George Benkelman

1862 - 1862  (0 years)

• Name	George Benkelman  [1, 2]
  Birth	8 Aug 1862	Iowa   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	8 Dec 1862	Iowa   [1]
  Person ID	I12733	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Johannes "John" Benkelman,   b. 3 Apr 1836, Schneiderhof, Waldhausen Parish, Welzheim, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany d. 18 Jan 1917, Portage, Columbia County, Wisconsin (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Sarah Jane Keech,   b. 24 Aug 1834, Pennsylvania d. 28 Nov 1921, Portage, Columbia County, Wisconsin (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	7 Jun 1857	Emerald Grove, Rock County, Wisconsin   [1, 2, 3]
  	BonnieMargaret Jacobs writes that their first three children, Emma, George and Louisa, all died of fever (p. 107), Emma first, who was a few month past her fourth birthday, George died a month later, still just a baby, and then finally Louisa, some five months later, at age 3 and 1/2. BonnieMargaret also noted that "The Benkelmans of Portage are buried in Silver Lake Cemetery, but the only record of that is with the cemetery sexton. None of the graves bears a marker. (p. 112).
  Family ID	F5022	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 8 Aug 1862 - Iowa Death - 8 Dec 1862 - Iowa  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982. [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 107, citing Civil War pension records #351090, Apirl 20, 1886, refiled Jan 24, 1917 for widow's benefits, petition #1091985, Certificate No. 830682. (Reliability: 3). [S667] RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project, (The WorldConnect Project is a set of tools, which allow users to upload, modify, link, and display their family trees as a means to share their genealogy with other researchers. The program used to day has a genealogy of its own. RootsWeb announced the launch of the World Connect Project on November 10, 1999 after staff members and users submitted 5.5 million records during a four-week beta-testing period. The WorldConnect Project continues to grow, and as of January 2004 had more than 312 million records. GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunications. It is a file format developed by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). It provides a flexible and uniform format for exchanging computerized genealogical data, and allows you to share files with other researchers who may not use the same genealogy program.), Henderson, Harold (hhsh@earthlink.net) "Ancestor Exchange!" Versin 2009-05-20 ; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=hendersonscholes (Reliability: 3).