Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameDora Knauch 
Birth27 Jul 1827, Germany
Death26 Apr 1865, Atchison Co, KS
BurialSacks Family Cem, Oak Mills, Aitchison Co, KS
Misc. Notes
Listed as Sarah in 1860 and Doras in 1865.
She apparently had a daughter, Elvira/Elizabeth, from a previous marriage in Germany who was living with them and took on the name Sacks.
She apparently had a daughter, Elvira/Elizabeth, from a previous marriage in Germany who was living with them and took on the name Sacks.
Spouses
Birth11 Jun 1827, Germany
Death8 Mar 1914, Atchison Co, KS
BurialSacks Family Cem, Oak Mills, Aitchison Co, KS
OccupationFarmer
ReligionLutheran
Misc. Notes
From Cutler's History of Kansas - 1883:
HENRY SACKS, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Oak Mills, came to Kansas in April, 1855, and first located at Leavenworth, where he became steward of the Government mess house at the fort. He was thus engaged until October 1, 1857, when he entered a farm of 160 acres in Walnut Township, Atchison County, on which he immediately moved and on which he has resided ever since. He was Road Overseer of Walnut Township for four years, and member of the School Board of District No. 33, Atchison County, three terms. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. He took part in the last war, during the Price Raid, as a member of Company A, Second Regiment Kansas Militia, and enlisted in Walnut Township, in September, 1864; served fourteen days, and was mustered out at Fort Leavenworth.
He was born in Prussia, June 11, 1827, and lived in his native country until 1854, when he emigrated to America and first located at Galveston, Texas, where he lived seven months and then came to Kansas. Mr. Sacks also served three years in the German army, previous to coming to America, being a member of the Sixth Company of the Kaiser Alexander Regiment. He took part in the Schleswig-Holstein war in 1848, and participated in several engagements in the German Revolution of '48, and still later in the campaign of Saxony. He has been married twice: the first marriage took place in Galveston, Texas, December 25, 1854, to Miss Dora Knauch, a native of Prussia. They had four children, three of whom are living - John Henry, William and Harvey. The second marriage took place at Kickapoo Township, February 17, 1867, to Miss Rhoda A. Johnson, a native of Missouri. They have had eight children - Albert, John Adam, Joseph Franklin, Nancy Jane, Dora, Mary Olive, George Washington and Amy Matilda.
Since the original entry on his farm, Mr. Sacks has purchased 160 acres more, contiguous to and adjoining his first farm, thus making the entire amount of land owned by him 320 acres. His farm is all upland, and is one of the finest and most fertile in the county of Atchison. It is all enclosed, and all in cultivation except seventy acres, which is timber and pasture land. His orchard covers ten acres, and has in it 900 apple, fifty peach and fifty cherry trees. The vineyard contains about 100 vines. Mr. S. devotes his attention principally to raising wheat, corn and fine stock of all descriptions. He has sixty-five acres in wheat this season, which yielded 2,000 bushels, an average of over thirty bushels to the acre. He has forty-five acres in corn this year, which promises to yield sixty bushels to the acre. He has two acres in potatoes the present season. The same ground last year yielded 400 bushels of the same tubers, which were sold for $1. 10 per bushel in the Leavenworth market. Mr. S. has on his farm ten horses and mules, twenty head of fine cattle, and eighty head of Poland China hogs. The improvements on the farm are a five-roomed frame dwelling house, large sized stock barn, granary, corn-crib, smoke-house and wagon shed. The supply of water is abundant and never-failing, there being two good wells and three fine springs, one of which flows for half a mile through the farm.
In 1860 he is indexed as farmer Henry Socks (35, GER) with his wife Sarah (35, GER) and children Elmira W. (10, GER), Henry C. (3, KS) and Wm A. (6 mos, KS). In the 1865 State census, he is listed as Henry Sacks (38, GER) with wife Doras (38, GER), Elizabeth (15, GER), Henry (7, KS), Wm (5), Franklin (4, KS) and Harvey (1, KS).
The 1870 census lists him as Henry Sacks (42, Prussia) a farmer, with his second wife Roddett(?) (22, MO) and children John H. (12), John William (10), Frank H. (6), Albert (2), and Johnie Adam (1), all born in Kansas. In 1875 he is listed as Henry Sacks (47, Prussia) with wife R. A. (27, MO) and children J. H. (17), J. W. (15), J. H. (11), Albert (7), J. Adam (5), James H. (4), Nancy (2), and Dorah (1 mo).
He is listed with 7 sons and 3 daughters in the 1880 census - indexed as Henry Sacha. He was obviously married previous to Rhoda, as his oldest son in 1880 was only 10 years younger than his wife. Children are: Henry (22), William (20), Harvey (16), Albert (12), John (11), Frank (9), Nancy (7), Dora (5), Mary (3), and George (4 mos).
In 1895 he is listed with Rhoda and children Albert (27), Frank (24), Mary (17), George (15), Amy (13), Ida (11), and Jessie (8).
HENRY SACKS, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Oak Mills, came to Kansas in April, 1855, and first located at Leavenworth, where he became steward of the Government mess house at the fort. He was thus engaged until October 1, 1857, when he entered a farm of 160 acres in Walnut Township, Atchison County, on which he immediately moved and on which he has resided ever since. He was Road Overseer of Walnut Township for four years, and member of the School Board of District No. 33, Atchison County, three terms. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. He took part in the last war, during the Price Raid, as a member of Company A, Second Regiment Kansas Militia, and enlisted in Walnut Township, in September, 1864; served fourteen days, and was mustered out at Fort Leavenworth.
He was born in Prussia, June 11, 1827, and lived in his native country until 1854, when he emigrated to America and first located at Galveston, Texas, where he lived seven months and then came to Kansas. Mr. Sacks also served three years in the German army, previous to coming to America, being a member of the Sixth Company of the Kaiser Alexander Regiment. He took part in the Schleswig-Holstein war in 1848, and participated in several engagements in the German Revolution of '48, and still later in the campaign of Saxony. He has been married twice: the first marriage took place in Galveston, Texas, December 25, 1854, to Miss Dora Knauch, a native of Prussia. They had four children, three of whom are living - John Henry, William and Harvey. The second marriage took place at Kickapoo Township, February 17, 1867, to Miss Rhoda A. Johnson, a native of Missouri. They have had eight children - Albert, John Adam, Joseph Franklin, Nancy Jane, Dora, Mary Olive, George Washington and Amy Matilda.
Since the original entry on his farm, Mr. Sacks has purchased 160 acres more, contiguous to and adjoining his first farm, thus making the entire amount of land owned by him 320 acres. His farm is all upland, and is one of the finest and most fertile in the county of Atchison. It is all enclosed, and all in cultivation except seventy acres, which is timber and pasture land. His orchard covers ten acres, and has in it 900 apple, fifty peach and fifty cherry trees. The vineyard contains about 100 vines. Mr. S. devotes his attention principally to raising wheat, corn and fine stock of all descriptions. He has sixty-five acres in wheat this season, which yielded 2,000 bushels, an average of over thirty bushels to the acre. He has forty-five acres in corn this year, which promises to yield sixty bushels to the acre. He has two acres in potatoes the present season. The same ground last year yielded 400 bushels of the same tubers, which were sold for $1. 10 per bushel in the Leavenworth market. Mr. S. has on his farm ten horses and mules, twenty head of fine cattle, and eighty head of Poland China hogs. The improvements on the farm are a five-roomed frame dwelling house, large sized stock barn, granary, corn-crib, smoke-house and wagon shed. The supply of water is abundant and never-failing, there being two good wells and three fine springs, one of which flows for half a mile through the farm.
In 1860 he is indexed as farmer Henry Socks (35, GER) with his wife Sarah (35, GER) and children Elmira W. (10, GER), Henry C. (3, KS) and Wm A. (6 mos, KS). In the 1865 State census, he is listed as Henry Sacks (38, GER) with wife Doras (38, GER), Elizabeth (15, GER), Henry (7, KS), Wm (5), Franklin (4, KS) and Harvey (1, KS).
The 1870 census lists him as Henry Sacks (42, Prussia) a farmer, with his second wife Roddett(?) (22, MO) and children John H. (12), John William (10), Frank H. (6), Albert (2), and Johnie Adam (1), all born in Kansas. In 1875 he is listed as Henry Sacks (47, Prussia) with wife R. A. (27, MO) and children J. H. (17), J. W. (15), J. H. (11), Albert (7), J. Adam (5), James H. (4), Nancy (2), and Dorah (1 mo).
He is listed with 7 sons and 3 daughters in the 1880 census - indexed as Henry Sacha. He was obviously married previous to Rhoda, as his oldest son in 1880 was only 10 years younger than his wife. Children are: Henry (22), William (20), Harvey (16), Albert (12), John (11), Frank (9), Nancy (7), Dora (5), Mary (3), and George (4 mos).
In 1895 he is listed with Rhoda and children Albert (27), Frank (24), Mary (17), George (15), Amy (13), Ida (11), and Jessie (8).
Marriage25 Dec 1854, Galveston, Galveston Co, TX