of Black Hawk County, Iowa · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Lewis Brandes
parentsBrandes
Lewis Brandes⚭ Annie Beckel
childrenSarah Brandes · Herman Brandes · Louis H. Brandes · Bertha Brandes · William Brandes · Albert Brandes · Carl Brandes
Source: History of Black Hawk County, Iowa
Their story
What the record says
Farmer in Mount Vernon township, Black Hawk county, Iowa.
Educated in public schools of Illinois and Iowa.
Married at age 23.
Bought 160 acres of raw land in Mount Vernon township, which he improved.
Member of school board, Modern Woodmen of America, Evangelical church.
Parents were German immigrants (first-born daughter a native of Germany).
His mother died 1900.
The family had eight children: Henry (Waterloo), Dora (wife of Charles Paul, Cedar Falls), Minnie (Mrs. Bartling), Lewis, Lena and Fred (deceased), Annie (died age 4), John (Cedar Falls).
Daughter Sarah married Ernest Hamm, farmer of Mount Vernon township.
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