Diedrich Ludwig WESSEL

<p>From Wessel-Drieling-Kunz Family History --</p> <p>Diedrick L. Wessel born at Adelsheide, Oldenburg, Germany, on Nov 21, 1840.&nbsp; Baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Faith.&nbsp; Came to America in 1873 (according to the Koester history).</p> <p>Second husband of Anna Metta Haar Drieling. They were married on April 29, 1875.&nbsp; They lived their lives on the Homestead in the community known as "Section 12" in Cuming Township, Dodge County, Nebraska.</p> <p>Both he and his wife were laid to rest in the family lot at St. Paul's Church of which they had always been faithful members.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>From Ancestry.com Albert Rholfs family tree --- Diedrich was a hired man for Johann and Anna on the homestead in Sec 12, Dodge Co, Nebr. He died Nov 3, 1909 after having been confined to a wheel chair for nearly 2 years following a stroke which left him speechless and paralyzed. He and Anna were faithful members of St Pauls.</p> <p>&nbsp;--------------</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri;">Fred Hass sold his farm, seven miles north of Hooper, to D. Wessel</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri;">Hooper Sentinel, August 11, 1898, </span><a href="http://scribner.advantage-preservation.com/"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri; color: #0000ff;">http://scribner.advantage-preservation.com/</span></a></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri;">(believe misprint and &ldquo;Hass&rdquo; should be Haar)</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Rev. Wuppert and D.Wessel took the morning train to St. Joe, Missouri, yesterday to attend the annual Synod of the German Lutheran Church of America.</p> <p><em>Hooper Sentinel Sept 22, 1898,</em> <a href="http://scribner.advantage-preservation.com/Viewer/?key=wessel%20oklahoma&amp;fn=hooper_sentinel_usa_nebraska_hooper_18980922_english_1&amp;df=1&amp;dt=10&amp;tc=14&amp;cnt=United%20States%20of%20America&amp;sn=Nebraska&amp;cn=Hooper&amp;pn=Hooper%20Sentinel">http://scribner.advantage-preservation.com/</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">D. Wessel, near Hooper, will build a new residence and was here Monday to meet his carpenters, John Buhrman and two others from Pender. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp;<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Page 1 of The Oakland Republican, published in Oakland, Nebraska on Thursday, March 5th, 1903</span></span></em></span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">from auswanderer -- baptism register</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="hps"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><spanstyle="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Publisher:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span><span class="hps">Gks</span>. <span class="hps">KB</span> <span class="hps">08</span>, <span class="hps">#</span> <span class="hps">T.1840</span> <span class="hps">/</span> <span class="hps">186</span>, <span class="hps">T.1840</span> <span class="hps">/</span> <span class="hps">186</span>, <span class="hps">pp.592</span>, <span class="hps">pos186</span><br /><span class="hps">Source:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span><span class="hps">ID</span> <span class="hps">S2519</span><br /><span class="hps">Text:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Baptismal</span> <span class="hps">register</span>: <span class="hps">Date</span>: <span class="hps">November 20, 1840</span> <span class="hps">Diedrich</span> <span class="hps">Ludwig</span><br /><span class="hps">Gks.1840</span> <span class="hps">/</span> <span class="hps">186</span> <span class="hps">Parents:</span> <span class="hps">Johann</span> <span class="hps">Cord</span> <span class="hps">Ludwig</span> <span class="hps">WESSEL</span><br /><span class="hps">Brinksitzer</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">Adelheide</span> <span class="hps">u</span>.<br /><span class="hps">Margrete</span> <span class="hps">Adelheid</span> <span class="hps">born</span> <span class="hps">C&ouml;lln</span><br /><span class="hps">Gev</span> <span class="hps">.:</span> <span class="hps">Diedrich</span> <span class="hps">WESSEL</span><br /><span class="hps">Johann</span> <span class="hps">Diedrich</span> <span class="hps">M&Auml;HLENHOFF</span><br /><span class="hps">Sophie</span> <span class="hps">Burhop</span><br /><span class="hps">Linked to</span><span class="hps">Wessel</span>, <span class="hps">*</span> <span class="hps">Diedrich</span> <span class="hps">Ludwig</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="hps">----------------</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="hps">from auswanderer - death register</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="hps"><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN">Source</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN"> <span class="hps">ID</span> <span class="hps">S2520</span><br /><span class="hps">Text</span> <span class="hps">Death</span>: <span class="hps">Diedrich</span> <span class="hps">WESSEL</span> <span class="hps">born</span> <span class="hps">Adelheide</span>,<br /><span class="hps">Hoo.1909</span> <span class="hps">/</span> <span class="hps">003</span> <span class="hps">parish</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">Ganderkesee</span> <span class="hps">Oldenburg</span><br /><span class="hps">Pg</span> <span class="hps">441</span> <span class="hps">#</span> <span class="hps">243</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">died on</span> <span class="hps">November 3, 1909</span><br /><span class="hps">LOT</span> <span class="hps">23</span> <span class="hps">at the age</span> <span class="hps">of 68 years</span> <span class="hps">11</span> <span class="hps">M.</span> <span class="hps">13</span> <span class="hps">T.</span><br /><span class="hps">Linked to</span> <span class="hps">Wessel</span>, <span class="hps">*</span> <span class="hps">Diedrich</span> <span class="hps">Ludwig</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in0pt;">&nbsp;--------------</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">from auswanderer - marriage register</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Source</span> <span class="hps">ID</span> <span class="hps">S19778</span><br /><span class="hps">Text</span> <span class="hps">marriage register</span><span>:</span> <span class="hps">Name</span><span>:</span> <span class="hps">Diedrich</span> <span class="hps">Ludwig</span> <span class="hps">WESSEL</span><br /><span class="hps">Hoo.1875</span> <span class="hps">/</span> <span class="hps">01</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">born</span> <span class="hps">November 20, 1840</span> <span class="hps">Adelheide</span> <span class="hps">Oldbg</span><span>.</span><br /><span class="hps">Pg</span> <span class="hps">352</span> <span class="hps">Parents:</span> <span class="hps">Johann</span> <span class="hps">Carl</span> <span class="hps">WESSEL</span> <span class="hps">Adelheide</span> <span class="hps">born</span> <span class="hps">KOLLE</span><br /><span class="hps">Name</span><span>:</span> <span class="hps">Anna</span> <span class="hps">Metta</span> <span class="hps">Margaretha</span> <span class="hps">Drieling</span> <span class="hps">widow</span><br /><span class="hps">born</span> <span class="hps">Hidigwarder</span> <span class="hps">Moor</span> <span class="hps">Oldenburg</span><br /><span class="hps">Parents</span><span>: Joh.</span> <span class="hps">Henry</span> <span class="hps">HAIR</span> <span class="hps">Annamarie</span> <span class="hps">born</span> <span class="hps">Behrman</span><br /><span class="hps">Cop .:</span> <span class="hps">April 30, 1875</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">New</span> <span class="hps">Oldenbg</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Dodge</span> <span class="hps">Co.</span> <span class="hps">Nebraska</span><br /><span class="hps">Witnesses</span><span>:</span> <span class="hps">John</span><span class="hps">OSTERLOH</span> <span class="hps">+</span> <span class="hps">Friedr</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">HAIR</span><br /><span class="hps">Linked to</span> <span class="hps">Family</span><span>:</span> <span class="hps">Wessel</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">*</span> <span class="hps">Diedrich</span> <span class="hps">Ludwig</span> <span class="hps">/</span> <span class="hps">hair</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">Anna</span> <span class="hps">Metta</span> <span class="hps">Margareta</span> <span class="hps atn">(</span><span>F155</span><span>)</span><span>)</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">DEITRICK WESSEL, Dodge Co. Nebr., Age 34 yrs., Born: Germany. Father: Loiis </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">--. Mother: Aldelheid Kelle (or Kelly). - ANNA MARGARET DRIELING, Dodge Co.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nebr., Age 35 yrs., Born: Germany. Father: John Harr --. Mother: Anna M. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Boman. Marriage Date: 30 April 1875 Witnesses: John Osterloh, New </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oldenburgh, Nebr., Fredrick Haas, New Oldenburg, Nebr., By Whom: Chs. Leb </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Wihswaessen, Ger. Cath. Pastor, Where: New Oldenburg.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/dodge/marriage/bookc.txt"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0000ff;">http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/dodge/marriage/bookc.txt</span></a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">&nbsp;</p> <p><span lang="en"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></p>

<p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">Transcription of attached obituary --<br /><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">D. WESSEL AT REST</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">---</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Was an Old Resident of County Honored and Respected by All.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Was Ill Two Years.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">--</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">D. Wessel, who resides in the Oldenburg neighborhood, died Wednesday evening Nov. 3^rd, 1909, after an illness of nearly two years duration, having suffered a stroke of paralysis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>He has been unable to walk during all of this time and the past six months could not speak.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">He was one of the early settlers of Dodge County and enjoyed a large circle of acquaintances who have sympathized with him during his long period of suffering, and who now sympathize withthe family in the loss of a good husband and father.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Diedrich Wessel was born in Germany on Nov. 21^st, 1840, and came to this county in 1873.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>On April 29, 1875, he was united in marriage with Meta V. Drieling, the union being blessed with four children, all of whom are now married and living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>He died Wednesday evening, Nov. 3^rd, 1909, and the funeral was held Monday at St. Paul&rsquo;s German Lutheran Church of which the deceased was a very devout member.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Rev. F. Wupper, the resident pastor, conducted the services.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">&nbsp;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri;">Diedrich Wessel, living ten miles west of this place, who suffered a stroke of paralysis sometime ago is quite low at this writing.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Page<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>8 of The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Hooper Sentinel, published in Hooper, Nebraska on Thursday, October 7th, 1909</span></span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://scribner.advantage-preservation.com</span></span></em></p> <p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">&nbsp;</p>

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