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Heinrich Johann Landwehr
and
Friederiecke Charlotte Begemann

Wedding Invitation & Announcement

 
wedding invitation
Higginsville, Missouri; 1887.
Courtesy of Mary Ann Mock
 

 

You are hereby most cordially invited
to the wedding of Miss

Friederiecke Begemann

with

Mr. Heinrich Landwehr,

on Thursday, the 3rd of February, 1887,
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at the home
of the undersigned.

Charlotte Wehrmann,1
Higginsville, Mo.

 
newspaper announcement
Lafayett County, Missouri; 1887.
Courtesy of Mary Ann Mock
 

 

Landwehr - Begemann.

Am Donnerstag voriger Woche wurden, wie die Higginsville Correspondenz erzählt, Heinrich Landwehr und Frl. Fried[e]rike2 Begemann durch Pastor Höfer zu ei[n]em glücklichen Ehepaar verbunden.

Die Hachleit3 war im Hause der Pflegemutter der Braut, Frau Charlotte Wehrmann, eine Meile nördlich von Higginsville, welche die zahlreichen Gäste des jungen Paares in einer Weise bewirthete , wie sie nicht übertroffen werden kann. Von Mittag bis spät in de Nacht feierten [d]ie Geladenen das schöne Fest bei reicher Tafel, die der Küche der liebenswürdigen Mutter alle Ehre macht. Der prächtigsten und best gewählten Festgeschenke waren so viel, daß wie ihrer einzeln nicht Erwähnung thun können.

Das Paar ist nun auf einer Hochzeitsreise nach Gasconade County, St. Louis und anderen Plätzen, um Verwandte und Freunde zu Zeugen ihres jungen Glücks zu machen. Nach einigen [W]ochen werden sich Herr und Frau [La]ndwehr auf der bekannten Warren's ____m,4 nahe Higginsville, niederlassen.  [D]ie besten Wünsche des "Thalbote"5 __[g]leiten6 die trauten Ehegenossen auf __n Pfaden ihrer gemeinsamen Le=__[s]reise.7

 

Landwehr - Begemann.

On Thursday of this past week, the way the Higginsville correspondent tells it, Heinrich Landwehr and Miss Fried[e]rike Begemann were united as a happily married couple by Pastor Höfer.

The wedding took place in the house of the bride's foster mother, Mrs. Charlotte Wehrmann, a mile north of Higginsville, who entertained the numerous guests of the young couple in a manner that can not be surpassed. From mid-day until late in the night, the invited guests celebrated the beautiful fête at a richly laden table, much to the credit of the culinary skills of the charming mother. The splendid and carefully selected gifts were so numerous that it is not possible to itemize them.

The couple is now on a honeymoon trip to Gasconade County, St. Louis and other places, to celebrate their youthful good fortune with relatives and friends. After several weeks, Mr. and Mrs. [La]ndwehr will settle down [on, at] the well-known Warren's ___m. near Higginsville. The best wishes of [the] "Thalbote" [accompany] the beloved marriage partners on the paths of their mutual journey through life.

Source: This article is from an undated and unidentified newspaper. The last paragraph hints that it may have appeared in the Missouri Thalbote. For more information, see the Notes, below.

 

Notes

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1.  Friederiecke Charlotte Begemann was about 3 years old when her mother died in Warren County, Missouri in 1868 from tuberculosis. Her father remarried within the year and she was then raised in the home of her uncle and aunt, Conrad Heinrich Adolph and Friedericke Florentine Charlotte (Höfer) Wehrmann in Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri. The uncle's name does not appear on the invitation because he had died on 29 March 1886.

2.  In the following transcription, letters in square braces (for example, ...Fried[e]rike...) indicate that I have made a guess about what is not clearly evident because of the condition of the original newspaper article and that I am very confident of being correct.

Where too much of the document is missing for me to be reasonably certain about a word, I have indicated missing text with an underline (for example, ___n). The length of the underline is relative to my estimation of the amount of missing text.

3.  This word is not familiar to me. Perhaps it is a colloquial or idiomatic term, possibly from a Low German (or plattdeutsch) dialect. Judging by the context of the article and on the basis of the wedding invitation, I have translated this as "wedding" (in High German, die Hockzeit). I think this is correct.

4.  On the basis of the way the genitive case is formed, this seems to be an English word. It also appears to be a place name. I am not familiar enough with landmarks in the Higginsville area to catch the reference. Judging by its place in the newspaper article, the second word, ending in "m," can not be more than 3 or 4 letters long.

5.  Hans-Werner Begemann of Germany has kindly suggested that Thalbote may be the name of the newspaper which published this wedding announcement. Jaap Oppedijk of Leiden, The Netherlands, has emailed that the name Thalbote should be translated as Valley Messenger, or Valley Newspaper. He also concurs with my translation of the last line of the article.

There was indeed a German language newspaper named Thalbote in Lafayette County, Missouri at this time. It was founded in Lexington, Missouri in 1871 and moved to Higginsville in 1893.

According to a biographical sketch in the Portrait and Biographical Record of Lafayette and Saline Counties, Missouri, (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1893), Henry C. Schwartz (born near Hopewell in Warren County, Missouri,in 1850), who was principal of the Higginsville public schools, purchased the Missouri Thalbote at Concordia in 1884 and published the newspaper for 3 years. In 1888, Mr. Schwartz returned to Higginsville, and one year later was appointed the Postmaster. He later became part owner of the Higginsville Advance, a weekly Republican newspaper.

6.  If my German were better I might be able to guess what this word might be, but too much of the text is missing. Dare one suggest begleiten, meaning to accompany?

7.  I have assumed this word to be Lebensreise - life's journey.

 

Heinrich Johann Landwehr's family

Friederiecke Charlotte Begemann's family

Conrad Heinrich Begemann and Caroline Poupe were married in 1838 in the Principality of Lippe. Shortly thereafter they emigrated to the USA, landing at the port of New Orleans and taking passage up the Mississippi River by boat. They settled on 40 acres south of Warrenton, in Warren County, Missouri, where Caroline died in 1841 from cholera.

Conrad Heinrich Begemann married his second wife, Friederiecke Henriette Wehrmann, on 21 January 1853 in Warren County, Missouri.

According to a biographical sketch in Portrait and Biographical Record of St. Charles, Lincoln, and Warren Counties, Missouri: containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States (Chicago: Chapman Publishing Co., 1895) page 510, "She [Fredricka [sic] Wehrmann] died in 1868, leaving a family of six children, of whom those now [1895] living are: Conrad H.; Henry, a merchant in Jonesburg, Mo.; William, a farmer near Truxton; and Fredricka, the wife of Henry Laudwear [sic], of Lafayette County."

Friederiecke Charlotte Begemann was about 3 years old when her mother died, and she was raised in the home of her uncle and aunt, Conrad Heinrich Adolph and Friedericke Florentine Charlotte (Höfer) Wehrmann in Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri.

Conrad Heinrich Begemann married his third wife, Dorothea Hoyer, in 1868.

Heinrich Johann Landwehr and Friederiecke Charlotte Begemann were married 3 February 1887 at the home of her aunt, Friedericke Florentine Charlotte (Höfer) Wehrmann at Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri.

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