~Hermann Baetz was the son of Anna Baetz, the identity of his father unknown. Per his civil marriage record it is recorded that his full name is Richard Karl Friedrich Hermann Bãtz, the illegitimate son of Anna Bãtz, and that his mother Anna at the time of his marriage was married to NN Müller. Hermann married Berta Amelie Martha Kroebel, the daughter of Friedrich August Kroebel and Wilhelmina "Minna" Held, on 17 February 1891 (a church record for their marriage is dated 19 February 1891) at St Moritz Evangelical Church in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt Germany. Hermann and Martha were the parents of ten children known; Anna (Frank H. Deckert), Martha (Friedrich W. Eicke), Hermann (never married), a twin sister of Hermann, her name is unk, she died as a child, Hedwig (1.John Graf 2.August 'Gus' Galske), Paul William (1.Emma Herta Polter 2.Lillian Kline), Karl (Grete NN), Frieda (Erich Schrader), Bertha Louise (Mileta Nikodijevic) and Elsa Clara (1.Hermann W. Schwartz 2.Hugo Ziel), my grandmother, who was born 4 months after her father Hermann died. Hermann was a quarry master and was killed Feb 1905 in an explosion at a quarry in the Village of Uftrungen, Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt Germany. Martha emigrated from the Port of Bremen, aboard the ship Lutzow arriving in America on 2 December 1925. Sadly, less than two months after her arrival in America, Martha passed away from complications of diabetes on 8 February 1926. All of Hermann and Martha's children except for Karl and Frieda, came to America, some of them settling in Chicago at the turn of the 20th Century. Martha's youngest child Elsa Clara, arrived at Port of New York on 19 April 1926, two months after her mother Martha had died ~
Herman and Martha are my paternal great-grandparents, through their daughter, Elsa Clara ~

Thank you Aunt Martha for sharing these family photos! Click on photo for names ~