Henry George or Heinrich Georg Semon

1876 - 1926  (49 years)

• Name	Henry George or Heinrich Georg Semon
  Born	4 Dec 1876	Zweibrucken, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	8
  Died	19 Nov 1926	Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States   [5]
  Buried	22 Nov 1926	Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States   [6]
  Person ID	I233	Semon-Amburn
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2017

  
  

  Father	Heinrich Simon,   b. 6 Apr 1851, Zweibrucken, Bayern, Germany ,   d. 30 Nov 1911, Duquoin, Perry, Illinois  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Katherine (Katie) Jung,   b. 31 Mar 1849, Oberweiler-Tiefenbach, Bayern, Germany ,   d. 3 Dec 1915, Duquoin, Perry, Illinois  (Age 66 years)
  Married	30 Dec 1875	Zweibrucken, Bayern, Germany
  Family ID	F54	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Nina
  Family ID	F178	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Minnie Julia Dieffenbacher,   b. 4 Mar 1885, Coulterville, Randolph, Illinois ,   d. 28 Mar 1974, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States  (Age 89 years)
  Married	11 Apr 1900	Perry, Illinois, United States   [7]
  Notes	Minnie lists father as Austin Kirkpatrick on marr. license
  Children	+ 1. Leonard Semon,   b. 12 Jan 1902, Duquoin, Perry, Illinois ,   d. 18 Dec 1951, Beaverton, Washington, Oregon, United States  (Age 49 years) + 2. Henry James Semon,   b. 10 Feb 1904, Duquoin, Perry, Illinois ,   d. 12 Sep 1996, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States  (Age 92 years)   3. Mayme Bell Semon,   b. 23 Oct 1907, Duquoin, Perry, Illinois ,   d. 13 Oct 1998, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States  (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F12	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 4 Dec 1876 - Zweibrucken, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Married - 11 Apr 1900 - Perry, Illinois, United States Died - 19 Nov 1926 - Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States Buried - 22 Nov 1926 - Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  ! BIRTH Zweibrucken, Bavaria, Germany 4 Dec 1876 to Heinrich Simon and Ka tharina Jung. ! EMMIGRATION: "Germans to America" From Amsterdam to New York arrived 1 5 Sep 1882. Heinrich Simon, age 32, Catharine, age 33, Heinrich, age 5, A ugust, age 4, Katharine, age 2, Elisabeth, age .04. ! OBITUARY: the DuQuoin Evening Call on 1 Dec 1911. died from cancer of t he stomach, leaving his wife, August, Henry, Willis, Nicholas, and thre e daughters. Member fo the German Evangelical Church, buried at the Od d Fellows Cemetery. Doc# 487. Letter of naturalization for Henry Semon, Perry Co., Illinois. WWI Registration at ancestry.com

  
  

• Sources

  [S41] Vital Records: Germany. Before me, the undersigned Registrar appeared today the mason Heinrich Si mon, whom I know personally, residing at Zweibucken, religion, protestant , and announced that, his wife, Katharine, Simon, maidenname: Jung, relig ion: protestant, residing with him at Zweibrucken, gave birth to a male c hild on December 4, 1876 at 5:30am which was named Heinrich Georg. signed , Simon. The registrar. Zweibucken [S2] 1920 Census, Doc#483. Semon, Henry age 43 Semon, Minnie or Nina or Mamie age 29??, could be new wife, b. MO, parent s b. MO Illinois, Perry, Ward 3, ED80, sheet 14A, line46. [S1] 1910 US Census, Doc# 482. Illinois, Perry, DuQuoin precinct, ED 72, sheet 7. [S10] 1900 Census. Semon, Henry, b. Dec 1876, age 23, b. Germany, emm 1881 coal miner , Minnie, b. mar 1885, age 15, b. Il, parents b. IL, md. 3/12 year. Illinois, Perry, DuQuoin [S49] Vital Records: State of Missouri, Doc# 422. Missouri, St. Louis, Henry G. Semon, h/o Mrs. Nina Semon. b. 4 Dec 1876, age 49y, 11m , 16d. C arpenter. b. Germany. buried National Cemetery. Undertaker, Souther, Und . on S. Broadway. died 19 Nov 1926 [S88] Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Doc# 485. Regarding the information you requested in your letter dated Feb. 27, 199 6. Henry G. Semon was interred here on November 19, 1926 in Section 35, G race #3626-F. He was a Private in Company F, 9th Illinois Volunteer Infa ntry. This is all the information we have in our records. I have enclosed a ma p of the cemetery with the section highlighted. Letter from cemetery administrator, dated 4 Mar 1996. [S52] Vital Records: State of Illinois, #975,926 i.2.