Steinke Family History & Photos
of relatives who came to America

Gottlieb Steinke immigrated to America about 1880. He worked in Milwaukee as a street car conductor, and then moved to Iowa to farm. Three of Gottlieb’s brothers immigrated also, with their mother. Chris, Fred, & Albert all came to America
between 1875 and the early 1880’s.

Rosalie Kietzmann immigrated to America with her parents Johann Wilhelm & M.Henriette (Kunke)Kietzmann in about 1881, eventually settling in Janestown, which was a small coal mining town north of What Cheer, Iowa.
Rosalie & Gottlieb married 1889 What Cheer,Iowa.

 Steinke, Kietzmann, Kitzman, Schreiber, Meyer,Beer, & Wernowsky,  family photos & information
 please visit the  Media Gallery



  Keokuk County,Iowa and Local towns such as
What Cheer, Gibson, Keswick, Thornburg, & Sigourney,
and long ago towns of Keenersburg, Janeville, etc.
 please visit  Keokuk County,Iowa


For information & photos from the past
St.Martin Lutheran Church
 of What Cheer, Iowa, and the Lutheran Cemetery,
 visit:  St. Martin Lutheran Church

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