Minnie A. Benkelman

1866 - 1901  (34 years)

• Name	Minnie A. Benkelman  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	28 Aug 1866	Lima Center, Rock County, Wisconsin   [3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Feb 1901	Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin   [5, 6]
  Person ID	I12735	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   [2, 4, 7]
  	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

  
  

  Family	Thomas Owen Edwards,   b. 14 Oct 1869, Wisconsin d. 4 Apr 1963, Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	17 Aug 1892	Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin   [2, 8]
  	Could this marriage have actually been in 1882? Lorraine Smith Benkelman cites a letter written from Portage, Wisconsin, on August 13, 1882, from Minnie to her cousin G. A. Striffler. She announced she was to be married on August 17. It is more likely that Lorraine mistranscribed the year of the letter, as Minnie was only 15 in 1882. Married by Lyman B. Webb, Methodist elder, witnesses Chas. Mathison & Cor a Benkleman "Minnie A. Benkleman" v4 p 0145 on 17 Aug 1892 in Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin Henderson, Harold (hhsh@earthlink.net) "Ancestor Exchange!" Version 2009-05-20 ; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=hendersonscholes BonnieMargaret Jacobs writes that Thomas Edwards was "of Baraboo" and that after their marriage the young couple lived in that town, where Thomas worked as a contractor-carpenter. Minnie died of consumption when her daughters were still young, and as a result they were carried for by relatives of their fathers in Baraboo during remainder of their childhood. They later moved back to Portage, where they were married.
  Children	1. Pearl Alida Edwards,   b. 24 Aug 1893, Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin d. Sep 1967, Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin (Age 74 years)   2. Sarah Hazel Edwards,   b. 18 Sep 1895, Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin d. 4 Aug 1961, Dodgeville, Iowa County, Wisconsin (Age 65 years)
  Photos		Benkelman, Minnie with husband Thomas Owen Edwards and their daughters Minnie Benkelman and husband, Thomas Owen Edwards, with their daughters, Pearl and Hazel, Baraboo, Wisconsin ca 1896. Minnie was a daughter of Sarah Jane Keech and Johannes Benkelmann, one of ten Benkelmann siblings who immigrated from Germany to the US in the 1850s.
  Family ID	F3171	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2013

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 17 Aug 1892 - Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin Death - Feb 1901 - Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982, shows place of birth, in error, as in Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin (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). [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. 108 (Reliability: 3). [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982. [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982, shows DOD as 27 Feb 1901 (Reliability: 3). [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. 111, shows DOD as 25 Feb 1901 (Reliability: 3). [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). [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. 108, ca 1890 (Reliability: 3).