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  Maria
Emma (Kempker, Egolf) Hile was born on Saturday,
July 22, 1871 in New Germany (now Egg Harbor City), Buena Vista
Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey. She was
the daughter of
Elizabeth (Rehmann) and Albert Kempker, Sr.
On Sunday, July
3, 1892 at the age of 20, Maria married Edward
Egolf at St. James Lutheran Church in Folsom
Borough, Buena Vista Township. Edward, who was
born in Unterschefflenz in Baden, Germany on
November 11, 1866, died of tuberculosis about
six months later on January 22, 1893. They had
one child:
Edward Wilhelm Heinrich Egolf.
Maria married
Frederick Martin Hile on Saturday, June 25,
1898. She was 26 and was 33 at the time. They
were married at Zion's Reformed Lutheran Church
in Folsom Borough in Buena Vista Township. They
had five children.
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Esther W. (Hile) Caporale
(1899-1980)
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Cora Catherine Hile
(1901-1902)
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Frederick J. Hile
(1903-1966)
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Matilda Hile (1905-1905)
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Emanuel George Hile
(1911-1982)
In the 1900 and
1910 census reports, Maria and Frederick were
living on a farm on Folsom Road, Winslow
Township, Camden County, NJ with their children.
By 1920, 1930 and 1940 reports, they were living
on Mays Landing Road in Folsom Borough.
Maria died on
March 4, 1943 at the age of 71. She was buried
in the cemetery of Zion's Reformed Lutheran
Church in Folsom Borough, NJ.
Frederick Hile
was born on Saturday, May 13, 1865 in Winslow,
Camden County. He died circa 1954 at the age of
89 and is also buried in the cemetery of Zion's
Reformed Lutheran Church. In the 1940 census, he
was listed as a laborer in the gravel industry
making about $350 per year. |
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 In
the Rehmann Family many events since the mid-19th century
have occurred at two churches located at 1341 Mays Landing
Road in Folsom, New Jersey. (Some sources list the address
being in Hammonton, NJ.) There can be some confusion since
names of these churches are spelled in slightly different
ways depending on the date or the document.
Starting in 1848, the
original church was established as St Jacobus Lutheran
Church to serve the local German immigrants. It was located
on a 12 acre plot of land which included a cemetery.
In 1853, conflicts over
theological issues caused a split in the congregation. The
land was divided into two six acre sites and one was used to
construct what is now St James Lutheran Church, originally
St James Evangelical Church.
Charles Rehmann (1826-1892) was on the St. James
committee. A second facility called Zion
Evangelical & Reformed Church was founded at that time. It
is sometimes listed as Zion's or Zions.
About 1998 around the 150th
anniversary of the original church, the two congregations
reunited into St James Lutheran Church. The cemetery is
often referred to by either name, St. James or Zion. |
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