The volunteer who looked where records show Hans and wife to be buried at the Walcott Cemetery could find no markers.
She originally provided a photo of the lots and a marker for 6 month old Hinrich Denker next to them. We did not know, in June of 2011, if they were buried there with no marker, or if they were buried elsewhere. In 2013, the kind volunteer was able to find their tall marker, difficult to read because it is now over 110 years old and has seen much weather. See the posted photo here. A large funeral was reported in Walcott, see the news article below. Cemetery records show several plots. (Note by Great-Grandson, Fay Ernest Schlotfeldt)
HANS was born 20 Mar 1830 in Barsbek, Probstei, Holstein Germany and Baptised 16 Mar 1830 in Schoenberg. Parents, HANS AND ANTJE LAGE DENKER had 5 children of whom HANS was the eldest. Paternal ancestors were also named Hans.
HANS ASMUS DENKER Sr. and his wife ABEL with 15 year old daughter EMMA followed two of their sons, (Hans Asmus Jr. and Claus) from Keil and Hamburg port, via the ship Wieland to New York on 9 Oct 1886, and on to Scott county Iowa.
As of 2011, the family had found the ship's passenger list (see photo) but had not found his birth record. That changed in 2014 with a Schlotfeldt cousin in Hamburg who found his ancestry in the Schoenberg/Probstei area archives NE of Kiel. With help from searchers in that area, she was able to give Fay ancestry to the 1500s including marriages of some ancestral daughters. Fay believes it is through one of the daughter's recorded marriage to a WIESE in Germany that his strong DNA 2nd cousins from the Eldridge, Scott County area are linked but has not yet found the exact link. (DNA family from 23andMe analysis.)
Obituary from Davenport Newspaper, D'port library archive:
"THE DENKER FUNERAL" The funeral of Hans Denker, Sr., at Walcott Sunday was attended by hundreds of old freinds of the deceased who gathered from all over that part of the county to pay their last tribute to him."
Hans and wife, Abel, had 6 children, all born in Germany but died in the United States. Six were:
ADOLPH Born 1857, Died 1920 in Texas
CHRISTIAN, Born about 1855, Died in North Dakota
HANS ASMUS Jr. Born 1856 Died Davenport 1935
BERTHA (ROEHS), Born Abt 1857, Died Lake Park, Minn
CLAUS H., Born Dec. 1858, Died Dec. 1940, Bur. Fairmount Cemetery,D'port
EMMA (WIESE), Born 1870, Died,1963,in Lake Park,MN
She originally provided a photo of the lots and a marker for 6 month old Hinrich Denker next to them. We did not know, in June of 2011, if they were buried there with no marker, or if they were buried elsewhere. In 2013, the kind volunteer was able to find their tall marker, difficult to read because it is now over 110 years old and has seen much weather. See the posted photo here. A large funeral was reported in Walcott, see the news article below. Cemetery records show several plots. (Note by Great-Grandson, Fay Ernest Schlotfeldt)
HANS was born 20 Mar 1830 in Barsbek, Probstei, Holstein Germany and Baptised 16 Mar 1830 in Schoenberg. Parents, HANS AND ANTJE LAGE DENKER had 5 children of whom HANS was the eldest. Paternal ancestors were also named Hans.
HANS ASMUS DENKER Sr. and his wife ABEL with 15 year old daughter EMMA followed two of their sons, (Hans Asmus Jr. and Claus) from Keil and Hamburg port, via the ship Wieland to New York on 9 Oct 1886, and on to Scott county Iowa.
As of 2011, the family had found the ship's passenger list (see photo) but had not found his birth record. That changed in 2014 with a Schlotfeldt cousin in Hamburg who found his ancestry in the Schoenberg/Probstei area archives NE of Kiel. With help from searchers in that area, she was able to give Fay ancestry to the 1500s including marriages of some ancestral daughters. Fay believes it is through one of the daughter's recorded marriage to a WIESE in Germany that his strong DNA 2nd cousins from the Eldridge, Scott County area are linked but has not yet found the exact link. (DNA family from 23andMe analysis.)
Obituary from Davenport Newspaper, D'port library archive:
"THE DENKER FUNERAL" The funeral of Hans Denker, Sr., at Walcott Sunday was attended by hundreds of old freinds of the deceased who gathered from all over that part of the county to pay their last tribute to him."
Hans and wife, Abel, had 6 children, all born in Germany but died in the United States. Six were:
ADOLPH Born 1857, Died 1920 in Texas
CHRISTIAN, Born about 1855, Died in North Dakota
HANS ASMUS Jr. Born 1856 Died Davenport 1935
BERTHA (ROEHS), Born Abt 1857, Died Lake Park, Minn
CLAUS H., Born Dec. 1858, Died Dec. 1940, Bur. Fairmount Cemetery,D'port
EMMA (WIESE), Born 1870, Died,1963,in Lake Park,MN
The volunteer who looked where records show Hans and wife to be buried at the Walcott Cemetery could find no markers.
She originally provided a photo of the lots and a marker for 6 month old Hinrich Denker next to them. We did not know, in June of 2011, if they were buried there with no marker, or if they were buried elsewhere. In 2013, the kind volunteer was able to find their tall marker, difficult to read because it is now over 110 years old and has seen much weather. See the posted photo here. A large funeral was reported in Walcott, see the news article below. Cemetery records show several plots. (Note by Great-Grandson, Fay Ernest Schlotfeldt)
HANS was born 20 Mar 1830 in Barsbek, Probstei, Holstein Germany and Baptised 16 Mar 1830 in Schoenberg. Parents, HANS AND ANTJE LAGE DENKER had 5 children of whom HANS was the eldest. Paternal ancestors were also named Hans.
HANS ASMUS DENKER Sr. and his wife ABEL with 15 year old daughter EMMA followed two of their sons, (Hans Asmus Jr. and Claus) from Keil and Hamburg port, via the ship Wieland to New York on 9 Oct 1886, and on to Scott county Iowa.
As of 2011, the family had found the ship's passenger list (see photo) but had not found his birth record. That changed in 2014 with a Schlotfeldt cousin in Hamburg who found his ancestry in the Schoenberg/Probstei area archives NE of Kiel. With help from searchers in that area, she was able to give Fay ancestry to the 1500s including marriages of some ancestral daughters. Fay believes it is through one of the daughter's recorded marriage to a WIESE in Germany that his strong DNA 2nd cousins from the Eldridge, Scott County area are linked but has not yet found the exact link. (DNA family from 23andMe analysis.)
Obituary from Davenport Newspaper, D'port library archive:
"THE DENKER FUNERAL" The funeral of Hans Denker, Sr., at Walcott Sunday was attended by hundreds of old freinds of the deceased who gathered from all over that part of the county to pay their last tribute to him."
Hans and wife, Abel, had 6 children, all born in Germany but died in the United States. Six were:
ADOLPH Born 1857, Died 1920 in Texas
CHRISTIAN, Born about 1855, Died in North Dakota
HANS ASMUS Jr. Born 1856 Died Davenport 1935
BERTHA (ROEHS), Born Abt 1857, Died Lake Park, Minn
CLAUS H., Born Dec. 1858, Died Dec. 1940, Bur. Fairmount Cemetery,D'port
EMMA (WIESE), Born 1870, Died,1963,in Lake Park,MN
She originally provided a photo of the lots and a marker for 6 month old Hinrich Denker next to them. We did not know, in June of 2011, if they were buried there with no marker, or if they were buried elsewhere. In 2013, the kind volunteer was able to find their tall marker, difficult to read because it is now over 110 years old and has seen much weather. See the posted photo here. A large funeral was reported in Walcott, see the news article below. Cemetery records show several plots. (Note by Great-Grandson, Fay Ernest Schlotfeldt)
HANS was born 20 Mar 1830 in Barsbek, Probstei, Holstein Germany and Baptised 16 Mar 1830 in Schoenberg. Parents, HANS AND ANTJE LAGE DENKER had 5 children of whom HANS was the eldest. Paternal ancestors were also named Hans.
HANS ASMUS DENKER Sr. and his wife ABEL with 15 year old daughter EMMA followed two of their sons, (Hans Asmus Jr. and Claus) from Keil and Hamburg port, via the ship Wieland to New York on 9 Oct 1886, and on to Scott county Iowa.
As of 2011, the family had found the ship's passenger list (see photo) but had not found his birth record. That changed in 2014 with a Schlotfeldt cousin in Hamburg who found his ancestry in the Schoenberg/Probstei area archives NE of Kiel. With help from searchers in that area, she was able to give Fay ancestry to the 1500s including marriages of some ancestral daughters. Fay believes it is through one of the daughter's recorded marriage to a WIESE in Germany that his strong DNA 2nd cousins from the Eldridge, Scott County area are linked but has not yet found the exact link. (DNA family from 23andMe analysis.)
Obituary from Davenport Newspaper, D'port library archive:
"THE DENKER FUNERAL" The funeral of Hans Denker, Sr., at Walcott Sunday was attended by hundreds of old freinds of the deceased who gathered from all over that part of the county to pay their last tribute to him."
Hans and wife, Abel, had 6 children, all born in Germany but died in the United States. Six were:
ADOLPH Born 1857, Died 1920 in Texas
CHRISTIAN, Born about 1855, Died in North Dakota
HANS ASMUS Jr. Born 1856 Died Davenport 1935
BERTHA (ROEHS), Born Abt 1857, Died Lake Park, Minn
CLAUS H., Born Dec. 1858, Died Dec. 1940, Bur. Fairmount Cemetery,D'port
EMMA (WIESE), Born 1870, Died,1963,in Lake Park,MN
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