Old matching upright stones for Johann Heinrich Bierbaum, 1798-1874, and his wife, Catharine (Duvendack) Bierbaum, 1798-1880, are at the "Old Town Cemetery" (Garnavillo Cemetery) at Garnavillo in Clayton County, Iowa. Johann and Catharine followed their sons Gerhard Heinrich ("Jerry") and Johann Christoph ("Christoph") to America in the 1840s. Of their six children born in Wissingen, Hanover, all except one lived in Clayton County: Carl Hermann Bierbaum settled in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
Johann's date of birth of May 14, 1798 is recorded at the Evangelical-Lutheran Church at Schledehausen, Hanover. Age at death on his gravestone is "75 yrs. 7 mos. 11 days". He died on January 3, 1874 and was buried on January 5.
(Entry #1, 1874 Deaths/Burials, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Elkport, Clayton County, Iowa, "Joh. Bierbaum," buried January 5.
--DeeAnna Allum Granston, author
JOHANNINGMEIER, DRAHN, SCHRADER, Clayton County, Iowa
Johann's date of birth of May 14, 1798 is recorded at the Evangelical-Lutheran Church at Schledehausen, Hanover. Age at death on his gravestone is "75 yrs. 7 mos. 11 days". He died on January 3, 1874 and was buried on January 5.
(Entry #1, 1874 Deaths/Burials, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Elkport, Clayton County, Iowa, "Joh. Bierbaum," buried January 5.
--DeeAnna Allum Granston, author
JOHANNINGMEIER, DRAHN, SCHRADER, Clayton County, Iowa
Old matching upright stones for Johann Heinrich Bierbaum, 1798-1874, and his wife, Catharine (Duvendack) Bierbaum, 1798-1880, are at the "Old Town Cemetery" (Garnavillo Cemetery) at Garnavillo in Clayton County, Iowa. Johann and Catharine followed their sons Gerhard Heinrich ("Jerry") and Johann Christoph ("Christoph") to America in the 1840s. Of their six children born in Wissingen, Hanover, all except one lived in Clayton County: Carl Hermann Bierbaum settled in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
Johann's date of birth of May 14, 1798 is recorded at the Evangelical-Lutheran Church at Schledehausen, Hanover. Age at death on his gravestone is "75 yrs. 7 mos. 11 days". He died on January 3, 1874 and was buried on January 5.
(Entry #1, 1874 Deaths/Burials, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Elkport, Clayton County, Iowa, "Joh. Bierbaum," buried January 5.
--DeeAnna Allum Granston, author
JOHANNINGMEIER, DRAHN, SCHRADER, Clayton County, Iowa
Johann's date of birth of May 14, 1798 is recorded at the Evangelical-Lutheran Church at Schledehausen, Hanover. Age at death on his gravestone is "75 yrs. 7 mos. 11 days". He died on January 3, 1874 and was buried on January 5.
(Entry #1, 1874 Deaths/Burials, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Elkport, Clayton County, Iowa, "Joh. Bierbaum," buried January 5.
--DeeAnna Allum Granston, author
JOHANNINGMEIER, DRAHN, SCHRADER, Clayton County, Iowa
