Our Thelen family ancestors settled in the Stearns County, Minnesota region during the mid to late 1800s. This family includes two distinct branches, the Thelen's and the Klapperich's, both of which immigrated from Germany.
The first Thelen's to arive in the United States were Martin and Maria Anna Laubenthal Thelen. They arrived on May 28, 1880 via the port of Antwerp, Germany on Ship Zeeland (Red Star Line). Martin was born in Niederbaar, Koblenz, Adenau, Germany in 1843 and died in Stearns County, MN in 1899. Maria Anna was born in Germany in 1848 and died in Stearns County, MN in 1914. Martin's parents were Servaz Thelen (1812-aft 1843) and Maria Gertrude Weber (?- aft 1843). The only information we have on Maria Anna's parents is that they were born in Germany and that her mother's name was Mary. Martin and Maria Thelen's son John Thelen was born in Meeker Co., Minnesota in 1882 and died in Stearns County, Minnesota in 1956. John married Mary Bertha Goihl (1886-1971).
Much more is known about the Klapperich branch. The first Klapperich's to arrive in the U.S. were Nicholas (1816-1871) and Maria Catherine "Kath" Roerig Klapperich (1823-1908). Nicholas and Kath were born in Hausten, Rhineland, Germany. They arrived in America between 1852 and 1862 and their son Jacob (1862-1940) (Jacob Klapperich family pictured above) was born in St. Anna, Calumet Co., Wisconsin. Jacob moved with his family to Stearns County, Minnesota where he later married Apollonia Homberg (1858-1940). Jacob and Apollonia had a son named Peter Jacob (1897-1982) who married Elizabeth Rose Weymann (1899-1976) (Peter and Rose pictured above). Elizabeth's parents were Johann (1867-1943) and Mary Ahles Weymann (1876-1951). Mary's parents, Johann (1836-1921) and Lucy Bauer Ahles (1844-1913), were born in Trier, Germany and died in Stearns County, Minnesota. Johann Weymann's father Johann immigrated from Germany around 1853. He was born in Villa St. Johann, Kyllburg, Kreis Bitburg, Rheingland, Eifel, Germany in 1829 and died in Stearns County in 1907. Johann's mother, Elizabeth Loehr was born in Fon-du-Lac, Wisconsin in 1847 and died in Stearns County in 1913. Elizabeth's parents, Johann (1810-1876) and Anna Gertrud Keuler Loehr (1814-1889), were born in Adenau, Germany and died in Stearns County, Minnesota.
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