August J. & Fredricka Marcks

MARCKS, SCHWICHTENBERG

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 11/30/2010 at 06:40:59

August J. Marcks, born November 22, 1840, married Fredricka Schwichtenberg, born February 5, 1842 in Stitten, Germany. Fredricka came with her family from Stitten, Germany in 1868 landing in Quebec, Canada. From there they went to Watertown, Wisconsin where Fredricka married August J. Marcks about 1860 or 69. After their marriage they lived in Watertown for two years. Fredricka's family left for Norfold, Nebraska from Watertown, Wisconsin after the marriage of August and Fredricka.

In 1870 August and Fredricka settled on a farm four miles southwest of Spencer, Iowa. They first lived in a sod house and Spencer was not even a town. Sioux Rapids, Iowa was the closest town and that is where they went for supplies.

August J. Marcks died October 28, 1909 at the age of 68 years, 11 months and six days. Fredricka (possibly Fredericka Marcks) died June 30, 1917 at the age of 75 years, four months and 25 days. They are both buried in Riverside Cemetery in Spencer, Iowa.

August and Fredricka had six children, 5 girls and 1 boy. They had a son, William Lyle Marcks, born March 6, 1881 and a daughter, Anna Marcks (Schooning), born in 1873. We have been unable to find any record of the birth or death dates of the other four girls.

August and Fredricka's son, William Lyle Marcks, at the age of 21, married Elizabeth Proctor, age 18, on April 24, 1902 (marriage record in Clay County Courthouse, Spencer, Iowa). William and Elizabeth had two children: Lyle Marcks, born September 26, 1904 in Clay County and died September 10, 1980 in Milford, Iowa (buried in Milford Cemetery) and Marie Marcks (Garnjobst) born February 25, 1921 in Clay County, Iowa (name was spelled wrong and recorded in Clay County Courthouse as Anna Mary Mark born January 29, 1903). William Marcks was a farmer and in his later years ran a seed store in Milford, Iowa and Windom, Minnesota. William L. Marcks died in 1954 in Windom, Minnesota but is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Spencer.

Contributed by: Verlyn D. Marcks. Son on Lyle Marcks and Grandson on William Lyle Marcks.