Woodford County

PHOTOGRAPHS

Woodford Families and Homesteads

 

 

Kneip Family

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Anton and Susanna (Alig) (Rossmann) Kneip

Unknown Date

Parents: Nicholas and Magdalene Kneip and Johannes Georg and Susanna Alig

Married November 16, 1886
St. Mary's of Lourdes, Woodford County, Illinois
 

Susanna was previously wed to Lawrence Rossmann June 10, 1873 in Metamora, Illinois
 

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Photo donated by Marjorie Grebner Welsch

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Oltman Family

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William and Anna (Woltzen) Oltman

standing by a 40 horsepower Case

Unknown Date

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Photo donated by Glenn Oltman

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Render Family

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Robert  and Mary Agnes (Sharpe) Render

Pictures probably in the early 1900's (They were married December 23, 1904)

Parents: John C. and Mary Catherine (Kelso) Render and Robert and Nancy Emaylne (Taylor) Sharpe

Link to their Wedding Picture

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Photo Donated by Alice Dierker

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Seggerman Family

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Later 1930's

Standing, l-r:  Mrs. Clarence [Johanna] Kitzman [Kietzman], of Varna, Mrs. Walter [Caroline] Jording of Gridley, Raymond of Secor, John of El Paso, Heine of Secor, Mrs. Irvin [Sena] Kirth [Kurth] of Gridley, Ruth at home.

Seated, l-r: Mrs. Jacob [Bertha] Johnson of Benson, Mrs. Lawrence [Matilda] Johnson of Benson, Mrs. [Margaretia Hinderks Everding] Seggerman, Rosalie who lives with her parents, Mr. [Heinrich D.] Seggerman, Mrs. Lizzie [Margaret?] Rippel of El Paso and Mrs. August [Etta] Remmert of Washington.

[Note: the family name, Seggermann, became Seggerman in the U.S.]

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Photo from the Bloomington Pantagraph, donated by Evelyn Ebert

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Harm and Sena Seggermann Family

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(Clockwise)

Seated at left is Harm Seggermann, boy standing is Harm Johnson Seggerman, seated is wife Sena (Lutjens) Seggermann, standing next to her is Almuth Margaret "Maggie" Seggerman, girl seated on chair is Anna Seggerman, baby is Sena Seggerman, boy leaning on father's chair is Richard "Dick" Seggerman.

Baby Sena was born in June of 1890 so the photo was taken a few months after that. It was taken at the B. L. Moore & Son Studio in Eureka, Illinois.
 
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Diedrich and Mina Seggermann Family

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Diedrich "Dick" and Mina "Minnie" (Bremer) Seggermann

Children: Clarence, Burtel "Bert", Jasper, Benjamin, Virgil, Fred, and Kenneth

Two other sons, twins, died as infants.
 

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