Johann Nicolaus Gunkel was baptized 12 October 1828 in the Evangelical Church in OberRamstadt, Hessen, Germany. Son of Johann Adam Gunkel and Anna Margareth Hofmann Gunkel. He came to America with his parents ca 1830-1832.
"Nicholas Gunkle" married "Sena Reeves" on January 27, 1849 in Morgan County, Indiana (Indiana State Library "Marriages through 1850").
Granddaughter, Stella Softley wrote about Nicolaus: 'He and Sena and children traveled by ox team from the wooded country of Indiana to Kansas, where they homesteaded in the unfenced territory 'till the grasshopper plague drove them to Missouri. I remember him as a quiet, kindly, middle-sized man with silvery hair and very blue eyes.'
1850 census: Jefferson Twp, Morgan Co., IN
1860 census: Emporia Twp, Lyon Co., KS
1876 state census: Cass Co., MO
1880 census: Index Twp, Cass Co., MO
1900 census: Lincoln Twp, Dallas Co., MO
1910 census: Lincoln Twp, Dallas Co., MO
Parents:
Johann Adam Gunkel (1789- )
Anna Margareth Hofmann (1791-1866)
Children:
Ila Jefferson Gunkel [son] (1851- )
Anna Louisa Gunkel Charlton (1853-1926)
Noah Gunkel (1859-1934)
Amanda J. Gunkel Evans Hubbell (1862-1942)
Vienna Victoria Gunkel Softley (1865-1916)
Daniel Gunkel (1869-1966)
"Nicholas Gunkle" married "Sena Reeves" on January 27, 1849 in Morgan County, Indiana (Indiana State Library "Marriages through 1850").
Granddaughter, Stella Softley wrote about Nicolaus: 'He and Sena and children traveled by ox team from the wooded country of Indiana to Kansas, where they homesteaded in the unfenced territory 'till the grasshopper plague drove them to Missouri. I remember him as a quiet, kindly, middle-sized man with silvery hair and very blue eyes.'
1850 census: Jefferson Twp, Morgan Co., IN
1860 census: Emporia Twp, Lyon Co., KS
1876 state census: Cass Co., MO
1880 census: Index Twp, Cass Co., MO
1900 census: Lincoln Twp, Dallas Co., MO
1910 census: Lincoln Twp, Dallas Co., MO
Parents:
Johann Adam Gunkel (1789- )
Anna Margareth Hofmann (1791-1866)
Children:
Ila Jefferson Gunkel [son] (1851- )
Anna Louisa Gunkel Charlton (1853-1926)
Noah Gunkel (1859-1934)
Amanda J. Gunkel Evans Hubbell (1862-1942)
Vienna Victoria Gunkel Softley (1865-1916)
Daniel Gunkel (1869-1966)
Johann Nicolaus Gunkel was baptized 12 October 1828 in the Evangelical Church in OberRamstadt, Hessen, Germany. Son of Johann Adam Gunkel and Anna Margareth Hofmann Gunkel. He came to America with his parents ca 1830-1832.
"Nicholas Gunkle" married "Sena Reeves" on January 27, 1849 in Morgan County, Indiana (Indiana State Library "Marriages through 1850").
Granddaughter, Stella Softley wrote about Nicolaus: 'He and Sena and children traveled by ox team from the wooded country of Indiana to Kansas, where they homesteaded in the unfenced territory 'till the grasshopper plague drove them to Missouri. I remember him as a quiet, kindly, middle-sized man with silvery hair and very blue eyes.'
1850 census: Jefferson Twp, Morgan Co., IN
1860 census: Emporia Twp, Lyon Co., KS
1876 state census: Cass Co., MO
1880 census: Index Twp, Cass Co., MO
1900 census: Lincoln Twp, Dallas Co., MO
1910 census: Lincoln Twp, Dallas Co., MO
Parents:
Johann Adam Gunkel (1789- )
Anna Margareth Hofmann (1791-1866)
Children:
Ila Jefferson Gunkel [son] (1851- )
Anna Louisa Gunkel Charlton (1853-1926)
Noah Gunkel (1859-1934)
Amanda J. Gunkel Evans Hubbell (1862-1942)
Vienna Victoria Gunkel Softley (1865-1916)
Daniel Gunkel (1869-1966)
"Nicholas Gunkle" married "Sena Reeves" on January 27, 1849 in Morgan County, Indiana (Indiana State Library "Marriages through 1850").
Granddaughter, Stella Softley wrote about Nicolaus: 'He and Sena and children traveled by ox team from the wooded country of Indiana to Kansas, where they homesteaded in the unfenced territory 'till the grasshopper plague drove them to Missouri. I remember him as a quiet, kindly, middle-sized man with silvery hair and very blue eyes.'
1850 census: Jefferson Twp, Morgan Co., IN
1860 census: Emporia Twp, Lyon Co., KS
1876 state census: Cass Co., MO
1880 census: Index Twp, Cass Co., MO
1900 census: Lincoln Twp, Dallas Co., MO
1910 census: Lincoln Twp, Dallas Co., MO
Parents:
Johann Adam Gunkel (1789- )
Anna Margareth Hofmann (1791-1866)
Children:
Ila Jefferson Gunkel [son] (1851- )
Anna Louisa Gunkel Charlton (1853-1926)
Noah Gunkel (1859-1934)
Amanda J. Gunkel Evans Hubbell (1862-1942)
Vienna Victoria Gunkel Softley (1865-1916)
Daniel Gunkel (1869-1966)
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