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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. This obituary tells of Friedrich Schuetz's death in 1912, at the age of forty-four. Born in 1868 in Switzerland, a son of Gottlieb and Anna…

The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. This obituary tells of Gertie Vanzhas's death. Born in 1863 in Sandhorst, East Friesland, she came to America in 1884.Three years later she…

The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. This obituary tells of Gottlieb Schuetz's death in 1910, at the age of seventy-two. A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and…