Lee County Iowa Genealogy

PERSONAL FAMILY RECORDS

This page is for the researcher of Lee County to have the opportunity to contribute information that you feel would be beneficial to to other
researchers.  If you want to get your family surnames out to more people, this is a good way to do so. 

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ROBERT & GOLDIE BILLUPS
"They Were Such a Part of Our Lives"
NANNIE

by Connie Carter O'Conner

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MY GRANDPA, JAMES GRISWOLD

JAMES GRISWOLD

Contributed by Carol Griswold Salli

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BRIGGS, LOTAN
Abstract of Will

BRIGGS, Lotan, resident of Denmark, Lee county, Iowa. Heirs: Turen D. BRIGGS, wife; Elizabeth CASE (wife of H. S. CASE) daughter; Ruth HALL ( wife of Lot K. HALL) daughter; Sally Maria COLLINS (wife of Harry COLLINS) daughter; Lydia BRIGGS, daughter; Jerusha Amelia BRIGGS, daughter; Harriet N. BRIGGS, daughter; Mary Elizabeth WILKIE (daughter of Phebe E. CASE). Executor Harriet and Turen BRIGGS.

Will signed 18 September 1858, witnesses Lewis FARNSWORTH and Kellogg DAY. Admitted to probate 22 June 1861.  Volunteer.
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FRITZJUNKER FAMILY
Marriage and Funeral Records
 
Surnames: 
Fritzjunker, Moeller, Fedler, Stuckey, Mueller, Hunold, Goed, Kempker, Brockman, Juttenmeyer, Heyland, Merschman, Meirotto, Cooper, Benjamin, Krogmeier, Brandevinder, Wellman, Stuekerjuergen, Leveling, Spiekermeier, Geers, Holtkamp, Mickelson

Transcribed and Contributed by Shirley Turner Shiver
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Keniston, family burials in Oakland Cemetery
Kent E. Kenniston

My great-great-great grandfather, Issac Kenniston, is buried in Oakland Cemetery, 18th and Carroll, Lee County, Keokuk, Iowa. He is buried in Lot #53, Block #10. Isaac Kenniston died on 29 Jan 1898 in Green, Iowa and was buried in Oakland Cemetery per Death Records Book #1 and 2, 1867-1903 Lee Co. on page 146, line 21 from the top.

Also buried with Isaac in the same Lot and Block # are the following grandchildren.

Florence Agness Kenniston 11-22-1885,
Mamie Kenniston 3-11-1891,
Charles McDonald Kenniston 11-13-1893.

I wish to state, the graves have no headstone, and is located on a steep hillside covered with Day Lillies. As you stand at the head of the grave sites facing downward of the hillside, and you look to the left, you will see mausoleums and the cemetery vault.

Isaac's wife, Clementine, is buried next to her son, Rev George N. Kenniston in Hettinger township, Adams County, North Dakota.
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MANSHEIM

Most American Mansheims are descendants of only ONE Germanic-American immigrant couple: THOMAS MANSHEIM and ANNA KAISER MANSHEIM, of Gronia, Prussia (Germany), who arrived with their 7 children, via the Mississippi River, at Fort Madison, Lee Co., Iowa Territory, in March, 1843.

Their children were:
Daughter Mansheim Witte (daughter's and husband's first names unknown);
John Mansheim (Katherine Dierker);
Anna Catherina Hubertina "Ann" or "Catherine"? Mansheim Schwartz (John B. Schwartz);
William Mansheim (never married - died younger, of consumption);
Clemence Mansheim (2 marriages: Maria Dierker and Bertha Pennartz);
Anna Maria "Mary Ann" Mansheim Droppel Wipke (2 marriages:
George Droppel and Henry? Wipke);
Franklin Mansheim (left Iowa 1849 for the California Gold Rush - never heard from again - presumed dead).

Kelly Bodensteiner-Roots
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ROBERDS / ROBERTS
Early Settlers, Lee County connections

Contributed by Jean Leeper
grannyroots@iowatelecom.net  or  jeansjots@yahoo.com
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