Heinrich Evers

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Heinrich Evers

also known as Henry Evers

Date of Birth	circa 1810
Date of Death	circa 1898
Birth Place	Kingdom of Hanover, Germany
Occupation	Farmer	Land valued in 1850 as $3,000.00.
Buried
First Wife	Mary or Marie
	Date of Birth
	Date of Death
	Place and Date of Marriage
	Resting Place
	Wife's Biography
Second Wife	Dorothea
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	Place and Date of Marriage
	Resting Place
	Wife's Biography
Route of Immigration
Description of Land First Owned	Settled in Proviso in 1850, one block south of Roosevelt where he acquired 240 acres (north 3/4 of Section 20) in Proviso Township.	By 1863 the Evers land comprised 300 acres in Survey Section 20, Proviso Township. Its northern boundary was 12^th Street (Roosevelt Road) with a western boundary of Wolf Road. It extended about three quarters of a mile east along Roosevelt Road and a half a mile south along Wolf Road. Evers' farmland west of the Oak Ridge Cemetery was the location of the Yackey Airfield. At the airfield pilots offered five minute flight over Maywood for $5.00. In the 1920s the field was also used by many airmail pilots including Charles A. Lindbergh. Mr. Lindbergh stopped to visit with his pilot friends and to eat at the old Lilac Lodge near 22^nd Street (Cermak) and Wolf Road.

Children:

Name	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Date of Death
Louise Evers (Boeger)	1851	Illinois

Additional Biographic Information:

In 1852, joined with eight families to obtain permission to form a school district in the immediate locale of "Franzosenbusch". (Franzosenbusch centered at 22^nd and Wolf now in Hillside. A few years later he was one of the "founding fathers" of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Hillside.
Louise Evers married William C. Boeger from Hinsdale and they had six (6) children.
After the death of Henry Evers, this farm was sold to the family of William Boeger in 1898. The east section of this farmland was set aside for cemetery use and became the site of Oak Ridge Cemetery.
Streets in Westchester carry the names Mandel, Haase, Evers and Boeger.

To see the bibliography for this entry, click on the Founding Fathers--Bibliography

We welcome any comments, questions and corrections. In accumulating this information we have found conflicting evidence. We have endeavored to use the most reliable sources available BUT we can not be sure we have all of the facts completely accurate. We need your help. More information from the families of these nine "Founding Fathers" would be of great value to this ongoing project in order to maintain accuracy. At this time, we are especially interested in photos, journals, letters, etc., which would describe the southeast corner of 22nd Street (Cermak) and Wolf Road in Hillside, prior to the 1860's. This will help us now, as we work on the restoration.

Please feel free to contact me at j.arbuthnot@sbcglobal.net. I will route your email through our other researchers.

The primary compiler of this information was Lana Gits with:

Jim Arbuthnot
Larry Godson
Drew Reaves
Patricia Reaves
Shirley Slanker

Last Modified: 10/06/2002