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Nicholas Schwenter

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Nicholas Schwenter

Birth
Germany
Death
15 Jan 1908 (aged 64)
Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Find a Grave contributor, Cody Edwards
Suggested edit: In the Bio could you put "Theresia Hoflacher Gallinger (My 3rd Great Grandma) Nicholas's sister and her husband Joseph Gallinger had sponsored Uncle Nicholas, Aunt Elizabeth & the kids to come to the U.S. and loaned them $100. Gallinger's had already arrived in the New World and they wanted Uncle Nicholas to 'come right along'. Uncle Nicholas & Aunt Elizabeth sold everything they had and came a year after the Gallinger Family's move. They used the $100 for passage in steerage on the ship HOHENZOLLERN. Uncle Nicholas & Aunt Elizabeth came to America from Germany with nothing but five cents and five kids. Uncle Nicholas died in 1908 from his wounds a few days after a train collision. Uncle Nicholas worked for the Train Company. Uncle Nicholas & Aunt Elizabeth raised eight children with five born in Germany & three in Michigan.

The train wreck story is titled "The Salem Wreck".
I have the full story of the train accident as it is in our Family History Book titled ".... and the horse will take you there" By: Jim Lehnert in 1997.
Contributor: Cody Edwards (49296266) • [email protected]
Find a Grave contributor, Cody Edwards
Suggested edit: In the Bio could you put "Theresia Hoflacher Gallinger (My 3rd Great Grandma) Nicholas's sister and her husband Joseph Gallinger had sponsored Uncle Nicholas, Aunt Elizabeth & the kids to come to the U.S. and loaned them $100. Gallinger's had already arrived in the New World and they wanted Uncle Nicholas to 'come right along'. Uncle Nicholas & Aunt Elizabeth sold everything they had and came a year after the Gallinger Family's move. They used the $100 for passage in steerage on the ship HOHENZOLLERN. Uncle Nicholas & Aunt Elizabeth came to America from Germany with nothing but five cents and five kids. Uncle Nicholas died in 1908 from his wounds a few days after a train collision. Uncle Nicholas worked for the Train Company. Uncle Nicholas & Aunt Elizabeth raised eight children with five born in Germany & three in Michigan.

The train wreck story is titled "The Salem Wreck".
I have the full story of the train accident as it is in our Family History Book titled ".... and the horse will take you there" By: Jim Lehnert in 1997.
Contributor: Cody Edwards (49296266) • [email protected]


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  • Created by: Bonnie Hoy
  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80863450/nicholas-schwenter: accessed ), memorial page for Nicholas Schwenter (25 Nov 1843–15 Jan 1908), Find a Grave Memorial ID 80863450, citing Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan, USA; Maintained by Bonnie Hoy (contributor 47000652).