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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.
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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dated August 2011 (revised October 2013) with links to supporting documents  that are also included separately in Historical Documents.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 dated August 2011 with links to supporting documents  that are also included separately in Historical Documents.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.
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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.
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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

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The Grandparents Plassmeyer at Deer Creek
Farm

by Norb Plassmeyer dated 2007 with list of supporting documents
available under
Historical Documents.

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