hi, i live in south english ia and grew up in webster. I could help you find a stone if you want or I could try to find out who is the caretaker there (my mom is a cem. caretaker) write me back

I would be interested in any Brandenburg, Brandenberg in the cemetery. I know their is a few. I am also looke for a Jahn, Jahns, John, Johns. Her maiden name was Brandenberg so wonder if she was buried their bye chance.

I have a listing from the early 1970's for Sorden. It lists the following Brandenburgs, but no Johns or Jahns.
Brandenburg, Furn H. B. Jan 8, 1859; d. July 14, 1936
Brandenburg, Gladys M. b. Nov. 12, 1877; d. Jan 22, 1915
Brandenburg, John F. b. Feb 21, 1825; d. Jan 7, 1904
Brandenburg, Charlotte, his wife, b. Jan 13, 1833; d. Nov 22, 1891
Brandenburg, Edward, son, b. Oct 8 1865; d. Mar. 18, 1839

Who is it exactly that you are looking for? I know I saw something about some Brandenburgs in my Keswick Centenial Book.

Well I am looken for a Gustina(or something like that) Johns, Jahn, Jahns. Their name was actually Jahn but in the area they seemed to use Johns alot. Her maiden name was Brandenberg/Brandenburg. Mostlikely sister to John that you list and A.F. Brandenburg buried in St Martin Evan Lutheran Cemetery. She was married to William Jahn a farmer in Van Buren Township. They had 3 sons William , Henry, and Edward. William and Henry married Cousins Bertha & Emma Neuman. unfortunatly i havent found out when for sure she died sometime between 1880 - 1885 I believe. Edward her son disappears also around the same time. I am beginning to wonder if she could have been buried on their farm.

I looked in the Keswick book; apparently this family located around Keenersburg, south of Keswick. The entries in the book amounted to two complete pages with pictures. There is a picture of John and Charlotte Brandenberg, who came from Stettin Germany in 1860. The other pictures were of their children and families--the Albert and Pauline Nanke Brandenburg family. Albert and Pauline, it says started their married life on the Kessing farm two miles south of Keswick. After a year, they moved to Van Buren Township, where they lived for seventy-seven years.The next son was Ferdinand who married Gladys Gray and lived southwest of Keswick before moving west of What Cheer. The next son, John, was a merchant in Keswick and married Margaret Robertson. Edward Brandenburg son and lived on the home place.Anna Brandenburg spent her life in Oquawka, Illinois.

I wish I could help you, but I am not having any luck. If you could get someone to do a lookup for you at the Recorder's office at the Sigourney Courthouse, I bet you could find a death record, which would tell you where she was buried. Another thought is to look in the Iowa Historical Library in either Des Moines, or Iowa City in the WPA Graves index, done after WW2. Each county should have a listing.

Also, the Nanke name is also prominent in the What Cheer area, with Nankes buried in the Lutheran Cemetery, and actually having helped start the church.The church disbanded a few years ago; our pastor at that time, used to go down there and fill in as they did not have a pastor. I do not know for sure what happened to St. Martin's church records. Perhaps they are kept at Hope Lutheran Church at Sigourney, a church that was newly build at the time St. Martin's closed. From another book I have, from What Cheer, there is another page on the Nanke family--Johann came from Neudorf Germany and was one of the founders of St. Martin's in 1868. There was an August Nanke who married a FrederickNeuman (Niman) and of course, Pauline Nanke, who married Albert Brandenburg.

Good luck.

I was down to the cemetery this summer. Christoph Neumann who donated the land for the Church and school across from the cemetery (before the church was moved to what cheer) was my Great Great Great Grandfather. I hope to get up their again this summer hopefully when the court house and Historical society is open this time. Thanks for the info.

Bye the way what book do you have from the What Cheer area?

I have the What Cheer 125 Years from 1990. My mom also has the What Cheer Centennial Book; I'll check it out next time I am down there. Also, I found on Ancestry.com a tree from a David Fyfe which lists William Johns and the Brandenburgs with census records at: http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=fyfe&a...
and http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=fyfe&a...

Aye I have been in contact with David Fyfe . Someone was going to look in the 125 what cheer and 100 what cheer book for me on Neumann, Johns,jahn and such, and brandenburg. But lost their husband so understandably hasnt gotten around to it yet.