He married Anna Christina Louise GALLEN on 6 October 1848 in Angerburg, East Prussia. Consistently listed as Louise on her U. S. Census records, she was born into a Prussian military family. She passed away sometime in the late 1870s and is probably buried somewhere in Meramec Township in St. Louis county, Missouri, where the family owned property at the time. Her grave site has never been found.
Reinhold and Louise were the parents of 10 children - 5 sons and 5 daughters.
Reinhold was the captain of an artillery battery for Union forces during the Civil War.
Prior to the war, from the 1860 U. S. Census for Hermann, Gasconade Co., Missouri, we find him listed as "Reinhold Pfennighausen," 41 yrs. of age, born in Saxony. He is listed as a Hotel keeper with $3,000 in real estate value and $1,000 in personal estate value.
In a letter from Uncle Blair Pfennighausen, written on 11 May 1978, he says this about Reinhold:
"... he was born in Europe and was Polish and living in Germany. That country and Poland were at war about 1850 and he borrowed the papers of a neighbor named Pfennighausen to get out of Germany and come to the U.S. and never went back to his real name - von Pavlokowski. He organized a battery of field artillery in the Union Army during the Civil War and my brother said he fought in a battle along the Mississippi River."
No one yet contacted by the author in America has given a more definitive answer as to why Reinhold changed his name upon arrival in America. What we do know is all PFENNIGHAUSENs in America since are descendants of this man.
He passed away in 1901 in the care of his youngest son, Otto Charles, my great-grandfather.
He married Anna Christina Louise GALLEN on 6 October 1848 in Angerburg, East Prussia. Consistently listed as Louise on her U. S. Census records, she was born into a Prussian military family. She passed away sometime in the late 1870s and is probably buried somewhere in Meramec Township in St. Louis county, Missouri, where the family owned property at the time. Her grave site has never been found.
Reinhold and Louise were the parents of 10 children - 5 sons and 5 daughters.
Reinhold was the captain of an artillery battery for Union forces during the Civil War.
Prior to the war, from the 1860 U. S. Census for Hermann, Gasconade Co., Missouri, we find him listed as "Reinhold Pfennighausen," 41 yrs. of age, born in Saxony. He is listed as a Hotel keeper with $3,000 in real estate value and $1,000 in personal estate value.
In a letter from Uncle Blair Pfennighausen, written on 11 May 1978, he says this about Reinhold:
"... he was born in Europe and was Polish and living in Germany. That country and Poland were at war about 1850 and he borrowed the papers of a neighbor named Pfennighausen to get out of Germany and come to the U.S. and never went back to his real name - von Pavlokowski. He organized a battery of field artillery in the Union Army during the Civil War and my brother said he fought in a battle along the Mississippi River."
No one yet contacted by the author in America has given a more definitive answer as to why Reinhold changed his name upon arrival in America. What we do know is all PFENNIGHAUSENs in America since are descendants of this man.
He passed away in 1901 in the care of his youngest son, Otto Charles, my great-grandfather.
Family Members
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Anna Pfennighausen Niemann
1846–1909
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Richard Wilhelm Pfennighausen
1852–1929
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Bernhard Pfennighausen
1853–1923
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Emma Johanna Lucinda Pfennighausen Roemer
1857–1937
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Bertha Pfennighausen Wigge
1859–1905
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Gothard Edward Pfennighausen Penning
1865–1936
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Mathilda "Tillie" Pfennighausen Hostmark
1867–1925
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Otto Charles Pfennighausen
1869–1946
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Ida Pfennighausen
unknown–1875
