When Henry William Nispel was born on 18 February 1875, in Normanby Township, Grey, Ontario, Canada, his father, Heinrich Nispel, was 37 and his mother, Anna Elizabeth Mueller, was 32. He married Caroline Carolena Kohlmorgen on 23 January 1902, in Jansen, Jefferson, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to United States in 1880 and lived in Gibson Township, Jefferson, Nebraska, United States for about 50 years and Gibson Election Precinct, Jefferson, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 17 July 1961, in Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Saint Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Plymouth, Jefferson, Nebraska, United States.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Heinz, Erna, Ewald, Reinhardt.
German: habitational name from a place in Silesia, formerly called Kniespol (in Czech: Knežpole) ‘princely land’, now in Czechia.
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