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Ferdinand BENZ, 1855-Tannery worker
Edward Benz's uncle
Father Johann "John" BENZ, 1823- Mother Sophie PAGENKOPF Benz, 1829-1901 Sister Caroline Wilhelmine BENZ, 1849-1849 Sister Caroline Wilhelmine Marie BENZ, 1850-1852 Brother August Ferdinand BENZ, 1853-1917
Ferdinand BENZ, 1855- Brother Wilhelm BENZ, 1855-1855 Brother Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ, 1858-1883 Sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ Seehawer, 1861- Brother Otto Albert Ferdinand BENZ, 1864- Sister Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ, 1871-18714 April 1855 - Born at Gützlaffshagen, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern at 7:30 AM
and baptized there.
Godparents were August Pagel, Büdnersohn from Gützlaffshagen, Ferdinand Schwanz, Knecht from Gützlaffshagen and Sohhie Arndt (Mrs Schwanz) from Gützlaffshagen
; Brother Wilhelm BENZ born there
6 June 1855 - Brother Wilhelm BENZ died there
3 April 1857, age 1 - Grandmother Catharina TEWS Pagenkopf, age 57, died there
7 July 1858, age 3 - Brother Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ born there
29 January 1861, age 5 - Sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ Seehawer born there
25 September 1864, age 9 - Brother Otto Albert Ferdinand BENZ born there
18 March 1865, age 9 - Grandfather Peter PAGENKOPF, age 67, died there
24 January 1871, age 15 - Sister Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ born there
30 January 1871, age 15 - Sister Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ died there of Kramphe (convulsions)
30 April 1872, age 17 - Emigrated at Hamburg, Germany. Family traveled on the S S Cimbria from Hamburg via Havre, France to America.
16 May 1872, age 17 - Immigrated at New York, New York
3 September 1876, age 21 - Wedding attendant when brother August Ferdinand BENZ, age 22, married Bertha Maria Therese HOGE, age 18, at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
1880, age 24 - Recorded in the Federal census there
Sometime after 1880 - Father Johann "John" BENZ died in U.S.A.
20 November 1881, age 26 - Wedding attendant when sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ, age 20, married Ferdinand SEEHAWER, age 24, at Milwaukee
25 May 1883, age 28 - Brother Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ, age 24, died there of tuberculosis
8 March 1887, age 31 - Godparent when Eduard Georg Ferdinand "Eddie" BENZ (his nephew) baptized at Saint Marcus Gemeinde Ev Luth there
28 April 1901, age 46 - Mother Sophie PAGENKOPF Benz, age 72, died there of phthesis pulmonzlis, secondarily senile debility
9 December 1914, age 59 - Sister-in-law Bertha Maria Therese HOGE Benz, age 57, died at 970 Holton St there of exophthalimic goiter
21 January 1917, age 61 - Brother August Ferdinand BENZ, age 63, died there