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  Alma Dorothea Christina ROHLOFF Hartig, 1882-1964
Wife of a woodworker in Milwaukee
Viola Hartig's mother

27 December 1882 - Born at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

16 December 1883 - Sister Caroline Friederike Anna "Anna" ROHLOFF, age 3, died there

Sometime before 1892 - Father Friedrich Johann Ludwig "Fritz" ROHLOFF died in Milwaukee?

27 August 1892, age 9 - Mother Louise Christine Maria GLEI, age 42, married Michael SCHäFER, age 48, at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Milwaukee

5 September 1894, age 11 - Half-brother Hermann Johann Friedrich ROLOFF, age 21, married Bertha BORN, age 18, at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsi

29 March 1896, age 13 - Confirmed at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Milwaukee

As of sometime before 1900 - Resided at 1237 N Pierce there. (Pre-1929 numbering system.)

1900, age 17 - Occupation listed as seamstress

1 June 1900, age 17 - Recorded in the Federal census at Milwaukee

28 July 1900, age 17 - Married Charles W "Carl" HARTIG, age 24, at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church there. Attendants were William Tetzlaff and Otto Wilhelm Heinrich HARTIG

3 March 1901, age 18 - Godparent when Fritz Albert August "Fred" ROLOFF (her half-brother's son) baptized at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church there

1902, age 19 - Resided at 255 Booth St there

25 November 1902, age 19 - Daughter Viola Louisa Hermine Sophia HARTIG Benz born at 255 Booth St there

14 August 1904, age 21 - Daughter Lydia Olga Anna Alma HARTIG born there

1909, age 26 - Resided at 44 Chambers St there

25 April 1909, age 26 - Daughter Irmgard Bertha Theresa Julehen HARTIG Zastrow born at 44 Chambers St there

18 December 1909, age 26 - Mother's husband Michael SCHäFER, age 65, died there of Krebs (cancer)

1910, age 27 - Resided at 1237 N Pierce there. She, her husband, and children were living with her mother.

20 April 1910, age 27 - Recorded in the Federal census there

2 June 1915, age 32 - Son Raymond Carl Rudolf Wilhelm HARTIG born there

28 August 1920, age 37 - Daughter Viola Louisa Hermine Sophia HARTIG, age 17, married Eduard Georg Ferdinand "Eddie" BENZ, age 33, there

28 June 1922, age 39 - Mother-in-law Dorothea Sophie Marie "Sophie" BURMEISTER Hartig, age 71, died at 990 Booth St there of carcinoma of the stomach and senile debility

27 August 1922, age 39 - Granddaughter Janet Adele BENZ Landowski born there

4 December 1922, age 39 - Father-in-law Johann Friedrich Heinrich Christian "Henry" HARTIG, age 78, died at 990 Booth St there of suicide by hanging

11 August 1924, age 41 - Grandson Elroy BENZ born there

Sometime after 1930 - Mother Louise Christine Maria GLEI Rohloff Schäfer died in Milwaukee?

20 July 1935, age 52 - Son-in-law Eduard Georg Ferdinand "Eddie" BENZ, age 48, died at Milwaukee County Hospital, Milwaukee of pulmonary tuberculosis

About 7 September 1946, age 63 - Granddaughter Janet Adele BENZ, age 24, married Ervin Joseph LANDOWSKI, age 30

1964, age 81 - Resided at Milwaukee

17 June 1964, age 81 - Died there

20 June 1964 - Buried at Evergreen Cemetery there