Born in Prussia, Germany
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Mary Catherine (Speckjohann) Brenning
— married
22 May 1871 (to 1878) in St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Descendants 
Father of
Joseph Henry Weber, Anna (Weber) Uppenkamp, Christina (Weber) Hennes, Benjamin Franklin Weber and Henry Frederick Weber
Died
at about age 45
in East Saint Louis, St. Clair, Illinois, United States
Profile last modified
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Biography
Joseph was born in 1833. He told his wife and children who passed the story on to his grandchildren that he was born to a family named Pinkelman. When he was 15 the family immigrated to America but the ship sank in the harbor. He and two adult men climbed a mast and were the only ones saved. He said he was adopted by a family named Weber. When older he headed West. In his travels he met Mary Catherine Speckjohan. They married on May 22, 1871. They settled in East St. Louis, Illinois, where he worked as a cooper and had five children. He died of a heat stroke while working sometime during 1878, the same year his youngest child was born.
Sources
Family recollections
U.S. Census record 1870
Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery Old
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Joseph by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Joseph:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Joseph by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Joseph:
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~12.50%
Katherine Weber
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