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| 4951 | BIOGRAPHY: German Settlers, Florissant, MO: Ancestors and Descendants Entries: 15884 Updated: Tue Mar 26 06:41:09 2002 Russell Gaj russgaj@ix.netcom.com Father: Wilbert Charles BILLHARTZ b: 30 JUL 1882 Mother: Anna Thecla HORENKAMP b: 10 JUL 1903 in Florissant, St. Louis, MO sons: Wilbert, 6; Carl 4 5/12;Donald 2//12;Clarence 7/12 Victor E. "Vic" Billhartz Visitation - Thursday, September 1, 2005 from 4 PM to 9 PM Friday, September 2 from 8 AM to 9:30 AM Hempen Funeral Home - New Baden, IL Funeral Mass - Friday, September 2, 2005 - 10 AM St. George Catholic Church - New Baden, IL Victor E. "Vic" Billhartz, 96, of New Baden, IL, died Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at Clinton Manor Living Center, New Baden, IL. He was born on July 16, 1909 in Lookingglass Twp., IL son of William & Louise (Rickher) Billhartz. He married Loretta Schoendienst on October 20, 1937 in Damiansville, IL and she preceded him in death on April 30, 2005. Surviving are his children, Arnold "Roscoe" (Nancy) Billhartz of Trenton, IL, Elaine (Charles) Reiniger of Staunton, IL, Alice (Melvin) Toennies of Damiansville, IL, Victor "Vic" Jr. (Martha "Marti") Billhartz of Bowling Green, KY, Loretta Bair of New Baden, IL, Virginia "Ginny" (Tom) Oyen of Bellingham, WA, and Teresa "Terri" (Barry) Gross of Corpus Christi, TX; 21 Grandchildren, Karin Jansen, Kathy (fiance Roger Mouser)Billhartz, Kristine (Marty) Tebbe, Aimee (Jeff) Moynihan, Christopher (Michelle) Foppe, Marc Foppe, Tim (Melissa) Toennies, Andy Toennies and fiancée, Lisa, Jean (Tom) Docter, JoLynn (John)Wieter, Terese Toennies, Nicole (Mike) Koger, Eric (Janie) Billhartz, Carrie Billhartz, Linda Bair Flowers & fiancée Shawn, Patrick (Joni Sue) Bair, Brenda (Tony) Koverman, Johnny Bair, Jamie Dumstorff, Jessie Dumstorff and Seth Renspurger; Four Step-Grandchildren, Kimberly (Skip) Sprung, Karen (Todd) Badgley, Susan (Clark) Meadows & David Reiniger; 28 Great-Grandchildren, Megan, Allison, Haley, Abigail, Chase, Nicholas, Patrick, Christopher, Evan, Drew, Alayna, Jacob, Zachary, Joseph, Mason, Tyler, Shelby, Jacob, Colton, Colleen, Christopher, Brandon, Mary, Eli, Liam, Brittany, Sarah, & Opal; Six step Great-Grandchildren, Christine, Kyle, Kelly, Elle, Holly & Megan; a sister, Louise Heidemann of Germantown, IL; brothers-in-law & sisters-in-law, Andrew (Valeria) Schoendienst of O?Fallon, IL, Eugene "Micky" (Loretta "Toots") Schoendienst of Germantown, IL, Albert "Red" Schoendienst and Joe (Irene) Schoendienst all of St. Louis, MO; Lavita Schoendienst of St. Louis, MO, Stella Schoendienst Jeffries of Germantown, IL. In addition to his wife and his parents, he was preceded in death by two children, Mary Billhartz & Joseph Billhartz; two grandchildren, Kevin Billhartz and Glenn Allen Bair; two sons-in-law, Michael Bair and Robert "Bob" Foppe; six brothers, Franklin Billhartz, Wilbert Billhartz, Harry Billhartz, Edward Billhartz, Arnold Billhartz, Robert Billhartz; two sisters, Emila Robben & Mamie Peltes; sisters-in-law, Annie Billhartz, Agnes Billhartz , Clara Billhartz, Pauline Billhartz, & Mary Schoendienst; brothers-in-law, Gus Heidemann, George Robben & Anton Peltes, Elmer Schoendienst & Julius Schoendienst; Father-in-law & mother-in-law, Joseph and Mary (Schlarmann) Schoendienst. He was a retired farmer & worked at Maria DeVilla in St. Louis, was a member of St. George Parish and Men?s Club in New Baden, Honorary Member Knights of Columbus, Mascoutah Moose Lodge, Clinton County Farm Bureau, & Laborers Local 459, Belleville. Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday, September 2, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. at St. George Church in New Baden, IL with Rev. Donald Blaes officiating. Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery in New Baden, IL. Friends may call on Thursday, September 1, 2005 from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. and Friday, September 2, from 8 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. at Hempen Funeral Home in New Baden, IL. There will be a prayer service at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home. Loretta A. Billhartz Visitation - Monday, May 2 from 4-9 PM Tuesday, May 3 from 8-10:45AM Hempen Funeral Home - New Baden, IL Service - Tuesday, May 3 11:15 AM St. George Catholic Church - New Baden, IL Loretta A. Billhartz, 89, of New Baden, IL, died Saturday, April 30, 2005 at Clinton Manor Living Center, New Baden, IL. She was born on Nov. 25, 1915 in Germantown, IL daughter of Joseph and Mary (Schlarmann) Schoendienst. She married Victor E. ?Vic? Billhartz, Sr. on October 20, 1937 (celebrated 67 years) in Damiansville, IL and he survives. Surviving are her children, Arnold ?Roscoe? (Nancy) Billhartz of Trenton, IL, Elaine (Charles) Reiniger of Staunton, IL, Alice (Melvin) Toennies of Damiansville, IL, Victor ?Vic? Jr. (Martha ?Marti?) Billhartz of Bowling Green, KY, Loretta Bair of New Baden, IL, Virginia ?Ginny? (Tom) Oyen of Bellingham, WA, and Teresa ?Terri? (Barry) Gross of Corpus Christi, TX; 21 Grandchildren, Karin Jansen, Kathy Billhartz, Kristine (Marty) Tebbe, Aimee (Jeff) Moynihan, Christopher (Michelle) Foppe, Marc Foppe, Tim (Melissa) Toennies, Andy Toennies and fiancée, Lisa, Jean (Tom) Docter, JoLynn (John)Wieter, Terese Toennies, Nicole (Mike) Koger, Eric (Janie) Billhartz, Carrie Billhartz, Linda Bair Flowers & fiancée Shawn, Patrick (Joni Sue) Bair, Brenda (Tony) Koverman, Johnny Bair, Jamie Dumstorff, Jessie Dumstorff and Seth Renspurger; Four Step-Grandchildren, Kimberly (Skip) Sprung, Karen (Todd) Badgley, Susan (Clark) Meadows & David Reiniger; 28 Great-Grandchildren, Megan, Allison, Haley, Abigail, Chase, Nicholas, Patrick, Christopher, Evan, Drew, Alayna, Jacob, Zachary, Joseph, Mason, Tyler, Shelby, Jacob, Colton, Colleen, Christopher, Brandon, Mary, Eli, Liam, Brittany, Sarah, & Opal; Six step Great-Grandchildren, Christine, Kyle, Kelly, Elle, Holly & Megan; Four Brothers, Andrew (Valeria) Schoendienst of O?Fallon, IL, Eugene ?Micky? (Loretta ?Toots?) Schoendienst of Germantown, IL, Albert ?Red? Schoendienst and Joe (Irene) Schoendienst all of St. Louis, MO; sisters-in-law, Lavita Schoendienst of St. Louis, MO, Stella Schoendienst of Germantown, IL, & Louise Heidemann of Germantown, IL.She was preceded in death by her parents, two children, Mary Billhartz & Joseph Billhartz; two grandchildren, Kevin Billhartz and Glenn Allen Bair; two sons-in-law, Michael Bair and Robert ?Bob? Foppe; two brothers, Elmer Schoendienst & Julius Schoendienst; Father-in-law & mother-in-law, William & Louise (Rickher) Billhartz; Brothers-in-law & Sisters-in-law, Mary Schoendienst, Wilbert & Annie Billhartz, Harry & Agnes Billhartz , Emila & George Robben, Edward & Clara Billhartz, Arnold Billhartz, Robert Billhartz, Franklin & Pauline Billhartz, Mamie & Anton Peltes, & Gus Heidemann.She was a homemaker and member of St. George Parish and Ladies Sodality, the American Legion Post 321 Auxiliary, Mascoutah Moose Auxiliary and the Daughters of Isabella Circle 718.Friends may call on Monday, May 2, 2005 from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. and Tuesday, May 3, from 8 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. at Hempen Funeral Home in New Baden, IL. There will be a prayer service at 6 p.m. and the American Legion Auxiliary will visit at 7 p.m. on Monday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Heartland Hospice of Fairview Heights and Clinton Manor Activity Fund.Mass of Christian burial will be held Tuesday, May 3, 2005 at 11:15 a.m. at St. George Church in New Baden, IL with Rev. Donald Blaes officiating. Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery in New Baden, Il. Paul W. Billhartz Visitation - Sunday - January 1, 2006 from 4 PM to 8 PM Monday - January 2 from 11 AM to 12:30 PM Hempen Funeral Home - New Baden, IL Funeral Mass - Monday, January 2 at 1:00 PM St. George Catholic Church - New Baden, IL Paul W. Billhartz, 81, of Fairview Heights, Ill. died Friday, December 30, 2005 at Clinton Manor Living Center in New Baden, Ill. He was born on September 4, 1924 in New Baden son of Harry F. and Agnes L. (Griesbaum) Billhartz. He is survived by two brothers, Vincent Billhartz of New Baden, and Denis (Dorothy Salustro) Billhartz of New Baden; seven sisters, Elizabeth Haas of Mascoutah, Mary Becherer and husband Norman of Mascoutah, Margaret Reinhardt and husband Virgil of Belleville, Catherine Lanter of Mascoutah, Veronica Wright and husband Harold of Belleville, Agnes Buechler and husband Clinton of Swansea, and Mary Ann Krohne and husband James of Okawville. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers-in-law, Rich Haas and George Lanter and a nephew, Billy Buechler. Mr. Billhartz was retired from Monsanto in Sauget, Ill. He was a veteran of the United States Navy, serving during WWII in the Pacific Theatre. He was a member of St. Albert the Great Church in Fairview Heights and the American Legion Post 321 in New Baden. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, January 2, 2006 at St. George Church in New Baden with Msgr. Donald Eichenseer officiating. Burial will follow at Resurrection Cemetery, New Baden. Friends may call from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Sunday, January 1, 2006 and from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. on Monday January 2, 2006 at Hempen Funeral Home in New Baden. There will be a parish prayer service at 6 PM and an American Legion service at 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the donor?s choice and will be received at the funeral home. | Billhartz, Wilbert F. (I10798)
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| 4952 | BIOGRAPHY: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~powellferry/powell/g0000077.htm#I0252 Gay Mathis igm2002@bellsouth.net Obion Co TN Branches & Twigs BURIAL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mopemis2/cemeteries/littleprairiecem.htm Powell, Emma Mary Huntley Jan 5, 1867 - Nov 9, 1931, wife of T. Cole Powell | Huntley, Emma Mary (I5506)
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| 4953 | BIOGRAPHY: http://www.itcs.uiuc.edu/users/beaumont/PFRAME.HTM It seems that Joseph Plogmann, born April 30, 1881, was close to his cousin, Charles Marxer, born April 29, 1884. There were born on almost the same day of the year but three years apart. They worked on the same threshing crew as young men. And Joseph was Charles' best man when he married Mary Ehrstein. Mary's sister, Mathilda Ehrstein, was her maid of honor, and this is likely how Joseph and Mathilda met. Charles and Mary were married, a few years later Joseph and Mathilda were married. It is also interesting to note that George Ehrstein, Mathilda's brother, was Joseph's best man and Mary Plogmann, Joseph's sister, was Mathilda's maid of honor. Joseph and Mathilda's wedding announcement said, "Mr. Plogmann is owner of a grocery store at 39 South 16th Street, St. Louis, where they will reside." Millstadt Enterprise, September 6, 1911. The St. Louis City Hall is located in the 1200 block of Market Street, the Court House in the 1300 block, and Union Station in the 1800 and 1900 blocks. In between were smaller commercial sites. Market Street divides the city north and south, so 39 S. 16th Street would have been in the first block south off Market Street on the north side of the street. Other businesses in this block included Daniel Russell, lodging, Anton Georgevich, barber, and the Johnson Hotel, and Crane Plumbing on the south side of the street. The Plogmann Grocery store was listed in Gould's Redbook for the City of St. Louis for 1914, but not in the directory for 1915. Retail businesses continued to be listed in this area in the directory for 1921, so development does not seem to have been a factor in their business closing sometime late in 1914 or early 1915. On April 5, 1914, the Millstadt Enterprise reported that Mrs. Joseph Plogmann had left Sunday with her baby (Irma) to return home to St. Louis. This suggests that the grocery store was still in business at this time and that Irma was born in St. Louis. Another Millstadt Enterprise article announced that "Joe Plogmann and family moved into a house of Jacob Hofsetter which was vacated by Professor Pierce and family on Monday (March 19, 1915). I believe this is the point at which the grocery store was lost and Joseph and Mathilda moved back to Millstadt. The grocery business, at this time, was on the cusp of dramatic changes. In 1912, general inflation and high food costs were an issue in the presidential campaign. Also, grocery store chains started their proliferation. For instance, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company or A&P literally exploded in size between 1912 and 1927 from 480 stores to 15,000 stores. The company outraced all its competitors spreading its low-price, standardized retailing concept across America under the banner of "A&P Where Economy Rules." One cash register, a scale, and a small refrigerator were installed at each location with shelving predetermined to display 300 standard grocery items.5 "In those days, we spoke only German. It was really what everyone spoke, although most people could also speak English. I remember pointing to household objects such as a chair and asking, 'Was ist dieses?' And Mom and Dad would say, 'That's a chair,'" said Irma. German immigrants settled in communities where Germans banded together to create an ethnic enclave, striving to preserve their old-world culture. They were strangers in a strange land, awkwardly suspended between the world they had left behind and a world where they were not yet fully at home. Naturally, they looked to one another for reassurance and strength. They shopped at stores and patronized banks that exclusively catered to them. They prayed in churches where sermons were preached in German. And they joined fraternal organizations to keep alive the old traditions. Millstadt, Belleville, and certain neighborhoods in St. Louis certainly fit this description. The transition from German to English in these areas typically began around the time of America's entry into World War I and a subsequent wave of anti-German hysteria. For instance, parishes began to offer services in English once a week. Then, by the mid-1920s, some switched their parish records to English. German persisted in churches until World War II, but increasingly, services were held in English.2 Joseph found work in a Belleville coal mine later in 1915 so the family moved there, where Eleanor (1919), Helen (1921) and Babe (1925) were born. Irma remembered moving first to "B" Street, then winding up at 44 N. Missouri Ave. off of E. Main St. Irma mentioned that her father was out of work more than at work in the coal mine because of union activity and poor economic times for coal mines. Of course, coal mining was a precarious and pervasively insecure way of life, especially at this point in time. For nearly two centuries, coal had been the basic fuel powering the global industrial revolution, but even before World War I the coal-era was on the wane. Diesel engines had replaced coal-fired boilers. Coal bins were disappearing from basements as Americans abandoned smudgy coal furnaces for clean-burning gas, oil, or electricity. Plagued by competition from these new energy sources, especially the recently tapped oil fields in southern California, Oklahoma, and Texas, coal displayed through the 1920s all the classical symptoms of a sick industry: shrinking demand, excess supply, chaotic disorganization, cutthroat competition, and hellish punishment for workers. The Great Depression of the 1930s exacerbated this already calamitous cycle. Operators fought more savagely than ever to stay alive by cutting prices and pay checks. At one point some of them even begged the government to buy them out. Coal that had fetched up to $4 a ton in the mid-1920s sold for $1-3 a ton in 1932. Miners who had earned seven dollars a day before the Crash now begged the pit-boss for the chance to squirm into thirty-inch coal seams for as little as one dollar. Men who had once loaded tons of coal per day grubbed around the base of the tipple for a few lumps of fuel to heat a meager supper.1 The Plogmann family broke up sometime between 1930 and 1932 in the depths of the Great Depression. Irma recalled that the Depression had a definite affect on their home life. As with the majority of the nation, the Plogmanns had very little money and were living hand to mouth. They wouldn't have lost any money when the stock market crashed or when many banks failed. They didn't have any to lose. Irma said, "There were a lot of small children and not much work or money." "It wasn't all bad though. I remember being Dad's buddy when I was little. He would sharpen blades in the backyard, and he'd sing. I remember some good things about him that the younger girls wouldn't have experienced because he kept getting worse. The final straw was one day when I walked in the front door and an iron flew through the air hitting me in the chest. Mom went berserk. It could have killed either one of us. A neighbor told us to get out before someone is killed. He was always out of work, and he made homebrew, and drank too much. In fact, he went into debt buying supplies to make beer and Mom had to pay that off after we left. If Mom asked him to move so she could wash up the floor, he would get mad. He just sat brooding and drinking." On Missouri Avenue, Helen remembered Grandmother Lena visiting at times and giving them each a penny. "Sometimes we'd ride the streetcar to St. Louis, and all the girls would get sick. Mom would give us each a penny to hold, hoping that would take our minds off the motion of the streetcar. Eleanor told a story about me holding my breath to get my way, and Mom telling her to take me out on the porch for air." "Mom raised a garden for food and took in wash to earn money. This was all done with a hand washer and ringer. In the winter, wash hung all over the house when it was too cold to hang it outside," said Irma. At some point, Joseph found work at a foundry. Irma recalled that he was a "shaker outer," separating iron from the coal embers. This is near the time Mathilda left him. Helen remembered going to visit him at work. They could have been visiting to simply take him a meal, or this could have been a more serious meeting about the separation. In the end, Helen remembered secretly moving to a small, two-room "apartment" in a lady's home on "D" street to get away from Joseph. "He was getting mean. Mom was afraid of him. One night there was a knock on the door and she was scared to open it in case it was Joseph. But it turned out to be another "drunk" who had come to the wrong door," she said. "We were scared when we met him on the street. It was a bad time and we really didn't know where he lived after we moved out. When we moved out, I was a teenager and a friend helped me find an office job at Eagle Foundry," Irma said. A 1931 telephone directory lists Joseph as employed by the Excelsior Foundry and living near the L&N Railroad line and Carlyle Avenue. This would have been the Missouri Avenue address in East Belleville. The Excelsior Foundry Co. still exists at 1123 East B Street in Belleville. The Plogmann family breakup occurred in the midst of an unprecedented national calamity, the Great Depression, which followed a decade of stagnation in agriculture, flattening sales in the automobile and housing markets, the piratical abuses on Wall Street and the October 1929 stock market crash, the woes of the anarchic banking system, and the chaos in Europe resulting from the aftermath of World War I. At first, the crash of the nation's stock market only affected a small minority of people and in Belleville it probably seemed like an event that was far away and of little consequence. But it ultimately led to a total breakdown of financial markets. 1933 was the nadir of the Great Depression. In the country, unmarketable crops rotted in fields and unsaleable livestock died on the hoof. In towns and cities, haggard men in shabby overcoats, collars turned up against the chill wind, newspapers plugging the holes in their shoes, lined up glumly for handouts at soup kitchens. Tens of thousands of displaced workers took to the road, while those who stayed put took in their jobless relatives, kited the grocery bills at the corner store, patched their old clothes, darned and re-darned their socks, trying to shore up some fragments of hope. Unemployed men skulked at home while their wives and children scrounged what work they could find. Traditional patterns of family authority and status eroded. A Polish woman told a social worker in Chicago that, because she had been working for four years while her husband was jobless, "I am the boss in the family for I have full charge in running this house. You know, who makes the money is the boss." Roughly half of all workers did not have jobs and those who did have jobs found themselves working for smaller paychecks. The country had never before known unemployment of this magnitude or duration, and there was no mechanism to combat the mass destitution either. Unemployment powerfully rearranged the psychological geometry of families. One Chicagoan later reflected about his Depression-era childhood, "A common feeling was one of your father's failure." "Before the depression," one jobless father told an interviewer, "I wore the pants in this family, and rightly so. During the depression, I lost something. Maybe you call it self-respect but in losing it I also lost the respect of my children, and I am afraid that I am losing my wife." "There certainly was a change in our family," said another victim of unemployment. "I relinquished power in the family." Said another, "'It's only natural. When a father cannot support his family, supply them with clothing and good food, the children are bound to lose respect. When they see me hanging around the house all the time and know that I can't find work, it has its effect all right." Harry Hopkins, federal relief administrator under Franklin Roosevelt, saw the Depression as a social disaster. "Three or four million heads of families don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight," he said, "nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime. They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they aren't any lazier than the rest of us. And, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin."1 Different people suffered and coped according to their own peculiar circumstances, but most everyone was unhappy during the Great Depression. Obviously, many families stayed together, but others broke apart. Such was the case with the Plogmanns. After the breakup, Mathilda moved the family to Millstadt. This took place the year Helen entered high school, about 1935-6. They moved into a house owned by Mary Marxer, nee Ehrstein. Mathilda found work in a garment factory that made underwear. Dorothy, Eleanor, and Helen each worked there when they reached the age of sixteen. Irma continued to work in Belleville, and Babe found a job at a Belleville foundry when she turned sixteen. Helen remembers welding smokescreen machines in a Belleville foundry during World War II. Mathilda's daughters recall that she worked as a nanny at the Halladay House in Cairo, Illinois when she was young. After the war, she worked in a dress factory in St. Louis. In fact, her obituary says that she belonged to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, local 182. The Women's Garment Workers, by L. L. Lorwin, described how this labor union formed in 1900 by the amalgamation of seven local unions. In New York, Communists drove for control of the union during the 1920s, but were defeated by moderates under the leadership of David Dubinsky. Although the struggle seriously hurt the ILGWU, the union benefitted by the labor policies of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and membership rose to 300,000 in 1942. In 1937 the ILGWU briefly joined the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); it then temporarily became an independent union and finally rejoined the AFL in 1940. Under the presidency of David Dubinsky, the ILGWU grew into one of the nation's most powerful and progressive unions, with a wide range of member benefits. Women made up about 18 percent of all workers in 1900 and 22 percent in 1930. The typical woman worker was single and under the age of twenty-five. She worked in a small handful of occupations including teaching, clerical work, domestic service, and the garment trade. Once she married, as almost every woman did, typically before the age of twenty-two, she was unlikely to work again for wages, particularly while she had children at home. Only one mother in ten worked outside the home, and the numbers of older women workers, with or without children, were few. Even in this late phase of the industrial era, the traditional division of family labor that the industrial revolution had introduced a century earlier -- a husband working for wages outside the home, and a wife working without wages within it -- still held powerful sway in American culture. Yet traditional definitions of the family, and of women's place within it, were weakening. Married women might remain a distinct minority of all women workers, but their numbers were rapidly increasing. Well before the century's midpoint, the dynamic changes in women's employment patterns that would transform the very fabric of family life by the century's end were already visible. Other evidences of changes in women's status were more immediately apparent. The legendary "flapper" made her debut in the postwar decade, signaling with studied theatrical flourishes a new ethos of feminine freedom and sexual parity. The Nineteenth Amendment, enacted just in time for the 1920 presidential election, gave women at least formal political equality. The Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed by Alice Paul of the National Women's Party in 1923, sought to guarantee full social and economic participation to women.1 I remember Mathilda as quiet and modest, but as I finish this family history, I have come to realize just how remarkable she was, embodying many of the positive cultural traits of the German Catholics who emigrated to the United States. To me, it took great courage to leave an abusive husband, especially in the 1930s. She was always a hard worker, living a simple and plain life by necessity and design, being frugal and adaptive simply to keep her family in food and clothing during the Great Depression. It's funny, but I can still remember her laugh and the wonderful caramel rolls she made from scratch without a recipe each time she visited our home. As for Joseph, he died on September 27, 1950 at the age of 69. His death certificate says that he died of cerebral hemorrhage and arteriosclerosis in the St. Clair County Home and Hospital and that he was a coal miner. His Social Security number is 328-03-8466, and he is buried in the St. Clair County pauper's cemetery just off Old Caseyville Road near the new Metro line. There are no names on the simple, stone markers, and many of these markers have been disturbed. : | Plogmann, Joseph Lawrence (I2355)
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| 4954 | BIOGRAPHY: http://www.roxheim.de/1_start.asp?sub=4 Die napoleonische Zeit brachte für die Gebiete auf dem linken Rheinufer eine 20-jährige Zugehörigkeit zu Frankreich. Roxheim lag in der Mairie Mandel im Canton Creuznach, das wiederum zum Arrondissement Simmern im Rhein-Mosel-Departement gehörte. Der Wiener Kongreß (1814/15) zog einen Schlussstrich unter die Folge der napoleonischen Kriege mit europaweit bedeutenden territorialen Veränderungen. Preußen bekam große Teile des linken Rheinufers zugesprochen. Roxheim befand sich in dem am 14.05.1816 gebildeten preußischen Kreis Kreuznach und bildete zusammen mit Mandel, Braunweiler, Gutenberg, Hargesheim, Rüdesheim und St. Katharinen die Bürgermeisterei Mandel. Schon 1820 zeichnete sich eine Verwaltungsänderung ab, indem die beiden Bürgermeistereien Mandel und Hüffelsheim (mit Hüffelsheim, Münster am Stein, Niederhausen, Norheim, Traisen, Weinsheim) zu einer Bürgermeisterei Hüffelsheim-Mandel zusammengefasst wurden. Lag der Verwaltungssitz zunächst in Weinsheim, so wurde er 1853 nach Rüdesheim verlegt. An dieser Verwaltungszugehörigkeit änderte sich, abgesehen vom Ausscheiden von Bad Münster am Stein im Jahre 1912, bis zur rheinland-pfälzischen Kommualreform 1969/70 wenig. http://www.bobenheim-roxheim.de/gemeinde/geschichte.htm Bobenheim-Roxheim - aus der Geschichte einer Gemeinde Bobenheim-Roxheim, in unmittelbarer Nähe zu Worms gelegen, das im Mittelalter zu den machtvollen politischen Mittelpunkten der deutschen Kaiser zählte, hat eine weit zurückreichende Geschichte - wenn auch nicht als Gesamtgemeinde, die erst seit dem 7. Juni 1969 besteht. Die beiden früheren Gemeinden Bobenheim am Rhein und Roxheim / Pfalz, aus denen die Großgemeinde gebildet wurde, können indes auf nahezu anderthalb Jahrtausende zurückblicken. BIOGRAPHY: From: "Kathy & Gary Ferrari" Here is some more information for those of you compiling records on the Reeb's of St. Clair County, IL. Andrew Reeb: >From the "Belleville Weekly Advocate" dated Friday, April 4, 1873: "A sad case of smallpox ravage occurred in the southern part of this city on last Monday. Mr. Andrew Reeb, and one of his children both died, after a painful siege of the loathsome disease." Nicholas Reeb: >From the "Belleville Daily Advocate" dated Aug. 19, 1898: "Mr. Nicholas Reeb, a resident of Belleville since 1855, died Monday morning at his residence, 341 Centerville Avenue, after a long illness, aged 59 years. The deceased was a native of Germany, and was born in Roxheim, near Kreuznach, January 10, 1839. He came to America with his parents in 1855, coming direct to Belleville, and has resided here ever since. He was married on September 8, 1859 to Miss Katharine Ehrstein, who survives him. For several years he followed the vocation of a coal miner, and afterwards engaged in brick making, which he carried on for a long time, but of late years he has been engaged in the saloon business. He was a member of the city council in 1887, representing the Fourth Ward. Besides his widow, he leaves the following children: Phillip, John, Peter, Jacob, Mary, and Adolph Reeb, all residing here; also his brother, Peter Reeb, residing in the West End, and one sister, Mrs. Elizabe! th Helbrueck, of East St. Louis. The funeral took place Wednesday morning from the residence to Green Mount Cemetery. Please note that I do have a copy of his marriage certificate, and the date is Sept. 8, 1861. The date of death on his will is Aug. 15, 1898. The Naturalization Index of St. Clair County also shows the date as August 1853. I hope to find records to clarify this last discrepancy. Mary Fricke (mother of Catherine Magdalena--Jacob Reeb's wife whom he married in 1897): >From the "Belleville Daily Advocate" March 15, 1927: "Mrs. Mary Fricke, nee Bertelsman, widow of Theodore Fricke, died Monday night at 8 o'clock at her home, 314 East Eleventh Street, after a lingering illness, aged 76 years, 2 months, and 12 days. The deceased was born in St. Louis January 2, 1849, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bertelsman and married Theodore Fricke, who preceded her in death. She is survived by the following children: Mrs. Lena Reeb and Rudolph Roth of this city; Frank and Joseph Fricke of St. Louis; also a brother, John H. Bertelsman. The funeral will be held Thursday Morning at 9 o'clock from the Gaerdner Chapel to St. Peter's Cathedral and Green Mount Cemetery. Kathy Ferrari BIOGRAPHY: http://www.reeb.org/rfa/north_america2.htm Nicolaus Reeb, Elisabetha, Peter 1839, 1836 & 186? 1856 Roxheim, Rhineland, Ger. Belleville, St. Clair Co., IL BIOGRAPHY: http://www.reeb.org/rfa/Military.htm Nicholas 17 Apr 1861 B 9 IL Inf. Private Illinois Catharine Reeb BIOGRAPHY: Additional information, including photographs and documents are posted on my web site at: ?www.FamilytreeHeritageLibrary.com? Entries: 44884 Updated: 2005-06-15 22:03:17 UTC (Wed) Contact: Leah Pearson and her family at email: geofiles@aol.com BIOGRAPHY: Dressel - Fitzgerald Entries: 471 Updated: Sat Feb 23 01:18:28 2002 Contact: Mark Dressel dresselp@msn.com Father: Philipp Michael REEB b: Abt 1800 in Weinsheim,Germany Mother: Elisabeth FRANZ b: Abt 1816 in Germany | Reeb, Nicolaus (I18922)
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| 4955 | BIOGRAPHY: http://www.washcowis.com/grps0014.html Goetz, Jacob - born 1815, married Margaret S., 9 children from 1841 to 1854 | Goetz, Georg Jakob Götz (I7393)
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| 4956 | BIOGRAPHY: MARXER http://www.itcs.uiuc.edu/users/beaumont/Marxer.htm The first of our ancestors to come to America were the Marxers. In 1845, they emigrated from Altenheim, North Alsace, Canton Zaborn (48 43'N, 7 50'E). Altenheim is just 50 kilometers south of Birkenhordt, where the Ehrstein family originated, and 60 kilometers south of Hambach, where the Stoeckels originated. The close proximity of these towns illustrates how similar the economic conditions might have been for the families who were deciding to emigrate. Germans actually predominated in this region of France. Ninety-nine percent of the inhabitants spoke German in the 1800s, so their cultural heritage approximates the heritage of their countrymen across the Rhine River. Also, since Altenheim was just 25 miles from Strasbourg, it must have had a relationship much like Millstadt and St. Louis, especially in the 1840s. CENSUS: 1900: Name: Charles Marxer Home in 1900: Millstadt, St Clair, Illinois Age: 16 Estimated birth year: 1884 Birthplace: Illinois Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Son MILITARY: World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Record about Charles Lorenz Marxer Name: Charles Lorenz Marxer City: Not Stated County: St Clair State: Illinois Birth Date: 29 Apr 1884 Race: White Roll: 1614579 DraftBoard: 1 CENSUS: 1920: Name: Chas L Marxer Age: 35 years Estimated birth year: 1884 Birthplace: Illinois Race: White Home in 1920: Millstadt, St Clair, Illinois Roll: T625_403 Page: 4A ED: 202 Image: 1121 | Marxer, Charles Lorenz (I2354)
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| 4957 | BIOGRAPHY: Occupation: Owned mattress factory, Miller at time of marriage Sponsors at baptism: Andreas Wegman of Central St. and M. Magd. Wegman of Clinton St. Buried in Holy Sepulchre. Buried with Ida his wife and three stillborn children Clerk in store in 1880 census Holy Sepulchre Cemetery is located at 2461 Lake Avenue in Rochester about ½ mile north of Ridge Road. It was begun in September 1871 in order have a common place for Catholics to be buried in Rochester. Before this there were a few small Catholic cemeteries around Rochester. The oldest part of Holy Sepulchre is the lots on the east side of Lake Avenue. These tombstone records include some reburials from the older cemeteries. The earliest book of burials has been filmed. It covers the period of September 18, 1971 to Dec. 31, 1910. A copied of the film has been placed in the Lorette Wilmot Library of Nazareth College (Pittsford, NY). A copy of this film may also be rented from LDS Family History Libraries around the world. Ask for film #1,430,999. These burial records include: date of death, date of interment, place of death, parish, nativity, cause of death, grave location. A few years ago, the office at Holy Sepulchre put their records on a computer, the best part is that you can give them a name and not only can they tell where they are buried but they can also tell you who else is buried in the family lot. BURIAL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nymonroe/cem/holy3e.htm Adjacent cemetary plot? Joseph, d March 15, 1871 at 39 years. Ann, wife of Joseph d. Oct. 18, 1883 at 60 y. John F, died April 25, 1872 at 19 years | Wegman, William John (I4966)
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| 4958 | BIOGRAPHY: Pfeiffenberger, Philip and Julia G. - Golden Wedding, 1920's | Pfeifenberger, Philipp (I13286)
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| 4959 | BIOGRAPHY: Submitter: Ardis Pierce Subject: Kate A. Firestone Message: Kate A. Firestone - St. Petersburg, Fla, Formerly of Allegan, Age 93, passed away Friday, Sept. 1, 1972, in St. Petersburg. Born in Allegan, May 16, 1879 and resided here most of her life until the death of her husband, Claud E. Firestone, at which time she moved to Florida to live with a niece, Mrs. Kathryn Hill. Mrs. Firestone?s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Bourne Bassett were among Allegan?s early settlers, coming here from Massachusetts in 1846. Her parents were the late Judge and Mrs. Dan Arnold. Mrs. Firestone was active in many community and church affairs. She was a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd. Survived by: a nephew, George Arnold of Battle Creek; four nieces, Mrs. Dorothy Arnold Wegman of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., Mrs. Frances Arnold Gwyer of Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., Mrs. Arlene Arnold Pendergast of South Yarra, Australia, Mrs. Kathryn Hill of St. Petersburg, Fla.; also survived by many grand and great-grandnieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Nyberg Funeral Home after noon on Monday. Graveside services will be held at Oakwood Cemetery at 1 o?clock on Tuesday. source: Kalamazoo Gazette Sat 2 Sep 1972 (submitted by volunteer, not a family member) DEATH: Florida Death Index, 1994-95 Name: Dorothy Arnold Wegman Certificate: 31253 Place: Martin Race: W Death Date: 06 Mar 1995 Birth Date: 01 Sep 1903 | Arnold, Dorothea A. (I8329)
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| 4960 | BIOGRAPHY: Username : dbock Name : Didier BOCK Location : 29 ALLEE DU BOIS DE LA TAILLETTE - 95180 - MENUCOURT - France Language : French Email Address : dbock@free.fr Last update : 05/16/2008 BIOGRAPHY: * Username : dbock * Name : Didier BOCK * Location : 29 ALLEE DU BOIS DE LA TAILLETTE - 95180 - MENUCOURT - France * Language : French * Email Address : email du contact dbock@free.fr * Last update : 01/24/2009 * Last login : 12/21/2008 | Walther, Georges (I67402)
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| 4961 | BIOGRAPHY: Username : dbock Name : Didier BOCK Location : 29 ALLEE DU BOIS DE LA TAILLETTE - 95180 - MENUCOURT - France Language : French Email Address : dbock@free.fr Last update : 05/16/2008 http://gw.geneanet.org/jytoto?lang=en;pz=cedric;nz=thomas;ocz=0;p=joseph;n=fabacher;oc=4 | Fabacher, Georges (I54547)
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| 4962 | BIOGRAPHY: Username : dbock Name : Didier BOCK Location : 29 ALLEE DU BOIS DE LA TAILLETTE - 95180 - MENUCOURT - France Language : French Email Address : dbock@free.fr Last update : 05/16/2008 | Braun, Katharina (I64823)
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| 4967 | BIOGRAPHY: Username : dbock Name : Didier BOCK Location : 29 ALLEE DU BOIS DE LA TAILLETTE - 95180 - MENUCOURT - France Language : French Email Address : dbock@free.fr Last update : 05/16/2008 | Walther, Emile (I67390)
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| 4968 | BIOGRAPHY: Username : dbock Name : Didier BOCK Location : 29 ALLEE DU BOIS DE LA TAILLETTE - 95180 - MENUCOURT - France Language : French Email Address : dbock@free.fr Last update : 05/16/2008 | Kiefer, Magdalena (I67391)
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| 4969 | BIOGRAPHY: Username : dbock Name : Didier BOCK Location : 29 ALLEE DU BOIS DE LA TAILLETTE - 95180 - MENUCOURT - France Language : French Email Address : dbock@free.fr Last update : 05/16/2008 | Walther, Georges (I67392)
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| 4970 | BIOGRAPHY: Username : dbock Name : Didier BOCK Location : 29 ALLEE DU BOIS DE LA TAILLETTE - 95180 - MENUCOURT - France Language : French Email Address : dbock@free.fr Last update : 05/16/2008 | Weltz, Maria (I67393)
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| 4971 | BIOGRAPHY: Username : dbock Name : Didier BOCK Location : 29 ALLEE DU BOIS DE LA TAILLETTE - 95180 - MENUCOURT - France Language : French Email Address : dbock@free.fr Last update : 05/16/2008 | Junck, Barbe (I67403)
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| 4972 | BIOGRAPHY: Winters Family ?????? Entries: 6845 Updated: 2004-12-26 02:49:37 UTC (Sun) ID: I568289373 Name: John Matyias HAMMER Given Name: John Matyias Surname: Hammer Sex: M Birth: Abt 1855 Note: REFN: 5830 Marriage 1 Sarah Ann WYSONG b: 16 Oct 1856 in Wells County,Indiana Married: 14 Dec 1879 in Wabash County,Indiana Note: REFN43925 Name: Sarah Ann WYSONG Given Name: Sarah Ann Surname: Wysong Sex: F Birth: 16 Oct 1856 in Wells County,Indiana Death: 15 Jan 1941 in Kewanee,Henry County,Illi. Note: REFN: 5823 Father: Jacob Ambrose WYSONG b: 24 Jul 1827 in Perry Township,Montgomery County,Ohio Mother: Rebecca Elizabeth EUBANK b: 11 Jul 1829 in Montgomery County,Ohio | Hammer, John Matthias (I13847)
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| 4973 | BIOGRAPHY: Kimmle Entries: 316 Updated: 2006-12-03 00:47:59 UTC (Sun) Contact: Scott Kimmle matriks7@yahoo.com | Kärcher, Susanna (I4130)
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| 4974 | BIOGRAPHY: Leigh Morris Genealogy Entries: 6815 Updated: Sat Aug 25 16:14:06 2001 Contact: Leigh Morris lmorris@csinet.net Frank C. Hoffelder One of the native sons of DeKalb county who has remained and made a success of life right here in his own community rather than being lured away to some distant locality by the 'wanderlust spirit', there to seek an uncertain fortune amid environment, is Frank C. Hoffelder, a farmer of Smithfield township. He has worked hard for what he has and his deserving of the competence and the valuable property that are today his. Frank C. Hoffelder was born on April 3, 1874, on the old home farm of his parents east of St. Michael?s church in Smithfield township, DeKalb county, Indiana. His parents were John and Frances (Miller) Hoffelder, long prominent and successful residents of this locality and who reared their families to lives of respectability and honor in their respective communities. Frank C. Hoffelder spent most of his life until his marriage on the home place until, when about twenty-two years old, he worked for about sixteen months in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad shops in Garrett, and was also employed on a farm near Traverse City, Michigan, about three years. In the fall of 1902 Mr. Hoffelder bought eighty acres of land in section 3, and the lady who afterwards became his wife bought eighty acres adjoining. In June of the following year they were married and immediately located on the subject's farm and began the task of clearing the land and putting it under cultivation. Louisa Dapp, who became Mr. Hoffelder's wife, was a daughter of Alois Dapp and a sister of Henry Dapp, in whose sketch elsewhere in this work is more detailed mention of the family history. At the time they located on their new land the only improvements were a long stable and a little old log cabin which had been built nearly a half century before, the ceiling of which was so low that a man could hardly stand upright in it. The entire tract was practically a wilderness, not having been drained and being mostly swamp land, but Mr. Hoffelder by the most strenuous labor succeeded in clearing it, ditching and tiling it and creating one of the best farms in this section of the county. He now has nearly one hundred acres under cultivation and has erected a comfortable and attractive residence, substantial and commodious barns and other outbuildings, and is following his agricultural operations along the most modern and up-to-date methods. To Mr. and Mrs. Hoffelder have been born five children: Helene, Esther, Johnnie, Frances and Agnes. Politically, Mr. Hoffelder is a Democrat and takes an active interest in political affairs, though not in any sense a seeker after public office. Religiously, he and his family belong to the Catholic church, to which they contribute liberally of their means. Personally, Mr. Hoffelder is known to be a man of scrupulously honest principles, generous, kind and always ready to do his full share of the common duties of citizenship; in short, a genial, broad-mined man, whom to know is to admire and esteem. He has been very successful in his operation and has won the confidence of all who know him, owing to his honorable methods and upright life. Submitted by: Arlene Goodwin Auburn, Indiana Agoodwin@ctlnet.com | Hoffelder, Frank Charles (I98565)
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| 4977 | BIOGRAPHY: According to the 1920 census, both of Agnes Webster Hartman's parents were born in Pennsylvania. BIOGRAPHY: The following was compiled and written by William Theodore Hartman Jr. On 22 June, 1927 Agnes (Webster) Hartman was convicted of the crime of "False Pretense."... simply put: fraud or forgery. About one month later on July 28, 1927 Leo Hartman gathered their children and took them to St. Joseph's Waiscnanstalt auf Troy Hill, loosely translated, St. Joseph's Orphans Asylum of Troy Hill. When they arrived my grandfather had the children sit in the outer waiting area while he went in to make arrangements. I have been told that my grandfather lead the children to believe that they were going to see their aunt. Seeing all of the nuns and knowing that they had an aunt that was a nun, the children never suspected what was about to happen. According to the account provided, my grandfather left by the back door before the Sisters came out to collect the children. The documentation I have been able to obtain thus far indicates the commitment of four of the five children, Agnes, Joseph, Thelma, and Margaret. The documents provide all of the normal information expected like name, address, where baptized etc. as well as the following. Address of Mother.........................County Jail Received from................................Father Addenda: .......The mother is in jail and the father is to take care of the child. According to Rev. Edward McSweeney, Archivist, the fifth child, William, would have been too young, being less than two years old at the time, for placement in the orphans asylum. He would have been placed at the Roselia Foundling Home. 11 August, 1927. Agnes (Webster) Hartman was released on probation for a period of one year in the custody of Charles H. Austen, Probation Officer, ?upon the conditions?. What these conditions were are unknown. 21 August, 1927. The children left the orphans asylum with their mother and went to live at 1009 Talbot Ave., Braddock, PA. 9 August, 1928. [Court documents] "it being shown that the defendant [Agnes (Webster) Hartman] has not kept all of the conditions, the period of probation is extended six months. 31 July, 1931. Leo A. Hartman and Agnes (Webster) Hartman separated. There is no indication that there were ever divorce proceedings and so I assume that they remained legally married until their deaths. Agnes left town and went, presumably, to New York where she would eventually meet and live in a common law relationship (again my assumption) with a Henry Meyers. The children were sent, this time, to live with relatives. Initially Leo kept Agnes and Paul with him. According to may father, William T (Ted) Hartman, Paul was a baby and hard to place so Agnes stayed at home, kept house for her father and took care of Paul. However, within the year Agnes and Paul would be sent to live with their grandmother Appolonia (Heil) Hartman and then, after a short while, with Samuel and Sadie (Webster) Pierce, Agnes (Webster) Hartman?s sister. William would be taken in by his grandmother Appolonia (Heil) Hartman, and later His Uncle ?Dorey? [Isadore] whom he described as strict disciplinarian. Eventually obtaining and falsifying [he changed the date of birth] his baptism certificate from St. Joseph?s Church in Braddock, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corp at the age of 15. Joseph would join the Civilian Conservation Corp and eventually the U.S. Army. Margaret would become a U.S. Army Nurse. I have never been able to determine what became of Thelma from July 1931 until she married George Full. Whenever it came up she told people [including her husband and children] ?My mother died when I was born and I was raised in an orphanage.? For them the departure of their mother was a defining moment in their lives. Agnes became the psuedo-matriarch and peace-maker of the family. The girls would never speak to their father again. They would never be truly close to each other or any family member. They would visit one another occasionally but it was always more like old friends that shared a common background, not as brothers and sisters. Spring 1952. My parents William T. Hartman and Helen J. (Zimmerman) Hartman had been married a little over a year and my mother was pregnant with me. My grandmother, Agnes (Webster) Hartman, came to visit. She said that she was in town and had heard that ?Her little Billy? had gotten married and wanted to meet his wife and bring them a wedding present [a radio]. My mother disliked her immediately. Mom said she was rude, condescending, and obnoxious. She also didn?t care for the way she treated my dad like a little boy. My grandmother visited for a few minutes and then said that she really had to go and asked my dad if he could give her a ride to the bus station in Pittsburgh. Dad gave her the ride, bought her a cup of coffee, loaned her $20 and waited with her until it was time for her bus to leave. When he returned home my dad found my mother entertaining two very nicely dressed and well-spoken gentlemen. They were FBI agents. The were also the reason that my grandmother couldn?t stay long and they were really curious as to what part, beyond aiding the flight of a fugitive, my dad had played in her activities. They left after about an hour convinced that, like so many others, my dad had been conned by his mother. They never said why they wanted her but a few weeks later it would all become clear. In 1951 the United States Government authorized additional payment of a bonus to veterans of WWII. I am not sure about the amount but I believe my mother said it was around $100. In any event it was considered a large sum of money at the time and with a low paying job and a baby on the way my father considered it a godsend and looked forward to receiving it with the intention of purchasing a crib for me. My father filed all of the appropriate paperwork and anxiously awaited his check, hoping that it would arrive before I did. What he got however, was a rejection notice stating that he had already received his payment. When he appealed the rejection stating that he had never received such payment he was presented with ?his original application? and a cancelled check with ?his signature? as proof that he had, in fact, been paid. Needles to say neither the writing on the application nor the signature were his. They were his mother's [Agnes (Webster) Hartman] and the address was that of a boarding house in New Jersey. A boarding house that his mother ran primarily for servicemen that were in the process of being discharged. It appears that when the men were discharged they would move out and go home trusting my grandmother to forward their mail which included among other things final disbursements and discharge pay. That seems to be the reason the FBI was looking for my grandmother. She forged the signatures and cashed those checks. I have applied to the FBI under the freedom of information act for records relating to the investigation and am awaiting a reply. Among the charges I believe will be, Defrauding the Federal Government, Grand Theft, Mail Fraud, and Tampering with the U.S. Mail. As to what ever happened to Agnes (Webster) Hartman no one really knows for sure. However, there may be a clue in a letter written to me by Beatrice (Pierce) Wallis in February 1985. ? I [Bea] do remember that my mother [Sadie (Webster) Pierce] told me that the FBI was looking for Aunt Agnes [Agnes (Webster) Hartman].? ?If my mother knew what it was about she didn?t tell me.? ?All she said was that Aunt Agnes was in some kind of trouble. At that time Aunt Agnes was ?married? to a Henry Meyers from New York. A neighbor of Grandma Webster?s [Hannah J. (Stiddard) Webster) was in Canada and was sure he saw her [Agnes (Webster) Hartman] but by the time he could get across the street, she was gone. He said he called her name and she looked around. That?s why he was so sure it was her.? One final note: Before she died my mother, Helen J. (Zimmerman) Hartman told me that prior to his death in 1984 my father, William T Hartman, would sit for long periods of time and stare out the window. Whenever an elderly woman he did not recognize passed the house he would get up and go to the window, watching to see where she went. Once, she asked him what he was doing. He told her that he ?had a feeling? that his mother was still alive and that he thought ?she might just show up at his door?. Sources: William T. Hartman Helen J. (Zimmerman) Hartman Beatrice (Pierce) Wallis Kathleen Janet Full Allegheny County Court Archives Diocese of Pittsburgh, PA., Archives Rev. Edward F. McSweeney, Archivist, Diocese of Pittsburgh PA | Webster, Agnes (I146275)
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| 4978 | BIOGRAPHY: S. A. Connaughton was Paris city marshal before July 1938 and as a coal miner, he was active in the United Mine Workers of America Union and was president of the State Federation in 1919-1920. In July 1938 he was a candidate for representative. I have a copy of an article from the Paris newspaper. I also have a picture, from the newspaper of their golden wedding anniversary. Their grandson Mark Limbird is running for sheriff of Logan County at the present time. I have Andy's O. B. I have 1900 census with Andy with his parents. I don't know how much you have on the Zeiler family but I'd be happy to get any thing you have. BIOGRAPHY: From the United Mine Workers of America web site: BIOGRAPHY: United Mine Workers Union BIOGRAPHY: "Union born and bred, on union money I was fed, and I'll be union 'til I'm dead." This common chant was taught to all young miner's children. The union was at the beginning of every mining town in Arkansas. BIOGRAPHY: Through the union, miners were able to get better health care, housing, and fairer prices on consumer goods. Most coal mining towns had a company store where the price on goods was regulated by the owner of the mine. This allowed them to charge anything they wanted and still be assured that the miners would pay it rather than starve. With the union came freer markets where the near-communist economy was replaced with a competitive free enterprise system. The first hospital in Clarksville was operated by the union, which provided health care plans for the miners and their families. BIOGRAPHY: Often a coal operator would attempt to keep the union out of his mine by hiring 'scabs'. They were mostly immigrants who badly needed the money and would work for cheaper wages than the union workers. The Monkey Run attempted to keep out the union by building a six foot high stockade around the coal camp. The union miners called the fence the bull pen. It didn't hold for long. BIOGRAPHY: The most memorable account of Johnson County union wars occured at Jamestown. The Jamestown War broke out at the Slavic camp. The union and non-union men fought and several were killed for the livelyhood of the coal mining community. They felt that their homes and families were being threatened. BIOGRAPHY: District 21 of the United Mine Workers (UMW) reached its greatest strength in 1908 with 16,100 members in Arkansas and Oklahoma. This was 87% of the workforce. When the contract ran out in 1910, 30,000 miners came out to fight for the union. Fred Holt, the secretary-treasurer of UMW, pleaded with the businessmen to support the striking minres. He explained the danger of miners becoming enslaved to the company if the UMW was destroyed. By 1912, District 21 had 14,202 members. BIOGRAPHY: A nationwide strike in 1919 lasted nealy two months. By 1927, almost every mine in Arkansas was open shop and wages had been slammed back to the same rate they were in 1917. In the early 1930's, Dave Fowler appeared to save the day. He was the president of District 21 of the UMW. He gave a rallying speech at Coal Hill one summer afternoon from the back of a a pickup truck. The UMW came back to Arkansas. BIOGRAPHY: The great mines that made Arkansas what it is may be gone forever, but the society left behind remains. The people of Johnson County know their history, and if you ask someone on the street, they can probably point out the mine their grandfather worked in. One little four letter word changed the landscape of Arkansas and it's people forever | Connaughton, Saturinus Andrew (I113136)
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| 4979 | BIOGRAPHY: bob@maledon.com Bob Maledon George and his family arrived in New York City on June 17, 1835, aboard the steamship Thomas Dickason, which departed from Le Havre de Grasse, France. The passenger list shows their ages as George (47), Eliza (46), Adam (18), John (15), Francis (13), and Jacob (5). The exact date they came to Detroit is not known, but Wayne County land records show George owned property in Detroit in October 1835. | Maledon, Johannes Georg (I43638)
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| 4980 | BIOGRAPHY: bob@maledon.com Bob Maledon | Messemer, Elisabetha Maria (I43649)
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| 4981 | BIOGRAPHY: bob@maledon.com Bob Maledon | Maledon, Franz Karl (I43650)
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| 4986 | BIOGRAPHY: FRARY Family in America & A Continuation (pub 1985) Entries: 11886 Updated: 2004-07-16 21:43:05 UTC (Fri) Contact: Barbara Trautlein btrautlein@mail.com | Griesmer, Bertha (I32909)
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| 4987 | BIOGRAPHY: Helbling Entries: 33765 Updated: 2006-02-03 17:50:15 UTC (Fri) Contact: Vicki Seeman latda@cox.net CENSUS: 1910: Name: Philip Behler Age in 1910: 7 Estimated birth year: abt 1903 Birthplace: North Dakota Home in 1910: Township 135, Morton, North Dakota Race: White Gender: Male Marital Status: Single Relation to Head of House: Son Mother's Birth Place: Russia Father's Birth Place: Russia CENSUS: 1920: Name: Philip Buhler Age: 16 years Estimated birth year: abt 1904 Birthplace: North Dakota Race: White Home in 1920: Township 135, Morton, North Dakota Sex: Male Marital status: Single Relation to Head of House: Son Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Mother's Birth Place: Russia Father's Birth Place: Russia Image: 151 | Beehler, Phillip (I37031)
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| 4988 | BIOGRAPHY: Helbling Entries: 33765 Updated: 2006-02-03 17:50:15 UTC (Fri) Contact: Vicki Seeman latda@cox.net CENSUS: 1910: Name: Michael Behler Age in 1910: 8 Estimated birth year: abt 1902 Birthplace: North Dakota Home in 1910: Township 135, Morton, North Dakota Race: White Gender: Male Marital Status: Single Relation to Head of House: Son Mother's Birth Place: Russia Father's Birth Place: Russia CENSUS: 1920: Name: Mike Buhler Age: 17 years Estimated birth year: abt 1903 Birthplace: North Dakota Race: White Home in 1920: Township 135, Morton, North Dakota Sex: Male Marital status: Single Relation to Head of House: Son Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Mother's Birth Place: Russia Father's Birth Place: Russia Image: 151 CENSUS: 1930: Name: Mike Buhler Home in 1930: Lark, Grant, North Dakota Age: 28 Estimated birth year: abt 1902 Birthplace: North Dakota Relation to head-of-house: Head Spouse's Name: Genovefa Race: White | Beehler, Michael (I37029)
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| 4989 | BIOGRAPHY: Helbling Entries: 33765 Updated: 2006-02-03 17:50:15 UTC (Fri) Contact: Vicki Seeman latda@cox.net | Bühler, Martin (I36994)
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| 4990 | BIOGRAPHY: Helbling Entries: 33765 Updated: 2006-02-03 17:50:15 UTC (Fri) Contact: Vicki Seeman latda@cox.net | Paul, Frances (I37035)
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| 4991 | BIOGRAPHY: Lale - Vogel & All My Families Entries: 25129 Updated: 2005-09-10 17:21:08 UTC (Sat) Contact: Annette Vogel Lale avale@cox.net | Hahn, Mary Elizabeth (I39101)
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| 4992 | BIOGRAPHY: Lale - Vogel & All My Families Entries: 25129 Updated: 2005-09-10 17:21:08 UTC (Sat) Contact: Annette Vogel Lale avale@cox.net | Urhahn, Jacob Abraham (I39102)
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| 4993 | BIOGRAPHY: Lale - Vogel & All My Families Entries: 25129 Updated: 2005-09-10 17:21:08 UTC (Sat) Contact: Annette Vogel Lale avale@cox.net | Elfrink, Anna Jane (I39112)
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| 4994 | BIOGRAPHY: Lale - Vogel & All My Families Entries: 25129 Updated: 2005-09-10 17:21:08 UTC (Sat) Contact: Annette Vogel Lale avale@cox.net | Urhahn, Arnold L. (I39115)
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| 4995 | BIOGRAPHY: Lale - Vogel & All My Families Entries: 25129 Updated: 2005-09-10 17:21:08 UTC (Sat) Contact: Annette Vogel Lale avale@cox.net | Urhahn, Sylvester J. (I39116)
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| 4996 | BIOGRAPHY: Lale - Vogel & All My Families Entries: 25129 Updated: 2005-09-10 17:21:08 UTC (Sat) Contact: Annette Vogel Lale avale@cox.net | Urhahn, Gilbert J. (I39117)
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| 4997 | BIOGRAPHY: Sullivan Ancestors Entries: 4358 Updated: Thu Jun 13 09:25:40 2002 Contact: Patrick Sullivan pat@tuscarora-consulting.com Father: Daniel BUND b: ABT. 1843 in Germany Mother: Mary WEHNER b: 1848 in New York BIOGRAPHY: Submitter: Juli Brant Subject: bund=lambrix Message: Sophia Anna Marie BUND, b. 10/6/1881 d. 10/29/1962 in Southgate, Michigan. Parents: Daniel Bund and Mary Wehner. Married on 1/30/1900 in Carleton, Michigan to Charles J. LAMBRIX, b. 1875 d. 1945 in Wyandotte, Michigan. I am looking for information about Charles parents. | Bund, Sophia Anna Marie (I8151)
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| 4998 | BIOGRAPHY: Sullivan Ancestors Entries: 4358 Updated: Thu Jun 13 09:25:40 2002 Contact: Patrick Sullivan pat@tuscaroraconsulting.com Patrick Sullivan pat@tuscarora-consulting.com BIOGRAPHY: Messages on Ancestry.com: Bob Spurgeon bobnspu@comcast.net 12 children.Half of these were born in New York and the other half born in or around Carleton, Monroe County, Michigan. It appears that all of the family moved to Michigan together around 1866. Source: Juliann Brant-Aug 2000 Re: Lambrix/Lucke Author: Rich lambrix Date: 14 Dec 2002 3:19 PM GMT Classification: Query In Reply to: Re: Lambrix/Lucke by: Madonna Cummins My great grandfather was Lawrence/Lorenz born in Birkenhordt Ger. Was a brick mason/plasterer as a trade. His parents were Eva and Jacob. He may have had a brother Henry as I believe in some of the baptismal records of children a Henry was a sponsor, but could have been a cousin. Moved to MI 1866-7 as my grandfather was first one born in MI. Resided in Wayne Co. MI Never have found an immigration date, but figure they arrived in late 1820s or early 1830s based on some info found in a census record. 1860 Federal Census for New York, 1870 Federal Census for Michigan to Grand Island, Erie County, NY in 1860 to Sumpter Township, Monroe County, MI in 1870 Researcher: Richard Lambrix | Lambrix, Lorenz (I1567)
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| 4999 | BIOGRAPHY: Sullivan Ancestors Entries: 4358 Updated: Thu Jun 13 09:25:40 2002 Contact: Patrick Sullivan pat@tuscaroraconsulting.com Patrick Sullivan pat@tuscarora-consulting.com Note: Married by Fr. Fred K. Heidenrich, witnessed by Joseph Bund and Gertrude Livernois of Carleton, per Monroe County Marriages, Vol. 5. | Family (F4056)
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| 5000 | BIOGRAPHY: Sullivan Ancestors Entries: 4358 Updated: Thu Jun 13 09:25:40 2002 Contact: Patrick Sullivan pat@tuscaroraconsulting.com Patrick Sullivan pat@tuscarora-consulting.com | Lambrix, Charles Joseph (I8150)
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