Carl "Charles" August Leopold Afeman

Oldest child of Ernst Johann AFEMANN and Sophie Dorothee SUNDMACHER Reuter Afemann (whose burials are unknown) and husband of Franziska ("Francis") GREIDENWEIS Afeman (buried in the same plot with him), with whom he had nine children.

The links below lead to the memorials for only six of their children. Missing there are Amelia ("Emily," "Emma") AFEMAN Sommers Cruse, Dora AFEMAN Fluck and Mary Jane AFEMAN O'Shee. These can be found at FAG memorials nos. 28489476, 22613315 and 22614034.

Carl August Leopold ("Charles") AFEMANN had immigrated to Louisiana about 1853 with his younger brother Johann Heinrich Friedrich (John Henry Frederick) AFEMANN (whose burial is unknown) from the place of their births, Lauenau, Kingdom of Hanover (see its crest at right; today the town is in Lower Saxony, Germany).

Until that time the spelling of their surname was AFEMANN, as it is to this day among their relatives in Germany. Because the name was and still is pronounced with three syllables in German, it was often misunderstood at first and misspelled in newspapers and early documents in Louisiana as Affeman or Afferman.
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Obituary taken from http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers/doc/:

(Originally published in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 15 August 1905)

Charles A. Alfeman [sic]

Alexandria, La., Aug. 15. – Charles A. Afeman, aged 78 years, died last night at his home near Lamourie, after an illness of several months. He leaves two sons and six daughters. His remains will be buried in Pineville tomorrow. The deceased has lived in this parish the greater part of his life and was a Confederate Veteran, being a member of Company I, Coushatta Crescent Regiment.