Assimilation
ASSIMILATION
By applying their work ethic and entrepreneurial skills, the family survives and prospers in their New World.
Anna, Andreas, and their children made their way up to St. Louis, evidently by boat, and then to Hermann, either by boat or by rail. It is believed that they first rented and later purchased farmland. The exact property has been identified and lies almost directly south of Hermann.
At the time that Thomas K. Mangelsdorf (Albert-William) visited in 1991, the property, consisting of about 150 acres, was owned by Mrs. Edna Roree, age 83, who has lived there since 1936. The farmhouse was probably not in existence when the Mangelsdorff family was there, however, there are sheds and barns, one of them dating to 1832, which may have been the original buildings occupied by the family.
It is bottomland, with a fine creek flowing through it, and is good farmland to this day.
