MEACHUM Family History

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  • ID: I582
  • Name: Dorthea (Dora) KUNKEL
  • Surname: KUNKEL
  • Given Name: Dorthea (Dora)
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: 1838 in Bavaria, Germany
  • Christening: 24 Nov 1838 , Wiesthal, Germany
  • Death: 16 Mar 1877 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
  • _UID: AB6971ED372B9D42A47CF40D595BEDCA3F85
  • Note:
    !NOTES: Family tradition says she died of cholera during Civil War. (not proven)

    !NOTES: Could be the Dora Eichorn buried Mt. Olive Cem Rec's (Row 5 north):
    1) Josephine Schultheis Kennedy 68y 17 May 1912
    2) Henry Schultheis
    3) Elizabeth Schultheis (bottom) 1879
    Henry Kennedy 37y 19 Oct 1913
    4) Dora Eichorn 1890
    George W. Kennedy 74y 11 Oct 1923
    5) open
    George T. Sinn 64y Heref, C. Vault 11 Apr 1975
    6) Alvina Schultheis 1880
    James J. Kennedy 29y 12 Jan 1915
    Stone buried grave #2

    !NOTES: In 1857-58, the Carondelet (MO) Census Book (Carondelet at that time being part of South Saint Louis County, and now a part of South Saint Louis City), lists the family as Franz, 21; Elizabeth, 55, Rosine Biederich, 5 (This is actually a child of Charles Diedrich, and a step-child of Amalia.) Dorothea, 19, and Andreas, 10. Barbara Kunkel, now Ruprecht, is listed later on with husband Joseph Ruprecht, and children, Louise, 3, and Joseph, 10 months.

    !NOTES: Not sure who this is--buried in Schultheis-Kennedy plot in Mt. Olive Cemetery.
    Dorothy Sinn remembers: Eichorn names--Christian, father of the nun & lady in Col. Springs (Merrimac St.)--Otto, on Michigan St.--Can't remember much else. (MAY OR MAY NOT BE TRUE--Nun and lady in Col. Springs were supposed to be Kunkels)

    RESEARCH: 1853, 20 July, Melchior Eichorn md. Dorothea Hirsch (07-276)
    1860 US Census, St. Louis, MO, Eichorn, Christian (169 1.W.St L) 36 Saxony, Elisabetha 26 Baden, Louis 1 1/2 MO, Elisabetha 1/2 MO, John Dorm 14 Prussia. ALSO, Eichorn, Melchior (005 4.W.St L) 51, Mina 6, Frederka 4.
    1870 US Census, St. Louis, MO, Eichorn, Melchior
    1880 US Census, St. Louis, MO, Eichorn, Adolph (lists Amelia 9 & Barbara 6--orphans, Christian 4), v33 e95 s27 L30, Eliza, v32 e66 s21 L36, Elizabeth, v38 e165 s11 L53, Franz, v25 e102 s2 L8 H., v26 e126 s29 L6, Herbert, v35 e134 s6 L17, Mathias, v29 e202 s1 L9, Otto, v37 e89 s13 L27 (prob not)
    1900 US Census, St. Louis, MO, Eichorn, Elizabeth, v88 e93 s9 L67, Emelia, v11 e62 s2 L13,
    1906 St. Louis Real Estate Assessments: (2 listed) Eichorn, Jno & Bertha ..... $3060, Eickhorn, Adolph & Agnas .. 200
  • Change Date: 7 Nov 2001 at 19:41:17



    Father: Friedrich KUNKEL b: 1790 in Neuhutten, Bavaria, Germany
    Mother: Maria Elizabetha (Valensia) BACHMANN b: 30 Oct 1803 in Neuhutten, Bavaria, Germany

    Marriage 1 Henrici EICHHORN b: 1829
    • Married: 1861 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
    Children
    1. Has Children Johan EICHHORN b: 15 Feb 1862 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri c: 16 Mar 1862 in St. Boniface Church, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
    2. Has No Children Franz EICHHORN b: 27 Mar 1864 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri c: 24 Apr 1864 in St. Boniface Church, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
    3. Has No Children Andreas EICHHORN b: 10 Oct 1866 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri c: 1 Nov 1866 in St. Boniface Church, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
    4. Has No Children Heinrich EICHHORN b: 20 May 1868 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri c: 29 May 1868 in St. Boniface Church, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
    5. Has No Children Amalia EICHHORN b: 21 Feb 1871 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri c: 5 Mar 1871 in St. Boniface Church, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
    6. Has No Children Barbara EICHHORN b: 13 Sep 1873 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri c: 20 Sep 1873 in St. Boniface Church, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
    7. Has Children Christopher EICHHORN b: 19 Jul 1876 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri c: 6 Aug 1876 in St. Boniface Church, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri

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