Maria Agnes Kramer Meiners was born on November 24, 1822 in the hamlet of Haverbek, near the town of Damme, Vechta, in current day Niedersachsen, Germany (formerly, Haverbek, Damme, Oldenburg, Prussia) to Johann Heinrich Krämer and Maria Elisabeth Bernardina Haverbeck Krämer. About 1843 Agnes immigrated alone to Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio.
About a year after the death of his first wife, on November 25, 1848 Agnes became the second wife of Herman Heinrich Meiners at Saint Philomena Roman Catholic Church in Cincinnati. (Saint Philomena Church was leveled, along with other buildings, in the 1950s so that the Fort Washington Way expressway connector could be built.) Before her death in Cincinnati at age 46 during her eighth childbirth (and the death of the baby) on December 17, 1868, she gave birth to seven additional children: Mary Meiners, Edmund B. Meiners, Herman Meiners, Mary Gertrude Meiners Burdick, Elizabeth Meiners. Peter Meiners, and Henry G. Meiners.
Agnes is buried on one side of her husband, and his third wife is on the other side at Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Cincinnati. Family oral history has it that both his first wife, Maria Caroline Bergmann Meiners, and his second wife Agnes picked out their successor on their deathbeds. Whether or not this is true, Caroline and Agnes both came from Haverbek and were close in age. So they were likely friends and would have frequented each other's homes in Cincinnati.
Thanks so much to Mary Donnelly Minges for so much of this information. Special thanks to Elizabeth Kramer (Stagg) for detailed information on Herman and his wives. Any errors, however, are mine alone. Please go to the "edit" link on this site with any corrections or additions. If a closer relative than I would like to manage this burial site, please let me know.
About a year after the death of his first wife, on November 25, 1848 Agnes became the second wife of Herman Heinrich Meiners at Saint Philomena Roman Catholic Church in Cincinnati. (Saint Philomena Church was leveled, along with other buildings, in the 1950s so that the Fort Washington Way expressway connector could be built.) Before her death in Cincinnati at age 46 during her eighth childbirth (and the death of the baby) on December 17, 1868, she gave birth to seven additional children: Mary Meiners, Edmund B. Meiners, Herman Meiners, Mary Gertrude Meiners Burdick, Elizabeth Meiners. Peter Meiners, and Henry G. Meiners.
Agnes is buried on one side of her husband, and his third wife is on the other side at Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Cincinnati. Family oral history has it that both his first wife, Maria Caroline Bergmann Meiners, and his second wife Agnes picked out their successor on their deathbeds. Whether or not this is true, Caroline and Agnes both came from Haverbek and were close in age. So they were likely friends and would have frequented each other's homes in Cincinnati.
Thanks so much to Mary Donnelly Minges for so much of this information. Special thanks to Elizabeth Kramer (Stagg) for detailed information on Herman and his wives. Any errors, however, are mine alone. Please go to the "edit" link on this site with any corrections or additions. If a closer relative than I would like to manage this burial site, please let me know.
Maria Agnes Kramer Meiners was born on November 24, 1822 in the hamlet of Haverbek, near the town of Damme, Vechta, in current day Niedersachsen, Germany (formerly, Haverbek, Damme, Oldenburg, Prussia) to Johann Heinrich Krämer and Maria Elisabeth Bernardina Haverbeck Krämer. About 1843 Agnes immigrated alone to Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio.
About a year after the death of his first wife, on November 25, 1848 Agnes became the second wife of Herman Heinrich Meiners at Saint Philomena Roman Catholic Church in Cincinnati. (Saint Philomena Church was leveled, along with other buildings, in the 1950s so that the Fort Washington Way expressway connector could be built.) Before her death in Cincinnati at age 46 during her eighth childbirth (and the death of the baby) on December 17, 1868, she gave birth to seven additional children: Mary Meiners, Edmund B. Meiners, Herman Meiners, Mary Gertrude Meiners Burdick, Elizabeth Meiners. Peter Meiners, and Henry G. Meiners.
Agnes is buried on one side of her husband, and his third wife is on the other side at Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Cincinnati. Family oral history has it that both his first wife, Maria Caroline Bergmann Meiners, and his second wife Agnes picked out their successor on their deathbeds. Whether or not this is true, Caroline and Agnes both came from Haverbek and were close in age. So they were likely friends and would have frequented each other's homes in Cincinnati.
Thanks so much to Mary Donnelly Minges for so much of this information. Special thanks to Elizabeth Kramer (Stagg) for detailed information on Herman and his wives. Any errors, however, are mine alone. Please go to the "edit" link on this site with any corrections or additions. If a closer relative than I would like to manage this burial site, please let me know.
About a year after the death of his first wife, on November 25, 1848 Agnes became the second wife of Herman Heinrich Meiners at Saint Philomena Roman Catholic Church in Cincinnati. (Saint Philomena Church was leveled, along with other buildings, in the 1950s so that the Fort Washington Way expressway connector could be built.) Before her death in Cincinnati at age 46 during her eighth childbirth (and the death of the baby) on December 17, 1868, she gave birth to seven additional children: Mary Meiners, Edmund B. Meiners, Herman Meiners, Mary Gertrude Meiners Burdick, Elizabeth Meiners. Peter Meiners, and Henry G. Meiners.
Agnes is buried on one side of her husband, and his third wife is on the other side at Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Cincinnati. Family oral history has it that both his first wife, Maria Caroline Bergmann Meiners, and his second wife Agnes picked out their successor on their deathbeds. Whether or not this is true, Caroline and Agnes both came from Haverbek and were close in age. So they were likely friends and would have frequented each other's homes in Cincinnati.
Thanks so much to Mary Donnelly Minges for so much of this information. Special thanks to Elizabeth Kramer (Stagg) for detailed information on Herman and his wives. Any errors, however, are mine alone. Please go to the "edit" link on this site with any corrections or additions. If a closer relative than I would like to manage this burial site, please let me know.
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