Relay – A Family History Blog

I am compiling this family outline from census, church, obituary and family records.  I will be adding sources for specific dates and relationships over the next few weeks.  Source notes appear as footnotes – just follow the links at the end of the sentence. Once at the link you can return to the text by clicking on the arrow at the end of the note.
Once this is complete -and hopefully fleshed out with a few interesting stories about various family members – I will transfer the entire thing to my Family History blog – The McLeland-Wieser Family,  Also note – since many of the individuals in the 3rd generation of this outline are still alive I have not included death dates for ANY of them.

According to his Declaration of Intention John Herm [sic] Anstoeter, age 23 emigrated from Hannover and arrived in the United States on 2 August 1869.  He made his declaration of intent on 24 October 1872 in Dubuque County, Iowa. ¹ Family legend states that John Herman arrived in the US in 1868 and went to Kenosha, WI before settling in the vicinity of Farley, Dubuque Co, Iowa.  According to another tradition he accompanied his younger brother Gerhard Heinrich Anstoteter and possibly two other young men named Dalsing. ² I have been unable to locate definitive passenger records for any of these individuals.  There are couple of  potential records  – a Hein/Herm Andstotter was recorded on 3 August 1869 age 22 which is too old for the birth year John Herman gave on his marriage record, but otherwise a pretty good match with other records and a Gerhardt Austotter age 16 entered New York 15 November 1869 who is too young for Gerhard who should be 18 but otherwise quite possible.

John Herman Anstoetter was the son of Johannes Theodorus Anstoeter (born 5 Ocotober 1809 to Bernhard Anstoeter and Adelheid Berning, died 25 November 1871) a farmer of Hummeldorf near Salzbergen, Hannover, Germany and his second wife  Anna Dusing [Hulsing/Dulsing?] (born 10 March 1809 in Hesselte to Heinrich Dusing and Margaretha Evers.)  John Herman was born 15 September 1850 and died, of cancer, at his home near Dyersville on 8 February 1915. ³ He married 1^st Elizabeth Erdmann, daughter of Joseph Erdmann and Catherine Bruening, in New Vienna, Dubuque County, on 22 February 1876. Elizabeth Erdmann Anstoetter died 15 April 1888 and John married her younger sister Gertrude Erdmann, in Dubuque, Dubuque County, on 23 June 1891.

John and Elizabeth had 6 children:

1. Joseph born 1877, Iowa, died unmarried c. 1900 (per his father’s obituary – undated photocopy)
2. John G. born 11 November 1878, Iowa, died unmarried 19 December 1919, perhaps of influenza (cemetery records)
3. +Katherine born 18 November 1880, Iowa
4. +Frank Joseph born 7 April 1882, Iowa
5. +Josephine K. born 10 October 1885, Iowa
6. +Henry B born 6 April 1888, Iowa

John and his second wife Gertrude had 3 children:

1. +Bernard Joseph (aka Bernard Herman and Ben) born 27 September 1893, Iowa
2. +Clara born 25 December 1897, Iowa
3. + Bertha born 18 July 1902, Iowa

+Katherine Anstoetter married Joseph Jasper c. 1899 (birth of first child) Kate died 21 July 1964.  Kate and Joseph had 3 children:

1. Lucile born c. 1899, Iowa
2. Raymond born c. 1902, Iowa
3. Delores born c. 1909, Iowa

+Frank Joseph Anstoetter became estranged from his family at a fairly early age and moved first to Salt Lake City, Utah where he joined the LDS Church and then to California.  He married 1^st Mary Amelia Duchene in Iowa.  He married 2^nd Edna last name unknown, in Salt Lake City before 1918.  Frank died in Alameda County, California in 1948. With his first wife Frank had at least 2 children (whereabouts of children unknown in 1920 and 1930):

1. Gerald born c. 1907, Utah
2. Lucy M. born c. 1909, Utah

+Josephine K. Anstoetter married Bernard (Ben) Kluesner c. 1907 (birth of first child.)  They moved to Minnesota shortly after their marriage and their first 3 children were born in Nobles County, Minnesota before they moved back to Dubuque County, Iowa.  Josephine and Ben had 10 children:

1. Henrietta born c. 1907, Minnesota
2. Amelia born c. 1909, Minnesota
3. Hermann N. born c. 1911, Minnesota
4. Adeline J. born c. 1914, Iowa
5. Meta K. born c. 1916, Iowa
6. Rosella M. born c.1918, Iowa
7. Arthur J. born c. 1920, Iowa
8. Bernadette L. born c. 1923, Iowa
9. Grace M. born c. 1925, Iowa
10. Ralph J. born c. 1927, Iowa

+Henry B. Anstoetter married between 1910 and 1915 1^st an unknown wife who died before 1915 when he was listed as widowed in the 1915 Iowa State Census.  He married 2^nd on 23 November 1915 Catherine Henry.  Henry B. died in 1952. Henry and his second wife had 1 child:

1.   William Ennis born after 1930, Iowa

Henry B and Catherine Henry Anstoetter also raised 5 children who were apparently the orphaned children of one of Catherine’s siblings (The History of Farley, Iowa, Farley Historical Society, 1996, page 32.)  These 5 children were – birth surname unknown at this time:

1. Rosemary or Rosella
2. Earl
3. Helen
4. William

+Bernard Joseph (or Bernard Herman) Anstoetter was born 27 September 1893 and died 21 February 1988.  He married Lidwinia (aka Lydia) Kramer (born 30 January 1896, died 9 June 1995) on 18 November 1919 and they lived their entire lives in the area of Farley, Dubuque County, Iowa.  Ben and Lydia had 10 children:

1. +Marian born 1921, Iowa
2. +Charles born 1923, Iowa
3. Ethel (twin) born 1925, Iowa
4. +Esther (twin) born 1925, Iowa
5. +Alice born 1926, Iowa
6. +Gerald born 1928, Iowa
7. +John born 1931, Iowa
8. +Mildred born 1933, Iowa
9. +Bernard born 1935, Iowa
10. +Donald born 1937

+Clara Anstoetter married Anton (called Tony) Jasper circa 1921 (birth of first child.)  Clara died 7 days before her older brother Ben on 14 February 1988.  Clara and Anton had at least 4 children:

1. Leroy born c. 1921, Iowa
2. Emma born c.1923, Iowa
3. Rita born c. 1925, Iowa
4. James born c. 1929, Iowa

+Bertha Anstoetter married Alphonse Thillen around 1930 (birth of first child.)  Bertha’s mother Gertrude Anstoetter made her home with them during the last years of her life.  Bertha died 14 August 1991.  Bertha and Alphonse had at least 1 child:

Lila J. born c. 1929, Iowa

Gerhard Heinrich Anstoetter was the son of Johannes Theodorus Anstoeter (born 5 Ocotober 1809 to Bernhard Anstoeter and Adelheid Berning, died 25 November 1871) a farmer of Hummeldorf near Salzbergen, Hannover, Germany and his second wife  Anna Dusing [Hulsing/Dulsing?] (born 10 March 1809 in Hesselte to Heinrich Dusing and Margaretha Evers.)  He was born 15 December 1851 in Hummeldorf.  He immigrated to the US about 1869.  He first appears in US records in the household of Henry and Anne Anstoetter Ovel in Delaware County, Iowa on the 1870 census.  Gerhard married Cahterine Schlicte in New Vienna Iowa on 8 February 1881.  They lived most of their life in Carroll County, Iowa.  Gerhard died 24 April 1896 in Templeton, Carrol County, Iowa. Catherine married Heinrich Hermann/Hermsen before 1900. Gerhard and Catherine had 4 children:

1. Mary born c. 1884, Iowa
2. Catherine born c. 1890, Iowa
3. +Henry born 2 December 1891, Iowa
4. Joseph born 12 May  1896, Iowa, married Mary last name unknown between 1920-1930, apparently died childless 15 January 1968

+Henry Anstoeter married c. 1923 (birth of first child) Anna last name unknown.  They were resident in Carroll County, Iowa in 1930.  Henry died in December 1975. They had at least 2 children:

1. Lewis born c. 1923, Iowa
2. Katherine born c. 1927, Iowa

Source notes from text