Maternal Monday - Frederka Sophie Louisa Trenkman Ziegenfuss

Frederika/Friedricka Sophie Louisa Trenkman

 

 

 

Birth: 04 Oct 1846-Germany

Died: 05 Mar 1920-Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas

Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Wichita County, Texas

Funeral Officiant: Pastor William Utesch, Trinity Lutheran

Church, Wichita Falls, Texas

Source: Trinity Lutheran Church, Wichita Falls, Texas, Old Book,

No page, recorded birth and death date of Friederike Ziegenfuss as noted above)

 

She came to America from Prussia in 1885 on the

Ship Moravia from the port at Hamburg to New York, United States.

Source: New York Passenger Lists, 1851-1891, NARA M237, roll 489,list 1027, line 16, number 271, online-Ancestry.com

 

When Fredreka came to America with husband,

Gottlieb Ziegenfuss, they had children:

Louisa, age 15

Otto, age 13

Benno, age 9

Hugo, age 8

Mathilda, age 7

Ernst, age 5

Helene, age 3.

 

Gottlieb Ziegenfuss died in 1890; buried

Watson Cemetery, Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas

 

Fredreka then moved her family to Eastland County, Texas

and on 14 August 1895 married Freidrick Graefe.  Freidrick’s

wife, Amelia Grafe, had died on 21 August, 1894.

 

According to our family stories, old Mr. Graefe did not allow any

Oo Fredreka’s children to live in their household, except

for young daughter, Rosa Ziegenfuss, who was a child. 

 

Whether Fredreka divorced old Mr. Graefe, or just left him,

we don’t know.

But by the time of her death in 1920,

she was living with her son,

Otto Ziegenfuss’ family, in Wichita Falls,

Texas, and she was using her married

name of Ziegenfuss and not the Graefe name.

 

 

Fredreka in her old age

 

 

I hope that one day we will

locate Fredreka's family

back in Germany!  I am sure

she has kinfolk living there even today!

 

Happy Ancestor Hunting!

 

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