Family Lines: 2009

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Need help

Can anyone tell me how I can add this blog to my facebook page??

Good morning and Happy Valentine's Day to everyone. I did some updating this morning adding some photos and I tried to add my favorite links but none of them worked so if anyone has any ideas on how to get links added, I would appreciate it.
Any ideas on genealogy always welcome also.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The Beginning

Hi everyone. I have no idea what I'm doing with this yet but I know I want to post so pictures and some family stories. Love to have other's input and help with this!

Siegfried Meier

Siegfried Meier is my husband's great-great-grandfather on his mother's side.

Siegfried came to Ameica from Shuben, Germany on August 1, 1857 aboard the Frang McHenry. He arrived in New York city. He traveled with his wife Eva Resna Falikowski. They had married in March of that same year in Germany. He says in his Civil War Pension records that they were married in a Lutheran church there.

They traveled halfway across the United States and arrived in southern Wisconsin. They lived in the Wind Lake area of Racine County until sometime between 1870 and 1880 when they moved to there land in Price County, Wisconsin. According to family stories, Siegfried returned to Germany to bring more family to Wisconsin but I've not found any records to support that yet.

Siegfried served in Co. "H", 28th Wisconsin, Inf in the Civil War. He enlisted August 20, 1862, at Muskego, Wisconsin, and was discharged August 23, 1865 at Brownsville, Texas. He had the rank of Private until August 1, 1864, Corpl. until January 22, 1865, and then promoted to Sgt. Siegfried Meier, according to his pension records, had blue eyes, light hair, light complexion, and was 5 ft., 5 in. tall.

Siegfried and Eva Meier had 11 children, most born in the Wind Lake, Racine County area of Wisconsin. When they went to their land in Price County there was 160 acres of it, mostly woods at that time. Siegfried wasn't much of a farmer apparently.

Siegfried and Eva were divorced on May 24, 1889 and then apparently they were remarried on January 25, 1891. Divorced would again happen on June 27, 1896. Siegfried then married someone else he had met at the Wisconsin Home for Veterans. Her name was Cecelia Beyer and she was born in 1854 in Austria. They were married in Waupaca City, Waupaca County, Wisconsin on October 25, 1899. I'm not sure it she worked at the Veterans home or was there because she had been married before but they lived there together for a while before moving to Portage, Columbia County, Wisconsin. They moved back to the Veterans home because on October 11, 1913 Siegfried passed away there. Cecelia remarried to a very much older man still named John Kennedy who also was a Civil War Soldier. Cecelia passed away in November of 1940.

Eva Resna Falikowski-Meier moved in with her daughter and son-in-law, Augusta and Albert Manthey in Gleason, Lincoln County, Wisconsin, not far from the home place in Price County. The property must have been sold and/or divided among the children.

Many of their descendants still live in that area and one of the cemeteries there; Spirit Hillcrest Cemetery, has mostly Meiers' or those related buried there.

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Saturday, February 14, 2009

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The Beginning

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