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| Tanner 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 Brother Ferdinand BENZ, 1855- Brother Wilhelm BENZ, 1855-1855 Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ, 1858-1883 Sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ Seehawer, 1861- Brother Otto Albert Ferdinand BENZ, 1864- Sister Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ, 1871-1871 7 July 1858 - Born at Gützlaffshagen, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern at 7:00 AM
18 July 1858 - Baptized there. Godparents were August Ferdinand TEWS, Büdner from Lewetzow (the mother's cousin), Friedrich Ruhnke, Büdnersohn from Gützlaffshagen and Maria Pagenkopf, Büdnertochter from Gützlaffshagen 29 January 1861, age 2 - Sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ Seehawer born there 25 September 1864, age 6 - Brother Otto Albert Ferdinand BENZ born there 18 March 1865, age 6 - Grandfather Peter PAGENKOPF, age 67, died there 24 January 1871, age 12 - Sister Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ born there 30 January 1871, age 12 - Sister Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ died there of Kramphe (convulsions)
30 April 1872, age 13 - Emigrated at Hamburg, Germany. Family traveled on the S S Cimbria from Hamburg via Havre, France to America. 16 May 1872, age 13 - Immigrated at New York, New York 3 September 1876, age 18 - Brother August Ferdinand BENZ, age 22, married Bertha Maria Therese HOGE, age 18, at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin 1880, age 21 - Recorded in the Federal census there Sometime after 1880 - Father Johann "John" BENZ died in U.S.A. 20 November 1881, age 23 - Sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ, age 20, married Ferdinand SEEHAWER, age 24, at Milwaukee 25 May 1883, age 24 - Died there of tuberculosis 27 May 1883 - Buried at Union Cemetery there |