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  • Name: John Sr BRODBECK
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 19 Jun 1844 in Rome, Peoria Co, Illinois b
  • Death: 10 Oct 1917 in Peoria, Peoria Co, Illinois d
  • Burial: LaSalle Cemetery, Rome, Illinois u


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • George BRODBECK Birth: 1812 in Baden, Germany Death: 16 Sep 1876 in Marseilles, LaSalle Co, Illinois
  • Mother:
  • Eliza UHL Birth: 25 Nov 1823 in Millersburg, Holmes Co, Ohio Death: 12 Nov 1915 in Marseilles, LaSalle Co, Illinois

Family:
Marriage:
  • Amanda S MADDEN on 14 Jan 1868 at Clinton, DeWitt Co, Illinois .m1
  • Amanda S MADDEN Birth: 3 Sep 1844 in Clinton, DeWitt Co, Illinois Death: 24 May 1878 in Rome, Peoria Co, Illinois
Children:
  1. Henry P BRODBECK Birth: 1869 in Rome, Peoria Co, Illinois
  2. Frank BRODBECK Birth: 7 Dec 1871 in Rome, Peoria Co, Illinois Death: 22 Feb 1944 in Kinsley, Edwards Co, Kansas
  3. Frederick BRODBECK Birth: 4 May 1874 in Rome, Peoria Co, Illinois Death: 5 Oct 1912 in Salina, Salina Co, Kansas
  4. Edward Sr BRODBECK Birth: 4 May 1874 in Rome, Peoria Co, Illinois Death: 8 Sep 1950 in Peoria, Peoria Co, Illinois
  5. Edith BRODBECK Birth: 1876 in Rome, Peoria Co, Illinois Death: 1877 in Rome, Peoria Co, Illinois

Marriage: Children:
  1. Herbert Philip BRODBECK Birth: 27 Feb 1884 in Peoria, Peoria Co, Illinois Death: 7 Feb 1958 in Columbia, South America
  2. John Jr BRODBECK Birth: 15 Jul 1886 in Peoria, Peoria Co, Illinois Death: 27 Jan 1970 in Fort Lauderdale, Broward Co, Florida
  3. William Howard BRODBECK Birth: 27 Sep 1892 in Peoria, Peoria Co, Illinois Death: 27 Mar 1950 in Fort Lauderdale, Broward Co, Florida

Bibliography
  1. Bentley, Leroy Elmer, A Complete History of the Uhl-Brodbeck families, Marseilles, Illinois: author, 1945. Copy received from Ray Brodbeck, with additions and corrections, 12/2008. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bentley UHL-BRODBECK p[0-9]*].
  2. Brodbeck, Ray, Eliza Uhl, private email 7/29/2008. Author address: brodbeck at up dot net. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Bentley UHL-BRODBECK p2, Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008],
place:
[Ref: Bentley UHL-BRODBECK p2, Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008],
parents:
[Ref: Bentley UHL-BRODBECK p2, Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Bentley UHL-BRODBECK p5, Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008],
place:
[Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]
Sources with Information about marriage to Amanda S MADDEN
date:
[Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]
1868 [Ref: Bentley UHL-BRODBECK p3],
place:
[Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008],
child:
[Ref: Bentley UHL-BRODBECK p3, Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]
Sources with Information about marriage to Virginia Elizabeth WEIDMAN
date:
[Ref: Bentley UHL-BRODBECK p5, Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008],
place:
[Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008],
child:
[Ref: Bentley UHL-BRODBECK p5, Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]
Research Notes:
Ticket Agent for Rock Islane Railroad in Rome, IL [Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]

1880: moved with his family to Peoria, IL [Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]

1881: employed by Phillip Auer Co [Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]

1882-3: Partner in Hill-Brodbeck Co, 211 S Washington St, Peoria, IL [Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]

1884-5: Partner in Auer-Brodbeck Co, 213 S Washington St, Peoria, IL [Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]

1886-1902: owner of John Brodbeck Co, 117 S Washington St, Peoria, IL [Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]

1903-7: Town Clerk of the City of Peoria [Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]

1907-9: Highway Commissioner [Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]

Obituary appeared in the Peoria Transcript, 11 Oct 1917: John Brodbeck Sr., Old Resident is Dead
John Brodbeck aged 73 years old, and respected citizen of Peoria, past away at the house of his son, John Brodbeck at 8:45 last evening. He had been failing for several years but was taken seriously ill two weeks ago. The decedent was born in Rome on June 19, 1844. He was married at Rome in 1868 to Mary Madden and after her death he was married a second time to Jennie Weidman in 1880 in Peoria. He leaves five sons, Frank in Texas, William in South America, Bert, Edward and John all of Peoria. He is survived by three sisters, Mrs.Clauser and Mrs. Barbour both of Marseilles, Ill and Mrs. Laura Wood of Iliff, Col., and four brothers James and George, also of Marseilles, Archie of Avon, Ill and Charlie of Kinsley, Kan. In the past Forty years that Mr. Brodbeck has been in the commission business here he has won the respect of every one with whom he dealt and in his private life he has made warm friends who will regret to learn of his death. For many years he has been prominent in the Odd Fellows Lodge.
The body will be laid to rest in the La Salle Cemetery. The time of the funeral will be announced later. [Ref: Ray Brodbeck 7/29/2008]



Pedigree of John Sr BRODBECK
          /-----Jacob BRODBECK
 /-----George BRODBECK
John Sr BRODBECK
|                  /-----Johann Carl UHL
|         /-----Charles UHL
|        |         \-----Catherine CLOSE
 \-----Eliza UHL
         |                  /-----Johann Charles KORNS
         |         /-----Michael Sr KORNS
         |        |         \-----Odelia KRAUSEN
          \-----Barbara KORNS
                  |         /-----Johan Daniel BOUCHER
                   \-----Susannah BAUSCHER
                           |                  /-----Hans Jacob DROG
                           |         /-----Hans Diebolt DROG
                            \-----Eva Catharina DROG
                                    |                  /-----Velten REECH
                                    |         /-----Hans Martin RECH
                                    |        |         \-----Maria (REECH)
                                     \-----Maria Barbara RECH
                                             |                  /-----Velten CLAUSS
                                             |         /-----Hans Christoph CLAUSS
                                              \-----Catharina CLAUSS
                                                      |         /-----Marx REECH
                                                       \-----Maria REECH



Descendants of John Sr BRODBECK
1. John Sr BRODBECK m1. Amanda S MADDEN m2. Virginia Elizabeth WEIDMAN
m. Amanda S MADDEN father: Zephaniah MADDEN mother: Amanda CARTER
m. Virginia Elizabeth WEIDMAN father: Solomon WEIDMAN mother: Mary HOFFMAN

2nd generation

4. Frederick BRODBECK m. Mary TRACY
m. Mary TRACY father: Patrick TRACY mother: Ellen COLEMAN
5. Edward Sr BRODBECK m. Katherine Josephine LAWLER
m. Katherine Josephine LAWLER father: Thomas Francis LAWLER mother: Mary Ellen WHITE
7. Herbert Philip BRODBECK m. Altha B REED
m. Altha B REED father: Franklin REED mother: Harriet WILSON
8. John Jr BRODBECK m. Ednas Pearl GIBSON
m. Ednas Pearl GIBSON father: Samuel McClelland GIBSON mother: Ella Edith RIGGS
9. William Howard BRODBECK m1. Nancy Marie MOORE m2. Agnes BOYD
m. Nancy Marie MOORE father: Edward MOORE mother: Lenora FICK
m. Agnes BOYD

3rd generation

10. Mercedes Ellen BRODBECK m. Joseph ZAHN
m. Joseph ZAHN father: Jacob Edward ZAHN mother: Emma Marie SEARLES
12. Mildred E BRODBECK m1. Lester Edward GILBERT m2. Benjamin MARCUS
m. Lester Edward GILBERT father: Edward GILBERT mother: Rosa (GILBERT)
m. Benjamin MARCUS father: James MARCUS mother: Katherine SHEEHAN
15. Mary Ellen BRODBECK m. Joseph Henry LAMMERS
m. Joseph Henry LAMMERS father: Henry LAMMERS mother: Mary PRENGER
16. Thomas Raymond BRODBECK m. Elsie Gail ANDERSON
m. Elsie Gail ANDERSON father: Joseph ANDERSON mother: Mae BLUNDELL
20. John Edward BRODBECK m. Miriam GRIFHORST
m. Miriam GRIFHORST father: Richard GRIFHORST mother: Minnie Agusta ELIASON