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About Heinrich Wilhelm Stumpf
Death Notice: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS75-S1K6?cc=2573604
Grave: https://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=825343
STUMPF, Heinrich Wilhelm, *27.10.1841 in Rückershausen, Hessen, Germany. He studied at the University of Marburg and became teacher. He worked as teacher in Warzenbach and Lehnhausen till 1873. On 9. Apr. 1865 he married Barbara Elisabeth Nasz. During childbirth of his second child, his wife passed away. He married again on the 5 Dez. 1869 to Katharina Maria Röse. She was born on the 7th May 1845 in Frankenberg, Hessen, Germany. Heinrich Stumpf, his wife, and four children emigrated to South Africa in 1876 on the Dunrobin Castle. He first lived in Dundee to learn English and Dutch. From 1877-1884 he was head teacher at the German School Morgensonne near Rustenburg. Following a request by his wife’s brother-in-law, missionary Engelbrecht, he moved to the missionary station Ekhombela in northern Natal to become teacher of the children of the German immigrants in that area. He subsequently became head teacher at the German school in Lüneburg and later on at the school in Paulpietersburg. He was also the Resident Vrederechter of Paulpietersburg. He was a self-learned theologian and homeopathic healer. During the Boer War he and his family were interned in the Volksrust Concentration camp. After the war the family moved back to Paulpietersburg. His wife Katharina Röse +11.5.1904 due to kidney failure. Heinrich Stumpf was a prolific writer and poet. He wrote numerous poems on the Boer War, the first World War as well as numerous religious poems and plays. +6.10.1921 on the farm Bergheim near Paulpietersburg. (61) (STUMPF Heinrich Wilhelm on www.stamouers.com)
Heinrich Wilhelm Stumpf's Timeline
1841 |
October 27, 1841
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Rückershausen, Neukirchen, Kassel, Hessen, Germany
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1873 |
August 17, 1873
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Germany
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1875 |
October 6, 1875
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Hermannsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
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1877 |
May 17, 1877
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Morgenzon, Rustenburg, South Africa
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1880 |
September 15, 1880
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1888 |
June 13, 1888
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Ekhombela Missionstation, Natal, South Africa
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1921 |
October 6, 1921
Age 79
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Farm Bergheim, Paulpietersburg, South Africa
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General Cemetry, Paulpietersburg, South Africa
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