A little history of Henry Menebroker

Death Record of Henry Menebroker

Henry Menebroker was born September 28,1870 at Lotte, in Westphalia Germany. Here he attended the state school in which, besides the secular branches, religion was taught. He was confirmed at the age of 14. At the age of 17, in the year 1887, he emigrated to America with his parents, three brothers and one sister. The first few months the Menebroker family lived with Henry's sister, Mrs. Bauman, now Mrs. Glampe, who had come to this county in 1883. A brother named Friedrich, died only there weeks after his arrival here in 1884. For many years the Menebrokers lived southwest of Clearwater on a farm, which they at first rented. Until his father's death, which occurred in 1895, the deceased farmed and worked mostly in Otoe County, at Albies, and other places. In 1895 he moved back to this vicinity, where he spent nearly all of his remaining time. May 7, 1902 he entered the holy state of matrimony with Carrie Rentzel on Neleigh. In spite of numerous afflictions, their married life was most happy. May 11, 1918, however, it pleased God in His inscrutable wisdom to separate husband and wife by taking the latter to Himself into heaven. His beloved wife died in a hospital in Omaha of leakage of the heart.


HENRY MENEBROKER.

A history of the northeastern part of the state of Nebraska would be incomplete without doing a sketch of the life of Henry Menebroker, who is one of the most prominent of the old settlers. Mr. Menebroker is one of those sturdy sons of the German Empire who, with his parents, came to the golden west in the days of the early pioneer to seek their fortunes and build for themselves foundations for a more free and substantial life than could be had in any other country.

Mr. Menebroker is a native of Germany, being born in Lotte village, Westphalen province, September 29, 1870, and was the eldest of six children in the family of Henry and Welhimena [sic] (Roower) Menebroker, both natives of the old fatherland. His father served his native country in three wars, the first in 1864, in the strife between Denmark and Germany; the second, in 1866, between Austria and Germany; and the third, in 1870, between France and Germany. Our subject's wife, who before her marriage to Mr. Menebroker, was Miss Carrie Reutzel, was born April 7, 1879, in Fillmore county, Nebraska, her parents being old settlers of this state.

In 1887 Mr. Menebroker came to America with his parents where they could get cheap land and a place to make a fortune; they left Bremen, Germany, on the steamship "Wesser" sailing to Baltimore, August 14, and after landing here, proceeded westward where they settled in Clearwater, Nebraska. One sister preceded the family to America by four years and one brother, who arrived one year later. In 1904, Mr. Menebroker bought his present farm from O. A. Briton, which farm was originally the "McGowen Homestead." Mr. Menebroker now owns a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres of land, and has four acres of good forest trees and orchard.

Mr. Menebroker was united in matrimony May 7, 1902, to Miss Carrie Reutzel, and Mr. and Mrs. Menebroker have one child, Paul, who is a fine lad, born February 14, 1903.

Mr. and Mrs. Menebroker are highly esteemed in their neighborhood, and enjoy the respect of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.

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