John was the oldest child of Carsten Friedrich Heinrich Meyer & Anna Dorothea (Ritz) Meyer. He was born in Vacha, Germany, as Johann Heinrich Meyer.
His father Heinrich and mother Anna arrived in America aboard the ship Union on 6 Oct 1857.
The family ended up with Chicago, Illinois, and stayed there for about 15 years. Four children were born in Illinois: Catherine Dorothea Marie (died in 1866), Eleonora Christina Dorathea, Friedrich Heinrich Carl and Catherine. They must have moved shortly after Catherine's birth to Iowa, and Catherine must have died young, as the 1870 census is the only one in which she appears.
John was 39 years of age before he married and not much is known of his life before that. On 20 Mar 1885, he married Anna Christina Magdelena Uck at the St. John Lutheran Church in Paullina, Iowa. The couple had 5 children. His wife became ill, and he thought the weather in Florida would improve her health. (It didn't because she had lung cancer instead of TB.)
John responded to advertisements about a land boom in Florida and he bought an orange grove sight unseen. It was on the Oklawaha River near Ocala in Hamilton County, Florida (near Silver Spring). Then, as now, that area was a tourist attraction. Now there are glass-bottomed boats for the tourists. The tourist boats passed by on the river and the Meyer children would wave at the tourists.
Anna,his wife, died following a stomach operation done on the kitchen table in their home, from which she did not awake, which left John with five children ranging in age from 3 to 13 years of age.
He married again the next year to Bertha Lindemann and five more children were born into the family. Interesting, that of the last 5 children born, none of them had children. All of John's descendants are through his first 5 children...
John passed away on 25 July 1926, and Bertha passed away in 1954.
His father Heinrich and mother Anna arrived in America aboard the ship Union on 6 Oct 1857.
The family ended up with Chicago, Illinois, and stayed there for about 15 years. Four children were born in Illinois: Catherine Dorothea Marie (died in 1866), Eleonora Christina Dorathea, Friedrich Heinrich Carl and Catherine. They must have moved shortly after Catherine's birth to Iowa, and Catherine must have died young, as the 1870 census is the only one in which she appears.
John was 39 years of age before he married and not much is known of his life before that. On 20 Mar 1885, he married Anna Christina Magdelena Uck at the St. John Lutheran Church in Paullina, Iowa. The couple had 5 children. His wife became ill, and he thought the weather in Florida would improve her health. (It didn't because she had lung cancer instead of TB.)
John responded to advertisements about a land boom in Florida and he bought an orange grove sight unseen. It was on the Oklawaha River near Ocala in Hamilton County, Florida (near Silver Spring). Then, as now, that area was a tourist attraction. Now there are glass-bottomed boats for the tourists. The tourist boats passed by on the river and the Meyer children would wave at the tourists.
Anna,his wife, died following a stomach operation done on the kitchen table in their home, from which she did not awake, which left John with five children ranging in age from 3 to 13 years of age.
He married again the next year to Bertha Lindemann and five more children were born into the family. Interesting, that of the last 5 children born, none of them had children. All of John's descendants are through his first 5 children...
John passed away on 25 July 1926, and Bertha passed away in 1954.
John was the oldest child of Carsten Friedrich Heinrich Meyer & Anna Dorothea (Ritz) Meyer. He was born in Vacha, Germany, as Johann Heinrich Meyer.
His father Heinrich and mother Anna arrived in America aboard the ship Union on 6 Oct 1857.
The family ended up with Chicago, Illinois, and stayed there for about 15 years. Four children were born in Illinois: Catherine Dorothea Marie (died in 1866), Eleonora Christina Dorathea, Friedrich Heinrich Carl and Catherine. They must have moved shortly after Catherine's birth to Iowa, and Catherine must have died young, as the 1870 census is the only one in which she appears.
John was 39 years of age before he married and not much is known of his life before that. On 20 Mar 1885, he married Anna Christina Magdelena Uck at the St. John Lutheran Church in Paullina, Iowa. The couple had 5 children. His wife became ill, and he thought the weather in Florida would improve her health. (It didn't because she had lung cancer instead of TB.)
John responded to advertisements about a land boom in Florida and he bought an orange grove sight unseen. It was on the Oklawaha River near Ocala in Hamilton County, Florida (near Silver Spring). Then, as now, that area was a tourist attraction. Now there are glass-bottomed boats for the tourists. The tourist boats passed by on the river and the Meyer children would wave at the tourists.
Anna,his wife, died following a stomach operation done on the kitchen table in their home, from which she did not awake, which left John with five children ranging in age from 3 to 13 years of age.
He married again the next year to Bertha Lindemann and five more children were born into the family. Interesting, that of the last 5 children born, none of them had children. All of John's descendants are through his first 5 children...
John passed away on 25 July 1926, and Bertha passed away in 1954.
His father Heinrich and mother Anna arrived in America aboard the ship Union on 6 Oct 1857.
The family ended up with Chicago, Illinois, and stayed there for about 15 years. Four children were born in Illinois: Catherine Dorothea Marie (died in 1866), Eleonora Christina Dorathea, Friedrich Heinrich Carl and Catherine. They must have moved shortly after Catherine's birth to Iowa, and Catherine must have died young, as the 1870 census is the only one in which she appears.
John was 39 years of age before he married and not much is known of his life before that. On 20 Mar 1885, he married Anna Christina Magdelena Uck at the St. John Lutheran Church in Paullina, Iowa. The couple had 5 children. His wife became ill, and he thought the weather in Florida would improve her health. (It didn't because she had lung cancer instead of TB.)
John responded to advertisements about a land boom in Florida and he bought an orange grove sight unseen. It was on the Oklawaha River near Ocala in Hamilton County, Florida (near Silver Spring). Then, as now, that area was a tourist attraction. Now there are glass-bottomed boats for the tourists. The tourist boats passed by on the river and the Meyer children would wave at the tourists.
Anna,his wife, died following a stomach operation done on the kitchen table in their home, from which she did not awake, which left John with five children ranging in age from 3 to 13 years of age.
He married again the next year to Bertha Lindemann and five more children were born into the family. Interesting, that of the last 5 children born, none of them had children. All of John's descendants are through his first 5 children...
John passed away on 25 July 1926, and Bertha passed away in 1954.
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