KarensGen.Com - Families - Johann Otto Seegers (1801-1878) and Ilsa Wilkening (1808-1883) of Haste, Germany. Children to America.

Johann Otto Seegers
Born: 02 FEB 1801 in: Haste #5, Schaumburg, Germany 1
Baptized: 08 FEB 1801 in: Martin Church of Hohnhorst, Germany 2
Died: 31 DEC 1878 in: 3
Buried: in:
Father: Hans Heinrich Seegers
Mother: Engel Maria Wille (1764-1834) from Helsinghausen #5, Germany
Died 31 DEC 18??.

Ilsa Maria Sophia Wilkening
Married: 20 MAY 1827 in: Martin Church of Hohnhorst, Germany 4
Born: 22 DEC 1808 in: Hohnhorst #31, Schaumburg, Germany 1
Baptized: 26 DEC 1808 in: Martin Church of Hohnhorst, Germany 2
Died: 31 AUG 1883 in: 5
Buried: in:
Father: Hans Heinrich Wilkening (1778-1855)
Mother: Engel Maria Dorothea Steege from Kreuzriehe #5, Germany

Photos from Haste.

13 Children of Johann Otto Seegers and Ilsa Wilkening

Johann Conrad Seegers
Born: 18 JAN 1828 in: Haste #5, Schaumburg, Germany 6
Baptized: 20 JAN 1828 in: Martin Church of Hohnhorst, Germany 2
Died: 23 JUN 1915 in: Des Plaines, Cook Co., IL 7
Buried: 27 JUN 1915 in: Immanuel Ev. Cemetery, Des Plaines, IL
Spouse: Engel Maria DOROTHEA Moehling (21 APR 1836 - 02 JUL 1915)
daughter of Joh. Conrad Moehling and Engel Maria Sophia Pohlmann.
Married: 30 NOV 1853 in: 7
To America in 1852 with brother Heinrich Christoph to Charleston, SC.

Heinrich Christoph Seegers
Born: 25 JAN 1830 in: Haste #5, Schaumburg, Germany 6
Baptized: 31 JAN 1830 in: Martin Church of Hohnhorst, Germany 2
Died: 09 JUL 1912 in: America 8
Buried: in:
Spouse: Engel Maria Dorothea Schroeder (15 MAR 1833 - 01 JAN 1920 died Columbia, Richland Co., SC)
Daughter of: ?
Married: in:
To America 1852 with brother.

Johann JOHN H. Seegers
Born: 18 JAN 1831 in: Haste, Schaumburg, Germany 3
Baptized: in:
Died: 09 JUL 1912 in: 3
Buried: in:
Occupation/Residence: Plantation owner
Spouse: Miss Schwake
Married: in: 3
To US in 1838 to Columbia, SC.

Johann Heinrich Seegers
Born: 01 FEB 1832 in: Haste #5, Schaumburg, Germany 6
Baptized: 05 FEB 1832 in: Martin Church of Hohnhorst, Germany 2
Died: 17 JUL 1907 in: Maxfield Twp., Bremer Co., IA 9
Buried: in: St. Paul, Maxfield Twp., Bremer Co., IA 10
Spouse: Caroline Wente (1838-1888)
Married: 18 OCT 1857 in: St. John Maxfield Twp., Bremer Co., IA 11
Spouse: Caroline MARIA Buhr (1844-1936)
daughter of Heinrich CHRISTIAN Buhr from Rolfshagen, Germany and
Sophia Leiseburg from Antendorf, Germany.
Married: 19 JUN 1890 in: St. John Buck Creek, Sumner, IA 12
To America 1852, #1331 Schaumburg Auswanderer.

Waverly Phoenix
Bremer Co., IA
1907 Obituary

Article courtesy of
Elvira Hebel.

Hans Heinrich Seegers
Born: 19 APR 1834 in: Haste, Schaumburg, Germany 13
Baptized: in:
Died: 16 FEB 1909 in: Tripoli, Bremer Co., IA 14
Buried: in: St. John Maxfield Twp., Bremer Co., IA 3
Spouse: Engel MARIA Sophia Charlotta Steege
Married: 03 NOV 1861 in: Elk Grove, Cook Co., IL 3
Spouse: MARIA Schwake
Married: __ ___ 1890 in: 15
To America 1854 lived near Des Plaines, IL.
To Iowa in 1862.

Johann Otto Seegers
Born: __ ___ 1836 in: 16
Died: __ ___ 1844 in:

Sophia Dorothea Seegers
Born: __ ___ 1839 in: 16
Baptized: in:
Died: in:
Buried: in:

Engel Maria Sophia Seegers
Born: __ ___ 1841 in:
Died: __ ___ 1846 in:

Hans Heinrich WILHELM Seegers
Born: __ ___ 1844 in: Haste, Schaumburg, Germany 3, 14
Baptized: in:
Died: __ ___ 1924 in:
Buried: in:
Spouse: Anna Langhorst (born 1853)
Married: in: 3
?Schaumburger Auswanderer #5318: Seegers, Hans Heinrich Wilhelm, Haste,
Landwirt, verh., mit Ehefrau Anna Sophie Marie geb. Langhorst nach Amerika, 18.4.1893.
Son Friedrich Conrad Seegers (1888-1964) married Sophia Trina Wehrhan (1892-1969).

Anna Seegers
Born: in: Haste, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized: in:
Died: in:
Buried: in:
Spouse: Mr. Bruns
Married: in: 3

Dorothea Sophia Elise Seegers
Born: __ ___ 1849 in: 16
Baptized: in:
Died: in:
Buried: in:

Johann Philipp Seegers
Born: __ ___ 1851 in: 16
Died: __ ___ 1851 in:

Johann Otto Seegers
Born: __ ___ 1854 in: 16
Died: __ ___ 1862 in:

1 St. Martin Church, Hohnhorst, Schaumburg, Germany CONFIRMATION records.
2 St. Martin Church, Hohnhorst, Schaumburg, Germany BAPTISM records.
4 St. Martin Church, Hohnhorst, Schaumburg, Germany MARRIAGE records.
5 St. Martin Church, Hohnhorst, Schaumburg, Germany BAPTISM records.
6 Schaumburg Auswanderer 1820-1914, by Heinrich Rieckenberg, Rinteln, Germany.
7 Information from Roger A. Drewes.
8 Information from Adeline Kruse.
9 Obituary Waverly Phoenix, Waverly, Bremer Co., IA Issue 24 JUL 1907.
10 Bremer Co. Cemetery Records, Bremer Co. Genealogy Society, Iowa May 1983
11 St. John Ev. Lutheran, Maxfield Twp., Denver, Bremer Co., IA 125
Anniversary 2286 250th St., Denver, IA 50622-1085 (319) 984-5767
http://members.aol.com/stjohnmax/records.htm.
12 St. John Lutheran Church, Buck Creek, Bremer Co., IA 100th Anniversary Book.
13 1880 Census: Maxfield Twp., Bremer Co., IA (USGENWEB/IA/BREMER/CENSUS)
14 Information from Nan Greig.
15 Information from the HISTORY OF BREMER COUNTY 1985, written by the people
of Bremer County, Iowa and compiled by the Bremer Co. History Book Committee.
A gift to Karen Rowe from Inez Christiansen.
16 Information from Dorothy S. Messerschmit.

Is Engel Seegers (04 FEB 1837 - 31 MAR 1915) wife of Hans HEINRICH Reese, who are both buried at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Des Plaines, IL of the above Seegers family??? Hans HEINRICH Reese (07 AUG 1828 - 19 MAY 1900) came to America in 1853 with his father Cord Heinrich Reese from Rehren #18, Schaumburg, Germany.