I was delighted to receive some Younker/Fauerbach family photographs from Anna Younker Midland in Montana. Readers may remember that I wrote several articles about this family after receiving an inquiry from Anna about their family.

I want to share first, a photograph of part of the map of Maple Hill Township, from the 1902 Wabaunsee County Atlas. This image will help locate the Fauerbach family farms which were northeast of the town of Maple Hill.

You may recall that Henry Fauerbach and his wife Charlotte (Kemp) Fauerbach were the first of the familiy to settle in Maple Hill Township. Henry Fauerbach had been a frieghter or teamster, hauling frieght from Westport Landing (present day Kansas City) west to the California Gold Fields. Henry’s parents, Johann Mathias Fauerbach and Elte “Etta” (Jacobs) Fauerbach had been early immigrants from Hanover, Germany settling in the Renault, Monroe County, Illinois previous to 1850.

Henry and Charlotte Fauerbach raised a large family on their farm east of Maple Hill, and one of their descendants, Matilda Fauerbach, married Arthur E. Younker, thus the connection between the two families.

So let me first post the photograph of the map of Maple Hill Township showing the location of the Fauerbach Farms, and the photographs of Henry and Charlotte (Kemp) Fauerbach.