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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Bode, Daniel |
| Title, Analytic | My Great-Grandmother Marie Blankenstein nee Friedrichs |
| Journal Title | The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society) |
| Date of Publication | Summer 2007 |
| Volume ID | 29 |
| Issue ID | 2 |
| Location in Work | 184-195, ill. |
| ISSN | 0730-3106 |
| Abstract | Marie Dororthea Elisabeth Friedrichs was born in the village of Ummendorf, Germany, on 10 May 1861. "About 1880, Marie began corresponding with Gottfried Friedrich August 'Fred' Blankenstein in Texas. Fred was born 18 June 1855 in Barby, Germany. . . The Blankenstein family had left Germany in 1870 and settled in Defiance, Ohio. In 1878, they moved to Texas in a covered wagon train. Fred's mother had a sister who lived in Ummendorf, Germany, and Fred wrote to friends and family in Germany to find him a bride. . . . Marie left her family in Germany in 1882 and set sail for America [having accepted Fred's marriage proposal]. . . . Fred took Marie back to Marlin, Falls Co., Texas, where they were married on 14 December 1882." Includes information on Marie's family in Germany and the children of Fred and Marie Blankenstein. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | German Americans -- Texas/ Genealogy/ Blankenstein/ Baden-Wuerttemberg/ Friedrichs |