Born and raised in northwest Iowa, he was photographed with his bit-older brother Ed, both in military uniforms for WW I (Ed left, Henry right). Henry was in the aircraft unit of the Army, not yet split apart as the US Air Force.
Married twice:
1. First widowed by Martha Helen Ludwig. To their union was born 5 children:
The eldest three, Henry Joseph Jr, Dolores, and Robert J Arndorfer, were age ten and older when their mother died, with Donna and Jerome (Jerry) too young to understand. Their mother had been quarantined in a bedroom with a serious infection, for maybe the last year or so of her life. As Martha lay dying, she requested that her eldest two quit school, to help their father with farming. Their father Henry instead insisted they finish HS, and do more schooling if possible, which would benefit them both. Little Jerry would die accidentally, a mere month after his mother Martha.
2. Left his second wife a widow, Helen Rose Widen. To their union was born 2 children:
Richard Charles and Sharon Elizabeth Arndorfer, with their older half-sister Gloria treated as part of the blended family.
Henry's Arndorfers came from the Beaver Dam area of Wisconsin, presumably arriving via the Great Lakes port at Milwaukee. Before that, the Arndorfers came from a region of Germany on the northern side of the Danube. They would have been below the Black Forest and the mountains leading up to Bohemia (in Czechoslovakia for a time, now in the smaller Czech Republic). The name could also be written Ändorfer, two dots over the A telling the German-speaking reader to add an R to the sound.
Thank you to Lauren Hargrave (47241104) for doing the initial research on this page. We have added a few people. She has documented some graves of Henry's in-laws. Her searchable list shows Kossuth County with four Ludwigs related to Henry's first wife, Martha.
*George B Ludwig was Martha's father, married to Barbara Richtsmeier.
*Peter Ludwig was George's uncle, married to Caroline Huber.
Three of those four were caught by Censuses in Winneshiek County pre-1880, in the northeast part of Iowa. Their area was the bilingual one near Spillville/Spielville, with German-speakers and Czech-speaking Bohemians mixed, but using different churches, clergy adjusting language in order for the old grandmothers to understand the Sunday sermon and gospel reading.
German-speakers such as the Ludwigs and Swiss Hubers attended at St Clements church, so used its graveyard. Czech speakers were instead at nearby St Wenceslas, with its European castle like-look and bird houses tucked here and there, two reminders of "the old country". (This writer's Bohemian grandmother loved to do bird calls in response to what the birds in her yard had been "saying", getting the pitch and rhythm perfectly.)
Louise's Kossuth County List
JB, 2022, Revised, Feb. 2023
Married twice:
1. First widowed by Martha Helen Ludwig. To their union was born 5 children:
The eldest three, Henry Joseph Jr, Dolores, and Robert J Arndorfer, were age ten and older when their mother died, with Donna and Jerome (Jerry) too young to understand. Their mother had been quarantined in a bedroom with a serious infection, for maybe the last year or so of her life. As Martha lay dying, she requested that her eldest two quit school, to help their father with farming. Their father Henry instead insisted they finish HS, and do more schooling if possible, which would benefit them both. Little Jerry would die accidentally, a mere month after his mother Martha.
2. Left his second wife a widow, Helen Rose Widen. To their union was born 2 children:
Richard Charles and Sharon Elizabeth Arndorfer, with their older half-sister Gloria treated as part of the blended family.
Henry's Arndorfers came from the Beaver Dam area of Wisconsin, presumably arriving via the Great Lakes port at Milwaukee. Before that, the Arndorfers came from a region of Germany on the northern side of the Danube. They would have been below the Black Forest and the mountains leading up to Bohemia (in Czechoslovakia for a time, now in the smaller Czech Republic). The name could also be written Ändorfer, two dots over the A telling the German-speaking reader to add an R to the sound.
Thank you to Lauren Hargrave (47241104) for doing the initial research on this page. We have added a few people. She has documented some graves of Henry's in-laws. Her searchable list shows Kossuth County with four Ludwigs related to Henry's first wife, Martha.
*George B Ludwig was Martha's father, married to Barbara Richtsmeier.
*Peter Ludwig was George's uncle, married to Caroline Huber.
Three of those four were caught by Censuses in Winneshiek County pre-1880, in the northeast part of Iowa. Their area was the bilingual one near Spillville/Spielville, with German-speakers and Czech-speaking Bohemians mixed, but using different churches, clergy adjusting language in order for the old grandmothers to understand the Sunday sermon and gospel reading.
German-speakers such as the Ludwigs and Swiss Hubers attended at St Clements church, so used its graveyard. Czech speakers were instead at nearby St Wenceslas, with its European castle like-look and bird houses tucked here and there, two reminders of "the old country". (This writer's Bohemian grandmother loved to do bird calls in response to what the birds in her yard had been "saying", getting the pitch and rhythm perfectly.)
Louise's Kossuth County List
JB, 2022, Revised, Feb. 2023
Born and raised in northwest Iowa, he was photographed with his bit-older brother Ed, both in military uniforms for WW I (Ed left, Henry right). Henry was in the aircraft unit of the Army, not yet split apart as the US Air Force.
Married twice:
1. First widowed by Martha Helen Ludwig. To their union was born 5 children:
The eldest three, Henry Joseph Jr, Dolores, and Robert J Arndorfer, were age ten and older when their mother died, with Donna and Jerome (Jerry) too young to understand. Their mother had been quarantined in a bedroom with a serious infection, for maybe the last year or so of her life. As Martha lay dying, she requested that her eldest two quit school, to help their father with farming. Their father Henry instead insisted they finish HS, and do more schooling if possible, which would benefit them both. Little Jerry would die accidentally, a mere month after his mother Martha.
2. Left his second wife a widow, Helen Rose Widen. To their union was born 2 children:
Richard Charles and Sharon Elizabeth Arndorfer, with their older half-sister Gloria treated as part of the blended family.
Henry's Arndorfers came from the Beaver Dam area of Wisconsin, presumably arriving via the Great Lakes port at Milwaukee. Before that, the Arndorfers came from a region of Germany on the northern side of the Danube. They would have been below the Black Forest and the mountains leading up to Bohemia (in Czechoslovakia for a time, now in the smaller Czech Republic). The name could also be written Ändorfer, two dots over the A telling the German-speaking reader to add an R to the sound.
Thank you to Lauren Hargrave (47241104) for doing the initial research on this page. We have added a few people. She has documented some graves of Henry's in-laws. Her searchable list shows Kossuth County with four Ludwigs related to Henry's first wife, Martha.
*George B Ludwig was Martha's father, married to Barbara Richtsmeier.
*Peter Ludwig was George's uncle, married to Caroline Huber.
Three of those four were caught by Censuses in Winneshiek County pre-1880, in the northeast part of Iowa. Their area was the bilingual one near Spillville/Spielville, with German-speakers and Czech-speaking Bohemians mixed, but using different churches, clergy adjusting language in order for the old grandmothers to understand the Sunday sermon and gospel reading.
German-speakers such as the Ludwigs and Swiss Hubers attended at St Clements church, so used its graveyard. Czech speakers were instead at nearby St Wenceslas, with its European castle like-look and bird houses tucked here and there, two reminders of "the old country". (This writer's Bohemian grandmother loved to do bird calls in response to what the birds in her yard had been "saying", getting the pitch and rhythm perfectly.)
Louise's Kossuth County List
JB, 2022, Revised, Feb. 2023
Married twice:
1. First widowed by Martha Helen Ludwig. To their union was born 5 children:
The eldest three, Henry Joseph Jr, Dolores, and Robert J Arndorfer, were age ten and older when their mother died, with Donna and Jerome (Jerry) too young to understand. Their mother had been quarantined in a bedroom with a serious infection, for maybe the last year or so of her life. As Martha lay dying, she requested that her eldest two quit school, to help their father with farming. Their father Henry instead insisted they finish HS, and do more schooling if possible, which would benefit them both. Little Jerry would die accidentally, a mere month after his mother Martha.
2. Left his second wife a widow, Helen Rose Widen. To their union was born 2 children:
Richard Charles and Sharon Elizabeth Arndorfer, with their older half-sister Gloria treated as part of the blended family.
Henry's Arndorfers came from the Beaver Dam area of Wisconsin, presumably arriving via the Great Lakes port at Milwaukee. Before that, the Arndorfers came from a region of Germany on the northern side of the Danube. They would have been below the Black Forest and the mountains leading up to Bohemia (in Czechoslovakia for a time, now in the smaller Czech Republic). The name could also be written Ändorfer, two dots over the A telling the German-speaking reader to add an R to the sound.
Thank you to Lauren Hargrave (47241104) for doing the initial research on this page. We have added a few people. She has documented some graves of Henry's in-laws. Her searchable list shows Kossuth County with four Ludwigs related to Henry's first wife, Martha.
*George B Ludwig was Martha's father, married to Barbara Richtsmeier.
*Peter Ludwig was George's uncle, married to Caroline Huber.
Three of those four were caught by Censuses in Winneshiek County pre-1880, in the northeast part of Iowa. Their area was the bilingual one near Spillville/Spielville, with German-speakers and Czech-speaking Bohemians mixed, but using different churches, clergy adjusting language in order for the old grandmothers to understand the Sunday sermon and gospel reading.
German-speakers such as the Ludwigs and Swiss Hubers attended at St Clements church, so used its graveyard. Czech speakers were instead at nearby St Wenceslas, with its European castle like-look and bird houses tucked here and there, two reminders of "the old country". (This writer's Bohemian grandmother loved to do bird calls in response to what the birds in her yard had been "saying", getting the pitch and rhythm perfectly.)
Louise's Kossuth County List
JB, 2022, Revised, Feb. 2023
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