Individual Details
Johann Gerhard Henrich "G Henry" Hollenkamp
(27 Jul 1820 - 27 Nov 1890)
Passport Application - 21 April 1856 for Gerhard Henry Hollenkamp and John H. Rüve.
Louisville, Ky, April 18, 1856
Hon lbe Wm S Massey Secty of State U.S.
Sir enclosed I send you the Naturalization papers of Gerhard Henry Hollenkamp and John H. Rüve, they want to go to Europe and wish to get a Pass each, please send the papers to me, at there request. 12.288 Ch
G. H. Hollenkamp
Stature. five feet 5 inches high, stout build
Forehead middling high
Eyes Gray City of Louisville
Nose Large Jany 17, 1855
Mouth Middle size
Chin round
Complexion Healthy
Face middling full oval
12.289. Ch
John H. Rüve
Stature. five feet 9 inches high, slender build
Forehead middling high
Eyes Gray City of Louisville
Nose Large July 17, 1854
Mouth Medium
Chin round
Complexion Healthy
Face lean
Most respectfully your humble Servant
Philip Temppert
The two men traveled to Europe to visit family after receiving their passports.
Copies of letters passed on to Charles DeWitt Prouty -
Wintersdorf, June 24, 1856
Dearest Augusta:
This is to let you know that I received your letter of May 28th. You cannot know how glad I was. Each hour I had waited for a letter from you. As luck had it, I received your letter an hour before I left here for your home-town, namely Saxonia. On the 16th of this month I left my parent's home and on the 19th in the morning we arrived here in Wintersdorf. I intend to leave here on the 25th to visit my father. My brother-in-law will perhaps stay on for a few days. But I did not see my father as yet, otherwise I cannot tell you everything in this letter. That would go too far, but I hope with God's grace that I will be able to tell you some day. I visited all your relatives. I was already in all the surrounding villages. I am writing now from Hoehne's home. Emilie Hoehne and Augusta Hoehne are leaving with me tomorrow for Leipzig. They want to visit a sister of theirs.
Dearest Augusta, when I return from the visit with my father I hope to find a letter from you, which would make me very glad. I wrote you from Bremen and I hope you received that letter. I had hoped you would answer me right away. Please let know how you are now, but please tell me the truth. I am very uneasy. I shall write immediately upon my return from my visit with my father. Please write me also if the little Fritz is taking good care of my property and let me also know how the times are there now, especially in my business. And how are the crops? I would like to know that. Dearly beloved wife, I don't know for sure yet, if my sister will come along, as I did not talk to my father as yet. She would like to go along. She has enough money herself to come along. Please write immediately and let me know how little Lisette is getting along. I would like to have an answer to this letter before I leave Germany again.
with best regard, Dearest Augusta, I remain,
Your true husband
G. H. Hollenkamp
P.S. I should give you best regards from all your old friends. I can't call them all by name here. I have here two letters from girls which I am to give you on my return, namely, from Emilie and Augusta Hoehne, They and their family send best regards. And give my best regard to your father, sister and my brother, Hoffenberg and Phiels, also to the Reiling family. I wrote Reilings two weeks ago.
Your dear husband,
G. H. Hollenkamp
Dear Miena:
I write only a few lines in this letter, since I did not have a letter from you. I had to leave earlier than G. H. Hollenkamp, but he got your letter an hour before he left for Wintersdorf. There is nothing of importance to write that has not already been mentioned in this letter. Upon my return to my father and Mother from Wintersdorf I shall write you all that I have heard and seen. There is nothing now to report just now. Dear Miena, I wish I were with you already again, but I must close now. I hope that these few lines reach you in the best of health.
I remain Your true
J. H. Ruwe
Dear Cousin and friends:- I was pleasantly surprised when your husbands arrived here. Father was not home when they got here, but he is here since yesterday, and he too was so glad to see them, and also that my sister Emilie and I are allowed to come with him to you, but I do not know how things are coming out. The time is too short and we are afraid of the big water. Hermann Mueller would like to go too. My sister and I would come too, if we knew we could get such good looking men like you two. We are sorry to hear from Henrys letters and from your husbands that Augusta is sick. The dear Lord has helped so far and we hope and wish that this letter finds Augusta and you all in good health. Best regards from me and my parents accompany your husbands to America.
Your
Augusta Hoehne
Louisville, Ky, April 18, 1856
Hon lbe Wm S Massey Secty of State U.S.
Sir enclosed I send you the Naturalization papers of Gerhard Henry Hollenkamp and John H. Rüve, they want to go to Europe and wish to get a Pass each, please send the papers to me, at there request. 12.288 Ch
G. H. Hollenkamp
Stature. five feet 5 inches high, stout build
Forehead middling high
Eyes Gray City of Louisville
Nose Large Jany 17, 1855
Mouth Middle size
Chin round
Complexion Healthy
Face middling full oval
12.289. Ch
John H. Rüve
Stature. five feet 9 inches high, slender build
Forehead middling high
Eyes Gray City of Louisville
Nose Large July 17, 1854
Mouth Medium
Chin round
Complexion Healthy
Face lean
Most respectfully your humble Servant
Philip Temppert
The two men traveled to Europe to visit family after receiving their passports.
Copies of letters passed on to Charles DeWitt Prouty -
Wintersdorf, June 24, 1856
Dearest Augusta:
This is to let you know that I received your letter of May 28th. You cannot know how glad I was. Each hour I had waited for a letter from you. As luck had it, I received your letter an hour before I left here for your home-town, namely Saxonia. On the 16th of this month I left my parent's home and on the 19th in the morning we arrived here in Wintersdorf. I intend to leave here on the 25th to visit my father. My brother-in-law will perhaps stay on for a few days. But I did not see my father as yet, otherwise I cannot tell you everything in this letter. That would go too far, but I hope with God's grace that I will be able to tell you some day. I visited all your relatives. I was already in all the surrounding villages. I am writing now from Hoehne's home. Emilie Hoehne and Augusta Hoehne are leaving with me tomorrow for Leipzig. They want to visit a sister of theirs.
Dearest Augusta, when I return from the visit with my father I hope to find a letter from you, which would make me very glad. I wrote you from Bremen and I hope you received that letter. I had hoped you would answer me right away. Please let know how you are now, but please tell me the truth. I am very uneasy. I shall write immediately upon my return from my visit with my father. Please write me also if the little Fritz is taking good care of my property and let me also know how the times are there now, especially in my business. And how are the crops? I would like to know that. Dearly beloved wife, I don't know for sure yet, if my sister will come along, as I did not talk to my father as yet. She would like to go along. She has enough money herself to come along. Please write immediately and let me know how little Lisette is getting along. I would like to have an answer to this letter before I leave Germany again.
with best regard, Dearest Augusta, I remain,
Your true husband
G. H. Hollenkamp
P.S. I should give you best regards from all your old friends. I can't call them all by name here. I have here two letters from girls which I am to give you on my return, namely, from Emilie and Augusta Hoehne, They and their family send best regards. And give my best regard to your father, sister and my brother, Hoffenberg and Phiels, also to the Reiling family. I wrote Reilings two weeks ago.
Your dear husband,
G. H. Hollenkamp
Dear Miena:
I write only a few lines in this letter, since I did not have a letter from you. I had to leave earlier than G. H. Hollenkamp, but he got your letter an hour before he left for Wintersdorf. There is nothing of importance to write that has not already been mentioned in this letter. Upon my return to my father and Mother from Wintersdorf I shall write you all that I have heard and seen. There is nothing now to report just now. Dear Miena, I wish I were with you already again, but I must close now. I hope that these few lines reach you in the best of health.
I remain Your true
J. H. Ruwe
Dear Cousin and friends:- I was pleasantly surprised when your husbands arrived here. Father was not home when they got here, but he is here since yesterday, and he too was so glad to see them, and also that my sister Emilie and I are allowed to come with him to you, but I do not know how things are coming out. The time is too short and we are afraid of the big water. Hermann Mueller would like to go too. My sister and I would come too, if we knew we could get such good looking men like you two. We are sorry to hear from Henrys letters and from your husbands that Augusta is sick. The dear Lord has helped so far and we hope and wish that this letter finds Augusta and you all in good health. Best regards from me and my parents accompany your husbands to America.
Your
Augusta Hoehne
Events
| Birth | 27 Jul 1820 | Rüssel, Kreis Osnabrück, Germany |  | ||
| Marriage | 17 Oct 1853 | Saint John German Evangelical Church, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States - Augusta Emilie Graefe |  | | |
| Occupation | 1859 | (Gieske & Hollenkamp) n s Market bet 3d and 4th - Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States | | ||
| Census (family) | 10 Sep 1860 | 5th Ward, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States - Augusta Emilie Graefe | | | |
| Census | 16 Aug 1870 | 4th Ward, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States | | | |
| Death | 27 Nov 1890 | Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States | | | |
| Burial | 28 Nov 1890 | Saint Louis Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States | | |
Families
| Spouse | Augusta Emilie Graefe (1834 - 1916) |
| Child | Elizabeth Louise Hollenkamp (1854 - 1860) |
| Child | Lisette Hollenkamp (1856 - 1860) |
| Child | Johann Heinrich "John Henry" Hollenkamp (1857 - 1900) |
| Child | Mary Augusta Hollenkamp (1859 - 1905) |
| Child | Wilhelmine "Minnie" Hollenkamp (1862 - 1884) |
| Father | Herman Henrich Hollenkamp (1794 - 1877) |
| Mother | Anna Maria Elisabeth Jansing (1798 - 1848) |
| Sibling | Maria Catharina Hollenkamp (1818 - 1900) |
| Sibling | Maria Elisabeth Hollenkamp (1822 - 1886) |
| Sibling | Herman Heinrich Hollenkamp (1824 - ) |
| Sibling | Johann Hermann "Herman" Hollenkamp (1827 - 1902) |
| Sibling | Wilhelm Heinrich "Henry" Hollenkamp (1831 - 1902) |
| Sibling | Herman Joseph Hollenkamp (1833 - 1881) |
| Sibling | Elisabeth Hollenkamp (1838 - 1919) |
Notes
Marriage
Saint John German Evangelical Church, Gerhard Hollenkamp 27, born in Ankum, to Augusta Emilia Grafe 20, born in Altenburg. Witnessed by Henrich Hollenkamp and Whilomena Riebe?Gerhard Hollenkamp b. 1829 to Auguste Grefe b. 1833
Oct 17, of full age as proved by Bernard Reiling. Witnesses Fred Holencamp
Census (family)
surrounded by a boarding house and coffee house -1221, 1336, Hollenkamp, G.H., 40, M, Tavern Keeper, Hanover, 2000 personal
Augusta 30 F Saxony
Henry 3 M Kentucky
Mary 1 F Kentucky
Md. Schunicht 20 F Domestic Hanover
Lisette Frerker 20 F Domestic Hanover
Theo', Hollenkamp, 25, Barkeeper, Hanover
Geo' Grafe 50 Hucster Saxony
Census
287 280 Hollenkamp GH 49 M W Huckster. HanoverDeath
Date from Augusta's funeral record.On 11 May 1887 G H Hollenkamp entered The Little Sisters of The Poor, a Roman Catholic charitable home for the aged that first came to Louisville in 1869. He died there on 27 Nov 1890.
Burial
Section T, row 1, grave 2. His son, John Henry Hollenkamp, is buried beside him, section T, row 1, grave 1Endnotes
1. KY 1870 Federal Census Index, pg. 326 (ancestry.com).
2. Gary Hollenkamp, Hollenkamp Genealogy (http://www.hollenkamponline.com/ : accessed 2 March 2010), .
3. US Federal Census - 1900, Kentucky, Jefferson Co. Louisville City (read 27 Dec, 2000 by Nancy Prouty).
4. "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 22 October 2016), Gerhard Hollenkamp and Augusta Grefe, Oct 1853; citing Jefferson County, Kentucky, reference bk 5 p 234; FHL microfilm 482,707..
5. Louisville, Kentucky 1859 City Directory, Blue Heron Industries online [KentuckyCityDirectory.com], accessed Oct 2008, p 115.
6. US Federal Government, 1860 US Federal Census, Kentucky, Jefferson Co., Louisville, 5th Ward. pg. 184 (read 6/2001 Nancy Prouty).
7. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1860 > KENTUCKY > JEFFERSON > 5-WD LOUISVILLE Series: M653 Roll: 376 Page: 184.
8. KY 1870 Federal Census Index, pg. 326 (ancestry.com), Lexington, Fayette County, KY 1870 Page 40 16th Aug 1870.
9. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1870 > KENTUCKY > JEFFERSON > 4-WD LOUISVILLE Series: M593 Roll: 474 Page: 364.
10. Mary Margaret Bell, "Little Sisters of the Poor," The encyclopedia of Louisville (http://books.google.com: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 524.
11. Gary Hollenkamp, Hollenkamp Genealogy (http://www.hollenkamponline.com/ : accessed 2 March 2010), .