02/02/12

Sondergeld Family:   Martin Sondergeld is the father of the Northern Ohio Sondergeld Family.  Data on his descendents, his German roots, and the Hagemann Family is included in this section..

Martin Sondergeld (5/18/1823-11/26/1884) & Anna Barbara Hagemann (9/1/1834-11/26/1924)   

Jacob Sondergeld (10/31/1867-1/28/1943) & Magdalena Lewis (4/15/1875-10/9/1951)           

Walter Sondergeld (11/10/1901-5/29/1981) & Marie Kinsel (2/2/1901-2/20/1982)                    

Donald Sondergeld (11/13/1930-         ) & Mary Towne (6/11/1934-          )

 Hagemann  Family:   Don Sondergeld first published both a Sondergeld and a Hagemann  genealogy in 1988.  A Katherine Hageman had also done work on the Hageman genealogy.  The Sondergeld and Hagemann families came from Unterhaun near Bad Hersfeld in Hesse, Germany. Don is descended from his great grandfather Martin Sondergeld and great grandmother Anna Barbara Hagemann, Martin's third wife.

Sondergeld Family in Australia:  Martin Sondergeld's brother, John, emigrated to Crows Nest (near Toowoomba) in Queensland, Australia in the same year (1855) that Martin emigrated to Ohio.  Neville Sondergeld from Toowoomba, Queensland did a genealogy of Neville's great grandfather John, which is included.  When Don and Mary visited Neville in 1994 we went to Crows Nest which has Sondergeld farmhouses and a Sondergeld Road that are similar to the Sondergeld farmhouses on the Sondergeld Road in Ohio.  Don knew what Charlton Heston felt like at the end of The Planet of the Apes.

Louis Family:    Don Sondergeld's grand father Jacob Sondergeld's wife was Magdalene Louis.  Greg Knopp's great grandmother was Anna Louis, Magdalene's sister.  Their father, Johann Louis was born in Mecklenburg, Germany on 11/09/1834. He and his father left Germany on 10/20/1852 and arrived in New York on 3/14/1853, a 19 week voyage. Greg has done both a Louis and a Knopp genealogy.  Both genealogies are  included under the Louis link.

Kinsel Family:   Don Sondergeld's mother was Marie Kinsel.  A Kinsel genealogy is included. Gottfried Kinsel was born in 1834 in Posen Prussia (now Poznan, Poland) We do not know if he came from somewhere in the province of Posen or from the city of Posen. He came to America on the ship Celestial Empire which arrived in New York from Bremen on July 13, 1872.  He had 10 children.  Don is a grandson of  Henry, the fourth child.  Gottfried's third child was Ottilie.  One of her granddaughters married Arthur Sondergeld, a grandson of Martin Sondergeld  Martin is Don Sondergeld's great grandfather. 

Sutter Family:   Marie Kinsel's mother was Amelia Sutter.  Mildred Danklefsen Walmsley (whose mother was a Sutter) did a genealogy of the Sutter family.  This has been updated by Jeanette Danklefsen Schwab.  It is included.  Also the many Sutter Lutheran Ministers are shown.

Towne Family:   A book has been written on the Towne genealogy. A summary has been included.  Mary Towne Sondergeld wrote a letter 5/15/2001  to grandson Ryan Whitney quoting family background on witchcraft from Kenneth Robert's book: "Trending Into Maine". Three of Mary's  ancestors were accused of being witches in Salem, Massachusetts and two were actually hanged. 

The Pulitzer  Prize winning book:  "A Midwife's Tale:  The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is the diary of Mary Towne Sondergeld's great great great great grandmother.   Patricia L Schmidt's book: Margaret Chase Smith, Beyond Convention contained a quote from Mary Towne Sondergeld's mother Loretta Dillon Towne.

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