Notes: Heimsar Family

Just wanted to add a section to put interesting notes from family or friends.  Geoffrey Knapp, grandson of Emma Heimsar, has provided a lot of information on the Heimsar family.  His grandmother saved a lot of family information and has generously shared this information with us.  It has been a gold mine of photos and family documentation.  I hope that you will enjoy it as much as I have.  Please notify me of any corrections or if you can fill in the blanks of where photos were taken and the date, I will add that documentation as well.  My plan is to create on spot on each family so that information that is known will not be lost.  It could be stories to speculations on research etc...

Note from Geoffrey Knapp:

"Frederick Wilhelm Heimsar was born in 1855.   I'll send some documents the next couple days.   He was in the German military but sounds like he went AWOL.   (I know in the 1880's the German military was brutal - amongst themselves and towards the citizenship.   According to my mom, he disagreed with the brutalness against the citizenship.)   He came to this country in 1883.    He settled in Knox Co., Missouri.    Don't know why there.    One route is to land in New Orleans and travel up the Mississippi.   Knox County isn't too far from the Mississippi - north of Hannibal, Missouri." 
End of Geoffrey Knapp email dated 10/28/10

"Caroline Krieger/Kriger was born to Wilhelm Krieger and Charolette Goetz.    Charolette was previously married to a William Woutzke.    (Looking in the LDS IGI, there was some Woutzke's in Gdanzk, Poland BUT Gdanzk was also Danzig, West Prussia!)     If the last name ended in an 'i', it might be a Polish name but ending in an 'e', it is a German name.

William and Charolette Woutzke had one child, August.   August is consistently listed as being born in Brazil or S.A.    Possibly that was the final destination??    In August's obit, it mentioned that Charolette Woutzke with child August met up with her half-sister Lena Kiesow in Knox Co., MO.    (I am not sure the order of arriving there - conflicting dates per census when both arrived in U.S.)    (Lena is short for Carolina!)    Lena's husband is Herman Kiesow.   (There were 2 or 3 Kiesow families - related.)

From South America, New Orleans would be a close port.   And then a trip up the Mississippi.  

William & Charolette Woutzke
1) August Woutzke   01 August 1869

Wilhelm and Charolette Krieger had 5 children
1) Caroline  b: 18 Jul 1873  Married to William Heimsar
2) Anna    b: 1875      Married to Bernard Karhoff
     One son, Lawrence, moved to Labette Co. and raised his family there.  Lawrence's son, Bernard, still lives in the Springhill area.
3) William b:1877  died in Quincy, Illinois hospital
      My mom always thought he died as an infant but at cousins in Knox Co. had picture of him in mid-teens
4) John  b. 1880.     Died and buried in Labette Co.
5) Fannie    (possibly both Fannie and mother Charolette died in child birth?)

William remarried to an Henrietta Booth in 1882.     At that time Caroline was hired out as house help.
William and Henrietta had
1) Henriette Agnes  b 1883  Married married George Karhoff
2) Nora   Married Ernest Green.    Died in New Orleans, LA
3) Emma   b. Feb1886     married to an Emmet B. Brown.
     According to my mom, Emmet played the fiddle.  
   (No connection with Christopher Lloyd's character in 'Back To The Future"
4) Elizabeth married John Karhoff
5) Clara  b. 1894    m. Hosea Boltz    
       She died at age 20.   Somebody listed a child but could not find any evidence.   Child birth?

George Karhoff & John Karhoff were brothers and a cousin to Bernard Karhoff."
End of Geoffrey Knapp email dated 10/31/2010

"My grandmother moved from Parsons to Idaho Falls in about 1980.    To make it as comfortable as possible for her, my parents tried to pack up as much of her stuff as possible (including pictures).   It was fortunate they did as my Aunt Junatita's house burned a few years later.    (Was not surprised as my aunt was a hoarder.)   My mom tried to have her mother and/or her best friend Mabel Budd who lived in Twin Falls identify as many pictures as possible.    My mom mentioned that also Walter's sister  Lola moved to Idaho in the 1920's and would come to visit with daughter Marjorie- possible last name Schlosky (sp?).   Marjorie was possibly between Ruth & my mom's age."

"I visited some Heimsar cousins in Germany - in 1984 and 1990.   I took along some pictures and one was the William Heimsar/Caroline Kriger picture.   They had the same picture, possibly sent to a sister or to his parents.   I have some more information information per the Heimsars in Germany.

Wilhelm Heimsar had 3 sisters and 2 brothers with both brothers dying before adulthood.      The other thing I found interesting is sometimes some of the records for Heimsars had  Heimplatzer geb. Heimsar.      It was as if the last name also included a title.     (Inherited the BIG farm place.)   Somebody who occasionally helped me suggested that it was more of an archiac German method.  " 
End Geoffrey Knapp email 11/5/2010.