St John School's website includes a webpage with information about the school's anniversary celebration, and that webpage includes a link to a pdf file that contains a table listing all the people who have graduated from St. John Elementary School in Seward, Nebraska.
The table does not list all the people who have attended the school; rather it lists only those who graduated from eighth grade. For example, six members of my family attended the school, but only my brother Steve and I are included on the list, because only we two graduated from eighth grade at St John. The graduation years range from 1885 to 2008.
The table essentially comprises one column for the person's graduation year, one column for the person's first name and one column for the person's last name. In some cases some other data is included, such as honorifics (Reverend, Doctor, Sergeant, etc.) and spouses' family names. The last 56 rows in the table do not include a graduation year, so I don't know how those people fit into the table.
I converted this pdf file to a Microsoft Access data base so that I could run various inquiries on the dates and names. So far, I have not included those last 56 rows without graduation years. The people who are included in my data base number 2,996.
The first inquiry that I ran was to determine the most common family names. In this sort, I did not combine similar spellings. For example, some people were named Zimmerman (ending with a single n) and others were named Zimmermann (ending with a double n), and I treated those as two separate names.
Below is a list of the frequent occurrences, from most occurrences down to eight occurrences:
Meyer -- 65
Mueller -- 57
Hackbart -- 44
Luebbe - 38
Schlueter -- 36
Schulz -- 33
Rolfsmeier -- 32
Prochnow --- 29
Schultz -- 25
Kamprath -- 23
Alschwede -- 20
Buls -- 20
Kroeger -- 19
Vogel -- 19
Heinicke -- 18
Gade -- 17
Herpolsheimer -- 17
Kruse -- 16
Wergin -- 16
Suhr -- 15
Bernecker -- 14
Mayland -- 14
Petri -- 14
Tonniges -- 14
Beckmann -- 13
Kolterman -- 13
Pflughaupt -- 13
Schlegelmilch -- 13
Dargel -- 12
Graves -- 12
Neujahr -- 12
Aegerter -- 11
Hans -- 11
Ihde -- 11
Imig -- 11
Manke -- 11
Niederschmidt -- 11
Anderson -- 10
Banzhaf -- 10
Brose -- 10
Goldsmith -- 10
Hardt -- 10
Hinrichs -- 10
Martens -- 10
Schmidt -- 10
Schuknecht -- 10
Weller -- 10
Wood -- 10
Bangert --9
Brinkmeyer -- 9
Bye -- 9
Duerr -- 9
Firnhaber -- 9
Gerkensmeyer -- 9
Goehner -- 9
Haase -- 9
Helge -- 9
Johnson -- 9
Lange -- 9
Peterson -- 9
Willers -- 9
Zimmermann -- 9
Adamek -- 8
Becker -- 8
Block -- 8
Bluhm -- 8
Brandhorst -- 8
Brauer -- 8
Fehner -- 8
Hartmann -- 8
Liermann -- 8
Owens -- 8
Peters -- 8
Rathje -- 8
Riggert -- 8
Schildt -- 8
Schmieding -- 8
Below is a list of people's names (with graduation years) where I am not sure whether they are male or female. These are names that might be either.
If any readers of this article know the sex of some cases for sure, please tell me in a comment below the article or in a message to MikeSylwester@gmail.com.
No guesses, please. Tell me only if you know for sure.
Antoine Love 2003
Antoine Otto 1906
Auguste Uerckwitz 1889
Auguste Bartsch 1929
Auguste Worthmann 1886
Auguste Zieme 1917
B Mertins 1975
Blake Johnson 1975
Bobby Mueller 1996
Brandon Luebbe 1996
Brandon Schulz 1991
Brandon Reinke 2001
Brandon Schmidt 2001
Brandon O'Dell 2008
Branson Oshel 1994
Cade Luebbe 2002
Chris Mackie 1998
Chris Blomenberg 1993
Chris Moravec 1980
Chris Wood 1997
Chris Dutkanicz 1999
Cody Smith 2000
Cody Luebbe 1999
Cody Rutt 2001
Cody Pollak 2000
Dale Reetz 1963
Dale Dickinson 1942
Dale Schlueter 1947
Dale Pieper 1954
Dale Suhr 1947
Dana Aegerter 1977
Devin Higgins 2001
Elvin Duerr 1926
Elvin Ahlschwede 1927
Elvin Ahrens 1959
Elvin Diers 1898
Georden Pfeiffer 2001
J.J. Krull 1996
Jordan Duncan 1997
Jordan Owens 1998
Jordan Roth 1999
Jordan Burhoop 2006
Kim Taebel 1975
Kim Mailand 1991
Kim Weinhold 1974
Logan Gerth 2006
Marlin Luebbe 1963
Pat Rotherham 1979
Pat Rolfsmeier 1943
Riggin Rixstine 2000
Taylor Baumeister 2007
Terrin Wurdeman 2002
Terry Plautz 1965
Terry Kahler 1961
Terry Kamprath 1964
Terry Ihde 1959
Terry Schulz 1975
During the first 25 years of graduations, from 1885 through 1910, there were 135 male graduates and 120 female graduates.
Below are some male names and their occurrences among those 135 male names during those 25 years:
Heinrich -- 14
Herman or Hermann -- 13
Johann -- 9
Arthur -- 7
Fredrich or Friedrich -- 7
Wilhelm -- 7
Albert -- 5
August or Auguste -- 5
Otto -- 5
Bernhard or Bernhardt - 4
Louis -- 4
Oscar -- 3
Georg (not George) -- 3
Ernst -- 2
Alwine -- 1
Antoine -- 1
Dietrich --- 1
Here are the last years when any later graduates again had any of the above names: Heinrich, 1921; Herman, 1945; Johann,1922; Arthur, 1939; Frederick, 1950; Wilhelm, 1917; Albert, 1930; August, 1939; Otto, 1935; Bernhard, 1929; Louis, 1954; Oscar, 1925; Ernst, 1911; Alwin, 1918; Dietrich, 1916.
Below are some female names and their occurrences among those 120 female names during those 25 years:
Emma -- 6
Meta -- 6
Wilhelmina or Wilhelmine -- 5
Luise -- 5
Martha -- 5
Emile -- 4
Bertha -- 3
Hulda -- 3
Ida -- 3
Minna -- 3
Sophie -- 3
Mathilda -- 2
Bruna -- 1
Fanny -- 1
Fredericke -- 1
Gertrude -- 1
Hedwig -- 1
Henrietta -- 1
The name Emile has changed its pronunciation and spelling to Emilie and now Emily.
The name Emma disappeared after 1927 but now has reappeared in the 2001 and 2008 graduation classes.
The name Hedwig disappeared after 1894 but then reappeared as Heidi in the 1978 and 1999 graduation classes.
Otherwise, here are the last years when any later graduates again had any of the above names: Frederike, 1937; Gertrude, 1926; Henrietta, 1921; Hilda, 1936; Louise, 1956; Martha, 1947; Mathilda, 1925; Minnie, 1929; Wilhelmina (Wilma), 1954.
The 1928 graduating class included a girl named Della Reese. When I saw this name in that time period, I thought to myself, How many people had the name Della Reese? Could this St John graduate be the famous Della Reese?
From my research on the Internet, I learned three important considerations:
1) In the past, the name Della was quite common, especially among ethnic Germans. The name is short for Adelia, Adeline, Adelaide and Cordelia. Other variants of this nickname are Dell and Delle. Although this nickname was very common in the early 1900s, it became rare by the mid-century.
2) Lots of girls who were born in the first half of the 1900s had the name Della Reese.
3) The famous Della Reese did not have the family name Reese. Rather, she was born Delloreese Patricia Early, and she formed her professional name entirely from her first name. Also, she was born in 1931 and so was in eighth grade in about 1944.
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