The Michael Schochenmaier's farm around 1909

I am so happy to post a new picture of the Michael Schochenmaier (1859)'s farm which I got by courtesy from Lorie Schochenmaier (Longmont, Colorado).

For getting to know her, I'd like just notice that Lorie Jan Schochenmaier is daughter of Erwin Schochenmaier (1921-1993) and Betty Gosh (1928-1996), or granddaughter of Jacob Schochenmaier (1890-1971) and Elizabeth Wuest (1893-1988), or, otherwise, great granddaughter of Michael Schochenmaier (1859-1937) and Christina Winkler (1858-1926), or, going deeper, great great granddaughter of Christian Schochenmaier (1833-????) and Margaretha Korb (1836-????).

What are their relationship to me? 

Christian (1833) is my 4th great grand uncle.
Michael (1859) is my 1st cousin 5x removed.
Jacob (1890) is my 2nd cousin 4x removed.
Erwin (1921) is my 3rd cousin 3x removed.
So, Lorie (1957) is my 4th cousin 2x removed.

I had asked if anybody had any older pictures of the farm than the one I posted of Michael and Christina Schochenmaier and their family in front of the house with a large bay picture window before.  The farm picture you're going to see is of the farm around 1909. We know that  because the barn has a silo by it. Michael was the first to build a silo in a large territory. It was built in 1909. There is a man standing by the door of the house,  we assume it is Michael.  That house is the same house the family picture was taken in front of the big bay picture window.  I know it may be hard to see this picture well, so I am hoping we can get a closer picture later.

Here it is:

And one more time:

It might be looking like that if closer:

Thank you very much, Lorie! Such a picture is priceless for our history. We can see how they established their lives after immigrating to the New World.

Have a good weekend, my dear Schochenmaiers.

When did the second Schochenmaiers come to the New World?

As we did it for Jacob Schochenmaier, we can discover the date of immigration of Michael Schochenmaier with his family as well.

On the FamilySearch you can find "United States Russians to America Index, 1834-1897" where among others the date of arrival of Michael Schochenmaier is to be discovered. The only one problem is that his surname was written with "y" instead of "i": SCHOCHENMAYER.

So, the 4th May 1887 is the day when the second family of Schochenmaiers (and possibly the last one) had come to the U.S. 

He came with his wife Christine (née Winkler, 1858-1926): 

and with two first elder kids:

Catherine (Katherine, 1884-1966), who will later marry Johann Klien (1875-1936)

and any "Wilhelm Schochenmayer". At first, I was struck by that Wilhelm because the first son of Michael had been Fred(rich) born in 1888, the first born in the New World as well... It looks very suspiciously... but then I read carefully all lines and cheked out our family tree on the Ancestry.com and I realized that this Wilchelm is surely the short and/or wrong version of Wilhelmina Schochenmaier, the last born in the Russian Empire (1885/7-1963), who will later marry to Christian Odenbach (1886-1962). It's also justified by the gender of that baby: 

I wonder why the younger brother Jacob Schochenmaier (1861/2-1923) came first and only then, almost one year later, the elder brother Michael joined him? 

• It looks like if the first one was a "mine detector": after having settled in the USA, he sent the message and confirmed that it was secure to come... 
• Or, maybe, the younger generation is always more adventuruous)))
• Or, at that time, they needed "smiths", so Jacob came first and then Micahel the "Farmer" as a near of kin...      

In the next post, I will tell you about the ships on which they came to America!