In 1851, Johann Stephen Hoeddinghaus and his wife Maria Katherine Fiekens emigrated to America. They and their four children settled in Quincy, Illinois. Stephen’s younger brother, Heinrich Georg Hoeddinghaus, had emigrated with his wife and children several years earlier, and had also settled in Quincy. Their oldest brother, Johann George Hoeddinghaus (having inherited the family farm) stayed in Germany. Stephen and Maria Katherine had 2 sons (Stephen and Georg) and 2 daughters (Maria and Anna). Georg was 20 at the time he came to the USA. He married Margaret Elizabeth Korte (also a German immigrant) on September 06, 1859, in Quincy. One year later their first son, Frank Bernard was born on September 21, 1860. Georg was a farmer, and in 1864, his son Frank (four at the time) remembers soldiers coming across the field to take his father away. Georg had been drafted by the 13th Regiment Iowa Volunteers to fight in the Civil War. He served honorably, and was discharged when his regiment was disbanded in July 1865. In 1870, Georg and Margaret moved to Moberly, Missouri. When Margaret was expecting their eighth child, Georg contracted pneumonia, and died on September 23, 1879. Margaret named the child George.
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