Peter and Anna Steffen
Material comes from the family files at the Campbell County
Historical Society
Additional information in red comes from Paul Weisenberger 22 June 2010
Peter Steffen was born in Niederlosheim Germany, on November 16,
1782 and was the tenth child of Mathias and Margaret (Schwaz). His father,
Mathias was born 21 Nov 1740 in Niederlosheim to Nickolaus Steffen and Anna
Margaret Mueller. Mathias' first wife Maria Muller died with the second child.
Mathias second wife was Margaret Schwaz. Mathias died 23 Oct 1804. Peter
immigrated to the United States with 21 members of his family, arriving in New
York 9 July 1841 on the ship, Ville de Lyon. Peter died 30 Oct
1871 and is buried at St Joseph's Cemetery in Camp Spring
Children of Mathias Steffen and Maria Muller
1. Anna Maria Steffen b-10 Aug 1765
2. Infant Steffen b-1766 d-1766
Children of Mathias Steffen and Margaret Schwaz (Schwarz)
1. Anna Katharine Steffen b-18 Nov 1767; d-22
Jan 1831
2. Anna Steffen b-12 Nov 1768; m-Johan Lysinger 7 May 1793
(I have Lydinger)
3. Anna Katharine Steffen b-12 Nov 1770; d-15 Feb 1852
4. Johan Steffen b-11 Nov 1771; d-30 Jan 1826; m-Anna Franziska Palm 20 Feb 1794
5. Peter Steffen b-9 Dec 1773; d-28 Oct 1775
6. Adam Steffen b-24 Oct 1775; d-28 Jan 1783
7. Maria Angela Steffen b-24 Aug 1877; m-1 Johan Weber 18 Nov 1804; m-2 Nikolaus
Gros 16 Oct 1816
8. Mathias Steffen b-6 June 1779
9. Maria Steffen b-1 Apr 1781; d-29 Aug 1846; m-Mathias Schuler 4 Sep 1802
10. Peter Steffen b-16 Nov 1872; d- m-1 Margaret Weber 18 Dec 1804; she died 8
Apr 1816; m-2 Anna Bonne (Bone) 20 May 1816; she died 20 Apr 1894 in Four Mile
(I have 10 June 1854, the 1894 date is the death of her
daughter, Anna Maria Baumann)
11. Michael b-9 July 1784; d-13 Jan 1805
12. Margaret b-2 Apr 1786; m-Mathias Dillschneider 4 Aug 1806
13. Barbara b-2 Apr 1786; m-Michael Hardt 17 May 1811
14. Helena Steffen b-25 Nov 1787; d-5 Dec 1787
15. Jakob Steffen b-5 June 1789
16. Helena Steffen b-1 Aug 1791; d-5 Jan 1850; m-Johan Meyers 30 Jan 1816
Children of Johan Steffen and Anna Franziska Palm
1. Mathias Steffen b-15 Feb 1795; d-1823
2. Johan Steffen b-15 Feb 1795; d-14 Mar 1795
3. Maria Angela Steffen b-22 Aug 1797
4. Peter Steffen b-2 Dec 1798; m-Maria Bodem 4 Nov 1820;
(d-14 Aug 1870 in Dayton Oh)
5. Mathias Steffen b-Oct 1800; m (1) Barbara Glaser 29 Dec 1828;
m (2) Appolonia Schull 4 Mar 1851 in Cincinnati; d-in America
(Dayton Oh)
6. Johan Steffen b-31 Mar 1804; d-4 Oct 1804 (b-1802; d-31
Mar 1804)
7. Johan Steffen b-4 Oct 1804; d-6 Apr 1868 in Freeport Illinois
8. Michael Steffen b-20 Dec 1806; d-in America (Dayton Oh)
9. Maria Steffen b-30 Nov 1808; d-23 Mar 1809
10. Elisabeth Steffen b-2 Aug 1810; d-18 Jan 1816
11. Nikolaus Steffen b-22 Feb 1813; m-Katharine Weber 8 Oct 1811; d-in America
(Freeport Illinois)
12. Margaret Steffen b-13 Feb 1815; d-4 Aug 1815
13. Maria b-14 Mar 1818; d-22 Feb 1823
Children of Peter Steffen and Margaret Weber
1. Michael Steffen b-7 Feb 1806 d-27 July 1806
2. Johan Peter Steffen b-29 June 1807; m-1 Anna Bernarding; m-2 Maria Gasper 26
Jan 1832 in Hausbach, Germany; immigrated to the US in 1846. Johan died 22 July
1886 and Maria died 2 Mar 1864 and are buried at St Josephs in Camp Springs.
3. Wilhelm Steffen b-23 June 1809; m-Angela Dillschneider in Losheim 29 May
1832; she was born 21 July 1819 to Paul and Maria (Lauer); they left for America
1 Sep 1852 and arrived in New York 29 Oct.
4. Peter Steffen b-20 Jan 1811; m-Maria Thiel 8 Oct 1834;
lived in Cincinnati
5. Mathias b-14 July 1814; m-Margaret Schmidt; lived in
Cincinnati
Children of Peter Steffen and Anna Bone
1. Angela Steffen b-16 May 1817;
m-Adrian Wagner
2. Maria Steffen b-6 Jan 1819; m-Phillip Jergens; lived in
Dayton Oh
3. Nikolaus Steffen b-5 Nov 1820; m-Elizabeth Heck
4. Anna Maria Steffen b-16 June 1822; m-Isidore Baumann in Cincinnati
5. Jakob Steffen b-3 Sep 1824
6. Frederick Wilhelm Steffen b-15 Dec 1826; m-Susannah
Schutz
7. Anna Steffen b-23 Apr 1829; m-Anton Biegner
8. Helena Steffen b-16 Aug 1831; m-John Gunkel
9. Catharine Steffen b-17 Aug 1833; m-John Scherzinger
10. Susan Steffen b-6 Oct 1835
11. Elisabeth Steffen b-29 May 1838; m-Peter Barbian
Children of Johan Peter Steffen and Maria Gasper
1. Peter Steffen b-3 Nov 1832; d-17 Nov 1832
2. Peter Steffen b-1833; d-18 Jan 1837
3. Susanna Steffen b-6 May 1836
4. Johan Steffen b-22 Nov 1838; m-Katherine Goetz;
d-2 Sep 1912 at buried St Josephs in Cold Spring
5. Stephan Steffen b-2 Mar 1842; d-2 June 1847
6. Michael Ben Richard Steffen b-24 Feb 1844 in Germany; m
(1) Anna Maria Gerner;
m (2) Mary Heck 7
Jan 1873
at St Mary Catholic
Church in Alexandria; d-4 Apr 1912 in Norwood Oh;
br-St Mary Cemetery in Alexandria
Children of Wilhelm Steffen and Angela Dillschneider
1. Peter Steffen b-13 Apr 1833; m-Catharine
Fessler 16 Aug 1861; d-19 Jan 1912 in Hawthorne Ky.
2. Anna Steffen b-7 May 1835; d-16 Feb 1910 m-Henry Schaak 20 Sep 1855
3. Angela Steffen b-28 Sep 1836; d-18 Feb 1885; m-John Bernard Woeste 11 Nov
1854
4. Katharine Steffen b-29 Nov 1838; d-1 Nov 1892; m-Joseph Neltner 1866
5. Johan Steffen b-8 Dec 1840; d-16 July 1920; m-Sophia Greis
6. Anna Maria Steffen b-17 Mar 1843; became a nun at
Oldenburg Indiana
7. Nikolaus Steffen b-14 Nov 1845; d-4 July 1896; m-Mary Messmer 8 Aug 1871
8. Susanna Steffen b-6 May 1849
9. Barbara Steffen b-24 May 1852; d-before 1853
10. Barbara Steffen b-1853; d-1856 in
camp springs
11. Margaret steffen b-31 Aug 1854; d-1 Apr 1938; m-john kremer 28 oct 1879
Children of Peter Steffen and Maria Thiel (lived and died in Cincinnati)
1. Margaret Steffen b-23 Nov 1834
2. Maria Steffen b-13 Sep 1837
3. Nikolas Steffen b-a3 Apr 1841
Children of Peter Steffen and Catharine Fessler
1. Catharine Steffen b-1862 in Cold Spring;
d-1875
2. Angela Steffen b-1862 in Cold Spring d-1862
3. Anna Mary Steffen b-Cold Spring
4. Susanna Caroline Steffen b-1866 in Cold Spring
5. Frances Xavier Steffen b-Cold Spring
6. Angela Steffen b-Cold Spring
7. Peter Joseph Steffen b-Cold Spring
8. Margaret Steffen b-Cold Spring
9. Matilda Adelaide Steffen b-Cold Spring
10. Rose Johanna Steffen b-Cold Spring m-Martin Heck
11. Charles William Steffen b-1881 in Cold Spring d-1882
12. Joseph Steffen b-1884 in Cold Spring d-1889
13. John Edward Steffen b-Cold Spring