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  Johann "John" BENZ, 1823-
Büdner, laborer
Edward Benz's grandfather

13 August 1823 - Born at Gützlaffshagen, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern

24 August 1823 - Baptized there. Godparents were Volkmann, Büdner, Jacob Tiegs, farmhand and Engel Pagenkopf, housemaid

21 October 1823 - Grandmother Catharina LüDKE Genz, age 65, died there

14 March 1831, age 7 - Grandfather Phillip BENZ, age 76, died there of Altersschwaeche (debility/weakness of old age)

10 November 1831, age 8 - Father Johann BENZ, age 49, died there of Brustkrankheit (pneumonia, consumption)

4 January 1832, age 8 - Grandfather Martin GENZ, age 69, died there

10 May 1844, age 20 - Sister Dorothea BENZ, age 29, married Johann POLZIN, age 34, there

22 October 1846, age 23 - Obtained permission to marry

13 November 1846, age 23 - Married Sophie PAGENKOPF, age 17, at Gützlaffshagen

3 December 1848, age 25 - Godparent when Wilhelmine Therese POLZIN (his niece) baptized there

9 January 1849, age 25 - Daughter Caroline Wilhelmine BENZ born there

18 January 1849, age 25 - Daughter Caroline Wilhelmine BENZ died there of Krämpfe (convulsions)

2 April 1850, age 26 - Daughter Caroline Wilhelmine Marie BENZ born there

18 October 1851, age 28 - Mother Catharina GENZ Benz, age 64, died there of Abzehrung (tuberculosis)

6 September 1852, age 29 - Daughter Caroline Wilhelmine Marie BENZ, age 2, died there

3 November 1853, age 30 - Son August Ferdinand BENZ born there

4 April 1855, age 31 - Son Ferdinand BENZ born there ; Son Wilhelm BENZ born there

6 June 1855, age 31 - Son Wilhelm BENZ died there

3 April 1857, age 33 - Mother-in-law Catharina TEWS Pagenkopf, age 57, died there

7 July 1858, age 34 - Son Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ born there

29 January 1861, age 37 - Daughter Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ Seehawer born there

25 September 1864, age 41 - Son Otto Albert Ferdinand BENZ born there

18 March 1865, age 41 - Father-in-law Peter PAGENKOPF, age 67, died there

24 January 1871, age 47 - Daughter Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ born there

30 January 1871, age 47 - Daughter Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ died there of Kramphe (convulsions)

30 April 1872, age 48 - Emigrated at Hamburg, Germany. Family traveled on the S S Cimbria from Hamburg via Havre, France to America.

16 May 1872, age 48 - Immigrated at New York, New York

5 August 1872, age 48 - Brother-in-law Johann POLZIN, age 62, died at Zimdarse, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern of Auszehrung (tuberculosis)

3 September 1876, age 53 - Son August Ferdinand BENZ, age 22, married Bertha Maria Therese HOGE, age 18, at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

3 September 1877, age 54 - Granddaughter Magdaline Sophie Auguste "Lena" BENZ Engel born there

2 June 1879, age 55 - Granddaughter Alma Wilhelmina Anna BENZ Boehmer born there

1880, age 56 - Recorded in the Federal census there

Sometime after 1880 - Died in U.S.A.