Blaine married Back, Ruby Bell in UNKNOWN. Ruby (daughter of Back, Emil Peter Christain and Meadows, Georgia Ann) was born on 13 Oct 1890 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; died in Dec 1954 in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA; was buried in Dec 1954 in Woodline Cemetery, Artesia, Eddy, New Mexico, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Baptism: 23 Feb 1862, Boonville German Evangelical Church, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA

Notes:

He made the "Cherokee Strip" land run from Orlando with his brother, Joe. He, with his brother, had a saloon in Guthrie while they were waiting for the date to be set for the land run. He took Claim #55 in bunch Creek Twsp. near what is now billings, Oklahoma. He died in 1897 in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Brother Joe was appointed guardian of his children and he helped Georgia and the children to prove up the claim.

Emil married Meadows, Georgia Ann in UNKNOWN in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. Georgia was born on 25 Feb 1863; died on 16 Dec 1943 in Artesia, Eddy, New Mexico, USA; was buried after 16 Dec 1943 in Artesia, Eddy, New Mexico, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Parents were born in Kentucky.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cabinet Maker

Notes:

He was a fine cabinet maker. Had a strong, beautiful voice and sang in the Germany Evangelical Lutheran Church Choir.

Came to United States in 1855 through port of New Orleans to St Louis to Boonville.

Applied for American citizenship 17 July 1855.

Served as Union soldier (Captain Eppstein's Company A, Boonville R. Corp. Reg't, Mo. H.Q. Military, Union Home Guard Unit) in American Civil War. Wounded at Battle of Boonville, Mo. Mustered out of service December 8, 1862.

Church Records: Boonville Evangelical Church: Death, Date of birth as 24 Apr 1824.

Johann married Geuer, Catherine Wilhelmina Sophie on 24 Dec 1857 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. Catherine (daughter of Geuer, Johann and Mueller, Caroline Luise) was born on 13 Feb 1828 in Höchst, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany; died on 2 Mar 1903 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried in Mar 1893 in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Housewife/Saloon Keeper

Notes:

On the passenger list of the S. S. Johannesburg there is an entry: "Wilhelmine Back arrived in New Orleans on Feb 13,1857 on the ship S. S. Johannesburg". Anton Back's name is not listed. So they may have been married in the spring of 1856, and remarried in Boonville so their children would be American Citizens.
Catherine Wilhelmina Sophia Geuer, was born in Hoechst, Nassau, Germany on 13-Feb-1828. Her father was Johnann Geuer, a bookbinder. He was a Catholic, born in Cologne, Germany. Her mother was Caroline Luise Muller, born in Berline and a Protestant. The Godparent was Wilhelmina Klan of Rettert. After the death of Anton she returned to the Catholic Church and was a faithful and devoted member of the Church and the Sacred Heart Society. Her obituary says she was survived by a sister in Germany. She is buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery at Boonville, Missouri.

From Boonville Newspaper
Deaths
Mrs. Anton Back
Mrs. Anton Back died at her home on West Morgan Street Monday night, March 2, 1903 at 8 o'clock, aged 75 years and 19 days. Wilhelmina Geuer was born in Germany on February 13, 1828; was married to Anton Back early in 1857, and in the fall of that year the young husband and wife became citizens of Boonville. Twenty seven years ago death entered the happy home and carried away the husband of 19 years, leaving to the care of the widowed mother the care of several small children. Guided and directed by a mother's loving heart, inspired by the thought of their future usefulness and actuated by true Christian motives as a mother, she reared these children to splendid manhood and womanhood. The children now living are: Philip and Joseph of Oklahoma Territory, Mrs. Louisa Potter, Mrs. Mary Barnett, Anton and William of Boonville. There are also 34 grandchildren and one sister, who is yet in her native country, living, to all of whom the public extends its heartfelt sympathy in their bereavement.
Mrs. Back had lived in Boonville since the year 1857. Her life of almost half century among the people of this city was marked by that devotion to parental, church, and other duties as only a Christian mother and citizen can offer. Deceased was recognized as a Christian because she practiced by example as well as by precept those qualities that must be uppermost in the Christian mind and heart. She was a devout member of the Roman Catholic Church and her everyday life was convincing proof of her devotion to the doctrine of her church. The funeral service was held at the Catholic Church on Wednesday morning at 9:30 o'clock thence to Walnut Grove cemetery where the remains were interred under the direction of J. Ed Taliaferro.