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RICKERT
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Elizabeth
HENRY & ELIZABETH IN
NEBRASKA
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Their Life in Nebraska
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Dorchester Precinct Plat Map
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Farmers' Directory of Crete
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Ferdinand
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SCHMERLECKE
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LUSEBRINK
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Bibliography
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Theodor Balz 9.10.1820 + 15.2.1905
und Maria Anna Ahnhorst + 11.1.1884
Kinder:
1. Maria Christine Bernardine 14.11.1853 +13.11.1898
Paten: Anna Maria Kaltenhöfer, Anton Ahnhorst-Rietberg,
Bernardine gen. Ahnhorst.
Sie
heiratet einen Rickert aus Schmerlecke (?)
She was united in marriage to Rickert of Schmerlecke.
2. Franz
Ferdinand Joseph gen. Joseph 29.6.1855 + 3.5.1930
Paten: Ferdinand Ahnhorst, Franziska Balz gen. Duesberg,
Joseph Balz.
Er wird der Hoferbe und heiratet 8.7.1890 Raimunda Siedhoff
aus Schmerlecke, Die Trauung stirbt 29.4.1895 (Lungenleiden).
Der Witwer
heiratet 1897 zu Bökenförde Theresia Koch-Schulte.
Nach der Hochzeit in Jahre 1890 schreibt er
seinen Narer mit s, also Bals.
He is the inheritor of the farmyard (Lusebrink) and married Raimunda Siedhoff
of Schmerlecke
on July 8, 1890. The wedding ceremony was performed by the Vicar Franz Balz of
Bochum.
The wife died on April 4, 1895 of lung disease.
The widower married Theresia Koch-Schulte of Bökenförde in 1897.
After the wedding and in the later years of the 1890’s he spells his name
with an “s” – Bals.
3. Peter Ferdinand Heinrich 7.10.1856 nach Amerika
went to Amerika.
Paten: Ferdinand Ahnhorst aus Boxel, Friederika Sultrop geb. Fenne aus
Merklinghausen,
Heinrich Bals
Er heirataet H.
Schiekhoff aus Herringhausen. (?). He married H.
Schiekhoff of Herringhausen (?)
(The
information that he married a Schiekhoff was determined to be incorrect during
the author's
visit to Lusebrink farm on July 11, 1975. Peter
Ferdinand, known as Ferdinand, married
Henriette Köhler of Schmerlecke. The 1900 Census of Saline County Nebraska
indicates that they
were married for 15 years (married in 1885). It tells that Ferdinand immigrated
to the
United States that same year, 1885, and Henrietta immigrated in 1887. It also
indicates an
unusual situation in that the eldest daughter Bertha, was born in March 1885 in
Germany.
The census tells that she immigrated to the United States in 1886. She would
have been
approximately one year old and would have come to the U.S. one year before her
mother.
A column of the census further indicates that they declared in 1900 that
Ferdinand had been in
the U.S. for 15 years, his wife Henrietta for 13 years, and their Daughter
Bertha for 14 years.
This repetition of information would seem to eliminate any error in the census
report. I have no
documentation or information as to who would have brought Bertha to the United
States.
The 1900 Census lists the following children in the household; Bertha (15), Anna
M.(12),
Clements F.(7), Joseph H.(5), Fritz F.(4), William (2), and Theodore (1).
4.. Anna Josephine 18.4.1858 11.12.1863
Paten: Anna WeiBorock gen. Lohägener aus Seringhausen, Heinrich Bals,
osephine Spätling
aus Bökum.
5..
Heinrich Anton
21.12.1859 nach Amerika went to Amerika.
Paten: Kaplan Heinrich Ahnhorst in Neuenkirchen, Anton Spätling aus Bökum,
Maria Bals gen. Hense – Schmerlecke
Er heiratete Köhler (?).
The information that he married a Köhler was incorrect and it was verified
during my visit of
July 11, 1975 to Lusebrink farm; the Köhler family of Schmerlecke; the home of
Elizabeth & Fritz
Berkemeier of Herringhausen, niece and nephew of Elizabeth (Rickert-Berkemeier)
Bals; and
by the 1900 Census for Dorchester Precinct, Saline County, Nebraska,that my
grandfather,
Heinrich Anton, known as Henry, immigrated to the United States in 1889.
Elizabeth
Rickert-Berkemeier of Herringhausen immigrated in 1891 and they were married on
March 10, 1891. The location of their marriage is in question.. The
information from
Delmer, Ella’s son, is that Henry returned to Germany for Elizabeth and they
were married there.
The possible locations would be in Heringhausen, the church at Horn, the church
in Smerlecke,
or the chapel on Lusebrink Farm. The Nebraska Gazetteer Farmers Directory for
1890-91 lists
Henry Bals as a farmer at Bellwood and Ferdinand in David City. This is
substantiated by my
father’s verbal information that his father farmed in the David City area
immediately after coming
to Nebraska from Germany. My father, Henry Ferdinad, was born on a farm west
of Crete in
1895.. The 1900 Census fpr Saline County lists the following children in the
Henry Bals
household, Theodore (8), Henry (6), Elizabeth (4), Augusta (2), Matilda (8
mo.). The date of the
census information was June 15, 1900.
Elizabeth & Fritz Berkemeier also confirmed that Henry & Elizabeth Bals, upon a
return visit to
Germany, took Elizabeth’s sister Lena to the United States. They pointed out
the former location
of the barn-house where Lena injured her leg in a floor threshing machine,
resulting in
amputation of the leg. Henry & Elizabeth, with their children Theodore and
Henry, apparently
returned to Lusebrink farm for a visit in either 1894 or 1895. Dad (Henry) told
me that he returned
to Germany with his parents when he was one year old.
6. Franz 6.12.1861
Paten: Franz Bals, Franz Ahnhorst, Anna Maria Ahnhorst aus Mastholte.
Er Wurde Geistlicher und
starb als Pastor zu Elsen am.
He became clergyman and died as a minister to Elsen.
7.
Anton Theodor 5.3.1864 + 1.7.1934
Paten: Anton Ahnhorst, Anton Spätling, Henriette Fornhoff aus Schmerlecke.
Er heiratet am 23.6.1898
Elisabeth Wrede aus Schmerlecke.
He married Elisabeth Wrede of Schmerlecke on June 23,
1898.
This Theodor is the great-grandfather of Bettina Balz:
http://www.balz.name/
8. Anna 15.1.1866
Paten: Theresia Ahnhorst, Franziska Lohägener, Joseph Schulte aus Wameln
Sie ist am 6.11.1889 ins Kloster Maria-Hilf zu Dernbach gegangen, denSchleier
der
Schwestern A.D.M.J. zu erhalten Sie lebt heute noch Mai 1952.
She went on November 6, 1889 to the Convent Maria-Hilf Dernbach to receive the
veil of the
Sisters A.D.M.J. She still lives there today (May 1952).
9.. Augusta Gertrud
2.12.1867 + 22. .1951
Paten: Augusta Ahnhorst, Gertrud Reker-Ebbinghausen, Heinrich
Overhoff-Drensteinfurt
Sie hat ihrem Geistlichen Bruder Franz den Haushalt geführt
She ran the household for her brother, clergyman Franz.Balz.
Lena Rickert corresponded with Augusta until her death in 1952..
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