Geuer, Catherine Wilhelmina Sophie

1828 - 1903  (75 years)

• Name	Geuer, Catherine Wilhelmina Sophie
  Birth	13 Feb 1828	Höchst, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Occupation	Housewife/Saloon Keeper  [2, 3]
  Burial	Mar 1893	Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA   [1]
  Death	2 Mar 1903	Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I18110	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Geuer, Johann,   b. Abt 1802, Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany d. DECEASED
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mueller, Caroline Luise,   b. UNKNOWN, Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany d. DECEASED
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	UNKNOWN	Germany
  Family ID	F4212	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Back, Johann Anton Peter,   b. 30 Apr 1824, Rettert, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 3 Feb 1876, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	24 Dec 1857	Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA   [1]
  Children	1. Back, Phillip Gottfried,   b. 1 Jan 1858, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 16 Nov 1922, Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma, USA (Age 64 years)  [natural]   2. Back, Louise Barbara Antonia,   b. 1 Mar 1859, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 20 Jan 1939, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA (Age 79 years)  [natural]   3. Back, Emil Peter Christain,   b. 7 Jan 1862, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 1897, Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, USA (Age 34 years)  [natural]   4. Back, Joseph William Sr,   b. 24 Apr 1863, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 26 Jan 1933, Billings, Noble, Oklahoma, USA (Age 69 years)  [natural]   5. Back, Antone Daniel,   b. 31 Mar 1865, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 23 Dec 1923, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA (Age 58 years)  [natural]   6. Back, Anna Marie,   b. 20 Jun 1867, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 13 Jan 1953, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA (Age 85 years)  [natural]   7. Back, William Herman,   b. 18 Jun 1869, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. 4 Aug 1925, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA (Age 56 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F5089	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 13 Feb 1828 - Höchst, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany Marriage - 24 Dec 1857 - Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA Burial - Mar 1893 - Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA Death - 2 Mar 1903 - Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S433] CONTRIBUTORS:. Woodruff, Helen Stone. [S2070] USA: Census 1880. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1417683 [S1207] USA: Census 1870. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1438024