Individual Details

Harm Edzards

(3 Mar 1828 - 6 May 1880)

Harm and Anke Edzards first settled on the property of her grandparents in Hesel o the "Alten Postweg.". But in 1868 they emigrated. The journey took 56 days due to stormy weather. Sadly the mother, Anke, died. The youngest child was not even one year old. Once in Iowa, Harm gave the youngest children to he wife's relatives. You will find Edzards in census records for both the Toel and Eilers families.
Harm remarried in 1870 to Luka Dirks. He was a Charter member of Wayne Lutheran Church

Events

Birth3 Mar 1828Reepsholt, Germany, Ostfriesland
Marriage16 Apr 1852Hesel, Germany, Ostfriesland, Leer District - Anke Margarethe Jacobs
Immigration22 Aug 1868New York City, New York, United States
Census1870Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States
Marriage20 Jul 1870Jones, Iowa, United States - Okke / Lokke "Luka" Dirks
Death6 May 1880Jones, Iowa, United States
Burial8 May 1880Wayne Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Wayne Township, Jones, Iowa, United States
ProbateAft May 1880Jones, Iowa, United States
OccupationFarm laborer (Hausling)

Families

SpouseAnke Margarethe Jacobs (1829 - 1868)
ChildHinrich Eden "Henry E" Edzards (1852 - 1883)
ChildGesche Maria "Grace Mary" Edzards (1854 - 1927)
ChildMagdalena Edzards (1856 - 1868)
ChildHermann Dirks Edzards (1858 - 1868)
ChildAnna Engelina Margaretha Edzards (1860 - 1867)
ChildGesche Margaretha "Maggie" Edzards (1863 - 1934)
ChildHinrich Janssen "John H" Edzards (1867 - 1925)
SpouseOkke / Lokke "Luka" Dirks (1818 - 1880)
FatherHinrich Eden Edzards (1805 - )
MotherGeshe Maria Lüken (1796 - 1857)
SiblingAnna Maria Edzards (1831 - 1900)
SiblingGesche Margarethe Edzards (1834 - 1869)
SiblingHeinrich Eden Edzards (1837 - )

Notes

Immigration

288 Harm Edzards, 49, male, Prussia to USA, Steerage
Anke 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 #36-9A

Probate

Case # 274
Edzards, 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.