Julius & Amalie Henke Family Tree & Story
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(The Henke story follows the family tree)
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August Julius Henke, Born: 5 Apr 1838, birth place unknown
He went by Julius
He, and his family, immigrated through NY on 8 Apr 1889
on the S/S Amalfi from Hamburg, Germany
Julius Died: 3 Dec 1912, Adams/Marquette Co, WI
Marriage 1::19 Jan 1864 to Johanne Juliane Amalie Wolff (went by Amalie) in Prussia/Germany
Amalie was Born: 27 Dec 1843, in
Josephsruh, Kolmar, Prussia (now Jozefowice, Poland)
Josephsruh was west of Lindenwerder
Amalie Died: about 28 May 1926, New Chester Twsp, Adams Co, WI
Amalie's parents were Johann Gottlieb Wolff and Caroline Moskopp
NOTE; Amalie (Wolff) Henke's sister Caroline Wilhelmine Emilie Wolff (went by Emilie) was born 26 Jul 1845. She was married to Christian Martin Podoll. They immigrated 16 years before the Julius Henke family came to America and were likely the reason the Henke family settled in Wisconsin near Amalie's sister. Christian Podoll died in 1876, 3 years after arriving in America, in the village of Marquette in Green Lake County, WI. After his death his wife Emilie (Amalie's sister) lived with her son Ernest Podoll near where the Henke's settled. Ernest Podoll, and his siblings, were 1st cousins of the Julius and Amalie Henke children.
Amalie (Wolff) Henke also had the following siblings.
Ernestine Wilhelmine Wolff, born 17 May 1845
Johann August Wolff, born 5 Aug 1847
Luise Henriette Mathilde Wolff, born 10 Apr 1850
Caroline Pauline Emilie Wolff, 29 Jul 1852
Friedrich Ernst Theodor Wolff, 22 Jun 1857
Descendants of Julius & Amalie Henke
All of their children were born in Lindenwerder, Posen, Prussia and immigrated with their parents in 1889.
This has been verified from Lindenwerder church baptism records.
Lindenwerda is now in Poland and is called Lipia Gora/Lipiagora
Child 1: Auguste Alwine Henke, Born: 12 Nov 1864, Died: 28 Oct 1954
Marriage 1: to Adolf Schoenfelt, Born: 21 Apr 1867, Prussia Died: 12 Feb 1912
Children of Gustina & Adolf Schoenfelt
Child 1: Leonard Schoenfelt, Born: 3 Apr 1905, WI, Died: Dec 1971, WI
Child 2: Arthur Schoenfelt, Born: 8 Sep 1900, WI, Died: unknown
Child 2: Ernestine Wilhelmine Henke*, Born: 25 Feb 1866, Died: unknown
Child 3: Emilie Ottilie Henke*, Born: 5 Feb 1868, Died: unknown
* Ernestine and Emilie are not listed as children in the passenger list of the S/S Amalfi.
They may have died in Germany or they may have married and not immigrated.
Child 4: Ottilie Bertha E. Henke, Born: 4 Dec 1869, Died: 1960, Marquette Co, WI
She went by "Bertha".
Marriage 1:: to Gustave W. Jungenberg, Born: 1863, Prussia, Died: 1958 , WI
Children of Ottilie (Bertha) & Gustave Jungenberg
Child : Edna, Born: unknown, Died:unknown (Married: Donald Kottka)
Child 5: Emma Luise Henke, Born: 7 Feb 1872, Died: 17 Apr 1873, Lindenwerder, Posen, Prussia
Child 6: Gustave Carl Henke, Born: 26 Jan 1874, Died: 11 Jul 1945, MN
Marriage 1: abt 1897 to Anna A. Klucas , Born: 17 Apr 1877, MN, Died: 30 Jan 1941, MN
Children of Gustave Henke
Mattie Hattie Henke, Born: 25 Jun 1898, MN, Died: 28 Jun 1898, MN
Child 1: Harvey Clarence Henke, Born: 20 Aug 1901, MN, Died: 9 Jan 1901, MN
Child 2: Ervin Henke, Born: about 1900, Died: unknown
Child 3: Mainart/Mainert Ben Henke, Born: 19 Jan 1903, MN, Died: 29 Nov 1968
Child 4: Melvin Norman Henke, Born: 13 Aug 1904, MN, Died: 25 Dec 1968
Child 5: Violet Ida Henke, Born: 3 Mar 1906, MN, Died: 26 Nov 1976
Child 6: Margaret Lillian Henke, Born: 14 Oct 1907, Died: 19 Sep 1965
Child 7: Daisy Henke, Born: about 1909, Died: unknown
Child 8: Lillie Henke, Born: about 1911, Died: unknown
Child 9: Adeline Henke, Born: about 1913, Died: unknown
Child 10: Ralph Iran Henke, Born: 13 Mar 1915, MN, Died: 29 May 1961
Child 11: Irene Henke, Born: about 1917, Died: unknown
Child 7: Friedrich (Fred) Emil Henke, Born: 3 Mar 1876,
Died: 10 Sep 1949, Oxford, Marquette Co, WI
Marriage 1:: 2 Dec 1913 to Augusta M (Pehlke/Stroschein) Bruckner in New Chester, Adams, WI
This marriage was 1-1/2 years after Augusta's first husband (John L. Bruckner) died.
Child 8: August Wilhelm Henke, Born: 3 Oct 1878, Died: unknown
Child 9: Herman Rudolph Henke, Born: 10 Dec 1880, Died: 1959, WI
Child 10: Martha Ottilie Henke, Born: 12 Apr 1883, Prussia, Died: 11 Aug 1896, Adams Co, WI
Child 11: Anna Luise Henke, Born: 10 Jul 1885, Died:2 Jul 1911, Adams Co, WI
Child 12: Otto Paul Henke, Born: 21 Sep 1887, Prussia, Died: 1953, Adams Co, WI
Descendants of Fred & Augusta M Henke
Fred & Augusta Married: 2 Dec 1913
Children of Fred & Augusta Henke
Child 1: Dorothy Anna Henke
Marriage 1: 28 Apr 1935 to Sterling Cottrell in Oxford, WI
Born: 29 Oct 1909, Poy Sippi, WI, Died: 8 Jul 1946, Green Lake, WI
Child 2: Anna (Annie) Henke
Born: 26 Jul 1919, New Chester, Adams, WI
Died: 24 Jul 2011, Friendship, Adams, WI
Marriage 1: 16 May 1943 to John Peter Dornacker
Born: 14 Mar 1901, Died: 23 Nov 1966
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Julius Henke and his wife Amalie (Wolff) Lived in the LindenWerder, Prussia area where they had 12 children. Old microfilm records list Julius as a "proprietor" which means he owned some type of income property, maybe a shop owner or a farmer that owned land. The records also note that between 1881 and 1883 he was also a town councilor which means that he was involved in local politics and must have been pretty well known in Lindenwerder. He may have also been a member of the town council other years.
The Julius Henke's and nine of their children immigrated in 1889. They settled in Adams County, Wisconsin on a farm that was just to the south of the John G. Bruckner farm. Julius Henke's wife Amalie continued to live on the farm after his death in 1912. In 1913 their son Fred Married Augusta Bruckner who lived on the adjacent farm. The Henke's and the Bruckners had always been close friends and Augusta needed someone to help run the Bruckner farm after her husband, J. Lewis Bruckner, died in 1912. While the marriage happened somewhat out of necessity, it was a good marriage and Fred was a good father to their two children (Dorothy & Annie).
Otto was the only child of Julius and Amalie Henke still living with his mother on the Henke farm after Fred had married. Otto never married. About 1925 the Henke farm house caught on fire. Fred's mother Amalie was a diabetic with serious leg problems. Otto tried to fight the fire while Amalie ran, as best she could, to Fred and Augusta's house to get help. It was a Saturday morning and they had all gone to church. The house burned to the ground. Amalie then moved in with Fred and Augusta on the Bruckner farm and died from gangrene of the legs less than a year after the house burned. Otto fixed up the garage as a one room house and lived there until he died at 66 in 1953. He was a loner and it was some time before his body was discovered. There are no longer any buildings on what was the Julius Henke farm.
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