{"id":1589,"date":"2026-10-31T17:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1589"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:35:33","slug":"bange-joseph-wilhelmina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1589","title":{"rendered":"Joseph and Wilhelmina Bange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.family-topic-breadcrumb{font-size:.95rem;margin:0 0 22px}.family-topic-intro{max-width:68ch;line-height:1.7}.family-topic-menu{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(2,minmax(0,1fr));gap:14px;margin:26px 0}.family-topic-menu a{display:block;padding:18px;border:1px solid #c9cec8;border-radius:4px;background:#f5f2e9;text-decoration:none;color:#293d30;min-height:52px}.family-topic-menu strong{display:block;font-size:1.1rem}.family-topic-menu span{display:block;margin-top:6px;color:#4f574e;line-height:1.55;font-size:.95rem}.family-topic-related{border-top:1px solid #d8d2c5;margin-top:32px;padding-top:18px}.family-topic-related a{display:inline-block;margin:6px 22px 6px 0}.family-topic-breadcrumb a:focus-visible,.family-topic-menu a:focus-visible,.family-topic-related a:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #98513b;outline-offset:4px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb){max-width:960px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb)>p{line-height:1.7}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) :is(h2,h3){scroll-margin-top:24px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) a{overflow-wrap:anywhere}@media(max-width:600px){.family-topic-menu{grid-template-columns:1fr}.family-topic-menu a{padding:16px}}<\/style>\n<nav class=\"family-topic-breadcrumb\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/\">Home<\/a> \u203a <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=11\">Bange family<\/a> \u203a Joseph and Wilhelmina Bange<\/nav>\n<p class=\"family-topic-intro\">Their American parentage records and Wilhelmina\u2019s parents, Jacob Widmer and Elisa Reber. Source spellings and identification limits remain unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joseph Henry Bange\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.mo.gov\/images\/archives\/deathcerts\/1956\/1956_00008419.PDF\">1956 Missouri death certificate<\/a> reports his parents as Henry Bange and Angeline Brueggen, his wife as Minnie Widmer Bange, and his birth as June 21, 1864 in Edwardsville, Illinois. These details strongly corroborate the family record identifying his parents as Henry Bange and Helen Angela Brueggen. Angeline and Helen Angela remain the distinct forms used by those sources. The certificate\u2019s birth and parentage information was reported retrospectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wilhelmina Widmer\u2019s family<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wilhelmina Widmer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/imageviewer\/collections\/61682\/images\/48917_302022005545_0283-00276\">original 1870 baptism at St. Paul, Highland<\/a> names her parents as Jacob Widmer and Elisa, n\u00e9e Reber, and gives her birth as May 13, 1870. The same parish records <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/imageviewer\/collections\/61682\/images\/48917_302022005545_0283-00143\">Jacob and Elisa Reber\u2019s marriage on April 22, 1869<\/a>. The baptism month is overwritten: October is favored by the surrounding entries, while the index reads September. That uncertainty does not affect the stated birth date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:3Q9M-CSLL-QPV3?cat=221609&amp;view=explore&amp;lang=en&amp;groupId=M99D-JGW\">Highland Evangelical death register<\/a> records Elisabeth Widmer, n\u00e9e Reber, born in 1848, dying on June 1, 1870 at age 22. It describes her as from \u201cWattenweil, Ct. Bern\u201d and married for one year to Jakob Widmer, whose municipality is provisionally read as \u201cRhein, Ct. Luzern.\u201d This is origin wording, not an explicit birthplace statement. A separate family record for Joseph Henry and Wilhelmina Bange names Wilhelmina\u2019s parents as Jacob Widmer and Elizabeth Rueber. That retrospective record, whose compiler and sources are unknown, strengthens the comparison between Elisa Reber in the Catholic records and Elisabeth Reber in the Evangelical register. The names, marriage chronology and family record provide strong combined support, while the source-specific spellings and the Elisa-to-Elisabeth identification remain qualified; the death entry itself names no child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<nav class=\"family-topic-related\" aria-label=\"Related pages\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=11\">\u2190 Bange family<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1588\">Back to Family line<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1590\">Joseph\u2019s Bange and Br\u00fcggen family<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1592\">Wilhelmina\u2019s father Jacob<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1599\">Portraits, weddings and early households<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1604\">Full source notes<\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \u203a Bange family \u203a Joseph and Wilhelmina Bange Their American parentage records and Wilhelmina\u2019s parents, Jacob Widmer and Elisa Reber. Source spellings and identification limits remain unchanged. Joseph Henry Bange\u2019s 1956 Missouri death certificate reports his parents as Henry Bange and Angeline Brueggen, his wife as Minnie Widmer Bange, and his birth as June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1589","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1589\/revisions\/1722"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}