Shawano Co, Wisconsin OBIT: SEEFELDT, Bertha Auguste Emilie (GERTZKE) 



SUBJECT: Obituary of SEEFELDT, Bertha Auguste Emilie

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DATE: Thurs 7 Jan 1915



SOURCE:Volkesbote Wochenblatt (translated), Split Rock News, Page 35

 



SEEFELDT, Bertha Auguste Emilie (GERTZKE) passed away on 1 January. 



The deceased was born on 15 March 1845 in Gross Benz, 

Pommern and reached the age of nearly fifty years. 



On 15 December 1864 she married Wm. Seefeldt and together they raised 

ten children, seven sons and three daughters. A daughter, Anna, preceded

 her mother in death in 1903 and is still mourned by the family. 



The surviving children are Otto, Albert and Emil in split Rock, Richard

in Wausau, Wilhelm in Clintonville, Herman in Wittenberg, Robert in 

Tigerton, Martha, Mrs. Henry Kersten and Marie, Mrs. Herman Kersten

both in Split Rock. Also surviving are three brothers and a sister in 

Germany and 47 grandchildren. They came in the year of 1879 to America

and settled in Town Grant. Then in 1895 they settled in Town Fairbanks 

where they farmed and remained. The expensive gifts of floral arrangements

testified of the great popularity and respect the deceased had enjoyed with 

those in her midst. 



Pastor Ehmke from Big Falls officiated. 



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