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Descendants of Anton Brehm

7. ELIZABETH³ BREHM (JUSTUS², ANTON¹) was born October 22, 1859, and died October 23, 1914. She married FRED STELLING March 17. He was born May 5, 1852, and died March 15, 1934.

Notes for ELIZABETH BREHM:
They are both buried in the St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Newhall, Iowa.

Children of ELIZABETH BREHM and FRED STELLING are:

29.	i.	HENRY J.⁴ STELLING, b. July 24, 1879.
30.	ii.	SOPHIA HENRIETTA STELLING, b. July 3, 1882.
31.	iii.	AMANDA ELIZABETH STELLING, b. January 14, 1888; d. June 15, 1976.
32.	iv.	ERNESTINE LOUISE STELLING, b. January 17, 1893; d. September 30, 1959.

8. JOHANN JACOB³ BREHM (JUSTUS², ANTON¹) was born November 3, 1861 in Dankerode, Germany, and died October 5, 1941. He married DOROTHEA KATHERINE BIERSCHENK February 26, 1891 in St. John's Lutheran Church, Eldorado Township, Iowa, daughter of HENRY BIERSCHENK and ANNA GIER. She was born April 26, 1870 in Datterode, Germany, and died August 17, 1949.

Notes for JOHANN JACOB BREHM:
Jacob immigrated to the United States at fourteen years of age, with his parents and family in 1875. They came overseas by ship, across country by train to Fairfax, where they stayed the first winter with relatives.
They farmed north of Newhall, and had twelve horses for field work.
Jacob received his citizenship papers at age twenty-nine. He was a hired man, working for other families, until he married.
He was married to Katherine Bierschenk by Pastor Frerich Rhinehard at St. John's Lutheran church, Eldorado Township-four miles northwest of Newhall, Iowa, on February 26, 1891. They had ten children.
They bought a farm four miles north and 1/4 mile east of Newhall, for $52 per acre, where they lived for twenty-two years.
In 1913 they sold the 160 acres and moved 1-1/2 miles north of Van Horne on 248 acres.
In 1936 they retired to Van Horne. After his death in 1941, she lived with her daughter, Annie Husted. She lived with her other daughter, Frieda, for her last three months and died there 1-1/2 miles southwest of Vinton, Iowa.

Dorothea Katherine Bierschenk is the daughter of John Henry Bierschenk.

Notes for DOROTHEA KATHERINE BIERSCHENK:
She died at her daughter, Freida Brehm Geiken's home.\\
She came to America when she was seventeen.

Children of JOHANN BREHM and DOROTHEA BIERSCHENK are:

33.	i.	LOUISE DOROTHEA KATHERINE⁴ BREHM, b. January 11, 1892; d. July 7, 1983.
34.	ii.	ANNA MARGARETHA ELIZABETH BREHM, b. September 9, 1893; d. November 9, 1965.
35.	iii.	FRIEDA KATHERINE ELIZABETH BREHM, b. February 20, 1895, Newhall, IA; d. December 6, 1998, Vinton, IA.
36.	iv.	ADAM REINHARDT LOUIS BREHM, b. June 23, 1896, farm near Newhall, Iowa; d. January 3, 1987, Cedar Rapids, Iowa - St. Luke's Hospital.
	v.	CARL HENRY BREHM, b. March 4, 1898; d. 1980.
37.	vi.	JOHN JACOB CONRAD BREHM, b. September 7, 1900; d. December 10, 1979.
	vii.	FREDERICH MARTIN BREHM, b. June 15, 1903.
38.	viii.	AUGUST JUSTUS HENRY BREHM, b. July 1, 1907; d. December 26, 1971.
39.	ix.	HERMAN CONRAD BREHM, b. December 18, 1909.
40.	x.	EDWIN CARL BREHM, b. July 13, 1912; d. April 14, 1982.

9. JOHANN ADAM³ BREHM (JUSTUS², ANTON¹) was born June 4, 1863, and died May 21, 1923. He married CAROLINE SCHLUETER December 11, 1889. She was born October 16, 1867, and died April 15, 1920.

Notes for JOHANN ADAM BREHM:
Johann Adam Brehm and his wife Caroline were both born in Germany. She came to America in 1875. He came in 1876. They are both buried in the Vinton, Iowa cemetery.

Children of JOHANN BREHM and CAROLINE SCHLUETER are:

41.	i.	ROSA JOHANNA⁴ BREHM, b. October 28, 1891, Newhall, Iowa; d. May 20, 1966, Virginia Gay Hospital.
42.	ii.	EDWARD A. BREHM, b. September 9, 1893, Benton County, Iowa; d. 1982.
	iii.	J. I. WILLIAM "WILLIE" BREHM, b. August 12, 1895; d. 1901.

Notes for J. I. WILLIAM "WILLIE" BREHM:
Died of diptheria.

	iv.		EDITH MARIE BREHM, b. May 28, 1898; m. NEWBERRY OTIS WILSON, February 1, 1926; b. September 16, 1893; d. October 24, 1976.
	v.		CLARA ANN BREHM, b. May 11, 1900.
	vi.		EMMA ELLEN BREHM, b. June 11, 1902; d. 1902.
	vii.		ESTHER KATHERINE BREHM, b. February 6, 1903; d. January 12, 1976; m. JOHN EVER JUHL; b. June 24, 1887.

Notes for ESTHER KATHERINE BREHM:
This is from a story Rose Branchini gave to Jim Schlueter and he shared with me on December 17, 1998 via the Internet.

Aunt Esther and Uncle John were my favorites. They both worked at Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids. He was almost 20 years older than her. She was married and divorced pretty young (as was her sister Edith...pretty racy for those days...don't you think). Esther was unable to have children, but they really loved kids. The whole family gathered at their house on Saturday night for supper and wrestling, but that's another story. Their last name was pronounced "yule," as he would remind anyone he met. He loved all the girls, always a hug and a kiss, he'd probably be arrested these days! Ha! Anyway, picture this...
In 1955, we were living in Washington, Iowa. My brother was born in May with serious complications. He was thought to be dead at birth, but a nurse who was removing the dead infant discovered him to be alive. The doctor had discarded h im, trying to save Mom who was hemorrhaging massively. Both were hospitalized for some time...expenses. Dad was a butcher and got pneumonia later that year...always in the summer. He was in the hospital too...expenses. All four of us kids got chicken pox. We moved to Washington, which is south of Iowa City. When Christmas rolled around they had four kids and no money. Dad brought home a tree (Charlie Brown) that was left over from the grocery store, but Santa was not going to make it. Aunt Esther, who would have been in her early 50s and Uncle John in his late 60s maybe, would not let those four kids go without anything for Christmas. They drove from Cedar Rapids in a snow storm (about 70 miles one way and back home again). No small feat in those days, just to bring us each a gift. I think mom and dad got a ham...each girl got a doll and baby Dave got a toy car. That is all we got that year. I was four years old and, you know, I still have the head to that doll. It fell apart when I was seven, and I kept it anyway. It's just a battered old doll head, but someday I would like to get it restored if I can find someplace to do it. Actually, that is one of the few toys I ever had...very special. So, in my opinion those two people were just saints.

43.	viii.		WALTER CONRAD BREHM, b. June 13, 1904, Newhall, Iowa; d. March 3, 1993, Vinton, Iowa.
44.	ix.		MILDRED KATHERINE BREHM, b. February 13, 1908.

10. LOUISE CHARLOTTE³ BREHM (JUSTUS², ANTON¹) was born March 8, 1866, and died October 14, 1929 in Pukwana, South Dakota. She married (1) EDWARD A. SCHLUETER December 23, 1902. He was born July 17, 1860, and died September 13, 1912. She married (2) W. A. COOPER March 18, 1914.

Notes for LOUISE CHARLOTTE BREHM:
Reminiscences from Charlotte Schlueter Hansen - June 1993\\\
She lived with Charlotte's parents for several years before she died. She had a series of little strokes and needed care.

Buried at the cemetery in Kimball, South Dakota.

Notes for W. A. COOPER:
[Letter from Charlotte Schlueter Hansen - June 1993]\\

Only thing I ever heard about Grandma's second husband. Everyone in the family called him "Old Man Cooper." According to the marriage license they listed her as 43 years old. You take her birthdate and wedding date and it adds up to 48 years???
This little tale was told me by Jim Rodgers. He was born and raised in Kimball, and he said Cooper made "Moonshine" during Prohibition. The Feds were in Kimball to look him up. Friends got word to him and he dumped all the "mash" down the alley. The neighbors' chickens ate the evidence. He said chilckens were falling off fences, etc. in a drunken stupor. A funny sight to behold. Guess Grandma washed dishes in the hotel there to help with income. I do know that none of the children approved of him. I never heard a good thing about him. I know my folks cared for her when she got sick. She was buried as Cooper but is next to Grandpa in Kimball Cemetery. There she is under the Schlueter name. I was two years old when she died. Dad, Alydia, and Dorothea paid for her burial. No record on W. A. Cooper.

Children of LOUISE BREHM and EDWARD SCHLUETER are:

45.	i.	K. ELIZABETH "LIZZIE"⁴ SCHLUETER, b. February 5, 1885; d. February 22, 1951.
	ii.	JUSTUS SCHLUETER, b. April 6, 1889; d. September 23, 1889.
46.	iii.	DAVID HENRY SCHLUETER, b. October 31, 1894; d. August 2, 1967.
47.	iv.	JULIA SELENA SCHLUETER, b. October 22, 1897; d. November 24, 1970.
48.	v.	ERMA ANN SCHLUETER, b. November 12, 1889.
	vi.	BERTHA ALYDIA "LYDIA" SCHLUETER, b. May 21, 1904; m. HERSHEL MELCHER, June 27, 1931; b. 1903; d. June 19, 1961.

Notes for BERTHA ALYDIA "LYDIA" SCHLUETER:
[Letter from Charlotte Schlueter Hansen - June 1993]\\
Aunt Lydia and Uncle Hershel lived in Chamberlain. She nursed him for nine long months in 1933 when he nearly died from typhoid fever. I can't remember the year they built the motel (Melchor Cabins), but Aunt Lydia was a hard worker and really made a go of it. I remember Dad calling her "Mrs. Roosevelt." She was always going on trips. I lived with them my last two years of high school as I needed certain subjects in order to get into nurses' training. So Dad paid my tuition and I helped at the motel after school hours. They treated me great. Aunt Lydia died so young. She had kidney failure and went to Rochester for surgery. She died the day after she got there and never had the surgery. Hershel was a lawyer.

vii.

DOROTHEA HULDA SCHLUETER, b. August 2, 1906; m. (1) MURRIN E. YOUNG; b. April 28, 1903; d. February 3, 1965; m. (2) CARL F. LARSON, January 17, 1927; b. November 3, 1884; d. July 29, 1948.

Notes for DOROTHEA HULDA SCHLUETER:
[Letter from Charlotte Schlueter Hansen - June 1993]\\
Then there was our dear Aunt "Dorsey." She married Uncle Carl the year I was born! He was twenty-two years older than she was. Aunt Dorothea ran the telephone office in Pukwana. Uncle Carl maintained the phone office until he retired. I worked for her as relief operator for two years before going to Chamberlain for my last two years of high school. She also worked in J. C. Penney. I don't know what year she married Uncle Murrin. They bought a motel in Nevada, Missouri Pleasant Inn Motel. She lost Murrin from lung cancer. He was a railroad man. I was with her in Missouri when we lost my dad. The doctor wanted her to get out of business because of her heart. She was in the process of selling the motel and was coming here to live in Yankton when she died.\\
As you can see, we were a closely knit family. I dearly loved my aunts and uncles and spent many happy hours with them all. .

11. ANNA ELIZABETH³ BREHM (JUSTUS², ANTON¹) was born July 19, 1869, and died January 5, 1934. She married LEWIS SCHLOTFELT November 4, 1891 in Vinton, IA - Benton County. He was born October 29, 1867 in Cedar Township - Mt. Auburn - Benton County, IA, and died May 10, 1960 in Vinton, IA - Virginia Gay Hospital - buried Mt. Auburn, IA.

Notes for ANNA ELIZABETH BREHM:
Lewis and Anna Elizabeth Schlotfelt are both buried in Mt. Auburn, Iowa cemetery.

I have a picture of Harry and Ada Schlotfelt and family.

I have a picture of the Schlotfelt farm and one of the barn.

I have Adalene's graduation picture.

Notes for LEWIS SCHLOTFELT:
The Century Farm (now owned by Luella Schlotfelt) is the original Schlotfelt home in the north half of the south half of the northeast quarter of Section 21, Township 86, Range 11, west of the 5th parallel, in Cedar Township. This 120 acres was purchased from John and Levina Payne in November 1866 for $720 by Clause Christian and Margaret Freese Schlotfelt, formerly from Hamburg, Germany. They moved from New York to Moline, Illinois, then to Benton County, Iowa.\\
      By covered wagon, the family came to Cedar Township. Grandpa Clause tooke the covered upper part off the wagon and left it for Grandma and the children for shelter. He and a neighbor drove 30 miles to Waterloo for lumber to build the small home and a lean-to shelter for the animals.
      Clause, having been a carpenter by trade in Germany, built the present eight-room house in 1874, as well as most of the other buildings on the farm. A large horse barn stalling 16 horses was built by hired carpenters. Later, modern sheds and garages were added by son Lewis and his wife, Anna, who bought the land upon the death of the parents.
      Lewis and Anna were active in all the community activities. Lewis served on the schoolboard and was elected Township Trustee for many years. Their goals were to have their children obtain a college education after high school. They saw four earn degrees and teach, one an advance degree in Medical Allied Sciences. One became a State Conservation Officer.
      After Lewis and Anna died, Chester and Margaret Schlotfelt bought the place and maintained it with pride on much the original plan.\\


Children of ANNA BREHM and LEWIS SCHLOTFELT are:

EDNA OLIVE⁴ SCHLOTFELT, b. March 21, 1892, Benton County, Cedar Township, Iowa - Mt. Auburn; d. November 21, 1911, Cedar Township - buried at Mt. Auburn - Benton County, IA.

Notes for EDNA OLIVE SCHLOTFELT:
Edna Scholtfelt was a teacher and died of tuberculosis at age 19.

Edna Olive Schlotfelt is buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Iowa.

ii.

HARLEY JUSTUS CHRISTIAN SCHLOTFELT, b. June 9, 1893, Benton County, Cedar Township, Iowa; d. February 23, 1894, Greenwalt Cemetery - Cedar Township, IA.

Notes for HARLEY JUSTUS CHRISTIAN SCHLOTFELT:
Harley Justus Christian Schlotfelt is buried in Greenwalt Cemetery, southwest of Mt. Auburn, Iowa.

iii.

ALMA JULIANNA ANNA SCHLOTFELT, b. September 25, 1894, Cedar Township - Benton County, IA; d. July 20, 1959, Virginia Gay Hospital - Vinton, IA - buried Eldorado Cemetery; m. KARL CHRISTIAN JANSSEN, October 20, 1929, Eldorado Township, IA; b. May 22, 1890; d. March 17, 1942.

Notes for ALMA JULIANNA ANNA SCHLOTFELT:
Alma died of cancer.

Alma and Karl are both buried in the Newhall, Iowa cemetery.

49.	iv.	HARRY JACOB SCHLOTFELT, b. February 26, 1898, Cedar Township - Benton County, IA; d. December 25, 1951, Oskaloosa, Iowa.
50.	v.	RALPH CHRISTIAN SCHLOTFELT, b. June 12, 1901, Cedar Township - Benton County, IA; d. January 16, 1956.
	vi.	MARGARET LEORA AMANDA SCHLOTFELT, b. December 25, 1903, Mt. Auburn, Iowa - Cedar Township; d. January 18, 1993, Virginia Gay Hospital - Vinton, Iowa - buried Mt. Auburn Cemetery; m. CHESTER CLARENCE JOHNSON, February 12, 1930, Ft. Dodge M.E. Church, IA; b. April 15, 1905; d. April 28, 1983, Mercy Hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA - buried Mt. Auburn Cemetery..

Notes for MARGARET LEORA AMANDA SCHLOTFELT:
Margaret attend rural school and later Mt. Auburn High School before graduating from Vinton. He went on to further her education at Iowa State Teachers' College in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She taught rural school near Mt. Auburn before going on to teach in the communities of Garrison and Atkins.
She married Chester John in 1930 and they made their home on a farm near Atkins. After two years they moved to the Scholtfelt family farm near Mt. Auburn.
Her funeral was held January 22, 1993, at the Mt. Auburn United Methodist Church and she was buried in the Mt. Auburn cemetery.

Notes for CHESTER CLARENCE JOHNSON:
Chester's funeral service was at the United Methodist Church, Mt. Auburn, Iowa, on May 2, 1983. The officiant was Rev. Wallace Parmer. Interment was in the Mt. Auburn Cemetery.

vii.

LUELLA ELIZABETH DOROTHEA SCHLOTFELT, b. May 13, 1908, Mt. Auburn, Iowa.

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