Family Photos
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- WHAT: A composite photograph of Margaretha (Meier) and Heinrich Cordes. No marriage portrait has been found.
- LEFT TO RIGHT: Margaretha “Marie” (Meier) Cordes; Heinrich “Henry” Cordes
- WHEN: Picture Date – Before 1899 – Heinrich Cordes died 28 Mar 1899.
Marriage Date – 16 Feb 1871. - WHERE: Farrar, Missouri
- SOURCE: Scanned from Dale Kirmse’s Ancestors Album, March 24, 2015.
- NOTES: Heinrich Cordes was born on May 1, 1849, in Scheeßel, Germany. He married Margaretha Meier on February 16, 1871, in Farrar, Missouri. They had five children during their marriage: John Peter August Cordes (1873 – 1874), Anna Marie Cordes (1876 – 1907), Heinrich Cordes (1878 – 1878), Martha Margaretha Cordes (1879 – 1967), and Marie Christina Cordes (1881 – 1915).
Children
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- WHAT: Daughters of Heinrich and Margaretha (Meier) Cordes;
- LEFT TO RIGHT: Anna Marie Cordes; Martha Margaretha Cordes; Marie Christina Cordes, daughters of Heinrich and Margaretha (Meier) Cordes.
- WHEN: Circa 1895 – assuming that Martha was about 15 years old.
- WHERE: Farrar, Missouri.
- SOURCE: Ella (Kirmse) Krueger shared this photograph December 30, 2003.
- NOTES:
ANNA MARIE CORDES, daughter of Heinrich Cordes and Margaretha Meier, was born on 3 Feb 1876 in Farrar, Perry, Missouri, USA. She died on 14 Dec 1907 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. She married Richard Bruno Fritsche, son of Heinrich Fritsche and Bertha Ernestine Boehme, on 28 Oct 1900 in Farrar, Perry, Missouri, USA. He was born on 12 Jul 1872 in Auerswalde, Mittweida, Chemnitz, Germany. He died on 8 Oct 1947 in Farrar, Perry, Missouri, USA.
MARTHA MARGARETHA CORDES, daughter of Heinrich Cordes and Margaretha Meier, was born on 20 Mar 1879 in Farrar, Perry, Missouri, USA. She died on 9 Dec 1967 in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, USA. She married Wilhelm Kirmse, son of Julius Kirmse and Barbara Kraus, on 11 Feb 1904 in Farrar, Perry, Missouri, USA. He was born on 21 May 1875 in Farrar, Perry, Missouri, USA. He died on 14 Aug 1968 in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, USA.
MARIE CHRISTINA CORDES, daughter of Heinrich Cordes and Margaretha Meier, was born on 22 Sep 1881 in Farrar, Perry, Missouri, USA. She died on 12 Mar 1915 in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, USA. She married Joachim Johann Heinrich Lohmann, son of Peter Christopher Lohmann and Margaretha Versemann, on 22 Nov 1906 in Farrar, Perry, Missouri, USA. He was born on 15 Aug 1883 in Farrar, Perry, Missouri, USA. He died on 18 Mar 1957 in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, USA.
- WHAT: Two Cordes sisters
- LEFT TO RIGHT: Marie Christina Cordes; Anna Marie Cordes, daughters of Heinrich and Margaretha (Meier) Cordes.
- WHEN: Circa 1906 – probably at the time of Marie’s wedding.
- WHERE: Farrar, Missouri – probably.
- SOURCE: Ella (Kirmse) Krueger shared this picture from Grandma Kirmse’s photo album December 30, 2003.
- NOTES: Sharlene Lohmann Book identified the women in this photograph September 20, 2015.
