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From: "Virgil Hein" <>
Subject: Re: [S-H-RTS] Schleswig-Holstein to Missouri
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:18:40 -0500
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No, there are other S-H settlers m MO and I'm a descendent of several of
those families. These folks were from Kreis Steinburg and Kreis Pinneberg
and they settled with other Germans in Cooper County, MO. Boonville is a
Missouri River town in Cooper County and most of them came up the
Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis and then on up to Boonville.
The first families came in the 1850s. With the help of Hans Peter Voss and
Klaus Struve I've researched most of these families and given them their
genealogies. The family names that come to mind are Hein, Vieth,
Schmalfeldt, Toellner Timm, Köhnke, Rohwer, Schnack, Stammerjohn, Schmidt
and Tietjen. The Köhnke name was changed to King in the USA. There is also
the Selck family who came from Kreis Plön, settled in New York for several
years, and then came west to Missouri. Descendents of all of these families
still live in the area. There are others who settled in Chariton County and
Claus Timm who contributes to this message board has reported on them in the
past.
Virgil Hein, FL

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. David Wulfman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [S-H-RTS] Schleswig-Holstein to Missouri


> wrote:
>
>>>From my reading of postings to this site for more than a year now, people
>>from S-H have gone lots of places , but not to Missouri apparently. Well,
>>I guess one did: my ggf Albert Preuss from Berend, S-H. So, an open
>>question: Did anyone else settle in Missouri? If so, where? Any in the
>>tricounty area, Morgan, Benton, Pettis?
>> Don Preuss, Oklahoma
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>.
>>
>>
> Gottfried Duden visited and lived in MO for several years and upon
> returning to Germany he wrote a widely disseminated book on his trip and
> recommended the emigration to the area along the MO R. which would
> include your counties. His book, in English can be obtained from the MO
> Historical Library in Columbia using an InterLibraryLoan (ILL). By 1866
> there were about 12 congregations of the Evangelsiche Kirchenverien des
> Westen between Jeff and KC and many of those were in the counties you
> mentioned. The point of entry for many of those emigrants was New Orleans
> and then up the rivers by paddle boats. The major points of embarkation
> were Hamburg and Bremen. Since Duden recommended going in groups and not
> as indivdiual familes, you can anticipate that your ancestors did not
> travel alone. I have been able to identify a number of the members of the
> 3 groups involving my ancestors using that route, the ships they sailed on
> and the date of landing. In a book by Walter Kamphoefner, on .Westfalians
> going to MO there is considerable info on points of origin from all over
> Germany going to MO. I have unburied my copy so I can nowgive you a
> exact title "The Westfalians from Germany to Missouri"(Princeton
> University Press) Try ILL and get his "News From The Land of Freedom" as
> well. It is a collection of translated letters from US to Germany friends
> about live in the US. (Cornell University Press). The German title of
> Dudens book is "Selbstanklage wegen seines amerikanischen Reiseberichte
> zur Warnung vor fernerem leichtsinnigen Auswandern (Bonn 1837). There are
> books published by Eden Seminary on the development of the German churches
> in North America and I am fairly confident that the Mo Synod Lutherans at
> Concordia Seminary have also covered the topic as well. Happy hunting,
> Dave
>
>
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