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From: Darlene De Luco <>
Subject: Re: [ILMONROE] Bavarians to Columbia in 1835
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 13:30:06 -0800


Daniel,

I may have a bit more for you. Page 10 of St. Paul's book lists a Johann Adam LANG
born 26 March 1847 and baptised 1 Sept 1847, having parents Johann LANG (father )
born in Ebersreuth, Bavaria, and Catherine Susanna Heinrich (SAALFRANK) (mother)
LANG as being born in Doebra, Bavaria. My g-g-grandmother was also a Catherine
SAALFRANK from Doebra, Bavaria, but married PhilippWETZEL in St. Louis 1846. I
will check the other Langs in the book and see if I can find a place of birth
listed. Happy hunting!

Will you being joining the Wisconsin fans for the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena?

Darlene Wetzel De Luco
Pasadena, CA

Kortenkamp, Daniel wrote:

> In the book "Arrowheads to Aerojets" (1967), and in the section on the
> history of Columbia Precinct (formerly Eagle Precinct), it says (p. 530),
> "The first influx of immigrants from Germany in 1835 found some of them
> settling in the original part of Columbia -- now the southern part of town"
> . On page 375 it says, "THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH of Columbia,
> Illinois had its beginning between the years 1835 and 1840 when a Catholic
> community was formed and the first church was established. The early German
> settlers primarily from Bavaria established a church named St. Thomas."
>
> I have reason to believe an ancestor -- Heinrich LANG -- was among these
> Bavarian immigrants, but I have been unable to trace him to his hometown in
> Bavaria. Several questions:
>
> 1. Does anyone have info on the hometowns of any of these Bavarians, or
> later Bavarians (perhaps there was some chain migration).
>
> 2. What Catholic church records (or other records) might still exist for
> these Bavarians from 1835-1850.
>
> 3. On what page #s in the 1840 Federal Census are these Bavarians recorded.
>
> Thanks for any info or leads about this community of Bavarians.
>
> Daniel
>
> Daniel J. Kortenkamp, Ph.D.
> Dept. of Psychology
> University of Wisconsin fax: 715 346-2778
> Stevens Point, WI 54481
> http://www.uwsp.edu/acad/psych/dk/danielpg.htm
>
>
>
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> Yep -- I want ancestors with names like Rudimentary Montagnard or
> Melchizedick von Steubenhoffmannschild or Spetznatz Gianfortoni,
> not William Brown or John Hunter or Mary Abbott.
> I want ancestors who could read and write, had their children baptized in
> recognized houses of worship, went to school, purchased land, left
> detailed wills (naming a huge extended family as legatees), had their
> photographs taken once a year -- subsequently putting said pictures in
> elaborate isinglass frames annotated with calligraphic inscriptions, and
> carved voluble and informative inscriptions in their headstones. I want
> relatives who managed to bury their predecessors in established,
> still-extant (and indexed) cemeteries.
> I want family members who wrote memoirs, who enlisted in the military as
> officers and who served in strategically important (and well documented)
> skirmishes. I want relatives who served as councilmen, schoolteachers,
> county clerks and town historians. I want relatives who 'religiously' wrote
> in the family Bible, journaling every little event and detailing the
> familial relationship of every visitor.
> In the case of immigrant progenitors, I want them to have arrived only in
> those years wherein passenger lists were indexed by National Archives,
> and I want them to have applied for citizenship, and to have done so only
> in those jurisdictions which have since established indices.
> I want relatives who were patriotic and clubby, who joined every
> patrimonial society they could find, who kept diaries, and listed all their
> addresses, who had paintings made of their horses, and who dated every
> piece of paper they touched. I want forebears who were wealthy enough to afford,
> and to keep for generations, the tribal homestead, and who left all the
> aforementioned pictures and diaries and journals intact in the library.
> But most of all, I want relatives I can find!!!
> Barbara A. Brown
> * Ms. Brown's "I Want" article was originally posted in 1994 to the
> National Genealogical Conference, FIDO bulletin board forum.

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