Family: Johann Adam Benkelman / Anna Catharina Schaufele (F28)

• Father | Male Johann Adam Benkelman

  
  

  Born	13 Feb 1825	Waldhausen Parish, Welzheim, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Died	30 Dec 1897	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Buried	2 Jan 1898	Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Married	24 Feb 1851  [1]	B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany  [1]
  Father	Johann Leonhard Benkelmann | F35 Group Sheet
  Mother	Maria Dorothea St?hle | F35 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Anna Catharina Schaufele

  
  

  Born	23 Aug 1823	B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany
  Died	23 Dec 1906	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Buried		Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Father	Johannes Schaufele | F36 Group Sheet
  Mother	Anna Maria Reick | F36 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Male George Adam "Little George" Benkelman

  
  

  Born	7 Sep 1851	Lancaster, Erie County, New York
  Died	10 Feb 1929	Alhambra, Los Angeles County, California
  Buried		St. Francis Cemetery, Cheyenne County, Kansas
  Spouse	Maria Barbara Rommel | F614
  Married	6 Jan 1880	Denver, Denver County, Colorado

  
  

  Child 2 | Female Louisa Benkelman

  
  

  Born	9 Apr 1853	Bowmansville, Town of Lancaster, Erie County, New York
  Died	11 Sep 1924	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Buried	13 Sep 1924	Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Spouse	Andreas "Andrew" Schwegler | F615
  Married	12 Apr 1874	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan

  
  

  Child 3 | Male John Adam Benkelman

  
  

  Born	26 Apr 1856	Bowmansville, Town of Lancaster, Erie County, New York
  Died	8 Aug 1952	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Buried		Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Spouse	Rosina Wahl | F616
  Married	Abt 1879	Lancaster, Erie County, New York
  Spouse	Augusta Catherine Freidrika Krehl | F617
  Married	19 Jun 1890	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan

  
  

  Child 4 | Male Samuel G. Benkelman

  
  

  Born	26 Aug 1857	Bowmansville, Town of Lancaster, Erie County, New York
  Died	22 Dec 1940	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Buried	25 Dec 1940	Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Spouse	Lydia Striffler | F618
  Married	17 Oct 1882	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Spouse	Mary Striffler | F619
  Married	28 Nov 1888

  
  

  Child 5 | Female Mary M. Benkelman

  
  

  Born	2 Oct 1858	Bowmansville, Town of Lancaster, Erie County, New York
  Died	6 Jun 1874	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Buried		Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan

  
  

  Child 6 | Male William Frederick Benkelman

  
  

  Born	10 Feb 1862	Bowmansville, Town of Lancaster, Erie County, New York
  Died	11 Oct 1932	Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
  Buried		Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Spouse	Alice Mary McDougall | F620
  Married	23 Jul 1886

  
  

  Child 7 | Male Benjamin Franklin Benkelman, Sr.

  
  

  Born	24 Sep 1863	Bowmansville, Town of Lancaster, Erie County, New York
  Died	7 Sep 1952	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Buried		Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Spouse	Wilhelmina "Minnie" Johanna Friederika Jesse | F16
  Married	26 Dec 1892	St. Francis, Cheyenne County, Kansas

  
  

• Documents		B?rtlingen, W?rttemberg Founded 1202 B?rtlingen is a small German village founded in 1202. It is in southwest of Germany in the Schwabish Alps, a few miles outside of G?ppingen. The church on the bottom left of the card is the Evangelische Johanneskirche, the same church in which Catherine and Adam Benkelmann were married before departing for America.
  		B?rtlingen, W?rttemberg, Evangelische Johanneskirche, Summer 2006 Evangelische Johanneskirche in 2006. This is the same church in which Adam Benkelman and Catherine Schaufele were married in in 1851.

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Catharina and Adam were married in B?rtlingen. On May 16, 2002, Ingolf Vogel noted that "The Kingdom of W?rttemberg was made up of four Kreises - the Neckarkreis, the Schwarzwaldkreis, the Jagstkreis and the Donaukreis. These Kreises were much larger than today's Kreises. Each of them was divided into so-called Ober?mter which are more similar in size to today's Kreises. The Oberamt for B?rtlingen was Kirchheim.. Incidently the Oberamt Kirchheim was the only Oberamt of the Donaukreis west of the Schw?bische Alb (a mountain range). B?rtlingen (today Kreis G?ppingen) has only 745 people listed in it's telephone directory, so it probably doesn't have more than 2000-3000 inhabitants. Adam and Catharina were married in February, 1851, and in June, 1851 they were formally released from the Kingdom of W?rttemberg and would be free to emigrate.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 95, 128 (Reliability: 3).