On this page I will attempt to tell the story of the family based on the records, publications and family stories. Much research has been done by other family members who have shared their data with me. Our Henry branch of the family have had questions in the linage which I think can be explained. If you have further stories, facts or any thing to add or correct this narrative, please contact me.

How do we connect to the Quincy Stutenbergs?

Henry Theodore and John Francis (Frank) were half brothers. Frank was born in 1844 in St. Louis to German immigrants, Francis Henry and Bernadine Stuckenberg, who immigrated in 1839. His mother, Bernadine, died in 1847. His father then remarried to Elizabeth (aka Lisette) Vos. So now Frank had a step mother.

His father and step mother then had a two more sons, Joseph (who died young) and Henry Theodore (my line). Then Francis Sr. died, leaving Frank with his step mother when he was about 13 years old. I found a court record in Adams County (Quincy, IL) that made Frank a ward of his uncle, Henry (who immigrated with his father). Later, Frank somehow found his way to working on a farm near Colony, MO.

His half-brother, Henry, probably never knew his father, since Joseph died the same year Henry was born. Lucy was remarried to Joseph Winkleman, who appears to have owned a lot of land near Wayland and Alexandria, MO. Some of this may have belonged to Francis Sr. since Henry owned a sizable tract at the edge of Wayland that "extended to the sand bank" which is some distance to the East of Wayland. This is how our branch left Quincy.

It is likely Henry visited his brother in Colony as he married a Colony girl, Lucy Boltz.

As an adult, Henry's house in Wayland is in the corner of Wayland's Stutenberg subdivision (which was probably part of the farm). It is located right next door to the current post office. If you are in Wayland, stop by the City Office to view the subdivision map.

Henry's son Bert later lost his wife, so my grandmother Leta and her brother Murlen (Studie) lived with Henry and Lucy (nee Boltz) in Wayland. By the way, County Trunk B is also known as Stutenberg Street, however, today all the street signs call it CHT B.