John Casper Nau

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John Casper Nau

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Indiana
Death: August 07, 1954 (77)
Evansville, Indiana
Place of Burial: Lutheran Cemetery
Immediate Family:

Son of Resing? and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Nau
Husband of Katie Engelbrecht
Father of Ophir P. Nau and Private

Managed by: James Mason
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About John Casper Nau

GEDCOM Note

1880 census Evansville, IN shows John "Resing", age 3, listed as grandson of head of household Casper Nau, age 54, and Mary Nau (nee Anna Marie Schmidt) age 49. Also living there was daughter Mary, age 21, son Peter, age 16, and granddaughter Mamie, age 3. So 3-year-old Mamie Nau was evidently young Mary's daughter and 3-year-old John Resing was Lizzie's daughter who was being raised by Lizzie's parents. On John Casper Nau's marriage license in 1897 when he was 20, he lists his father as "C", and his mother as "M A Schmidt," who was actually his grandmother. She was born in 1831, so she was 47 when John was born.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M998-P2K 1900 census Blacksmith listed as occupation in 1900 and blacksmith for a railroad in 1920 (1940 census listed as laborer in tool manufacturing making $925 per year) name: John Nau titles & terms: event: Census event date: 1900 event place: ED 120 Pigeon Township Evansville city Ward 6, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States birth date: Jan 1877 birthplace: Indiana relationship to head of household: Head father's birthplace: Germany mother's birthplace: Indiana race or color (standardized): White gender: Male marital status: Married years married: 3 estimated marriage year: 1897 mother how many children: number living children: immigration year: page: 9 sheet letter: A family number: 183 reference number: 20 film number: 1240407 digital folder number: 004118660 image number: 00928 Household Gender Age Birthplace head John Nau M 23 Indiana wife Katie Nau F 25 Indiana

Buried at Lutheran Cemetery in Evansville http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Nau&GSfn=John...

Possible immigration record for some relative (not John, since he says he was born in USA but his father was born in Germany): https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KD74-3GP name: Joh Nau event: Immigration event date: 23 May 1888 event place: New York, New York, New York, United States gender: Male age: 11 country of origin or birth: Germany occupation: Unknown ship: Westernland estimated birth year: 1877 departure port: Antwerp literacy: Unknown last residence: destination: New York transit or travel compartment: Staying in the USA [Transit]; Steerage [Travel] manifest identification number: 00040469 nara publication title: Germans to America Passenger Data file, 1850-1897 arc identifier: 1746067

1920 census original written record shows he was born in Virginia. Katie was born in Indiana. Whoever tabulated the census sheet got it backwards - it shows Katie being from Virginia.

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John Casper Nau's Timeline

1877
January 20, 1877
Indiana
1902
October 12, 1902
Evansville, Indiana
1920
1920
Age 42
Evansville Ward 6, Vanderburgh, Indiana
1954
August 7, 1954
Age 77
Evansville, Indiana
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Lutheran Cemetery