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Letter from the Schuetz Family Documents, 1870
This letter comes from the Dean family collection of documents and photographs that belonged to their second maternal great-grand parents Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz, who emigrated from Switzerland in 1870 to start a new life in Humboldt, Nebraska.
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Letter from the Schuetz Family Documents, 1873
This letter comes from the Dean family collection of documents and photographs that belonged to their second maternal great-grand parents Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz, who emigrated from Switzerland in 1870 to start a new life in Humboldt, Nebraska.
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Maria Schuetz's Baptismal Certificate
This is a baptismal certificate for Maria (Mary) Schuetz, the daughter of Bill Dean's second great-grandfather Gottlieb Schuetz. A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and Magdalena Luthi, Gottlieb was born in 1838 in Canton Berne,…
Marriage Notice, 1901
This a notice of marriage between John Schuetz and Anna Meister, printed in the German-language newspaper published in Humboldt, Nebraska. Born in 1875, a sixth child in the family of Swiss emigrants Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz, John Schuetz married at…
Marriage Notice, 1902
This a notice of marriage between Jacob "Jake" Schuetz and Mary Herr, printed in the German-language newspaper published in Humboldt, Nebraska. Mary was Jacob's second wife. Jacob's first wife, Katharina, came from the Swiss family out of Canton…
Money Receipt, 1870
This is most possibly a receipt for the money Gottlieb Schuetz's in-law relative lent him to help move from the district of Burgdorf in Switzerland to Humboldt, Nebraska in the spring of 1870. The sums of money mentioned, $132.82 and $64.60 would…
Obituaries and Death Notices, Carl Christian Schuetz, 1895
The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. These four notices tell of Carl Christian Schuetz's death almost two years after he sustained injury in a tornado. A barn collapsed on him,…
Obituary, Anna Gerdes, 1896
The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. This obituary tells of Anna Gerdes's, the local preacher's wife. Born in Forsbarg, East Friesland in 1845, she immigrated to America in 1857…
Obituary, Anna Schuetz, 1906
The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. This obituary tells of Anna Schuetz's death in 1906, at the age of 66.
Born in 1840 in Ruegsau, Switzerland, Anna Parli married Gottlieb…
Obituary, David Speiser, 1899
The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. This obituary tells of David Speiser's death of lung fever. Born in Kehl, Baden in 1827, he married Elizabeth Uhri and had five children with…