Individual Details
Antke Margarethe "Anka" Helgens
(8 Apr 1854 - 4 Oct 1940)
Events
Families
Spouse | Heinrich Conrad "Henry" Collman (1838 - 1912) |
Child | Meta Collman (1873 - ) |
Child | William Conrad Collman (1875 - 1946) |
Child | Gertrude Wilhelmena "Gera" Collman (1879 - 1955) |
Child | Emma Collman (1881 - ) |
Child | Gerhard Louis Collman (1883 - ) |
Child | Henry Collman (1885 - ) |
Child | Albert F. J. Collman (1890 - ) |
Father | Wilhelm Harms Helgens (1827 - 1896) |
Mother | Gretje / Gretze Meta Rieken "Margaret" Grumm (1828 - 1886) |
Sibling | Harm Willms Helgens (1852 - 1939) |
Sibling | Riecke Willms Helgens (1856 - 1857) |
Sibling | Gretje Almiena Helgens (1857 - 1876) |
Sibling | Maria "Mary" Helgens (1859 - 1928) |
Sibling | Anna Elizabeth "Annie" Helgens (1866 - ) |
Sibling | Libbie Louise Helgens (1868 - ) |
Sibling | Emma Rosetta Augusta Helgens (1870 - 1956) |
Notes
Census (family)
Henry C Collmann Self M 42 GermanyAnke Collmann Wife F 24 Germany
Meta Collmann Daughter F 7 Iowa, United States
William Collmann Son M 5 Iowa, United States
Gero Collmann Daughter F 1 Iowa, United States
Census (family)
Henry Collmann Head M 62 GermanyAnke Collmann Wife F 46 Germany
Emma Collmann Daughter F 19 Iowa
Gerhard L Collmann Son M 17 Iowa
Henry Collmann Son M 15 Iowa
Albert Collmann Son M 10 Iowa
Census (family)
Henry Collman Head M 71 GermanyAnka Collman Wife F 56 Germany
Henry Collman Son M 24 Iowa
Census
Albert Collman Head M 49 IowaMartha Collman Wife F 47 Iowa
Anna Collman Niece F 15 Iowa
Anka Collman Mother F 86 Germany, widowed
Death
Anke Margarethe Helgens Collmann Obituary· 20 March 2015 ·
Hawarden Independent, Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, USA Thursday, October 10, 1940 Death of Plymouth County PioneerMrs. Henry Collman, 86, one of the first settlers of Preston township, Plymouth county, died at her home last Friday, October; 4th. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at Christ church, Mammen, with Rev. Fred Bunge in charge.Anka Margaret Helgens was born in Hanover, Germany, April 8, 1854, but came to America with her parents when a child. They located at Dixon, Illinois, and then moved to Jones county, Iowa, where she was married to Henry Collman February 29, 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Collman came with a party of others to Plymouth county from Jones county in 1872 and homesteaded in Preston township. Mr. and. Mrs. Collman developed, a fine farm from the homestead and acquired more land farming with success. Nine children were born to this union, two of whom died in infancy. She is survived by the following children: Mrs. Henry Thielen, Le Mars; Will Collman, who lives in Minnesota; Albert, Louis and Henry Collman, who reside in Preston township; Mrs. Ben Theilen, Maynard, Minn., and Mrs. Emma Borchers, Le Mars. There are 21 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren and she is also survived by three sisters.
Endnotes
1. 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.
2. "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.
3. "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, Family Search, (https://familysearch.org: accessed 19 June 2017), Henry Conrad Collman and Anke M. Helgins, 1872..
4. "Iowa, Death Records, 1921-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 19 June 2017), Anka Margaret Collmann, 04 Oct 1940; citing Akron, Plymouth, Iowa, United States, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines; FHL microfilm ..