Anna Catharina Kruse Junge Blim was born 22 June 1824 in Schlichting, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and died 5 December 1883 in Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa. Anna was married to Hinrich Martens Junge on December 12, 1846 in Schlichting. They are the parents of Wiebke Maria "Mary" Junge Rehbock, Margarethe Magdalena "Margaret" Junge Behrens, Claus Martens Junge, Henry Martin Junge II, Bade Johann "John" Junge Young, and Anna Henrietta "Etta" Junge Sassman. In 1847, Hinrich and Anna moved from Schlichting to St. Annen, where Hinrich became a wood-worker. Soon after her husband's death in 1862, Anna received permission from Kaiser Wilhelm I to sell her property and set off for America. Her destination was Bremer County near Waverly , Iowa, as a brother already lived there.
According to the manifest of the ship Cimbria, departing from Hamburg, Germany, in 1868, Anna and her six children (3 boys and 3 girls--Maria, Mgthe, Claus, Heine, Joh, and Henriette) set sail, carrying with them the family treasure, enough money to buy a farm. As the story goes, the man who should have helped her, instead bought a farm for himself! Mother and children were penniless but stalwart and innovative. In 1870, Mary married Louis Rehbock, and Margaret married Hinrich Behrens. When the 1870 census was taken, Henry Junge was working out as a farm hand, and Claus and Johann Bade were farming on a rented place where the family lived in Waverly. Henrietta was still a child with her mother at home.
By 1880, Anna has married Adam Blim, a widower, in Waterloo. Claus has married Anna Andre and lived in Charles City; John Bade had married Suzie Wright [Loeb] and lived in Waterloo. Teen-aged Henrietta and her mother were keeping house, and Henry was working at a print shop, marrying Annie Noss in 1881. [Henrietta married William Sassman in1886.] Sometime before 1880 Anna married Adam Blim, a widower with a large family himself, thus the surname on her cemetery stone.
In early December of 1883, Anna Catharina died at 59, but she reached her goal in bringing her children to the United States, where each prospered in his or her own way. Thanks to a Couple of Gravers for transferring Anna Catherina Kruse Junge Blim to me.
Unfortunately Anna's stone underplays her two most important names--Kruse and Junge--especially because her six children, all from her marriage to Hinrich Junge were so very important to her.
Notes: Johann Bade Junge changed his surname to Young, saying "It's the American way." Also, Suzie's surname was not Wright, but the tragic loss of her parents when she was a small baby has clouded the issue. She had two older sisters with the correct surname.
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Anna's grave monument is a mystery without her background but the names of her children curling down the stone--Maria, Magretha, Claus, Henry, John, Henrietta--tell the story. Anna came to Iowa with a pocket full of gold with which to buy a farm. There's no word other than "swindled" to account for what happened. Circumstances called for a second marriage. Yet Anna prevailed for 59 years, always moving forward with her children in mind, and we can thank her husband Adam and his children for this monument
Anna's children in Find a Grave:
Maria 112837640
Margaret 18521933
Claus 59645427
Henry 32213115
John 70435206
Henrietta 171187208
Researched and written by Virginia Hudson Young
According to the manifest of the ship Cimbria, departing from Hamburg, Germany, in 1868, Anna and her six children (3 boys and 3 girls--Maria, Mgthe, Claus, Heine, Joh, and Henriette) set sail, carrying with them the family treasure, enough money to buy a farm. As the story goes, the man who should have helped her, instead bought a farm for himself! Mother and children were penniless but stalwart and innovative. In 1870, Mary married Louis Rehbock, and Margaret married Hinrich Behrens. When the 1870 census was taken, Henry Junge was working out as a farm hand, and Claus and Johann Bade were farming on a rented place where the family lived in Waverly. Henrietta was still a child with her mother at home.
By 1880, Anna has married Adam Blim, a widower, in Waterloo. Claus has married Anna Andre and lived in Charles City; John Bade had married Suzie Wright [Loeb] and lived in Waterloo. Teen-aged Henrietta and her mother were keeping house, and Henry was working at a print shop, marrying Annie Noss in 1881. [Henrietta married William Sassman in1886.] Sometime before 1880 Anna married Adam Blim, a widower with a large family himself, thus the surname on her cemetery stone.
In early December of 1883, Anna Catharina died at 59, but she reached her goal in bringing her children to the United States, where each prospered in his or her own way. Thanks to a Couple of Gravers for transferring Anna Catherina Kruse Junge Blim to me.
Unfortunately Anna's stone underplays her two most important names--Kruse and Junge--especially because her six children, all from her marriage to Hinrich Junge were so very important to her.
Notes: Johann Bade Junge changed his surname to Young, saying "It's the American way." Also, Suzie's surname was not Wright, but the tragic loss of her parents when she was a small baby has clouded the issue. She had two older sisters with the correct surname.
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Anna's grave monument is a mystery without her background but the names of her children curling down the stone--Maria, Magretha, Claus, Henry, John, Henrietta--tell the story. Anna came to Iowa with a pocket full of gold with which to buy a farm. There's no word other than "swindled" to account for what happened. Circumstances called for a second marriage. Yet Anna prevailed for 59 years, always moving forward with her children in mind, and we can thank her husband Adam and his children for this monument
Anna's children in Find a Grave:
Maria 112837640
Margaret 18521933
Claus 59645427
Henry 32213115
John 70435206
Henrietta 171187208
Researched and written by Virginia Hudson Young
Anna Catharina Kruse Junge Blim was born 22 June 1824 in Schlichting, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and died 5 December 1883 in Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa. Anna was married to Hinrich Martens Junge on December 12, 1846 in Schlichting. They are the parents of Wiebke Maria "Mary" Junge Rehbock, Margarethe Magdalena "Margaret" Junge Behrens, Claus Martens Junge, Henry Martin Junge II, Bade Johann "John" Junge Young, and Anna Henrietta "Etta" Junge Sassman. In 1847, Hinrich and Anna moved from Schlichting to St. Annen, where Hinrich became a wood-worker. Soon after her husband's death in 1862, Anna received permission from Kaiser Wilhelm I to sell her property and set off for America. Her destination was Bremer County near Waverly , Iowa, as a brother already lived there.
According to the manifest of the ship Cimbria, departing from Hamburg, Germany, in 1868, Anna and her six children (3 boys and 3 girls--Maria, Mgthe, Claus, Heine, Joh, and Henriette) set sail, carrying with them the family treasure, enough money to buy a farm. As the story goes, the man who should have helped her, instead bought a farm for himself! Mother and children were penniless but stalwart and innovative. In 1870, Mary married Louis Rehbock, and Margaret married Hinrich Behrens. When the 1870 census was taken, Henry Junge was working out as a farm hand, and Claus and Johann Bade were farming on a rented place where the family lived in Waverly. Henrietta was still a child with her mother at home.
By 1880, Anna has married Adam Blim, a widower, in Waterloo. Claus has married Anna Andre and lived in Charles City; John Bade had married Suzie Wright [Loeb] and lived in Waterloo. Teen-aged Henrietta and her mother were keeping house, and Henry was working at a print shop, marrying Annie Noss in 1881. [Henrietta married William Sassman in1886.] Sometime before 1880 Anna married Adam Blim, a widower with a large family himself, thus the surname on her cemetery stone.
In early December of 1883, Anna Catharina died at 59, but she reached her goal in bringing her children to the United States, where each prospered in his or her own way. Thanks to a Couple of Gravers for transferring Anna Catherina Kruse Junge Blim to me.
Unfortunately Anna's stone underplays her two most important names--Kruse and Junge--especially because her six children, all from her marriage to Hinrich Junge were so very important to her.
Notes: Johann Bade Junge changed his surname to Young, saying "It's the American way." Also, Suzie's surname was not Wright, but the tragic loss of her parents when she was a small baby has clouded the issue. She had two older sisters with the correct surname.
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Anna's grave monument is a mystery without her background but the names of her children curling down the stone--Maria, Magretha, Claus, Henry, John, Henrietta--tell the story. Anna came to Iowa with a pocket full of gold with which to buy a farm. There's no word other than "swindled" to account for what happened. Circumstances called for a second marriage. Yet Anna prevailed for 59 years, always moving forward with her children in mind, and we can thank her husband Adam and his children for this monument
Anna's children in Find a Grave:
Maria 112837640
Margaret 18521933
Claus 59645427
Henry 32213115
John 70435206
Henrietta 171187208
Researched and written by Virginia Hudson Young
According to the manifest of the ship Cimbria, departing from Hamburg, Germany, in 1868, Anna and her six children (3 boys and 3 girls--Maria, Mgthe, Claus, Heine, Joh, and Henriette) set sail, carrying with them the family treasure, enough money to buy a farm. As the story goes, the man who should have helped her, instead bought a farm for himself! Mother and children were penniless but stalwart and innovative. In 1870, Mary married Louis Rehbock, and Margaret married Hinrich Behrens. When the 1870 census was taken, Henry Junge was working out as a farm hand, and Claus and Johann Bade were farming on a rented place where the family lived in Waverly. Henrietta was still a child with her mother at home.
By 1880, Anna has married Adam Blim, a widower, in Waterloo. Claus has married Anna Andre and lived in Charles City; John Bade had married Suzie Wright [Loeb] and lived in Waterloo. Teen-aged Henrietta and her mother were keeping house, and Henry was working at a print shop, marrying Annie Noss in 1881. [Henrietta married William Sassman in1886.] Sometime before 1880 Anna married Adam Blim, a widower with a large family himself, thus the surname on her cemetery stone.
In early December of 1883, Anna Catharina died at 59, but she reached her goal in bringing her children to the United States, where each prospered in his or her own way. Thanks to a Couple of Gravers for transferring Anna Catherina Kruse Junge Blim to me.
Unfortunately Anna's stone underplays her two most important names--Kruse and Junge--especially because her six children, all from her marriage to Hinrich Junge were so very important to her.
Notes: Johann Bade Junge changed his surname to Young, saying "It's the American way." Also, Suzie's surname was not Wright, but the tragic loss of her parents when she was a small baby has clouded the issue. She had two older sisters with the correct surname.
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Anna's grave monument is a mystery without her background but the names of her children curling down the stone--Maria, Magretha, Claus, Henry, John, Henrietta--tell the story. Anna came to Iowa with a pocket full of gold with which to buy a farm. There's no word other than "swindled" to account for what happened. Circumstances called for a second marriage. Yet Anna prevailed for 59 years, always moving forward with her children in mind, and we can thank her husband Adam and his children for this monument
Anna's children in Find a Grave:
Maria 112837640
Margaret 18521933
Claus 59645427
Henry 32213115
John 70435206
Henrietta 171187208
Researched and written by Virginia Hudson Young
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