Christina Maria Abele

Brief Life History of Christina Maria

When Christina Maria Abele was born on 4 January 1845, in Ödernhardt, Waiblingen, Württemberg, Germany, her father, Joseph Gottlieb Abele, was 41 and her mother, Christine Burger, was 36. She married John Herman Neigenfind on 21 May 1866, in Washington, Door, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She immigrated to United States in 1845 and lived in Hoskins Election Precinct, Wayne, Nebraska, United States for about 5 years and Forest, St. Croix, Wisconsin, United States for about 5 years. She died on 21 May 1935, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Glenwood City, St. Croix, Wisconsin, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Herman Neigenfind
1846–1915
Christina Maria Abele
1845–1935
Marriage: 21 May 1866
Rudolph Leo Neigenfind
1867–1917
Herman Traugott Neigenfind
1868–
Heinrich Julius Gotlieb Neigenfind
1870–1939
Alvin Robert Neigenfind
1872–1873
Gotlieb Siegesmund Neigenfind
1874–1903
Traugott Siegfried Neigenfind
1874–1957
Margaretha Helena Neigenfind
1876–1974
Alvin Otto Neigenfind
1878–1967
Christina Dorothy Dorthea Neigenfind
1881–1962
Olga Neigenfind
1883–1986
Eugene Joseph Neigenfind
1888–1968

Sources (26)

  • Christine M Neigenfind, "United States, Census, 1930"
  • Birth & Christening record of Christina Abele
  • Christina Abele, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1852 · The Book of Mormon Published in German

On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Klaus, Bernd, Hans, Reinhold, Ulrich, Wolfgang.

South German and Swiss German: from a pet form of the personal name Albrecht (see Albert ).

Latvian: from ābele ‘apple tree’, a topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or owned an apple orchard.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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