He was a fine cabinet maker. Had a strong, beautiful voice and sang in the German Evangelical Lutheran Church Choir. Was probably among the first trustees of the church when it was organized in 1860/61. He married Catherine Wilhelmina Sophie Geuer. There is a record of a marriage between them on 24 Dec 1857 in Boonville, Missouri. The marriage was performed by L. L. Greiner and witnessed by Philip Back and Dorthia Friedrich Back. My mother (Anna Nadine Back Stone) said they had been married in Germany in the spring of 1857. I found on the passenger list of the S. S. Johannesburg ‘Wilhelmine Back arrived in New Orleans on Feb-13-1857 on the ship S. S. Johannesburg’. I did not find Anton’s name. So they may have been married in the spring of 1856, and remarried in Boonville so thier children would be American Citizens.
Anton Peter Back made application for citizenship on July 17 1865. I did not find where he received his papers.
He died 3 Feb 1876 and is buried in the City Cemetery at Boonville, Mo.

Catheraine Wilhemina Sophia Geureer, was born in Hoechst, Nassau, Germany on 13-Feb-1828. Her father was Johnann Geuer, a bookbinder. He was a Catholic, born in Cologn, Germany. Her mother was Caroline Luise Muller, born in Berline and a Protestant. The name Johann was added at Baptism. The Goparent was Wilhelmina Klan of Rettert. After the death of Anton she returned to the Catholic Church and was a faithful and devoted member of the Church and the Sacred Heart Society. Her obituary says she was survived by a sister in Germany. She is buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery at Boonville, Missouri.1

During the Civil War, he was a member of Captain Eppstein’s Co. A. Boonville R. Corp. Reg’t, Mo. H. Q. Military Recrod said June 20, 1861. Wounded in Battle at Boonville, Mo. Mustered out 8 Dec 1862. Sick ever since.

Other family trees at ancestry.com give his birthplace as “Nassau, Deggendorf, Bayern, Germany” or “Roetert, Nassua, Germany” or “Rettert, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.”