenhardt, former Cape Girardeau County collector of revenue, has been advanced to the eligible list for the Cape Girardeau postmastership; Regenhardt joins Kenneth Cruse and U.G. Pettigrew on the list of candidates.
March 4, 1957
WASHINGTON -- President Eisenhower nominates 172 postmasters; among the nominations sent to the Senate is that of Theodore R. Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau.
April 10, 1957
Acquisition of a site for the new St. Andrew Lutheran Church is announced by Luther Hahs, temporary chairman of the congregation; the four-acre tract secured fronts 416 feet on Kingsway and is just north of the Alvarado; the lot was acquired from Freeman Lewis and T.R. Regenhardt.
May 4, 1957
Cape Girardeau's new postmaster, Ted R. Regenhardt, was officially sworn in and assumed his duties yesterday afternoon; he succeeds A.S. Reed, acting postmaster.
Aug. 15, 1957
The General Services Administration has notified Postmaster Ted Regenhardt that bids will be received in Kansas City on Aug. 29 for an old-fashioned, hand-fired coal furnace to be installed in the Cape Girardeau post office.
Sept. 25, 1957
Cape Girardeau County and postal officials say they will join efforts for an overpass for Hopper Road at the point where it now is proposed to sever the road into two sections without a connecting link by the planned interstate highway; Postmaster Ted Regenhardt says mail service into the area will be substantially hampered if there is no overpass.
Dec. 11, 1957
Postmaster Ted Regenhardt announces that bids for remodeling and repairing the Cape Girardeau post office from roof to basement, at a cost expected to be well in excess of $100,000, will be opened Dec. 27 in Kansas City.
March 29, 1958
A large highway contract and a smaller one, both in Illinois, will be started shortly by the combined Potashnick and Regenhardt firms of Cape Girardeau; the main job is to be in Jefferson County at Mount Vernon, and will be on highways 37 and 15; the project calls for 10 miles of right of way grading, bridges and concrete pavement.
Oct. 23, 1958
Postmaster Ted Regenhardt announces two highway post offices and two tractor-trailer trucks will expedite mail service in to and out of Cape Girardeau upon cessation of service by Frisco night passenger trains; the rolling post offices will operate out ofSt. Louis and Memphis, Tenn, meeting at Sikeston, Mo.; the tractor-trailer trucks will move between the two large cities, receiving pouches at the various stops on the way.

April 21, 1959
Postmaster Ted Regenhardt has been notified by the General Services Administration that budgetary limitations will delay installation of air conditioning in the post office at Cape Girardeau.

April 2, 1970
Retired as Postmaster (date from Alice Regenhardt Lewis 27 July 2011)

Theodore Roosevelt Regenhardt 101 S. West End Blvd. Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Date of Birth Dec. 26, 1900. Application for Postmaster
No. 5

Recommend purchase of all supplies

I believe an explanation is necessary here as to why I an listing work in the canal zone and in the States under item no 5. 1 spent a part of both years in the canal zone and apart in the states. The work I performed both years in the canal zone as of a similar nature, as was the work I did in the states which was as follows:


Was superintendent of all materials which went into the construction of prisoner of war camps. Supervised at the peak employment load approximately 300 men. Was responsible for the securing of materials, unloading saw yard, loading and hauling to job sites. Worked with Army Engineers in securing materials.

No. 6

Jan 1938 to Nov. 1941 Superintendent of Construction

Wm. McK. Regenhardt, Vice Pres.

Lexington, Ky.

Regenhardt Construction Co. Construction Co.
H & H Building, Cape Girardeau

4 Foremen, 4 mechanics, timekeeper, bookkeeper. Offered better job.

Supervised the construction of concrete highways and earth levees. Purchased materials and supplies. Assisted in making up bids on jobs.


ACTIVITIES

Red Cross County Chairman 1 year
Official Church Board 15 years
Old McKendree Church board of Trustees 5 years
Southeast Missouri Hospital Board of Trustees 1 year
Civil Defense Welfare Director 3 years
Masonic Lodge 32 years
Scottish Rite 6 years
Shrine 6 years



March 1947 to March 7, 1955 County Collector

Collection of taxes for the State of Missouri, County of Cape Girardeau and The Little River Drainage District. Directly responsible for the collecting and disbursement of monies in the average amount per year of $ 1,100,000.00 to the various political subdivisions.


1946 Campaigned for the office of County Collector


1945, Jan. 11, Discharged from Navy and re-employed by McCarthy Bros. Constructions Co. as a superintendent of Levee Construction.

1943 Nov, to Jan 11, 1955 Naval Reserve in engineer corps, Boot camp, Camp Peary Virginia. To New York 30 days Stevedore school, ordered after completion of school to Hawaii, attached to 20th stevedore regiment,



1941 Dec. 9 to Nov. 1943 Employed by McCarthy Bros. Construction Co. in Panama Canal Zone as Superintendent of Construction, France Field Airport, roads, powder magazines. Employed in the states as foreman of materials in the construction of prisoner of war camps.


1938 1941 Employed by Regenhardt Const. Co. as Superintendent in the construction of roads and levees.


1935 1938 Bought newspaper distributing agency Cairo, Ill. and worked for the city of Cairo, building streets.


1921 1935 Started with father in the paving construction business at Poplar Bluff, MO


1920 Sept to 1921 May School State College Cape Girardeau, Mo.


1919 June to 1920 Aug. Worked in Detroit, Michigan making tires U.S. Tires Co. and on Bldg. Construction


1914 to 1919 Worked after school and on Saturday at the Cape
Girardeau Republican which was changed to the Southeast Missourian Newspaper. Had charge of carrier boys and mailing room



Sponsors: August Weiss, Wilhelm Oberheide, Lizzie Vasterling, Emma Ackenhausen

Buried:
Find A Grave Memorial #

Section 3, Lot 58, Grave 5

Theodore married Lois Alline McNeely on 31 Mar 1923 in Bride's Home, Leemon, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Lois (daughter of John Thomas McNeely and Jemima Jane Stevenson) was born on 05 Oct 1897 in Parent's Home, Leemon, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; died on 05 Feb 1990 in Chateau Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From "The Southeast Missourian"

Lois McNeely and Ted Regenhardt Marry Saturday

Miss Lois McNeely, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McNeely, and Theodore Roosevelt Regenhardt, were married at the home of the parents of the bride, Leemon, Mo., Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. The Rev. A. H. Barnes, a minister of Fruitland, performed the ceremony in the presence of only a few relatives of the young couple.

Regenhardt is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Regenhardt, 514 Themis Street, and he is associated with his father in contracting work at Poplar Bluff. He was a student at Teachers College when he went into business.

The bride is a teacher at Washington School and is a popular and accomplished young woman. She will retain her position as a teacher until the end of the present school term when she will go to Poplar Bluff to join her husband. When she appeared at the school this morning, Mrs. Regenhardt was greeted by a shower of rice propelled in her direction by the other teachers.

A dinner party was given for the bride and groom at the Regenhardt home Sunday evening, at which a number of friends of the newlyweds were present.


Mrs. Lois A. Regenhardt
CAPE GIRARDEAU —
Graveside service for Mrs. Lois Alline Regenhardt, 3120 Independence, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Lorimier Cemetery. Rev. Jim Davis will officiate. A memorial service will be held at 11 at Grace United Methodist Church, with Rev. Davis officiating.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Funeral Home from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday.

Mrs. Regenhardt, 92 years old, died Monday, Feb. 5, 1990, at Chateau Girardeau Health Care Center. She was born Oct. 5, 1897, at Leemon, daughter of John T. and Jennie Stevenson McNeely. She married Theodore R. Regenhardt March 31, 1923, at Leemon. He died Oct 31,1974. Mrs. Regenhardt was a teacher at Washington School, and a member of P T A, Eastern Star, Grace Church and United Methodist Women.

Survivors include a son. Donald Regenhardt of Springfield, Va.; and daughter, Mrs. Freeman (Alice) Lewis of Cape; six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son and daughter.


Buried:
Section 3, Lot 58, Grave 6

Notes:

From "The Southeast Missourian"

Lois McNeely and Ted Regenhardt Marry Saturday

Miss Lois McNeely, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McNeely, and Theodore Roosevelt Regenhardt, were married at the home of the parents of the bride, Leemon, Mo., Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. The Rev. A. H. Barnes, a minister of Fruitland, performed the ceremony in the presence of only a few relatives of the young couple.

Regenhardt is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Regenhardt, 514 Themis Street, and he is associated with his father in contracting work at Poplar Bluff. He was a student at Teachers College when he went into business.

The bride is a teacher at Washington School and is a popular and accomplished young woman. She will retain her position as a teacher until the end of the present school term when she will go to Poplar Bluff to join her husband. When she appeared at the school this morning, Mrs. Regenhardt was greeted by a shower of rice propelled in her direction by the other teachers.

A dinner party was given for the bride and groom at the Regenhardt home Sunday evening, at which a number of friends of the newlyweds were present.



Married:
From "The Southeast Missourian"

Lois McNeely and Ted Regenhardt Marry Saturday

Miss Lois McNeely, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McNeely, and Theodore Roosevelt Regenhardt, were married at the home of the parents of the bride, Leemon, Mo., Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. The Rev. A. H. Barnes, a minister of Fruitland, performed the ceremony in the presence of only a few relatives of the young couple.

Regenhardt is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Regenhardt, 514 Themis Street, and he is associated with his father in contracting work at Poplar Bluff. He was a student at Teachers College when he went into business.

The bride is a teacher at Washington School and is a popular and accomplished young woman. She will retain her position as a teacher until the end of the present school term when she will go to Poplar Bluff to join her husband. When she appeared at the school this morning, Mrs. Regenhardt was greeted by a shower of rice propelled in her direction by the other teachers.

A dinner party was given for the bride and groom at the Regenhardt home Sunday evening, at which a number of friends of the newlyweds were present.

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• Confirmation: Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
• Occupation: St. Louis, (City of St. Louis), Missouri, USA; 1910-1914: U. S. Marshal - Eastern District of Missouri - Office in St. Louis
• Residence: 1910-1911; Address:
  4132 Cleveland Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri
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1910-1914
Appointed U.S. Marshal Eastern District of Missouri by President Taft.

EDWARD F. REGENHARDT
Biographical Research

DATE: 8 Aug 1891
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983

Ed Regenhardt is taking music lessons up at the College.
He will graduate in about two weeks from now.
_________________________________________________________________
FROM: St. Louis City Hall Marriage Records Vol. 34, Pg. 37.
EDWARD F. REGENHARDT AND ALOINE THEUERKAUF
- married 9 Sep 1891
- by Rev. Chas T. McDaniel
- at St. Marks Lutheran Church
Southwest corner Bell and Cardinal Streets
- he is listed as being from Cape, she from St. Louis
________________________________________________________________
DATE: 12 Sep 1891
SLUG: Bio/Marriage License
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Marriage License was granted in St. Louis last Monday to
Edward Regenhardt and Miss Alvina Theuerkauf, daughter of the late
Wm Theuerkauf of this city. When Mr. Regenhardt returns home he
will be bringing with him as his bride one of Cape's fair daughters
who is an accomplished young lady. The Democrat wishes the happy
pair a world of enjoyment and a long life of happiness.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 19 Sep 1891
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983

TUESDAY: Ed Regenhardt has rented the 2nd story in the
Stratman house on Spanish St. and will go to housekeeping in a few
days.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 2 Jan 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 3
LOCATED: 1983
Ed F. Regenhardt and Charles Bode have formed a coªpartnership
under the firm name of Regenhardt & Bode, Contractors for Brick
Work. They have fitted up an office in a room over Burgess' Store
on Main Street where they will give careful attention
to calls for estimates on brick work of any kind. They are both
first class mechanics, and we cheerfully recommend them to all in
need of brick work of any description.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 30 Jan 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
Regenhardt and Bode, contractors for brick work, are now ready
to make estimates and contract for work. They have an office over
Burgess' Store on Main St., where they would be pleased to have
their friends and those contemplating building call on them.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 19 Mar 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 3
LOCATED: 1983
Ed Regenhardt pulled down the big smoke stack at the ruins of
the Lorimier Mills this morning (Thursday, 3/17/92). He took it
down whole and without making a dent in it.
Otto Buekrmann from Fayetteville, Arkansas owned the mills,
destroyed by fire previous Saturday night (3/19/92).
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 9 Apr 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Ed Regenhardt is putting down a granitoid pavement in front
of the First National Bank.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 25 June 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Ed Regenhardt went down to Malden this afternoon to put in a
bid for the brick work on the bank building that is to be put up
there.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 17 Sep 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
E.F. Regenhardt is building a brick house for Herman Muellerin
Jackson, and his partner, Chas. Bode. will go to Sikeston in a few
days to build a brick house in that town.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 21 Jan 1893
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983

Ed Regenhardt is going to move up on Sprigg St.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 25 Feb 1893
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
As soon as weather will permit Ed Regenhardt will make
granitoid pavements in front of the new Sturdivant Bank building
on both Main and Themis streets. The walk on Themis Street will
be the longest stretch of granitoid pavement in the city.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 25 Mar 1893
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
The granitoid curbing for the sidewalk around the Sturdivant
Bank was delivered yesterday (Monday 3/20).
The granite curbing being put down around the Sturdivant Bank
building will be there long after the present generations of our
citizens are under the sod.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 27 May 1893
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Ed Regenhardt is putting in granitoid steps for the Sturdivant
Bank.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 3 June 1893
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
Ed Regenhardt is making a granitoid pavement in front of
Dr.S.S. Harris's property on Themis street. When this job of work
is done Themis Street will have the longest stretch of granitoid
pavement in the city. <2nd house on south side of Themis west of
the courthouse (Al Spradling Jr.)>
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 27 Oct 1894
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983

E.F. Regenhardt returned home from Poplar Bluff. Ed says he
has no notion of moving to the Bluff.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: Aug 1895
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 6 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1 Aug 1983
The contract for repairing the Meriweather Street sewer was
awarded to E.F. Regenhardt by the Council.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 5 Oct 1895
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
E. F. Regenhardt is putting in some granitoid pavement for
Wilson Cramer at Jackson.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 23 Nov 1895
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1 Aug 1983
Ed Regenhardt came in from Greenville, Wayne County, Saturday
night. Mr. R. has the contract to build a big business house at
Greenville and he will have work for a force of hands there for
several months.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 16 Oct 1897
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 25 July 1983
Ed Regenhardt was awarded the contract for the granitoid walks
in the Normal grounds. The contract was for 800 yards, more or
less.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 30 Oct 1897
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
E. F. Regenhardt is down at Kennett this week building some
flues in the stone railroad depot building he completed a few weeks
ago for the Kennett Railroad Company.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 6 Nov 1897
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 4
LOCATED: 1983
E. F. Regenhardt will begin work on the granitoid walks up at
the Normal next month.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 27 Aug 1898
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 25 July 1983
E. F. Regenhardt, who has the contract to build a big
schoolhouse in Bonne Terre, came down Saturday to get some hands
to work.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 11 July 1903
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 2
LOCATED: Aug 1983
E. F. Regenhardt has the contract to build the new building
for the new ice plant.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 29 Aug 1903
SLUG: Bio/Construction/Academic Hall
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
LOCATED: 1983

PG. 5 COL. 1 :
The contract let to Temple and Slavick for plumbing the Normal
building was the biggest plumbing contract ever let in S.E.
Missouri.
PG. 5 COL. 2 :
E. F. Regenhardt says he will begin clearing the ground for
the new Normal within the next 5 or 6 days .
E. T. Maule and son, E. P., came down on the Chester this
morning (Wed 4/29/03). Mr. Maule's son is associated with
Mr.Regenhardt in the contract for the building of the new Normal
structure. Mr. Maule says we have an extra fine quality of
stone here for building purposes.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 17 Sep 1904
SLUG: Bio/Quarry
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 7 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
Mr. Regenhardt invited us to take a drive to the quarries west
of the Normal Campus and there showed us a solid block of marble,
nine and on half feet long, six and a half broad and four and a
half thick, which contained 222 cubic feet of marble, weighing 21
tons. This block was raised from the bottom of the fifty foot
level and set down at the door of the mill ready to be placed under
the saws. This will be sawed into lintels 9' long, 22" broad and
13" thick for the Academic Hall. We expect to live to see the day
when a Missouri new State Capitol will be built from this quarry.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 1 Jul 1905
SLUG: Bio/Quarry
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
At Regenhardt's quarry Monday Mr. Regenhardt had some words
with his engineer and the two came to blows. Regenhardt, who is
a powerful man, struck at the engineer, missed him, hit a piece of
machinery and broke his right arm just above the wrist. Dr. Ben
Schultz bandaged the broken limb and Mr. Regenhardt will soon have
the use of it again.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 25 NOV 1905
SLUG: ACADEMIC HALL
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
MONDAY:
The new Academic Hall was not opened to the public Sunday as
contemplated, on account of bad weather, but will be the first
Sunday that the weather is fair and it is not so muddy.

From The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, Published circa 1905. Pages 113-114. Book located in the University of Missouri-Rolla Library, January 18, 1993.

The Edward F. Regenhardt Quarries

Mr. Regenhardt operates two quarries, one the "Normal" quarry, is located just east of the fair grounds, near the west limits of the city; and the other is located two miles south of the city, just beyond the Killebrew quarry.
The Normal quarry consists of a single irregular opening, 70 feet east and west and 100 feet north and south, having a maximum vertical face of 35 feet. This quarry was opened in 1901 to obtain the stone to be used in the Normal School building at Cape Girardeau.
This stone is coarsely crystalline, heavily bedded limestone, having much the appearance of marble. It is almost pure white in the bottom of the quarry, but has a faint pinkish or bluish gray tint near the surface. Fine structure joints occur from two inches to three feet apart. The stone contains small cavities, known locally as "sand holes". These are not sufficiently abundant to cause any considerable waste.
The quarry is covered with a very light stripping of clay. Large irregular cavities and open joints, resulting from weathering, occur throughout the quarry, These are usually filled with red clay, which occasionally extends to the bottom of the quarry. These cavities and open joints make it difficult to obtain large blocks, free from the effects of weathering. It is the practice to quarry irregular blocks by hand and saw them in the mill. The stone in the upper part of the quarry is said to be harderthan that deeper down. It can be sawed at an average rate of two inches per hour. The stone works nicely under the hammer, and has a pleasing appearance when used as in the Normal school buildings at Cape Girardeau. An excellent grade of white lime ismanufactured out of this stone.
This quarry is equipped with a Wordwell channeling machine, a crushing plant and two gang saws.
The second quarry operated by Mr. Regenhardt is located about two miles south of the city on a bluff just south of the Killebrew crusher, on land leased from St. Vincent's college. It has a face 70 feet long and about 15 feet high. The following are thethicknesses of each of the beds from top to bottom: 4 ft., 1 ft. 5 in., 1 ft. 8 in., 1 ft. 9 in.,1 ft., 1 ft. 10 in., 1 ft, 2 in., 2 ft. 4 in., 1 ft. 2 in., 1 ft. 8 in. Some of the stratification planes have a black color. Near the crossing of these planes and the joints the stone weathers more rapidly than in other parts of the quarry.
All the stone in this quarry has the same general texture and color. It is a very fine grained, compact limestone, having a brownish black to very dark blue color. It is very hard and breaks with a sub-conchoidal fracture.
The major joints strike N 40° - 50° W. A minor set strikes N 55° E. These parting planes are taken advantage of in quarrying an are sufficiently far apart to permit the removal of blocks of practically any required dimensions.
The stone has been used in the basement of the new Normal school buildings and in other structures in Cape Girardeau, The dark color of the stone is in striking contrast with the nearly white "Cape marble".

The William Regenhardt Quarry

This quarry is located near the north limits of the city and is situated on one of the Mississippi River bluffs. The stone, which is known as the Thebes of Cape Girardeau sandstone, caps the hills along the river. The first stone used in Cape Girardeau was obtained from this formation.
It is a yellow, fine grained sandstone which is soft when first quarried but hardens upon exposure, the formation is about fifteen feet thick and consists of beds from three feet to six feet in thickness. When used above ground, it appears to be very durable, as shown by a dwelling built out of it in 1853. For half a century, this building has been exposed to the weather without showing any very marked evidence of deterioration. At one time, this stone was shipped quite extensively through the extremesoutheastern part of Missouri along the Mississippi River. At present very little is being quarried.
The face of the quarry is about 600 feet long and 15 feet high. It is covered with a stripping of twenty feet of loess, on account of which, it is said to have been abandoned.


Southeat Missourian - Out of the Past:

Nov. 27, 1904
Edward F. Regenhardt returns from St. Louis with six bricklayers, and now the brick work on the new Normal School building will be rushed; if the weather continues to cooperate, the building will be completed by June.
Feb. 16, 1905
In the coal famine now facing Cape Girardeau, only one man has come forward to offer relief to suffering people; that man is Ed. Regenhardt; Regenhardt, who owns a marble quarry west of town, has several carloads of screenings in storage for his mill.
June 2, 1905
Thousands of people were attracted to the Cape City Brick plant west of the Cape Girardeau late last evening by a fire which destroyed one of the buildings; the large building west of the engine house and near the Cape and Chester Railroad was in heavy flames before it was discovered; A.R. Ponder, T.M. Williams, Ed Regenhardt, E.W. Flentge, M.E. Leming and other prominent citizens directed the fire-fighting efforts with the fire chief and his men.
June 26, 1905
Ed Regenhardt breaks the small bone in his arm early in the morning; while working at his quarry, his arm is thrown against the derrick, and the bone is broken; he is now sporting a plaster cast.
Nov. 16, 1905
Edward F. Regenhardt, the contractor for the Normal School buildings, has about completed his work on the immense Academic building, which is the finest school building in Missouri; Regenhardt's work has been beyond expectations, and as the building may not be formally dedicated for some time, it is possible he will invite the public to call Sunday and inspect the structure.
Nov. 18, 1905
Edward Regenhardt, builder, says he will throw open the doors of the new academic hall at the Normal School tomorrow from 1 to 5 p.m.; he specially invites his hundreds of friends to be present and look over the building; he states, however, that if it should rain and the Normal grounds around the new building should become muddy, it won't be opened; he is at a point of turning it over to the state and cannot take the risk of having it damaged in any way.
Nov. 25, 1905
Because of the rainy weather last Sunday, contractor Edward F. Regenhardt didn't open the new Normal School building to the public as he had planned; instead, if the weather is nice, he will throw open the doors to public inspection tomorrow.
Nov. 27, 1905
Probably the greatest crowd of Girardeans to ever visit the Normal School at one time was there yesterday afternoon to take a first look at the interior of the great Academic Hall; it is believed more than 5,000 people walked the halls of the new building; the building stands as a monument to the skills of contractor Edward F. Regenhardt.
SAVED: Academic Hall. After the fire destroyed the original Normal School building in 1902, plans were quickly drawn up for Academic Hall at the same location. The legislature authorized an appropriation of $200,000, and work on the new structure began in1903. The architect for the hall was J.B. Legg, and the general contractors were Edward F. Regenhardt and C.O. Allen Maule of Cape Girardeau. The building was opened for public viewing in December 1905 and was put to use early in 1906. It has become the symbol of Southeast Missouri State University.

Dec. 15, 1905
Since the public visited the new Academic Hall at the invitation of the contractor, Edward F. Regenhardt, the upper sections of the windows in the auditorium have been filled with fine stained glass; these windows bear coats of arms and inscriptions commemorative of the history of the Louisiana Purchase, as well as men who were benefactors of education in Missouri.
Jan. 16, 1906
At last week's meeting of the board of regents of the Normal School, contractor E.F. Regenhardt turned the Academic Hall over to the school; the great building is finished, so far as Regenhardt is concerned, and all that remains to be done is completing of the heating and lighting apparatus, which will be done this week.
March 22, 1906
According to Edward F. Regenhardt, Cape Girardeau contractor, his big quarrying plant will start operation tomorrow; it has been idle for some time because of the severe weather; the department of stone trimming will begin at once, and in a short time thework in the shaft will resume; Regenhardt plans to start a new shaft just north of the present hole, filling in the old place with the refuse from the new.
April 14, 1906
E.W. Flentge, Edw. W. Regenhardt and Charles Stones of Cape Girardeau go to Jackson to attend a session of the county Republican committee.
May 1, 1906
The county court is sitting in executive session at Jackson with the courthouse building committee; they are examining bids for the courthouse; there are four bidders for the big job, including Ed Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau, Taylor & Morton of Jackson, one from Kentucky and one from Florida.
May 7, 1906
Squalls and excitement mark the regular meeting of the city council; that body finally passes the sewer ordinance, as well as a measure granting a franchise to the street railway; Edward Regenhardt, a bidder on street improvement work, demands to be heardwhen the council seems ready to accept bids lower than his.
May 30, 1906
Edward Regenhardt is a busy man; his quarry is supplying stone to several projects in other towns, including Advance, Mo., Oran, Mo., and Bradwell, Ky.
June 3, 1906
Teachers for the Juden School District have been appointed for next year; Elsie Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau will teach at Juden School, about four miles north of the city, and A.E. McGuire will have charge of the district's black school; classes will begin about Oct. 1.
June 11, 1906
Fourteen of the 27 members of the county Republican committee met at Jackson Saturday and organized; Blucher Sperling was made chairman, Edward F. Regenhardt vice chairman, Henry Puls secretary, and J.D. Porterfield treasurer.
Sept. 6, 1906
Edward F. Regenhardt has prepared a block of marble from his Cape Girardeau quarry that will be sent to J. Knox Taylor, supervising architect of the treasury and who will make the plans for the federal building which will be built in Cape Girardeau; it ishoped the government can be persuaded to use local marble in the construction of this building.
April 20, 1907
Suit has been filed in the Court of Common Pleas against M.T. Lowman & Co., of Louisville, Ky., by Edward F. Regenhardt for $450, being a claim for stone used in construction of the new county courthouse at Jackson; Regenhardt claims that the account has been due for six months or more, and that repeated attempts to collect the bill have been fruitless.
Feb. 2, 1908
The Republican county convention held yesterday at Jackson was the best attended and most harmonious meeting of the kind ever held in Cape Girardeau County; speeches were made by Judge John A. Snider, Fred Kies, E.W. Flentge, E.F. Regenhardt and L.R. Johnson; delegates and alternates to the congressional and state conventions were selected.
Feb. 8, 1908
A message from Fred Naeter, one of the publishers of The Daily Republican newspaper and a delegate to the congressional convention at West Plains, Mo., reveals that the convention chose Edward Regenhardt as one of the two delegates to the national convention, where William H. Taft is expected to be nominated as candidate for president on the Republican ticket.
July 28, 1908
Ground was broken yesterday for the foundation of The Daily Republican newspaper's new home in the 200 block of Broadway; Jerome Legg, who designed Academic Hall, is the architect for the new building, and Edward Regenhardt is the contractor.
Sept. 5, 1908
Edward Regenhardt is rushing two jobs on Broadway; The Republican building is built up to the second story, and the old Ruesskamp property is rapidly disappearing to make room for the Federal Building.
Sept. 17, 1908
E.F. Regenhardt is advertising the sale of old brick, stone, doors, rods, gutters, building wood, etc., the remains of the old Ruesskamp house he tore down to make room for the new federal building.
Oct. 6, 1908
Edward F. Regenhardt appeared before the Cape Girardeau City Council last night when he filed his bond for the construction of the new city hall, fire and police station; Regenhardt is to complete the hall within 90 working days.
Jan. 28, 1909
The concussion felt in Cape Girardeau in the morning isn't of seismic origin; the cause is simply the tumbling of big Ed Regenhardt into the basement of the new city hall building, which is under construction on Independence Street; the contractor isn't seriously injured.
March 4, 1909
At a meeting last night, a slate of candidates for an "Industrial Ticket" for Cape Girardeau municipal offices was organized; the ticket consists of Merit E. Leming for mayor; Joel T. Nunn, collector; William H. Coerver, treasurer; Robert H. Whitelaw, city attorney; Lee L. Bowman, police judge; Antone Kammer, assessor; William H. Summers, marshal, and for aldermen, Joel T. Juden, E.F. Regenhardt, Will Hirsch and David A. Glenn.
March 18, 1909
The new Duplex printing press for The Daily Republican has arrived and, as contractor E.F. Regenhardt expects to complete the foundation piers this week, arrangements have been made with the expert from the factory to be here next week to set up the machine; this will be the largest printing press in use between St. Louis and Little Rock, Ark.
May 12, 1909
JEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri House yesterday increased the appropriation budget, passing bills that will take an additional $24,011.75 from the state treasury; among the items was $5,382 to Edward F. Regenhardt for repairs to the Cape Girardeau Normal School.
July 2, 1909
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Charles A. Crow, Edward F. Regenhardt and Harry Naeter of Cape Girardeau visit President William Howard Taft in the morning while all Cabinet officers are with the president.
Aug. 16, 1909
About 20 prominent Cape Girardeau residents responded yesterday to the call issued by Edward F. Regenhardt for a meeting to lay preliminary plans for the Taft Day celebration in October; a 60-minute program was planned, which includes an automobile drive to the Normal School, where the president will address the crowd and plant a tree.
Aug. 20, 1909
Edward F. Regenhardt, chairman of the Taft Day celebration committee, learns there will be special trains running to Cape Girardeau over two lines that day, bringing visitors from Poplar Bluff, Kennett, Campbell and Malden, Mo.

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8/19/2004
Rob Lewis

St. Louis Central Public Library
Rare Book Room

Men of Affairs of St. Louis

Edward Franz T. Regenhardt

Edward Franz T. Regenhardt can be justly called the original rock ribbed Republican. His sons are named after three presidents; McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft. Cape Girardeau people hunt him out whenever they come to the U. S. Court House where he reigns, six feet six, as United States Marshal.

He is a strong, rugged man; a man who started in the Lutheran Schools and hewed his way out to success with his two hands; descendant of sturdy German stock, born March 24, 1867 at Cape Girardeau and known everywhere. When President Taft sent into Missouri to know who was wanted as U.S. Marshal, he expected a host of candidates. Some people recommended Franz, some Edward, and some Ed., but one and all gave the last name as Regenhardt; and Regenhardt got it. And since then he has earned the respect of the bench and bar for his sterling honesty, his willingness to give everyone a square deal, and his ability to make good. Up and down, sideways and across, through and through he is just what he appears to be a native born Missourian and a credit to hisstate.

This Newspaper Reference Library book, containing portraits, biographies, and cartoons of progressive men of St. Louis, who have helped in the development and history making of St. Louis

It is primarily a publisher's utility library and it's aim is to principally supply newspaper offices with a work of reference wherein it can be found, in correct from, the basic facts, from the birth down to date, regarding the lives of men of notable achievement, together with half-tones from the latest photographs and dealing with the lighter vein of each man's life, a cartoon.

Buried:
Section 3. Lot 58, Grave 2

Edward married Caroline Emilie Alvina Theuerkauf on 09 Sep 1891 in St. Mark's Lutheran Church, St. Louis, , Missouri, USA. Caroline (daughter of Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Theuerkauf and Johanna Sophia Augusta Allers) was born on 01 Jun 1865 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; died on 23 Nov 1942 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John Thomas (J.T.) was named after his grandfathers - John McNeely and Thomas Haile.

John Thomas McNeely Will

The will of John T. McNeely, who died at his home at Leemon Saturday, was filed for probate today. It was witnessed by A.M. Sander and John J. Putz, and provides that the entire estate to the testator widow, Mrs. Jennie McNeely. A peculiar circumstance came to light during the filing of the will. John T. McNeely died at the age of 81 years, 6 months, and 12 days. His father George W. McNeely, lived to be the same age, 81 years, 6 months, and 12 days. He died August 19, 1917.


Died:
From The Southeast Missourian, 15 May, 1941:

John T. McNeely, 81, Leemon Community Leader, Passes Away.

John T. McNeely, 81 years old, a farmer and community leader of
the Leemon community for many years, died at his home at 6 o'clock
Thursday night of progressive paralysis of long standing. He was
in poor health for more than a year, but was bedfast only since
Monday.

Mr. McNeely was born in the Leemon community Nov. 3, 1859, and
spent nearly all his life in that vicinity, being a successful
farmer. After reaching advanced age, he and Mrs. McNeely resided
two years in Cape Girardeau, then moved back to Leemon.

Always taking a keen interest in religious and public affairs,
he was active in social and political affairs. At one time he was
a member of the Farm Grange, was active in the Modern Woodsmen of
America Lodge, and was an active member of the Fairview Methodist
Church for 51 years.

On McKendree Board

He was a member of the board of trustees for the preservation
of Old McKendree Methodist Church, and still was at the time of his
death. He was always keenly interested in the old church's
history, and preservation of the building and grounds. He was
especially energetic as a member of the Cape County Historical
Society.

Mr. McNeely was somewhat of a philosopher, and his home,
attractively situated on a knoll overlooking Indian Creek, was a
storehouse of interesting literature in which he spent many of his
spare hours. All his neighbors were his friends, who respected
him.

On Dec. 12, 1889, he was married to Miss Jennie Stevenson of
Shawneetown. She survives, as do three daughters, Mrs. C. A. Poe of
St. Louis, Mrs. Ed Tuschhoff of Old Appleton, and Mrs. Ted
Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau; four grandchildren, one sister, Mrs.
Price Morton of near Fruitland, and two half-sisters, Mrs. Ed Lang
of Fullerton, Cal., and Mrs. W. H. Cunningham of Campbell.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock, at Old Appleton Presbyterian Church. The body was to be
taken from the Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home at Jackson to the
family home at Leemon this afternoon to remain there until time for
the funeral.

<<< Presbyterian Church with burial in the church cemetery..>>>>>>

From The Southeast Missourian, 5? Dec, 1939.

Cape County Couple at Golden Wedding

Mr. and Mrs. John T. McNeely of the Leemon community will
observe the 50th anniversary of their marriage on Dec. 12, and on
Sunday, Dec. 10, their neighbors, relatives, and friends throughout
the county will gather at a basket dinner in Fairview Church
immediately after the regular preaching services that morning. The
church is not far from the McNeely home. With the exception of two
years' residence in Cape Girardeau they have lived their married
life on the farm near Leemon under the shadow of Mount Nebo.

Mr. McNeely was born on a farm near Fruitland Nov. 3, 1857, and
has lived his life in Cape County. One sister, Mrs. Price Morton,
lives near Fruitland, and two half-sisters Mrs. W. H. Cunningham,
of Campbell, and Mrs. Ed Land of Fullerton, Cal., are the remaining
members of his family.

Mrs. McNeely, born near Shawneetown June 16, 1862, was Miss
Jamima Jane Stevenson, being united in marriage to John T. McNeely
on Dec. 12, 1889, at the home of her mother, Mrs. A. K. Stevenson
about one mile east of Shawneetown. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. G. W. King, a circuit rider of the times.

Of this union there were four children, all daughters, there
being one set of twins, Miss Bessie McNeely (deceased) and Mrs.
Edward Tuschoff. The first born was Mrs. C. A. Poe and the last,
Mrs. Ted Regenhardt.

Both Still Active.

Those still living who attended the wedding were A. C.
Stevenson and wife Julie, Hugh Roy Stevenson, who was very young at
the time, Ruth (McNeely) Lang, Gusta (McNeely) Cunningham, Ollie
(McNeely) Morton, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wallace, Mrs. John (Lummie)
Daugherty, Mrs. L. D. Stevenson and daughter, Burley McNeely,
Theodore F. Mitchell, William Shoults.

Mr. McNeely, nearing 80 years of age, and Mrs. McNeely, past
77, are in very good health and are at present staying at the home
of their daughter, Mrs. T. R. Regenhardt, 101 South Boulevard.
They go occasionally to the old home place and will be there
Sunday, as well as at the church service and the golden wedding
celebration at the church.

He has never held public offices but has been named on
commissions of public importance. He is.

<<< articles - correct date is 3 Nov 1859. Place was his parent's farm
near Fruitland.>>>>

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From The Cash-Book Journal:

John T. McNeely, 81, of Leemon Dies

John T. McNeely, one of the most respected and esteemed citizens of
this county, died at his home at Leemon last Wednesday night of
paralysis from which he had suffered for several years. He
attended church the previous Sunday and was taken seriously ill
soon thereafter.

Mr. McNeely was born Nov. 3, 1859 in the same community in
which he died. He was the son of George W. McNeely, his
grandfather being John R. McNeely, a native of North Carolina who
moved to this county in 1830. On Dec. 12, 1889 he united in
marriage with Miss Jennie Stevenson of Shawneetown, who survives.
He followed farming all of his active life.

He was a devout Methodist, being a member of the Fairview
church for 51 years, and one of the principal supports of the
church, which he attended regularly so long as his health
permitted, He was very positive in his views yet most charitable
with those who honestly differed with him. His love for his
country and his patriotism was outstanding throughout his life.
Always a great reader he could converse intelligently upon any
subject of the day. The editor of the Cash-Book considered him one
of his warm, personal friends. Although we did not agree upon many
subjects our friendly arguments were greatly enjoyed.

In addition to his widow he leaves three daughters, Mrs. C. A.
Poe of St. Louis, Mrs. Ed Tuschoff of near Old Appleton and Mrs.
Ted Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau, a sister, Mrs. Price Morton of
Fruitland and two half-sisters, Mrs. Ed Lange of Fullerton, Calif.,
and Mrs W. H. Cunningham of Campbell.

Funeral services were held at the Old Applecreek Presbyterian
church near Pocahontas with burial in the cemetery nearby.

From the Southeast Missourian:

Funeral Rites for John T. McNeely

Jackson, May 17 --- Funeral services for John T. McNeely, 81 years
old, who died at his home at Leemon Thursday night, will be
conducted at 2;30 o'clock this afternoon at Old Applecreek
Presbyterian Church, and burial will be there, where his relatives
are buried. The church is half a mile east of Pocahontas. Mr.
McNeely long was a church and community leader.









From "The Southeast Missourian"

Son Lives To Exactly Same Age as Father

The will of John T. McNeely, who died at his home at Leemon
Saturday, was filed for probate today. It was witnessed by A. M.
Sander and John G. Putz, and provides that the entire estae go to
the testator's widow, Mrs. Jennie McNeely. A peculiar circumatance
came to light during the filing of the will. John T. McNeely died
at the age of 81 years, 6 months, and 12 days. His father, George
W. McNeely, lived to be exactly the same age, 81 years, 6 months,
and 12 days. He died Aug. 19, 1917.

John Thomas McNeely Obit

John T. McNeely, one of the most respected and esteemed citizens of this county, died at his home at Leemon last Saturday night of paralysis from which he had suffered for several years.

He attended church the previous Sunday and was taken seriously ill soon thereafter. Mr. McNeely was born Nov. 3, 1859 in the same community in which he died. He was the son of George W. McNeely, his grandfather being John R. McNeely, a native of North Carolina who moved to this county in 1830. On Dec. 12, 1889 he united in marriage with Miss Jennie Stevenson of Shawneetown, who survives. He followed farming all of his active life.


Buried:
grave site GPS: 37.49886 -89.62828

Row 10 Grave LL

John married Jemima Jane Stevenson on 12 Dec 1889 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Jemima (daughter of Alexander Kennedy Stevenson and Elizabeth Leonard Clodfelter) was born on 16 Jun 1862 in Shawnee Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was christened on 9 Nov 1882 in Apple Creek Presbyterian Church, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; died on 11 Jun 1945 in Leemon, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Apple Creek Cemetery, Pocahontas, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Apple Creek Presbyterian Church Session Minutes pg. 61: Jennie McNeely submits letter of dismissal to join Fairview M.E. Church 14 Sep 1890.

Honor Woman as She Has 75th Birthday

In their comfortable home, picturesquely located at the foot of
Mount Nebo and not far from the banks of the winding Indian Creek,
Mr. and Mrs. John T. McNeely were hosts yesterday to a large number
of relatives and friends, the occasion being Mrs. McNeely's 75th
birthday, The McNeely home, the old Leemon Hale place, is located
at the edge of the village named after that pioneer citizen, Capt.
Leemon Hale, Leemon. The guests and children of the aged couple
enjoyed the visit greatly, and presented a rather informal birthday
program for which the honoree expressed her appreciation

Four daughters of Mr. and Mrs. McNeely were present, Mrs. Onis
Poe and daughter Irlene of St. Louis; Miss Bess McNeely, who
remains at home with her parents; Mrs. C. E. Tuschoff of Old
Appleton, and Mrs. Ted Regenhardt and children, Alice and John
Donald of Cairo, Ill. Nieces present from a distance were Mrs.
Nola Gray of Garden City, Kas., Mrs. Eunice King of Anthony, Kas.,
Mrs. Bertha Snider of Winfield, Kas., Mrs. Grace Bruner of
Lawrence, Kas., and Mrs. Edith Hughey of Greenville, Ill., also a
grand-niece, Mrs. Neil Hughey, of Greenville, Ill. Other relatives
and friends were Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Stevenson of Pocahontas, Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Stevenson of Shawneetown, Mrs. Anna Thompson and Mrs.
Irene Kasten of Pocahontas, Mrs. Shabie Ruppel and daughters,
Rettie, Birdie, and Dell of Leemon, Miss Ella Daughterty and Mrs.
Horace Daughterty of Fruitland, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sides and son,
Wayne Allen, Mrs. Herbert Englehart and sons Billie and Jimmie,
Mrs. Mollie Morton, Mrs. Ella Woods, Miss Myrtle Masterson, Mrs.
Mollie Sides and Mrs. Daisy Martin of the Leemon Community.

Mrs. J. T. Mcneely, Aged 82, Passes

Mrs. Jennie McNeely, aged 82 years, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Ted Regenhardt, in Cape Girardeau Monday, following
an illness of two months.

Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the
Old Applecreek Presbyterian Church, conducted by Rev. Miles H.
Stotts, pastor of the Grace Methodist Church of Old Appleton.
Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Mrs. McNeely was born June 16, 1862, at Shawneetown. She united in
marriage with John T. McNeely on Dec. 12, 1889, she and her husband
then moving on a farm near Leemon, where they resided until his
death, Following her husband's death on May 15, 1941, Mrs. McNeely
took up residence with her daughter. She was the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Stevenson and recognized by all who knew
her as a fine character and Christian woman.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. T. R. Regenhardt, Mrs. C. A.
Poe of St. Louis, and Mrs. Ed Tuschoff of Old Appleton, and six grandchildren.

Christened:
Church Record

Buried:
grave site GPS: 37.49886 -89.62828

Row 10 Grave KK

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• Name: William
• Confirmation: 18 Apr 1841, Ahlshausen Lutheran Church, , Lower Saxony, Germany
• Emigration: 20 May 1849, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States
• Naturalization: 15 May 1852, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
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Address

Delivered at the Funeral of William Regenhardt

April 9,1903

Psalm 112, 6.:
"The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance."


When William Regenhardt drew his last breath at half past ten o'clock last Tuesday morning, a good man, a prominent and distinguished citizen, a highly esteemed and valuable member of the Lutheran Church, the honored head of a family, and the cherished friend of many of his fellow-men passed form time into eternity. In his demise a long and useful career on earth has reached its end. Large is the number of those who lament his death. It includes not only his faithful spouse, children, grandchildren andother near of kin; it includes also a large circle of personal friends, business associates and a host of men who formerly or of late were in the employ of the deceased; it includes our whole city and county; it includes the members of the Lutheran church in this city of which the deceased was an old member and a faithful officer for many years. Among the member of mourners is also his pastor who loved and esteemed the deceased very highly as a precious child of God by faith in Christ Jesus. I ventur
But the time of his departure was come, and his soul, in peace with God and man, passed into another, a better and brighter world. Our loss is his gain. It devolves on us to bring his earthly remains to their last resting place on earth. I deem it a privilege to officiate at his funeral and to pay this tribute of love and respect to his memory. For he was one of "the righteous" of whom our text speaks, saying that they "shall be in everlasting remembrance".
"The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance", says the Psalmist. Who are the righteous? Righteousness may be considered under two heads, as righteousness before men and as righteousness before God. The two must not be confounded. The one belongs to the province of nature, the other to the province of grace. The one is a very desirable thing in the sphere of civil life, the other is an important factor in the sphere of spiritual life. The one is the result of our own endeavors under divine providence, the other is the righteousness of Christ appropriated by faith.
In the first place, there is such a thing as civil righteousness or virtuousness. It consists of leading an outwardly honorable and virtuous life before our fellow-citizens. Civil virtues render a man righteous in the eyes of his fellow-men. Such civil righteousness cannot be recommended and praised too highly in this life. Law-abiding citizens, faithful husbands, men that are upright and honest in word and deed and reliable in their dealings, are a great boon to any community, are the mainstay and support, the pillars and sustainers of family, society, and state. God himself demands such virtues and rewards them in this life with temporal blessings. It is mainly this righteousness of which the Book of Proverbs (chap. 14, 34) is speaking when it says, "Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." By divine providence honesty is still the best policy, and virtue finds its reward.
Of such civil righteousness our departed friend and fellow-citizen was a glorious type. Born, cradled and reared in Germany, in a village of the Duchy of Brunswick, he came to this country in 1849 at the age of twenty-one and since October of that year has been without interruption a resident citizen of Cape Girardeau. Being one of its oldest, he was at the same time one of its best citizens. He was a man who, as to the virtues which go together to constitute good citizenship, far excelled many and would bear comparison with any. He was plain, economical, and temperate in his habits; fair and considerate toward his fellow-men; conservative in his opinions; charitable in his judgments; slow to speak, but when he did speak, every word full of marrow andto the point. He was of a kind and tender-hearted disposition; to refuse a favor asked for was to him well nigh an impossibility. He was a peaceful neighbor, having a strong dislike against quarreling. He was kind and generous to those who were in h
But he was still more. He was also a Christian, who stood high in the estimation of his fellow-Christians, whose memory will be cherished in the church of which he was an active member for many years, and whose departure has inflicted a loss which will be felt by his fellow-Lutherans for years to come. He took a lively interest in the affairs of the church, was a regular attendant at the public worship and at the lord's table; for twenty years and longer he was member of the Board of Trustees, president of the congregation and chairman at its regular monthly meetings, placing his remarkable ability for conducting a public meeting, his experience, his soundness of judgment, his conservative advice, his extensive influence and other gifts at the disposal of his church. His services were at all times valuable and were highly appreciated. His memory will ever be blessed among us.
But there is still another righteousness which is of far greater value for time and eternity than the one that we have hitherto been speaking of. That is the righteousness which is available in the sight of God. It is the righteousness of Christ which is procured for all men and is imparted of all believers. Civil virtues and Christian graces may render a man righteous in the eyes of his fellow-men and fellow-Christians, but will never justify him before God. And why not? God demands perfect obedience to his law, not only in some outward things, but in desires, thoughts, words, and deeds. Outward conformity to the divine law does not satisfy him, but he looks at the heart and will have us to be pure in heart, holy and without any evil lust, fearinghim and loving him above all things; and all our thoughts and words and deeds are to proceed from such fear and love of God. And he that offends against the divine law in a single point is guilty of all. And since no man can keep them, no man is just
this righteousness of Christ actually become partakers of the same and are justified before God. To live up to the so-called Golden Rule is indeed our duty, but since we all come short of fulfilling it perfectly we can not be saved thereby, and if we areto receive for forgiveness of sins and be justified before God, it must be not by our works, but by the grace of God, for Christ's sake, through faith. And in this and in no other way was our departed friend justified before God, and in this and in no other way did he want to be righteous in God's sight. He knew and acknowledged that in spite of his civil virtuousness and Christian conversation he was a sinner deserving divine wrath and eternal condemnation. But he also knew and recognized his Savior Jesus Christ and firmly believed that there was salvation for men in nothing save the grace of God and the merits of Christ. Thus he was righteous before God, and was of the number of "the righteous" who "shall be in everlasting remembrance", who shal
May the memory of William Regenhardt ever remain green among us. May his life and his faith be an example to us prompting us to follow in his foot-steps, striving to be good and useful men and women, and, above all, seeking the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And may we all die the death of righteous, and may our last end be like his. Amen.



Christian William Regenhardt
Biographical Research


BIRTH: From the records of the Lutheran Church in Ahlshausen

Pg 86/87, number 6, year 1828 Baptism Record verifies
the following:
Name of Child: Christian Wilhelm
Name of Father: not given (see remarks below)
Name of mother: Johanne Justine Wilhelmina Wressig
Sponsor: Christian Wressig, Cottager here in Ahlshausen
Remarks: Born illegitimate. This illegitimate son of Johanne Wressig is indeed not formally recognized by the recorder of the church books as the child of the late linenweaver Wilhelm Regenhardt in Haieshausen, but he is openly recognized as his child according to reliable testimony. The mother assented to the decree of the Ducal Consistory of the 22 May 1841.

CONFIRMATION: Christian Wilhelm Wressig, called Ragenhardt

At the Niedersaschen State Archives in Wolfenbuttel the
following information is taken from photocopies of the Lutheran Church records in the town of Ahlshausen:

Page 252, number 11, year 1841 Confirmation Book verifies the following:

Day of Confirmation: 18 April 1841, Ahlshausen

Name of Child: Wressig called Ragenhardt, Christian Wilhelm
- born in the year 1828, on the 20th of February.

Name of Mother: Johanne Justine Wilhelmine Wressig

Remarks: According to the Birth Register for the year 1828,
page 86, number 6, Wilhelm Regenhardt, linenweaver, is the father of this illegitimately born child.

Emmigration: At age 21, listed as a bricklayer from Haieshausen,
he left from the port of Bremen, Germany on the ship EDMOND and arrived in New Orleans 20 MAY, 1849 with one piece of luggage. His destination was listed as Cape Girardeau. He traveled with the Bohnsack family.

He became a member of Hanover Lutheran Church.

He married Johanna Dormeier in Cape on 1 SEPT 1853.

He was a Corporal in Captian Michael Dittinger's Company "C", Cape Girardeau, Missouri Home Guard Volunteers from 27 JUN 1861 to 29 SEPT 1861.

He was a Captain of Co. "B", Cape Girardeau County Regiment, Missouri Militia from 7 OCT 1862 to 15 June 1870.

He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Cape Girardeau and State Line Railroad Co. 21 MAY 1870.

1876 - 1892 member of Cape Girardeau City Council

Wilhelm remarried on 20 April 1879 to M. Louisa Meier. They had no children. She was born in Alivese, Braunschweig Province, Germany, on 3 July, 1831. She died 30 June 1903.


The following information about events of the life of William Regenhardt was taken from various newspaper articles and other sources as noted.

_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 1 May 1876
LOCATED: 1983

From the Minutes of the City Council Meeting - 1 May 1876:
Wm. Regenhardt sworn in as new member (his signature is on this page).
He was appointed to these committees:
Ways and Means, Streets and Wharves.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 21 Feb 1891
NEWSPAPER: CAPE DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 15 July 1983
Wm Regenhardt has contract to lay the foundation for D.A. Glenn's store building on Main Street.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 21 Feb 1891
NEWSPAPER: CAPE DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 3
LOCATED: 1983
We publish a communication today nominating William Regenhardt as the choice of the citizens of the 2nd and 3rd Wards for Mayor. Mr. Regenhardt is one of the gentlemen referred to by the little Main St. sheet as a wooly-mouthed and clabber-headed ignoramus. We will see later who runs the city.

DATE: 21 Feb 1891
SLUG: Bio/Politics
NEWSPAPER: CAPE DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 5
LOCATED: 1983
The Next Mayor
Editor: Democrat:
Since the "Era", backed by its Main Street syndicate is attempting to direct who shall be Mayor, and at the same time giving the Germans and colored citizens continuous complaints of unsavory character, it will be well to inform the "Era" man that Main Street and Main Street influence has run the town for years, and the time has now arrived for a change. And to please the "Era" man we, citizens of the 2nd and 3rd Wards, nominate our worthy councilman and fellow citizen, W. Regenhardt, as our candidate for Mayor, and if he will accept, we are pleased to state that his friends will place him in the Mayoralty by a decidedly handsome majority. Let the people be heard and Main Street influence in our city affairs will be more limited.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 4 July 1891
NEWSPAPER: DEMOCRAT
LOCATED: 1983
Wm Regenhardt is putting a rock foundation in D.A. Glenn's new store building on which the ceder sleepers for the floor will rest.
Wm Regenhardt has the contract for building a vault for the new bank and he is now getting the stone on the ground. The vault will be completed in time for the bank to open up for business on the 1st of August. All the stock for the new corporation has been taken and there are quite a number of people here who wanted stock but spoke too late to get it.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 8 Aug 1891
NEWSPAPER: DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Wm Regenhardt has the contract to make a granitoid pavement in front of Glenn's new store building on Main Street.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 15 Aug 1891
NEWSPAPER: DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 3
LOCATED: 1983
Wm Regenhardt superintended the job of pulling down the walls of the Hirsch and Post Office buildings this forenoon. Since the walls are down the burnt district presents an ugly place on Main Street and it is to be hoped that the vacant lots will soon becovered with buildings better than the ones that were destroyed.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 26 Sep 1891
NEWSPAPER: DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 3
LOCATED: 1983
Wm Regenhardt has the contract for the stone work for 3 new houses on Main Street.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 6 Feb 1892
NEWSPAPER: DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 6
LOCATED: 1983
William Regenhardt - on Street and Wharf Committee of City Council.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 27 Feb 1892
NEWSPAPER: DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
A large number of friends of Wm. Regenhardt called on the old gentleman yesterday (Sunday, 21 Feb 1892) and as a token of their friendship presented him with a handsome gold-headed cane in honor of his 64th birthday. Mr. Regenhardt was looking for a call from his friends and he was prepared to receive them and he proved to be a generous host.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 21 Mar 1892
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 5
LOCATED: 1983
City Govenment Minutes: Petition signed by Trustees of German Methodist Church, and Wm. Regenhardt, Anton Haas, and other citizens was read. Petition asks the board to grade Independence St. between Sprigg and Ellis streets.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 26 Mar 1892
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 7
LOCATED: 1983
Cape Girardeau City Ticket (sample ballot for City Council election) - Wm. Regenhardt not on ballot.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 30 Apr 1892
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Wm Regenhardt went down to Poplar Bluff this morning to bid on a job of stone work.
________________________________________________________________
DATE: 7 May 1892
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 5
LOCATED: 1983
City Government Minutes - Wm Regenhardt's last meeting as City Councilman was 2 May 1892.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 4 June 1892
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 3
LOCATED: 1983
Wm. Regenhardt, delegate to the National Repbulican Convention, will leave tomorrow morning for Minneapolis (6/3/92 -Friday).
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 18 June 1892
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
Wm. Regenhardt returned home yesterday evening from Minneapolis, where he had been to help nominate the next President of the United States.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 13 Aug 1892
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
Wm Regenhardt is making the foundation for the addition to the Lincoln School.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 1 Oct 1892
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Wm. Regenhardt purchased the city lot that was sold by the Sheriff today at partition sale. He paid $75 for it.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 14 Jan 1893
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 3
LOCATED: 1983
Coming down the grade on Broadway yesterday (Tuesday 10 Jan 1893) car number one ran on to the mules and caused them to runaway. The car was full of passengers and many of them jumped out when the car was going at breakneck speed. Wm. Regenhardt was one of the passengers who jumped. His face struck the rock on the street and was badly bruised. Fortunately he was not seriously hurt. The brake on the car did not work and the car was unmanageable.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 11 Mar 1893
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
Wm Regenhardt is going to build a residence building on his lot up in Donnybrook. The building will be for rent as soon as it is completed.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 11 Mar 1893
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 3
LOCATED: 1983
Wm Regenhardt is going to build a nice residence building in the Giboney-Houck Addition. There will be no less than eight buildings put up in that part of the city this year and they will all be good buildings, too.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 13 May 1893
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 4
LOCATED: 1983
Wm Regenhardt will soon begin work on a granitoid pavement around the new Sturdivant Bank Building. When completed this will be the longest stretch of granitoid pavement in the city and it will make the grand new bank building show up to much better advantage.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 13 Jan 1894
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Wm. Regenhardt is apt to be out again. The old gentleman had a lengthy wrestle with the grip, and he was down in bed for a week or two.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 1 Sep 1894
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Wm. Regenhardt purchased some real estate on Fountain Street the other day.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 8 Sep 1894
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
In the case of Regenhardt vs. Hass, the jury returned a verdict in favor of Regenhardt. (Ciruit Court - Common Pleas)
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 19 Jan 1895

NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 6 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1 Aug 1983
Wm Regenhardt, who was confined to his room last week, is able to be out again.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 16 Feb 1895
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 6 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1 Aug 1983
Wm Regenhardt went out to Jackson this morning and got back in time for dinner.

C. F. Betten will move his family to Jackson as soon as Wm Regenhardt completes the new house he is building out there.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 6 July 1895
SOURCE: City Council Minutes
LOCATED: 1 Aug 1983

The City Council has contracted with Wm Regenhardt for a hose house in the 2nd Ward. Mr. Regenhardt will build the house and lease it to the City for 5 years. (on Broadway near Ellis on
Wm Regenhardt's lot)
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 19 Apr 1898
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. COL.
LOCATED: 1983
Mayor had contracted with parties to quarry sandstone on Lorimier St. north of Mill St. But Wm Regenhardt appeared before Council stating that they were quarrying on his property.
City Engineer requested to locate lines of Lorimier from south side of Mill St. to the north side of Mason St. MOTION CARRIED.
Property owners on Meriweather from Ellis to Pacific asked Wm Regenhardt to ask the City Council to put in sewer pipe on Meriweather.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 27 Aug 1898
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 5
LOCATED: 25 July 1983

Wm Regenhardt has been confined to his bed several days.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 3 Sep 1898
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. COL.
LOCATED: 25 July 1983
Wm Regenhardt is still in his room but he is now improving.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 10 Sep 1898
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 25 July 1983
Wm Regenhardt, assignee of Stein Brothers, sold a lot of notes and accounts last Saturday. They didn't bring enough money to pay for advertising them.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 28 Jan 1899
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Wm Regenhardt made his final settlement yesterday, as asignee of Stein Brothers.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 29 Dec 1900
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 1 COL. 6
LOCATED: 1983
Wm Regenhardt is on Board of Directors (and President of Stockholders) of the Cape Brewery and Ice Co.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 4 Jan 1902
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 4 COL. 2
LOCATED: 1983
Wm Regenhardt went out to Allenville this morning to lookout after the interests of the Cape Brewery and Ice. Co.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 28 Mar 1903
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 3
LOCATED: Aug 1983
Wm Regenhardt, one of the oldest and best citizens of the city, lies dangerously ill at his home on West Independence St. Mr. Regenhardt is past 74 years of age, and is suffering from an attack of la grippe.
_________________________________________________________________
DATE: 11 Apr 1903
NEWSPAPER: Weekly Democrat
LOCATED: July 1983, Cape Library


A GOOD MAN GONE

William Regenhardt Passed Away Tuesday Morning

A Life Crowned with Good Deeds Comes to an End

William Regenhardt, aged and respected citizen, known and loved by every man, woman, and child in Cape Girardeau, passed away at 10:30 last Tuesday morning at his home on Independence Street, between Sprigg and Frederick, after a life of usefulness and good deeds that is seldom if ever equalled.

No man has ever lived in Cape Girardeau who was better known or liked. He had lived here for years and was always spoken of with respect, good will, and reverence. A better man and a better friend never lived, and in his death Cape Girardeau and its people lose a valuable man.

The news of his death came as a great shock, as it was given out last night that he was much better and that the chances for his recovery were improved. This morning, however, it became apparent that the end was near and the family and friends were summoned to his bedside. The end came peacefully, the aged sufferer being concious to the last.

The deceased was 75 years old, having passed the birthday in February. He leaves a widow, two sons and one daughter, who were at the bedside when the last breath was drawn.

Mr. Regenhardt was born February 20, 1828 at Alshausen, Braunshweig, Germany.


Civil War Draft:

https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1666/32178_620303987_0018-00076?pid=3603105&backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/906160/person/1511948289/gallery&usePUB=true&_phsrc=pAo11&usePUBJs=true

Douglas: History of Southeast Missouri, pg 501:

In 1859 the Cape Girardeau, Pilot Knob & Belmont Railroad Company was organized to construct a road from Pilot Knob to Bel- mont, by way of Cape Girardeau. William C. Ranney was made president of the company, arrangements were perfected and a large private subscription obtained for the stock of the company. The county of Cape Girardeau voted to take two hundred thousand dollars worth of the company's stock. It seemed that the railroad would be built and it probably would have been but for the breaking out of the Civil war. Nothing was done during that period, but after the close of the war the matter was taken up again. A company was organized, known as the Cape Girardeau & State Line Railroad Company, with intention to build a road from Cape Girardeau to some point on the Arkansas line. The company was organized April 27th, 1869, with the following directors : G. C. Thilenius, John Albert, T. J. Rodney, Robert Sturdivant, John Ivers, A. B. Dorman, M. Dittlinger, L. F. Klostermann, William Woeleke, F.

The company started off with very flattering prospects, there was a large private subscription to the bonds and the city of Cape Girardeau voted to take a hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth and the township of Cape Girardeau the same amount. The bonds were sold and with the money the work of construction was begun. Through bad management, however, the funds were exhausted before a single mile of the road was finished. It was then determined to build the road by contract. Accordingly an agreement was entered into with Governor Fletcher and his associates to build the road, and for their services they were to receive a deed to the roadbed, provided they completed twenty-five miles by December 1, 1871.
Governor Fletcher then proceeded to organize a company known as the Illinois. Missouri & Texas Railway Company and issued bonds to the amount of $1,500,000 secured by mortgage on the property of both companies. The bonds found no sale however, and it became impossible to secure funds. The project of building the road was abandoned for ten years. A considerable amount of work had been done in building bridges and in laying ties and throwing up a roadbed; all these suffered very materially during the years when nothing was done, the wood work decayed and the roadbed was washed away by the rain and grew up in brush.

Louise Regenhardt et-all heirs of Charles Meyer deceased
To Hermann Weiss; Warranty Deed
This deed made and entered nto this 20th day May eighteen Hundred and Seventy nine by and between Louise Regenhardt late Louise Meyer widow of Charles Meyer deceased and William Regenhardt her husband August Heuer and Auguste Heuer, late Auguste Meyer, his wife. Matilda Masters late Matilde Meyer and David C. Masters her husband, of the County of Cape Girardeau and State of Missouri parties of the first part and Hermann Weiss of the County of Cape Girardeau and State of Missouri party of the Second part Witnesseth. That the Said parties of the first part in Consideration of the Fifteen Hundred Dollars to them paid by the Said party of the Second part, the receipt of which is here by acknowledged do by these presents grant bargain and sell Convey and Confirm unto the Said party of the second part and his heirs and assings forever all their right title and interest of every kind whatsoever, more particularly all their right title and interest in and to the following describedReal Estate, Situate and lyi
Executed in the presence of Louisa Regenhardt Seal
Edward D. Englemann William Regenhardt Seal
August Heuer Seal
Auguste Heuer Seal
Matilde Masters Seal
David C. Masters Seal

State of Missouri
County of Cape Girardeau Be it remembered that on this 20th day of May 1879 before the undersigned a Notary Public within and for the County of Cape Girardeau and State aforesaid personally appeared William Regenhardt and Louise Regenhardt his wife August Heuer and Auguste Heuer his wife and David C. Masters and Matilde Masters his wife who are all personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are Subscribed to the foregoing instrument of writing as parties thereto and Severally acknowledged that they executed the same as their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned. And the Said Auguste Heuer and Matilde Masters being by me first made acquainted with the contents of the Said instrument of writing upon an examination Separate and aprt from their Said husbands Severally acknowledged that they executed the same freely and without fear compulsion or undue influence of their Said husbands and the said Louise Regenhardt being by me first made acquainted with the contents of S

Seal Edward D. Engleman
Notary Public
Recorded May 22nd 1879 at 10:15am HR English Clk ?? official Recorded

above note courtesy of Judy Tuccinardi


William Regenhardt Naturalization 15 May 1852 Common Pleas Court Book A Pg 71
Cape Girardeau, Missouri

William Regenhardt a native of Germany and formerly a subject to William Duke of Brunswick appears in open court and applies to be admitted a citizen of the United States of America and appearing that said applicant on the 15th day of May 1852 before the clerk of the Cape Girardeau Circuit Court filed his application under oath of intension to become a citizen of the United States of America and it further appears to the satisfaction of the court from the oath of Henry Brandes and William Bierwirth who are known to the court to be citizens of the United States and that applicant for the last five years has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States and for the last three years within the state of Missouri and that during that time he has behaved as person of good moral character attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same. Whereas the said William Regenhardt declares an oath that he wil

Therefore it is ordered by the court that the said William Regenhardt be admitted a citizen of the United States of America.

- Cape Girardeau County Archives Center, Jackson, Missouri - 3 Jun 2021


Christened:
At the Niedersaschen State Archives in Wolfenbuttel the following information is taken form photocopies of the Lutheran Church records in the town Alshausen.

Page 86/87, number 6, year 1828 Baptism Record verifies the fowllowing:

Born: 20 February 1828, Ahlshausen

Baptized: 24 February 1828, Ahlshausen

Name of Child: Christian Wilhelm

Name of father: not given

Name of mother: Johanne Justine Wilhelmina Wressig

Sponsor: Christian Wressig, cottager here in Ahlhausen

Remarks: Number 6 was born illegitimate. This illegitimate son of Johanne Wressig is indeed not formally recognized by the recorder of the church books, as the child of the late linnenweaver Wilhelm Regehnardt in Haichshausen, but he is openly recognizedas his child according to reliable testimony. The mother assented to the decree of the Ducal Consistory of the 22 May 1841.


Confirmation:
Christian Wilhelm Wressig, called Regenhardt

At the Niedersaschen State Archives in Wolfenbuttel the following information is taken form photocopies of the Lutheran Church records in the town Alshausen.

Page 252, number 11, year 1841 Confirmation Book verifies the following:




Day of Confirmation: 18 April 1841, Ahlshausen


Name of Child: Wressig called Regenhardt, Christian Wilhelm
Born in the year 1828, on the 20th of February


Name of mother: Johanne Justine Wilhelmina Wressig

Remarks: According to the Birth Register for the year 1828, page 86, number 6,


Emigration:
Ship passenger list on-line:

https://www.immigrantships.net/v11/1800v11/edmund18490511_01.html

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 8005575

Section 2, Lot 79, Grave 2

Christian married Johanne Sophie Amalie Mankopf on 01 Sep 1853 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Johanne (daughter of Johann Heinrich Carl Mahnkopf and Johanne Dorothee Charlotte Wille) was born on 02 July 1834 in Upstedt, , Lower Saxony, Germany; was christened on 13 Jul 1834 in Upstedt, , Lower Saxony, Germany; died on 13 Jun 1876 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried on 14 Jun 1876 in New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• familyserch.org ID: GFVC-ZPH
• Immigration: 26 Oct 1852, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States; S.S. Rebecca from Bremen, Germany
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

Baptized in the church of Upstedt 1834, page 25, record number 9:
Day of birth: 2 July
Day of baptism: 13 July
Name of the baptized: Johanne Sophie Amalie Mankopf Wille
Name of the parents: Carl Mankopf, father (!!!)
Mother: Johanne Dorothee Charlotte Wille


Pastor Umbeck's Notebook:

Entry 93:
Christian Willam Regenhardt married to Johanna Mohnkopf 1 Sep 1853

Johanna is legitimate Daughter of:
Carl Mohnkopf (deceased) and Charlotte Immerman

Born 2 July 1834 at Obstadt, Amt Wohlenberg, Hanover
Baptized at Obstadt, Confirmed at Schlewecke.
Stepdaughter of Dormeier.


church records for Upstedt (book 1803-1852), baptisms 1834, page 25, entry 9
Name at christening: Johanne Sophie Amalie
Day and hour of the birth: 2 July at 11:30pm
Legitimate or Illegitimate child: illegitimate
First and last name of the father: Carl Mankopf acknowledged that he is the father
First and last name of the mother: Johanne Dorothee Charlotte Wille
Residence of the parents: Upstedt
Day of christening: 13 July
Name of the pastor who completed the baptism: CJH Rautenberg
Name of the witnesses: 1. Conrad Philipps 2. Frau Bock 2. Frau Borchers


Birth:
Church records for Upstedt (book 1803-1852), baptisms 1834, page 25, entry 9
Name at christening: Johanne Sophie Amalie
Day and hour of the birth: 2 July at 11:30pm
Legitimate or Illegitimate child: illegitimate
First and last name of the father: Carl Mankopf acknowledged that he is the father
First and last name of the mother: Johanne Dorothee Charlotte Wille
Residence of the parents: Upstedt
Day of christening: 13 July
Name of the pastor who completed the baptism: CJH Rautenberg
Name of the witnesses: 1. Conrad Philipps 2. Frau Bock 2. Frau Borchers


The First 50 Years - Trinity Lutheran Church History pg 334 has her birth date as 2 June 1833.

Pastor Umbeck's Notes has her birthday as 2 July 1834.

Christened:
Church records for Upstedt (book 1803-1852), baptisms 1834, page 25, entry 9
Name at christening: Johanne Sophie Amalie
Day and hour of the birth: 2 July at 11:30pm
Legitimate or Illegitimate child: illegitimate
First and last name of the father: Carl Mankopf acknowledged that he is the father
First and last name of the mother: Johanne Dorothee Charlotte Wille
Residence of the parents: Upstedt
Day of christening: 13 July
Name of the pastor who completed the baptism: CJH Rautenberg
Name of the witnesses: 1. Conrad Philipps 2. Frau Bock 2. Frau Borchers

Died:
Died of childbed fever - Trinity Lutheran Church records

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 8005556

Section 2, Lot 79, Grave 3

Other Events and Attributes:

• familyserch.org ID: K2JJ-1JB
• Name: William
• Naturalization: 22 Sep 1854, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

14 Aug 1889, The Trustees of Wm Theuerkauf sold the bakery property to Louis Miller. Note that this was before the death of Wm 20 Sep 1889.

Civll War: Company A, Cape Girardeau Battalion, Missouri Home Guard. June-Sept 1861 4 companies under Major George H. Cramer (findagrave.com memorial #90104890)

John Henry W. Theuerkauf - Common Pleas Court Book A page 317 naturalization
22 Sep 1854
Cape Girardeau, Missouri

John Henry W. THEUERKAUF a native of Germany who applies to be admitted a citizen of the United states comes forward and proves to the satisfaction of the court that he has resided in the United states at least five years and in the state of Missouri at least one year immediately preceding this application during which time he has conducted himself as a man of good moral character and that he has taken preparatory steps required by the laws of the United states concerning the naturalization of foreigners and he declares here in presence court upon oath that he will support the constitution of
[Note: the above is all that appears in the book. The next page starts with the application of another person. Normal verbiage format would be:]
the United States and that he doth and entirely and absolutely renounce and absolve all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince potentate state or sovereignty whatsoever and particularly to William Duke of Brunswick of whom he was formerly a subject .

Therefore it is ordered by the court that the said John Henry W. Theuerkauf be admitted a citizen of the United States of America.


Owned and Operated the Theuerkauf Bakery at the southwest corner of Broadway and Sprigg.

familysearch.org family tree ID: K2JJ-1JB


https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106396932/william-m-theuerkauf


Christened:
Church baptism record: https://www.archion.de/p/27cd6e0770/

Naturalization:
John Henry W. Theuerkauf - Common Pleas Court Book A page 317 naturalization
22 Sep 1854
Cape Girardeau, Missouri

John Henry W. Theuerekauf a native of Germany who applies to be admitted a citizen of the United states comes forward and proves to the satisfaction of the court that he has resided in the United states at least five years and in the state of Missouri at least one year immediately preceding this application during which time he has conducted himself as a man of good moral character and that he has taken preparatory steps required by the laws of the United states concerning the naturalization of foreigners and he declares here in presence court upon oath that he will support the constitution of
[Note: the above is all that appears in the book. The next page starts with the application of another person. Normal verbiage format would be:]
the United States and that he doth and entirely and absolutely renounce and absolve all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince potentate state or sovereignty whatsoever and particularly to William Duke of Brunswick of whom he was formerly a subject.

Therefore it is ordered by the court that the said John Henry W. Theuerkauf be admitted a citizen of the United States of America.

Buried:
Grave to the right of his is his second wife Maria Allers. To the left of his grave is the grave of his first wife, Johanna Allers. The two women are sisters.

findagrave.com memorial # 106396932

Grave to the right of his is his second wife Maria Allers. To the left of his grave is the grave of his first wife, Johanna Allers. The two women are sisters.

Section I, Grave 40

Johann married Johanna Sophia Augusta Allers on 30 Nov 1851 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Johanna (daughter of Friedrich Rudolph Allers and Johanne Margarette Henriette Wassman) was born on 14 Sep 1825 in Bockenem, , Lower Saxony, Germany; died on 17 Apr 1869 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Old Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• familyserch.org ID: K2JJ-1VT
• Name: Johanna
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

Courtesy Judy Tuccinardi research on ancestry.com

Died:
Trinity Lutheran records show Johanna Theuerkauf died of typhus 17 Apr 1869 and buried 18 Apr 1869.

Buried:
findagrave.com memorial # 106396978

Section I Grave 41

Notes:

Research

THEUERKAUF RESEARCH
12-29-92
RIVERSIDE REGIONAL LIBRARY

Book 511B: Cape County Marriage Records 1873-1900
pg. 57: 30 Nov 1851
John Henry Theuerkauf - Johanna Sophia Augusta Allers
"both from Germany...both personally known to me"

Book 511D: Cape County Marriage Records 1873-1900
pg. 7: 29 August 1879 Arnold Bremermann - Hermina Thuerkauf

Book 451A: Trinity Lutheran Baptisms 1869-1900
pg 66:
Bremmerman, Fred Born 1 Aug 1880 Bap. 26 June 1881
Parents: Arnold Bremmerman Hermine Theuerkauf
Sponsors: Wm. Theuerkauf

pg 76:
Bremmerman, Gesine J. Born 16 Aug 1883 Bap. 7 Oct 1883
Parents: Arnold Bremmerman Hermine Theuerkauf
Sponsors: Laura Bierwith, Anna Brandes

Book 542: Estate Settlements - Common Pleas Records
pg 116:
Thuerkauf, Wm Died 20 Sept 1889 W. H. Huter, adm.
Heirs: Fred 33, Hermine Bremermann 31, Doris 25, and Alvine 23.

Book 524: Lorimeir Cemetary - Cemetary Records of Cape G. and Surrounding Counties
pg.46 Theuerkauf, Wm, Co A, Cape Gir Batt'n Mo. Home Guard
1. Johanne, wife of William, born Sept 14, 1825, died April 12, 1869
2. Maria, wife of William, born Oct 22, 1829, died
March 19, 1887

Book : Naturalization Records of Cape County
Part 2: pg 19 - Regenhart, Wm 15 May 1852 of Brunswick Age 24

Part 2 pg 24 - Theuerkauf, John Henry 22 Sept 1854 of Brunswick Age 29


Book 462: Hannover (Bertling) Lutheran Church Records
List 17A Page 2 Early members
Johann Heinrich Theuerkauf Astfeld

Baptisms
1853 - Auguste H. Theuerkauf
1860 - Wilhelmine Regenhardt
1862 - Ludwig K. H. Theuerkauf
1863 - Dorthea K. Theuerkauf

THEUERKAUF Research
4-18-92
Cape Library

Newspaper: Cape Girardeau Democrat

Wm. Theuerkauf - Died 26 Oct 1889 Occupation: farmer
Walther's Funeral Home

Hermina Bremmermann - purchased all house and kitchen furniture, articles in the bakery and store and warehouse.


Gen
R929.377896 CAP
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Cape Girardeau County Death Register 1883-1893

pg 27 - Theuerkauf, Mary, d. 19 Mar 1887 (58-4-25)
b. Bakelem Hanover, Germany Res: ?
d. Cape Girardeau buried: City Cemetary

pg 27 - Theuerkauf, William, d. 20 Sept 1889 (64-5-26) Widower
b. Alsfeld Herzogthum, Brunswick, Germany Res: 35 years
d. Cape Girardeau buried: City Cemetary

Marriage Index - Cape County

Theuerkauf, Henry m. Johanna Sophia Augusta Allers
Book B pg. 358
both from Germany, the 30th day of Nov 1851.
A. Lehmann - pastor Hannover Lutheran Church
Recorded 4th March 1852.

Theuerkauf, Wm m. Maria Kampfe
Book D pg 60
I, the undersigned minister of Lutheran Church in Randol Township do hereby certify that on the 19th day of October AD 1869 I joined in marriage William Theuerkauf and Maria Kampfe all of Cape Girardeau. Given under my hand this 19th day of October 1869.
- W. Weissinger


Married:
Cape Girardeau Marriage Book B pg 358-359

film 007424357 images 399-400

"Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89CT-G2Q8?cc=2060668&wc=C11Q-7M9%3A352317901%2C1583562201 : 26 April 2019), Cape Girardeau > Marriage records 1805-1868 vol A-C > image 399 of 754; Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.

Hanover Lutheran Church

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Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri, pub. 1888, page 781:

George W. McNeely was born in Cape Girardeau County on February 7, 1836. He is the son of John R. McNeely, a native of North Carolina. The latter was reared in his native State, and was married there to Mary Shuford, who was also a native of North Carolina, born in 1807. After their marriage they immigrated to Missouri, and settled in Cape Girardeau County in 1833. There they entered land and improved a farm, upon which Mrs. McNeely still resides. Although Mr. McNeely was a cooper by trade he managed his farm during his life, and died thereabout 1843. They were the parents of six children, four of whom are living. One son, Archibald, resides in California. The two other sons and the daughter live in Cape Girardeau County. George W. grew to manhood on his father's farm, and in 1858 was united in marriage with Marillus Hale, daughter of Thomas Hale. After his marriage Mr. McNeely rented land for a few years, but located upon the farm where he now resides in 1868, having purchased it two years previously

NOTE by Rob: Archibald is a brother of George W McNeely, NOT his son.

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George married Marillus Haile on 23 Dec 1858 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Marillus (daughter of Thomas Haile and Hannah Woodfin) was born on 25 Dec 1835 in Unknown, , , ; died on 04 May 1866 in Cape Girardeau County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Fruitland, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Research):FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO MISSOURI 1819

The Revolutionary War was over, Thomas Jefferson had purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. First there were exploring parties, then the establishment of forts, missions, and settlements. Lewis and Clark ascended the Missouri River in the summerof 1804. Zebulos M. Pike explored parts of Kansas and Nebraska two years later. A scientific expedition under Major Stephen H. Long came up the Missouri, in the first steamboat to enter the country, in 1819.
The War of 1812 took the English and Indians out of the territory which is now Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The Indians that were left were being pushed West onto reservations. Settlement of the Louisiana Territory was the issue of the day. Spain and France had tried to settle it for the past 100 years but were unsuccessful.
There was a trail west from the Carolina and Virginias through the Cumberland Gap, on through Tennessee and Kentucky that Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton and others had established before the Revolutionary War. It went on to cross the Ohio River close to where it joined the Mississippi, To cross the Mississippi the trail led to Moccasin Springs, where Mr. Green ran the ferry that took you across the river. The Trail of Tears State Park is there now.

Mitchell Fleming, James Stevenson, Zenos Ross, Robert McFarland, Anderson Mitchell. Mr. Querry, Thomas Wilson, J. Wallace, John Garner, ____ Hill, and Phillip Clodfelter all came to the Louisiana Territory over that trail. Whether they were all in the same wagon train or in different groups, I don't know. There were lots of wagon trains going west at that time. As history goes, some traveled on Sunday and some didn't. Any way, they all settled within walking distance (at that time) of each other. I do know that Phillip Clodfelter came alone.

SETTLED IN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, MISSOURI

The territory was was settling up fast. The county seat was moved from Cape Girardeau to Jackson in 1815. The north end of Cape County is where the Stevensons lived. I'll try to locate the eleven families that made up the community where my ancestors lived.
They all entered land along the Blue Shawnee or Muddy Shawnee Creeks, except Anderson Mitchell. He was east of the Mitchell Fleming place, at the top of a little hollow that runs into Lovejoy Hollow. It is just my guess that if you went back a generation or two you would find Andersons in the Mitchell family and Mitchells in the Fleming family.
We will leave the Anderson Mitchell place, go due west over the ridge to Zenos Ross' place. His land joined Mitchell Fleming's land. Zenos' land was ridge land, his house was up in the timber, while Mitchell Fleming's 80 acres was bottom land along BlueShawnee Creek. The Fleming graveyard is in the northeast corner of this plot. Ross married a Fleming girl.
Across Blue Shawnee a little south of the Fleming place, there
is where James and Jane Stevenson raised their family. Out of their ten children only two of them that lived stayed in Missouri, Alexander K. and William. Alexander bought Robert McFarland's place when he moved to Illinois. William stayed on the home place.
Go on west across Muddy Shawnee Creek, on the west bank was the Hill place. This is where he got the idea of the hog ring for which he later received a patent. You can still buy Hill Hog Rings.
His daughter Margaret was Alexander K. Stevenson's first wife. They had three children. Julia went to Illinois, Mary Jane died in infancy. Linley was the boy, he grew up with Ransom Mitchell. They were buddies; whatever one did the other did. I've heard my Granddad say, "if they were playing a game at school they had to both be on the same side or they wouldn't play. When the Civil War broke out Linley joined the Union Army, Ransom stayed homne and remained neutral. Linley went through the war in Cape Girardeau, Shiloh, and the seige at Vicksburg. When he was being mustered out in St. Louis he took small pox and died. He was buried in Old Apple Creek Cemetery, Pocahontas, MO.
Frankie Jane (Shoults) Carruthers has some letters that Linly wrote, from Vicksburg, to her Grandpa Ransom while the seige was going on. In one letter he said, "There hasn't been a shot fired today. I think they are as big a cowards as we are." He asked Ransom if he was taking care of the girls, and he thought that he would take caligraphy when he got back home. The letters are written with black ink, his hand writing was good.
About three quarters of a mile down the creek was the Quary place. The house wasn't close to the creek, it was up on the ridge but there was a good spring there. When Knox bought the place he built a big house north of the spring on the top of the hill.
My dad told me this story. Issac Query was one of the boys. He was an old bachelor when Dad was a little boy in the 1890's. He lived with my Grandpa and was sort of a hired hand. He liked to hunt.
Issac was training the dog to not be gun shy. One day Issac told Dad to come and go with him and the dog squirrel hunting. Dad didn't want to go, but he went anyway. Dad said that Issac really knew what it took to break a dog of gunshyness. Dad said he never knew when his gun shyness was broken. As long as I knew him he could shoot with the experts. He taught "we boys" how to use a gun.
In August of 1970, I pulled my trailer to Fruitland from Albequergue and parked it in my Dad's backyard. The next morning just at daylight a charge went off right over our trailer. Wanda jumped out of bed, I was beginning to think I was back in the old Army and that was the reville cannon. I got out to see what was going on. Dad was standing in the yard with the shotgun in one hand and a starling in the other. He said he was just getting his exercise. He threw the bird down on a pile of birds in a flower bed next to a tree. Ther were 32 birds and 33 empty shells. He said, "I must have missed one." I always figured that he got his basic training from Issac Query.
The next place north of the Quary place was that of Thomas Wilson. He had a section or more of land (all ridge land) away from the creek.
Appleton was about five miles north of this settlement. That was where everyone went to get their mail. When anyone was there
they picked up the mail for all that were close around them. Thomas Wilson was there when the news came that Lincoln was elected President. When he came back and passed out the mail he said, "Lincoln was elected and I'm ready to fight". He was one thathad slaves.
The Wallace place was bottom land along the creek between the Quary place and the 80 acres that Mitchell Fleming gave to Robert McFarland when he married his daughter Agness.
The McFarland place was mostly bottom land. He didn't want the house in the bottom so he bought ten acres from Thomas Wilson and built a big two story log house away from the creek. There
wasn't a spring close so they dug a well. The old house and log barn stood there for well over a hundred years. All that is there now to mark the place is the well.
My Great-grandfather bought the place from McFarland when he moved to Illinois. This is where Alexander K. Stevenson raised his family.
by Meredith Stevenson

A.K. Stevenson was ordaind Ruling Elder in Apple Creek Presbyterian upon the death of his father James, 13 Oct 1851. The last mention of him as an Elder in the church records is 10 Apr 1863, on pg 49. No reason given.

MO Probate: Alexander K Stevenson, Cape Girardeau Co; Probate Date: 27 May 1881; Will Record, Vol D-E, 1867-1916


Know all men by these presents that I, Alexander K Stevenson of the County of Cape Girardeau and State of Missouri, being of sound and disposed mind do make this last will and testament;
First - I give unto my Wife Elizabeth all of my Property both Real and Personal, to enjoy during her natural life, except that hereinafter named, to dispose of as she may see proper-provided a majority of my hiers agrees thereto.
Second - My Daughter Jennie J Stevenson is to have one horse (or fifty dollars in money as she may choose).
Third - My Daughter Rosie A Stevenson is to have one horse (or fifty dollars in money as she may choose), also money sufficient to pay one years board and tuition at a high school, and forty dollars in money, which I give to said two girls in order to make them equal with all my other children herefor said.
Fourth - My Son Lawrie D Stevenson is to have one third of all grain, hay &c, raised on the farm since the first day of January 1879, also one third of all the stock - bought or raised since Jan 1st 1879, except two horses to be choosen by my said wife Elizabeth as her own property.
Fifth - At my death my Wife Elizabeth may choose whoever she thinks best to execute this my last will and may sell any property that she, and a majority of my heirs may wish to dispose of, the proceeds to be equally divided amongst all of my heirs.
Sixth - The remainder of my property undisposed of at the death of my wife Elizabeth shall be equally divided amongst my heirs, including distributive receipts of some of the heirs for money paid them on their share.
In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand, this 27th day of May A.D. 1881.
Alexander K Stevenson
Signed and declared by the above named Alexander K Stevenson, to be his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who at his request, and in his presence, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
George W Seibert
Eli Abernathy
John Bonney
State of Missouri, County of Cape Girardeau - In the vacation of the Probate Court
Be it remembered, that on this 21st day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight one, before me, Joseph Koehler, Clerk of the Probate Court, held in and for the County of Cape Girardeau and State of Missouri, personally appeared John Bonney and Eli Abernathy who, being duly sworn upon their oath, depose and say that they were present, and saw Alexander K Stevenson sign the foregoing instrument, purporting to be the last will and testament of him the said Alexander K Stevenson, and heard him publish and declare the same to be his last will and testament, and that at the time of signing the same, the said Alexander K Stevenson was of sound and disposing mind and more than twenty one years of age, and that these deponents and George W Seibert, the other attesting witness subscribed their names thereto as witnesses to the same, in the presence of the testator, and of each other, and at the request of the said Alexander K Stevenson.
All erasures and interlinations made before signing.
John Bonney
Eli Abernathy
Sworn to and subscribed before me, the undersigned Clerk of the Probate Court, the day and year first aforesaid.
Joseph Koehler, Clerk Probate Court

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Alexander married Elizabeth Leonard Clodfelter on 4 Dec 1845 in Shawnee Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Phillip Clodfelter and Jemima Jane Foster) was born on 24 Jun 1824 in New Wells, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; died on 28 Nov 1901 in Leemon, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in Apple Creek Cemetery, Pocahontas, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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