Menno Remnt Ahrends
(1850-1930)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Fanny Waters

Menno Remnt Ahrends 2

  • Born: 1850, Hanover, Prussia, Germany 2
  • Marriage (1): Fanny Waters on 24 May 1873 in , Logan County, IL 1 2
  • Died: 3 March 1930, Chicago, IL at age 80
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bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1880 US Census in Aetna Township, Logan, IL on 16 June 1880. 2

1880 US Census
Page 11A, District 32, Family 164, Roll 0227
Aetna Township, Logan County, Illinois
Menno Ahrends..Head..30..GERMANY..Farmer

(Living with wife and 3 children.)
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Menno married Fanny Waters, daughter of Samuel Waters and Jemima Houser, on 24 May 1873 in , Logan County, IL.1 2 (Fanny Waters was born on 13 January 1852 in , Logan County, IL,3 4 5 died on 4 February 1907 in Illinois and was buried after 4 February 1907 in Friends Grove Quaker Cemetery, Toledo, Cumberland, Illinois, United States.)

bullet  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1880 US Census in Aetna Township, Logan, IL on 16 June 1880. 2

1880 US Census
Page 11A, District 32, Family 164, Roll 0227
Aetna Township, Logan County, Illinois
Menno Ahrends..Head..30..GER..Farmer
Fanny Ahrends..Wife..27..IL..Keeping House
Homer A. Ahrends..Son..8..IL
May Bell Ahrends..Dau..4..NE
Reemt Ahrends..Son..3m..IL..Mar
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bullet  Marriage Notes:


Apparently Menno and Fanny moved to Nebraska along with her sister, Sarah and her husband, and Fanny's brother, John and his wife, sometime around 1874. The others stayed in Nebraska but Menno and Fanny returned to Logan County, Illinois by 1880.
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Sources


1 Marriage Records.

2 1880 U.S. census, population schedule, Aetna Township, Logan County, Illinois, enumeration district (ED) 32, p. 11A, family 164, Menno Ahrends and Fanny Waters; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 21 Aug 2015); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 0227.

3 Aubrey M. Woods, World Family Tree Vol. 018, Ed. 1, Tree #0449 (Brøderbund Software, Inc., Release date: March 27, 1998).

4 Steven A. Kuhns, World Family Tree Vol. 107, Ed. 1, Tree #0962 (Genealogy.com, LLC, Release date: Oct.-2002).

5 1870 U.S. census, population schedule, Orvil Township, Logan County, Illinois, p. 15, dwelling 105, family 105; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 10 Sep 2010); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593.


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