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Ernst Dietrich Ferdinand Brandt

Birth	:	28 Jan 1834 Petershagen, Kreis Minden-Lübbecke, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Death	:	7 Feb 1920 Seward County, Nebraska, USA
Burial	:	Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Garland, Seward County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.9369011, -96.9869003
Description	:	DIETRICH BRANDT was (together with Lewis Leibrock and Conrad Grots, one of) the first homesteader in H precinct, Seward county, Nebraska, and has known the west in every stage of development and been identified with its growth and prosperity. Mr. Brandt was born in Germany, January 28, 1834, began school in that country at the age of six years, and continued same until ten years of age. At this time he migrated to America with his father and older brother, his mother having died about four years previous to this time. They landed... Read More	DIETRICH BRANDT was (together with Lewis Leibrock and Conrad Grots, one of) the first homesteader in H precinct, Seward county, Nebraska, and has known the west in every stage of development and been identified with its growth and prosperity. Mr. Brandt was born in Germany, January 28, 1834, began school in that country at the age of six years, and continued same until ten years of age. At this time he migrated to America with his father and older brother, his mother having died about four years previous to this time. They landed in New York in the fall of 1845, and from thence proceeded to Adams county, Indiana, where they rented an eighty-acre farm for one-third of the crop it should produce, and made this their home for five years, and here the father, Conrad Brandt; died in the fall of 1850, at the age of fifty-two years. In the following spring, our subject and his brother went to Clayton county, Iowa, where, for a time, Master Dietrich made a living by working by the month. By the time he reached the age of twenty, however, he was able to purchase a fifty-acre farm at the rate of twenty dollars per acre. This farm, at the time Mr. Brandt purchased it, was entirely unimproved, but it soon yielded to the pluck and enterprise of its new owner and became quite a respectable habitation for our subject and the amiable lady who at that time became his wife. Mr. Brandt made his home on his Iowa farm for fifteen years, and then emigrated, with a covered wagon and team of oxen, for Nebraska. Arriving at Nebraska City, he left his wife and family of three children while he, together with Conrad Grotz and Louis Leibrock, went farther into the interior of the state on an exploring expedition. After locating his claim in H precinct, Seward county, our subject returned to Nebraska City for his family. They then moved to their new home, but for three weeks they were obliged to live in their covered wagon until the dugout could be completed. In this rude domicile, which was in size 16 x 18 feet, they spent two years, and from it every evening could be heard the sound of wolves, deer and antelope, mingled with the yells of the Indians. Later he built a log house in which he lived until 1890, and this structure is still standing as a relic of pioneer life. He then moved into his present spacious, and, indeed, very comfortable home. During the early part of his life in the west, Mr. Brandt had to drive to Nebraska City, a distance of seventy-five miles, to get his groceries, and, in fact, do all of his marketing, and consequently the supply of provisions would sometimes run low, and the good wife was compelled to use the coffee mill to grind wheat and corn to supply the family with bread and "Johnniecake." This mode of living is now a thing of the past with Mr. Brandt, and he is now the fortunate owner of a farm of three hundred and twenty acres that compares favorably with the best farms in the precinct and he is now enjoying the fruits of a life of industry and honest labor and the confidence "Memorial and Biographical Record", Geo. A. Ogle & Co, Chicago, 1899 Note: Dietrich Brandt's first wife was Katherine Leibrock, sister of Lewis Leibrock. Katherine died in Clayton County, Iowa in 1864.

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Ernst Dietrich Ferdinand Brandt's memorial is located at: Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Garland, Seward County, USA.
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Ernst Dietrich Ferdinand Brandt death on 7 Feb 1920 in Seward County, Nebraska, USA
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Latitude: 40.9369011
Longitude: -96.9869003

Family Members:

Spouse

Maria Louise Caroline Heidenreich Brandt

(1846 - 1922)

Children

Caroline “Lena” Brandt Meyer

(1858 - 1921)

(1862 - 1895)

(1866 - 1934)

(1871 - 1954)

(1878 - 1968)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Zion Lutheran Cemetery
Garland, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9369011, -96.9869003

2. Germantown Cemetery
Garland, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9444008, -96.9966965

3. Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Cemetery
Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9261017, -96.9289017

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

5. Mount Carmel Cemetery
Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9077988, -96.9297028

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

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

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

9. Faith Lutheran East Cemetery
Seward, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.8572000, -97.0044000

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

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

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

13. Yazidi Cemetery
Malcolm, Lancaster County, USA
Coordinate: 40.8871000, -96.8719000

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

15. Saint Pauls Lutheran Cemetery
Malcolm, Lancaster County, USA
Coordinate: 40.8932991, -96.8619003

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

17. Zion Lutheran Cemetery
Lincoln, Lancaster County, USA
Coordinate: 40.8369086, -96.8906898

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

19. Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
Milford, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.8137000, -97.0057000

20. Pleasant Dale Cemetery
Pleasant Dale, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.8143997, -96.9475021

21. Saint Joseph Cemetery
Lancaster County, USA
Coordinate: 41.0163994, -96.8439026

22. Immanuel Cemetery
Staplehurst, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9664001, -97.1686020

23. Staplehurst Cemetery
Staplehurst, Seward County, USA
Coordinate: 40.9668999, -97.1686020

24. Assumption Catholic Cemetery
Dwight, Butler County, USA
Coordinate: 41.0746994, -97.0242004