Info on a Gottfried HARTFIEL Family.

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Looking for some info on a Gottfried HARTFIEL Family.
They arrived in USA in March 1881 from Posen, Germany.
Gottfried and wife Augusta SOMMERFELT had a daughter
Emma Charlotte HARTFIEL, who was born on June 17, 1881 in LaSalle County, Illinois.
This family attended Trinity Lutheran Church of Christ, as it is called today.

Other children were born in LaSalle Co., Illinois, and some died there, too.
Only four of nine children lived to adulthood.

Gottfried HARTFIEL's occupation was that of building tall chimneys, some as much as 100 feet tall.
Any clue if some of these buildings could still be standing ?
Do any city records or town meeting records exist ?

This family hoped to leave the city and buy a farm or their own, someday.
They moved to Douglas County, Minnesota, in 1898.

I have visited to LaSalle Co, Illinois, to do research, about 15-20 years ago;
I found very little, but many dead end and unswered Questions.
I visited there again in August '97 and July '98.

Thank you for your interest.

Kay Diers
Mailto: km(at)diers.us.