Margheim Wilhelm

Male 1893 - 1963  (70 years)


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  • Name Margheim Wilhelm 
    Birth 27 Mar 1893  Merkel, Saratov Province, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Aug 1963  Greeley, Weld County, Colorado Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Evans, Weld County, Colorado Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I00171  Margheim Family from Gottlieb
    Last Modified 2 Nov 2005 

    Father Margheim Friedrich Ferdinand,   b. 1847, Merkel, Saratov Province, Russia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1908, Merkel, Saratov Province, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Mother Brunz Eva Elizabeth,   b. 16 Dec 1859, Merkel, Saratov Province, Russia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1894, Merkel, Saratov Province, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years) 
    Marriage 1874  Merkel, Saratov Province, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F0013  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Schimpf Katherine,   b. 12 Apr 1896, Alexanderdorf, Russia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 May 1962, Greeley, Weld County, Colorado Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Marriage 2 Mar 1914  Briggsdale, Weld County, Colorado Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Morgheim LaVerne William,   b. 25 Aug 1925, Scottsbluff County, Nebraska Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Mar 2003, Anchorage, Anchorage County, Alaska Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    Family ID F0084  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Wilhelm Margheim and Katherine Schimpf, Lyman, Scottsbluff County, Nebraska 1945.
    Wilhelm Margheim and Katherine Schimpf, Lyman, Scottsbluff County, Nebraska 1945.

  • Notes 
    • Departed from Bremen, Germany June 10 1909, and arrived at Galveston, Texas July 2, 1909. Ship was the S. S. Hannover. Wilhelm, age 17, traveled with Johann Kauz , age 25. Their destination was Russell, Kansas. The Texas Seaport Museum Galveston Immigration Database had his name spelled as Morghein.

      Petition for Naturalization was filed February 6, 1918, CSA 009215 04 0705, Weld County, Colorado. Residence was Windsor, Weld County, Colorado. Naturalization finalized January 10, 1949, CSA 009213 21 2681, Weld County, Colorado. Residence was Windsor, Weld County, Colorado.

      The Nebraska 1930 US Census for Scottsbluff County, Kiowa Precinct, lists ths family as follows: William H. Morgheim, age 36, born in Russia, came to the USA in 1910, occupation: Farmer, General. Wife: Katy, age 25, born in Colorado. Child: Vernon William, age 4, born in Nebraska. Note: Census taker indicates that Wilhelm was age 21, and Katherine age 18 when they married.

      Buried in Weld County, Colorado. Registered in Cemetery Book I, lot #130.

      He always insisted that the family name Margheim was not spelled correctly, and should be spelled Morgheim. Various members of the family agreed with him and use the spelling "Morgheim". This spelling variation was finally cleared up at the Margheim Family Reunion, August 8, 1999 at Lyman, Scottsbluff County, Nebraska. Johannes Margheim, Schiller Str 4, 74736 Hardheim, Odenwald, Germany, who was born June 15, 1931, Merkel, Saratov Province, Russia, informed the attendees of the reunion that the correct German spelling was "Margheim". He stated that all of the family bibles, and village records indicated Margheim (Dr. Igor Pleve found records and documents that also agree with this fact). He stated that "Morgheim" was the Russian way of spelling the Family name.

      Ed Ring, 824 12th Street, Greeley, Colorado, indicates that Wilhelm "got his step sister pregnant" in Merkel, Russia just before he left for the USA. Ed Ring also states that Wilhelm is buried in Evans, Weld County, Colorado, and that Wilhelm introduced his mother Maria (Mary) Kurtz to his father Alex Ring. The Ring family lived in Lyman and Morrill, Nebraska, and finally Torrington, Wyoming.