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Dietrich Dankers

Birth	:	21 Dec 1843 Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany
Death	:	19 Mar 1925 Seward County, Nebraska, USA
Burial	:	Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Seward, Seward County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.8878000, -96.9725000
Description	:	DIETRICH DANKERS, a well-known and prosperous citizen of I precinct, Seward county, was born in Germany, December 21, 1843, a son of Hans and Maggie (Schmidt) Dankers, in whose family were eleven children, our subject being the third child. After the father's death, which occurred in Germany, the mother came to America at the age of fifty-six years and made her home with her children. She died in the spring of 1898, at the age of seventy-nine, years and was laid to rest in Middle Creek church cemetery. As is customary in his... Read More	DIETRICH DANKERS, a well-known and prosperous citizen of I precinct, Seward county, was born in Germany, December 21, 1843, a son of Hans and Maggie (Schmidt) Dankers, in whose family were eleven children, our subject being the third child. After the father's death, which occurred in Germany, the mother came to America at the age of fifty-six years and made her home with her children. She died in the spring of 1898, at the age of seventy-nine, years and was laid to rest in Middle Creek church cemetery. As is customary in his native land Mr. Dankers was sent to school between the ages of six and fourteen years, and during his sixteenth and seventeenth years learned the carpenter's trade, at which he worked until attaining his majority. During the following three years he was a soldier in the German army. In the spring of 1867 he took passage on a vessel at Hanover, bound for New York, which he finally reached in safety. Two years were then spent in Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, and the year 1869 witnessed his arrival in Seward county, Nebraska, where he has since made his home. On his arrival here most of the land-was still in its primitive condition and there were no railroads through this section of the state, though roads were being built from Nebraska City and also from Plattsmouth to Lincoln, and the latter was completed in 1870, and the former about a year later. The capital city at that time was only a small town but was very rapidly being populated and to-day numbers 60,000 souls, being the second largest city in the state. Mr. Dankers secured a homestead of eighty acres in I precinct, and commenced at once to transform the land into rich and productive fields. At the age of twenty-six he was married in Nebraska City to Miss Anna Moyer, then twenty-five years old, and they began their domestic life upon the farm in a little house, partly dugout and partly logs. Being a skilled workman, he found employment at the carpenter's trade, and in this way added not a little to his income while engaged in the development and cultivation of this land. He has met with remarkable success in his undertakings and is to-day the owner of four hundred and eighty acres of valuable land in I precinct, Seward county, upon which he erected a comfortable residence in 1874 and a large barn in 1888. In fact, the place is supplied with all of the conveniences and accessories found on a model farm of the nineteenth century. Mr. Dankers is also a stockholder in the Pleasant Dale creamery, which was built in 1896 at a cost of about twenty-five hundred dollars, and has a capacity of seven thousand pounds of milk per day. This has been of great benefit to the farmers of the surrounding country. Mr. and Mrs. Dankers are the happy parents of eight children, namely: Mary, Anna, Chris, Minnie, John, Lizzie and Carrie, all at home with their parents; and Maggie, now the wife of John Clindworth, of I precinct, Seward county. In his political affiliations Mr. Dankers is a Republican, having cast his first vote for U. S. Grant. His fellow citizens recognizing his worth and ability have called upon him to fill a number of local offices of honor and trust, including the school offices and that. of supervisor of his township, the duties of which he has discharged in a most creditable and acceptable manner. "Memorial and Biographical Record", Geo. A. Ogle & Co, Chicago, 1899

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Dietrich Dankers's memorial is located at: Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Seward, Seward County, USA.
When did Dietrich Dankers death?
Dietrich Dankers death on 19 Mar 1925 in Seward County, Nebraska, USA
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Latitude: 40.8878000
Longitude: -96.9725000

Family Members:

Parent

Margaretha Schmidt Dankers

(1818 - 1898)

Spouse

Anna Katharina Meyer Dankers

(1844 - 1910)

Siblings

Christoph Dankers

(1848 - 1902)

Children

Annaganette Margaretha Caroline “Margaret” Dankers Klintworth

(1871 - 1957)

Anna Wilhelmina Auguste Dankers Ficken

(1872 - 1934)

Christoph Dankers

(1874 - 1960)

Mary A. Dankers Pohlmann

(1877 - 1971)

Wilhelmina Dankers Ficken

(1878 - 1966)

John H. Dankers

(1881 - 1960)

Louise Dankers

(1883 - 1976)

Caroline Dankers

(1885 - 1970)

Flowers:

Nearby Cemetories:

1. Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
Seward, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.8878000, -96.9725000

2. Mount Carmel Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.9077988, -96.9297028

3. Faith Lutheran East Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.8572000, -97.0044000

4. Zion Lutheran Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.9369011, -96.9869003

5. Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.9261017, -96.9289017

6. Germantown Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.9444008, -96.9966965

7. Pleasant Dale Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.8143997, -96.9475021

8. Yazidi Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.8871000, -96.8719000

9. Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.8137000, -97.0057000

10. Zion Lutheran Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.8369086, -96.8906898

11. Saint Pauls Lutheran Cemetery
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Coordinate: 40.8932991, -96.8619003

12. Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Ruby, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.8292007, -97.0550003

13. Fish Family Cemetery
Lancaster County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9445500, -96.8817200

14. Malcolm Cemetery
Malcolm, Lancaster County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9152985, -96.8535995

15. Greenwood Cemetery
Seward, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9193993, -97.0952988

16. Seward Cemetery
Seward, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9296989, -97.0986023

17. Saint Johns Cemetery
Lancaster County, USA
Coordinate: 40.8130989, -96.8732986

18. Oak Grove Cemetery
Garland, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9947014, -96.9381027

19. Ruby Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
Ruby, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.8131000, -97.0827000

20. Union Cemetery
Bee, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9880981, -97.0444031

21. Saint Wenceslaus Cemetery
Bee, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 41.0057983, -97.0430984

22. Anderson Cemetery
Seward, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9016991, -97.1442032

23. Emerald Cemetery
Emerald, Lancaster County, USA
Coordinate: 40.7989006, -96.8447037

24. Blue Mound Cemetery
Milford, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.7625000, -97.0456000