13. | George Wilhelm Voelkel (7.Anna3, 6.Anna2, 1.Anna1) was born on 5 Jun 1819 in Erndtebrück, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland; died on 13 Mar 1866 in Erndtebrück, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland. Other Events and Attributes:
Notes:
Wilhelm came to America and sent for Katharina and the 2 children. The trip from Germany to Indinola, Tx. took eleven weeks (1868 or 1867). When they got there they learned the father and husband had been killed by Indians. Later Katharina married George Voelkel, a distant cousin to her first husband. They lived at Yorktown, Tx.
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Humrighausen, Louise - Ruppershaven to Yorktown; Peter, Marie, Wilhelm; Fortuna 1860
George married Maria Katharina Homrighausen on 11 Jul 1858 in Evangelisch, Feudingen, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Germany. Maria (daughter of Johann Kraft Homrighausen and Anne Catharina Henrich) was born on 4 Feb 1828 in Bad Laasphe-Rüppershausen, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland; died on 13 Nov 1902 in Kilgore Community, Goliad, Texas, USA; was buried in Kilgore Community Cemetery - Goliad County, TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 20. Heinrich Voelkel
was born in Aug 1859 in Erndtebrueck,Westfalen,Germany; was christened on 21 Aug 1859; died on 16 May 1860 in Erndtebrueck,Westfalen,Germany.
- 21. Justina Voelkel
was born on 8 Oct 1860 in Erndtebruck, Wittenstein, Retiehungegirt, Arnsbert, Prussia; was christened on 16 Dec 1860; died on 12 Apr 1934 in San Antonio, Bexar, TX; was buried in St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Ander, Goliad, TX.
- 22. Wilhelmine Voelkel
was born on 5 Oct 1862 in Erandtebuek, Westfalen, Germany; was christened on 5 Oct 1862; died on 28 May 1868 in Erndtebrueck, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Germany.
- 23. Henrich Voelkel
was born in 1865 in Erndtebrück, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; was christened on 2 Apr 1865; died on 19 Jul 1865 in Emdtebrueck, Westphalen, Germany.
- 24. Sophie Bertha Voelkel* Dreier
was born on 3 Jun 1867 in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; was christened on 17 Jun 1866; died on 7 Sep 1942 in Kilgore, Goliad, Texas, United States; was buried in Kilgore Community Cemetery, Goliad Co., TX..
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