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The Jacob Heinle family in about 1908. Back row left to right: Elizabeth (Heinle) Orth, Friedrich Heinle, Christine Marie (Seibert) Heinle. Front Row: Jacob Heinle, Anna Maria (Hörth) Heinle
"You live as long as you are remembered"...old Russian proverb.

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always

a child", Marcus Tullius Cicero, Orator, chapter 34, section 120.

...He who knows only his own generation remains always a child.

 

I don't like vanity home pages but my great grandfather, who died in 1919 had no choice so I dedicate this page to him.

Jakob Heinle

Jakob Heinle was born 30 October 1838 in Johannestal in South Russia, about 50 miles from Odessa. His father, George David Heinle, who was born in Marbach am Neckar, Wuerttemburg, Germany, died when he was eight years old. He was apparently then raised by his uncle, Jakob Friedrich Heinle, his mother, Justina (Dank) Heinle having died when he was 1 1/2 years old. Jakob married his first wife, Dorthea Elizabetha Zimmerman, in 1857 when he was 19 years old. The 1858 Johannestal census has him living with his wife, Dorthea in the home of Jakob Friedrich Heinle. Also living with Jakob Friedrich and his family was David's sister, Justina, and his Aunt, Magdalena. After having several children, Dorthea died in 1867. He once again married, this time to Anna Maria Hörth, in 1876. Anna Maria is my great grandmother and she came to this country in 1904 along with her husband. The time line I list below gives a chronology of the life of Jacob Heinle.

  • Jacob's father, Georg David Heinle emigrated to Russia from Germany in 1818
  • Jacob Heinle born 30 October 1838 in Johannestal
  • Jacob's mother Justina (Dank) Heinle died 29 May 1841
  • Jacob's father, David married to Katharina Carolina Bette, 31 August 1841
  • Jacob's father Georg David Heinle died 24 February 1847
  • Married to Dorthea Elizabetha Zimmerman, 12 November 1857
    • Jakob Heinle (2) born 19 June 1858
    • Philipp Heinle born 8 June 1860
    • Anna Maria Heinle (2) born 17 April 1862
    • Karoline Heinle born 18 March 1864
    • Stephan Heinle born October 1866
  • Dorthea Elizabetha Zimmerman died 3 June 1867
  • Married to Anna Maria Hörth, 20 June 1876
    • Christian Heinle (2) born 28 February 1878
    • Johann Heinle (8) born 1 May 1879
    • Elisabeth Heinle (2) born 16 April 1881
    • Elisabeth Heinle (2) died 16 August 1881
    • Katharine Heinle (2) born 24 September 1882
    • Friedrich Heinle (2) born 18 April 1885
    • Elizabeth Heinle born 17 January 1892
  • Jacob, Anna Marie, Friedrich, Elizabeth arrive in New York, 2 January 1904
  • Jacob Heinle died 5 July 1919 at Menno, SD.
  • Anna Maria (Hörth) Heinle died 2 November 1931 at St. Francis, KS

At the age of 65 and with the financial encouragement of his son, Christian, Jakob, his wife, Anna Maria (49), his daughter, Elizabeth, 9, his son, Friedrich (18) - my grandfather, journeyed to America in 1904. We do not know what happened to the other two children of Jacob and Anna Maria, Johann and Katherine; perhaps they had died before the family left for America.

Jacob and his family arrived in New York January 2, 1904 from Hamburg, Germany on the ship Pennsylvania . On the manifest they list that their final destination would be Freeman, SD, near the town of Menno.

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Raymond A. Heinle

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