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THIS SITE IS FOR THE MUMM DESCENDANTS WHO MAY HAVE LITTLE KNOWLEDGE OF THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED BEFORE THEM, AND FOR THOSE MUMM DESCENDANTS YET TO COME SO THAT THEY MAY HAVE SOME APPRECIATION OF THEIR HERITAGE.

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Some data may be missing and in some cases incorrect for a variety of reasons. Please send corrections/additions to:

Lyle Replogle at "lylerep@gmail.com". Thank you.

THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS REPRESENT THOSE WHO TOOK THE RISK OF LEAVING THEIR HOMELAND AND VENTURING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC TO THE UNITED STATES, AND ULTIMATELY TO YUTAN.

THE MUMM FAMILY

OF YUTAN, NEBRASKA

HEINRICH AND CATHARINE BOHNSEN KUHR

In 1872, Heinrich Kuhr, his wife Catharine Bohinsen Kuhr, along with their son Henry and daughter Katherine, immigrated to the United States from Hohn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Typically, immigrants were much younger. Heinrich Kuhr was 55, and his wife Catharine was 53 when they arrived in the United States. Son Henry was 21 and daughter Katharine was 18.

Heinrich was born March 25, 1817 in Königshügel, Germany and Catharine in Friedrichsholm, Germany. Note that Bohnsen may be spelled as Boehensen and is most likely known as Bohinsen.

Heinrich died October 5, 1891 at the age of 74 and Catherine soon after in 1892 at the ae of 77. Both are interred at the Hollst Cemetery southwest of Yutan.

HENRY MUMM

Henry Mumm was born on March 25, 1842 in Bargstall, Schelswig-Holstein Germany. His birthplace has also been mentioned to be Hohn, Niedersachen (lower Saxony), Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

When Henry was 15 years old Germany and Denmark were engaged in war and the 15 year old boys were drafted to carry the dead and wounded out of no-man’s land. The Germans would not shoot the 15 year old boys, but not liking this type of work, Henry jumped on a ship to escape. He worked as a sailor and captain for 9 years on sailing ships and freighters. Part of this time was spent on the Great Lakes and probably on the Detroit River. Henry did not like this because of the short distances traveled. There was too much loading and unloading.

While sailing on the ocean during a storm, Henry and his best friend had to climb the mast to lower the mainsail. His best friend lost his grip and fell into the ocean. He watched him swim behind to try to catch up, but there was no way to stop the ship and no way to launch a boat in the high waves, so he watched his best friend drown.

Henry never knew how to swim and didn’t want to know how because he wanted to get it over with in hurry if he ever fell off of a ship. In another storm, the wheel of the ship hit him in the stomach with such force that he was almost killed.

About 1866 Henry left his life as a sailor and became a foreman on the Union Pacific railroad, laying rails from coast to coast. His had the first Chinese crew in the United States. They all wore long queue’s (pigtails tightly coiled). They kept these covered under whatever headgear they wore. I imagine the railroad figured if Henry could control rough ship crews, he could handle the Chinese crews. The railroad crews were no angels and did not think highly of Chinese working in the U.S. One Chinese threw a shovel at Henry when he got angry. Henry never did say what happened after that.

After the driving of the Golden Spike, Henry was paid in Rawlings, Wyoming in cash. He had $800 cash on him and said there was one man following him everywhere he went so he didn’t sleep on his trip from Rawlings to Omaha. Eight hundred dollars those days was like having eighty thousand today.

He brought his $800 to Saunders County and homesteaded on land 2 ½ miles west of Yutan. He also purchased more land at $40 an acre.

One thing Henry was very good at was splicing rope. He could put it together so perfectly that you couldn’t find the splice.

HENRY AND KATHERINA KUHR MUMM

Henry married Katherina Kuhr, daughter of Heinrich and Catharine Borhnsen Kuhr who also was from Hohne,Germany. They made their home two and one-half miles west of Yutan on land homesteaded by Henry.

The following was prepared by Henry and Katherina's Grandson, Clarence Storm:

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Five children were born to them: Henry, Anna Christina, Catherine (Tena), Rosa, and John, who died in infancy. Katherina died in 1908. Henry then made his home with his daughter Tena and passed away in 1926 at 84 years of age.

PETER AND WOLVER EGGERS HENNINGSEN

Peter Henningsen was born in 1854 in Schleswig-Holstein, German. In 1878 he married Wolver Eggers (born August 20, 1852) of the same province, and the next spring they sailed to America. They came almost directly to the Yutan area (at that time called Clear Creek), and lived there for the remainder of their lives. Their farm was 1 ½ miles west of Yutan. In 1906 they retired and built a home in Yutan, where their youngest daughter, Emma Prinz, later lived. Peter and Wolver had five children: Anna, Effie, John, Henry, Emma.

Peter died in 1924 at the age of 70. Wolver died in 1925 at the age of 73. The burial site is in the original southeast block 4 at the Hollst Cemetery on County Road L, west of County Road 6, southwest of Yutan.

All of the above ancestors are buried at the Hollst Cemetery southwest of Yutan.

SOME KNOWN RELATIVES WHO DID NOT COME TO THE UNITED STATES

Or did they?

PARENTS OF WOLVER EGGERS

Jochim Eggers and

Abel Storm - born August 22, 1833 in Hohn, Rendsburg-Eckernforde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Children and Grandchildren of Peter and Wolver Henningsen:

John (Elsie) Trost: (after Elsie's death, John married Margaret Wohlert, immigrant from Germany)

Caroline (Howard Ogden): John, Leonard, Lawrence, Michael, Charles, Carol, Margaret Ardery.

Orletha (Ernest Bierschenk): Charlotte Witte, Faye Jorgensen, Marilyn Millard

Effie (Charles Thomas):

Emma (Henry Hollst): Darlene Baumann, Gilbert

Herman (Laura Eggers): Donald, Charlotte Timm, Laurel Fennel, Joyce Svoboda. After Laura’s death, Herman married Ruth Arp Eggers.

Clara (Harry Storm): Melvin, Rogene Schoening, Leonard.

Alvin (Willa Snelling): William, Elaine, Joan.

Alice (Alvin Zaugg): Charles, Lois Dawson, Wesley

Benny (Anna Eggers): Richard, Ronald, Eileen Kroger.

Henry (Agnes Rhode):

Henry Jr, Arthur, Glen, Alice Johnson, Pearl Anderson, Evelyn Boyd.

Emma (Henry Prinz):

Had no children

Henry’s son, also named Henry, married Anna Christina Henningsen: Henry, John, Ernest, Effie Monnich, Lillian Replogle, Arnold, Eland, Leona Witte, Lloyd, Erma Sievers, Glenn.

Anna married Henry Mumm:

Effie (Charles Thomas): Emma Hollst, Clara Storm, Herman, Alvin, Alice Zaugg, Benny.

John (Elsie Trost): Carolyn Ogden, Orletha Bierschenk. Elsie died very young and John married Margarete Wohlert.