15/10/2024
Hello Gleim family members and friends of the family.
There is a good possibility that we will have a family reunion in 2025, maybe August or September.
Julia Barickman is updating family contact information. Please message her to provide your current address, email and phone numbers. Also, we would like to gather contact information for the 7th and 8th generation family members so we can invite them, too.
So Johann Georg "George" Gleim and his wife Katherine Elizabeth "Martha" Gleim are generation #1.
Fredrick (Gold Rush Fred) and his wife Catherine Schmahl Gleim are Generation #2.
I hope to invite descendents of Anna Gleim Naegiller, and I have corresponded with one of her descendents. She is Fredrick's younger sister.
Then we should be able to find descendents of Fredrick's youngest sister, Otilda Gleim Hoffman. She lived in Bourbonnais, IL.
In addition, Johann Georg had six children with this 3rd wife, Sophia. Their daughter lived south of Streator and most of the rest of the family lived in eastern Nebraska. I have been tracking down descendents of his children. Kristie might have information in Gilda's records. These children are 2nd generation, and half siblings of Fredrick, Anna, and Otilda.
Then 3rd generation is the 10 children of Fredrick and Catherine. We would love to have all descendents of this generation join us. It's a long way for descendents of the Albands to come for a reunion, but we would love to have you all join us.
Also, it would be great to have descendents of the Scharfenbergs, Duders, Wakeys, and Henry Gleim join us. There are descendents of Will and John Gleim in the area. There are no descendents of Fred Gleim (Laura Schneider was his daughter), or Louis Gleim. Louis had one daughter who never married.
So if you can share this post with all generations, and help us update our contact list of descendents, we would really appreciate it.
I we should get a range of dates for the reunion soon, so folks from long distances can put a date on their calendars.
I have worked on a written Gleim Family History since the last family reunion in 2019, incorporating stories and photos that many of you have sent me. Please send more stories stories stories, photos, newspaper articles, obituaries, and memories to me. I look forward to working with Kristi to go through the family history notes and photos that she has collected.
Thank you for your help, and we look forward to a wonderful family reunion on 2025.
Nancy Barickman Brannaman (descendent of Will Gleim)
