Ludwig Riedesel Facts and Links

Facts

Birth Name: Georg Gabriel Riedesel
Known in U.S. as: Ludwig Riedesel
Birth Date: September 20, 1809
Birth Place: Wunderthausen, district of Wittgenstein, Grand Duchy of Hesse (under Napoleonic rule)
House of Origin: Groβeludwigs/Schreiners
(Houses in German villages had common names that were often referred to in documents, and which to this day are sometimes used to identify individuals.)
Death Date: Before 1880
Place of Death: Kansas City area
Place of Burial: Gravesite unknown
Marriage(s):
  1) Elisabeth Amalia Knoche (b.1809), August 24, 1834, Wunderthausen
  2) Elisabeth Amalia Knoche (b.1826), February 06, 1853, Wunderthausen
Emigration: 1867 on ship Argonaut out of Bremen, port of New York
Settlement: Kansas City area, probably Kansas side

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