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From: "Sharlene Meyer" <>
Subject: Re: [ILMADISO-L] Westerhold, Schwettmann, Detterding
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:45:09 -0500
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There was a Deterding family that lived on Madison Avenue in Wood River
during the 1940-50s.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger and Myra Christeck" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [ILMADISO-L] Westerhold, Schwettmann, Detterding


> Marsha, I don't have anything on this family, but you might vary the
> spelling of Detterding to Deterding. I have several Deterding in my
> database, the oldest born 1854 (John Edward Deterding) and his children
with
> Mary Ellen Tibbet Clifford. There are several Deterding members buried in
> Godfrey Cemetery, as well, since a number of them lived in North Alton.
> Just a possibility.
>
> Myra
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marsha Ensminger" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 12:42 PM
> Subject: [ILMADISO-L] Westerhold, Schwettmann, Detterding
>
>
> > I've been trying to research a great...aunt. She was born Marie
> > Florentine Charlotte Westerhold on 27 Oct 1839 in Westphalia. She
> > immigrated with her parents and siblings in 1857, through New Orleans
> > to St. Louis, eventually to Madison Co., IL. She died 11 Jan 1919 in
> > Los Angeles, CA, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery. It's the part
> > between immigration and death that's giving me trouble.
> >
> > On 3 Dec 1860 a marriage license was issued to "Maria C. Westerhold"
> > and "Louis Schwettmann" in Madison Co., IL. According to the county
> > clerk, it was never returned (or maybe it got misfiled?) I know of two
> > children, Charles H. (b. 23 Aug 1862) and Lena (b. 31 Dec 1868). Then
> > Louis vanishes from any records I've been able to find - presumed dead.
> >
> > On 20 Dec 1871 "Charlotte Schwettmann" married "Henry F. W.
> > Detterding", again in Madison Co., IL.
> >
> > On the LDS index to the 1880 census, I finally found "Charlotte
> > Deterding" with children Charles and Lena "Surdtman". No Henry - dead
> > already? No Detterding children, apparently. Charles appears again in
> > the index as "Sweatman", living with his uncle Charles Westerhold's
> > family.
> >
> > On 12 May 1887 "Charles Schwettmann" married "Pleazza D. Schidler" in
> > Madison Co., IL. (Her name was more usually spelled Scheidler.)
> >
> > On 12 Sep 1894 "Lena Schwettman" married Frank Irving, in Madison Co,
> > IL. Their son, Louis John Irving was born in 1895 in Los Angeles.
> >
> > A few years later, Charles and Pleazza Schwettmann and "Charlotte
> > Schwettmann" also move to Los Angeles, where everyone eventually dies
> > without issue.
> >
> > Do any of these sound familar to anyone else out there?
> >
> > =====
> > Marsha L. Ensminger
> > searching for Westerhold/t/z in the US and ?
> >
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