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Here we will try to share historical documents, pictures, and general information to aid in the discovery and understanding of our origins. Johan Heinrich and Elizabeth Plassmeyer came to the area of Westphalia in Osage County, Missouri USA in 1857 with six children: Anton, Johan Hermann, Joseph, Johann, Elizabeth, and Gerhard. This website focuses on the descendants of Joseph.
Here we will try to share historical documents, pictures, and general information to aid in the discovery and understanding of our origins. Johan Heinrich and Elizabeth Plassmeyer came to the area of Westphalia in Osage County, Missouri USA in 1857 with six children: Anton, Johan Hermann, Joseph, Johann, Elizabeth, and Gerhard. This website focuses on the descendants of Joseph.
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Deer Creek Farm--Ancestral Home of the Joseph Plassmeyer Family, descendants of Johan Heinrich Plassmeyer and Elizabeth Heckemeyer of Wadersloh in Prussia. Johan Heinrich Nienkemper married Elizabeth, the widow of Anton Plassmeyer in 1835, and took the name Plassmeyer according to custom and to preserve hereditary tenure. But records also show that Nienkemper's parents had the last name of Lutke-Hackenkamp, leading genealogical researchers into confusion, and suggesting that while we are a Plassmeyer family, we cannot properly be called the Plassmeyer family.
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We dedicate this space to the memory of our family members who died in the service of our
country: Anton and John (Johan) in the Civil War and Bernard in the Vietnam War. |
Joseph and Elizabeth Morfeld Plassmeyer. Joseph married Elizabeth in 1883 after his first wife, Margaretha, died in 1882. Margaretha Bode had married Gerhard Winkelman in 1861, and they had two children, Bernard and Herman. Gerhard Winkelman died in 1865. Margaretha then married Joseph Plassmeyer in 1867. They had five children, Henry, Martin, Mary and Clara (Another son, John, died as an infant). Margaretha and her son, Bernard, died in 1882. Joseph then married Elizabeth Morfeld in 1883. They are the parents of Joseph Plassmeyer (The Colonel). They also raised the children of Joseph and Margaretha Bode Winkelman Plassmeyer, and the surviving Winkelman child, Herman.
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