Lucke

November 6, 1838

Westerholt, Ostfriesland, Germany

November 7, 1922

Danforth, Illinois

Burial:

Lucke Tebben Harms then married Heink Hayung Willms, a widower and colonist from Neezenmerter, on April 28, 1866 in Ochtersum, Ostfreisland, Germany.  She had eight children with him.

Heink and Lucy Willms with their two youngest children, Anna and Jake,
in the early 1890s.  The identity of the little girl on the left is not known.

Lucy Eimen Willms came to America with her second husband and seven of her children in 1889.   She lived with her family in Iowa until her husband Heink died in 1915.  Then she went to live with her eldest son Tebbe Eimen in Danforth, Illinois.  She lived there until her death in 1922.

After her husband Willms died, Lucy came to live with her son (my great-grandfather) Tebbe Eimen and his family in Danforth.  She was referred to as "Oma" (German for "Grandma") and she was much respected by them.  Aunt Alice (Eimen) Eden recalled that no one started eating until Oma started and no one left the table until Oma was done eating.  She also added that Oma was a slow eater.  Oma never spoke a word of English.