Catherine Margaret Hoepker (Schuette)

People Buried Here

Description

Johann Heinrich Hoepker

BIRTH

12 Nov 1829

Germany

DEATH

26 Nov 1907 (aged 78)

Hoepkers Corners, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA

BURIAL

Burke Cemetery

Burke, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA

Born in Muggenkrug, Ostfriesland, Hanover, Germany in 1829 and arrived in Wisconsin in 1847. Father Menke Hoepker died later that year. Farmed together with his mother Catherine, sister Mary, and brother in law Christian Stuhlmiller in Sections 1 of the Town of Madison and 31 of Burke. Parts of that farm are now the Maple Bluff Country Club and McKenna Plat subdivision. This farm was sold in 1866 and unimproved land was purchased from Charles McCormick in sections 10, 14, and 15 of Burke. Ten acres of section 10 remain with the family as of 2023. He married Angelina Scheible in 1856 and to them were born 11 children, 3 of whom died in childhood and one stillborn. John passed away at home in 1907.

Family Members

Parents

Menke M Hoepker

1801–1847

Catherine Margaret Schuette Hoepker

1806–1882

Spouse

Angelina Scheible Hoepker

1839–1925

Siblings

Mary Hoepker Beemer

1827–1879

Children

Margaret Hoepker Vahlen

1857–1938

Mary Hoepker Wolf

1859–1948

Christina Hoepker Hessing

1861–1946

Henry Hoepker

1864–1948

George E. Hoepker

1866–1871

Emelia P. Hoepker

1869–1871

Alfred George Hoepker

1873–1963

Charles F. Hoepker

1875–1879

Walter John Hoepker

1878–1963

Frank Irwin Hoepker

1880–1962