Welcome to my LIETZKE family page. I am descended from Frederick Edward Martin LIETZKE (1778-<1872) and Henrietta Charlotte (Dora) Lawrence/Lorenz (1815-1896). According to cousin Florence Vogt, the Lietzke & Zischke families lived within 5 miles of each other in Germany. Both husbands died in Germany. The mothers decided that both families would immigrate to America, which they did.

They settled in Sandusky Co, OH but soon most if not all of the Lietzke families ended up in Clinton Co, MI where my branch married into the Zischke and Bauerle families. Henrietta LORENZ/LAWRENCE ended up in DeWitt, MI where she is buried. An interesting note (legend?) about this branch from an unknown grandchild:

"The Lawrence boys came to Fremont, Ohio to see my great [sic?] grandmother Lietzke about 1880 and gave her some gold money when they came from California to look her up. The boys (her brothers) went to California during the gold rush in 1849-1850. They travelled by boat around South America. This was told to me by my father (Charles Lietzke) as he was about 9 years old at that time."

A discrepancy in this story is that Frederick's and Henrietta's son Carl (Charles?) was born in 1839, so either their visit was around 1848, or he was much older than the 9 years stated above. Also, it seems odd her brothers would've come to America almost 25 years before she did, but anything's possible I suppose...

If you have any problems accessing anything, or any additions/corrections, let me know at [email protected]. Happy hunting!

Contents of this page:

• A list of my Lietzke ancestors and their spouses.
• My Lietzke Descendants List with living persons info deleted per my privacy policy. A description of the compilation of this material is here. Note that 5 children from each family intermarried. The way I have to decided to handle this in the Descendants Lists is to track the descendants of the sons of each family in the appropriate file, thus see my Zischke page for the children of the Lietzke daughters who married Zischkes.
• Miscellaneous articles:
  • Frederick's son Charles's experiences after immigrating from Germany and migrating to Michigan.
  • Gladys Magsig's retirement from operating an office building's concession stand.
  • The founding of Howe's Greenhouse.
  • Cousin Alan Lietzke is a physicist working in high-strength magnets; a google search found the following articles about his work: a large and technical Powerpoint file, an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, a bulletin board posting wondering how to interrupt 20 kA, and an article about his team's achieving the highest man-made magnetic field; I assume he's one of the team members pictured :^)
  • Various obituaries. See also my great-Aunt Gertrude (Zischke) Lietzke's obituary and a couple letters that it prompted from former students of hers. Note that she was her husband Theodore's first cousin, once removed.
• Pictures:
  • My great-great-great-grandmother Henrietta Lorenz's grave in the DeWitt, MI cemetery.
  • My great-great-grandparents August Zischke's and Augustina Lietzke's grave in the DeWitt, MI cemetery.
  • Unknown male; this picture is from Virgene (Lietzke) Plankenhorn's estate. More pictures will hopefully be uploaded someday to this site.
• Other Zischke links:
  • My Bath School Disaster page, in which my second cousin, twice removed Francis O. Hoeppner was killed.
  • Nothing much at Linkpendium, Surnameweb, or World-connect except for Jayme McNair's :^(

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