Individual Details

Hilke Maria Janssen

(30 Jan 1832 - 19 Oct 1906)

Events

Birth	30 Jan 1832	Germany, Ostfriesland, Marx
Marriage	18 Oct 1858	Bethalto, Madison, Illinois, United States - Harm Arens Harms
Census (family)	1870	Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States - Harm Arens Harms
Census (family)	18 Jun 1880	Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States - Harm Arens Harms
Census (family)	1895	Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States - Harm Arens Harms
Census (family)	1900	Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States - Harm Arens Harms
Death	19 Oct 1906	Jones, Iowa, United States
Burial		Wayne Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Jones, Iowa, United States

Families

Spouse	Harm Arens Harms (1828 - 1908)
Child	Anna Marie Harms (1861 - 1918)
Child	Herman Harms (1865 - )
Child	Gerhard "Gerd" Harms (1867 - 1943)
Child	Hilke Katherine Harms (1870 - 1937)
Child	Hilke Maria "Mary" Harms (1872 - 1956)
Child	Johann Heinrich "John H" Harms (1875 - 1939)

Notes

Census (family)

28 34 37 Harms Harms 41 M Farmer 3000 1300 Hanover
29 Harms Hillie M. 38 F Keeping House Hanover
30 Harms Anna M. 9 F Illinois
31 Harms Herimann 5 M Illinois
32 Harms Gerd 2 M Iowa
33 Harms Catharine 4/12 F Iowa
NOTE: Catharine was born in December.

Harms, Hasm. Acres - 80 improved, 10 woodland. % cash value - 3000 of farm, 350 farm machinery. Total wages paid incl. board - 600. Livestock - 6 horses, 3 milch cows, 4 other cattle, 8 swine. Livestock value - $1000. Wheat - Spring bsh. 450. Indian Corn bsh. - 1000. Oats bsh - 400. Buckweat bsh. 9. Potatoes-Irish bsh 50. Butter 150 lbs. Hay - 12 tons. Molasses - 29 Gal. Value of animals slaughtered or sold for slaughter - $90. True value - estimated value of all farm produce, crops: $700.

Census (family)

126, 129, Harms, Harm, WM, 51, Farmer, Hanover
Mariah, WF, 48, Wife, Keeping house, Hanover
Anna M, WF, 19, Dau, at home , Illiniois
Herman, WM, 15, Working on farm, Illinois
Gerd, WM, 13, Working on farm, Iowa
Tena, WF, 11, Dau, at school, Iowa
Mariah, WF, 7, Dau, Iowa
John, WM, 5, Son, Iowa

Census (family)

Head John H Harms M 25 Iowa, married 2 yrs
Wife Helena Harms F 23 Iowa, M-2, 1 child born & living
Son Herman F Harms M 1 Iowa
Father Harm Harms M 72 Germany, married 41 yrs
Mother Hille M Harms F 68 Germany, 8 children born 6 living

Death

Mrs. Harm Harms died last Friday evening at the home in which she has lived for nearly half a century. Her maiden name was Maria Jansen. She was born January 30th, 1832 at Marx, Province Hanover, where her childhood years were spent. In 1857, she came to America and lived for several years in Illinois. October 18th, 1858 she was united in marriage to Mr. Harm Harms and in 1866, they moved to Iowa, and settled on the farm in Wayne township, where they lived until the present time. Mrs. Harms was the mother of eight children—five sons and three daughters, six of whom are living, two sous dying in infancy. Mrs. Anna Schatz and Herman Harms of Lovell , Mrs. Catherine Scheer and Mrs. Maria Iben of Ryan, Delaware county and Gerd and John Harms of Wayne. All were at the funeral and also all of the grandchildren, twenty-seven in number . The funeral services were held Monday, at the German Lutheran church in Wayne, of which she was a member. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the whole community.

Burial

Harms Hille M. 1832-1906 #37-2

Endnotes

1. "Correspondence, Rural Route No. 2," Monticello (Iowa) Express, 25 October 1906; Ross & Elizabeth Baty Public Library (http://batypl.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 23 May 2011), Newspaper Digital Archives.

2. "Correspondence, Rural Route No. 2," Monticello (Iowa) Express, 25 October 1906; Ross & Elizabeth Baty Public Library (http://batypl.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 23 May 2011), Newspaper Digital Archives.

3. Jones Co., Iowa Agriculture - Census Agricultural Schedules , Rootsweb.com online [http://www.rootsweb.com/~iajones/agri/agri.htm], accessed Sept 2007, Wayne 1870.

4. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1880 > IOWA > JONES > WAYNE Series: T9 Roll: 348 Page: 361.

5. 1895 Iowa State Census. Castle Grove Township PAGES 44-67 + 931 Monticello Township PAGES 463-490 Monticello City PAGES 494-515, PAGES 516-537 Scotch Grove PAGES 753-776 (transcribed by Joanne Wilken http://www.rootsweb.com/~iajones/census/census.htm 2002).

6. , Seventy-fifth anniversary of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Congregation 1872-1947. (Wayne Township, Jones Co. Monticello, Iowa.:, 1947), 1911 March 31 Hilke Harms .

7. "Correspondence, Rural Route No. 2," Monticello (Iowa) Express, 25 October 1906; Ross & Elizabeth Baty Public Library (http://batypl.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 23 May 2011), Newspaper Digital Archives.