Person:Conrad Seegers (5)

Watchers
m. 20 Jan 1820
  1. Christoph SeegersCal 1817 - 1901
  2. Christoph Seegers1821 - 1880
  3. Conrad Seegers1824 - 1865
  4. Sophia SeegersCal 1831 - 1895
  5. Catharina Seegers1834 - 1890
  6. Heinrich Seegers1838 - 1918
m. Aug 1854
  1. Friedrich Heinrich Conrad Seegers1855 - 1855
  2. Conrad Seegers1857 - 1893
  3. Sophia Seegers1859 - 1868
  4. Dorothea Seegers1861 - 1862
  5. Conrad Seegers1862 - 1876
  6. Dorothea Maria Seegers1864 - 1865
Facts and Events
Name Conrad Seegers
Alt Name Heinrich Christoph Conrad Seegers
Gender Male
Birth[4] 17 Aug 1824 Mesmerode 14, Blumenau, Germany
Baptism? 22 Aug 1824 Idensen, GermanyLutheran Church
Marriage Aug 1854 Crete, Will, Illinois, United StatesTrinity Lutheran Church
to Dorothea Koelling
Unknown Jul 1860 Husband: Age: 35 WIFE: Age: 25
Dorothea Koelling
Occupation? Farmer
Occupation? Shoemaker
Death? 6 Jan 1865 Hanover Township, Lake County, IndianaAge: 40y, 4m, 20d
Burial? Jan 1865 Dyer, IndianaZion Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
  • Gravestone cemetery list states birthdate as 13 Jun 1824.
  • Naturalization Lake County, IN 19 May 1862.
  • Embarked from Bremen, arrived at New York June 1853. Ship Ella.
  • Mothers name in baptism listed as Marie Sophie geb. Behrens; sponsors: Joh Heinrich Senne, Johann Christoph Freise, Heinrich Conrad Seehausen.

Emigrated to USA in 1858 according to one source, but he was married in Illinois in 1854, so this is wrong.

References
  1.   Karen Rowe. Genealogy: Buchmeier.
  2.   Edwin C. Friedrich and Karen Rowe. Church Records: Dyer, Indiana (Zion UCC). (Zion UCC Records).
  3.   Gaby Fricke. Gaby Fricke, researcher in Wunstorf, Germany (e-mail correspondence).
  4. Lake County Heritage Book, Lake County Public Library, 1988, Indiana.