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Dorothea Dodenhof, Anna Rebecca Dodenhof (born January 9th, 1873 and
died July 2nd, 1875), Wilhelm Dietrich Dodenhoff and Anna Marie
Dodenhof.
L U H R S
Johann Friedrich Leurs, a wheelwright, had a son, Christoph Leurs, a
wheelwright who upon January 9th, 1791 married Anne Sophi Buck in Neuhaus
a/d Oste, Kingdom of Hanover, Germany. They had a son Johann Nicholas
Leurs, a wheelwright, born in Neuhaus a/d Oste Germany, May 15th, 1792.
He died in Neuhaus a/d Oste January 5th, 1882. Upon November 13th, 1814,
he married Johanna Hintze in Neuhaus a/d Oste, who was born in Balie,
Germany, January 20th, 1792. Johann Nicholas Leurs changed the spelling
of his name from Leurs to Luhrs.
They had a son, Johann Christoph Luhrs, a wheelwright, born in Neuhaus
a/d Oste, July 8th, 1815. He died in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. on a
Thursday at 3:30 PM, August 3rd, 1889. In June, 1846 in Neuhaus a/d
Oste, Germany, he married Sophia Margaret Henriette Wilhelmine Diekmann,
a school teacher born on July 20th, 1817 in Bremergorge, Germany. She
died in childbirth in Neuhaus a/d Oste, Germany, March 23rd, 1855. They
had five children, two dying as children, one at six weeks and the other
at three months. The three living were: Georg Heinrich Nicholas Luhrs
(Geo H.N. Luhrs), born in Neuhaus a/d Oste, Germany, March 31st, 1847
and dying in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A., May 4th,
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