Individual Details
Harm Edzards
(3 Mar 1828 - 6 May 1880)
Events
| Birth | 3 Mar 1828 | Germany, Ostfriesland, Reepsholt |  | ||
| Marriage | 16 Apr 1852 | Germany, Ostfriesland, Hesel - Anke Margarethe Jacobs | | ||
| Immigration | 22 Aug 1868 | New York City, New York, United States |  | ||
| Census | 1870 | Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States | | | |
| Marriage | 20 Jul 1870 | Jones, Iowa, United States - Okke / Lokke "Luka" Dirks | | | |
| Death | 6 May 1880 | Jones, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Burial | 8 May 1880 | Wayne Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States | | | |
| Probate | Aft May 1880 | Jones, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Occupation | Farm laborer (Hausling) | |
Families
| Spouse | Anke Margarethe Jacobs (1829 - 1868) |
| Child | Hinrich Eden "Henry E" Edzards (1852 - 1883) |
| Child | Gesche Maria "Grace Mary" Edzards (1854 - 1927) |
| Child | Magdalena Edzards (1856 - 1868) |
| Child | Hermann Dirks Edzards (1858 - 1868) |
| Child | Anna Engelina Margaretha Edzards (1860 - 1867) |
| Child | Gesche Margaretha "Maggie" Edzards (1863 - 1934) |
| Child | Hinrich Janssen "John H" Edzards (1867 - 1925) |
| Spouse | Okke / Lokke "Luka" Dirks (1818 - 1880) |
| Father | Hinrich Eden Edzards (1805 - ) |
| Mother | Geshe Maria Lüken (1796 - 1857) |
| Sibling | Anna Maria Edzards (1831 - 1900) |
| Sibling | Gesche Margarethe Edzards (1834 - 1869) |
| Sibling | Heinrich Eden Edzards (1837 - ) |
Notes
Immigration
288 Harm Edzards, 49, male, Prussia to USA, SteerageAnke Edzards, 39 fem
Maria Edzards, 7 fem
Margaretha, 5 fem
Maria, 0, 10, fem
Census
This is a guess ----130, 140, Lochein, Luka, 52, FW, Keeping house, Hanover
John, 20, MW, works on farm, Hanover
Durk, 28, MW, works on farm, Hanover
Grata, 16, FW, Hanover
Etsus, Harm, 42, MW, works on farm, Hanover
Two doors down is his wife's brother, who has John Edzards living with him -
135, 142 Jacobs, John
Anna and family
Also, note that in 1880, John Edzards is living with Luka Edzards, listed as a stepson.
Marriage
no children from this marriage.Burial
Edzards Harm 1828-1880 #36-9AProbate
Case # 274Edzards, Harm Death Date: 06/08/1880
Spouse:
Dirks, Lucke/Cokke?
Heirs:
Hinrich Eden Edzards
Gesche Maria Edwards
Gesche Margaretha "Maggie" Edzards
Hinrich Janssen "John" Edzards
Other:
Wife #1 Anke Margarethe Jacobs
Endnotes
1. Janssen, Ludwig, Erhard Schlte and Hans Rudolph Manger, compiler, Die Familien der Kirchengemeinde Reepsholt (Aurich: Ostfriesische Landschaft, 1982), p. 329 #1368.
2. Janssen, Ludwig, Erhard Schlte and Hans Rudolph Manger, compiler, Die Familien der Kirchengemeinde Reepsholt (Aurich: Ostfriesische Landschaft, 1982), p. 329 #1368.
3. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1870 > IOWA > JONES > WAYNE TWP Series: M593 Roll: 401 Page: 227.
4. St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Sand Hill/Monticello , Jones Co., Iowa GenWeb online [http://iowajones.org/churches/LuthStJohns.htm], accessed 2002 -2008.
5. Ramona (Heiken) Mayer, compiler, Heiken and related families (Iowa:, bet 1985 and 1992), Information from Edzards history and from Aunt Mary.
6. , Seventy-fifth anniversary of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Congregation 1872-1947. (Wayne Township, Jones Co. Monticello, Iowa.:, 1947).
7. Jones Co. Iowa Cemeteries, Wayne Zion burial list, reading was provided by Ron Siebels online [http://iowajones.org/cemetery/WayneZion3.htm], accessed Dec 2008.
8. Janssen, Ludwig, Erhard Schlte and Hans Rudolph Manger, compiler, Die Familien der Kirchengemeinde Reepsholt (Aurich: Ostfriesische Landschaft, 1982), p 329 #1368.