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August Ferdinand Heuer was born in Tressin, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern,
Prussia (now Trzeszyn, Poland) on 2 July 1836. This birth date was recorded in the Zirkvitz Evangelische Church serving Tressin, on the birth/baptismal record of August. He was baptized in that church on 10 July 1836. His sponsors were Gottfried Brockhuss – a cousin, and Johann Ruhnke – his uncle (mother Catharina Sophia’s brother), both from the village of Tressin, and Friedericke Kicker Heuer his aunt (Carl Gottlieb Heuer’s wife) from the village of Pustchow. August was the second child and first son of Johann Friedrich and Catharina Sophia Ruhnke Heuer. Johann Friedrich had first married Friederike Louise Ruhnke in November 1828. A son, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Heuer, was born to Johann Friedrich and Friederike Louise a year later, on 12 November 1829. Friederike Louise died in 1832, and six months later, Johann Friedrich married her sister, Catharina Sophia Ruhnke. When August was born, Carl was living with the family and undoubtedly, was treated as first-born in the family. Carl was six years older than his half-brother August; additionally, hewas August’s first cousin. August immigrated to America along with his father, mother, brothers and sisters on the Laura arriving in New York, June 7, 1857. August was married to Caroline Augusta Marie Henriette Berndt Heuer on May 15, 1864. They had one child, Emilie Wilhelmine Louise Heuer Christiansen, born 18 January 1865. August died in the civil war, we knew where, we knew when, 22 May, 1865. That is all we knew, in the book, we have "the rest of the story". |