Charles married Mary MARCELLA SNYDER 4011 . Mary was born4012,4013 on 28.05.1898 in Wisconsin, USA. She died4014,4015 on 22.07.1983 in
Grant County, WI. She was buried4016 in 1983 in Julien, IA.
Sie hatte keine Kinder.
(They had no children.)
862. CATHERINE Mary ZIEGENFUSS (Johannes, Johannes, Johann Heinrich, Johannes, Johannes Valentin, Hans Hildebrand) was born4017,4018 on 21.05.1845 in Atlantik (Atlantic ocean). She died4019,4020 on 27.06.1917 in Hutchinson, MN. She was buried4021 in Hutchinson, MN.
CATHERINE married4023,4024 August RICHARDS 4022 son of Wilhelm REICHHARDT and Barbara Anna Elisabeth MENGIS on 02.05.1862 in Elk Grove, WI. August was born4025 on 23.09.1834 in Treffurt. He died4026,4027 on 23.12.1894 in Hutchinson, MN. He was buried4028 in Hutchinson, MN.
Name auch Reichardt_(name also Reichardt)
(Quelle/source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=113879329)
AUGUSTINE RICHARDS, a large landowner and wealthy farmer of Lynn township, is a native of the
German Empire, born in Saxony, September 23, 1834, and is the son of Wilhelm and Elizabeth
(Menjen) Richards. The family lived in the village of Treffort, and there the subject of this sketch
received hi education and there made his home until he had attained his twentieth year. His father
was a driver of a four-horse stage, and the boy would often drive for the former. As he approached
the years of manhood he entered the employ of a large beet-sugar manufactory, and remained there
for two years. As an instance of the almost incredibly small wages paid in that land, it is cited that he
received no higher salary than one dollar per week, and that was the prevailing rate paid their
thousand workmen. In 1857 the subject of this memoir, seeing the impossibility of bettering his
condition there, embarked for the united States, at the port of Bremen, and after a stormy and
tempestuous passage of twenty-eight weeks, landed at New Orleans. From there he came North and
found employment in Wisconsin at farm labor, and remained nearly five years with a Mr. Stockdale.
He then rented a farm in that vicinity, and there lived until 1866, when he came to Minnesota. While
he was away from home, threshing, that year, his house was destroyed by fire, a horse was killed by
a vicious cow, the hail and bugs ruined the crops and he was compelled to sell off his cattle to obtain
money with which to get to this State. On his arrival here he took up a homestead on section 20,
Lynn township, and there lived until 1882, when he traded it for the Merchants' Hotel, at Hutchinson.
Two years our subject was the landlord of that house, but thinking that he preferred farming, he
traded it for 280 acres of unimproved land in Lynn township, on sections 31 and 32, and this he has
developed until it is one of the finest in the town, and the improvements are of an excellent character.
He now owns 440 acres.
Mr. Richards was united in marriage, March 2, 1862, with Miss Catherine Zegenfus, the daughter of
John and Clara (Wedige) Zegenfus, natives of Prussia. The lady was born upon the bosom of the
Atlantic Ocean, while her parents were on their way to the United States, May 21, 1845. By this
union they are the parents of eight children -- John, born December 29, 1862; Victoria, born
February 12, 1868; Caroline, born September 27, 1870, who married, June 4, 1888, Charles Reiner;
Frederick W., born March 3, 1874; Rosa Catherine, born October 11, 1876; Anna, born June 28,
1881; August, born November 5, 1884; and Charles, born September 9, 1887.
Mr. Richards has held the offices of chairman of the town board and side supervisor, assessor and
school director and treasurer. He is a democrat in his politics and a Roman Catholic in his religion.
Alden, Ogle & Company, . Illustrated Album of Biography of Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota,
History of Minnesota, Presidents of the United States.. Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1888. 632-
33. Print.
August and CATHERINE had the following children:
+ 2544 M i. Johannes O. RICHARDS was born on 29.12.1862. He died on 01.07.1939.
2545 F ii. Sophia RICHARDS 4029 was born4030 on 27.11.1864. She died4031 on 02.12.1866 in Wisconsin, USA.
+ 2546 F iii. Clara Victoria RICHARDS was born on 12.02.1868. She died on 30.04.1923.
+ 2547 F iv. Caroline RICHARDS was born on 27.09.1870. She died on 30.05.1957.
+ 2548 M v. Frederick William RICHARDS was born on 03.03.1874. He died on 28.07.1918.
+ 2549 F vi. Rosalina Katharina RICHARDS was born on 11.10.1876. She died on 08.10.1943.
2550 M vii. Louis RICHARDS was born4032 on 21.04.1879. He died4033 on 07.09.1879.
+ 2551 F viii. Anna Maria RICHARDS was born on 28.06.1881. She died on 30.12.1952.
2552 M ix. August Peter RICHARDS was born4034 on 05.11.1884 in McLeod County, MN. He died4035 on 11.07.1919 in Bismarck, ND. He was buried4036 in Hutchinson, MN.
Er war nicht verheiratet.
(He was not married.)
2553 M x. Charles Nicolas RICHARDS was born4037 on 09.09.1887 in McLeod County, MN. He died4038 on 14.06.1919 in Normandie. He was buried4039 in Hutchinson, MN.
Er war nicht verheiratet.
(He was not married.)
863. John ZIEGENFUSS (Johannes, Johannes, Johann Heinrich, Johannes, Johannes Valentin, Hans Hildebrand) was born4040,4041 on 22.02.1847 in Hazel Green, WI. He died4042,4043,4044 on 27.11.1920 in Caney, KS. He was buried4045 in Caney, KS.
John married4046,4047 Martha Ellen about 1874 in Kansas, USA. Martha was born4048,4049 on 07.06.1849 in Indiana, USA. She died4050,4051 on 10.06.1909 in Kansas, USA?. She was buried4052 in Caney, KS.
They had the following children:
+ 2554 M i. Frederick Henry ZIEGENFUSS was born on 10.07.1874. He died on 27.04.1955.
2555 F ii. Laura E. ZIEGENFUSS was born4053,4054 in 04.1877 in Kansas, USA.
2556 M iii. GEORGE Ralph ZIEGENFUSS was born4055,4056 on 08.08.1879 in Kansas, USA. He died4057 on 06.09.1924 in Caney, KS. He was buried4058 in Caney, KS.
GEORGE married4060 Maud E. DIVENS 4059 before 1917. Maud was born4061 on 07.04.1883 in Caney, KS. She died4062 on 10.04.1960 in Caney, KS. She was buried4063 in