Lohne
Kokenge Photos
Albert Kokenge
Willehad Kokenge
Kokenge Reunion
Kokenge Farm
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Kokenge/Mayrose/Goebel/Nemmers Family
(These pages are currently under
construction--if you have information to contribute to these pages, please send
an e-mail message to me at suzanne.bunkers@mnsu.edu
)
My maternal grandmother, Frances Kokenge Klein,
was the daughter of Henry and Josephine (Nemmers) Kokenge. She is pictured
in her home in Granville, IA (top left). Her younger sister Maureen
Kokenge Van Bergen is pictured in her home in Worthington, MN (lower
left). Their brother Cyril (Cy) Kokenge and his wife Martha host Frances
and Maureen, along with their sister Edna Kokenge McCarthy, and younger family
members enjoying a family dinner (top right). To view more family
photographs, scroll down this page.
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The Kokenge
ancestors came to the United States from Lohne, Germany, in the mid-1800s, when
members of the family began leaving Germany. Albert Kokenge, his
brother John Bernard (J. B.) Kokenge and J.B.'s wife, Maria Anna Mayrose,
immigrated to the U.S. in the mid-1800s, settling first in Cincinnati and
then coming west to New Vienna, Iowa. Below (left) is the St.
Boniface Catholic Church cemetery in New Vienna, Iowa. Below (right)
is the grave of J. B. and Maria Anna Kokenge in the St. Boniface cemetery.
To learn about the background of the Kokenge family in Germany, please click on
"Lohne" at left. If you would like to learn more about the
families of Lohne, Germany, please click on this URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/lohner_familien/kokenge.htm
In June 2000, I was able to visit the old Kokenge farm outside Lohne, Germany,
where I met several of my cousins. If you would like to see photographs of
this visit, please click on http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~susanna/photographs.htm
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On April 14, 2001, approximately 80 descendants
of various branches of the prolific Kokenge family met at the O.K. Cafe in
Alton, Iowa, for a Kokenge Family Reunion. (To view the letter of
invitation, click on "Kokenge Reunion" at left." In the
coming months, I would like to publish photographs and stories about the Kokenge
family on these pages. Please e-mail me if you have some to
share: suzanne.bunkers@mnsu.edu
More to come . . . . J.B. and Maria Kokenge's son Henry
Kokenge married Catherine Goebel, and they had four children before her
death. Later, Henry Kokenge married Josephine Nemmers, and they had ten
children before her death in 1918. Photographs and family stories will
soon be added here.
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Wedding of Henry and Catherine (Goebel)'s
son, Kokenge, to . Henry Kokenge
is seated at front left. Josephine Kokenge is standing (second woman
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Wedding of Henry and Josephine (Nemmers)'s
son, Joseph Kokenge, to Catherine Kellen.
To visit the Nemmers page on this web site, please click on
http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~susanna/nemmers.htm
To learn more
about the Nemmers genealogy, contact Jim Adams at jadams@dcwis.com and
visit his web site: http://www.sevastopol.k12.wi.us/hs/nemmers.html
To learn about links between the Nemmers family and the
Freymann and Dondelinger Families who came to Iowa from Luxembourg, please
contact Jeff Freymann at Jgordfrey@aol.com
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