Following up on my earlier post about the Heinrich and Henry Bieles of Missouri, I found three land records that appear to relate to one or more of these men.
The first record, from 1848, is for Henrich Adolph Biele of Franklin County, Missouri. There is little doubt that this refers to Heinrich Adolphus Biele, who married in Franklin County in 1846 and had children there in 1846 and 1848.
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| 1848 Land Purchase by Heinrich Adolphus (Adolph) Biele of Franklin County, Missouri |
The second record, from 1851, is also in the name of Henrich Adolf of Franklin County and clearly refers to Heinrich Adolphus Biele.
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| 1851 Land Purchase by Heinrich Adolphus (Adolph) Biele of Franklin County, Missouri |
Notably, both purchases were for 40 acres, and the parcels were adjacent to one another.
Adolph Biele’s will, filed in Franklin County in 1855 and finalized in 1856, lists those two parcels along with a third parcel, also 40 acres and adjacent to the others. This suggests that he owned 120 acres in total at the time of his death. I have not yet found a separate filing for the third parcel.
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| Summary of land holdings of Adolph Biele at time of death in 1855 |
The third record, from 1859, is in the name of Heinrich Biele of St. Louis County, Missouri. The land was located in Carter County, Missouri, and totaled 320 acres. Carter County lies south of St. Louis in the Ozarks, near the Arkansas border.
Because of the date, this record cannot refer to Heinrich Adolphus Biele, who had already died by then. That leaves two possible candidates: Heinrich Biele, later of Stillwater, Minnesota, and Hermann Heinrich Biele, later of Gasconade County, Missouri. Both appear to have been in the St. Louis area around this time, before moving to their later homes. At present, I cannot determine which of the two this record belongs to.
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| Land purchase in Carter County Missouri by Heinrich Biele of St. Louis in 1859 |
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