==== Joseph WALENCIAK & Wilhelmina KOEPKE ====

Father: **Joseph WALENCIAK**, b. 9 Mar 1859, Germany, d. 17 Jan 1942, Pawnee Oklahoma

Wilhelm-Mina Koepke (my ggrandmother), b: June 29, 1850, Mecklenburg,
>Germany; d: March 17, 1935, Pawnee County, Oklahoma; b: Pawnee Highland
>Cemetery, Pawnee, OK; m: Joseph Walenciak, March 16, 1884, Mecklenburg,
>Germany; immigrated from Poland to the US, October 15, 1887 with her
>husband and three children: Anna (later married Charles Louis Myers),
>Paul Bennett (later married Minnie Elizabeth Patterson), Herman (later
>married Vera Grace Franklin). They had one child, August who had died in
>infancy in Germany before they immigrated to the US.
>
>The family first settled in Wilcox, Nebraska (a small town no longer on
>the map) where possibly Wilhelm-Mina's two sisters lived, who had
>already immigrated to the US and settled in Nebraska. Their names were
>Rick Boldt (married name) and Lena Stoll or Stohl (married name). From
>Nebraska the Walenciak family traveled by covered wagon through Missouri
>to Oklahoma and settled in a dugout in Gutherie, OK. Later they moved to
>Pawnee, Oklahoma and made their home there.
> 1900  this family can be found in Logan County Oklahoma Antelope township.on that census. Joseph verfies his immigration date as 1887 and lists his occupation as a farmer.

Mother: **Wilhelmina KOEPKE**, b. 29 Jun 1859, Mecklenburg Germany, d. 17 Mar 1935, Pawnee Oklahoma

Married 16 Mar 1884, Mecklenburg Germany

Children:
  - [[I1752|Anna WALENCIAK]]
  - [[I1753|Paul Bennett WALENCIAK]], b. 19 Nov 1884, d. 29 Jul 1967
  - [[I1754|Herman WALENCIAK]]
  - [[I1755|George WALENCIAK]], b. 12 Mar 1889, Omaha Nebraska
  - [[I1756|Emma WALENCIAK]], b. 19 Nov 1890, Liincoln Nebraska
  - [[I1757|Frida Martha WALENCIAK]], b. 30 Sep 1892
  - [[I1758|Freda Reka WALENCIAK]], b. 10 Aug 1894, covered wagon near Warrensburg Missouri
  - [[I1759|Ida Wilhelmina Katarine WALENCIAK]], b. 19 Oct 1896
  - [[I1760|Walter E Johannes WALENCIAK]], b. 12 Apr 1898, Guthrie Oklahoma
  - [[F520|Marie Magdalena WALENCIAK]], b. 13 Sep 1902, d. 8 Dec 1978, Pawnee Oklahoma

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