Sophia Düsterheft
1846 - 1927 (80 år)-
Navn Sophia Düsterheft Født 23 apr. 1846 Worms, Odessa, Kherson, Ukraine 
Køn Kvinde Død 9 apr. 1927 Flint River Township, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA Person-ID I1471 slægtstræ total Sidst ændret 21 okt. 2022
Familie Niels Christensen, f. 20 feb. 1842, Høgild, Resen, Fjends , d. 22 feb. 1915, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA (Alder 73 år) Gift 27 mar. 1868 Des Moines, Iowa, USA Børn 1. George N Christensen, f. 14 jun. 1868, Iowa, USA , d. 4 mar. 1945, Iowa, USA (Alder 76 år)2. Henry Christensen, f. 16 nov. 1870, Des Moines, Iowa, USA , d. 18 jan. 1912, Danville, Des Moines, Iowa, USA (Alder 41 år)3. John Christensen, f. 6 nov. 1878, Des Moines, Iowa, USA , d. 1960, Des Moines, Iowa, USA (Alder 82 år)4. Mary Katherine Christensen, f. 8 feb. 1875, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA , d. 22 okt. 1923, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA (Alder 48 år)5. William Charles Christensen, f. 25 sep. 1878, Danville, Des Moines, Iowa, USA , d. 24 nov. 1928, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA (Alder 50 år)6. Clara Christensen, f. 18 okt. 1884, Des Moines, Iowa, USA , d. 29 aug. 1927, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA (Alder 42 år)7. Edward Charles Christensen, f. 26 mar. 1881, Danville, Des Moines, Iowa, USA , d. 15 jan. 1971, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA (Alder 89 år)8. Anna Laura Christensen, f. 11 apr. 1887, Franklin, Des Moines, Iowa, USA , d. 1954, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA (Alder 66 år)Sidst ændret 27 okt. 2022 Familie-ID F560 Gruppeskema | Familie Tavle
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Født - 23 apr. 1846 - Worms, Odessa, Kherson, Ukraine 
Gift - 27 mar. 1868 - Des Moines, Iowa, USA 
Død - 9 apr. 1927 - Flint River Township, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA = Link til Google Earth
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Notater - Daniel Dusterheft and his family were “Germans from Russia”. Czarina Catherine the Great (and later her grandson Czar Alexander I) invited foreigners, especially Germans, to settle in the large tracts of virgin land along the lower course of the Volga River, and later in the Ukrainian lands north of the Black Sea in South Russia. Catherine the Great was determined to turn this region into productive, agricultural land as well as to populate the area as a protective barrier against the nomadic Asiatic tribes who inhabited the region.
Daniel Dusterheft was likely born in Germany or Russia circa 1810-1815. On May 15, 1834, Johann Daniel Dusterheft married Catharina Kurz in Akkerman, Bessarabia, South Russia [now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine].
Daniel and Catharina’s children were born in Johnannesthal, Beresan District, Odessa Province, South Russia [now Ivanivka, Mykolaivs’ka, Ukraine], northwest of Odessa (on the Black Sea). Most of the children were baptized in the Lutheran Church in Johnannesthal. In a Russian database of births and baptisms in the Russian State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg, the following is shown for their children:
Carolina was born November 10, 1835; Anna Christina was born May 1, 1838; Rosina was born in 1841 and died February 16, 1843; Anna Elisabetha was born June 18, 1843, and died December 19, 1844; Catharine was born January 6, 1846; Ludwig was born in 1847, and died March 13, 1847; and Sophia was born April 23, 1848. [Sophia’s obituary states she was born in 1846.]
It is not clear whether Daniel died in Russia, or in the United States (after Daniel’s death Catharina married Peter Gross in Des Moines County on October 14, 1850). And it is not clear exactly when the family immigrated to the United States.
Conflicting information is found in family obituaries. Catharina’s obituary states she came to the United States in 1847 and settled with her husband (does this refer to Daniel or Peter Gross?) in Burlington.
The obituary of her daughter Caroline says the family came to New Orleans by way of the Mediterranean in 1845, located in Cleveland, and came to Burlington in 1850. Anna Christina’s obituary says she came to the United States when she was 11 (1849) with her parents, settling in Ohio and then moving to a farm north of Burlington. Sophia’s obituary says she came to America and Flint River Township three years after her birth (the obituary lists 1846 as year of birth).
In South Russia the family name is recorded as Dusterheft. In the records of Des Moines County, Iowa, the name appears variously as Dieterhaft, Diesterholf, Destehunt, Deisterhaff, Destenhauf, and Diestelhorst. It does not appear that Daniel was related to Johann Daniel (“John”) Distelhorst (1813-1885), who immigrated to and is buried in Des Moines, County, Iowa (Find-a-Grave 20938250).
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- Daniel Dusterheft and his family were “Germans from Russia”. Czarina Catherine the Great (and later her grandson Czar Alexander I) invited foreigners, especially Germans, to settle in the large tracts of virgin land along the lower course of the Volga River, and later in the Ukrainian lands north of the Black Sea in South Russia. Catherine the Great was determined to turn this region into productive, agricultural land as well as to populate the area as a protective barrier against the nomadic Asiatic tribes who inhabited the region.