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Anna Johanna Elisabeth Wahrenburg
4 Apr 1859 Altenplathow - 9 Nov 1881 Gasconade County, Missouri
She immigrated from Hamburg to the USA and arrived in New York on 5 Oct 1871.


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Hermann A. Pfundt
25 Dec 1850 Genthin - 17 Feb 1943 Augusta, Missouri
He came to the USA on 28 Aug 1878.

Anna and Hermann married on 30 Oct 1879 in Lafayette IN. The couple had one stillborn child.

Anna Wahrenburg was born at Genthin-Altenplathow April 4, 1859 and immigrated to America at the age of 12 with her widowed mother and five sisters on the S.S. Silesia, arriving in New York October 5, 1871. They came to Lafayette, Indiana where an older brother, her maternal grandfather and the families of her mother’s brother and sister were living. 

On October 30, 1879 she was married to the Reverend Hermann Pfundt at the German Methodist Episcopal Church in Lafayette, which the Wahrenburgs attended.

Hermann Pfundt was born December 25, 1850 at Genthin, the son of Wilhelm and Hermine (Steinweg) Pfundt. Several of the Genthin Pfundts were godparents to the children of August and Auguste Wahrenburg, Anna’s parents. Hermann decided to become a missionary in Africa and entered the Mission House in Berlin where he studied theology. However, he was unable to meet the physical requirements for missionary service in Africa and came instead to America, arriving in New York on the S.S. Herder from Hamburg on August 28, 1878. He spent six months studying theology in a seminary at Marthasville, Missouri, then went to Buffalo, New York where he was ordained a German Evangelical Church pastor at St. Paul’s German Evangelical Church on May 11, 1879.

 

After Hermann’s marriage to Anna the young couple moved to Petoskey, Emmet County, Michigan in 1880, where Hermann was first called to a pastorate. They are enumerated June 14, 1880 at Petoskey in the federal census of Michigan. In 1881 Hermann was called to a pastorate at St. Johannis German Evangelical Church in Stolpe, Missouri near Hermann. Anna was pregnant with their first child and the following sad entry appears, written in Hermann’s hand, in the church books of St. Johannis, dated November 10, 1881:

"Anna Pfundt, Ehefrau des Rev. H. Pfundt (geborene Wahrenburg), geboren am 4. April 1859 in Deutschland. Starb am 9. November im Kindbett, eine halbe St. nach der Geburt eines toten Knaben. Ihr Alter war 22 J. 7 M. 5 Tage."
In English translation: Anna Pfundt (née Wahrenburg), wife of the Reverend H. Pfundt, born April 4, 1859 in Germany. Died November 9 in childbed, half an hour after giving birth to a dead boy. Her age was 22 years, 7 months, 5 days.

Hermann remarried August 29, 1882 at Bay, Missouri to a young parishoner, Adeline Kehlenbrink. They had five children: Theodore, Hedwig, Taletha, Eric and Olga, who were born between 1884 and 1895 in Illinois and Missouri. Theodore and Eric also also became pastors of the German Evangelical Church. Hermann had a long, active life in the ministry at locations in Michigan, Illinois and Missouri. He served the Ebenezer Church at Augusta, Missouri from 1911-1934 where Adeline died in 1934. 
 

Hermann Pfundt

His last ministry was in 1935 at Matson, Missouri. He spent his last years in retirement at the home of his daughter Olga, Mrs. Erwin Mallingkrodt, in Augusta, where he died February 21, 1943 at the age of 92. At the time of his death Theodore was a pastor at Cook, Nebraska and Erich was a pastor at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

 

Gravestone for Anna (Wahrenburg) Pfundt
in church yard St. John's, Stolpe, Gasconade County MO
Inscription on top: "Unser Glaube ist der Sieg"
"Our faith is the victory"



Wahrenburg Genealogy (entry page)

Family Tree of August Wahrenburg (1821-1871) & Auguste Huch including immigration details

Family Tree of Wilhelm Wahrenburg (1847-1923) & Friederike Führ - Germany

Family Tree of Carl Wahrenburg (1849-1897) & Caroline Reule - USA

Family Tree of Marie Klugel Weber Wahrenburg (1851-1912) - USA

Family Tree of Auguste Neumann Wahrenburg (1852-1945) - USA

Family Tree of Luise Scheurenbrand Wahrenburg (1854-1893) - USA

Family Tree of Wilhelmine Ebbeler Wahrenburg (1856-1939) - USA

Family Tree of Anna Pfundt Wahrenburg (1859-1881) - USA

Family Tree of Bertha Seraphim Wahrenburg (1861-1935) - USA

Huch Genealogy (Auguste Wahrenburg's family) incl. immigration details


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