Bonsen Family History
The history of the Bonsen family is of interest to us for two reasons. Anna Landwehr, the widow who brought our Landwehr family to America, was a Bonsen. And Anna's decision to emigrate to Franklin County, Missouri, was heavily influenced by her sister, Hannah (Bonsen) Doermann, who lived in Franklin County for several years before Anna and her children arrived.
Our history begins in the year 1786, in the small German village of Oldinghausen. Located about three miles northeast of Joellenbeck, Oldinghausen was served by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the town of Enger, which was located about four miles north of Oldinghausen (see #8 on :figref refid=minden.). It was in the village of Oldinghausen that Anna (Bonsen) Landwehr's mother was born, and that Anna's mother and father were married.
Anna's mother was born Anne Catharine Marie Kiel. Born in Oldinghausen on either February 16 (death record) or February 14 (marriage record) of 1786, she was the daughter of Juergen Wemmer, a farmer, and Mgr. Elisabeth Kiel (see :figref refid=cbonsen.). Apparently Anna's grandmother, Mgr. Elisabeth Kiel, was a woman of landed estate, because her husband took her name (Kiel) instead of Mgr. Elisabeth taking her husband's name (Wemmer).
Johann Caspar Bonsen, Anna's father, was born on December 11, 1790. Prior to his marriage to Anna's mother in 1810, Johann lived in the village of Laer. There were several German villages with names similar to Laer, and we have not yet determined which village was Johann Caspar Bonsen's home. The two most likely candidates are the village of Laar, located three miles south of Oldinghausen, and the village of Laer, located twelve miles west-northwest of Oldinghausen. In any event, Johann Caspar Bonsen and Anne Catharine Marie Kiel were married at Oldinghausen on August 3, 1810.
There is still some question regarding the correct spelling of the Bonsen family name. The name appears as Bunse, Bonse, Bonson, and Bonsen. While we have accepted Bonsen as the correct spelling, it was also frequently spelled Bonse in the older German records, and further research may determine that to be the correct spelling.
After their marriage, Johann Caspar and Anne Catharine Marie Bonsen apparently settled near the village of Westerenger. Westerenger was located two miles northwest of Oldinghausen, and three miles due north of Joellenbeck. Like Oldinghausen, Westerenger was also served by the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger. Johann Caspar Bonsen was identified in one church record (1810) as an "Erbpaechter", which means "leaser by inheritance" or "leaser by inherited right", and as a spinner (of yarn). In a later church record (1831), he was listed as an "owner by inheritance".
Johann Caspar and Anne Catharine Marie Bonsen had nine children. Their first four children, all daughters, were born at #2 Westerenger in 1811, 1814, 1816 and 1819. The third daughter, Anna Maria Ilsabein Bonsen, was born at Westerenger on June 19, 1816. She would later marry Friedrich Wilhelm Landwehr, and would eventually bring our immigrant Landwehr family to America.
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:figcap.Bonsen family chart
:figdesc.The ancestry of Anna (Bonsen) Landwehr
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As one searches through the German baptismal records of the 1800's, one soon recognizes that relatively few given names were used in naming children in that period. As a result, many children were given the same, or similar, names. An excellent example can be found on the page of the Evangelical Lutheran church records where we find the record of baptism of Anna Maria Ilsabein Bonsen in 1816. The baptisms of nine female infants were recorded on that page. The baptismal names given to these nine infants were:
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:LI.Anne Ilsabein Maria
:LI.Anna Maria
:LI.Anna Maria Ilsabein
:LI.Anne Marie Ilsabein
:LI.Anne Marie Ilsabein
:LI.Anna Margar. Ilsabein
:LI.Anne Margrethe Ilsabein
:LI.Anne Marie Ilsabein
:LI.Anne Marie Elisabeth
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For another example, we need go no further than Anna Bonsen and her five sisters. Their baptismal names were:
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:li.Anne Ilsabein
:li.Anna Cathrina Ilsabein
:li.Anna Maria Ilsabein
:li.Anne Marie
:li.Hanne Wilhelmine
:li.Anna Marie Ilsabein
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One must wonder how they kept it all straight!
Between June of 1819 and September of 1821, the Johann Caspar Bonsen family apparently moved from Westerenger to the village of Herringhausen. Herringhausen was located three miles east of Westerenger, and five miles northeast of Joellenbeck. Like Oldinghausen and Westerenger, Herringhausen was also served by the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger. The other five Bonsen children were born at #9 Herringhausen in 1821, 1822, 1826, 1829 and 1831.
The last of the Bonsen children was stillborn on March 23, 1831. Four weeks later, at 3:00 a.m. on April 21, Anne Catharine Marie Bonsen died at #9 Herringhausen of "a nerve fever" at the age of forty-five. She was survived by her forty-year-old husband, Johann Caspar Bonsen, and by four of their first five daughters, ages twenty, seventeen, fourteen (Anna), and eight.
We have no record of the Bonsen family for the next six years. Then, in 1837, Anna Maria Ilsabein Bonsen was married at Niederjoellenbeck to Friedrich Wilhelm Landwehr. Two of Anna's sisters were married at Oberjoellenbeck in 1840 and 1845.
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:li.Anne Ilsabein Bonsen was born at #2 Westerenger on Februrary 23, 1811, and was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on March 3. The witnesses to her baptism were a Bonsen from the village of Laer, and a Kiel from the village of Oldinghausen.
About twenty years later, on August 21, 1831, it appears that a son was born to Anne Ilsabein Bonsen at #9 Herringhausen. The birth of Anne's son occurred only four months after the death of Anne's mother. Anne's son died at #9 Herringhausen eighteen months later. It appears that the child was born out of wedlock, an event no more unusual in 1831 than it is in 1986. No father was listed on either the baptismal record or the burial record of Anne's son.
:li.Anna Cathrina Ilsabein Bonsen was born at #2 Westerenger on March 11, 1814, and was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on March 18. She was married at Oberjoellenbeck to Hermann Heinrich Heidemann on October 2, 1840. Hermann was the son of Caspar Heinrich and Mrgr. Ilsabein (Wichmeung) Heidemann, and was born at the village of Werther (located five miles southwest of Joellenbeck) on December 5, 1811.
At least six children were born to this couple between 1841 and 1856. The first was born at Oberjoellenbeck, and the other five at Niederjoellenbeck.
:li.Anna Maria Ilsabein Bonsen was born at #2 Westerenger at 8:00 a.m. on June 19, 1816. She was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on June 30. Witnesses to her baptism were Saddleman Ringstmeyer from Westerenger, a Gloesenkamps from Westerenger, and a Horstmann from Geesen.
On September 22, 1837, Anna was married at Niederjoellenbeck to Friedrich Wilhelm Landwehr, son of Johann Heinrich and Anne Catharine Ilsabein (Stender) Landwehr. Anna's life following her marriage is discussed in detail in several earlier chapters of this book.
:li.Anne Marie Bonsen was born at #2 Westerenger on June 15, 1819. She was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on June 20. She apparently died some time before her mother's death in 1831.
:li.Hermann Heinrich Bonsen was the first son born to Johann Caspar and Anne Catharine Marie Bonsen. He was born at #9 Herringhausen on September 7, 1821. He was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on September 16, 1821. His godparent was Johann Jacob Bonsen, of Laer. Hermann lived only two months, however, as he died on November 7, 1821.
:li.Hanne Wilhelmine 'Hannah' Bonsen was born at #9 Herringhausen at 3:00 a.m. on September 12, 1822. She was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on September 15. Witnesses at her baptism were A. Cathr. Marie Collmeyer, A. Marie Spilker from Brake (five miles south of Herringhausen), and A. Ils. Schulzen from Stedefreund (four miles south of Herringhausen).
Twenty-three years later, after posting marriage banns at both Joellenbeck and the village of Spenge (three miles north of Joellenbeck), Hannah was married on September 30, 1845 to Albrt. Hermann 'Hermann' Doermann, a 29-year-old weaver worker. Neither the bride nor the groom had been previously married. Hermann Doermann, the son of Heinr. Wilh. Doermann and An. Mar. Elisab. (Heidbreder) Doermann, was born on December 6, 1815. The marriage took place at #8 Oberjoellenbeck, and both the grooms's mother and the bride's father were present for the ceremony. The groom's father and the bride's mother were both deceased.
Soon after their marriage, Hermann and Hannah emigrated to America, where they first settled in St. Louis. It was a move that began to set the stage for the later emigration of our Landwehr family. We have no record of Hermann and Hannah during the first five years of their marriage, nor do we know of any children born to them during this five-year period. But, sometime prior to April of 1851, they moved from St. Louis to Franklin County, Missouri.
On April 12, 1851, Hermann Doermann bought 42.75 acres of land from the U. S. Government. The land was located about one mile south and two and one-half miles west of the town of New Haven, in Franklin County, Missouri. Three years later, in 1854, Hermann and Hannah sold forty acres of land just west of their original purchase to a Johann Wilhelm 'William' Landwehr (see the New Haven Landwehr family in :hdref refid=other.). This William Landwehr family emigrated to America about the same time that Hermann and Hannah arrived. William Landwehr was born in the village of Lenzinghausen, only two miles northwest of Joellenbeck, and William's grandfather originally lived in Joellenbeck. But we have not been able to establish any family relationship between this William Landwehr family and our Landwehr family.
Hermann and Hannah Doermann established themselves on their farm west of New Haven, and started a family. Two sons were born to them in 1851 and 1854. By November of 1859, they also had become the parents of two daughters. By the time that Hannah's recently widowed sister, Anna (Bonsen) Landwehr, decided to emigrate from Joellenbeck to America in 1859, Hannah and her husband had been farming near New Haven for at least eight years.
When Anna Landwehr and her five children arrived in Franklin County in late fall of 1859, Hermann and Hannah Doermann provided them with a home until they could get established. But Hermann and Hannah had four children of their own, all under the age of nine, and their home was too small to accomodate additional guests. Anna Landwehr married within a few weeks after her arrival, and other homes were found for the five Landwehr children.
When the Federal census was taken the following fall, Hermann and Hannah listed the value of their real estate at $800, and the value of their personal property at $495. Both of their sons, now nine and seven years old, were attending school.
Hermann and Hannah became the parents of a third daughter in 1860 or 1861, and a fourth daughter in 1863. Then, in 1865, tragedy struck. Hermann Doermann, at forty-nine years of age, died on September 25 of that year. He was survived by his 43-year-old wife, Hannah, and six children. His oldest son was now fourteen years old--his youngest daughter had her second birthday the day after Hermann was buried. And Hannah was expecting their seventh child when Hermann died.
Hermann and Hannah were affiliated with the Hermann Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church. While there were three Methodist Episcopal congregations meeting in northwest Franklin County in the mid-1860s, Hermann and Hannah probably attended services at the Meyer's Church, located about one mile north and four miles west of their home. There was a cemetery at the site of the Meyer's Church (abandoned in 1878), and it seems likely that Hermann would have been buried in that cemetery.
After Hermann Doermann's death, Hannah apparently never remarried. She continued to live on the farm she and Hermann had established, and raised her seven children. When the census-taker visited her home in the fall of 1870, Hannah listed the value of her real estate at $2800, and the value of her personal property at $840. All of her children except her youngest daughter were attending school.
An 1878 atlas of Franklin County landowners locates Hannah's 120-acre farm about one mile west of the land that Hermann purchased in 1851. On the map provided as :figref refid=mmeyer., Hannah's farm is identified as the Hannah Doermann farm. Just south of her farm was an eighty-acre farm owned by one of her sons, John Doermann. Hannah's farm was located two miles due east of the present site of the Senate Grove Methodist Church.
Hannah (Bonsen) Doermann died of a stroke on February 10, 1900, and was buried in the Senate Grove Methodist Church cemetery. She was survived by one son and five daughters. Three children preceeded her in death.
:li.Johann Friedrich Bonsen was born at #9 Herringhausen on November 23, 1826. He was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on December 3. He died eight months later, on August 4, 1827.
:li.A. Marie Ilsabein Bonsen was born at #9 Herringhausen on February 21, 1829. She was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on March 1. She died less than a year later, on February 12, 1830.
:li.Stillborn child. On March 23, 1831, the last child of Johann Caspar and Anne Catharine Marie Bonsen was stillborn at Herringhausen.
Our history begins in the year 1786, in the small German village of Oldinghausen. Located about three miles northeast of Joellenbeck, Oldinghausen was served by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the town of Enger, which was located about four miles north of Oldinghausen (see #8 on :figref refid=minden.). It was in the village of Oldinghausen that Anna (Bonsen) Landwehr's mother was born, and that Anna's mother and father were married.
Anna's mother was born Anne Catharine Marie Kiel. Born in Oldinghausen on either February 16 (death record) or February 14 (marriage record) of 1786, she was the daughter of Juergen Wemmer, a farmer, and Mgr. Elisabeth Kiel (see :figref refid=cbonsen.). Apparently Anna's grandmother, Mgr. Elisabeth Kiel, was a woman of landed estate, because her husband took her name (Kiel) instead of Mgr. Elisabeth taking her husband's name (Wemmer).
Johann Caspar Bonsen, Anna's father, was born on December 11, 1790. Prior to his marriage to Anna's mother in 1810, Johann lived in the village of Laer. There were several German villages with names similar to Laer, and we have not yet determined which village was Johann Caspar Bonsen's home. The two most likely candidates are the village of Laar, located three miles south of Oldinghausen, and the village of Laer, located twelve miles west-northwest of Oldinghausen. In any event, Johann Caspar Bonsen and Anne Catharine Marie Kiel were married at Oldinghausen on August 3, 1810.
There is still some question regarding the correct spelling of the Bonsen family name. The name appears as Bunse, Bonse, Bonson, and Bonsen. While we have accepted Bonsen as the correct spelling, it was also frequently spelled Bonse in the older German records, and further research may determine that to be the correct spelling.
After their marriage, Johann Caspar and Anne Catharine Marie Bonsen apparently settled near the village of Westerenger. Westerenger was located two miles northwest of Oldinghausen, and three miles due north of Joellenbeck. Like Oldinghausen, Westerenger was also served by the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger. Johann Caspar Bonsen was identified in one church record (1810) as an "Erbpaechter", which means "leaser by inheritance" or "leaser by inherited right", and as a spinner (of yarn). In a later church record (1831), he was listed as an "owner by inheritance".
Johann Caspar and Anne Catharine Marie Bonsen had nine children. Their first four children, all daughters, were born at #2 Westerenger in 1811, 1814, 1816 and 1819. The third daughter, Anna Maria Ilsabein Bonsen, was born at Westerenger on June 19, 1816. She would later marry Friedrich Wilhelm Landwehr, and would eventually bring our immigrant Landwehr family to America.
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:figcap.Bonsen family chart
:figdesc.The ancestry of Anna (Bonsen) Landwehr
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As one searches through the German baptismal records of the 1800's, one soon recognizes that relatively few given names were used in naming children in that period. As a result, many children were given the same, or similar, names. An excellent example can be found on the page of the Evangelical Lutheran church records where we find the record of baptism of Anna Maria Ilsabein Bonsen in 1816. The baptisms of nine female infants were recorded on that page. The baptismal names given to these nine infants were:
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:LI.Anne Ilsabein Maria
:LI.Anna Maria
:LI.Anna Maria Ilsabein
:LI.Anne Marie Ilsabein
:LI.Anne Marie Ilsabein
:LI.Anna Margar. Ilsabein
:LI.Anne Margrethe Ilsabein
:LI.Anne Marie Ilsabein
:LI.Anne Marie Elisabeth
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For another example, we need go no further than Anna Bonsen and her five sisters. Their baptismal names were:
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:li.Anne Ilsabein
:li.Anna Cathrina Ilsabein
:li.Anna Maria Ilsabein
:li.Anne Marie
:li.Hanne Wilhelmine
:li.Anna Marie Ilsabein
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One must wonder how they kept it all straight!
Between June of 1819 and September of 1821, the Johann Caspar Bonsen family apparently moved from Westerenger to the village of Herringhausen. Herringhausen was located three miles east of Westerenger, and five miles northeast of Joellenbeck. Like Oldinghausen and Westerenger, Herringhausen was also served by the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger. The other five Bonsen children were born at #9 Herringhausen in 1821, 1822, 1826, 1829 and 1831.
The last of the Bonsen children was stillborn on March 23, 1831. Four weeks later, at 3:00 a.m. on April 21, Anne Catharine Marie Bonsen died at #9 Herringhausen of "a nerve fever" at the age of forty-five. She was survived by her forty-year-old husband, Johann Caspar Bonsen, and by four of their first five daughters, ages twenty, seventeen, fourteen (Anna), and eight.
We have no record of the Bonsen family for the next six years. Then, in 1837, Anna Maria Ilsabein Bonsen was married at Niederjoellenbeck to Friedrich Wilhelm Landwehr. Two of Anna's sisters were married at Oberjoellenbeck in 1840 and 1845.
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:li.Anne Ilsabein Bonsen was born at #2 Westerenger on Februrary 23, 1811, and was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on March 3. The witnesses to her baptism were a Bonsen from the village of Laer, and a Kiel from the village of Oldinghausen.
About twenty years later, on August 21, 1831, it appears that a son was born to Anne Ilsabein Bonsen at #9 Herringhausen. The birth of Anne's son occurred only four months after the death of Anne's mother. Anne's son died at #9 Herringhausen eighteen months later. It appears that the child was born out of wedlock, an event no more unusual in 1831 than it is in 1986. No father was listed on either the baptismal record or the burial record of Anne's son.
:li.Anna Cathrina Ilsabein Bonsen was born at #2 Westerenger on March 11, 1814, and was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on March 18. She was married at Oberjoellenbeck to Hermann Heinrich Heidemann on October 2, 1840. Hermann was the son of Caspar Heinrich and Mrgr. Ilsabein (Wichmeung) Heidemann, and was born at the village of Werther (located five miles southwest of Joellenbeck) on December 5, 1811.
At least six children were born to this couple between 1841 and 1856. The first was born at Oberjoellenbeck, and the other five at Niederjoellenbeck.
:li.Anna Maria Ilsabein Bonsen was born at #2 Westerenger at 8:00 a.m. on June 19, 1816. She was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on June 30. Witnesses to her baptism were Saddleman Ringstmeyer from Westerenger, a Gloesenkamps from Westerenger, and a Horstmann from Geesen.
On September 22, 1837, Anna was married at Niederjoellenbeck to Friedrich Wilhelm Landwehr, son of Johann Heinrich and Anne Catharine Ilsabein (Stender) Landwehr. Anna's life following her marriage is discussed in detail in several earlier chapters of this book.
:li.Anne Marie Bonsen was born at #2 Westerenger on June 15, 1819. She was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on June 20. She apparently died some time before her mother's death in 1831.
:li.Hermann Heinrich Bonsen was the first son born to Johann Caspar and Anne Catharine Marie Bonsen. He was born at #9 Herringhausen on September 7, 1821. He was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on September 16, 1821. His godparent was Johann Jacob Bonsen, of Laer. Hermann lived only two months, however, as he died on November 7, 1821.
:li.Hanne Wilhelmine 'Hannah' Bonsen was born at #9 Herringhausen at 3:00 a.m. on September 12, 1822. She was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on September 15. Witnesses at her baptism were A. Cathr. Marie Collmeyer, A. Marie Spilker from Brake (five miles south of Herringhausen), and A. Ils. Schulzen from Stedefreund (four miles south of Herringhausen).
Twenty-three years later, after posting marriage banns at both Joellenbeck and the village of Spenge (three miles north of Joellenbeck), Hannah was married on September 30, 1845 to Albrt. Hermann 'Hermann' Doermann, a 29-year-old weaver worker. Neither the bride nor the groom had been previously married. Hermann Doermann, the son of Heinr. Wilh. Doermann and An. Mar. Elisab. (Heidbreder) Doermann, was born on December 6, 1815. The marriage took place at #8 Oberjoellenbeck, and both the grooms's mother and the bride's father were present for the ceremony. The groom's father and the bride's mother were both deceased.
Soon after their marriage, Hermann and Hannah emigrated to America, where they first settled in St. Louis. It was a move that began to set the stage for the later emigration of our Landwehr family. We have no record of Hermann and Hannah during the first five years of their marriage, nor do we know of any children born to them during this five-year period. But, sometime prior to April of 1851, they moved from St. Louis to Franklin County, Missouri.
On April 12, 1851, Hermann Doermann bought 42.75 acres of land from the U. S. Government. The land was located about one mile south and two and one-half miles west of the town of New Haven, in Franklin County, Missouri. Three years later, in 1854, Hermann and Hannah sold forty acres of land just west of their original purchase to a Johann Wilhelm 'William' Landwehr (see the New Haven Landwehr family in :hdref refid=other.). This William Landwehr family emigrated to America about the same time that Hermann and Hannah arrived. William Landwehr was born in the village of Lenzinghausen, only two miles northwest of Joellenbeck, and William's grandfather originally lived in Joellenbeck. But we have not been able to establish any family relationship between this William Landwehr family and our Landwehr family.
Hermann and Hannah Doermann established themselves on their farm west of New Haven, and started a family. Two sons were born to them in 1851 and 1854. By November of 1859, they also had become the parents of two daughters. By the time that Hannah's recently widowed sister, Anna (Bonsen) Landwehr, decided to emigrate from Joellenbeck to America in 1859, Hannah and her husband had been farming near New Haven for at least eight years.
When Anna Landwehr and her five children arrived in Franklin County in late fall of 1859, Hermann and Hannah Doermann provided them with a home until they could get established. But Hermann and Hannah had four children of their own, all under the age of nine, and their home was too small to accomodate additional guests. Anna Landwehr married within a few weeks after her arrival, and other homes were found for the five Landwehr children.
When the Federal census was taken the following fall, Hermann and Hannah listed the value of their real estate at $800, and the value of their personal property at $495. Both of their sons, now nine and seven years old, were attending school.
Hermann and Hannah became the parents of a third daughter in 1860 or 1861, and a fourth daughter in 1863. Then, in 1865, tragedy struck. Hermann Doermann, at forty-nine years of age, died on September 25 of that year. He was survived by his 43-year-old wife, Hannah, and six children. His oldest son was now fourteen years old--his youngest daughter had her second birthday the day after Hermann was buried. And Hannah was expecting their seventh child when Hermann died.
Hermann and Hannah were affiliated with the Hermann Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church. While there were three Methodist Episcopal congregations meeting in northwest Franklin County in the mid-1860s, Hermann and Hannah probably attended services at the Meyer's Church, located about one mile north and four miles west of their home. There was a cemetery at the site of the Meyer's Church (abandoned in 1878), and it seems likely that Hermann would have been buried in that cemetery.
After Hermann Doermann's death, Hannah apparently never remarried. She continued to live on the farm she and Hermann had established, and raised her seven children. When the census-taker visited her home in the fall of 1870, Hannah listed the value of her real estate at $2800, and the value of her personal property at $840. All of her children except her youngest daughter were attending school.
An 1878 atlas of Franklin County landowners locates Hannah's 120-acre farm about one mile west of the land that Hermann purchased in 1851. On the map provided as :figref refid=mmeyer., Hannah's farm is identified as the Hannah Doermann farm. Just south of her farm was an eighty-acre farm owned by one of her sons, John Doermann. Hannah's farm was located two miles due east of the present site of the Senate Grove Methodist Church.
Hannah (Bonsen) Doermann died of a stroke on February 10, 1900, and was buried in the Senate Grove Methodist Church cemetery. She was survived by one son and five daughters. Three children preceeded her in death.
:li.Johann Friedrich Bonsen was born at #9 Herringhausen on November 23, 1826. He was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on December 3. He died eight months later, on August 4, 1827.
:li.A. Marie Ilsabein Bonsen was born at #9 Herringhausen on February 21, 1829. She was baptized at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Enger on March 1. She died less than a year later, on February 12, 1830.
:li.Stillborn child. On March 23, 1831, the last child of Johann Caspar and Anne Catharine Marie Bonsen was stillborn at Herringhausen.
