Gee, I was alive back then? I wonder where I got that information.
Teutopolis is/was of interest to me because some of the founders came
from Essen/Oldenburg and I assume others settled there from the same
area, ie the Oldenburger Münsterland.
Fred
Hi Fred, I feel like you are a friend since I've read so many of your
postings. Yes, I was glad to see you were still involved with genealogy
since the message was a few years old. In the archived message you
mentioned you translated it from Hans Juergen Nelke back then. I also
wanted to tell you I found a listing of US Civil War veterans from the
Teutopolis area and of the 34 names one of them was a Henry Rump. Anyhow if
you're interested I can get you more info. So is this a relative of yours?
Lisa Niemeyer
Effingham County, Illinois
Does one ever leave genealogy once the bug has taken hold? Not really.
We just lay low for a while or go to other lines, right? It's a
disease that stays till the end and one hopes that it catches the
heirs to finish what we couldn't.
I stopped in at Teutopolis a couple years ago and was quite
disappointed not to find a German presence there anymore. A few stores
still carried the old Oldenburger names but in the church one wouldn't
even know it was started by Germans. I guess time erases everything.
As to Rump, it's quite a common name in northern Germany and is
scattered about in lots of other places. Since my dad was adopted by a
Rump, the name is not really a genetic line for me to follow. I'm
really a Wienrich from the Neustadt/Harz. 
But my dad and my wife
grew up in Essen, therefore the interest.
Fred