Son of Johann Jacob and Christiane Barbara (Künzinger/Kunzinger) Ehmann. Grandson of Gottlieb and Dorothea (Sigle) Ehmann, and Christian and Elisabetha Barbara (Fischer) Künzinger/Kunzinger.
Christian Ehmann was born and raised in Grossheppach (71384 Weinstadt), Wuerttemberg, Germany. His family lived in that town before him for generations. He was baptized there on Christmas Day, 1825 in the Evangelisch church. His baptismal name was Johann Christian, but he always went by the name of Christian. His father, grandfather, and other male Ehmann relatives in Grossheppach were masons/bricklayers (occupation: "Maurer"). Christian was confirmed in the same church at the age of 13 on 5 May 1839 (Rogate Sunday), one of a class of 15 boys and 21 girls.
He immigrated from Wurttemberg (by way of Rotterdam?) to New York City arriving March 1851 and settled in what is today known as the Bronx. He was a mason, a contractor, and a builder. He married Therese Bowmann/Bollerman on 9 October 1852. They lived in Melrose and Morrisania (then Westchester County, now the Bronx), New York circa 1860-1870. He and his first wife Therese were the parents of William Theodor (died an infant in 1854), Caroline, Rudolph, Louise (aka Bertha? b. 1859 d. 1862), Oscar, Julia (b. 1863), Jane/Jennie, and Christian, Jr. (aka Christie). (The girl Julia Ehmann, listed with the family only on the 1870 census, which does not specify relationships, evidently died young if indeed she was a daughter of Christian and Therese Ehmann at all; she is not listed in the family Bible record.)
Christian was a Civil War veteran, enlisting (at age 37) for 30 days in the 17th New York State Militia (National Guard), Company A. He enrolled July 8, 1863 at Morrisania, New York and was mustered in a Private at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland July 22-23, 1863. His unit served in the defenses of that city until August and was attached to 2nd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department. He was mustered out a Private at Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York on August 13, 1863.
Become a widower in 1871, Christian married his second wife, Lina/Lena Gehring/Dalferth, on 20 September 1874 in New York City, New York. From around 1880 until his death he lived with her on East 145th Street in the Bronx. Died at home there, age 73 years 24 days, of (direct cause:) la grippe (influenza) and (contributory cause:) exhaustion. Buried 17 January 1899 seven feet deep, shares Grave 1 with son Oscar Ehmann; no gravemarker.
EHMANN. - Thursday, January 12, 1899 [sic], Christian Ehmann, in the 73d year of his age. Funeral services at his late residence, No. 696 East 145th st., on Tuesday, January 17, 1899, at two o'clock P. M. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
[The New York Herald, Monday, January 16, 1899, page 1. Note that his death certificate gives his death date as Saturday, January 14. I believe the date of death given in this obituary is incorrect.]
Christian Ehmann was born and raised in Grossheppach (71384 Weinstadt), Wuerttemberg, Germany. His family lived in that town before him for generations. He was baptized there on Christmas Day, 1825 in the Evangelisch church. His baptismal name was Johann Christian, but he always went by the name of Christian. His father, grandfather, and other male Ehmann relatives in Grossheppach were masons/bricklayers (occupation: "Maurer"). Christian was confirmed in the same church at the age of 13 on 5 May 1839 (Rogate Sunday), one of a class of 15 boys and 21 girls.
He immigrated from Wurttemberg (by way of Rotterdam?) to New York City arriving March 1851 and settled in what is today known as the Bronx. He was a mason, a contractor, and a builder. He married Therese Bowmann/Bollerman on 9 October 1852. They lived in Melrose and Morrisania (then Westchester County, now the Bronx), New York circa 1860-1870. He and his first wife Therese were the parents of William Theodor (died an infant in 1854), Caroline, Rudolph, Louise (aka Bertha? b. 1859 d. 1862), Oscar, Julia (b. 1863), Jane/Jennie, and Christian, Jr. (aka Christie). (The girl Julia Ehmann, listed with the family only on the 1870 census, which does not specify relationships, evidently died young if indeed she was a daughter of Christian and Therese Ehmann at all; she is not listed in the family Bible record.)
Christian was a Civil War veteran, enlisting (at age 37) for 30 days in the 17th New York State Militia (National Guard), Company A. He enrolled July 8, 1863 at Morrisania, New York and was mustered in a Private at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland July 22-23, 1863. His unit served in the defenses of that city until August and was attached to 2nd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department. He was mustered out a Private at Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York on August 13, 1863.
Become a widower in 1871, Christian married his second wife, Lina/Lena Gehring/Dalferth, on 20 September 1874 in New York City, New York. From around 1880 until his death he lived with her on East 145th Street in the Bronx. Died at home there, age 73 years 24 days, of (direct cause:) la grippe (influenza) and (contributory cause:) exhaustion. Buried 17 January 1899 seven feet deep, shares Grave 1 with son Oscar Ehmann; no gravemarker.
EHMANN. - Thursday, January 12, 1899 [sic], Christian Ehmann, in the 73d year of his age. Funeral services at his late residence, No. 696 East 145th st., on Tuesday, January 17, 1899, at two o'clock P. M. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
[The New York Herald, Monday, January 16, 1899, page 1. Note that his death certificate gives his death date as Saturday, January 14. I believe the date of death given in this obituary is incorrect.]
Son of Johann Jacob and Christiane Barbara (Künzinger/Kunzinger) Ehmann. Grandson of Gottlieb and Dorothea (Sigle) Ehmann, and Christian and Elisabetha Barbara (Fischer) Künzinger/Kunzinger.
Christian Ehmann was born and raised in Grossheppach (71384 Weinstadt), Wuerttemberg, Germany. His family lived in that town before him for generations. He was baptized there on Christmas Day, 1825 in the Evangelisch church. His baptismal name was Johann Christian, but he always went by the name of Christian. His father, grandfather, and other male Ehmann relatives in Grossheppach were masons/bricklayers (occupation: "Maurer"). Christian was confirmed in the same church at the age of 13 on 5 May 1839 (Rogate Sunday), one of a class of 15 boys and 21 girls.
He immigrated from Wurttemberg (by way of Rotterdam?) to New York City arriving March 1851 and settled in what is today known as the Bronx. He was a mason, a contractor, and a builder. He married Therese Bowmann/Bollerman on 9 October 1852. They lived in Melrose and Morrisania (then Westchester County, now the Bronx), New York circa 1860-1870. He and his first wife Therese were the parents of William Theodor (died an infant in 1854), Caroline, Rudolph, Louise (aka Bertha? b. 1859 d. 1862), Oscar, Julia (b. 1863), Jane/Jennie, and Christian, Jr. (aka Christie). (The girl Julia Ehmann, listed with the family only on the 1870 census, which does not specify relationships, evidently died young if indeed she was a daughter of Christian and Therese Ehmann at all; she is not listed in the family Bible record.)
Christian was a Civil War veteran, enlisting (at age 37) for 30 days in the 17th New York State Militia (National Guard), Company A. He enrolled July 8, 1863 at Morrisania, New York and was mustered in a Private at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland July 22-23, 1863. His unit served in the defenses of that city until August and was attached to 2nd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department. He was mustered out a Private at Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York on August 13, 1863.
Become a widower in 1871, Christian married his second wife, Lina/Lena Gehring/Dalferth, on 20 September 1874 in New York City, New York. From around 1880 until his death he lived with her on East 145th Street in the Bronx. Died at home there, age 73 years 24 days, of (direct cause:) la grippe (influenza) and (contributory cause:) exhaustion. Buried 17 January 1899 seven feet deep, shares Grave 1 with son Oscar Ehmann; no gravemarker.
EHMANN. - Thursday, January 12, 1899 [sic], Christian Ehmann, in the 73d year of his age. Funeral services at his late residence, No. 696 East 145th st., on Tuesday, January 17, 1899, at two o'clock P. M. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
[The New York Herald, Monday, January 16, 1899, page 1. Note that his death certificate gives his death date as Saturday, January 14. I believe the date of death given in this obituary is incorrect.]
Christian Ehmann was born and raised in Grossheppach (71384 Weinstadt), Wuerttemberg, Germany. His family lived in that town before him for generations. He was baptized there on Christmas Day, 1825 in the Evangelisch church. His baptismal name was Johann Christian, but he always went by the name of Christian. His father, grandfather, and other male Ehmann relatives in Grossheppach were masons/bricklayers (occupation: "Maurer"). Christian was confirmed in the same church at the age of 13 on 5 May 1839 (Rogate Sunday), one of a class of 15 boys and 21 girls.
He immigrated from Wurttemberg (by way of Rotterdam?) to New York City arriving March 1851 and settled in what is today known as the Bronx. He was a mason, a contractor, and a builder. He married Therese Bowmann/Bollerman on 9 October 1852. They lived in Melrose and Morrisania (then Westchester County, now the Bronx), New York circa 1860-1870. He and his first wife Therese were the parents of William Theodor (died an infant in 1854), Caroline, Rudolph, Louise (aka Bertha? b. 1859 d. 1862), Oscar, Julia (b. 1863), Jane/Jennie, and Christian, Jr. (aka Christie). (The girl Julia Ehmann, listed with the family only on the 1870 census, which does not specify relationships, evidently died young if indeed she was a daughter of Christian and Therese Ehmann at all; she is not listed in the family Bible record.)
Christian was a Civil War veteran, enlisting (at age 37) for 30 days in the 17th New York State Militia (National Guard), Company A. He enrolled July 8, 1863 at Morrisania, New York and was mustered in a Private at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland July 22-23, 1863. His unit served in the defenses of that city until August and was attached to 2nd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department. He was mustered out a Private at Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York on August 13, 1863.
Become a widower in 1871, Christian married his second wife, Lina/Lena Gehring/Dalferth, on 20 September 1874 in New York City, New York. From around 1880 until his death he lived with her on East 145th Street in the Bronx. Died at home there, age 73 years 24 days, of (direct cause:) la grippe (influenza) and (contributory cause:) exhaustion. Buried 17 January 1899 seven feet deep, shares Grave 1 with son Oscar Ehmann; no gravemarker.
EHMANN. - Thursday, January 12, 1899 [sic], Christian Ehmann, in the 73d year of his age. Funeral services at his late residence, No. 696 East 145th st., on Tuesday, January 17, 1899, at two o'clock P. M. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
[The New York Herald, Monday, January 16, 1899, page 1. Note that his death certificate gives his death date as Saturday, January 14. I believe the date of death given in this obituary is incorrect.]
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