David Wilhelm Erdmann Bullert

David Wilhelm Erdmann Bullert was the 5th and youngest child born to Erdmann Bullert and his second wife, Anna Dorothea Elisabeth Koernig, in Zempelburg, West Prussia. The Bullert family was Lutheran.

David's father, Erdmann Bullert, was a master carpenter and farmer in Zempelburg who died at age 62 of "nerve fever" (likely typhoid) on May 22, 1829 — when David was just 9 years old.

On September 4, 1843, at age 23, David married Rosa Seehafer. They would raise 12 children together.

In 1849, six years after his marriage to Rosa, David's mother, Dorothea (Koernig) Bullert, died. David was 29 years old.

At age 37, David and his family left their homeland in Zempelburg, Kreis Flatow, West Prussia, departing from Hamburg, Germany on the ship "Gulfstream", arriving in Quebec, Canada on May 1, 1857. It is unclear why they did not go directly to America (i.e., New York City), or when his family arrived in the United States, but likely they crossed the Canadian border into Minnesota soon after arriving in Canada.

By the 1870 U.S. census, David Wilhelm Erdmann Bullert and his family had settled not far from his cousin, Gottfried Bullert, in Green Isle Township, Sibley County, Minnesota, where he farmed 160 acres.

David died on February 25, 1887 at age 67 in Green Isle, Sibley, Minnesota. David and Rosa (Seehaver) Bullert are buried in Zion Lutheran Cemetery (Old), Green Isle, Sibley County, Minnesota.

• David Bullert — age 37
• Rosa (maiden Seehaver) — age 33, wife
• August — age 11, son
• Pauline — age 4, daughter
• Augusta — age 1½, daughter
• Justine — age 18, listed as "sister" (David had no sister by this name — likely Rosa Seehaver's sister)

David's older brother, Gottlieb Emanuel Bullert (1809–1870), wife Caroline (Ristau) (1813–unk) and four children arrived in New York City on December 11, 1853, settling in Jessenland, Sibley County, Minnesota to farm 160 acres — almost four years before David arrived.

David's cousin, Gottfried Bullert (1808–1885), had arrived 7 months before David. Gottfried and wife Dorothea (Jahns) (1811–1865) and their six children arrived in New York City on September 29, 1856, settling in Green Isle Township, Sibley County, Minnesota to farm 160 acres.

Together, these three grandsons of Daniel Buller — Gottlieb Emanuel, Gottfried, and David Wilhelm Erdmann — formed the nucleus of the Bullert family in America, all settling within a few miles of each other in Sibley County, Minnesota.

According to Eldrene (Zeigler) Ebert, researcher with the Sibley County Historical Society: "This is the original farmhouse in which David and Rosa (Seehaver) Bullert lived. It was located in Section 23 of Green Isle Township, Sibley County, Minnesota, just north of Schauer's Lake. It was probably built when David bought the land in 1866. The house was moved to Section 21 in 1874 when David got land there. In October 2001, the house was torn down by Donald Ziegler."

A photograph of the farmhouse was found in the possession of Violet Brockhoff (née Bullert). It was found in her parents' home (Ed and Alvina Bullert) on the bottom of a dresser drawer when her parents passed away. She had a copy made for Janice Lee at that time. Violet has since passed away and the whereabouts of the original photograph are unknown.

NOTE: In an August 22, 1926 Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN article, David Bullert's son was interviewed. Edward Julius Bullert, Sr. (1866-1941) stated that, in 1857, his father came from Germany and settled on a homestead claim, then in the heart of a forest. He built a log cabin and, before Edward's birth in 1866, built a larger home. This is the home pictured above. Son Edward lived in the same house where he was born for 74 years.