Jungermann, Meta Louise
1880 - 1969 (89 years)-
Name Jungermann, Meta Louise Born 21 Apr 1880 St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA 
[1, 2] - On her gravestone, her given names are engraved as "Meta E."
Gender Female Died 17 Jun 1969 [2, 3] Buried Mayview, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA [2, 3] Person ID I3516 Fiegenbaum Last Modified 17 Jul 2006
Father Jungermann, Johann Fredrick Andreas Christian, b. 26 Oct 1845, Kleinern, Prinicipality of Waldeck , d. 17 Nov 1917, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA (Age 72 years) Mother Wesseler, Katherine Wilhelmenia, b. 27 Feb 1853, Weldon Springs, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA , d. 3 Nov 1946, Genoa, Nance County, Nebraska, USA (Age 93 years) Married 19 Oct 1871 [4, 5]
Linwood (Nelson) Jungerman, in her history of the family, wrote this sketch of Christian and Katherine's life:
"Christian Andrew and Katherine Wilhelimena first lived in St. Charles, MO, later farmed near there. It was on this farm that all the children were born and some grew to adulthood. This farm home was unusual then and still is today. It had been built before the Civil War, three stories high, of solid brick construction. Bricks were probably burned on the farm and labor was possibly slave. Rooms were spacious, ceilings were high, cool in summer, and warm in winter. It was to this home that Fred, Andreas' son born in 1861, came in need of a family home. He was only a child, but he felt that his room was more desirable than his presence in the home of his step-mother. Christian and Katherine welcomed him and there he remained for twenty years. In this way Christian could repay his brother Andreas for bringing him to the New World and providing a home for him. Through out life Katherine's motto was 'the house is always big enough if the heart is.'
"Another incident that happened in this home had to do with the arrival one evening of [a] sick and weary veteran of the Confederate Army. He was given food and lodging and when he was better, he asked Christian A. if he had any type of light work he might do for his 'keep.' Christian had long talks with him, realized he had been seriously wounded, and also realized here was an educated Englishman. The upshot of the matter was he offered this man a room in the upper story of the house where he could operate a subscription school in exchange for teaching his children the proper use, pronunciation, reading and writing of English. They spoke German entirely in the home. How long this lasted we do not know but the teacher remained until his death. We are also sure that many a long winter evening was spent by the two old soldiers, on in blue, the other grey, refighting the campaigns of the war.
"Life was very pleasant and comfortable in this farm home. They were near their church home and many of Christian Andrews family had come to St. Charles County as well as innumerable Wesseler family relations. As the children grew to man and womanhood Christian realized there was not work or room for all on so small a farm. He began to look westward. He found a purchaser for his land among the descendants of Andreas family. The fourth generation descendants live in this home today. The house has been re-modeled and is very comfortable and beautiful. On the east side of the house runs a road, Jungerman Road, on local maps.
"In the spring of 1894 the family moved to Audrain County near Rush Hill, Mo. Christian Andrew was in search of a larger farm and better soil. Finding the soil of Audrain County not up to their expectations, they moved on to Saline County around the turn of the century. Christian suffered a stroke in 1907 and remained an invalid the rest of his life.
"They moved to the town of Blackburn after his stroke. When the wife of Julius died, they moved to his home. After Julius re-married, they spent some time with their daughter, Anna, who lived near by. He died in 1917 while in the home of Julius. He is buried in the Mayview Cemetery as are a number of his descendants.
"Christian's youngest son, Theodore, attended his father's funeral. He was then in training to go back to fight against the country Christian had left so long ago.
"Christian Andrew has been portrayed to me as a very stern man - a strict disciplinarian. Life and the army had left its mark on him and he ruled his family of fun-loving children with a firm hand. His wife was rather prone to spoiling her children. She could never conceal her love for them. In her eyes they were perfect, so between the two they created a family of well-balanced children.
"After her son, Theodore, returned from the army, he began farming in Nebraska. His mother made a home for him there as he never married. Her greatest pleasures in her later years were in planning the family reunions which they held in Nebraska around Thanksgiving."
Family ID F1139 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Ackerman, Julius J., b. 7 Sep 1872, Madison County, Illinois, USA , d. 28 Nov 1962, Genoa, Nance County, Nebraska, USA (Age 90 years) Married 28 Dec 1904 Saline County, Missouri, USA [2, 6] - The couple had no children.
In compiling her genealogy of the Jungermann family, Linwood (Nelson) Jungermann wrote a short biographical sketch of Meta (Jungermann) Ackerman.
"When I asked Aunt Meta to write a short account of her life a number of years ago, this is what she gave me:
'J. J. Ackerman was born in Madison County, Illinois, September 7, 1872. We were married in Saline County, Missouri, December 28, 1904. We lived in Audrain County until 1910 when we moved to Hoxie, Kansas. Lived there until 1947. Have been here in Genoa, Nebraska since then. I -- Meta was born April 21, 1880.'
"This is so characteristically Meta Jungerman that it had to be included. There was never an unnecessary frill or pretension in her life. She was beautiful and full of fun in later life when I knew her and know she was even more so in her youth. He sister, Emma, said the only time she ever saw tears in her father (Christian's) eyes was when Meta and her new husband drove away after their wedding. He made the remark that Meta reminded him so much of his mother who had died so long ago in Germany.
"Their years in Hoxie, Kansas were checkered ones. First very then [sic] the drought cycle began in the thirties. It was in the summer of 1935 that we stopped at her home, and I made her acquaintance. A sandstorm was blowing, but as she took us around to show us her home -- her garden with its windmill in the center, always pumping -- her basement with its row on row of good canned meat, fruit and vegetables -- her poultry house with its prize Wyandotte flock of hens -- the rich milk, cream, and butter from a small dairy herd, we knew this couple had nothing to fear from a hostile land. You felt the strength of the character of people who would scorn any inference that it was a hard life. A far cry from the 'Gim-me' generation of today."
Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 Family ID F1206 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Sources - [S92] Earl and Linwood Jungerman, Christian Andrew Jungermann and Descendants, 1845-1976 (Missouri: privately published typescript, [after 1975?]), pages 18, 45.
Meta Louise Jungerman; born 21 April 1880 in St. Charles, Missouri. - [S157] Tombstone Inscriptions of Lafayette County, Missouri, compiled by Marty Helm Brunetti; Volume VII (Odessa, Missouri: M. H. Bruetti, 1991), Mayview Zion Cemetery, page 153.
Ackerman: Julius J; 1872 (7 Sep); 1962 (28 Nov,Genoa,NE). Meta E; 1880 (21 Apr); 1969 (17 June; Jungerman [sic]).
According to the instructions on page 2 of this compilation, the information in parentheses comes from sources other than the tombstone inscription. These additional sources are not identified. - [S92] Earl and Linwood Jungerman, Christian Andrew Jungermann and Descendants, 1845-1976 (Missouri: privately published typescript, [after 1975?]), pages 18, 45.
Meta Louise died 1969. The author cites a "gravestone record. Mayview Cemetery." - [S92] Earl and Linwood Jungerman, Christian Andrew Jungermann and Descendants, 1845-1976 (Missouri: privately published typescript, [after 1975?]), pages 17-18.
Johann Frederick Andreas Christian Jungermann & Katherine Wilhelmenia Wessler; married 19 October 1871. Biographical sketch on pages 22-24. - [S157] Tombstone Inscriptions of Lafayette County, Missouri, compiled by Marty Helm Brunetti; Volume VII (Odessa, Missouri: M. H. Bruetti, 1991), Mayview Zion Cemetery, page 150.
Jungerman [sic]: C A (Chris); 26 Oct 1845; 17 Nov 1917. Wilhelmine K (Katherine) Wessler; wife; 27 Feb 1853; 3 Nov 1946.
According to the instructions on page 2 of this compilation, the information in parentheses comes from sources other than the tombstone inscription. These additional sources are not identified. - [S92] Earl and Linwood Jungerman, Christian Andrew Jungermann and Descendants, 1845-1976 (Missouri: privately published typescript, [after 1975?]), page 45.
J. J. Ackerman and Meta Louise Jungerman; married 28 December 1904 in Saline County, Missouri. The marriage produced no children. Biographical sketch of Meta and J. J. on pages 45-46.
- [S92] Earl and Linwood Jungerman, Christian Andrew Jungermann and Descendants, 1845-1976 (Missouri: privately published typescript, [after 1975?]), pages 18, 45.
