Came to the US with his uncle, John Bauer, and his cousins Alex and Joe. John brought the boys by ship to the port of NY, then left to go back to return to his wife in Germany. They settled in the german Catholic town of Westphalia, Shelby county, Iowa, USA . A church named St Boniface was built at Westphalia, and all three boys were married in this church. Lived on the Jerome Farm. 1900 census shows that the Bauer family came to the US in 1877. They came to South Dakota after 1800. Idlewilde Book states he died Feb 3, 1924. The gravestone at Idlewilde states he died in 1929. Possibly at 26 May 1929 at Sacred Heart Hospital.
**1920 Census=SD,Turner Co, Salem Twn,Sup 312, ED 239, pg 7B, line 60 Owned farm free, 65 yo, immig 1878, nat 1885, read & write English, born in Germany, birthplace of parents. Germany Farmer, employer, number of farm schedule 129, married to Graycns, son Joseph living with them, age 40.
== Andreas Bauer Andreas Bauer left Westphalia, Iowa and moved to Freeman, South Dakota. It was told that Andreas and his wife came too late in the fall to build a house, so he and his wife built a sod house from the wooden wagon box turned upside down and covered it with sod. This is where the first child was born. Later, when their sod house was built, the "Creeping Jenny" was planted to grow up the side of the"Soddy" as a pretty wild flower. Andreas married Usula Goetz on May 30, 1878. Anna had three children before she died. The children are as follows;
Name Born Died Sophia 3/19/1877 1937 Joseph 6/4/1879 9/1/1949 Catherine 11/5/1880 6/6/1954
Andreas married his second wife, Crescentia (Grace) Alsteil. Andrew and Grace married in 1884. Together, they had four children, which are as follows;
Name Born Died Theresa 9/23/1886 (I believe Theresa died very young) Anna 1/29/1886 8/21/1966 Mary 12/6/1889 9/5/1950 Bridget C. 2/12/1891 7/16/1967
It has been said that Andreas's son, Joe, had many dances in his barn. He also bought the first electric organ for the church of Boniface, in Idylwilde/Freeman, South Dakota. Andrew died on May 26, 1929, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, South Dakota, of kidney failure. His parents were Joseph Bauer and Ursula Tyroles of Bavaria, Germany. Andreas was 74 at the time of his dealth.
=== 1880 US Census for Westphalia Township, Shelby County, Iowa
Came to the US with his uncle, John Bauer, and his cousins Alex and Joe. John brought the boys by ship to the port of NY, then left to go back to return to his wife in Germany. They settled in the german Catholic town of Westphalia, IO . A church named St Boniface was built at Westphalia, and all three boys were married in this church. Lived on the Jerome Farm. 1900 census shows that the Bauer family came to the US in 1877. They came to SD after 1800. Idlewilde Book states he died Feb 3, 1924. The gravestone at Idlewilde states he died in 1929. Possibly at 26 May 1929 at Sacred Heart Hospital.
**1920 Census=SD,Turner Co, Salem Twn,Sup 312, ED 239, pg 7B, line 60 Owned farm free, 65 yo, immig 1878, nat 1885, read & write English, born in Germany, birthplace of parents. Germany Farmer, employer, number of farm schedule 129, married to Graycns, son Joseph living with them, age 40. === St. Boniface, Idylwilde, Centennial Church History (by Magdalen Kessler)
Andreas Bauer came too late in the fall to build a house. He and his wife built a house made of their wooden wagonbox turned upside down covered with sod. It was in this house that their first child was born. Later when the sod house was built, the "creeping jenny" was planted as a vine to grow up the side of the "soddy" as a "pretty wild flower".
The 1900 Census shows that the Bauer family came to the United States in 1877.
====== However census has them coming in 1877 and no other bauer on manifest so likely not our bauer
Ship record from Elli Island has Associated Passenger: Andreas Bauer Date of Arrival: October 04, 1892 Ship Name: Dania
Bauer, Andreas Laxonia October 04, 1892 46y M Occuptation Builder intended destionation state or Territory: New York and two peices of baggage
(page F414)
Dania
Cuxhaven, Hamburg, Germany === LOCATION: Westphalia is one of five old German colonies located in Shelby County, Iowa. It is on F32, 3 miles west of Highway 59 in the heart of southwest Iowa's picturesque countryside.
CHURCHES: St. Boniface Catholic Church was built in 1881-82 in the very center of the township. The cost of the church at that time was $17,000. The bricks were baked by area craftsmen.
LOCAL LEGENDS & HISTORY: Westphalia Township was set aside by the Chicago-Rock Island & Pacific Railway to be settled by German Catholics in the 1870's. In 1872 our founder Emil Flusche had a vision of living in a peaceful village in the center of a farming community where Germans who loved to work the land could come. Here they would be self-sufficient and help one another. They would have their own church and priest for their spiritual needs and cultivate the faith for generations to follow. Westphalia remains a parish community. It was named for Westphalia, Michigan because the people had been so kind to Emil Flusche when he lived there. He later moved west again and founded Westphalia, Kansas. http://www.netins.net/ricweb/community/westphal/westphal.htm
Other Information: Birth Year <1856> Birthplace BAVARIA Age 24 Occupation Farmer Marital Status M Race W Head of Household Andrew BAUER Relation Self Father's Birthplace BAV Mother's Birthplace BAV
Source Information: Census Place Westphalia, Shelby, Iowa Family History Library Film 1254364 NA Film Number T9-0364 Page Number 30A
1880 federal population census United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880 Iowa, 1880 federal census : soundex and population schedules United States. Bureau of the Census. 10th census, 1880
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/Census/individual_record.asp?indi_code=1880US%5F7943478%5F0&lds=5®ion=0®ionfriendly=1880+US+Census&frompage=99 ============================= Andrew BAUER Self M Male W 24 BAVARIA Farmer BAV BAV Anna BAUER Wife M Female W 29 BAV BAV BAV Sophie BAUER Dau S Female W 4 IA BAV BAV Joseph BAUER Son S Male W 1 IA BAV BAV Beno GIETZ Other S Male W 30 BAV Servant BAV BAV
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/Census/household_record.asp?HOUSEHOLD_CODE=1880US_7943478&HOUSEHOLD_SUB=1&frompage=99 ============================ 1900 Census South Dakota, Turner County, Roll 1555 Book 1, Page 136, Salem Township
The Bauer quarter section was homesteaded by Max Huber (Register of Deeds, Parker, S.D. 57053)
The Standard Atlas of Turner County. S.D. by Geo. A. ogles & Co. of Chicogo, 1911 Bauer, Andreas, Farmer and Stockriser, Sec 9, Twp. Salem, P.W. Hurley, came 1885.
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More About Andreas Bauer: Date born 2: 1856, Germany.257, 258 Cemetary: Idlewilde 1854-1929.259, 260, 261 Census 1: 1880, Iowa, SHELBY, Roll 364 Book 1, Page 30a .261 Census 2: 1900, South Dakota, Turner County, Roll 1555 Book 1, Page 136.261 Cenus: 1920, South Dakota, TURNER, Roll 1721 Book 2, Page 252b.261 Died 2: 3 February 1924, Yankton, Yankton Co., SD.262, 263 Event 1: Catholic.264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269 Immigra: 1878, Germany.270, 271, 272 Natural: 1885273, 274, 275 Occupation: Farmer.276, 277 Record Change: 27 January 2004278, 279 Religion: Turner/Salem/sup 312;ED 239;pg 7B;ln 60.280, 281, 282 Researched: 27 January 2004, Message to IASHELBY-L@rootsweb.com from http://www.rootsweb.com/~iashelby/maillist.htm#subscriptions.282 Residence 1: 1880, Westphalia Township, Shelby, Iowa.282 Residence 2: 1920, Salem, Turner, South Dakota, USA.282 Verified: Farmer.283, 284, 285
More About Andreas Bauer and Johanna "Anna" (?Ursula) Goetz: Marriage 1: 30 May 1878, St. Boniface Catholic Church, Westphalia, Shelby Co., IA.286, 287 Marriage 2: 30 May 1876, St. Boniface Church, Westphalia, Shelby County, Iowa, USA.288, 289
Children of Andreas Bauer and Johanna "Anna" (?Ursula) Goetz are:
+Sophia Clara Bauer, b. 19 March 1876, Bavaria, Germany290, 291, d. 21 June 1939, Coutts, Alberta, Canada291.
Andreas Bauer (b. 1856, d. 3 February 1924)
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