Christian & Anna Levknecht

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Christian was born in Mecklenburg, Germany. According to his obituary in the Chilton Times, he married Anna Heuer in Germany and immigrated in the fall of 1865 with his wife, little daughter, father, and sister after a fourteen-week voyage. Anna was born in Schwerin, Mecklenburg, Germany. According to her obituary in the Chilton Times, she immigrated in 1860 and married Christian in 1861. According to the U.S. census, they were married in the early 1860s.

Christian's citizenship documentation indicates he declared his intention to become a citizen in 1868 and took the oath of citizenship in 1880. It also says he arrived in New York on 10 January 1865. Apparently he left Germany in the fall of 1864, a year before his obituary says.

Christian was a farmer and homesteaded northwest of Stockbridge, WI near Lake Winnebago. He and Anna belonged to the Reformed church in Stockbridge. They moved into town in 1905, leaving the farm to son William. Their daughter Edith lived with them and cared for them. Christian died of dropsy.

Christian & Anna Levknecht (on left in foreground) in front of their house in 1900, Christian's mother Louise is between them in back

Christian & Anna Levknecht with daughters Edith (back) and Bertha (front)

Mary, Christian, Emma, Bertha, William, Wilhelmine, Edith, Lena, & Anna Levknecht