Dietrich & Wilhelmina Offermann

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9/5/1884)</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id362.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wilhelmina Offermanns Broken Monument "><U>Maria Wilhelmina Koenemann "Mina"</U></A> (2/6/1849 - 10/29/1890)</div> <div> _______________________________________________________________</div> <bR> <div> Dietrich came to the U.S. from Hanover, Prussia.  We know that he had other family members living in Monroe County: a younger brother Peter (born about 1842, died 3/17/1933), and a younger sister Anna (born about 1840).  There may have been another sister Katherine who died at a young age.  It does not appear that either of their parents came to the U.S.   Dietrich enlisted in the Union Army, the 43rd Regiment, Company A, Illinois Volunteers at Belleville, Illinois, in 1861 and was discharged August 24, 1864 in Arkansas.   After the war, he returned to Monroe County, Illinois, and  bought land near Renault.  He married  <A HREF="id203.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Family Bible Page Wedding of Dietrich O"><U>Wilhelmina Koenemann</U></A> on April 5, 1867.  They had seven children, only four of whom survived to adulthood.   </div> <bR> <div> Wilhelmina and her parents and older brother and sister came to the U.S. from Prussia in 1850, when she was an infant, and they settled in Monroe County, Illinois.</div> <bR> <div>       <B><U>Children born to Dietrich and Wilhelmina:</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>                   </B>Wilhelmina Offermann (Born about 1866 - died while still a young child)</div> <bR> <div>             <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dietrich Offermann, Kate Braun Wilhelm "><U>Wilhelm August "Bill" Offermann</U></A> (Born 4/2/1868)</div> <div>             <A HREF="id164.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Offermann Family Bible Page Marriages"><U>Married Dorothea Louise Koch</U></A> 4/2/1891,</div> <div>             St. Louis, Missouri</div> <bR> <div> Children: <A HREF="id162.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Family Bible Page Baptism of Wilhelm O"><U>Dorothea Catharina</U></A>  (2/18/1892)</div> <div> and Heinrich Diedrich Offermann (11/25/1894)</div> <bR> <div>             <A HREF="id307.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dietrich Offermann, Jr., 1880s"><U>Johann Heinrich "Dietrich" Offermann, Jr.</U></A></div> <div>             (12/24/1869 - 3/14/1963)</div> <div>             Married Margaret Kaestner 11/10/1896, </div> <div>             Monroe County, Illinois</div> <bR> <div> Children: Gustine & Louisa, Sophia, Dora, Anna, Armin, <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Theodore Heinrich Offermann Circa 1916"><U>Theodore</U></A>, Hulda, Walter, Lydia, Alvin, Melva, <A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Baby Gilbert Offermann, Circa 1923"><U>Gilbert</U></A></div> <bR> <div>             <A HREF="id163.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Offermann Family Bible Page Children of"><U>Maria Katherine Offermann</U></A> (11/29/1871 - 8/28/1874)</div> <bR> <div>             <A HREF="id163.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Offermann Family Bible Page Children of"><U>Heinrich Offermann</U></A> (4/20/1873 - 8/25/1873)  </div> <bR> <div>             <A HREF="id163.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Offermann Family Bible Page Children of"><U>Johann Offermann</U></A> (8/30/1874- 10/11/1874)</div> <bR> <div>             <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kate Offermann Braun, 1948"><U>Anna Katherine "Kate" </U></A>(Born 1/5/1876)</div> <div>             <A HREF="id345.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Marriage of Katherine Offermann and John"><U>Married John F. Braun</U></A> 7/23/1895, St. Louis, </div> <div>             Missouri</div> <bR> <div>             "Anna" Sophia (1/20/1878 - 1925)</div> <div>             Married Gustave Kaestner  </div> <bR> <div> Children: Gustave, Olinda, Theodore, Albert, Walter, George, Laura, Erwin, Oscar, Elvira, Raymond</div> <bR> <div>      </div> </td> </tr></table></body>