| Photo Date Unknown |
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| Photo Date Unknown |
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Caroline & Wilhelm |
| Caroline & Wilhelm's Children |
| Wilhelmina Engel-Fogelson | Jan 10, 1841 - April 5, 1902 |
| Karoline Engel-Kispert | Jan 10, 1842 - Apr 06, 1916 |
| August H Engel | 1844 - Aug 05, 1930 |
| Julia Engel-Lechelt | Dec 11, 1846 - Mar 14, 1932 |
| William Herman Engel | 1847 - Jan 14, 1914 |
| Emilie Engel | 1850 - 1853 |
| Augustina Engel | 1853 - Unknown |
| John Engel | 1856 - 1888 |
| Adelia Engel-Beckley | Feb 26, 1858 - Unknown |
| Louisa Engel | 1860 - Unknown |
| Immigration | |
| Image 1
Shows Wilhelm & family arrived in the Port of New Orleans on the ship Marion Dec 22, 1853 |
Image 2
Image 2 includes Emilie & Augustina This brings into question the children's birthdates listed above |
| Census Images | |
| 1860
Shows Wilhelm & family in Holden Township, Goodhue Co, MN. |
1870
Shows Wilhelm & family in Holden Township, Goodhue Co, MN. |
| 1880
Shows Wilhelm & Caroline in Holden Township, Goodhue Co, MN. |
1885
Shows Wilhelm & Caroline in Holden Township, Goodhue Co, MN. |
| Caroline (Muller) Engel
Apr 16, 1820 - Sep 11, 1885 |
Wilhelm August Engel
1816 - Feb 8, 1892 |
| The photo is from a distant cousin Elaine Pike Storberg. (Thanks for permission Elaine) |
| The following was handwritten by Mrs John W Beckley (nee Adelia Engel) of Salem, OR, when she was 85 in 1943.
She was born Feb 26, 1858, & is still living (1959): William Engel, my father, was born in 1814 in Prussia, Germany,
where my mother, Caroline Miller, also was born. They were married in 1839. With labor & saving they were able to
acquire their own farm & home. With wise management their property increased in valuation in spite of the government’s
high duties & taxes. With the increase of family & the expenses growing from year to year, also boys growing to
military age, father, who had gone through the training, did not care to have his sons go through the same torture,
so decided to go to America. Mother was not so willing to leave her home & friends. But when father made up his mind
there was no changing. In spite of mother’s fears of ocean voyage & what was in store for them, she finally gave her
consent. The farm & all other property were sold very cheaply, & arrangements were made for migrating to New World.
Voyage on the big Atlantic Ocean. In 1854 the family, consisting of father, mother, 2 sons & 5 daughters, boarded a
sail ship for North America. Long days & weeks, yes, 14 weeks on the big Atlantic Ocean, was more or less interesting
for the boys & girls, but father took it as a man with great responsibility. Mother was sea sick much of the time &
our yr-old baby took sick, not having the right food & care in awful confusion of hundreds of people & very unsanitary
conditions. Poor little darling grew worse each day & died. She was buried in deep blue sea. What that meant for mother,
only those having had the same experience would know. With wind favorable, the ship sailed along quite steadily, but
when coming from the wrong direction the ship had to be anchored to avoid going backward. Some of the waves were as
high as a rent of air. Thus it took many weeks of wishful waiting. Now, 1943, the span is made in less than a week.
Passenger boat, "United States" won the blue ribbon (1954) for its time record in crossing the Atlantic from New York
to Cherbout, France, in 4 ½ days..
It appears that Emilie was the "Poor little darling", and not a "yr-old baby", who parished at sea, as she is not on the 1860 census. From Wilhelmina's obituary - Caroline & Wilhelm are buried at Evangelical Cemetery, Nerstrand, Rice Co, MN. |
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