HORNChristian,Wilhemine/Dorothea Pitzner
Am searching for descendants and relatives forward,across and down of:
CHRISTIAN HORN of Sachen (Saxon),Germany.
Immigrated from Germany to Philadelphia,Pa.,abt. 1849.
Married:DOROTHEA PITZNER(?)
Children:
A.THE OLDEST SON went west and settled in California.
B.HERMAN remained in Philadelphia.
C.HANNAH, the oldest daughter married August Meisgeier and they settled in Ashland, Pa, not far from Phily,Pa. (In another place the g is a z in Meisgeier-could have been a type-o.)
D. FREDERICKA( DOROTHEA FREDERICKA "REKA") married a Mr. HORNSHU and also went WEST and settled in OREGON at the time of the Gold Rush. Emma Kammerer knew her.
E. WILHEMINE
Born: 21 June 1832 Saxon,Germany.
Married Karl Ludwig Olschlegel, 23 Dec.1853 Ashland,Pa. To this union one daughter was born-5 Sept.
1854-Caroline.Karl worked in the Pennsylvania coal mines around Ashland and
Shuylkill, and died of Black Lung Disease,
1 April 1855.Wilhemina then took her child and went to Ashland and lived with her sister and family,the August Meisgeiers.
On 13 July 1856,Ashland,Pa.she married PETER ANTON MARFILIUS. Born: 3 Aug.1824)Paris
France. Died: 8 Jan.1881.
To this union were born:
1. Charles Marfilius
2. William Herman
(21 Oct.1859 - 13 Aug. 1860)
3. Lewis Gustav
( 4 July 1861 - 18 July 1927)
4. August Lewis
( 29 Oct. 1863 - 15 March 1950)
5. Emil Christian (died age 16)
( 6 March 1866 - 6 Sept. 1881)
Then the family left Pennsylvania in 1867 and settled in Prairie du Chien,Wisconsin, in the Gran Gray Community,Crawford County.
It was here that the next 2 children were born:
6. ANNA OTTILLIE MINNIE MARFILIUS
( 8 Nov. 1868 - 18 Jan. 1952 )
(Tillie was the mother of CORA
ELIZABETH SHEPPARD who married
OSCAR MORCH).
7. Frederick Henry Herman
( 6 Feb. 1872 - 9 Jan. 1880 age 8 )
Wilhemina and Anton left Penn because she wanted to get away from the coal mines.
Anton died 8 Jan. 1881, so Emil,Frederick and Anton all died within a years time. They are buried at Bridgeport,Wi( the Cemetery
next to the Town Hall,Hwy 18 South of Prairie du Chien,Wi).
In 1898 Wilhemina went to live ( for 15
years) with her son Charles Marfilius,near Farmersburg,Iowa, and later Froelich where she died 30 March 1913. She also is buried at Bridgeport,Wi.,cemetery.
Eureka "Rika" and Hanna Horn, sisters of Wilhemina stayed in Ashland,Pa.Fred Hornshu, son of Eureka (HORN) Hornshu lives in Portland, Oregon.
Caroline Olschlegel...1/2 sister of Anna Ottillie Marfilius, born 25 Sept. 1854 Ashland,Pa. was 7 mo. old when her father died on 1 April 1855.
Caroline married Henry Schultz.They lived on a farm near Prairie du Chien,Wi.They had 2 children:
1.Flora married John D. Meier (brother of Mary Meier, Emma Kammerer's mother);they had 8 children, lived near Farmersburg.
2. Irvin, who had 2 children also.
THIS was from EMMA (MARFILIUS) KAMMERER,COPIED FROM GRANDMA WILHEMINA (HORN) MARFILIUS,-German Bible.Emma spoke and wrote German.She did correspondence for Grandmother Wilhemina Marfilius,so knew the family history very well.
For other Cross-relatives check: Martin Henkes/Anna Kuhn/Hagbarth Christophersen/Christoffer Ellensen/Marthae Hansdatter/Gustava Helene F.Pedersen/Lena Solberg/Oscar Morch/John Sheppard/ Peter Anton Marfilius.