Margarete Versen (Schröder Classen)

Immigrant to the United States; grandmother of Hermann Crede

Margarete Versen (Schröder) emigrated to the United States with her children Christiane and Hermann in 1835 and eventually settled in Missouri. Her daughter, Clotilde, married Heinrich Carl Crede; they remained in Germany and were the parents of, among other children, the three Crede brothers who also immigrated to the United States and joined their grandmother in Missouri. In the United States she married, as her second husband, another immigrant named John Classen/Clasen; they lived near the settlement of Westphalia, Missouri. She died in 1859.

1859

female