Source: “History of the Chapel of Uelde” by Maximilian Graskemper and his “Family-Tree: Family Graskemper-Juette Uelde.”
Theodore was a landowner and farmer. He died in 1879. His second daughter Augusta married in 1882 and died in 1883 in Barmen, Prussia; his widow died in 1887. Later in 1887 the family home burned down.
The oldest Siepen daughter, (Clara) Elisabeth, immigrated to Sarcoxie, Missouri in 1882 in a group that included her neighbor and future husband Joseph Graskemper as well as Henry Eickhoff. Henry later married Elisabeth’s sister Maria.
The four youngest Siepen children--Theodore, Maria Franziska, Anna and Maria--immigrated to Sarcoxie, Missouri in 1887.
Before leaving, the family property including the stables and remaining buildings were sold to another landowner, whose name was ... Ebbert-Henken. Later a group in Ulde purchased the part of the property that had included the house and the stables in order to build a chapel on the property. The chapel was built around 1905, allowing the nearby residents to attend church there rather than traveling the substantial distance to Mellrich.