Marie Sophie Charlotte Geltmeyer1,2,3

Family Chart
ID# 23136, (1831 - btn 1862 - 1870)
FatherErnst Heinrich Kuhlmann1,4,5 (17 Sep 1800 - abt Nov 1853)
MotherAnne Marie Elisabeth Fenncker1 (1 Feb 1802 - 1844 or 1845)

Key Events:

Birth: 27 Nov 1831, Brockum, Kingdom of Hanover6,7,8
Marriage: between 1850 and 1860, Harmon Jacob Hartwig (6 Oct 1833 - 30 Aug 1920)9,10
Death: between 1862 and 187011,12,13
ChartsDescendants of Hermann Hinrich Fennker
AncestryThe Fenker Family

Copyright Notice

Narrative:

     Marie Sophie Charlotte Geltmeyer was born on 27 Nov 1831 on the Geltmeyer farm, near Brockum, Kingdom of Hanover.6,7,8 She was baptized on 4 Dec 1831 in Evangelische Lutherische Kirche, Brockum, Kingdom of Hanover, with Marie Elisabeth Frerking, Marie Louise Kuhlmann, and Marie Charlotte Fenneker as godparents.1
     She arrived in New York with her parents, Ernst Heinrich Kuhlmann and Elisabeth Fenncker, on 7 Jul 1832, aboard the brig Charlotte Louise, having departed from Bremen, Germany.4,14,15,16
     As was the custom she used one of her middle names. After immigrating to the United States, the family returned to her father's birth surname, Kuhlmann, but "Americanized" by removing the final "n." So she was known as Sophie Kuhlman.2,3 The family settled first in Allentown, Pennsylvania.17,18
     She moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with her parents after a short time.19
     Her mother died in 1844 or 1845, when Marie was about 13 years old.20,21
     She moved about 1844 to Wooster, Ohio, with her father, and perhaps with her mother, though it seems more likely she had died in Pennsylvania.22
     She moved to Warren Twp., Huntington Co., Indiana, with her father in 1845.23,24,25,26 She appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Huntington Co., Indiana, in the household of her father.27
     Marie married Harmon Jacob Hartwig, son of William Hartwig, between 1850 and 1860, most likely in Huntington Co. but the marriage was not recorded there.9,10
     Marie and Harmon appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Huntington, Huntington Co., Indiana, enumerated 4 Jun 1860, reporting no real estate but personal estate of $60. Their children Augustus and Angeline were listed as living with them.28
     Sophie apparently died between 1862 and 1870, as no record has been found of her after the birth of her second daughter in 1862, and in 1870 her husband was rooming elsewhere and their children were living with others.11,12,13

Children:
     Children with Harmon Jacob Hartwig:

Citations

  1. [S11240] Taufregister (Baptism Register), Kingdom of Hanover, 1831, pg 75, no. 20, Marie Sophie Charlotte Geltmeyer.
  2. [S10864] Charlotte Louise arrival 7 Jul 1832, Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897, shows name as Sophia, daughter of E. Kuhlmann.
  3. [S10846] Earnest Kuhlman household, 1850 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows name as Sophia Kuhlman.
  4. [S10864] Charlotte Louise arrival 7 Jul 1832, Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897.
  5. [S10846] Earnest Kuhlman household, 1850 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows them apparently living as parent and child.
  6. [S11240] Taufregister (Baptism Register), Kingdom of Hanover, 1831, pg 75, no. 20, Marie Sophie Charlotte Geltmeyer, shows date, and even though the baptism was recorded in Brockum suggests birth was outside of Brockum, showing father was born in Brocum and mother was "from there."
  7. [S10864] Charlotte Louise arrival 7 Jul 1832, Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897, shows age 1/2 when arriving in New York 7 Jul 1831.
  8. [S10846] Earnest Kuhlman household, 1850 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows age 18 and country.
  9. [S11129] Herman Hardwick household, 1860 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows them apparently living as husband and wife.
  10. [S11127] Harmon J. Hartwig obituary, The Huntington Herald, shows as his first marriage.
  11. [S11130] Abraham Falk household, 1870 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows Harmon clerk in a grocery store and apparently rooming with a grocer.
  12. [S11131] Gotteib Miller household, 1870 U.S. Census, Hamilton Co., Ohio, shows Angeline and Emma living with Harmon's sister and her husband.
  13. [S10869] Nathan Kuhlman household, 1870 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows Emma also living with her brother Nathan and his wife.
  14. [S10850] Frederick Kuhlman obituary, The Huntington Herald, shows he came to America with parents at age 3, story of visit.
  15. [S10853] Anne Maria Fernandez obituary, Evening Herald, shows her parents came to Bethlehem in 1832 but she came the following year.
  16. [S10857] Fred Huhlman household, 1900 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows year.
  17. [S10850] Frederick Kuhlman obituary, The Huntington Herald, shows they took up their first residence in Allentown.
  18. [S10853] Anne Maria Fernandez obituary, Evening Herald, shows her parents came to Bethlehem in 1832 but she came the following year with an aunt, and they later moved to Allentown.
  19. [S10850] Frederick Kuhlman obituary, The Huntington Herald, shows they moved to Bethlehem.
  20. [S10846] Earnest Kuhlman household, 1850 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows her not in household, with youngest child age 6.
  21. [S10852] Nathan Henry Kuhlman obituary, The Huntington Herald, shows she died when he was a small boy, and he moved to Indiana with his father. Other sources place the move to Indiana about 1845.
  22. [S10850] Frederick Kuhlman obituary, The Huntington Herald, shows the family moved west, spending a year in Wooster, Ohio.
  23. [S10850] Frederick Kuhlman obituary, The Huntington Herald, shows the family came to Huntington Co. after spending a year in Wooster, Ohio.
  24. [S10851] Elizabeth Kuhlman obituary, Evening Herald, shows they came to Huntington Co. in 1845, township and town.
  25. [S10852] Nathan Henry Kuhlman obituary, The Huntington Herald, shows he moved to Indiana with father at age 10, which would have been 1842, but his younger sister was born in Pennsylvania about 1844.
  26. [S10853] Anne Maria Fernandez obituary, Evening Herald, shows family came to Huntington Co. 1845, township, in Claysville.
  27. [S10846] Earnest Kuhlman household, 1850 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana.
  28. [S11129] Herman Hardwick household, 1860 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana.
  29. [S11129] Herman Hardwick household, 1860 U.S. Census, Huntington Co., Indiana, shows them apparently living as parent and child.
  30. [S11132] Gotlieb Miller household, 1880 U.S. Census, Hamilton Co., Ohio, shows the girl with surname Hartwig and as niece of head of household, and Sophie's husband's sister as wife.
  31. [S11127] Harmon J. Hartwig obituary, The Huntington Herald.
  32. [S11131] Gotteib Miller household, 1870 U.S. Census, Hamilton Co., Ohio, shows the girl with surname Hartwick, and in household of Sophie's husband's sister and her husband.
  33. [S11133] Emma Hartwig obituary, The Huntington Democrat, shows her as daughter of her husband, age 26 at death 6 Apr 1887, which places the child's birth before his second marriage.