|
 William Carl Heiden's
wife was the former
Mary Rambow
(right). Her mother's maiden
name was Wilhelmina Milhan. The
Heidens,
Rambows and
Milhans all lived close to each other in the small
town of
Gross Wokern, Germany.
The first generation
of Milhans we have found (so far) began with Johann
Joachim Friedrick Milhan who was born July 23, 1823
in Gross Wokern. He was married to Marie Sophia
Fredericke Möller and they had 2 girls,
Wilhelmina
and
Fredericka
and 3 boys,
Carl,
Wilhelm and
Christoph.
 In 1873, the Heidens
emigrated to the U.S. About one year later in 1874,
the Rambows and Milhans followed.
It had been the plan
for both the Rambows and Milhans to take the ship
together. In the year before departure, however,
Wilhelmina's father and mother both died. The
mother, Sophia, was buried the day before the others
left Gross Wokern for the port city of Hamburg,
Germany.
Carl "Fred" Milhan
(left)
appears to have come to Monroe County in 1873 and
soon built a log house in Raisinville Township on
South Custer Road a short distance from the farm
where the Rambows settled the following year. |
