Eckhardt, Adam

1828 - 1914  (85 years)

• Name	Eckhardt, Adam  [1]
  Birth	26 Mar 1828	Germany   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Adam Eckhard
  Occupation	Meat Packer  [2]
  Religion	Evangelical
  Death	22 Mar 1914	Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA   [2]
  Burial	25 Mar 1914	Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I19078	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Eckhard, John,   b. UNKNOWN, Germany
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Zuloff, Katherine,   b. UNKNOWN, Germany
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F5628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Brenneisen, Marie Katherine,   b. 17 Dec 1831, Bruchsal, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany d. 1900, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	11 Mar 1855	Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA   [4]
  Children	1. Eckhard, George Adam,   b. 23 Mar 1857, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. DECEASED  [natural]   2. Eckhard, Louise,   b. 28 Jan 1859, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. DECEASED  [natural]   3. Eckhard, John Edward,   b. 16 Apr 1859, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA d. DECEASED  [natural]   4. Eckhard, Ella M,   b. Between 1860 and 1862, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA  [natural]   5. Eckhard, Josie L,   b. 1863, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA  [natural]   6. Eckhard, William C,   b. Between 1865 and 1866, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA  [natural]   7. Eckhard, Schuler C,   b. Between 1868 and 1869, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA  [natural]   8. Eckhard, Edward A,   b. 1872, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA  [natural]
  Family ID	F1079	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Brennerson, Catherine,   b. UNKNOWN
  Children	1. Eckhardt, Edwin A  [natural]
  Family ID	F6848	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 26 Mar 1828 - Germany Marriage - 11 Mar 1855 - Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA Death - 22 Mar 1914 - Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA Burial - 25 Mar 1914 - Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  From Home Town Sketches by Emile Palliou Adam Eckhard "Mistah Eckhard, I wants me a two poun' potah-house steak, and I pays you Sattidy shore!" A swift, appraising glance, then quick decision. "No, you don't, Jim, what you want is ten cents worth of liver. Here it is and you are a lucky nigger to get it." Adam Eckhard was the original advocate of the "cheaper cuts" for the impecunious, and therewith went advice based upon such sound philosophy that should have proven of high value to the recipients, but was merely the casting of pearls before swine in most cases. And yet, who can say the pearls were utterly lost? A rough talker was Adam Eckhard -even a ferocious man with his tongue where hypocrites and shams in general were at issue, but under the hard exterior was a heart as soft as that of a woman. He was our next door neighbor. I fought and played with his children. When I got the worst of it, I took it out on his windows, and when his boys got licked, then our window panes suffered. The glazier was a frequent caller in our neighborhood. Never did I see such open-handed hospitality extended to children. It seemed to me he had a thousand bushels of apples in his cellar, and great stone jars of cookies stood constantly within reach of small hands. Fate certainly gave him a scurvy deal in return for his uprightness. His wife, an invalid for years and whom he tenderly cherished, died. His children one by one, were cut off in the flower of youth; only one daughter remains. I saw Mr. Eckhard the year before his death and I found him a very old, lonely, brokenhearted man. It was some time before he recognized me. Then he took me out to the stable where he kept a superannuated mare in luxury. She came right up and nuzzled him. He put his old arms about her neck and the tears streamed down his cheeks. "Dixie," he said chokingly, "we are the only ones left, but it won't be for long-it won't be for long." Lived on High Street in Boonville. Was a butcher with his shop on Water Street at the end of Seventh Street.

  
  

• Sources

  [S286] USA: MO: COOPER: St Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Boonville. https://cooper.mogenweb.org/Churches/St_Peter_and_Paul_Catholic_Church.pdf Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church [S105] USA: MO: COOPER: Walnut Grove Cemetery in Boonville. James F. Thoma jfthoma@chartertn.net http://www.mogenweb.org/cooper/CooperBitsCem.htm Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, MO.pdf Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, MO.jpg [S247] USA: MO: COOPER: Boonville Evangelical Church in Boonville. https://www.facebook.com/EUCCBoonville/ Boonville Evangelical Church Boonville German Methodist Church [S412] USA: MO: COOPER: USGenWeb. http://cooper.mogenweb.org/