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  Sophie PAGENKOPF Benz, 1829-1901
Wife of a Büdner, laborer
Edward Benz's grandmother

5 February 1829 - Born at Gützlaffshagen, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern

Baptized there. Godparents were Marquardt, widow, Mrs Peter Pagenkopf and Johann Runke, Büdner

12 May 1830, age 1 - Grandfather Martin TEWS, age 74, died at Lewetzow, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern of Altersschwaeche (debility of old age)

16 July 1832, age 3 - Sister Maria PAGENKOPF, age 5, died at Gützlaffshagen of Auszehrung (tuberculosis)

20 August 1832, age 3 - Sister Wilhelmine PAGENKOPF Wendorf born there

7 December 1834, age 5 - Sister Friederika PAGENKOPF Wendorf Köhler born there

13 August 1837, age 8 - Brother August PAGENKOPF born there

15 August 1840, age 11 - Sister Maria PAGENKOPF Storm born there

9 December 1840, age 11 - Brother August PAGENKOPF, age 3, died there of Röteln (rubella)

13 November 1846, age 17 - Married Johann "John" BENZ, age 23, there

9 January 1849, age 19 - Daughter Caroline Wilhelmine BENZ born there

18 January 1849, age 19 - Daughter Caroline Wilhelmine BENZ died there of Krämpfe (convulsions)

2 April 1850, age 21 - Daughter Caroline Wilhelmine Marie BENZ born there

18 October 1851, age 22 - Mother-in-law Catharina GENZ Benz, age 64, died there of Abzehrung (tuberculosis)

29 November 1851, age 22 - Grandmother Maria TIETZ Tews, age 76, died at Lewetzow of Altersschwäche (debility of old age)

6 September 1852, age 23 - Daughter Caroline Wilhelmine Marie BENZ, age 2, died at Gützlaffshagen

25 February 1853, age 24 - Sister Wilhelmine PAGENKOPF, age 20, married Johann WENDORF, age 34, there

3 November 1853, age 24 - Son August Ferdinand BENZ born there

7 December 1853, age 24 - Sister Wilhelmine PAGENKOPF Wendorf, age 21, died there of Kindbette (child bed fever)

7 April 1854, age 25 - Sister Friederika PAGENKOPF, age 19, married Johann WENDORF, age 35, there

4 April 1855, age 26 - Son Ferdinand BENZ born there ; Son Wilhelm BENZ born there

6 June 1855, age 26 - Son Wilhelm BENZ died there

3 April 1857, age 28 - Mother Catharina TEWS Pagenkopf, age 57, died there

7 July 1858, age 29 - Son Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ born there

29 January 1861, age 31 - Daughter Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ Seehawer born there

Sometime before 1864 - Sister's widower Johann WENDORF died

12 February 1864, age 35 - Sister Friederika PAGENKOPF, age 29, married Johann Gottlieb Herman KöHLER, age 27, at Gützlaffshagen

17 June 1864, age 35 - Sister Maria PAGENKOPF, age 23, married Johann August STORM, age 25, there

25 September 1864, age 35 - Son Otto Albert Ferdinand BENZ born there

18 March 1865, age 36 - Father Peter PAGENKOPF, age 67, died there

18 January 1866, age 36 - Brother Martin PAGENKOPF, age 41, died there of Abzehrung (consumption, tuberculosis)

24 January 1871, age 41 - Daughter Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ born there

30 January 1871, age 41 - Daughter Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ died there of Kramphe (convulsions)

30 April 1872, age 43 - Emigrated at Hamburg, Germany. Family traveled on the S S Cimbria from Hamburg via Havre, France to America.

16 May 1872, age 43 - Immigrated at New York, New York

3 September 1876, age 47 - Son August Ferdinand BENZ, age 22, married Bertha Maria Therese HOGE, age 18, at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

3 September 1877, age 48 - Granddaughter Magdaline Sophie Auguste "Lena" BENZ Engel born there

2 June 1879, age 50 - Granddaughter Alma Wilhelmina Anna BENZ Boehmer born there

1880, age 50 - Recorded in the United States Census there

Sometime after 1880 - Husband Johann "John" BENZ died in U.S.A.

20 November 1881, age 52 - Daughter Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ, age 20, married Ferdinand SEEHAWER, age 24, at Milwaukee

7 October 1882, age 53 - Grandson Georg Johann August BENZ born there

25 May 1883, age 54 - Son Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ, age 24, died there of tuberculosis

22 July 1884, age 55 - Granddaughter Rose W S BENZ Newmann born there

11 August 1884, age 55 - Godparent when Rose W S BENZ Newmann (her granddaughter) baptized at Saint Marcus Gemeinde Ev Luth there

23 January 1887, age 57 - Grandson Eduard Georg Ferdinand "Eddie" BENZ born there

4 February 1892, age 62 - Granddaughter Lillian "Lilly" BENZ born there

6 January 1899, age 69 - Brother-in-law Johann Gottlieb Herman KöHLER, age 62, died at in the Büdnerstelle of Ferdinand Wendorf, Gützlaffshagen

As of sometime before 1900 - Resided at 1031 N Teutonia Street, Milwaukee. (Old street numbering system.)

6 June 1900, age 71 - Recorded in the United States Census there

28 April 1901, age 72 - Died there of phthesis pulmonzlis, secondarily senile debility

Buried at Union Cemetery there