Month: October 2011
Sympathy Saturday – Sylvester Hayes
Sylvester Hayes died of tuberculosis at 53 years old. He was an Irish immigrant, and married his wife in Ohio before ending up in Illinois. His wife Mary died 2 months after him, supposedly of the same thing, and left 8 children orphaned. The oldest son, William, took care of his younger siblings. Sylvester rests in an unmarked resting spot in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Joliet, Illinois.
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Spotlight Sunday – Wilhelmina Raass Schulte-Birklebach
Name: Wilhelmina Raass
Birthday: December 1844
Parents: Joseph Raass & Anna Conrad
Siblings: Magdalena (Rischert), Henry & Albert
Relationship: married 1) August Schulte 2) Henry Birklebach
Children: August, Edward, Charles & Albert
Hometown: Austria
Immigration: by 1852
Last Known Residence: Detroit, Michigan
Education: able to read, write & speak English
Church: Old St. Mary’s & St. Anthony, Detroit, Michigan
Death: January 17, 1921
Cemetery: Mt. Elliott Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan
Relationship to Me: 3rd great-grandmother
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Sympathy Saturday – Sister Julia Chesney
Sister Mary Julia Chesney was born a twin in Bay County, Michigan in 1886 to Frank Chesney & Mary Bruier. She joined convent before 1910 and worked as a teacher. She died of diphtheria in her 33rd year and rests in St. Patrick’s Cemetery (Bay County, Michigan) in the Nun’s Circle.
Sympathy Saturday – Theodore J. Schulte
Theodore Schulte was the last child born to Frank Schulte & Elisabeth Förth in Deutmecke, Germany. Four years later the family boarded Harvest and sailed for the United States. The family settled in Detroit, Michigan and first appear on the census of 1850. Theodore went to school and as a child, and worked as a store clerk. He married Mary Hoffe in 1868 and became the father of 8 children. He died of cystitis at the age of 60 and is buried in Mt. Elliott Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan. (3rd great-granduncle)
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Spotlight Sunday – Mary Kessler Schulte
Name: Mary Katherine Kessler
Birthday: May 1858, Wisconsin
Parents: Christopher Kessler & Anna Maria Aschmann
Siblings: John, Joseph, Mathias, William, Edmund, Clemens, Clara, John
Relationship: married to August Schulte, mother of 2 children
Children: Edmund & Loretta Hometown: Detroit, Michigan
Last Known Residence: Detroit, Michigan
Education: educated, able to read & write
Church: St. Joseph’s & Our Lady of Sorrows – Detroit, Michigan
Death: September 12, 1938 of pneumonia, 80 years old
Cemetery: Mt. Elliott Cemetery – Detroit, Michigan
Relationship to Me: 2nd great-grandmother
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Sympathy Saturday – Edward Thomas
October 29, 2011
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Lisa
Edward Thomas died at age 44 of kidney cancer. He leaves behind his children and his wife, Anna Kessler, daughter of William N. Kessler. He rests in Mt. Elliott Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan. (husband of 1st cousin 3x removed)