Meriden Township Cemetery
(also known as the Brase Cemetery)
Recorded July 23 1985
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German
This cemetery is located in Meriden twp
in the SW corner of section 29 . This
*Several old stone markers are broken and
illegible. Most of the stone markers are in good condition. The most
general
nationality appears to be of German ancestry, many born in Germany as
is
indicated by inscriptions
Meriden cemetery was originally surveyed
Sept 1865 an is recorded in the Steele County Recorders office in
Owatonna. I
will list the original names of plat owners at time of first survey at
the end
of this report. Also in 1885 20 more burial sites were plated in this
cemetery.
Abbe
Otilla
May 8 1870 July 12 1911
* Children of FO Abbe
inf dau
May 16 1897
inf son
Apr 17 1898
inf son
Dec 23 1899
Wilhelmine(mutter) 19
Feb 1849- 3 Sept
1930
Welhelm
(vater) 25
Juli 1848- 16 Nov
1903 osp
Louse
25 Nov 1825- 27 Sept 1906
Heinrich
25 Mar 1827- 4 Sept 1895 osp
Albert FG
3 June 1877-26 Nov 1878 osp
Martin
s/o L & K 26 Jan 1895- 16
Oct 1895 osp
Alma WH
d/o Fredrich & Henriette d
Apr22 1880 age1y 9m 27d
Henriette W w/o F 29 Apr 1859- 18 Oct 1890 osp
Altenberg
Henry
1870-1892
Dwaine
Dec 30 1927 Sept 16 1931
baby Grass
Dec 29 1927 osp
Altenburg
Carolina
5 Mar 1835- 7 May
1913
Fredrich
20 Feb 1828- 27 Oct 1889
Bathel
Kathrine
1862-1946
Henry
1858-1945
Beck
Simon
b 1810 d Oct 4 1884
Behsmann
Marcus
Geb 30 Aug 1847 Gest 12 Aug 1908
Dora (mother)2 Nov 1859 Gest
1 Mar 1936
Blohm
H Franz
2 Feb 1784- 14 May 1877 age 93 3m
12d
William B
s/o Henry & Margaret d
June
3 1873 age 15y 13d
Bluhm
Henriette
Oct 2 1841 May 5 1903
age 61y 7m
Anna (Rosenau) Sept 7
1811 Jan 8 1885
age 73y 4m
Brase
Heinrich FC (vater) Geb
2 June 1851 Gest
25 Jan 1898
Minna M
Geb 25 June 1860 Gest 15 June
1936 oss
Paul LF
Geb 30 Mar 1896 Gest 14 Sept 1909
oss
Gilbert A
Geb 29 Apr-Gest 8 June
1906
Wilhelm HF
Geb 22 Feb 1826 Gest 8 Feb 1906
Buelow
John (father) d Mar 20 1896
age 46y 11m 6d
*inf dau of JC
& BL d Aug 17 1886
age 2m
Buker
Henry
10 May 1838- 10 Apr 1918
Caroline
2 Ock 1847- 2 Juli 1944
Gertruth
CA Geb 25 Juli
Gest 5 Jan 1887
Ludwig C
8 Nov 1876- 19 Dec 1876
Caspersen
Ole
d 26 Apr 1874 age 49y 9m 29d
Peter
Nov 20 1833 Sept 27 1907
Carie M
May 20 1835 May
18 1916 oss
Ole
Apr 10 1866 Apr
13
1877 oss
Daetz/Datz
Otto GR (Daetz) Sohn/ R
& E Daetz Geb 28 Marz 1875 Gest 5 Dez 1897
Amelia
Datz Apr 17 1851 May 27 1935 osp
Rudolph
Datz Oct 24 1844 June 25 1929 osp
Daetz/Detz
Wilhelm
Mar 10 1810 Sept 17 1894
August
23 Aug 1879- 18 Sept 1879
Emil JF
s/o R & E 13 Mar 1877- 11
June 1877
Maria
b 17 Feb 1875 d
10 May 1875
Anna
d June 28 1873 age 20y 4m 1d
Maria (Stein)
6 Jan 1825- 6 Dec 1899
Davis
Eliza
w/o W Davis d Jan 8 1890 age 71y 5m
William
d Feb 16 1884 age 53y 14m
*marker broken
(illegible unknown) osp
Dolgner (broken
stone marker)
Wilhelmine
w/o G
1874 age 52y
Marie CD
28 July 1831- 2 June 1908
August F
b Oct 1846 in Deutschland d 1
Apr 1897
Drache
Minnie
Mar 17 1893 Oct 6 1896
Carl F (father) Oct 19 1865 Sept 25 1925
Adele
(mother) June 26 1870 Apr 11 1952 oss
Edwin A (father 1905-1973
Max C
July 6,7 1945
Drinken
Ella AC
10 Sept 1885- 6 Sept 1886
Johann
10 June 1816- 12 Nov 1897
Marie
9 Feb 1816- 3 May
1878
Ferguson
Somer P d/o DP (our
little) Feb 8 1865 May 1 1865
Fette
Conrad
12 Jan 1838- 21 Nov 1906
Wihelmine 20 Dez 1848-
17 Juni 1907 oss
Henry
Jan
2 1872 Feb 15 1873
Louis
June 17 1869 Jan 30 1873 oss
Wilhelm
20 Dec 1845- 24 Aug 1905
Elisa 1
Feb 1847- 14 July 1914
Lilly
1902-1912
Martha
1877 1923
William
1877-1954
baby boy
Fette Apr 1916
Josephine (Kawell)
1907-1930 (Fette plot)
Franz (marker broken)
*no other name-28 Sept
1873
Grunz
Adolph
27 Sept 1887- 31 Sept 1887
Hass
Gottleib
1876-1952
Emma (mother) 1880-1913
*babies--Irma,
Clarence, margaret
G Hass
(stones)
W Hass (stones)
Heinz
August
1856-1939
Amelia
1869-1943 oss
Klara
10 Feb 1884- 11 Nov 1891
Maria (Schuldt) 16 June
1862- 6 May 1886
oss
Johann
19 Feb 1889- 9 Sept 1885 oss
Kerger
August
Feb 6 1821 Mar 20 1886 age 62y
Wilhelmine
Feb 25 1826 Oct 20 1887 age 61y
Krenke
Mathilda LW (Geborne
Fette) July 12 1887
Mar 5 1917
Kujath
Louise
Nov 13 1838 Nov 2 1887
Mahl
C Heinrich
1 Feb 1876- 20 Oct 1895
Carl
(father)
1842-1914
Sophia (mother) 1842-1920
Meinking
Wiehalm C (vater) 13 Fabuar 1833-
Ocktober 1885
Louise M (mutter) 24
Seytember 1834- 1
Fabuar 1917
Miller
Alven AL
Dec 26 1875 Mar 23 1885
Anne
w/o Henry Miller d July 7
1872 age 42y 8m 2d
Mundt
Wilhelm
4 Oct 1814- 27 Oct
1884 age 70y 23d
Alfred W
25 July 1878- 27 Sept
1881
Heinrich
10 Oct 1842- 20 Nov
1900
Norrel
Wilhelmine
July 16 1887 Nov 3 1912
Oeljen
Herbort HH
26 Mar 1902- 16 Aug 1902
Olhoeft
Heinrich
Feb 23 1844
July 8 1914
Dorathea
Aug 8 1856
May 5 1939
Ost
Fredrich
d Aug 25 1901 age 88y
Palas
R C C
Sept 1 1868 (no other data)
J J
13 July 1873- 14
July 1873
Petrich
Minnie
1862-1896
Pump
Martin
(n/d)
Radke
Wilbert H (father)
1916-----
Freada S
(mother)
1924-----
Rosenau
infant s/o H & G
b&d Jan 6 1873
G E
died Oct 31 1873 age 26y
Anne Rosenaub b Sept 7
1811 d Jan 8
1885 age 73y 4m
**on Bluhm plot
Rueter
Ernest (father) Oct 2 1848
Nov 24 1933
Minna
(mother) Aug 3 1848 Jan 5 1925
Heinrich D Geb 27 Dec
1811 Gest 4 Juni
1898
Charlotte
Geb9 Maerz 1809 Gest 22 Mai 1897
Sahler
Mary
1866-1955
Sannemann
Maria K
12 Mar 1816- 30 Dec 1904
Heinrich
19 Jan 1802- 25 May 1888 oss
Schmidt
Minnie A
w/o HC d Aug 31 1890 age 21y 5m 5d
Arthur E H
s/o HC 6 MA d
Jan 10 1891
age 1y 10d
Schollejerdes
C D
21 Feb 1823- 21 Apr 1903
Marquregia 16 June1825-
18 Mar 1895
Armin
Mar 17 1931 Sept 21 1933
John B (illegible) old stone (vhtr) n/d
(unknown)
Schuelke
*stone
marker
n/d
Schuldt
Wilhelm
28 Nov 1866- 15 Apr 1873
Anna
21 Feb 1869- 2 Oct 1873 oss
Heinrich
Aug 5 1826 Jan 13 1894
*marker illegible (osp)
unknown
Joanna
(mother) 1849-1929
Carl
(father)
1843-1930
George
n/d
Schulz
Herman
26 Mar 1860- 16 May 1935
Emilie
22 Mar 1864- 29 Mar 1904
Sommer (broken
marker incomplete name)
Wilhelmine
W/ Zacharia 20-? (illegible)
Stelter
Henriette
30 Sept 1847- 14 Jan 1904
Michael
7 Mar 1839 - 26 June 1910
Anna J d/o M & H 24
Dec 1876- 1 Mar
1882
Stoldt
Friedrich
d Aug 22 1873 age 38y(19m?)
Voss
Sofia (mother) 1841-1921
Henry (father) 1839-1922 osp
Johann J
4 Apr 1833- 25 Oct 1903
Frad Johnn Oct 1822- 16
Nov 1906 (Von
Ellen Neelke)
Wichlow
Ida M D
20 Aug 1873- 11 Apr 1901
Carl J
15 May 1880- 20 Jan 1908
Wiechman
Carl
Nov 20 1856 Aug 15 1905
Wieclow
Caroline
June 29 1834 Nov
18 1911
Wilker
J C (father) June 19 1876
Apr 14 1934
Anna (mother) Nov 11
1877 Nov 17 1957
Celia (dau) July
7 1902 Sept 13 1902
J H
Aug 17 1852 Feb 26 1927
Amelia A
w/o John H d Oct 20 1891 age 36y 7m 17d osp
Theador
d Feb 15 1881 age 3d
osp
*infant s/o JH
& AA (Wilker)
osp
Rosseto
d/o JH & AA d June 22
1875 age 3m 1d osp
Herman
d Dec 21 1879 age 5d
osp
Edna
Dec 18 1917 Jan 28 1917
Rosa S L
d/o GL & LW d Aug 8 1863 age 3m
Sophia Luiese
d/o GW & LW b Oct 1 1867
Anna R B
(n/d) only a part of a stone
marker
*illegible marker near
Wilker plots
Willert
Emma
Dec 11 1876 Oct 30 1915
Charles
Feb 3 1873 Apr 20 1920
*grave site (unknown)
marked 1970 only
Wolter
Joiachim
d 18 Dec 1871 age
69y
J
n/d
Sophia
17 Feb 1860- 4 Nov 1876
Zacharias
August
8 Oct 1828- 24 Feb 1882
Louise
21 Feb 1835- 28 Dec 1902
Estimated
unknown grave sites
1st section south (8) umgs
this section (unknown)
2nd section south (20)umgs
this section (unknown)
3rd section center(12)umgs
this section (unknown)
4th section north (10)umgs
this section (unknown)
5th section north (16)umgs
this section (unknown)
The
original survey in Sept
1865
listed the first lot owners as follows:
(surveyed by Luther Bixby surveyor)
1
Henry Brase
Located in section 29 T107N R21W in Meriden twp,
2
------------
2 miles
south of Meriden Minnesota
3
H Sannem
4
W Schuldt
5
H Palas
6
C H Wilker (JH?)
15
A Schuldt
16
H Abbe
17
F Drinkgeon
18
W Mundt
19
E Keding
20
E Fugerson
25
H Sannemann
26
H Bluhm
35
W Bluhm
Some nomenclature used
in this report
vhtr = very hard to read
german
Geb = born
n/d
= No data
" "
Gest = died
y-m-d
= year,month,day
umgs
= unmarked grave site
osp=
on same
plot
s/o-d/o-w/o-
= son of/ daughter of/
wife of etc.
oss= on same
stone
This record and report