The IAGenWeb Project: iagenweb.org/fgs/w/wirthh1.txt

Iowa Family Group Sheet for the Henry WIRTH Family

Submitted by: Karen Wirth

HUSBAND: Henry WIRTH
Birth date: about 1843
Birthplace: Holstein, Germany
Death date: between 1905-1910
Place of death: Marshall County, Marshalltown, Iowa USA
Burial date:
Burial place: Riverside Cemetery, Marshalltown, IA USA
Other Spouse: Anna FOREMAN
Father:
Mother:

Marriage date: 02-12-1871 If the true last name of Wife is Fenneberg (this is UNKNOWN)
Marriage place: Scott County Iowa? Unknown if Fennberg is the right Female for this family

WIFE: Christina (Unknown)
Birth date: about 1843
Birthplace: Holstein
Death date: anytime after about 1880-1885
Place of death: USA
Burial date:
Burial place: USA
Other Spouse: Unknown if any or not
Father:
Mother:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Henry WIRTH
Sex: M
Birth date: 15-04-1875
Birthplace: Jasper County, Mariposa Township, IA USA
Death date: 05-12-1953
Place of death: University of Minnesota Hospital, Hennepin County, Minneapolis MN USA from a heart condition
Burial date: 06-12-1953
Burial place: Trinity Lutheran Cemetery in Todd County, Long Prairie, MN USA
Spouse's name: Freda HOKANSON
Marriage date: 05-4-1920
Marriage place: The First Lutheran Church of Glenwood, Pope County, Glenwood, MN USA

Child No. 2: William WIRTH
Sex: M
Birth date: ??-??-1877
Birthplace: Jasper County, Mariposa Township, Iowa USA
Death date: 05-05-1946
Place of death: Todd County, Long Prairie MN USA (In home of Brother Henry from Pneumonia possibly).
Burial date: ??-05-1946
Burial place: Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Todd County, Long Prairie MN USA
Spouse's name: Never Married ~ No Children
Marriage date:
Marriage place:

Documentation and Sources:
This family immigrated to the USA before 1875. Their personal family details are in research mode now for accuracy. They were from Holstein Germany, Lutheran, It is not known what became of the Spouse Henry's 1st wife Christina or whether ill fate, disappearance, abandonment, kidnapped, etc. or whether she remarried & life on the farm was too hard & or marital problems & she possibly went back east to Boston or Philadelphia if that is where her parents were, if they to were in the USA. After 1880 she seems to have just disappeared. Farther research. I located her first name earlier in 1998 From the editor of the Town's Newspaper "The Leader". Which does have a website online. And The Editor was kind enough to look through old newspapers & Documents & e-mail the findings. Henry WIRTH remarried & Has 2 more children & 3 step children he raises as his own. The family was close knit. One Granddaughter was named after an older granddaughter of Anna FOREMAN & Matthias HANSEN!
This is Family Known Information. The Sources & Documentation are listed Under Henry WIRTh & Anna FOREMAN Family Group Sheet.
I have done so far extensive research in Hundreds of Online Databases in USA, Denmark, Germany /Language is a barrier I'm learning some, framing through International Genealogical sources Census, & other Data.
NARA in USA, AGGSH of Schleswig-Holstein presented by Hans Peter Voss, progenealogist.com, familysearch.org UTAH, Dansk Demografisk Database's Parishes in Holstein, genealogienetz.de/SCN/kbuecher-d.html, wikiapedia & thefreedictonary Online for the History to familize myself for bettter understanding, familysearch.org's FHL Catalogue. chi.org for church records, lcms, Lutheransonline, firstgov, etc.
This is what I'm able to list:
MN Death Certificate ID #'s for:
the children:
Henry is #1953-Mn-025482 Hennepin 12/06/1953
William is 1946-MN-016281 Todd 5/5/1946
ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/ia/jasper/1880
NA Film # T9-0346 Page 25D National Archives
FHL Film # 1254346 Family History Library
Vault International Film 491404 through 491417. (Researching still).
US Fed Census
1880-Residence Jasper County Mariposa Iowa
1900- Residence : SAME for Spouses
Son's_ :
1900_Henry, Residence Mitchell, Iowa
William, Residence Henry, Iowa
1910_Henry, Residence Publeo, Colorado
1920_Henry Residence Todd, Minnesota

1920_Residence Todd, Minnesota
Henry WIRTH is buried along side of his 2nd Spouse Anna FOREMAN-nee HANSEN-Widowed 1st marriage surame, at the RIVERSIDE CEMETERY on the north edge of MARSHALL COUNTY MARSHALLTOWN IOWA USA. Also are their last child Russel WIRTH & his wife Jennie buried in the same RIVERSIDE CEMETERY There in IOWA. Henry & Christina's 2 Sons Henry & William (Wirth Brother's) Buried in TRINITY LUTERAN CEMETRY in the small town of Long Prairie, MINNESOTA it was sometimes just referred to as Todd MN sometimes or before the county branched into individual small clusters of communties.
Son Henry Wirth purchased 80 acres of farmland. That was just up the hill from the Long Prairie Todd County Fairgrounds (Trinity Lutheran Cemetery is next lot immiediately after County Fair Grounds) & continue up the hill about 4-5 blocks estimate & there is the old home (Which was torn down in the late 1980's or early 1990's. It was a huge White House with a small front indoor porch that stored a piano, & Then the small livingroom had a radio of the day in Oak Cabinet & a bureau & small sofa & Carved legged matching chair A small round cherry oakwood coffee table
deeply polished gloss shine, A Writing desk with a locked scroll down cover. Bare wood floorboards polished & waxed shine, always so slippery & to my dismay was a small red fox rug. with teeth & all was so scary for a child. Than the parlor & sitting room for guest, festival meals & tea. All it had was a huge table chairs & upper lighting on a cord dangling above table & a hutch china mantle & home-made laced crocheted teacup doilles Grandma WIRTH hade crocheted that is Freda there daughter-in-law.
Stairs upstairs just of the side of the kitchen that was a nice size, Stove, refrigerator, Regular Table & about 6 to 8 chairs. Above the Refrigerator was a Shelf of Oak Wood that Went 3/4's the length of the wall there was displayed all the family pictures of her children, granchildren & Great Granchildren There were lots of pictures on that shelf in the kitchen, Than towards the back a bedroomroom equiped nicely & with a black & white t.v. lots of windows.
The other direction in the kitchen was a newer installed indoor bathroom that was installed around the later 1960's or early 1970's. long narrow agate, bath had shower. Than to the left of the bathroom was the entry hall closed off by wooden door & small curtained window & the other was a screen door. than the driveway long to the road, There was an outhouse before the trail down to the garden. Just before all that was the Barn, Shed, Chicken coop etc, there was a basketball hoop on one of the farm buildings (there were more at one time pass but now only 3 remain.) were my Father shot basket hoops. He was on the highschool basketball team.
He wanted much to be a basketball coach but it was a dream he didn't profill. The other side of the yard was huge like 14 to 25 trees no matter were you stood it looked almost neat rows everywhere. On Upstairs were we slept when we stayed over these are the stairs I mentioned earlier that lead upstairs just to the right off the kitchen right before the parlor conversation room that was only for adults when the children retired to bed, after our parents had made sure we'd said prayers & went to sleep. They would all gather in there & discuss things of the day & times.
So the stairs were up quite a distance & I'd say Bigger than average stairs 'cause as a little kid I had to really stretch my steps to make it up each stair. Than at the top was a squared off area before going a few stairs tothe right or left, I always thought that the most particular & I liked it. The Top of the stairs Square Floor had a huge Metal Floor-Grate in the floor for heating upstairs in the winter to let the heat enter. The room to the right was a big square room with two huge over fluffy beds & A Nightstand holding the reading lamp in the center, etc. The other room was the eldest's & left the same as the day she left it, I like to rummage through the huge membrabilia trunk. & the Old High School Senior Photo eetched it seem in tones of light with paint brush colors highlighted over the balck & copper portrait. awesome adventure for children. It was a smaller room with the single canopy bed, seemed more cozy being smaller. The bigger room with 2 huge beds must have been one side for brothers & the other for sisters. The lucky eldest had their own bed. 3 brothers & 3 sisters shared the other room.
This is a recallection of the honme of Henry & Frieda WIRTH.