Individual Details
Gretje / Gretze Meta Rieken "Margaret" Grumm
(1 May 1828 - 20 Mar 1886)
Events
| Birth | 1 May 1828 | Germany, Ostfriesland, Wiesede |  | ||
| Marriage | 4 Jul 1851 | Germany, Ostfriesland - Wilhelm Harms Helgens | | ||
| Census (family) | 1870 | Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States - Wilhelm Harms Helgens |  | ||
| Census (family) | 1880 | Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States - Wilhelm Harms Helgens | | ||
| Death | 20 Mar 1886 | Jones, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Burial | Wayne Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Wilhelm Harms Helgens (1827 - 1896) |
| Child | Harm Willms Helgens (1852 - 1939) |
| Child | Antke Margarethe "Anka" Helgens (1854 - 1940) |
| Child | Riecke Willms Helgens (1856 - 1857) |
| Child | Gretje Almiena Helgens (1857 - 1876) |
| Child | Maria "Mary" Helgens (1859 - 1928) |
| Child | Anna Elizabeth "Annie" Helgens (1866 - ) |
| Child | Libbie Louise Helgens (1868 - ) |
| Child | Emma Rosetta Augusta Helgens (1870 - 1956) |
| Father | Rieke Willms Grumm (1789 - 1857) |
| Mother | Anke Margarethe Heeren (1799 - 1860) |
| Sibling | Wilhelm Rieken Grumm (1820 - 1889) |
| Sibling | Margaretha Engelina "Greta" Grumm (1823 - 1904) |
| Sibling | Wübke Maria Friederica "Ricka" Grumm (1826 - ) |
| Sibling | Albert Rieken Grumm (1831 - 1832) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Grumm (1834 - 1910) |
| Sibling | Anna Catherine Grumm (1837 - 1928) |
| Sibling | Engeline Margaretha "Engel" Grumm (1841 - 1935) |
Notes
Census (family)
11 112 118 Harms John H 52 M Farmer 3500 1500 Hanover12 Harms Margaret 47 F Keeping House Hanover
13 Harms Kate 18 F Hanover
14 Harms Ange M 12 F Hanover
15 Harms Anna 11 F Hanover
16 Harms Henry 17 M Works on Farm Hanover
17 Harms Henry 7 M Hanover
Census (family)
self Wm. Helgens M 52 Germany, Farmerwife Margret Helgens F 52 Germany, Keeping house
daughter Anna Helgens F 14 Iowa, United States, at home
daughter Loase Helgens F 12 Iowa, United States, at school
daughter Emma Helgens F 10 Iowa, United States,
other Fred Poppie M 23 Germany 3x, single, working on farm
Burial
In Wayne Zion Cemetery, Wayne township, Jones county , Iowa is a stone that says "Gretze Meta Helgens nee Grumm born ? May 1828 and died 20 March 1886Endnotes
1. Janssen, Ludwig, Erhard Schlte and Hans Rudolph Manger, compiler, Die Familien der Kirchengemeinde Reepsholt (Aurich: Ostfriesische Landschaft, 1982), p 520 #2870.
2. KoeppeNet.de - Genealogie, Klaus Köppe - Bremen (Germany) online [http://gw2.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=koeppe&lang=de;pz=ivonne;nz=koppe;ocz=0;p=gretje+rieken;n=grumm], accessed June 2008.
3. "Helgens family branches out in several directions," Monticello (Iowa) Express, 2 July 1986; Ross & Elizabeth Baty Public Library (http://batypl.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 10 March 2011), Newspaper Digital Archives.