Anna Margareta Schnoor Meyer and her Schnoor family
The photo is of Anna Margareta ("Maggie") and her sisters, taken in 1909 (a year after her husband John C.E. Meyer died.) Maggie is at the lower left, Antje Caterina "Kate" who married Henry Mauschbaugh on the right. In the back is the youngest, Fredericka Christina, who was born in Wisconsin and who married William Hoeltke. But we now have one "Mushbaum" connection! Here is another photo of the Mauschbaughs: 
Kate & Henry in front of their house in Peoria. Click for a larger image. Bette Lou, Anna Margareta Schnoor Meyer's great-granddaughter, remembers Mauschbaughs being friends of her father's (John CE Ernst); must have been some of Henry and Kate's ten children.
This is Maggie about 1897. It is interesting that she was called by a nickname for her middle name; I knew it was the German custom for men to be called by their middle name not their first name, but I didn't know it was true for women, too.
- More photos, click the link for the photo:
- Anne M. (Maggie) Schnoor and John C. E. Meyer (photographer was in that location 1896-1899.)
- Anne M. (Maggie) Schnoor and John C. E. Meyer after 1900.
Anna Margareta "Maggie" Schnoor Meyer's obituary from the Princeville Telephone, page 1, April 21, 1932. She died at 86 years, 5 months, 8 days and is buried at Prospect. At the end of her life she lived with her youngest daughter Lottie. Mom remembers Aunt Lottie's house at 327 Frye, but does not remember seeing her great-grandmother there (Mom would have been very young.) She says that they didn't visit much in those years; gas was too expensive and when they went somewhere, they walked. Later, when she was about 11, she had piano lessons with Lottie's neighbor, Mrs. Keach, who she thinks might also be related.
More on the Schnoor family: Anna Margareta came to the US in 1852, when she was seven, with her parents and siblings. They were from "Hulstein" according to her obituary; that would be in what today is the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, the most northern state. They would have spoken "Low German" (Plattdeutsch, similar to what the Amish speak today and related to Dutch. Notice their Dutch-sounding names.) Schleswig-Holstein is at the base of Jutland, the penninsula that sticks into the North Sea. The rest of the penninsula is Denmark. Historically, Schleswig and Holstein were independent states or were part of Denmark, but had a large German-speaking population. At the time they left, there was a war between Denmark and Prussia over Schleswig. Holstein was allied with Prussia. The wars were ongoing as Bismark attempted to unify the German states; it was, I'm sure, a good time to leave.
The voyage must have been bad. Disease, especially typhoid, was rampant on those ships. According to family stories, their little daughter Wiebke died on the voyage. They went to Wisconsin, where daughter Fredericka was born, and from there to Peoria.
Anna Margareta's parents were Johann Heinrich Schnoor (1804-1874) and Therasa Catarina Kuns (1810 - 1895). They were married in 1834. Johann Heinrich Schnoor was suposedly buried in Mt. Hawley Cemetery on Illinois Route 40 in Peoria, but there is no headstone. Anna Margareta's mother Therasa was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Adair County, Iowa.
- Children:
- Peter 1835 in Holstein - 06/16/1862 (buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri)
- Jurgen Jacob 08/07/1837 in Holstein died 05/20/1905 in Adair County (buried at Fairview), Iowa; married Johanna "Anna" Schaper 10/15/1845-01/08/1931 (also at Fairview. She came from some German state in 1847.) In Medina Township near the Ernsts in 1880; In Harrison Township, Adair County, Iowa, in 1895.
- Children:
- Anna born abt 1867
- Henry born abt 1869
- Charles P. born March 1873
- Rosa born abt 1875 m. ? Wessel
- Reka "Resie" born abt. 1876
- Mary M. born March 1880
- Elollie "Lottie" G. born July 1882
- Clarrie "Clara" M. born Oct 1887
- Claus Heinrich 05/05/1842 in Holstein - 02/07/1886 in Vermillion County, Il; married Johanna Arndt 08/25/1863
- Anna Margareta "Maggie" 11/10/1845 in Holstein - 04/18/1932 in Peoria County; married John C. E. Meyer 02/22/1866 (our ancestor, see Meyer and Ernst pages)
- Antje Caterina "Kate" 03/24/1848 in Holstein - 11/25/1923 in Peoria County; married Henry Mauschbach/Mauschbaugh (spellings vary) on 02/22/1866. 10 children - need more information:
- Theressa C Mauschbaugh (1879 - 1940)
- Anna Margaret Mauschbaugh (1884 - 1964)
- Henry Jacob Mauschbaugh (1885 - 1974)
- Wiebke Caterina 11/09/1850 in Holstein - died at sea, 1852.
- Fredericka Christina 03/18/1853 in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin died 02/19/1922 in Peoria County; married William Hoeltke 07/21/1868 (13 children)
- Her son Walter Holtke (1893 - 1918) married Theresa C. Ernst (1888 - 1964), the daughter of Fredericka's sister Maggie's husband's brother Albert Anthony. Need a chart? Me too.
Peter Schnoor's stone at Jefferson Barracks.
Still to find out: what boat did the Schnoors come on in 1852, and how did they get to Wisconsin? Why did they leave Wisconsin and go to Peoria, and when was that?
