Author: Francelia Stuenkel

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Published: 1954

Total Pages: 118

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Johann Heinrich Stuenkel was born 25 January 1789 in Empede, Hannover Province, Germany. His wife Margareta was born in Hannover Province, Germany in 1778. They came to America in 1850 where " ... Heinrich bought 160 acres of land in what is now Will County, [Illinois]near the Cook County line, twenty-five miles south of what was then scarcely more than the village of Chicago ..."--Page 2. He was buried in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Richton, Illinois, death date unknown. Margareta Stuenkel's death occurred 26 December 1850 or 24 December 1851. She is buried in Schorsen Cemetery, Bensenville, Illinois, Volberding lot. Descendants lived mainly in Illinois and Minnesota.