Herkunft: Lemgo Lebensphasen von Friedrich Wilhelm Sander:
1848 (g) als Bauer.
1848 Auswanderung in die, USA
1848 Ausreisehafen.
31.05.1848 Einreisehafen, New Orleans, Schiff: Kepler.
1848 angegebenes Ziel, Indiana Notizen / Bilder zu Friedrich Wilhelm Sander:
Friedrich Sander, Farmer, his 160 acre farm in Vigo Twp. about 3 miles north of Westphalia, Ind.; born 23.12.1827. He loaned one corner acre of his land for the use of a school. The first school building there was of log and there was no glass for its windows. It´s desks were crude narrow tables made of split logs and the seats were the same, only lower. Among early teachers there were Lydia Ruble, Molly Goode and Adolph Krueger, an exceptionally educated and cultivated man born in Germany who had spent many years in England. Teachers lodged in the Sander home which sat atop a yellow clay hill, one of a series ranging between a marsh to the east and a marsh to the west. This ridge was called Kog´s Back. On it roamed wild hogs with pointed noses and long tusks. A sow with a litter would be dangerous.
Once, when Helene Sander was a small girl she was sent on an errand to a neighbor some distance away and warned to come back at once for evening was approaching. But a member of this neighbor family had returned from a trip to the city and brought back presents which the children insisted upon showing to Helene. With this delay, it grew dark and there was panic in the Sander household. Persons with lanterns were scouring the wooded hills for they could not believe she would forget the warning, and feared to find her little body mangled to death by a wild sow. When she got home her mother wept for joy as she took her into her arms.
The home was a roomy, salt-box style structure with one quite large room facing north, off which opened three smaller rooms to the west and south. On winter nights snow would sometimes blow onto bed covers to be found still there in the morning. Friedrich once took in a penniless wandering artist for a while, in repayment of which the artist painted the plaster walls of the large room to simulate flowered wall paper. As none of the other homes around there had even wall paper, this drew admiration from all who saw it. Mr. Krueger always called the Sander hom The Castle.
Friedrich was am member of VMBA (a farmer´s assn in Freelandville) and a southern sympathizer during the Civil war, as were many persons of southern Indiana. He married 07.06.1851 Sophie Begeman, bonr 05.03.1826 at the estate of her parents, Yaegerborn, daughter of Herman Dietrich & Louise (Freitag) Begeman. Friedrich had first met Sophie and the Begeman family on board ship as they came over. She was a plump young woman with fine dark hair, blue eyes, apple cheeks and a demute manner. She said Friedrich was a "lustiger geselle" (gay or zestful). Friedrich died 20.09.1875 aged 48 of a brain tumor, believed caused by a fall from a farm wagon in a run-way. Sophie died 11.11.1908. Both buried in the Begeman private cemetary approx. 3 miles north of Westphalia on the original Begeman farm. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24803338 Kinder:
