|  CAN YOU HELP? HAFFNER...MEIER
Mary Smith (redhd4str8@aol.com) 21 March 2003
I am trying to locate a Great Aunt. Her name is Katherine Margaret HAFFNER.
Her dad was Gottfried HAFFNER, her mom Katherine Elisabeth (WINTER) HAFFNER.
They immigrated into Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas from Tscherbakovka, Russia in
the mid 1800's. Katherine Margaret was the oldest child. In the Marion county
census in 1880 she is listed as being 19, single and living with her parents.
She was born August 4, 1861 in Tscherbakovka, Russia. During the Oklahoma land
run her family left for Omega, Oklahoma. From here we have lost her, until
1924, her dad died in Omega, Oklahoma and in his Will she is listed as a
surviving daughter with a current address of Lehigh, Kansas. She is also listed
as Katherine Margaret (HAFFNER) MEIER. We were fortunate enough to locate an
old family photo from her brother's Grand-daughter, it says "Andrew A. MEIER and
Katherine Margaret (HAFFNER) MEIER". I have contacted the Marion County Clerk's
office and they went through their cemetery database and this couple does not
appear to exist in any cemetery in Marion county. I am looking for anyone that
may also be looking for an Andrew MAIER, MEIER or MEYER. What happened to
them?! Where could they be in Kansas? In the obituary for her dad and her mom,
the amount of surviving Grandchildren are accounted for by her brother's
children. So they either had no children, or may have and the children had
passed away before 1924. Are there any old German cemeteries unaccounted for in
or around the Lehigh area? Her dad and mom were Seventh Day Adventists, are
there any old SDA cemeteries around Lehigh? Any information or ideas
appreciated. Someone was kind enough to send me the following family from an
old Agricultural census and this could be them. Any ideas what happened to this
family?
NameAgeSexColorBirthplaceCounty City TownshipVol.Page
MEIER, Andreas32MWRussiaMarion Lehigh Township22312
MEIER, Katie34FWRussiaMarion Lehigh Township22312
MEIER, Hanna11FWRussiaMarion Lehigh Township22312
MEIER, Hulda1FWRussiaMarion Lehigh Township22312
Source: 1895 Kansas State Agricultural Census
Kansas State Historical Society 
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MELJO...SEITZ...SALZER
REDELSPERGER...SINGHISEN
Evelyn Charter (seitzem@charter.net) 27 February 2003
Amy information on Louise (MELJO) REDELSPERGER; her children, Alexander MELJO
and Josefina (MELJO) SINGHISEN. Information on Jacob and Kathrinia (SALZER)
SEITZ. All were residents of Hillsboro, and most also lived in Lehigh, Kansas.
They were Lutheran. MELJO and REDELSPERGER families came from Bessarabia,
Southern Russia. The SEITZ family came from Wittenberg, Germany. 
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JANKE...UNRUH...SCHENKOFSKY May Burke (mary579@hotmail.com) 26 January 2003
I am researching my family history an I am trying to gather information on my
Grandmother's family. Her name was Orlene JANKE, and she was born in Lehigh,
Kansas in 1914. Her father's name was Ephriam JANKE, and her mother's name was
Eva UNRUH. Ephriam was born in Russia in 1875 and immigrated to the United
States in 1880 with his parents, Peter JANKE and Maria SCHENKOFSKY, who were
born in Germany. Eva UNRUH's father was named David (I think). She was born in
Marion County, Kansas, as well. Her family, of course, were German-Russian
immigrants as well, but I don't know anything about them. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
---------------------------------- STABEL Carol Stabel (cjstabel@hotmail.com) 9 October 2003 I am interested in finding any immigration/relocation/residency/vital records on the Henry STABEL family. Henry and Anna STABEL lived in Stephan (Vodyanoi, Burerak, Russia, before migrating to Lehigh, Kansas area in 1891. Children born to them were: Fred STABEL George STABEL Henry STABEL Alma STABEL Frieda STABEL Lillie STABEL Emma STABEL Mary STABEL As far as I know all were born in Marion County, Kansas. The following may be extraneous information, but I included it in the event it can be helpful. A baptismal certificate of Fred STABEL, son of Henry and Anna STABEL, from an unnamed Lutheran church in Lehigh or Marion County, mentions the presiding minister as Pastor Carl JAEKEL (possibly JACKEL), dated January 1898. Fred was born September 29, 1897 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas. Fred died July 29, 1969 and is buried in a cemetery in Darrouzett, Texas. Moved To Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma in 1901. Moved to Lipscomb County, Texas in 1912 Were charter members of St. John's Lutheran Church, Lipscomb, Texas 1915. (church merged with St. Paul's Lutheran, Darrouzett, Texas in 1961), Henry died March 31, 1945 and is buried at St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, east of Lipscomb, Texas LEHIGH HISTORY LEHIGH CITIZENS OF LONG AGO FORMER LEHIGH MINISTER CAN YOU HELP? 1920 LEHIGH CENSUS |
