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  Sophia RIESH Block Radtke, 1814-1892
Berthold's great-aunt

16 February 1814 - Born at Behlkow, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern

20 February 1814 - Baptized there. Godparents were Johann Storm from Behlkow, Maria BRANDT Treptow from Gützlaffshagen (the mother's sister-in-law) and Maria Drews from Behlkow

6 February 1817, age 2 - Brother Johann RIESCH born there

26 April 1819, age 5 - Brother Martin RIEHS born there

19 January 1821, age 6 - Grandmother Maria TEWS Treptow, age 60, died at Gützlaffshagen, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern of Brustkrankheit (pneumonia)

20 November 1821, age 7 - Sister Friederike Wilhelmine Charlotte "Wilhelmine" RIESCH Schwanz born at Behlkow

13 February 1822, age 7 - Grandmother Catharina WENDT Riesh Brandt, age 62, died there of Gelbsucht (jaundice)

10 December 1822, age 8 - Mother Sophia TREPTOW Riesch, age 32, died there of Schlagfluß (apoplexy, stroke)

12 December 1823, age 9 - Father Peter RIESCH, age 43, married Dorothea BLOCK, age 43, there

As of 1832 until 1843 - Resided at Darsow, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern

9 June 1832, age 18 - Married Heinrich Martin "Martin" BLOCK, age 31, at Behlkow

11 July 1834, age 20 - Grandfather Johann "Hans" TREPTOW, age 74, died at Gützlaffshagen of Brustkrankheit (pneumonia)

29 December 1834, age 20 - Father's wife Dorothea BLOCK Dittmer Riesch, age 54, died at Behlkow of Brustbeklemmung (stifling of the chest)

14 April 1837, age 23 - Brother Johann RIESCH, age 20, married Ernestine Wilhelmina POLZIN, age 24, at Görke, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern

About October 1839, age 25 - Brother Martin RIEHS, age 20, married Wilhelmine BERGIN, age 21

28 February 1840, age 26 - Son Heinrich Martin "Martin" BLOCK born at Darsow

8 November 1842, age 28 - Sister Friederike Wilhelmine Charlotte "Wilhelmine" RIESCH, age 20, married Johann SCHWANZ, age 30, at Behlkow

25 February 1843, age 29 - Godparent when August Johann Friedrich Wilhelm RIESS (her nephew) baptized there

8 October 1843, age 29 - Godparent when Albertine Wilhelmine SCHWANZ (her niece) baptized at Gützlaffshagen

5 May 1844, age 30 - Father Peter RIESCH, age 63, died at Behlkow of Abzehrung (consumption)

8 December 1849, age 35 - Grandmother's widower Gottfried BRANDT, age 84, died there of Altersschwäche (debility/weakness of old age)

25 January 1850, age 35 - Husband Heinrich Martin "Martin" BLOCK, age 49, died

9 June 1850, age 36 - Sister-in-law Ernestine Wilhelmina POLZIN Riesch, age 37, died at Behlkow of Waßersucht (dropsy, edema)

17 October 1850, age 36 - Married Ludwig RADTKE, age 26, in Dargislaff?

20 December 1850, age 36 - Brother Johann RIESCH, age 33, married Friederica Wilhelmine BUTZLAFF, age 24, at Gützlaffshagen

About 1852, age 37 - Daughter Augusta RADKE born at Dargislaff, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern

As of sometime before 1855 until 1865 - Resided there

3 June 1855, age 41 - Godparent when Pauline Wilhelmine RIESS Frädrich (her niece) baptized at Behlkow

About 1857, age 42 - Daughter Mary RADKE born at Dargislaff

3 June 1865, age 51 - Emigrated in Hamburg. 17 Ratkes, Blocks, and Brandts from Dargislaff traveled together as a group on the ship 'Bavaria'.

19 June 1865, age 51 - Immigrated at New York, New York

27 March 1867, age 53 - Brother Johann RIESCH, age 50, died at Behlkow of Abzehrung (tuberculosis)

1 October 1867, age 53 - Son Heinrich Martin "Martin" BLOCK, age 27, married Wilhelmine Christine Henriette LINDER, age 20, at Lutheran Church, Oak Creek, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

As of sometime before June 1870 - Resided there

21 June 1870, age 56 - Recorded in the United States Census there

Sometime before 1871 - Brother-in-law Johann SCHWANZ died

15 December 1871, age 57 - Sister Friederike Wilhelmine Charlotte "Wilhelmine" RIESCH Schwanz, age 50, died at Gützlaffshagen of Abzehrung (tuberculosis)

18 April 1892, age 78 - Died

21 April 1892 - Buried at Saint Johns Cemetery, Oak Creek