This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hillebrand, Meschede Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JMB.2ACE/966 Message Board Post: Henry County Missouri Obituaries: HILLEBRAND, Henry Sr. - 1844 - 1923 Englewood HI-HZ/Clinton/Henry Henry Hillebrand, Sr., who was born in Harth, Westphalia, Germany, on June 5th, 1844, died at his home six miles southwest of Clinton, Missouri, November 19th, 1923, at three o'clock p.m., aged 79 years, 5 months and 14 days. He came to the United States in April 1868, and located in Saline county, Mo. He was married to Miss Theresa Meschede, of near Miami, Mo., April 16, 1871, and made their home near there until March, 1906, when he moved to Henry county, and bought the farm where he spent his last days. Eight sons were born to them, namely - John H. and Fred H., of Urich, Mo.; Richard J., of Shackelford, Mo.; Joe F., of Napton, Mo.; Edward W. of Clinton, Mo., and Vincent E., and Henry Jr., of Creighton, Mo. Francis A., the youngest son, passed away at the home place December 13, 1918, aged 25 years. In 1897 he took into his home a little girl named Jessie May, not quite three years old, and raised her as one of his own children until the year, 1916, she went to Parsons, K! ansas, and several years later she was united in marriage to Lewis Srack, but after his death several years later, she went to California, and for almost three years, now, her friends here have not heard from her, so none could send her word of her foster father's death. He was a good neighbor, a faithful, loving husband, a true Christian father and a devoted grandfather. He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife, seven sons, eight granddaughters and ten grandsons, and one little three year old granddaughter and a tiny grandson have gone on before. On Wednesday morning, November 21st, 1923, at 9 o'clock, the funeral service was held at his late home by Rev. S. G. McCluney, of the Presbyterian churches, of Urich, and Creighton, Mo. Brother McCluney emphasized the fact that his influence would live after him, and do good in the lives of the sons he reared and the friends and neighbors he knew. The songs were: "God Will Take Care of You", "Under His Wing" and "Rock of Ages" sung b! y members of the Urich Presbyterian church. Six of his sons were pallb earers, while the seventh son, Fred, tried to comfort and assist his mother who is now left alone in her 73rd year. May God comfort the bereaved ones in this sad hour, for we shall all miss grandpa, his kind words, his smiling face and outstretched hand bidding us welcome. His body was laid to rest in beautiful Englewood, east of Clinton, near his son, Francis, there to await the resurrection. HILLEBRAND, Henry Source: Williams and Shoemaker, "Missouri Mother of the West", Missouri Historical Society 1930, Volume 4: Henry Hillebrand is a native of Missouri, one of the state's sterling school men, and has been engaged in the work of teaching and administering public schools in different parts of the state for about thirty years. He was born in one of the richest counties of Central Missouri, at the old town of Shackelford in Saline County, March 9, 1876. His father, Henry Hillebrand, was born at Harth, Germany, in 1844, lived there during his boyhood and early youth, and about 1869 came to the United States. He located at Lanesville in Saline County, and for a long period of years was numbered among the progressive farmers of that locality, and about 1906 moved to Clinton in Henry County, Missouri, where he continued farming until his death on December 13, 1924. He was a Democrat in his political affiliations, and lived the life of a devout Christian. He married Theresa Meschede, wh! o was born in Germany in 1850, and was brought to the United States by her parents in 1859. She grew up among relatives in Saline County, and her father, Richard Meschede, afterwards settle in that county, having spent his first years in this country at Saint Louis. He was a farmer near Lanesville and lived out his life there. He married a Miss Pittman, a native of Germany, who died in Saline County when eighty-six years of age. The children of Henry Hillebrand and wife were: John, a farmer at Urich, Missouri; Richard J., who owns and operates the old Hillebrand homestead at Shackleford; Henry Hillebrand; Joe, a farmer at Marshall, Missouri; Ed, a farmer at Clinton; Fred, a resident of Urich and since 1911 a rural mail carrier; Vince E., a farmer at Creighton, Missouri; and Francis, a farmer, who died at Clinton in 1918 of the influenza, when twenty-five years of age. Mr. Henry Hillebrand, a Missouri farm boy, had the advantages of the rural schools of Saline County, and in! 1897 entered the Missouri State Teachers College at Warrensburg. In t he intervals of his teaching he continued his work there during summer sessions until 1925, when he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in education. He taught his first term of rural school in 1898, and has had five years of rural school experience. During that time he taught in Calhoun, Henry and Saline counties. For three years he was principal of the high school at Calhoun, for one year was superintendent of schools at Urich, and four years superintendent at Deepwater. After he had been superintendent of schools at Humansville for three years he left school work in 1918, during the World war, and took up farming in Henry County. However, the call of educational work was too strong to resist and in 1921 he became superintendent of schools at Shawnee Mound. He was superintendent at Creighton from 1923 to 1926, and after another year on his farm at Creighton came to Farber in Audrain County, in the fall of 1927, and became superintendent in that progressive li! ttle town of Northeastern Missouri. Mr. Hillebrand has always kept in touch with educational interests and is a member of the Missouri State and Kansas State Teachers Associations. He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Humansville and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Urich. He married at Calhoun, Missouri, December 31, 1901, Miss Edna Hudson, daughter of Rev. Martin D. and Sarah E. (Crow) Hudson. Her mother resides at Deepwater, Missouri. Her father was a minister of the Presbyterian Church and in his earlier years did a great deal of work as a circuit rider in South Missouri counties. Mr. and Mrs. Hillebrand have four children: Martin, a graduate of the Deepwater High School, has been looking after the home farm at Creighton; Henry B., who graduated from the high school at Deepwater in 1926, is also a farmer; Herbert and Homer, the two younger sons, are still in school. The following information was taken from cemetery records: HILLEBRAND, Henry Sr. - b: Jun 5 1844 Harth, Westphailia, Germany - d: Nov 19 1923 6 mi SW of Clinton, MO - m: Apr 16 1871 to Theresa MESCHEDE - ch: John H., Fred H., Richard J., Joe F., Edward W., Vincent E., Henry Jr., Francis A. - foster dau: Jessie May - 79Y 5M 14D - bur: Nov 21 1923 Blk:602 Lot:1250 Gr:10 Englewood Cemetery Part 10 - HIBBS to HYDE, Henry County, Missouri Clinton Township Location: T41, R26, S12 - 400 S. Vansant Rd, Clinton Landowner: City of Clinton I have some additional information posted on my own (noncommercial) family website at: http://www.familytreeheritagelibrary.com Note: The web site link included in this posting is to my own family (noncommercial) web site. As such, please don't remove it or any other of my postings anymore, for they comply fully with the Message Board Rules as written at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=rules&r=an&p= Thank you!