Haverland, Elnora 'Laura'-[102] ^{2 3}

   Other names for Elnora were Haferland, Helena, Haverland, Elnora, Heilman, Elnora, Hoverland, Laura and nee: Miller, Leona.

  General Notes:

There are many uncertainties surrounding this woman - including her names. Her various nee: AKA's were given by the 3 blood daughters of JMZ in their respective marriage records.

Family lore source Myron G Klotz provided much of the information about Elnora, listing her as nee: Haverland, first married to Richard HEILEMAN / HEILMANN and w/daughter Annie; then to MILLER and w/daughter Augustina; then migrating from Germany to Wisconsin as a widow with 2 little daughters; then married John Michael ZELLHOEFER, they having 3 more daughters.

There IS a marriage record in LDS IGI showing a marriage of Elnora HEILMAN b.1823 to Michael ZELLHOEFER and with a daughter Lottie b.1862 in WI. That's enough to realize SOME connection to the Heilman surname, but no marriage date/place is given, and source is only "submitted by a member of the LDS Church", so "that's all, folks!"

Perhaps Elnora was never wed to Heilmann, but rather that was her maiden name? After exhausting searches nothing which might match a Haverland family is found to Dec 2003. It seems most unusual that Elnora would have come to America as a widow with "2 daughters and no husband" as per MGK. Perhaps Elnora migrated WITH her husband Miller who died, but WHERE? Or perhaps the widow Elnora migrated with her parents? Other Miller's are found in Sullivan Township of those times; even the marriage between Elnora & JMZ was performed by John G. Miller.

Found in land records - Anson and Ernst Heilman each purchased 40 acres in Sec 5 T8N R16E Jeff County 1846 and 1848

Epitaph on headstone "Endich zur Ruh"
"Nach veil Kreutz un Erden Sorgen bin ich nun Beim Ruh"
translation something about "concerns are now at rest in the ground"

  Research Notes:

In an LDS IGI record which seems completly off-the-wall, Elnora HEILMAN of Germany b.1823 is shown in a marriage to Michael Zellhoefer, and which shows daughter Lottie (Charlotte) b.1862. Perhaps that serves to refute the untrackable Elnora Haverland of John & Sophia, and might explain the appearance of the Heilman name in Elnora's history.

It may also explain Enora being wrongly names as mother of Annie Heilman, who was finally determined to have been not Heilman, but rather the 2nd child of JMZ and his first wife Anna.

Birth certificates might reveal much, but we have not found Elnora in Germany.

Records of interest found in ship's passenger lists, although it appears Elnora's name at migration-time was MILLER.

Heilmann, Anna
Age: 31 Gender: Female
Occupation: Peasant
Country: U???
Final Destination: WI
Manifest ID Number: 00007390
Ship's Name: Frederich August
Port of Embarkation: Bremen
Date of Arrival: May 28, 1853
Captain's Name: J. F. Wurthmann
Purpose for Travel: Staying in the USA
Mode of Travel: Steerage

Heilmann, Eleonore
Age: 30 Gender: Female
Occupation: Farmer
Country: Wurtemburg
Final Destination: United States
Manifest ID Number: 00007083
Ship's Name: James L. Bogert
Port of Embarkation: Havre
Date of Arrival: Jul 26, 1852
Captain's Name: Georg Wm. Howe
Purpose for Travel: Staying in the USA
Mode of Travel: Steerage

  Medical Notes:

Toward the end of her years, Elnora was a resident of Jefferson County home for the insane, but was apparently released before her death.

  Noted events:

• Census: with JMZ & mixed children, 1860, Sullivan Twp, Jeff Co WI. The surname is very difficult to decipher, but looks most like Seilver. As the known names in this family match what is known from many sources, there is no doubt that this is the JMZ household of 1860.
JMZ, 35, farmer, b.Germany
Laura, 38, b.Germany (so Elnora aka Laura)
Frederick 6 [his w/first wife Anna]
Anna or Annie 3
Teina, 2 [=Augustina, her daughter]
twins George & Sophia, 1
Harriet 3/12 [=Margaret]
All children listed as b.Wisconsin, but Augustina may have been born in Germany according to the family lore.

ancestry.com image 24/43, paper image # 62, 24 June 1860.

• Census: "Laura", 4 daughters living w/her, 1870, Sullivan Twp, Jeff Co WI. ancestry.com image 28/40
Laura Zellhoefer, age 48, b.Prussia, "keeps house",
daughters all born WISCONSIN(!)
Christina 12, [Augusta b.Miller; family lore said born in Germany]
Margaret 10,
Charlotte 9,
Laura 6
value of real estate owned $200.
Apparently among Elenora's many name variations, Laura had become her chosen name.
Living a few doors from family of James C Bogie, whose son David later married Laura Zellhoefer
about 4 doors on the other side was the family of August Tartsch

• Census: head of household, keeping house,1880, Sullivan Twp, Jeff Co WI. LDS census - FHL film 1255435, Page 230C

Elenora listed as E ZELLHOEFER
Daughters with her were Lottie, single, 18 and Laura, single, 16, both of their parents born in Germany.
Daughters Augustina now abt age 24 and Margaret now abt age 20, not listed in the household
Also in household Wm Law 24 & Myron Walker 24, both working @ cheese factory
next door prev STIVERS>HAMMOND>HAAS
next door next HAM>STACY>REED

• Misc: marriage certification, 10 Feb 1865, Jefferson Co WI.

Elnora married Richard Heilmann-[478] [MRIN: 416] about 1852 in Germany. (Richard Heilmann-[478] was born about 1818 in Germany.)

Elnora next married Mr Miller-[475] [MRIN: 413] about 1856. (Mr Miller-[475] was born about 1819 in Germany and died in 1857 in Germany.)

Elnora next married Johann Konrad 'Mike' Zellhoefer-[10] [MRIN: 408], son of Johann Joseph Zellhoefer-[9] and Anna Margaretha Hofmann-[1679], on 12 Mar 1859 in Sullivan Twp, Jeff Co WI.¹ (Johann Konrad 'Mike' Zellhoefer-[10] was born on 17 May 1825 in Brachbach, Obernzenn, NEA ⁶, christened on 4 Aug 1825 in Obernzenn, NEA, died on 6 Jan 1865 in Louisville KY and was buried in Cave Hill cemetery Louisville Kentucky.)