Fourth Generation


4. August LUDEKING Sr. was born on 21 April 1825 in Alverdissen, Kreis Lippe, Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine Westphalia) Province, Preussen (Prussia).2,3,4,5 (His gravestone lists his age as 68 years at the time of his death, 22 March 1894.)

(The family name was changed to from Luedeking to Ludeking after they arrived in the US. It is spelled Ludking in the 1880 Census.) He emigrated in 1879 from Detmold, Kreis Lippe, Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine Westphalia) Province, Preussen (Prussia).3 About 1880 he was a farmer in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.4 August appeared in the census in 1880 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.4 He died on 22 March 1894 at the age of 68 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.3,5 He was buried in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.5,6 in the Noth Family Reformed Lutheran Cemetery.

August LUDEKING Sr. and Karoline Marie Sophie WEINECKE were married in Detmold, Kreis Lippe, Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine Westphalia) Province, Preussen (Prussia).3 Karoline Marie Sophie WEINECKE2 was born on 17 May 1823 in Detmold, Kreis Lippe, Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine Westphalia) Province, Preussen (Prussia).3,4,6,7,8 (Calculated from age at death, 76 years, 3 months, 10 days.)

(The church marriage record of her son Wilhelm lists her maiden name as "Wynakim," but the writing is not clear. It was thought to possibly be Leinhoop, because buried near her are Mildren (d. 1877) and Mina (d. 1879) Linehoop, possibly her parents.) She died on 23 August 1899 at the age of 76 in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.3,5,7 She was buried in Wilton Township, Monroe County, WI.5,6 in the Noth Family Reformed Lutheran Cemetery. (Her surname is listed as "Wynakim" in some sources."

August LUDEKING Sr. and Karoline Marie Sophie WEINECKE had the following children:

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i.

Friedrich August LUDEKING Jr..

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ii.

Hermann Heinrich LUDEKING.

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iii.

Wilhelm "William" LUDEKING.