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 Johann Joachim Friedrick Milhan
was born July 23, 1823 in
Gross Wokern, Germany.
This was the same village where
August Heiden
and
Heinrich Rambow lived before coming to America in
1873 and 1874 respectively.
On November 29, 1848,
Johann married Marie Sophia Frederike Möller in
Gross Wokern. They had five children:
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Wilhelmina (Milhan) Rambow
- Mother of
Mary (Rambow) Heiden
and Fredareka (Rambow) Heiden
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Carl Christian
Johann Frederick Martin "Fred" Milhan
-
Fredericka Marie
Caroline Johanna Brooker
-
Wilhelm
Friedrick Heinrich Ludwig Milhan
-
Christoph Carl
August Ludwig Milhan
He died on February
20, 1868 at the age of 44. Marie who was born August
10, 1816 died in
Gross Wokern on April 10, 1874 at
the age of 57. She was buried the day before her daughter and
her family left for Hamburg and the ship to America.
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 Bertha Mae (Heiden) Drake,
the daughter of
Fredareka (Rambow) Heiden and granddaughter of
Wilhelmina Rambow, wrote the
following:
 "When they
were making plans to come, Grandma's father died. So her
mother, sister and brothers were coming too. Then her
mother became sick and died and was buried next to her
husband. In that village there were no family plots.
People were buried in the order they died so it was
unusual to be buried next to another family member. So
Grandma and Grandpa Rambow brought her sister and
brothers (last name was
Milhan) with them on the ship to
America as well as their own children." |
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 The
sister and brothers mentioned in the narrative are
numbers 2,3,4 & 5 on the family chart below. |
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Jakob Möller
was the grandfather of
