Wabash County IL Archives Cemeteries.....Freeman Farm Cemetery, Lancaster Precinct AKA Holste Cemetery & Perrott Farm Cemetery ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Paul Kankula February 13, 2000 Version 1, 13-Feb-2000, Freeman.TXT LOCATION: --------- North of County Road 2300N and east of County Road 650E. HISTORY: -------- See transcription. DATAFILE INPUT . : Paul Kankula in Sep-1999 DATAFILE LAYOUT : Paul Kankula in Sep-1999 HISTORY WRITE-UP : Virginia Perry in Sep-2000 LOCATION WRITE-UP: Paul Kankula in Feb-2000 TRANSCRIPTION .. : Virginia Perry in Sep-1999 TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: -------------------- a. = age at death b. = date of birth d. = date of death h. = husband p. = parents w. = wife NOTE: ----- This cemetery has a nice fence and gate. There are 6 stones - some broken and laying on the ground. There is also a big stone with lots of information on it. On the front side: ------------------ In Remembrance of : HOLSTE, Johann Frederick b. 31-dec-1803 in stolzenau germany, d. 1852, 1st h. of sophia dorothea bode/boden HOLSTE, Herman Heinrick b. 16-jul-1829 in stolzenau germany, d. 1852, p. johann f. & s.d. holste HOLSTE, Carl August Frederick b. 18-nov-1830 in stolzenau germany, d. 1852, p. johann f. & s.d. holste HOLSTE, Carl Gottbich Christoph b. 27-apr-1833 in stolzenau germany, d. 1852, p. johann f. & s.d. holste HOLSTE, Anne Marie Conradine b. 23-dec-1836 in stolzenau germany, d. 1852, p. johann f. & s.d. holste HOLSTE, Heinrich Ludwig Wilhelm b. 7-jan-1843 in stolzenau germany, d. 1852, p. johann f. & s.d. holste HOLSTE, Dorothea Louise b. 17-may-1849 in stolzenau germany, d. 1852, p. johann f. & s.d. holste HOLSTE, Unknown Child d. 1852 Johann F. HOLSTE and seven of his eleven children died of Cholera during the week following June 29, 1852. They were buried here in this small plot by Henry BODEN, the brother of the wife and mother, Sophia Dorothea HOLZE. The mother Sophia Dorothea HOLZE, nee BODE (BODEN) was born Nov 13, 1807 in Stolzenau, Germany. After the death of Johann Frederick HOLSTE, she married a man named RICHARDS. She is buried near the entrance of the Lancaster IL cemetery. On the back side: ----------------- The HOLZE Family arrived in New Orleans LA on the river boat Bark Kepler, 30-Nov-1849 and came by river boat to Evansville IN. Then overland by oxcart to settle in just west of this spot. The original name HOLSTE, bears a change to HOLZE. A copy of the passenger manifest of the Bark Kepler is in the library at New Orleans LA. Wedding documents and birth certificates of all members of this family are in the records of the Saint Jakobi Church in Stolzenau, Germany. Surviving family members in Jul-1852 were: HOLSTE, Sophia Dorothea b. 13-nov-1807 in stolzenau germany, 1st h. johann f. holste, 2nd h. ? richards, f. ? bode (boden) HOLSTE, Sophie Elsie Wilhelelmine a. 17 (b. 1832?), h. august brausa, p. johann f. & s.d. holste HOLSTE, Johann Henrich Freidrich a. 11 (b. 1835?), w. nancy jane keneipp, p. johann f. & s.d. holste HOLSTE, George Herman Heinrich a. 7 (b. 1842?), w. barbara keneipp, p. johann f. & s.d. holste HOLSTE, Henriette Conradine Louise a. 5 (b. 1844?), h. henry corrie, p. johann f. & s.d. holste May succeeding generations of these four pioneer families BRAUSA-CORRIE-KENEIPP-HOLSEN keep this plot as a part of their family heritage. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/wabash/cemeteries/lancaster/freeman.txt File size: 5 Kb