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- [S146] Ancestry.com (library edition), Baltimore Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1820-1872 (http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7480 in December 2017), NARA series M255, roll 3, list 37. Accessed 16 January and 19 July 2006.
Transcription by J. Mark Fiegenbaum from digital images of the original passenger list for the bark Leontine, sailing from Bremen, arriving at Baltimore, Maryland on 28 June 1841. Passenger 36: Sophia Birbaum [sic]; age 18; sister of Herrman [sic] Birbaum [sic], age 28; from Ladbergen; bound for Cincinati [sic]. Sophia was traveling with her brother; Elsabey Birbaum [sic], age 26, her brother's wife; and Wilhelm Birbaum [sic], age 1, her brother's son. The family's baggage consisted of 3 boxes and 1 bag. If Sophia were 18 at the time of her arrival in Baltimore, then she would have been born about 1822 or 1823.
- [S35] Immanuels United Church of Christ, The History of Our Church, 1839-1989: One Hundred Fifty Years (Holstein, Missouri: Immanuels United Church of Christ, 1989), p. 303.
Burial Records. Sophia Katha. Oberhellmann. Died 29 August 1909. Born 15 April 1832 in Teklenburg [sic], Germany.
- [S146] Ancestry.com (library edition), Baltimore Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1820-1872 (http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7480 in December 2017), NARA series M255, roll 3, list 37. Accessed 16 January and 19 July 2006.
Transcription by J. Mark Fiegenbaum from digital images of the original passenger list for the bark Leontine, sailing from Bremen, arriving at Baltimore, Maryland on 28 June 1841. Passenger 36: Sophia Birbaum [sic]; age 18; sister of Herrman [sic] Birbaum [sic], age 28; from Ladbergen; bound for Cincinati [sic]. Sophia was traveling with her brother; Elsabey Birbaum [sic], age 26, her brother's wife; and Wilhelm Birbaum [sic], age 1, her brother's son. The family's baggage consisted of 3 boxes and 1 bag.
- [S35] Immanuels United Church of Christ, The History of Our Church, 1839-1989: One Hundred Fifty Years (Holstein, Missouri: Immanuels United Church of Christ, 1989), p. 303.
Burial Records. Sophia Katha. Oberhellmann. Died 29 August 1909.
- [S35] Immanuels United Church of Christ, The History of Our Church, 1839-1989: One Hundred Fifty Years (Holstein, Missouri: Immanuels United Church of Christ, 1989), p. 303.
Burial Records. Sophia Katha. Oberhellmann. Died 29 August 1909. Buried in cemetery 2 [i.e., the cemetery located south of and next to the brick church dedicated in 1884 as the German Evangelical Immanuels Church of Holstein]. Born 15 April 1832 in Teklenburg [sic], Germany.
- [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 14.
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Bierbaum, child of Johann Bierbaum and Anna Wibbeler, was born on 15 October 1812 at Ladbergen, Westphalia, Germany.
- [S35] Immanuels United Church of Christ, The History of Our Church, 1839-1989: One Hundred Fifty Years (Holstein, Missouri: Immanuels United Church of Christ, 1989), p. 244.
Marriage record for Heinrich Wilhelm Oberhelmann and Catharina Sophia Wihelmina Bierbaum. Married 3 June 1852. The groom is identified as coming from Taklenburg [sic]. Witnesses were Gerhard Hackmann and Friedrich Steinkamp.
- [S138] Mrs. Howard W. Woodruff, Marriage Records, Warren County, Missouri: Books A and B, 1833-1860 (Kansas City, Missouri: Mrs. H. W. Woodruff, 1969), page 34.
Marriage Book "B," page 203. Henry William Oberhellmann and Catharina Sophia Bierbaum married on 3 June 1852 by "Joseph Reiger [sic], German Protestant at Holstien [sic]." See page 62 for Mrs. Woodruff's key to the "Ministers and Justices who performed the ceremonies..."
- [S35] Immanuels United Church of Christ, The History of Our Church, 1839-1989: One Hundred Fifty Years (Holstein, Missouri: Immanuels United Church of Christ, 1989), p. 345.
Biographical sketch entitled Heinrich W. Oberhellmann Family. "In 1852, Heinrich remarried to Sophia Bierbaum of Femme Osage. This marriage had seven children." The sketch ends with a list of Heinrich's children; a total of eight names. The first, F. William, has already been identified earlier in the biography as being from the first marriage. The remaining seven are presumably from the second marriage: Anna, Johanna, Wilhelmina, Frederick J., Martin S., Henry H., and Daniel A. This count seems not to be confirmed by the published baptismal records of the church at Holstein, which indicates that Heinrich and Sophia had nine children.
- [S229] History of St. Charles, Montgomery, and Warren Counties, Missouri, Written and Compiled From the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History Of Their Townships, Towns and Villages, Together With a Condensed History af Missouri; a Reliable and Detailed History of St. Charles, Montgomery and Warren Counties - Their Pioneer Record, Resources, Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens; General and Local Statistics of Great Value; Incidents and Reminiscences (St. Louis, Missouri: National Historical Company, 1885), Biographical sketch of Henry W. Oberhellmann; pages 1,046-1,047.
Henry W. Oberhellmann's second wife was "Miss Sophia Bierbaum, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Bierbaum, originally of Germany, but at the time residents of St. Charles county, both of whom are now deceased. By his last marriage were born nine children, two of whom died in infancy. The others are: Henry, Mina, Fritz, Johanne, Martin, Daniel and Anne, the last of whom is the eldest and wife of Fritz Lichtenberg, a farmer of this county."
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