The Beaman/Bergmann/Banaka/Heers portions of this history are the courtesy of kinsman Franklin W. Montgomery, 1918-1997. Without his research there would have been no place to begin. His work is unsigned and informally published, but carefully and meticulously researched. It was supplied to me by Connie Gerhardt (Mrs. Ernest L. Gerhardt) via Cora P.M. Dierking Beaman (Mrs. Lloyd Beaman).  Thank you, Frank!

Ern and Connie Gerhardt and Uncle Leland Gerhardt furnished the majority of the photographs. Additional Harms photos courtesy of Alice Herzberg.

                                                  
Mystery Bride and Groom

                                                
Immanuel Lutheran Church
                                                  Netawaka, KS

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GERHARDT
                                                                                                                                                           
Godfrey Gerhardt                    
Albert Gerhardt, Sr.      
Wilhelmina Toubier                1860-1943
                                                                                                           
Herman John Gerhardt
Jan Frerich Osterbur             
Trientje Janssen (Tina) Osterbur ,                       1889-1955
Trientje Ubben Meinen          1862-1926
1826-1885                                                                                                                                     
Henry A. Gerhardt,
                                                                                                                                                       1914-1995
Johan Heinrich Buhmann,   
Henry August Beman
1802-1892                             1852-1912
unknown first wife                                                                            
Bertha C. Beman
                                                                                                           1888-1968
M.  Mary C. Fricke              
Mary C. Fricke Beman
F. Mary C. Fricke                  1855-1945
                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                         
                                                                                    
   HEERS                                       
                                                                                           
Johan Jurgen Christoph Heers,              
Carston Friederich (FRED) Christian Heers,
1816-1890                                               1859-1945
DORATHEA Bergmann Heers,                                                         Friederich Henry (FRED) Heers, 1884-1962  
1834-1902
                                                                    
F. Sophia Neddermeyer                          Sophia Marie (MARY)   Dorothea
M. Sophia Neddermeyer                         Neddermeyer Heers,  1860-1924

                                                                                                                                                        
Laura Alma Gerhardt
Henry Harms ,                                                                                                                                 1913-1988
1830 -  1916                                                                                                                                                                  
Trientje Albers  Rossmiller                  
Harman Harms
1839 - 1871                                            1863-1944                         
                                                                                                            
Emma Wilhelmina Harms Heers, 1890-1966

Henry Conrad Ideker       
1835-1880                                              
Lena  Harms,1874-1940
Maria Caroline "Minnie" ERNSTING Ideker                                       
1848-1937
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