The Wilhelm and Krieg
Families
of
Huntington County, Indiana
Seven Wilhelm siblings, the children of Johannes Wilhelm
and his wife, Maria Krieg, left Legelshurst, Baden, Germany and immigrated to
America during the 19th century beginning in 1836 when Michael and
Jakob Wilhelm arrived in America. They
first spent time in the German settlement in Cincinnati, Ohio and Henry County,
Indiana before moving north to Lancaster Township, Huntington County, Indiana.
The seven children of Johannes Wilhelm and his wife
Maria Krieg:
Johannes
C. Wilhelm (born 1805) married Maria Karch
Anna
Barbara Wilhelm (born 1807) married Jakob Krieg II
Michael
Wilhelm (born 1808) married Anna Maria Krieg
Jakob
Wilhelm (born 1810) married Mary Elisabeth Krieg
Catharina
Wilhelm (born 1812) married Jacob S. Krieg
Christina
Wilhelm (born 1814) married Georg Heitz
George
Wilhelm (born 1819) never married
Several Krieg families also sent representatives from
Legelshurst. The first to arrive was
Johannes Krieg, his wife, Barbara Richert, his three daughters and son-in-law,
Andreas Gutmüller. They also went first
to the German settlement in Cincinnati, then to Henry County before heading north
to Huntington County, Indiana.
Johann Krieg and his wife, Barbara
Richert
Children:
Barbara Krieg (born
1812) married Andreas Gutmüller
Anna
Maria Krieg (born 1819) married Michael Wilhelm
Mary
Elisabeth Krieg (born 1821) married Jakob Wilhelm
Michael Krieg and his wife, Barbara
Karch
Children:
Michael
Krieg (born 1829) married Catharina Schadt
(this couple stayed in Legelshurst,
Baden, Germany)
Jakob
Krieg (born 1831) married Katharina Kasper
Georg
Ludwig Krieg (born 1833) married Anna Mary Wilhelm
Two more Jakob Kriegs:
Jakob
Krieg II (born 1805) married Anna Barbara Wilhelm
Jakob
S. Krieg (born 1805) married Catharina Wilhelm
This group of hardy German people
settled in Lancaster Township, Huntington County, Indiana in what became known
locally as the “Krieg Settlement”.
Others followed from other parts of Germany and the eastern United
States. They married and intermarried
until today there are many thousands of descendants of these early pioneer
families.
Ann Freehafer Andersen and Stephanie Smithhart
Southerland spent over ten years compiling a genealogy of some of the
descendants of the early Wilhelm and Krieg families of Huntington County,
Indiana. This 700 + page book with over
11,000 entries and an every-name index, was published in March of 1998. There are still a few of these books
available for purchase at $50. Contact:
Ann F. Andersen Stephanie A. Southerland
7800 South Buchanan Way 1018 W. 6th Street
Aurora CO 80016-7103 Marion IN 46953
720-870-4437 765-664-0997
afandersen@hotmail.com hartlandss@sbcglobal.net
Some of the surnames in the book are: Abbott Ackerman Adams Adamson Adkins Alexander Alford Allen Allison Anderson Andrews Apple Arbogast Archer Arivett Ashley Ault Bachman Bahr Bailey Bair Baisch Baker Ballard Bane Barker Barnhisel Barrett Barton Bartrom Batson Baughman Beal Beaver Bechstein Beck Beerbower Belcher Bell Benson Berquist Bertram Best Bieberstine Bird Bireley Bischoff Blackman Blair Bloemker Bohleber Bolinger Bonebrake Bowman Boyle Bradford Bradley Branham Brewer Brightmire Brinneman Brooking Brown Brubaker Bruss Bryner Buchanan Bucher Budzinski Bunker Burgess Burnworth Burron Butcher Caley Callahan Campbell Carey Carl Carpenter Carrico Catt Chandler Clark Clem Close Cochrane Cocklin Cole Coleclesser Collins Combs Conrad Coolman Coppock Cormany Covey Cox Cozad Craig Crandle Cravens Crull Cunningham Curtis Dancey Daniels Daugherty Davis Decker DeHaven Dellinger Delvin DeWitt Diffenbaugh Dimond Diskey Doyle Drabenstot Drake Drompp Drummond Earhart Eberhard Edwards Egelhof Ellis Emery Emley Endsley Evans Fadley Fall Fast Faudi Fauerbach Ferguson Fisher Fogel Folkening Ford Forst Foudy Fowerbaugh Freehafer Freeman French Fullhart Fulton Fusselman Gance Gandee Gannon Gard Gemmer Gephard Gilbert Glancy Glass Goodmiller Graham Grandlienard Green Guenther Guhl Gunther Gutenkunz Gutmüller Hackbrech Hacker Hahn Hall Haneline Hanson Harnish Harris Hart Hartman Hayes Heaston Hedrick Heitz Helm Hensel Hensley Herlein Herzog Hettesheimer Hildebrand Hill Hirneise Hoffman Holmes Hoover Hosler Hougendobler Householder Huffman Hughes Hum Humbert Hunter Husmann Hyser Inge Ingram Jackson Jacques Jennings Johnson Jones Kacala Kain Karch Karns Karst Kase Kasper Kaylor Keefer Keiser Kellam Kelly Killinger Kimmel King Kinsey Kliewer Kline Klumpp Koch Krathwohl Kreiger Krieg Kriegbaum Kronmiller Lahr Lambert Landrum Lane Lawler LeCount Lee Levitt Litz Losh Lusch Lutz Malone Mattern May McCarthy McClure Miller Minniear Minton Moore Moss Musselman Myers Neff O’Banion Okuly Owens Parker Paul Perkins Pettigrew Pinkerton Poling Price Rainbolt Redick Resler Rice Richardson Riggers Roberts Robertson Robinson Ross Roth Rupley Rumpf Rutan Ryll Salge Sandkuhl Sands Schappert Schoeff Schüttee Schwarz Schweikhardt Scott Shaffer Shank Shultz Shuttee Smith Snider Snyder Stahl Stanley Steinbacher Stenzel Stephens Stevens Steward Stewart Street Strouse Stults Sunderman Surfus Sutton Swaidner Swander Swanson Taylor Thiesing Thomas Thompson Thornburg Trimble Trovinger Wagmer Wagner Waldo Walker Wall Ward Warner White Wiley Wilhelm Williams Wilson Winebrenner Wise Witte Wold Wolf Woods Wooten Wray Wright Young Zeffel
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