Born in 1879, she was the seventh child in the family of Swiss immigrants Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz. Before Lucy, the family had already lost an elder daughter, Elize, in 1877 and a son, Christian, in 1895, just a year before Lucy's death. Lucy's elder sister Maria was a maternal great-grandmother of the Bill Dean family.
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]]>The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. These two notices tell of Lucy (Lizzie) Schuetz's death of typhoid.
Born in 1879, she was the seventh child in the family of Swiss immigrants Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz. Before Lucy, the family had already lost an elder daughter, Elize, in 1877 and a son, Christian, in 1895, just a year before Lucy's death. Lucy's elder sister Maria was a maternal great-grandmother of the Bill Dean family.
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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.
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]]>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.
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.
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This clipping comes from the Family of Bill Dean collection, the fifth generation of Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz's descendants.
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]]>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
This clipping comes from the Family of Bill Dean collection, the fifth generation of Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz's descendants.
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