The Family Of: Johannes Niemann
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Birth: 11-JUL-1864 New Boerm, Schleswig-Holstein
Marriage: 07-AUG-1887 Brooklyn, N.Y.
Death: 30-SEP-1929 Austin, Texas
Burial: 03-OCT-1929 Oakwood Cemetery (sec. D, lot 36, sp. 12)
Father: Hans Niemann
Mother: Catharina Coordts Niemann (Cordts)
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Wife: Magdalene Sophie Dedekind Niemann
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Birth: 17-SEP-1862 Gross Thondorf, County Himbergen, Hanover, G.
Death: 07-SEP-1920 Austin, TX, 2104 Red River St.
Burial: 07-SEP-1920 Oakwood Cemetary, Austin
Father: Johann Heinrich Chris. Dedekind
Mother: ChristianeMarie Eliese Koch Dedekind
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Children
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Erich Nathaniel Niemann [M]
Birth: 11-FEB-1889 Norristown, Pa., parsonage 204 Oak St, 10 PM
Death: 14-SEP-1911 Wilkinsburg, PA hospital
Spouse:
Frieda M. Niemann Meyers (Freda) [F]
Birth: 29-NOV-1891 Norristown, PA,parsonage 204 Oak St., 12:30PM
Death: -MAY-1974 Houston, Texas
Spouse: Emil John Meyers (E.J.; E. John)
Annie Mathilda Niemann [F]
Birth: 06-JAN-1894 Norristown, PA parsonage 204 Oak St.; 7 AM
Death: 08-DEC-1904 Dorseyville, PA, 6:38 A.M.
Spouse:
Richard Johannes Niemann (Richard Joyce) [M]
Birth: 25-JUL-1896 Norristown, PA, parsonage 204 Oak St. 6:15 AM
Death: 14-FEB-1975 Dallas, TX
Spouse: Lucy Jane Fisher Neiman
Hans Anton Samuel Niemann (John Anthony) [M]
Birth: 21-AUG-1899 Wilkes-Barre, PA, parsonage 30 E. South St.
Death: 26-FEB-1949 Austin, Texas (Seton Hospital)
Spouse: Bertha Kleen Nieman (Bettie)
Comments for: Johannes Niemann
Baptised 12 Aug 1864. Schleswig-Holstein was part of
Denmark until 1864 when the Danes were driven out and they
ceded it to Austria-Prussia in the Peace of Vienna, October
30, 1864.
Werner Tams letter of Sept. 8, 1991:
Your grandfather [Johannes Niemann] was born under
Denmark's rule. But [there] was a war ... between
Denmark-Prussia and Austria and that Danish-Prussian war
ended the 18th of July, 1864.
From: Nieman Family History (1950)
First pastorate in Danbury Conn. (Lutheran)
Moved to Norristown, Pa., installed Sept 30, 1888, resigned
Oct 5, 1896. Four children were born there, Erich, Freda,
Annie and Richard.
[Moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., installed Nov. 1, 1896. Hans
Anton Samuel born there Aug. 21, 1899.]
Moved to Columbia, Pa -- 1901 [2-5-1900, St Paul's German
Lutheran Church]. Mother struck with polio -- helpless and
bedfast 15 mo. Recovered partially due to osteopathic
treatments.
Moved to Dorseyville [Pa.] (Annie died)
Next [moved] to Braddock, Pa.
Dad went to Hawaii [from Easter 1908 to Easter 1909] for a
year supplying for a Lutheran minister in church and
parochial school on the Island of Kauai, [which minister]
was making a world tour.
The family moved to Pittsburgh, Pa where Erich was employed
and attended Carnegie Tech studying for degree of Electrical
Engineering.
Dad [Johannes] returned after the year and had a pastorate
in Germania, Pa. (Allegheny Mountains).
From there we moved to New Hamburg, Ont., Canada [near
Kitchener, Ont.], remained 3 years -- Dad Pastor of St.
Peter's Lutheran Church. Mother's sister -- Mrs. William
Merlau lived on a farm at Wellesley, Ont. about 15 mi. from
New Hamburg. Two children. Katie Merlau, William Merlau --
Katie died. William living on home place.
War came in 1914 (in Canada).
Dad went ino the Bapt. Church at New Hamburg about 1913.
Supplied in Elgin, Ia.
Had first Bapt. pastorate in Kyle, Texas; moved to Texas in
1914.
Moved to Austin 1915. Freda married, E. John Meyers.
Mother died -- 1920 -- buried in Austin, Tex.
Dad died -- 1929 -- buried in Austin, Tex.
Registration blank with Office of the Committee on Teachers,
Univ. of Texas; Dec 20, 1915. Residence then 1902 Neches
St., Austin, Texas. Attended Theological Seminary, Kropp,
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 1883 - 1886 (4 years).
Certificate of Ordination to the Ministry. Experience as
teacher: "Have been for one year principal and teacher of
the Isenberg School in Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii Territory,
U.S.A.; subject Grammar, Geography, etc."
Specialties in teaching German (first); Latin (second).
Areas studied: Botany, chemistry, education, English
(composition, literature, rhetoric), Geography (physical),
Greek, History (ancient, mediaeval, modern, American) logic,
arithmetic, plane geometry, trigonometry, music
(instrumental), philosophy, physics, physiology, psychology,
public speaking, zoology.
Height: about 6 feet. Weight: about 165.
1900 Census, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, E.D. 11, sheet 5,
line 87:
811 Locust St., Columbia, PA
Niemann, John, head, born Germany, immigrated 1887, age 35,
minister
" , Magdaline [sic] W. S., wife, b. Germany, immig.
1887, age 37, 5 child., 5 living
" , Erich G. N., son, b. Pennsylvania, age 11
" , Frieda A. M., daughter, b. Pennsylvania, age 8
" , Annie M., daughter, b. Pennsylvania, age 6
" , Richard J. H., son, b. Pennsylvania, age 3
" , Hans A. S., son, b. Pennsylvania, age 9/12
Comments for: Magdalene Sophie Dedekind Niemann
Lived from 1885-87 with parents at Natendorf, Germany.
Emigrated July 23, 1887 to her fiance in America, who
preceeded her to America in January 1887, J. Niemann born
July 11, 1864 at Neu Born in Sleswig-Holstein. Full name:
Magdalene Sophie Wilhelmine Dedekind. (Lt. Col. D's record)
Born 17 Sept 1862 in Gross Thondorf, County Himbergen, State
of Hanover. Baptised 28 Sept 1862; named Magdalene Sophie
Wilhelmine Dedekind. Married by Rev. J.W. Kirsch in the - -
- Church on - - - - - Street, Brooklyn, NY on the 9th Sunday
after Trinity, the 7 Aug 1887. Text Psalm 20 - v. 5. (Black
Book and notes, p 1, under House Mother)
Red date book (1911) gives birth year as 1863.