Lee County IA Archives Photo Tombstone.....Luetkehans, Henry Joseph & Anna Marie "Mary" 
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Cemetery:           Calvary Cemetery West Point, Iowa
Name:               Henry Joseph & Anna Marie "Mary" Luetkehans

Date Of Photograph: October 29, 2000
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The grave marker is a simple, hand-hewn, carved, wooden cross. The simple
inscription says:
   IHS
LUETKEHANS
 FATHER
  BORN
  1815 
  DIED
  1877

 MOTHER
  BORN
  1830
  DIED
  1921

Additional Comments:
Anna Marie "Mary" Brockpals was born in Westphalen, Germany, October 3, 1830.
Henry Joseph Luetkehans was born in Westphalea, Germany in 1815. They were
united in marriage at Nuenkirchen, Germany, on January 16, 1850. 

They emigrated to the United States, landing at New Orleans on December 31,
1852, and the following April they came to West Point, Iowa where they bought a
140 acre farm. 

Henry passed away October 21, 1877. Mary passed away January 9, 1921 in the same
log cabin she and Henry built 69 years earlier in 1852.

Mary's second marriage was to Henry Arns, which took place February 8, 1882. He 
preceeded her in death in 1912.

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