Johann Friedrich Christoph Klinge
Buedner in Leussow until 1871
b. 1825 in Hohenwoos near Alt-Jabel, d. 1906 Clayton Center, Iowa, USA;
son of a Buedner farmer
1. marr. 1849 Catharina Maria Elisabeth Reimer
1830 - 1849, Leussow, daughter of a Hauswirt farmer
2. marr. 1850 Maria Elisabeth Dorothea Holz
b. 1829 Laupin,d. 1921 Monona, Iowa, USA; daughter of a Buedner farmer
Children:
1. MARIA Catharina Elisabeth Dorothea Klinge, b. 1849 (marr. Gericke)
2. Caroline Elisabeth WILHELMINE Klinge, b. 1851, d. 1919 Monona (marr. Aulerich fromMenkendorf/Conow)
3. FRIEDRICH Johann Joachim Klinge, b. 1853, d. 1926 Monona (marr. Palaß)
4. Johann Joachim Jürgen HEINRICH Klinge,b. 1857, d. 1941 Monona (marr. Palaß)
5. ELISABETH Maria Sophia Klinge, b. 1859, d. 1944 Le Mars, Iowa (marr. Becker)
6. FRIEDERIKE Maria Dorothea Klinge, b. 1861, d. 1945, USA (marr. Jahn)
7. stillborn son, 1864
Klinge owned his paternal Buedner farm in Leussow until 1871. Then he sold everything and moved with wife and six children to America. Most emigrants of this region travelled to New York and then to Iowa. But Klinge choose the way to New Orleans, up Mississippi river to Clayton, Iowa and then walked to Garnavillo, Iowa.
There the family settled down. All children married, several of their partners came from Griese Gegend, too, or their parents were born there.
Thank you to Eldon Knuth, California, for the information about the family's live in America.