Peter Ferdinand Heinrich is a key figure within my research for two primary reasons:
First, within generation 8 [Theodor’s children], he is the first of two sons who emigrate to America.
Second, he is my great great grandfather and therefore sparked my interest in the German ancestry.

Children
Note: All children work on the farm until it’s time to make their own way in life.

Bertha marries Bernard Wiese. They relocate to South Dakota where they farm and have two daughters.

Anna M. is a mystery but she appears on both the 1900 and 1910 US Censuses, so she at least lives into her twenties.

Clemens Ferdinand marries Josephine Bouska. They live/farm in Crete, Nebraska, possibly taking over some of Ferdinand’s land, and have two children.

Joseph Henry serves as a Private in an Ambulance Company during WWI. He marries Martha Leora Ronspies and they live/farm in Pierce, Nebraska then Cotterell, Nebraska.

Fred marries Alma Kloke. They live/farm in Madison, Nebraska and have four children.

William Ferdinand marries Margaret Francis Batliner. They live/farm in Pierce, Nebraska before relocating to Iowa for better land. They have four children.

Theodore “Ted” Anton marries Gladys Elizabeth Aubert and they live/farm in Nebraska with his step-daugher. They relocate to Escondido, California and continue farming. Later in life, Ted works at a filling station and remarries after Gladys’ death.

Albertine never marries and is seemingly Henrietta’s lifelong companion.

Helen marries Alvin Sellentin. They live in Madision, Nebraska, Alvin works at a filling station while Helen is presumably a housewife, and they have two children.

Edward Francis leaves Nebraska for East Orange, New Jersey. He marries Mary Claire Hauer and works as a salesman at a retail electronics store while she is a stenographer at telephone company. He remarries after Mary Claire’s death.

Katherine Alfreda marries Louis Inhelder and the live in Stanton, Nebraska. He’s the manager of a liquor store and she’s a clerk at the courthouse.