Apollonia Haueisen

b. 8 November 1838, d. 4 March 1924
  • Apollonia Haueisen was born on 8 November 1838 in Machtolsheim, Württemberg.
  • Matthaeus Haueisen and Anna Erb arrived in the Port of New York on 30 September 1852, accompanied by Apollonia Haueisen, Philipp Jacob Haueisen, Anna Haueisen and Elise Haueisen traveling as belowdeck passengers aboard the Ship Elizabeth, burthen 585 tons, 22 days from Bremen, amongst 277 passengers.
  • She was a sponsor at the baptism/christening of Apolonia Weiler on 8 November 1857 at Zion Lutheran Church in Niagara, Niagara Falls, New York.
  • She married Georg Schlenk, son of Christoph Schlenk and Christina Burkhart, on 25 January 1858 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, at Zion Lutheran Church The marriage was witnessed by George W. Burkhardt.
  • She was a sponsor at the baptism/christening of Johann Ludwig Weiler on 27 May 1860 at Zion Lutheran Church in Niagara, New York.
  • The Schlenk family has yet to be found in 1860.
  • She was a sponsor at the baptism/christening of Johann Georg Weiler on 28 February 1864 at Zion Lutheran Church in Niagara, New York.
  • Georg Schlenk and Apollonia Haueisen, appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois. Other members of the household included Matthaeus Schlenk, Christine Schlenk, Ursula Schlenk, George Schlenk, Jacob Philip Schlenk, Matthaeus Haueisen, Philipp Jacob Haueisen and Mary Schlenk. Mary Schlenk, age 15, may have a niece, or possibly an adopted daughter.
  • Georg Schlenk and Apollonia Haueisen appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois. Other members of the household included Ursula Schlenk, George Schlenk, Jacob Philip Schlenk, Caroline Schlenk, J. Adam Schlenk and Matthaeus Haueisen. Apparently young George is enumerated as George, age 15, and G. Louis, age 16, or possibly they may have been two different children.
  • Georg Schlenk and Apollonia Haueisen appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Walker Township, Illinois, and also Jacob D. "Hensie," born Sept 1885, age 14, at school, born in Illinois, father and mother born Illinois, probably a Haueise relative.. Other members of the household included Caroline Schlenk.
  • Apollonia Haueisen became a widow at the 27 February 1910 death of her husband.
  • Apollonia Haueisen appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Warsaw, Illinois. Other members of the household included George Schlenk.
  • Apollonia Haueisen appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Warsaw, Illinois. Other members of the household included Anna (?) and Cecil Ewing. Anna is probably a granddaughter although she is identified as Apollonia's daughter.
  • Apollonia Haueisen died on 4 March 1924 at age 85 in Warsaw, Illinois.
  • She was interred at the Lutheran Cemetery, Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois, identified in her death record as "German cemetery."
  • Photographs of present-day Machtolsheim.
  • Last Edited: 29 May 2013

Family: Georg Schlenk b. 11 September 1832, d. 27 February 1910