Ancestors and Descendants of
Michael Hammes, Jr & Margaretha Hammen
Family: Michael Peter Hammes, Jr / Margaretha Hammen (F21)
m. 5 Jan 1850
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Michael Peter Hammes, Jr
Birth 10 Nov 1820 Perl, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany 
Death 12 Apr 1880 Clear Creek Township, Keokuk County, Iowa Burial Ss. Peter & Paul Cemetery, Clear Creek Township, Keokuk County, Iowa Marriage 5 Jan 1850 Perl, Merzig, Wadern, Germany Father Michael Hammes, Sr | F22 Group Sheet Mother Magdalena Pauly | F22 Group Sheet
Female
Margaretha Hammen
Birth 9 Mar 1830 Germany Death 9 Mar 1872 Feyen, Germany Burial Father Jakob Hammen | F20 Group Sheet Mother Margaretha Munhoven | F20 Group Sheet
Male
+ Nicholaus Hammes
Birth 16 Nov 1850 Feyen, Near Trier, Rineland-Pfalz, Germany Death 7 Sep 1911 Harper, Keokuk County, Iowa Burial Ss. Peter & Paul Cemetery, Clear Creek Township, Keokuk County, Iowa Spouse Catherine Bohr | F234 Marriage 10 Apr 1877 Keokuk County, Iowa
Male
+ Peter Hammes, Sr.
Birth 26 May 1852 Feyen, Near Trier, Merzig-Wadern, Germany Christening 30 May 1852 Death 20 Apr 1929 Keokuk County, Iowa Burial 23 Apr 1929 Ss. Peter & Paul Cemetery, Clear Creek Township, Keokuk County, Iowa Spouse Anna Rosalia Buch | F1 Marriage 19 Apr 1877
Female
+ Anna Marie Hammes
Birth 4 Aug 1854 Feyen, Near Trier, Rineland-Pfalz, Germany Death 24 Jan 1912 St. Joseph Hospital, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska Burial 27 Jan 1912 St. Mary Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Cemetery, Portsmouth, Shelby County, Iowa Spouse Matthias S Leinen, Jr | F1162 Marriage 25 Nov 1874
Male
+ Jacob W Hammes
Birth 8 Oct 1856 Feyen, Near Trier, Germany Death Feb 1924 Harlan, Shelby County, Iowa Burial Iowa Spouse Mary Josphine Weber | F235 Marriage 29 Aug 1878
Female
+ Margareta Hammes
Birth 26 Sep 1859 Feyen, Near Trier, Rineland-Pfalz, Germany Death 24 Oct 1924 Hospital, Rochester, Olmstead County, Minnesota Burial St. Mary's Cemetery, Portsmouth, Shelby County, Iowa Spouse Nicholas Jacobs, Sr. | F285 Marriage 26 Feb 1878 Sigourney, Keokuk County, Iowa
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+ Frank Hammes
Birth 9 Jul 1861 Feyen, Near Trier, Rineland-Pfalz, Germany Death 1893 Burial St. Mary's Cemetery, Portsmouth, Shelby County, Iowa Spouse Susan Ludwig | F236 Marriage 1888
Male
+ John J Hammes
Birth 22 May 1863 Feyen, Near Trier, Rineland-Pfalz, Germany Death 20 Aug 1938 Pocahontas, Pocahontas County, Iowa Burial Spouse Barbara Leinen | F256 Marriage
Male
+ Michael Alfred Hammes, III
Birth 10 May 1865 Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Death 16 Feb 1938 Harlan, Shelby County, Iowa Burial Lafayette Cemetery, Lafayette Township, Keokuk County, Iowa Spouse Bertha D Goeldner | F12 Marriage 1 Dec 1885 Harper, Keokuk County, Iowa
Female
+ Anna Maria Hammes
Birth 4 Oct 1867 Feyen, Near Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Christening 5 Oct 1867 St. Matthias Church, Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Death 28 Oct 1897 Cass Township, Shelby County, Iowa Burial St. Mary's Cemetery, Portsmouth, Shelby County, Iowa Spouse Peter Mathias Leinen | F266 Marriage 22 Apr 1884 St. Mary's Catholic Church, Cass Township, Shelby County, Iowa
Female
+ Susanna Hammes
Birth 22 Sep 1869 Feyen, Near Trier, Rineland-Pfalz, Germany Death 1936 Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa Burial St. Mary's Cemetery, Portsmouth, Shelby County, Iowa Spouse Jacob Korth, Jr. | F249 Marriage 10 Apr 1888
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Photos 
Hammes House at Clear Creek Corner, 1904 Porch: Mike Hammes, ?, Charlie Conrad
Next row: Mrs Kate (Bohr) Hammes (wife of Nicholas), Mrs Lucy Conrad and baby Matts, Ruth Rheinhart, ? Hammes, Annie (Hammes) Sieren, Mrs Willstein, Mrs Bohr, Barbara (Hammes) Peiffer, Agnes (Hammes) Bombei, Nickolas Hammes (father), John Hammes (son)
Next row: ? Hammes, Peter Hammes, Annie (Buch) Hammes (wife of Peter), ?, ?, ?, JP Mersch, Wendell Horras
Bottom row: Susie Autringer (sister of JP Mersch, who was visiting from Germany), Rose (Sieren) Greiner, Clara (Hammes) Greiner
This picture was taken in Section 8 of Clear Creek Township, Keokuk County, Iowa, on the Nick Hammes farm. Photo taken by Mr Autringer from Germany (brother-in-law of JP Mersch). Picture obtained from Margaret (Hammes) Reed of Keota, Iowa.
Michael Hammes Children
Michael Hammes Children, left to right
Back Row: Nicholaus, Peter, Mike, John and Jake
Front Row: Anna, Emma, Margaret and Susan
In foreground is a picture of their father
Documents 
Ship Manifest from the Rhein, out of Bremen, landing in New York on 4 November 1872
The steamship Rhein was builit in 1868 at Greenock, Scotland, by Caird & Co. The Rhein was operated by the Norddeutscher (North German) Lloyd steamship line, also known as the "Bremen Line." The Rhein was 332 ft long by 40 feet wide with 2,901 gross register tons (GRT). GRT is a measure of enclosed storage with 1 GRT being 100 cubic feet. Average speed was approximately 12 knots, and the transatlantic crossing took approximately 2 weeks. The captain was Captain Meyer. The steerage fare from Bremen to New York was $40. Assuming they traveled steerage, total fare for Michael Jr. and his 10 children would have been $440.Flyer from the North German Line with Passenger Fares 
Engraving of the S.S. Rhein
The steamship Rhein was builit in 1868 at Greenock, Scotland, by Caird & Co. The Rhein was operated by the Norddeutscher (North German) Lloyd steamship line, also known as the "Bremen Line." The Rhein was 332 ft long by 40 feet wide with 2,901 gross register tons (GRT). GRT is a measure of enclosed storage with 1 GRT being 100 cubic feet. Average speed was approximately 12 knots, and the transatlantic crossing took approximately 2 weeks. The captain was Captain Meyer. The steerage fare from Bremen to New York was $40. Assuming they traveled steerage, total fare for Michael Jr. and his 10 children would have been $440.
Plat Map of Clear Creek Township of Keokuk County, Iowa -- 1874
See Baden on the northwest corner of Clear Creek Township? If you go 2 miles south and 2 miles east from there, you can see the 160 acres owned by Michael Hammes, Jr.
Passenger Manifest from the S/S Hammonia - 27 Feb 1869
Passenger #186 is Nicolaus Hammes, a 19-year-old farmer from Germany. There is no other Hammes on this passenger manifest. This was probably a first or exploratory trip to America by Nicolaus with him subsequently returning to Germany and then bringing the rest of the family to America in November of 1872.
Also on this ship were Jacob Sondag and sister Marie, along with their mother, Anna Maria Theobald, step-father Mathias Wehr, and half-siblings, Margaretha, Johann, & Magdalene Wehr. (191-197)Marriage Certificate for Michael Hammes & Margaretha Hammen - 6 Jan 1850
Albums The Great Tornado of 1873 (4)
Have you heard of the Great Tornado of 1873? It was so powerful that the U.S. Congress sent an investigator. One account states that two sons of "Mr. Hamis" were injured. Could these have been sons of Michael Hammes, Jr.? The information with the photo of the Hammes house in 1873 says that the Hammes house was destroyed, though I find no mention of this in the news accounts. Interesting reading.
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Notes - Michael Hammes and his 10 children (ranging in age from 22-3 along with his brother Peter left Bremen and arrived Port of New York on the ship RHEIN on Nov. 4, 1872. His wife died the previous year. The family settled in Keokuk County, Iowa.
SOURCE: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=113820295
- Michael Hammes and his 10 children (ranging in age from 22-3 along with his brother Peter left Bremen and arrived Port of New York on the ship RHEIN on Nov. 4, 1872. His wife died the previous year. The family settled in Keokuk County, Iowa.