Death Notice, Maggie Eliza Schuetz, 1910
<p>The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. This death notice tells of Maggie Eliza Schuetz's death in 1910, at the age of sixteen.</p>
<p>Born in 1894, Maggie Eliza was most probably the daughter of Jacob and Katharina Schuetz. Her mother died in 1899 leaving behind a husband and two kids. Her father Jacob married again in 1902 and had eight more surviving kids by 1930.</p>
<p>Jacob's elder sister Maria (Mary) Schuetz, Maggie Eliza's aunt, born in 1867 in Switzerland started the Dean family line.</p>
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Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
1910
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Obituary, Katharina Schuetz, 1899
<p>The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. This obituary tells of Katharina Schuetz's death in 1899, at the age of twenty-six.</p>
<p>Born in 1873, Katharina came from Switzerland and was the wife of Jacob Schuetz, whose parents Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz came from Canton Berne. She left two kids, and her husband married again in 1902.</p>
<p>Jacob's elder sister Maria (Mary) Schuetz, born in 1867 in Switzerland started the Dean family line.</p>
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Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
1899
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Obituary, Anna Schuetz, 1906
<p>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.</p>
<p>Born in 1840 in Ruegsau, Switzerland, Anna Parli married Gottlieb Schuetz, who lived in the same Burgorf District in Canton Berne, Switzerland in 1863. A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and Magdalena Luthi, Gottlieb was born in 1838 in Canton Berne, Switzerland. Having lived in various places in the Burgdorf district between 1863 and 1868, they finally immigrated to Humboldt, Nebraska in 1870. Anna's fifth child was born in July of the same year. The obituary reiterates the tragic story of Anna's son, Carl Christian, who became paralyzed and crippled after a barn collapsed on him during a tornado, and died almost two years after the incident.</p>
<p>Anna's daughter Maria (Mary) Schuetz, born in 1867 in Switzerland started the Dean family line marrying German-born Dirk Sutorius in 1889. Sutorius' daughter Emma, born in 1890 married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).</p>
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1906
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Obituaries and Death Notices, Carl Christian Schuetz, 1895
<p>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, and although he was still alive after his family took him out he was paralyzed and crippled. The whole community sympathized with the family suffering and the funeral was very large, showing that this was an unusual happening in the Humboldt community.</p>
<p>Born in 1881 Carl Christian Schuetz (called "Little Christ" in one of the articles, probably because of his long suffering) was the eighth child in the family of Swiss immigrants Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz. He died at the age of fourteen on April 11, 1895. His elder sister Maria was a maternal great-grandmother of the Bill Dean family.</p>
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1895
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Birth and Death Notice, Schuetz family
<p>This a notice announcing the birth and death in four days of the daughter of John Schuetz and his wife Anna, 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 26, probably after he became sure of his ability to support a family. The note probably dates to 1902, a year after the marriage</p>
<p>This clipping comes from the Family of Bill Dean collection, the fifth generation of Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz's descendants.</p>
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1902 circa
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Marriage Notice, 1901
<p>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 26, probably after he became sure of his ability to support a family. The marriage took place not in church, but "in the parental home of the groom."</p>
<p>This clipping comes from the Family of Bill Dean collection, the fifth generation of Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz's descendants.</p>
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Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
1901
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Marriage Notice, 1902
<p>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 Berne. Katharina bore her husband two children and died at the age of twenty-six.</p>
<p>Jacob Schuetz was born in the summer of 1870, the year when his parents Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz came to the United States from Switzerland. Remarkable is the English spelling of the his name in the newspaper that indicates the slow but steady Americanization of the immigrant communities in the turn of the century United States.</p>
<p>This clipping comes from the Family of Bill Dean collection, the fifth generation of Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz's descendants.</p>
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1902
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School Report Card for Lena M. Harms, 1925-1926
<p>This document comes from the Family of Bill Dean Collection and belongs to the generation of Bill Dean's parents. The school report card from 1925-1926 school year illustrates that the form for school reports has largely remained unchanged for the larger part of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. The subjects, however, reflect the skills deemed necessary for the school students in that era and include Physiology, Mental Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, and Agriculture. This curriculum would equip a student living in the rural Nebraska (Harms family comes from Humboldt) with the skills necessary to find employment in the local enterprises and agriculture.</p>
<p>Lena Harms was the eldest daughter of Edo and Emma Harms, German-Swiss Americans in Humboldt, Nebraska. Emma Harms's great-grandparents Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz came to Humboldt from Switzerland in 1870s and her both her grandmother and mother married emigrants from Germany.</p>
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Richardson County, Nebraska Superintendent
Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
1925-1926
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Edo Harms and Emma Sutorius Marriage Certificate
<p>This ornate document is a marriage certificate for Edo Harms and Emma Sutorius, maternal grandparents of Bill Dean, whose family provided the document. Born in 1889 in Humboldt, Nebraska, Emma Sutorius was a daughter of first-generation Americans Maria (Mary) Schuetz and Dirk Sutorius. Born in 1885, Edo emigrated from Germany in 1908 to evade the draft, and married only six years after coming to Nebraska in 1914.</p>
<p>The document is decorated in the German tradition with quotations from the Bible, roses and flower ornament.</p>
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School Report Card for Emma Sutorius
<p>This is the front page of the school report card of Emma Sutorius. A granddaughter of Swiss emigrants Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz, Emma was the first child of Dirk and Maria Sutorius. She married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).</p>
<p>While the Schuetz-Sutorius family attended a German-speaking church, Emma's school was English-speaking, as this report card testifies. Another interesting detail is that the card came out of a small printing shop in Falls City, Nebraska, showing that neither the structure, nor the form or even the color of the report cards was standardized.</p>
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Richardson County, Nebraska School District 38
Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
News Print
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