Additional information about Wilhelm and Martha E. Landau's children

John (1863-1939) - married Margaret Thompson.  No children.  Buried in Woodside Cemetery, Lee County, Illinois.

Christine (abt 1865-?) - married John Cyrus Smith.  They lived for a time (including during the 1930 census) in Waterloo, IA., and had at least two children:  Monroe Everly, and Gertrude M. 
Monroe E. married Cecelia Johnson and had at least six children:  Wanda, Marcella Darlene, Beverly J., John C., Donna F., and Verna M.    Gertrude M. married Delmar Sproull.  However by the 1940 census, Delmar was married to someone else and lived in Michigan with his and Gertrude’s two sons:  Donald and Kenneth.

Katherine (1866-1920) see previous post.

Anna M. (1868-?) - married William Gleim.  They had at least four children:  Christina, Eddie, Katherine, and Harry (who married Elsie Reinhart.)

Henry (1870-1946) - see previous posts for more detail about Henry and family.

William (1871-?) - married Minnie Gleim.  William Landau farmed in Bradford township, Lee County, IL.  He and Minnie had at least three children:  Nelta M. (who married Bowden Jesse), Anna M. (who married Roland Albrecht), and Arthur (1906-1924.)

Elizabeth Martha (? - ?) - married another Gleim:  Adam. Their children included:  Mabel (m. Roy Ullrich), Celia Marie (m. Glen Hart), Mildred M. (m. Henry Hillison), Florence (m. Harrold Hillison), Vera (m. Glen Gonnerman), Adam (m. Bertha Jacobs.)

Mary (1875-1960) - married Frank S. Anderson.  Three children:  Robert (m. Frances Rugg), William (m. Grace Creamer), and James (m. Maxine Dixon.)

Christopher (1879-1933) - married Mary Ann Lohmeyer.  Christopher and family lived for a time in Floyd Co., IA, but returned to Lee Co., IL by 1930.  At least two children:  John Russell (m. Helen Hoover), and Ruth Marion (m. Henry Weishaar.)

Minnie Henrietta (1881-?) - married William Johnson, an attorney in Winnebago Co., IL.  They had at least one child:  Myrtle L.

NOTE re: the 3 Gleim in-laws - by looking at census records, I suspect that Minnie and Adam were siblings, and William was their cousin. And there were kinship connections between all the Hillisons, Gonnermans, and Reinharts.


DOCUMENTS:

1880 Federal census for Lee Co., IL and LaSalle Co., IL (Gleim)
1910 and 1920 Federal census for Floyd Co., IA ("Landan")
1920, 1930, 1940 Federal census for Black Hawk Co., IA (Landau, Smith, Sproull)
1930 Federal census for Lee Co., IL (Landau)
1910, 1920, 1930 Federal census for Winnebago, IL (Johnson)
1940 Federal census for Berrien, MI (Sproull)

Children of Wilhelm Landau and Martha Elizabeth Moeller

The Landaus were parents of 10 children:

• John (1863-1939) - Farmed in Bradford Township, Lee County, IL
• Christine (abt 1865-?) - Found in 1925 Iowa census in Waterloo, IA, in household of daughter Gertrude Sproul and family
• Katherine (1866-1920) - never married. Died in Lee County, IL; but probably was the Katie Landau who was listed as Hiram Champlin's nurse in the 1910 census
• Anna (1868-?) -
• Henry (1870-1946) - see previous posts
• William (1871-?) - Farmed in Bradford Township, Lee County, IL
• Elizabeth (?-?) -
• Mary (1875-1960) -
• Christopher (1879-1933) - In Floyd County, IA, in 1910 & 1920 censuses.  There's a "Christopher Landau" farm on the 1921 Lee Co, IL, plat book; buried in Woodside Cemetery, Lee Co, IL
• Minnie (1881-?) -

This photo, I believe, was shared by Bill Anderson, Mary Landau's son. [click on image to enlarge it]

Wilhelm Landau and Martha Elizabeth Moeller, Part 2

After a long break, here is Part 2:

Wilhelm (William) Landau was born on February 11, 1836, in Heyerode (Hessen) Germany to Johannes Landau and Anna Martha Denhardt.  [See previous post for map.]  William married Martha Elizabeth Moeller on July 16, 1861, in Lee County, Illinois.  He died there on February 5, 1893.

They arrived on the Sir Robert Peel at Castle Garden, New York City on May 8, 1861.  [See previous post for passenger list image.]  According to Bill Anderson’s book, William immigrated to Lee Co., Illinois, because he had relatives there.  This is correct:   His aunt Anna Christina Denhardt, her husband Christian Reinhart, and their six children were living in Lee County and enumerated in the 1860 census.  I found a passenger listing (on ancestry dot com) for what appears to be Christian Reinhart and family arriving in New York on the Meta on June 24, 1846.

William Landau was a farmhand for the first few years, and then in 1870 purchased 80 acres of Lee County land at $10.00 per acre.  The Portrait and Biographical Record of Lee County, Illinois (published in 1892) includes this sketch of the Landau farm (click on image to enlarge it):

The 1870 census lists William & Elizabeth Landau and children:  John, Christina, Catherine, Anna, and Henry, along with the 70 yr old Catherine "Merl" mentioned in the previous post. 

The family is also enumerated in the 1880 census along with younger children:  William, Elizabeth, Mary, and Christian.

According to Bill Anderson, William made his will in 1892 leaving land to the older sons and $2000 to each of the five daughters; and $2000 to son Christian who was only 14 at the time.    (Current inflation estimate translates to at least $50,000 each.)

William (photo below) was buried in Woodside Cemetery, Lee Center, Illinois.

DOCUMENTS:

• 1860 Federal census for Lee County, Illinois (Reinhart)
• 1870 Federal census for Lee County, Illinois (Landau) 
• 1880 Federal census for Lee County, Illinois (Landau)
• Illinois Public Domain Land Sales  (http://www.ilsos.gov/isa/landSalesSearch.do?purchaseNo=0445251 and http://www.ilsos.gov/isa/landSalesSearch.do?purchaseNo=0445252) 
• Reinarts on passenger list.  The Ship Meta, sailed from Bremen, arrived at NYC Jun 1846.  Ancestry has the record indexed with surname:  Rhardt
• [7/12/14 update]  50+ pages of probate records (including will) - older sons as stated above received land, but with mortgages attached.  In 1895, Henry paid $6400 to the estate for the land he was willed.

DOCUMENTS NEEDED:

• Will for William Landau