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Submitted: 3/9/14 • Approved: 3/9/14 • Last Updated: 3/11/18 • R29111-G0-S3
March 3, 1812 - September 22, 1871
Deatrick was born in 1812 in Hannoversche Landkreis, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany and immigrated in the 1840s; by 1848 he had applied for naturalization. He married Sophia Lehmkuhl, also an immigrant from Hanover, on 16 October 1849 in Cass County, Illinois.
Shortly after their marriage they lived in Sangamon County, Illinois, and in late 1850 bought land in the north half of section 19 in Bluff Springs Township, Cass County, where he farmed. Around 1859 they moved, along with their 6 children, to Bourbon County, Kansas, where he bought land in the SW corner of section 32 of Township 25 south, Range 21 east.
Here they settled into farming, and had 7 more children before Sophia died on 29 November 1870, leaving Dietterich to raise the 10 children still at home (the oldest two girls were married, and young Jesse had died). Within a year he married Minerva (maiden name unknown) but died himself just a year after Sophia. This left Minerva with 10 children not her own to raise. The boys were hired out as farmhands and the older girls as servants, and she kept the youngest girls with her.
Part of the children: Mary Jane Allenbaugh, Ellen Sofia Allenbaugh, William Herman Diedrick Fuhrman, Sarah R Bennett, Anna Augusta Campbell, Stella Lacena Fuhrman, Jesse Fuhrmann, Melvina Fuhrman, Emma Cassy Horner
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Evelyn Jones Christensen
Contributed on 3/9/14
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