Edo Harms and Emma Sutorius Marriage Certificate

Title

Edo Harms and Emma Sutorius Marriage Certificate

Description

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.

The document is decorated in the German tradition with quotations from the Bible, roses and flower ornament.

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Source

Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Format

document

Language

German

Type

image

Coverage

Humboldt (Neb.)

Original Format

marriage certificate

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Collection

Citation

“Edo Harms and Emma Sutorius Marriage Certificate,” History Harvest, accessed March 29, 2024, https://historyharvest.unl.edu/items/show/305.

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