Getuige: Wilken Johann Albert Ackersmann zu Hebelermeer
Hij is getrouwd met Emma Jane - Eunice Beach.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 1 december 1895 te Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States, hij was toen 28 jaar oud.Bron 4
Kind(eren):
Johann Albert - Albert - Albert Frank Wilken | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1895 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Emma Jane - Eunice Beach |
Pauline Berens: Genealogienetwerk zus Greetje Berens voorheen EemslandBoekweitBoerenImmigratie
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# nr naam-vader naam-moeder beroep-ouders woonplaats-ouders geslacht naam-kind geboortedatum doopdatum opmerkingen
11 Wilken Anton Albrechten Elisabet Ackersleute Hebelermeer M Johann Albert 18670125 18670126
*20-01-1868 according to death certificate
16-01-2024: Not sure if Johann Albert *25-01-1867 Hebelermeer was the same as Albert Frank *20-01-1868 Hamburg: children weren't named after grandparents, Johann Alberts parents were Anton and Elisabeth, Albert Franks parents were called Fritz and Leiza.
Johann Albert was a Catholic, Albert Frank was a Baptist
Suzanne Denton: ALBERT FRANK WILKEN TIMELINE
Year Day Month
1868 20 January Albert Frank Wilken born to Fritz and Leiza Wilken in Hamburg, Germany.
? Another brother, of unknown age or name, is born to Leiza and Fritz Wilken.
? Birth mother, Leiza, dies.
? Father remarries.
? Albert and his brother are sent to an orphanage when Fritz's new wife takes a dislike to them
? Albert takes job as a baker aboard ships.
1888? Albert "Jumps ship" in New York area, sometime in 1888 or before.
1890 31 October Albert applies for Naturalization in Crystal Falls, Iron County, Michigan.
1893 10 November Albert's naturalization approved in Chicago, Illinois. Albert lived at 980 N Halsted Street
and his witness, Emil Roehl, lived at 624 Jane Street. Both addresses are in Chicago, Illinois.
1894 City Directory Albert lives in Davenport, Iowa, baker, Home Cooking Company, residence Brady NE, corner 6th.
1895 1 December Albert married Eunice Jane Beach, (born 3 Dec 1868 in Arkansas) with Reverend E H Lovett, Pastor of
Davenport's Calgery Baptist Church, presiding. It is unknown if Albert attended this church with Eunice
1896 City Directory Albert in Davenport, Iowa, Proprietor, Model Home Bakery, 1425 Harrison.
1896 19 September Albert's daughter Marguerite born. Albert chose the name, Marguerite, who was a character from the
from the opera, "Faust". Albert was a great opera fan, and attended operas as often as he could.
1898 City Directory Albert in Davenport, Iowa, Proprietor, Three Cent Lunchroom, 225 Perry,residence North Avenue,
corner Arlington.
1898 11 November Albert's daughter, Alberta Dortha, born in Davenport, Iowa.
1900 28 November Albert's daughter, Katherine Rose, born in Clinton, Missouri.
1905 13 June Albert's son, Carl Victor, born in Childress, Texas. All Albert's daughters, and eventually, Carl, too,
worked with Albert in his bakeries, rising at 6:00 am and working until school began.
1907 City Directory Albert and family now live in Lawton, Oklahoma; Albert listed as baker at 407 C Avenue.
1907 9 October Albert's son, Sanford Lawton, born in Lawton, Oklahoma.
1908 10 December Albert's son, Sanford Lawton, dies; Eunice, Sanford Lawton and Alberta Dortha, all buried in Lawton.
1909 City Directory Lawton, Oklahoma, Albert listed as grocer, residence 110A Avenue.
1910 24 January Albert's last son, Robert Ernest Howard, born; Robert legally changed his name to Howard Robert.
1910 22 US Census Census states Albert is bakery cook; residence is 906 5th Street, Lawton, OK.
1911 City Directory Albert is now Manager, Palace Bakery, residence 415 1/2 D Avenue.
1913 City Directory The family still lives in Lawton, but Albert is living and working as a baker in Dallas,Texas.
1913 13 July Lawton, Oklahoma: daughter Alberta Dortha drowns in Cache Creek pool, 4 1/2 miles SE of Lawton.
When Carl began floundering in the water Alberta saved him, but at the cost of her own life.
1913 The Dallas Constitution reported that Albert was currently living and working as a baker in Dallas, TX.
1914 June Albert's daughter, Marguerite, graduates high school in Lawton.
1916 - 1920 City Directories Albert continues to work in Dallas while the rest of the family moves to Durant, Oklahoma.
Marguerite and Katherine acquire teaching certificates at the pre-state teachers college in Durant.
1920 U S Census The family is now living in Durant, Ward 2, Oklahoma, 904 N Second, mortgaged home. Albert is self-
employed, still working as a baker in Dallas, presumably.
1920 U S Census Lawton, Oklahoma. Marguerite is living at a local boarding house and teaching grade school.
1921 Fall Marguerite takes a job in Nogales, Arizona, teaching at the Elm Street School. Soon after, Katherine
finds a teaching job also in a Nogales school. Eunice, Carl and Howard soon follow. (Eunice's Obit)
The casual relationship between Albert and his family became a permanent estrangement in Nogales.
1923? Marguerite and Katherine visited Albert in Dallas, and he invited them to them to move in and
and keep house for him. I believe that was the last time anyone in the family connected with him.
1924 22 January Marguerite marries Captain Jesse William Penn in Tucson, Arizona.
1927 22 June Katherine Rose marries Gustave R Michaels (1898-1984) in Nogales.
1927 Albert's youngest child, Howard, graduates high school.
1930 U S Census Eunice is proprietor of a boarding house in Nogales; son Howard is a boarder working for a store.
1932 5 March Howard is in San Antonio, TX, waiting for a new job to begin. He sends a telegram to his mother.
It appears that Howard started working in San Antonio because Albert soon attempted to see Howard,
suggesting they get together after Howard finished work one evening. Howard replied that he was
busy that evening. He regretted not meeting his father that night for the rest of his life.
1935 1940 Census Albert lived in San Antonio from 1935 on, though he probably lived there at least by the early 1930s.
1930s The family believed that Albert was killed in a Texas automobile accident in the late 1930s.
1940 City Directory Albert now (and probably well before this date) spells his surname as Wilkins.
1940 U S Census The Census reveals Albert's residential address is 219 Burnet Street and he works in the
wholesale bakery industry. Albert rents his home in San Antonio, TX.
1949 25 March Eunice J Beach Wilken dies of cancer in San Leandro, California.
1949 15 June Albert dies of a coronary occlusion, alone, impoverished, in a shack he rented 3 months previously.
1949 19 June The June 19th edition of the San Antonio Light reports a body found in the shack.
1949 21 June The June 21 edition of the San Antonio Light features a page 1 article titled, Dead Man's Identity Told.
1949 24 June Albert was buried in an unmarked grave at Mission Cemetery, San Antonio, TX. No relatives found.