This was my first post-retirement project lasting from 1995-1999. My interest in La Charrette Village intensified after learning that all of my ancestors disembarked at old La Charrette Landing on the Missouri River upon arriving from Germany. Notice that La Charette carries only one ‘r’ in this spelling, one of the many alternate ways it appears in older documents. It was not until a year or so into village research that I became fully aware that my families had actually owned many of old La Charrette Village farms.

This story of our Schake family from Humfeld, Lippe (Germany) of the Teutoburger Forest with related history and Ethnohistories is lovingly dedicated to the first Schake mother of America. Wilhelmine Friederike Kuhfuss Schake came to the SCHAKES OF LA CHARETTE farms in Charette Township, Warren County, Missouri with her farmer and blacksmith husband Kurt in 1855. To this day we do not know when she died or where she is buried. Little apparently was recorded on her behalf. We have every reason to believe she was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.

This family history is typical of the German experience in Missouri’s German Belt. It is presented in four parts;

Part One - Auswandering (Wandering-out or away from home)

Part Two - Genealogies

Part Three - Schake Pictorial History

Part Four - Oral History

To learn more about this electronic book, click on ‘here’.