Frederich, known as Fred, was born on august 14, 1851. As a result of the two wars ( 1848-50 and 1864) between Denmark and Germany. Denmark had to code its provinces of Schleswig and Holstein to Germany. Germany wanted Schleswig and Holstein so that they might build a canal across this territory to connect the Baltic and North Seas (The Kiel Canal). When Schleswig and Holstein came under German rule, it meant that the people in those provinces had to be educated in the German way and speak the German language. by 1864 young Fred would have been 13 years old, and we can only imagine this must have been quite an adjustment for him as well as his country men. Fred emigrated to the United states in 1870 at the age of 19, and, after having worked in Arkansas, Kansas and Kentucky, went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained 5 years and became a naturalized citizen. (on his naturalization papers he, of course, had to be listed as a German subject but he always called himself a Dane.) Sometime after this he opened a Blacksmith and Wagon Making Shop at Campbellton, Missouri, having learned the blacksmithing and farrier trade in Germany. On December 23, 1879 Fred married Miss Caroline Schaeffer, and in 1890 they moved to a nearby farm. Several years later, they moved back to St. Louis where Fred worked again at the blacksmith trade, most of the time having his own shop. He retired at the age of 70, and died on July 14, 1937 at the age of 85. He was interred in the Oak Hill cemetery at Kirkwood, Missouri.
Caroline Sophia Wilhelmine SCHAEFFER
Caroline Sophia Wilhelmine Schaeffer was born March 5, 1859 at Potosi, Missouri. During the Civil War period Caroline lived with her grandparents (The Wurlls) on their farm at Campbellton, Missouri. When it was rumored that Price's raiders were headed that way, a number of women in the neighborhood rounded up their families, horses, and wagons and fled to a nearby forest. A dog had followed them, and, fearful lest its barking reveal their hiding place to the raiders, Mrs. Marie Wurll (Caroline's aunt by marriage) choked the dog to death with her garter. However, the raiders did locate them but, after taking the women's horses and leaving their half-starved horses for the women, left without molesting anyone.
After the War Caroline joined her family at Leavenworth, but returned to Campbellton, Missouri upon the death of her grandmother in 1877 to act as housekeeper for her grandfather, William Wurll. On December 23, 1879 she became the bride of Fred Hansen in a single home wedding.
Caroline died on May 31 1951, after a brief illness and her body was interred in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Kirkwood, Missouri. She was a member of the Richmond Heights American Legion Auxiliary and the St. Louis County Chapter of American War Mothers.
Marriage Notes for Frederick Hansen and Caroline Sophia Wilhelmine SCHAEFFER-272301
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Thusnelda Auguste (Nelda) HANSEN
Nelda was a bookkeeper/stenographer in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1925 she went to Laramie, Wyoming to keep house for her widowed brother Fred and to care for his motherless children Frank and Earle. She stayed until the children were grown. She worked as a cook in a retirement home (Ivinson Home) in Laramie, Wyoming, going into the home herself after retiring. She died on March 20, 1973, and is buried in the same cemetery that Fred and Hazel were buried in.
Antonie Florence (Floss) HANSEN
Notes for Leona Hinely concerning Florence (Floss) Hansen
Floss was a stenographer/clerk who worked in St. Louis, Missouri. She worked for the Cupples Tire company for quite a number of years. She attended High School for one year in the daytime and for several years at night. they gave her credit on her studies and said she had enough credits to entitle her to a diploma. But by that time Floss was hard of hearing and eye-deep in studying Lip reading, she didn't apply for the diploma. (she had become to discouraged). she is an avid reader, and I her Neice Leona Hinely, consider her a High School graduate in 'MY BOOK". Florence was a charter member of the St. Louis Hearing and Speech Center. ( October 12, 1920 )
Marriage Notes for Louis W. Becker and Sophia ELSNER-272107
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