Anna (Thurow) Lehmann (1810 - 1910)

Born 21 Jun 1810 in Alt-Küstrinchen on the Oder, Brandenburg, Prussia

Wife of Gottfried Lehmann — married 1833 in Alt-Küstrinchen on the Oder, Brandenburg Province, Germany

Descendants

Died 22 Dec 1910 at age 100 in Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, United States

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Biography

Anna was born on 21 June 1810 in Alt-Küstrinchen on the Oder, Brandenburg Province, Germany.^[1]

When Anna was 23 she married Gottfried Lehmann in 1833-4 in Alt-Küstrinchen on the Oder, Brandenburg Province, Germany.^[2]

The couple had 3 children:

1. Frederick Wilhelm Lehmann, 1834-1915
2. Louis J Lehmann, 1836-1911
3. August Henry (Lehmann) Lehman (abt.1842-1896)

Immigration: 1858 from Germany to USA.^[1]

Anna died at the age of 100 years and 6 months on 22 December 1910 in Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA.^[3] Note: her gravestone was inscribed incorrectly to say that she died in 1911.

Anna was buried on 27 December 1910 in Hustisford Cemetery, Hustisford, Dodge Co., Wisconsin.

Research Notes

Dodge County Pionier, Friday, 24 June 1904, page 13 (translated from German.)
Grandmother Anna Lehmann of Appleton, Wis., reached her 94th year on Tuesday. [picture caption] Mrs. Lehmann, despite her advanced age, is completely healthy and mentally alert and can carry out her household work. In the above picture, which we have through the friendliness of the "Milwaukee Sentinel", we show our readers in this county, especially those residing in the vicinity of Hustisford, a well-known personality.
Particularly in Hustisford, there will be few who do not know Grandmother Lehmann, whose birthday was last Tuesday and who has reached 94 years old. The old woman is still very active and always in good health and is still able to sew and read without glasses. Grandmother Lehmann was born on the 21st of June 1810 in Alt-Küstrinchen on the Oder, Prussia, where at the age of 23 she married Gottfried Lehmann. But he died after 11 years of marriage, leaving behind his wife and three sons. Her second oldest son [Louis] came to America at the age of 20 and settled near Hustisford. Two years later he had his mother and youngest brother August follow him. In 1861 the oldest son Friedrich Lehmann, better known in Hustisford as "Turtle Lehmann", also followed. The family lived then in the vicinity of Hustisford until 1882, whereupon Louis Lehmann moved to Appleton and his mother followed him in order to spend her remaining years there.

Dodge County Pionier, Friday, 30 December 1910, page 5 (translated from German). Mrs. Anna Lehmann died on Thursday the 22nd of December in the house of her son Johann Louis Lehmann in Appleton at an age rarely reached by we mortal people. She was 100 years and 6 months old. She was born Anna Thurow in Alt-Kuestrinchen in Province Brandenburg on the 21st of June 1810. She married Gottfried Lehmann in 1833 and with him made the ocean voyage in 1858. Her husband died many years ago and left her the sons Friedrich Wilhelm Lehmann of Hustisford and Johann L. Lehmann of Appleton. The old woman lived from 1858 to 1882 in Hustisford and then moved to her son Johann Louis Lehmann's home in Appleton, Wis. She still made tours on foot in her old age, spending as much time as possible in the fresh air, until she suffered a fracture and finally died. On Tuesday the 27th of December the funeral was held in the Methodist Church in Hustisford. She was laid to rest in the Hustisford cemetery.

Her death was also reported in the Los Angeles Herald, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, on Sunday, December 25, 1910. In that article it was reported that at her 100th birthday picnic, she danced the minuet and sang German songs.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} 1900 Census: "United States Census, 1900"
   citing enumeration district (ED) 69, sheet 18B, family 352, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,809.
   FamilySearch Record: MMKY-1Y1 (accessed 29 July 2022)
   FamilySearch Image: S3HT-6739-3CY
   Anna Lehmann (90), widowed head of household in Appleton city Ward 3, west side, Outagamie, Wisconsin, United States.
2. ↑ Newspaper article about Anna, Dodge County Pionier, Friday, 24 June 1904, page 13. She was born in 1810, and married when she was 23 (~1833). Gottfried died after 11 years of marriage, therefore about 1844.
3. ↑ Death: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14175790/anna-lehmann: accessed 29 July 2022), memorial page for Anna Lehmann (21 Jun 1810–23 Dec 1911), Find A Grave: Memorial #14175790, citing Hustisford Cemetery, Hustisford, Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA; Maintained by Tara Bandekow (contributor 47913955).

See Also:

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org), entry for this profile (PID https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GW95-KKW); contributed by various users.