Gottlob & Clementine Neumueller
| Lisa's great-great-great-grandparents |
| married 11/14/1840 |
| Children: Marie (1843-1919), Theodor, Lydia (1846-1930), John (1848-1917), Hermann (1851-1890), Anna (1853-1912), Agnes (1855-1962), Emilie (1858-1951), Jacob (1860-1949), Magdeline (1862-1938), Elizabeth (1865) |
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Gottlob was born in Prussia, was orphaned by age seven, was a shoemaker, and lived in Dresden. Clementine was born in a Lutheran parsonage in Germany.
Both of them left Bremerton on 18 November 1838 as part of a group of about 650 Saxons seeking religious freedom in America. Their ship, the Olbers under Captain H.W. Exeter, was the fourth of five vessels carrying the group to the New World. Also on board were four of Clementine's siblings, her future brother-in-law O.H. Walther, and the leader of the group, Martin Stephan.
They crossed the English Channel in 40 hours from 20 November to 22 November. After weathering bad storms in the Bay of Biscay, they entered the tropics on 24 December and enjoyed smooth sailing for the rest of the voyage. They passed Puerto Rico on 4 January 1839, Santo Domingo on 6 January, and Cuba between 10 and 13 January. They entered the Gulf of Mexico on 14 January and arrived at New Orleans on 20 January.
From there they traveled up the Mississippi River on the riverboat Selma under Captain Blood. They left New Orleans on 31 January and arrived at St. Louis on 19 February after spending six days stuck on a sandbar at the mouth of the Ohio River.
They accompanied the group to the settlement in Perry County, MO, near Cape Girardeau, where Gottlob and Clementine married in 1840. The following year, Clementine's sister Christine Emilie married C.F.W. Walther, who later became instrumental in the founding of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Gottlob and Clementine lived with the Walthers for a time in the home of Clementine's mother in St. Louis. Later they lived in Altenburg.
Gottlob earned a meager income mending shoes in the winter and digging cellars and cisterns in the summer. His health deteriated after he spent a night sunk to his neck in a bog, where a child discovered him at daybreak, and he died not many years later.
Clementine lived in her childrens' homes afterwards, requesting to be buried wherever she died. She died from a sudden illness while visiting her daughter Anna in Vallonia, IN and was buried in the Lutheran cemetary there according to her wishes.
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Olbers, the ship on which the Neumuellers crossed the ocean in 1839
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