The Hilbert Family - Part 2

BECKIUS, BESCH, DONDLINGER, ETRINGER, FREYMANN, HAUPERT, HILBERT, KELLNER, KOOB, PETERS, PORTZ, ROLLING, SCHOLTES, TIES, WEIS, WEYDERT, ZEIMET

Posted By: Lorraine Weis Houghton (email)
Date: 4/25/2010 at 16:12:29

The Hilbert Family

Part 2

Compiled by Lorraine Weis Houghton

Table of Contents

NICHOLAS HILBERT – 1817 – KATHERINE LANGENS – No descendants

FRANZ HILBERT – 1817 – MARIE CATHERINE GOELL and their descendants in parts 2 - 4

CATHERINA HILBERT – PETER TIES and their descendants

FRANK TIES

CATHERINE TIES – J. P. MOOTZ

MARY TIES – JOHN PLEISER

MARGARET TIES

ELIZABETH TIES – HENRY MOOTZ

NICHOLAS TIES

NICK HILBERT – 1845 – MARY FREYMANN and their descendants

NICHOLAS F. HILBERT – 1873 – IDA STOLTZ

CATHERINE HILBERT – 1876 JOHN ALFRED BECKIUS

ALOYSIUS HILBERT – 1878 – KATE NEU

ELIZABETH HILBERT – 1881 – JOHN ROLLING

PETER HILBERT – 1885 – CLARA NORPEL

CHARLES HILBERT – 1888 – HELENA HERRIG

ANNA HILBERT – 1846 – FRANK KOOB and their descendants

CHARLES KOOB 1870

CORA KOOB - 1872

WIREIN KOOB - 1873

MATILDA KOOB - 1875

LEO KOOB - 1879

Nicholas Hilbert – 1817- Katherine Langens

In researching the Hilbert Family, we start out with two Hilberts. They are Nicholas, born in 1814, who married Katherina Langens on April 11, 1858 in St. Donatus, Iowa. She was born in 1827 in Luxembourg and died on August 25, 1877 and is also buried at Saint Peter and Paul cemetery in Springbrook, Iowa. Nicholas died on August 7, 1886 and is also buried in Saint Peter and Paul Cemetery in Springbrook, Iowa. I have no record of a family for Nicholas. However according to the 1880 census for Jackson County, Iowa, he would have been a brother of Franz Hilbert. According to his census information, he had Franz’ oldest son, Nicholas and his wife and their three oldest children living with him, and Nicholas was referred to as his nephew.

Franz Hilbert - 1817 – Marie Catherine Goell

Franz Hilbert (Frances, Frank) was born on December 4, 1817 in Angelsburg, Fischbach, Mersch, Luxembourg. Franz married Marie Catherine Goell on October 22, 1840 in Fischbach, Mersch, Luxembourg. Marie was born November 19, 1808. Franz died on December 14, 1897 and is buried in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Kossuth County, Iowa. Franz and Marie had the following six children: They were all born in Angelsburg, Fischbach, Mersch, Luxembourg.

Catherina Hilbert – Peter Ties

Nicholas Hilbert – Mary Freymann

Anna Hilbert – Frank Koob

Elizabeth Hilbert – John N. Etringer

Antoinette Hilbert

Arnold Hilbert - Susanna Zeimet

Catherina Hilbert - 1842 – Peter Ties

Catherina Hilbert was born December 19, 1842 in Angelsburg, Fischbach, Mersch Luxembourg. She married Peter Ties on September 16, 1867 in Saint Peter and Paul Church in Springbrook, Iowa. He was the son of Nicolas Ties and Marie Brink. He was born August 15, 1836 in Luxembourg, and died June 1917 in Dubuque, Iowa. According to the records of Saint Peter and Paul Church, this was the first wedding performed at this church.

The children of Catherina Hilbert and Peter Ties were as follows:

Frank Ties

Catherine Ties – J. P. Mootz

Mary Ties – John Pleiser

Margaret Ties

Elizabeth Ties – Henry Mootz

Nicholas Ties

Nicholas Hilbert - 1845 – Mary Freymann

Nicholas Hilbert was born June 10, 1845 in Angelsburg, Fischbach, Mersch Luxembourg. He married Mary Freymann on September 29, 1871. She is the daughter of Karl Freymann and Marie Dondelinger. Mary was born September 9, 1848 in Tete des Morts Township, Jackson County, Iowa, and died May 21,1917 in Prairie Spring Township, Jackson County, Iowa. Richard Haupert remembers his grandfather, Nicholas, living in Bellevue, Iowa with his daughter, Elizabeth Hilbert Rolling, in Nicholas’ later years.

Nicholas and Mary had the following children:

Nicholas F Hilbert - 1873– Ida Stoltz

Nicholas F. Hilbert was born September 1873. He married Ida Stoltz.

Catherine Hilbert – 1876 - John Alfred Beckius

Catherine Hilbert was born on March 19, 1876 in Springbrook, Jackson County, Iowa. She married John Alfred Beckius on January 26,1897 in Springbrook, Iowa. John was the son of Johannes Beckius and Anna Harsch. He died on February 27, 1950 in Dubuque, Iowa. Catherine died on July 22, 1952 in Dubuque, Iowa.

Richard Haupert tells us that John Beckius was written about using many different names, including John Beckius elected to school board on July 2, 1906, John Beckhauses, Buchus and Bechius. John was elected to the school board of the Independent School District of Readlyn. Richard also found in the old reliable Readlyn Iowa "Good Old Days" book that the Beckius Hardware store in burned to the ground in 1912, so the family had to have moved back to Dubuque at about that time. The 1920 and 1925 census have them living in Dubuque, Iowa.

Catherine Hilbert and John Beckius had the following children:

Norbert Beckius – 1898 – Inez Neville/Gertrude Mellon

Norbert Beckius was born on May 30, 1898 in Springbrook, Iowa. He married Inez Neville and later married Gertrude Mellon. He died in 1970 in Denver, Colorado.

Norbert Beckius and Inez Neville had the following child:

Eileen Beckius

Albert Beckius – 1901 – Mildred Sauer

Albert Beckius was born April 24, 1901 in Springbrook, Iowa. He married Mildred Sauer. He died on November 1985 in Denver, Colorado.

Albert Beckius and Mildred Sauer had the following children:

Robert Beckius

Evelyn Beckius

Leon B. Beckius – 1902 – Ada Taylor

Leon Beckius was born on December 5, 1902 in Springbrook, Iowa. He married Ada Taylor. He died on May 22, 1978 at Libertyville.

Leon Beckius and Ida Taylor had the following children:

Jane Ada Beckius

John Taylor Beckius

Ronald Lee Beckius

Laurina Beckius – 1905 - Theodore Haupert

Laurina Melanie Beckius was born June 17, 1905 in Readlyn, Iowa. She married Theodore Peter Haupert, who is the son of Peter Haupert and Catherine Becke on July 1, 1930 in Dubuque, Iowa. Theodore Haupert was born on February 19, 1905 in Iowa.

The children of Laurine Beckius and Theodore Haupert are as follows:

Richard Haupert

Katherine Haupert

Phyllis Haupert

Thomas Haupert

Raymond Beckius – 1910

Raymond Beckius was born around 1910 in Readlyn, Iowa. He died on April 19, 1949 in Dubuque, Iowa.

Elmer J. "Curly" Beckius – 1913 – Ann Marie Dolan

Elmer J. "Curly" Beckius was born on February 2, 1913 in Readlyn, Iowa. He married Ann Marie Dolan. He died on October 15, 1991 in Tuscon, Arizona.

Aloysius Hilbert – 1878 – Kate Neu

Aloysius (Louis) Hilbert was born in March 1878. He married Kate Neu, who is the daughter of Theodore Neu and Margaretha Jung.

Aloysius Hilbert and Kate Neu had the following children:

Margarite Hilbert

Melvin Hilbert

Vincent Hilbert

Elizabeth Hilbert – 1881 – John Rolling

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Hilbert, was born in April 1881. . She married John Rolling August 23, 1904. Richard Haupert remembers his grandfather, Nicholas, living in Bellevue with daughter, Elizabeth Hilbert Rolling in Bellevue, Iowa in Nicholas’ later years. Elizabeth and John had the following children:

Genevieve Rolling – Arnold Kilburg

Loretta

Vincent – Phyllis Van Dan Acker

Helene Rolling

Dorothy Rolling – Dr. John Wynne

Catherine Rolling – Ray Engels

Peter Hilbert – 1885 – Clara Norpel

Peter Hilbert was born 25 December 25, 1885. He married Clara Norpel about 1912. She is the daughter of Joseph Norpel and Creszentia Altfillisch. Clara was born in July of 1888 in Iowa.

Charles Hilbert – 1888- Helena Herrig

Charles Hilbert was born June 19, 1888 in Jackson County, Iowa, and died in October 1979 in Jackson County, Iowa. He married Helena Herrig. She was born June 29, 1887 in Jackson County, Iowa.

Anna Hilbert - 1846 – Frank Koob

Anna Hilbert was born September 20, 1846 in Angelsburg, Fischbach, Mersch Luxembourg. She married Frank Koob. He was born about 1841. In the 1880 census, they were living in Rutland, Humboldt County, Iowa.

Anna and Frank had the following six children:

Charles Koob – 1870

Cora Koob - 1872

Wirein Koob - 1873

Matilda Koob – 1875

Leo Koob - 1879