ANCESTRY NARRATIVES
by Martin L. Plassmeyer
INTRODUCTION including a short explanation
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Gottfried and Gertrude Schwartze by Martin L. Plassmeyer.
Gottfried and Gertrude Schwartze are among the earliest settlers in the Westphalia community. They arrived in 1836 along with the Bruns family, the Westerman family, Ferdinand Holterman and others. Among the descendants of Gottfried and Getrude Schwartze still in the Westphalia community and Osage County are members of the Schwartz, Melies, Plassmeyer, Borgmeyer and Brendel families. Their Brendel descendants still live on the farm Gottfried and Gertrude started in 1836 between Westphalia and the Osage River. Two of the daughters of Gottfried and Gertrude Schwartze married Bernard
H. Melies in the 1850's.
Gottfried and Gertrude Schwartze are among the earliest settlers in the Westphalia community. They arrived in 1836 along with the Bruns family, the Westerman family, Ferdinand Holterman and others. Among the descendants of Gottfried and Getrude Schwartze still in the Westphalia community and Osage County are members of the Schwartz, Melies, Plassmeyer, Borgmeyer and Brendel families. Their Brendel descendants still live on the farm Gottfried and Gertrude started in 1836 between Westphalia and the Osage River. Two of the daughters of Gottfried and Gertrude Schwartze married Bernard
H. Melies in the 1850's.
| gottfriedgertrudeschwartze.pdf |
Joseph and Margaretha Plassmeyer
By Martin L. Plassmeyer dated August 2011 (revised October 2013) with links to supporting documents that are also included separately in Historical Documents. Joseph and Margaretha founded what is now Deer Creek Farm and established our branch of the Plassmeyer Family.
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Henry and Elizabeth Plassmeyer by Martin L. Plassmeyer
dated August 2011 with links to supporting documents that are also included separately in Historical Documents. Henry and Elizabeth and family were the first of our Plassmeyer ancestors to emigrate from Prussia in 1857.
dated August 2011 with links to supporting documents that are also included separately in Historical Documents. Henry and Elizabeth and family were the first of our Plassmeyer ancestors to emigrate from Prussia in 1857.
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Bernard and Johanna Melies by Martin L. Plassmeyer.
Bernard H. Melies probably arrived in the Westphalia community in 1846. He quickly began farming along the
Maries River about 5 miles south of Westphalia and is listed as a farmer in the 1850 federal census. He married Elizabeth
Schwartze, a daughter of Gottfried and Gertrude Schwartze, in 1853. About a year after Elizabeth died in 1857, he married her younger sister, Johanna. Many of his descendants still live in Osage and Cole counties and several hundred live between Columbia and Kansas City, Missouri.
Bernard H. Melies probably arrived in the Westphalia community in 1846. He quickly began farming along the
Maries River about 5 miles south of Westphalia and is listed as a farmer in the 1850 federal census. He married Elizabeth
Schwartze, a daughter of Gottfried and Gertrude Schwartze, in 1853. About a year after Elizabeth died in 1857, he married her younger sister, Johanna. Many of his descendants still live in Osage and Cole counties and several hundred live between Columbia and Kansas City, Missouri.
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Ignace and Elizabeth (Pequignot) Heislen by Martin L. Plassmeyer
Ignace and Elizabeth (Pequignot) Heislen are the great-great-grandparents of Martin Lloyd Plassmeyer, his brothers and his Brandt, Loehner, Patton and Plassmeyer cousins, born in the 1930s and 1940s. Ignace Heislen is from Alsace, probably from near the town of Rouffach. The records are not clear, but he came to eastern Cole County, Missouri sometime in the early 1840s. Angelique Elizabeth Pequignot went by the name of Elizabeth and is from the Doubs area of France along the Swiss border. She and some of her brothers settled near what is now Loose Creek, Missouri in 1843. Ignace Heislen and Angelique Elizabeth Pequignot married at St. Francis Xavier Church in Taos, Missouri in 1846 and lived on a farm near Taos and Wardsville.
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John Herman and Anna Maria Catherine (Prenger) Hagner
by Martin L. Plassmeyer, a maternal great great grandson. The couple made their home on a farm along the Moreau River in eastern Cole County, Missouri.
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Joseph and Wilhelmina Woehr by Martin L. Plassmeyer
Joseph Woehr and his wife Caroline Anne Wilhelmina Marie Uetrecht Woehr were the parents of fifteen children, six of whom died in infancy or early childhood. Among their surviving children was Anna who married Bernard H. Melies. Bernard and Anna Melies are the maternal grandparents of Martin L. Plassmeyer. Joseph Woehr was a woodworker and expert cabinet maker who participated in the building of St. Boniface Church in Koeltztown by making the frames for the Stations of the Cross and other items.
(please use link below to open narrative)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7lJDNm2jCxIYmtMdTRLOE5ka3dzdklzQ2FxQ0pzREYyYW5F/edit?usp=sharing
FAMILY HISTORY
by Norbert Plassmeyer
Bernard Herbert Plassmeyer, a remembrance by Norb Plassmeyer dated January 2011 including some supporting documents and pictures not included in Historical Documents
| bernard_herbert_plassmeyer12011.pdf |
The Grandparents Plassmeyer at Deer Creek
Farm
by Norb Plassmeyer dated 2007 with list of supporting documents
available under Historical Documents.
| grandparents_plassmeyer.doc |
