His parents	Married 1/18/1847	Her parents
3GGF Charles “Carl” Anton Ackerman	Germany –> WI –> MN	3GGM Antonia Brust-Ackerman
Ancestor 42 (101010) (2/03/1815 – 6/21/1891)	Their ancestral child	Ancestor 43 (101011)  (8/03/1824 – 4/19/1897)

Carl and Antonia came to the US separately as young adults.  Antonia migrated at age 21, with her parents and siblings, arriving July 12, 1843 on the ship “Bark Manchester”.  Carl Ackerman sailed from Germany to the US with his first wife, Veronica, and their infant daughter Theresa.  They arrived as passengers of ship “Margaret” in the Port of New York on June 18, 1846. 

The next seven months were a whirlwind.  Veronica died and Carl married Antonia, whom he met in Wisconsin.  They named their first child Veronica after Carl’s first wife.

After their wedding in Calumet(ville), WI, Carl and Antonia raised their 12 children in Fond du Lac County.  Their 12 children in birth order were Veronica (1847), John, Balthasar “Baltus”, Theodore, Christina, Heinrich, Charles, Mary, Nicholas, Anna *, Wendell, and William (1871).  All of these children lived to adulthood. (Note that my ancestor’s full name was Anna Mary, and her older sister was Mary Anna).

We have records of two residences in this area, first in Marshfield Township and then Taycheedah Township. See the maps below. (The Fond du Lac Library has probate records.)

Some of the Ackermans’ sons and grandsons were foresters, a heritage that passed down all the way to my lifetime.  I don’t know if Carl was primarily engaged in farming or forestry.

We have several pictures of the Ackermans’ children. I am not aware of any surviving photos of Carl or Antonia.

By 1890, Carl and Antonia followed one or more of their children to central MN, where both are now buried.  Carl is at St. Gertrude’s in Forest City, and Antonia is at St. Joseph’s in Pierz.  I have visited both of these churches.  Both are very nice to visit (St, Joseph’s is much more impressive) but unfortunately neither ancestor has a gravestone.  “Rumor has it” that if the St. Gertrude’s Cemetery trims back the thicket that has overgrown the old northeast plot of its cemetery, there are some Ackerman headstones back there — but it is quite a jungle in there right now.  3GGM was probably buried with a wooden cross, which is long gone. This map shows their burial locations.