earned high school diploma in 1878 in Shelbyville, IN
After wife died, lived with daughter Emma.
ran away after mother died, never to be heard from.
1st Husband: Johann CHRISTOPH Steege Married: 07 JUL 1861 in: Eagle Lake St. Johns, Beecher Will Co IL 3 Born: 19 APR 1834 in: Gr. Nenndorf #40, Schaumburg, Germany 3 Baptized: 26 APR 1834 in: Bad Nenndorf, Kr. Schaumburg, Germany 4 Died: 25 OCT 1869 in: Beecher, Will Co., IL 5 Father: Heinrich Wilhelm Thurnau (born 22 SEP 1809 - America) from Auhagen #15, Germany Mother: Maria Dorothea Charlotte Stock (born 20 MAR 1811 - America) from Idensen #11, Germany Source - Karensgen.com
Heinrich Wilhelm Conrad Chr. Steege Born: 01 NOV 1867 in: Washington Twp., Will Co., IL Baptized: 01 DEC 1867 in: Eagle Lake St. Johns, Beecher Will Co IL 7 Baptism sponsor: Heinrich Wehling, Heinrich Borchers, Wilhelm Kappmeier, Heinrich Matthias, Wilhelm Thurnau, Conrad Wehmhoefer, Heinrich Herbst, Christoph Wilharm. Died: AFT 1882 in: 6 Buried: in: Source - karensgen.com Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Steege Born: 10 NOV 1869 in: Washington Twp., Will Co., IL Baptized: 28 NOV 1869 in: Eagle Lake St. Johns, Beecher Will Co IL 7 Baptism sponsor: Heinrich Wilhelm Turnau, Christoph Steege. Died: AFT 1884 in: 6 Buried: in: Source -karensgen.com
1st Husband: Johann CHRISTOPH Steege Married: 07 JUL 1861 in: Eagle Lake St. Johns, Beecher Will Co IL 3 Born: 19 APR 1834 in: Gr. Nenndorf #40, Schaumburg, Germany 3 Baptized: 26 APR 1834 in: Bad Nenndorf, Kr. Schaumburg, Germany 4 Died: 25 OCT 1869 in: Beecher, Will Co., IL 5 Karensgen.com
1880 census Maria Sophia Wilhelmine Christ. Steege Born: 24 DEC 1866 in: Washington Twp., Will Co., IL 6 Baptized: in: Died: AFT 1880 in: Buried: in: Baptism not found in St. Johns, Eagle Lake Beecher, IL records or Trinity Lutheran Crete, IL records. Source - karensgen.com