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- Louisa Weigle/Henry Schwab Jr.
- Paulina Weigle/Jacob Schwab
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Family Group Sheet
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Husband: JOHANN GEORGE WEIGLE
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Birth: Sep 14, 1820 BITTENFELD, WÜRTTEMBERG, GERMANY
Immigration: 1851 BLACKROCK DAM, BUFFALO, NY
Death: Feb 15, 1893 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Burial: LOGAN CEMETERY, HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Marriage: Sep 7, 1847 BITTENFELD, WÜRTTEMBERG, GERMANY
Father: JAKOB FRIEDRICH WEIGLE (1786-1859)
Mother: KATHARINA LAIBLE (1785-1838)
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Wife: CHRISTENA FRIEDERIKA KRAEMER
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Birth: Aug 3, 1824 BITTENFELD, WÜRTTEMBERG, GERMANY
Immigration: 1853 BLACKROCK DAM, NY
Death: Mar 27, 1900 DROPSY; HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Burial: LOGAN CEMETERY, HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Father: JOHANN LUDWIG KRAEMER (1794-1870)
Mother: ROSINA DOROTHEA FISCHER (1796-1869)
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Children
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1 F FRIEDERIKE WEIGLE
Birth: Oct 4, 1847 BITTENFELD, WÜRTTEMBERG, GERMANY
Death: Oct 15, 1847 BITTENFELD, WÜRTTEMBERG, GERMANY
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2 F PAULINA CAROLINE REGINA WEIGLE
Birth: Sep 29, 1848 BITTENFELD, WÜRTTEMBERG, GERMANY
Immigration: 1853 BLACKROCK DAM, BUFFALO, NY
Death: Apr 6, 1935 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Burial: HOOPER CEMETERY, HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Spouse: JACOB F. SCHWAB (1841-1916)
Marriage: Nov 28, 1867 DODGE COUNTY, NEBRASKA
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3 F RACHEL ELIZABETH FREDERICKA WEIGLE
Birth: Apr 8, 1850 BITTENFELD, WÜRTTEMBERG, GERMANY
Immigration: 1853 BLACKROCK DAM, BUFFALO, NY
Death: Nov 30, 1932 DROPSY AND CANCER; FORT LUPTON, WELD COUNTY, CO
Burial: HOOPER CEMETERY, HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Spouse: ADAM SCHWAB (1846-1930)
Marriage: Jun 19, 1870 LOGAN CREEK PCT., DODGE COUNTY, NEBRASKA
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4 M GODFRIED WEIGLE
Birth: Sep 8, 1851 BITTENFELD, WÜRTTEMBERG, GERMANY
Immigration: 1853 BLACKROCK DAM, BUFFALO, NY
Death: Jan 7, 1924 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Burial: HOOPER CEMETERY, HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Spouse: RACHEL DICKMAN (1859-1948)
Marriage: Apr 26, 1878 FREMONT, DODGE CO., NE
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5 M GEORG WEIGLE
Birth: 1853 BLACKROCK DAM, NY
Death: 1853 BLACKROCK DAM, NY
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6 F LOUISA CHRISTINA WEIGLE
Birth: Jul 16, 1855 BUFFALO, ERIE COUNTY, NY
Death: Feb 15, 1942 FREMONT, DODGE CO., NE
Burial: HOOPER CEMETERY, HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Spouse: HENRY SCHWAB Jr. (1852-1947)
Marriage: Jun 2, 1874 FREMONT, DODGE CO., NE
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7 M JOHN WEIGLE
Birth: Mar 7, 1857 LONG GROVE, LAKE CO., IL
Death: Jun 12, 1924 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Burial: HOOPER CEMETERY, HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Spouse: AUGUSTA DICKMAN (1866-1960)
Marriage: Apr 20, 1883 FREMONT, DODGE CO., NE
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8 M GEORGE WEIGLE JR.
Birth: Feb 8, 1859 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Death: Nov 23, 1887 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Burial: LOGAN CEMETERY, HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Spouse: MARIA JOSEPHINE ITHEN (1863-1948)
Marriage: Oct 2, 1887 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
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9 F MARY WEIGLE
Birth: Aug 23, 1861 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Death: Nov 10, 1919 HASTINGS, NE
Burial: Nov 12, 1919 LOGAN CEMETERY, HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
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10 F JOSEPHINE WEIGLE
Birth: 1863 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Death: 1864
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11 M GUSTAVE HERMAN WEIGLE
Birth: Mar 15, 1866 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Death: Sep 11, 1939 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Burial: CALVARY CEMETERY, FREMONT, DODGE CO., NE
Spouse: MARIA JOSEPHINE ITHEN (1863-1948)
Marriage: Jan 23, 1890 FREMONT, DODGE CO., NE
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12 M HENRY WEIGLE
Birth: 1870 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
Death: 1870 HOOPER, DODGE CO., NE
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Name on Tombstone = Christena F. Weigle
Dates on Tombstone = 3 Aug 1824 - 27 Mar 1900 75 yr 7 mo 24 days
Married Name = Mrs. George Weigle
Maiden Name = Christena F. Kramer
Obituary
The Hooper Sentinel
March 29, 1900
Mrs. Christiana Weigle was Born in Wittenberg(1), Germany, August
3, 1824, and died at the residence of her son Gustave, near Hooper,
on Tuesday, March 27, 1900, the immediate cause of her death being
dropsy.
Mrs. Weigle came to the United States in 1855, and settled first
near Buffalo, N. Y., removing to Illinois in 1856, and to Nebraska
in 1857. In 1858 with her family she came to Dodge County, and
settled on a homestead and died at the same place although not in
the same house.
During the early years of her Nebraska life she saw many hardships,
and at times suffered from enforced privations, but a strong
constitution enabled her to endure it with great fortitude.
About seven years ago she was attacked with a dropsical affection
but with good care practically recovered, but the effects of this
severe illness were never entirely eradicated from her system.
Mrs. Weigle's death will recall to many of the pioneers incedents
in the early settlement of the county. Many times was she called
on to go long distances to nurse the sick, and was always found
willing and happy in the knowledge that she could help to relieve
distress. In her home life she was devoted to her children and
husband, kind and affectionate, ever looking after their comfort
and wellfare.
She was the mother of ten children, seven of whom survive her. They
are Mesdames Jacob, Adam and Henry Schwab, Gotfred, John, Gustave
and Mary Weigle.
In religion she was a German Lutheran and the funeral services were
held from the residence to the Logan German Lutheran Church, Rev.
Grauenhorst being the officiating minister. The interment was in
the Logan Cemetery by the side of her husband, who died in 1893.
(1) She was born at Bittenfeld, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the
1860 and 1870 U.S. census she lists her birthplace as Württemberg.
Wittenberg is a city southwest of Berlin. Württemberg, a state, is
now combined with Baden to form the state Baden-Württemberg.
WEIGLE, CHRISTENA
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Name on Tombstone = George Weigle
Dates on Tombstone = 14 Sep 1820 - 15 Feb 1893 72 yr 5 mo 1 day
Obituary
Fremont, Nebraska Tribune
February 16, 1893
John Weigle, one of the oldest German settlers north of Hooper,
died yesterday. The funeral will take place at 10 o'clock Friday
morning. C. F. Herre and Mrs. Charles Herre of this city will leave
this evening to attend.
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George Weigle
History of the Elkhorn Valley 1892
Page 334
George Weigle, a retired resident of Hooper, ranks among the
earliest of pioneers of the Elkhorn Valley, locating, as he did, on
Logan Creek in the spring of 1863. He claimed a quarter section of
land, and commenced improving the same by breaking, building a log
house, etc. He lived there about seven years in his original log
cabin, which was 12x14 feet. His next residence was a frame
building, 16x24 feet. His next residence was a frame building,
16x24 feet, two stories high. He has since added to his land until
he now has seven hundred and forty acres, one-half of which is
under cultivation, while the other is pasture and meadow-land. He
remained on that place until 1890, when he moved to the village of
Hooper, where he purchased a place and now resides. When he first
came to the county he lived upon fish for two weeks, Omaha being
the nearest point at which groceries could be bought, while Calhoun
furnished the nearest mill, and not unfrequently meal was ground in
coffee mills. He was in the county before there were any bridges
over the streams and also when there were grasshoppers enough to
carry off the entire crop. Indians were very numerous in those
early days and they stole one of his oxen, and in order that he
might have a team he yoked a cow and an ox together, which was not
exactly according to Scriptures, but was not in violation to any
pioneer law, as ends justified means in those days. He worked this
kind of a team for three years. When our subject came to Nebraska,
he only had twenty dollars in money and a family of eight children
on his hands. Upon one occasion the Indians came to the house and
threatened to kill him unless he gave them something to eat, but
his good wife said she could not spare him, as she had so many
children, so the Indians took two bushels of potatoes, which was
all they had, and left the premises.
Mr. Weigle was born in Germany, September 14, 1820, the son of
Frederick and Catharine Weigle, natives of Germany, whose eight
children were: Frederick, Catharine, Godfried, Jacob, George,
Rachel, Dora, Frederica. Our subject remained in his native country
until twenty-seven years of age, when he came to this country. He
landed at New York, and went from there to Buffalo, where he
remained two years, and then came to Lake County, Illinois, where
he remained two years. He rented eighty acres of land just prior
to coming to Dodge County, Nebraska.
It was in 1848 that our subject was married to Christena Kirmer,
the daughter of Ludwic and Dora Kirmer, of Germany, whose five sons
and five daughters were as follows: Louisa, Christena, Paulina,
Dora, Gotlogen, Ludwick, Godtope, Frederick, Gustave and August.
Mr. and Mrs. Weigle are the parents of eight children: Paulina,
Rachel, Godfred, Louisa, John, George, Jr. (deceased), Gustave,
Mary. Our subject and his wife are both members of the Lutheran
Church and politically he votes the Democratic ticket.
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Biography - Johann George Weigle
George Weigle, 72, was born on September 14, 1820 at Bittenfeld,
Württemberg, Germany. His parents were Jakob Friedrich Weigle and
Katharina Laible. His brothers and sisters were: Rachel, Georg,
Jakob, Anna Sauer, Gotfried, Johannes, Catharine, Magdalena,
Dorothea and Luisa Frederika Henry. He married Christena
Friedericka Kraemer on September 7, 1847 at Bittenfeld.
In 1851 he emigrated alone to Blackrock Dam, New York. His family
followed in 1853. In 1855 the family moved to Long Grove, Lake
County, Illinois, and on May 10, 1857 they started their moved to
Nebraska. The Bummer and Roggensack families moved west with them.
The Weigle family settled near West Point Nebraska for the first
year and the following year, 1858, they moved to Dodge county,
Nebraska.
George Weigle homestead in Section 4 of Township 19N of Range 8E.
In 1890 Mr. & Mrs. Weigle retired from farming, and moved into the
town of Hooper, Nebraska.
George Weigle died February 15, 1893 and is buried in Logan
cemetery. He was survived by his wife and the following children:
Paulina Schwab, Rachel Schwab, Godfried, Louisa Schwab, John, Mary
and Gustave. He was preceded in death by 4 children.
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The Hooper Sentinel
March 8, 1900
The First Settlers A Little Biography and History of Some of the
Early Pioneers.
(Paper No. 2)
George Weigle with his wife and three children left Long Grove in
May 1857 in a covered wagon drawn by an ox team. At this time Iowa
was but sparsely settled consequently after leaving Iowa City the
country was about all the same, prairie as far as the eye could
reach. All summer, practically, was spent in making the trip. Many
inducements were held out to him to locate in Iowa but having heard
so much of the country west of the Missouri river he resisted all
temptations to stop before reaching his destination. The crossing
from Iowa to Nebraska was made by ferry at Council Bluffs.
Fontanelle had opened up for business and the towns along the river
were jealous of the prominence likely to be attained by the inland
rival, so the land agents at the river directed them to Lyons, then
a city on paper only, and from there they went to West Point, which
was at this time a very small village. The winter of 1857 and 58
was spent in West Point where Mr. Weigle constructed a log house,
then the fashionable material. Finding themselves running short of
provisions, Mr. Weigle, in company with a man by the name of
Frenchman, started for Council Bluffs to lay in a supply. They
were gone so long that the family gave them up for lost. When they
did finally get home they had but little left of their original
purchases and the flour was so mouldy it was with difficulty that
it could be used. Salt was a luxury and it was for years that none
could be had. Cattle suffered for the want of it and many of them
died. In the spring of 1858 Mr. Weigle moved to Dodge county and
located on sw1/4 section 4, Twp 19, R 8, filing on the land and
afterwards adding to it by homestead and pre-emption rights. His
first house was built of logs thatched with slough grass. This
soon gave way to one of frame and now the old place is adorned with
as neat and modern a farm house as is to be found anywhere and is
occupied by Gustav Weigle.
Mr. Weigle was born in Germany in 1820 and came to the United
States in 1853 and was followed by his family in 1855. At the time
he came to Nebraska his family consisted of wife and five children,
Paulina, now Mrs. Jake Schwab, Frederika, now married to Adam
Schwab, and at present residing in Denver; Godfred, John and
Louisa, the wife of Henry Schwab. Mr. Weigle died Feb. 15, 1893.
His wife is still living and resides with her son Gustav on the old
place.
After building his first house he commenced, breaking prairie but
the family had to live, and as food was scarce and as fish were
abundant in Logan Creek the family lived at times on a fish diet
for weeks. During the Pawnee Indian scare of 1858 the family was
compelled to leave their home -as in fact did all the settlers at
that time - and go to Fontanelle for aid and protection. While
they were away the Indians ransacked their homes and carried off
what of any value they could find. During one of these raids they
killed one of Mr. Weigle's oxen thus breaking his team and for some
time after he was compelled to put a cow to work in order to make
out a team. While on another of these raids the Pawnees came to
his house and compelled the family to give up all the flour,
potatoes and meat-which happened to be about half a barrel of
catfish. This left the family destitute and well nigh discouraged,
but with indomitable pluck they persevered and like all others won
out in the end. From 1860 to 1872 it was a hard and trying time
but nothing to what the years 1873 to 1878 were. Drouth and hot
winds burnt up most of the crops and the "hoppers" took what was
left. Some of the settlers who came in later became discouraged and
pulled up "stakes" but no so with this family and right well have
they been rewarded, but it is safe to say that their early
struggles won a foothold on the American desert and will never be
forgotten by any of the family who participated in them.
Up to this time the question of schools had occupied but little of
the time of the pioneers and this will occupy a portion of our next
paper.
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(This may or may not be the George Weigle of Hooper, NE)
Ship's Passenger List;
Germans to America CD#355
Ship = Albert
Manifest ID = 15024
Departure = Bremen
Destinaton = Baltimore
Arrived = May 20, 1851
Passenger = Johannes Weigle
Age = 30
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WEIGLE, GEORGE
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Name on Tombstone = Mary Weigle
Dates on Tombstone = 23 Aug 1861 10 Nov 1919
Obituary
The Hooper Sentinel
November 13, 1919
Gus and John Weigle went to Hastings Monday, returning Tuesday
afternoon with the body of their sister, Miss Mary, whose death
occurred at that city early Monday morning, November 10, following
an illness of about ten days. She was 58 years, 2 months and 17 days
of age. Mary Weigle was born on the old home place, now occupied by
Gus Weigle, two miles north of Hooper, on August 23, 1861. This was
her residence until about 32 years ago, when she left Hooper, over
twenty years having been spent in an institution at Hastings.
She is survived by three brothers and three sisters, Godfred, Gus,
John, Mrs. Henry Schwab and Mrs. Jacob Schwab all of Hooper, and
Mrs. Adam Schwab of Fort Lutpton, Colo. Funeral obsequies were held
yesterday afternoon. Short services first being held at one o'clock
at the Henry Schwab home and then in Grace Lutheran church, Rev. K.
de Freese being the officiating minister. Interment was made in
Logan cemetery.
WEIGLE, MARY
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