Buchheim Family Sketches
Samuel Buchheim was born June 19, 1809 in Saxony, Germany. He brought his family to the United States in 1858 after his oldest son John F. had arrived. When Samuel came, he brought his wife, Anna Mary.Mary Ann Krice, son Samuel J and daughter Wilhemina. They arrived in Chicago in 1858 where Samuel applied for the Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States. He became a citizen on June 2, 1864 in the state of Kansas and County of Douglas.
His son Samuel married Margaret Ann Ernst who was born in Hessia, Germany in 1838. She was the daughter of Adam and Magdalena Becker Ernst. Margaret Ernst came to the United States by ship at the age of 17 traveling alone. The trip took 7 months and the sailing ship was lost at sea many times; many people on the ship died at sea. She came to Lawrence, Kansas to live with her sister Mrs. Kate Ott.
Margaret Ernst married Samuel Buchheim in 1864 and they lived on a farm about 12 miles west of the city of Lawrence, Kansas. Samuel homesteaded 180 acres. He built his home out of stone which he dug from the land. It was a three story hillside house. They raised a family of 8 children, four of whom died very young. They worked hard to provide farms for their sons Samuel Jr. and Frederick.
There were many Samuel Buchheims in Germany, and the name continued in the family. I am the 5th generation after Samuel of 1809. I know of at least 3 that lived in Kansas. I met the younger son Samuel, the son of Samuel of 1838 when I was in Kansas in the late 1950's. He was called Sammy by family members. He was thin, very shy, and a kind of back-woodsie kind of man. He may have had a son named Samuel as well. In the Buchheim genealogy of Germany, there was a long line of Samuel Buchheims who never came to the United States. (edited by Karen Townsend 2010, daughter of Jane Buchheim Townsend.)
Frederick Michael Buchheim was born of German parents and the first generation to be American born. He was born on a farm 12 miles west of Lawrence, Kansas which his father homesteaded. He lived there until the family bought him an adjoining 160-acre farm which became his. He and his parents lived on the farm and raised thoroughbread hogs.
He married LaEtta Baldwin, on October 20, 1898. In 1911 they bought a 10-acre cherry ranch in Highland Park, a suburb of Topeka, Kansas. Later they moved into Topeka, where he was in the Real Estate and Insurance Business. In 1919 they moved to an 80-acre farm on East 6th Street three miles east of Topeka. His wife, LaEtta, died on a trip to California in 1931.
They had four children, only 3 lived: Marguerite Zinn, Herbert Frederick Buchheim, and Jane Louise Townsend. An infant son John died at birth. Frederick remarried to a woman named Melissa. He died May 14, 1945 and is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in Topeka, Kansas, along with his wife, LaEtta Baldwin, and her parents, Lafayette and Margaret Baldwin.
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