Edgell/Deves Family Genealogy

 

The Edgell genealogy of this Edgell line stems from Benjamin Edgell, Dorchester County, Maryland in the mid 1700s.

The Deves side of the family, the mother’s side, has been traced back to the late 18th Century to the Pagankopf family of Pomerania.

 

Edgell:

The main ancestors of this line are:

Benjamin Edgell, Dorchester County, Maryland

James Edgell (b. 1724, Dorchester County) and Mary Staples

Benjamin Edgell (b. 1750) and Rebecca Merrick

James Edgell (b. 1775, Caroline, Maryland) and Mary Ice (b. 1778)

William Edgell (b. 1790, Virginia) and Sarah Dunn (b. 1804, Virginia)

John Edgell (b. 12/23/1823, Tyler, Virginia) and Susannah Morris (b. 5/11/1834)

Ananias W. Edgell (b. 10/7/1853) Flora O. Adams (8/5/1860, Dodderidge, Va)

Cyrus Y. Edgell (b. 6/9/1882, Looneyville, W. Va) and Sylvia J. South (5/24/1887, Howard, Oh)

Offspring of Cyrus Y. Edgell and Sylvia J. South Edgell

Harold South Edgell

b.  11/27/1913

Cuyahoga Falls, Oh

d 2002, Kansas City, Ks

m.  8/3/1936 Alese Priest

no children

 

Helen Faye Edgell

b 9/25/1915

Akron, Ohio

m. 12/22/1935

William Frederick Riker b. 4/18/1913  Loveland, Co.    d. 8/13/54

 

                                    daughter: Nellie Jane Riker

                                    b.1/31/1939

                                    Loveland, Co

                                    married:  Charles Robert Johnson b. 12/23/1930 Newbury, Michigan

 

                                                daughter   

                                                Celeste Renee Johnson

                                                Hartman

                                    3/11/1961

                                    Lewiston, Idaho

                                                married:  Stuart M. Hartman b. 3/12/1961

           

                                                            daughter Alexis Nicole Hartman

                                                b. 6/11/1993 Redlands, California

           

                                                            son:    Christopher Stuart Hartman

                                                b. 12/1/1995

                                                Redlands, California

 

                                               

                                                Son         

                                                Patrick Neil Johnson

                                    12/11/1972

                                    Spokane, Wa

 

                                                Daughter

                                                Richelle Marie Johnson

                                    b. 11/5/1967

                                    Spokane, Wa

                                                married 2/15/1997; Joakim Falth

 

                                                            daughter: Brittany Lee Johnson  b. 4/23/1991 Father is Lee Elliot

 

Kenneth Beryl Edgell

 b  10/6/1917

 d  6/26/1944

m.  3/18/1942  Esther Copeland, September 1916, Norton Kansas

                                    daughter:  Lois Sylvia Edgell

                                    4/18/1943

                                    Goodland, Kansas

                                     married  1962  divorced 1982  Walter Gorzinski b.  1/4/1940 Colorado Springs, Colorado

 

                                                Sons:

 

                                                Kenneth Joseph Gorzinski

                                    2/6/1969

 

                                                Raymond Gorzinski

                                    2/22/1963

                                    Colorado Springs, Co

 

                        remarried

                        Ken McCloud

                        b.  4/6/1939

                        Helena, Montana

 

Forest Earl Edgell

 b  10/12/1920 Akron, Ohio

m. 10/30/1938, Lucille Irene Deves, b. 9/27/1920, Goodland, Ks

 

Lucille was the daughter of Carl Joseph Gotthelf Deves whose roots go back to Martin Pagankopf (b.22 Nov 1799 Cardemin Hinter Pomonern,German (formerly Prussian territory), died Oct 1889-Shady Brooks, Kansas,

 

Forest and Lucille divorced 1945

  

Forest remarried Lola Bell Rankin on October 13, 1951

           

             Forest & Lucille had three sons:

 

                                    Carroll Lynn Edgell

                                    b. 7/13/1939  Goodland, Kansas

                                    m. 1959 Carol Linder  b. Omaha, Nebraska

 

                                    daughter: Shari Lynn Edgell

                                    b 10/30/1959

                                    Minneapolis, Mn

                                                married:  Steve McCorkle b. 7/6/1959 McCook,  Nebraska

                                                Divorced 2001

 

           

                                                            daughter:  Stephanie Ann McCorkle

                                                b. 2/20/1981

                                                Norfolk, Nebraska

                                                Married May 20, 2005 to Joel Dieken


                                                            Son:  Ethan Christopher Dieken (b. 12-15-02)
                                                            Daughter:  Paige Jadyn Dieken   b.  12-5-2004

 

                                                daughter:  Stacey Lynne McCorkle

                                                b. 11/25/1983

                                                Norfolk, Nebraska

 

                                               
                                                                        Son:  Roman Cey Valdez   b. 1-15-2004

                                                            Colorado Springs, Colorado

 

                                                son:  Sean Paul McCorkle

                                                b. 4/5/1989

                                                Norfolk, Nebraska

 

                                    CLE divorced 1966

                                    remarried: 7/8/1967

                                    Virginia Marie Doose

                                    b  8/6/1946

                                    Omaha,  Nebraska

 

                                                daughter: Suzanne Renee Edgell

                                    b. 8/30/1970

                                    Blair, Nebraska

                                    married Robert Beeson  (b. 5-11-67)  June 1, 2002


                                                            Son: Mitchel Lynn Beeson  (b. Aug 28, 2003)  Norfolk, NE
                                                            Son:  Andrew Robert Beeson (b . Feb. 7, 2005)  Norfolk NE

                                   

 

                                               

                                                son:    Scott Glenn  Edgell

                                    b. 3/13/1973

                                    Blair, Nebraska

                                                married Angela Wulf  (b. 6-8-75)  on  July 10, 2003


                                                            Daughter:  Rylee Rae Edgell   (b. Jan 13, 2004)  Blair, NE

 

                                    Steven Loy Edgell

                                    b:  6/5/1941 Goodland, Kansas

                                    d.  3/8/2005 Phoenix, Arizona

                                     m. 11/22/1963    

                                     Mary  Alice Carlson  b.  Moorhead, Mn.

           

                                                Son: Tommy Lee Edgell

                                    b 3/11/1964

                                    Moorhead, Mn

                                                married: Laura Denise Hall 12/28/1968 Overland Park, Ks

 

                                                            daughter: Bryana Lynn Edgell 2/5/1991, Edmonds, Wa

                                                            daughter: Kristina Leighann Edgell 11/10/1992, Edmonds, Wa.

                                                            son: Thomas Lee Edgell Jr. 3/26/1994, Edmonds, Wa

                                                            son: Ryan Logan Edgell 6/27/1995, Edmonds, Wa

                                                            son: Matthew Loy Edgell, 11/14/96  Phoenix, Arizona

                                               

                                    SLE divorced 1971

                                    Soul Mate 1980 - 2005:

                                    Carol Ann Eklund (nee Clarkson) b  2/5/1943 Norfolk, Virginia,  one son: Erik Eklund

 

                                    Robert Lee Edgell

                                    b. 5/3/1943 Goodland, Kansas

                                    m. 9/12/1962   

                                    Sharon Worscheck b. 1944 Minneapolis, Mn

           

                                                Son: Robert Lloyd Edgell (Phyle)

                                    b  1/15/1963

                                    Minneapolis, Mn

                                    married  11/2/1996 

                                    Leslie Ferris (two daughters:  McKenna 1991, Hailey 1993)

 

                                                daughter: Madison Lee Edgell (Phyle)  5/2/1997, Lakeville, Mn

 

                                    divorced

                                    remarried:  2005, Corrina Lowe (one son, Carter)                                

 

                                    RLE divorced 1965

                                    remarried January 12, 1985

                                    Susan Marie Riordan (nee Walsh) b 6/2/1943 Chicago, Illinois one son: Shawn Riordan

 

Deves:

 

 

Here is a story that has been told in our family and the extended Pagenkopf family.  Coincidently, one of our Pagenkopf relatives lives in Phoenix, Arizona and we have had several visits to discuss genealogy.

 

The story is that we are related to Kings and Queens.

 

Here is the story my mother told us.   Her Great Grandfather (Johan Gotthilf Pagenkopf) was born in Pomerania, traveled to America and bought a farm in Kansas.  Pomerania is on the Baltic Coast and is now part of Poland.  Over the past millennium, Pomerania has been ruled by the Teutonic Knights, Polish, Russians and in more recent times, Prussia.  After the war, it was included IN the Polish territory.

 

On Sunday’s, Johan would dress up in his finest, gather the family on the farm and hold court: essentially keeping the story alive that he was of royal blood.

 

This same story is told throughout the Pagenkopf family to whom we are related.

 

The story I will tell in my next historical novel is that Johan was a child of Prince William Frederick Hohenzollern who later became King of Prussia.  Prince William didn’t marry until he was 27 years old and no doubt had several lady friends.  One of these lady friends became pregnant and since the young girl was not part of a royal family, he was forbidden to marry her.  The solution for Prince William, was to ask (or maybe bribe) young Martin Pagenkopf to marry the girl.  Martin does so and raises the boy as his own.  From this boy, stems our line.

 

Here is the official web site of the House of Hohenzollern

 

http://www.preussen.de/en/today.html;jsessionid=D4E3E65F93960D23C7A0EE8920069E67

 

 

William I is proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles, France

 

      King William I of Prussia

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I%2C_German_Emperor

 

Kaiser Wilhelm I.

 

 

 

The family line we have researched goes back to Martin Pagenkopf.

 

1.  Martin Pagenkopf (b.22 Nov 1799- Kardemin Pomern, Prussia ;d.30 Oct 1889-Shady Brooks,Kansas).  We believe that Martin’s father was named Peter, but have no record of his birth or death.

 

Martin’s son

 

2. Johan Gotthilf Augusta PAGENKOPF (b.20 Apr 1828-Cardemin Hinter Pomonern,German;d.17 Oct 1911-Nashville,Kansas)

 

    (rumored son of Prince William Frederick Hohenzollern)

 

    spouse: Louise Maria Charlotte ROSEMANN (b.4 May 1828-Germany;m.23 Oct 1854;d.17 Oct 1923-Nashville,Kansas)

 

 Johan and Louise Pagenkopf are the  Great, Great, Great, Great Grandparents of my granddaughter, Madison

 

            Johan and Louise had a daughter, Christina Wilhelmina Pagenkopf.

 

3. Christina Wilhelmina PAGENKOPF (b.12 Dec 1861-Lyons Creek,Kansas;d.28 Nov 1934-Colby,Kansas)

 

spouse: Aloisius Charles DEVES (b.12 Dec 1864-Near Essas,Prussian of Germany;d.14 Apr 1936-Colby,Kansas)

 

Christina (they called her Minnie) and Aloisius are the Great, Great, Great Grandparents of Madison.

 

Aloisius and Minnie had a son, Carl Joseph Godhelf Deves.

 

4. Carl Joseph Godhelf DEVES (b.3 Jan 1890-Bracketville,Texas;d.7 Mar 1970-San Bernardino,California)

 

spouse: Lelia Emily ROBINSON (b.14 Jul 1893-Plainville,Kansas)

 

        Carl and Lelia are the Great, Great Grandparents of Madison

 

            They had a daughter and named her Lucille Irene Deves (my mother)

 

 

                                    5. Lucille Irene DEVES (b.27 Oct 1920-Goodland,Kansas)

 

                                    spouse:  Forest Earl Edgell (b.27 Oct 1920-Akron,Ohio

 

 

 

      Forrest and Lucille are the Great Grandparents of Madison               

 

 

6. Robert Lee EDGELL (b.2 May 1943-Goodland,Kansas)

                                    spouse: Sharon WORSHECK

 

      Sharon and I are Madison’s natural grandparents

 

                                                            7.  Robert Lloyd (Robbie)

                                                                 spouse:  Leslie

 

                                                                        8.  Madison Lee Phyle

 

What makes this story interesting is that the Hohenzollern family married into all the other Monarchies in Europe (kings and queens).  That would make us also related to the current Queen of England, the Kings of Belgium, the Romanov family of Russia and many more.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Friedrich,_Prince_of_Prussia.

 

So in looking at our gene tree, we are part Pomeranian (with a gene pool that survived all the wars and changing of the guard in Pomerania) and part Royalty.

 

Isn’t genealogy fun?

 

Bob