This website is for the descendents of Bernard Herman Heile and Katherine Philomena Holtkamp Heile. Both Bernard and Katherine moved from Germany to the USA in the late 1800's.
The parents and siblings of Bernard Herman Heile are:
Herman Heinrich Heile was born July 03, 1845 in Village of Dollinghausen, City of Amt Narzen, County of Bersenbruck in the Providence of Hannover, Deuitchland (Germany), and died March 06, 1906 in Covington, KY, USA. He married Elizabeth Lemker 1870. She was born 1851 and died 1887.
About the year 1870,Herman and Elizabeth arrived in the United States from Hanover, Germany, and settled on a small farm in Ludlow, KY, what was later to become Ludlow Lagoon. Pleasant Run Creek ran through their farm which drained the water from the hills of Bromly and Cresent Springs, KY, into the Ohio River at Ludlow, KY.
About the year 1890, the Heile family sold their farm as a dam was to be built across the Pleasant Run Creek to form a body of water named Ludlow Lagoon, where an amusement park was to be built. The family then moved to St. John Cemetery, Ft Mitchell, Ky, where Herman became Sexton of the cemetery, where he farmed and raised their family consisting of two boys and five girls.
The parents and siblings of Katherine Philomena Holtkamp Heile are:
Herman Holtkamp was born June 06, 1833 in Nenenburg, Germany, and
died November 07, 1917 in Enochsburg, Indiana. He married Maria K.
Bruggemann 1869, daughter of Herman Brueggeman and Adelheide Schultz.
She was born February 21, 1838 in Heef, Gemany, and died October 27,
1911 in Enochsburg.
Herman Holtkamp was a sto-away on a boat from Germany during the Kaiser
rule and things were kept secret in those times. He somehow got to
Cincinnati, Oh where he cleaned pigs feet for 1 cent per foot till he
saved enough to buy land around Enochsburg and send for Maria Bruggeman
in Germany.
Per granddaughter Patricia Holtkamp Dunlap: Years ago my Grandma Mary
Wesseler Holtkamp gave me a German Silver Dollar dated 1845 which I’ve
been told Grandpa had in his pocket when he arrived in America so we
have an idea he came after 1845.