Here is the Ludeke "Ludwig" Hermann Severs and Wilhelmina Katherina Von Weihe Severs family. Note the spelling has only one "e" in Seevers. This is how it was spelled on a German church document prior to coming to America. I assume the name became Americanized to the way it sounded and the second "e" was added. My great grandfather, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Seevers, is the person on the left in the second row. He was born in Wachendorf, Hannover, Germany in 1867. I believe this picture was taken in Pottawatamie County, Iowa in the 1890's, since Ludeke passed away in 1903.
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