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Mary D <I>Burmaehln</I> Tuerpe

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Mary D Burmaehln Tuerpe

Birth
Death
27 Apr 1903 (aged 64)
Burial
Kiel, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
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MARY BURMAHLN BELITZ TUERPE

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At the house of her sister in Chicago Mrs. Mary Tuerpe, born as a Burmahln, died at the 27th of April after she had spent only three days in bed sick with Asthma being 64 years and two months old.

She had been born in Heide,Schleswig-Holstein, Germany at the 28th of February in 1830(sic) and came to America in 1857 together with her parents, who settled down in Town Schleswig on a farm which is now run by John Burmahln, right away. In the same year she got married to Wilhelm Belitz who bult the first hotel in Kiel close to the train station in 1864. (The same is now run by Frank Kretsch.) Mr. Belitz died in 1880. In 1881 she married Oswald Tuerpe, who had taken over the hotel but later sold it to Gottfried Lueloff. Henceforth they moved to California, a year later to Sheboygan and then to Cleveland, Wis., where Mr. Tuerpe built a new hotel.

In 1890 Mr. Tuerpe got killed when his horses went wild by breaking his neck after he got thrown out of the buggy near the Pigeon River in Sheboygan.

After that Mrs. Tuerpe sold the hotel to her two sons and moved to Chicago to live at her sister's house where after all she died. The body was brought here last week Thursday and buried insisted by the house of her brother John Burmahln at the Kiel cemetery under the leadership of Pastor Roedl.

At the funeral following persons from further away were present: The son-in-law John Milton (former local station agent) and his wife from Hago, Wisc., the son-in-law Alfred Frerk and his wife, as well as both of her sisters Albertine Frerk and Louise Haenze from Chicago, both of her sons Wilhelm and Robert Belitz from Cleveland,besides their wives, and Mich. Wagner plus wife from Town Mosel.
1903 - no source cited

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MARY BURMAHLN BELITZ TUERPE

Dead
At the house of her sister in Chicago Mrs. Mary Tuerpe, born as a Burmahln, died at the 27th of April after she had spent only three days in bed sick with Asthma being 64 years and two months old.

She had been born in Heide,Schleswig-Holstein, Germany at the 28th of February in 1830(sic) and came to America in 1857 together with her parents, who settled down in Town Schleswig on a farm which is now run by John Burmahln, right away. In the same year she got married to Wilhelm Belitz who bult the first hotel in Kiel close to the train station in 1864. (The same is now run by Frank Kretsch.) Mr. Belitz died in 1880. In 1881 she married Oswald Tuerpe, who had taken over the hotel but later sold it to Gottfried Lueloff. Henceforth they moved to California, a year later to Sheboygan and then to Cleveland, Wis., where Mr. Tuerpe built a new hotel.

In 1890 Mr. Tuerpe got killed when his horses went wild by breaking his neck after he got thrown out of the buggy near the Pigeon River in Sheboygan.

After that Mrs. Tuerpe sold the hotel to her two sons and moved to Chicago to live at her sister's house where after all she died. The body was brought here last week Thursday and buried insisted by the house of her brother John Burmahln at the Kiel cemetery under the leadership of Pastor Roedl.

At the funeral following persons from further away were present: The son-in-law John Milton (former local station agent) and his wife from Hago, Wisc., the son-in-law Alfred Frerk and his wife, as well as both of her sisters Albertine Frerk and Louise Haenze from Chicago, both of her sons Wilhelm and Robert Belitz from Cleveland,besides their wives, and Mich. Wagner plus wife from Town Mosel.
1903 - no source cited

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