Seidelmann Family
My great-grandfather Henry Patrick Blickhahn (1885-1969) married Mary Clementine Seidelmann (1885-1929) in 1905. Mary was the daughter of John and Anna (Laplanch). Many of the Seidelmanns, other than the immigrant ancestors Peter (1831) and Magdalena (Sauer - 1831), appeared to have had short lifespans. Peter and Magdalena and four children immigrated in approximately 1860 and settled in Aurora, Illinois. John was the first child of Peter and Magdalena born in the United States. John (1860) married Anna Mary Laplanch (1857) in 1880. John and Anna died within in one month of each other in 1911 (Anna in April and John in May). Anna was also a first generation American, and was born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1910, there were several Seidelmann families living in Aurora.
Those ancestors who did not immigrate and stayed behind in Heddesbach Germany were Johann Philip Seidelmann and his wife Eva Catherina (Gartner) and Valentin Sauer and his wife Eva Margarethe (Gartner). I found it interesting that the surnames of the wife of Johann Philip Seidelmann and the wife of Valentin Sauer were Gartner. As I decipher and translate the old German script of the church records, I may be able to determine the lineage of those who remained behind.
Church in Heddesbach, Baden-Wurrtenburg, Germany
By Frank (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Those ancestors who did not immigrate and stayed behind in Heddesbach Germany were Johann Philip Seidelmann and his wife Eva Catherina (Gartner) and Valentin Sauer and his wife Eva Margarethe (Gartner). I found it interesting that the surnames of the wife of Johann Philip Seidelmann and the wife of Valentin Sauer were Gartner. As I decipher and translate the old German script of the church records, I may be able to determine the lineage of those who remained behind.
Church in Heddesbach, Baden-Wurrtenburg, Germany
By Frank (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons