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Heink |
Hayung Willms "Henry" |
| Birth Date: |
October 24, 1833 |
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| Birth Location: |
Negenmeerten, Ostfriesland, Germany |
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| Death Date: |
March 25, 1915 |
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| Death Location: |
Iowa |
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Burial: |
Lincoln Center Cemetery Walnut, Iowa |
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Father Not known. |
Mother Not known. |
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| Marriage |
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Heink Willms married Jabe or Tabe Janszen in the late 1850s in Germany. They had three children. After his first wife died, Heink Hayung Willms then married the widow Lucke Tebben Harms Eimen, on April 28, 1866 in Ochtersum, Ostfreisland, Germany. They had eight children. |
| Three Children with Jabe | |||||
| 1 Henry Willms 1860-1940 |
2 Hilke Willms 1862-1920 |
3 Antje Willms 1864-? |
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| Eight Children with Lucke | |||||
| 1 Tomke Willms 1867-? |
2 Heik Willms 1870-1947 |
3 Harm Willms 1872-1961 |
4 Jabo Willms 1872-1958 |
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| 5 Tomma Willms 1873-1909 |
6 Eilt Willms 1874-? |
7 Anna Willms 1877-1969 |
8 Jacob Willms 1882-1951 |
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Heink and Lucy Willms came to the United States in 1889. They settled first near Wiota, Iowa where his first wife's father, John Janszen, and Heink's son, Henry Heink and Anna Gerdes were living. He stayed there a short while before moving to Lincoln Township in Pottawattamie County, where he settled on a farm and raised his family. Then around 1905 he then moved to a farm in Cass County, Iowa.
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