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Katherine <I>Oberst</I> Marks

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Katherine Oberst Marks

Birth
Russia
Death
23 Jan 1946 (aged 80)
Cimarron, Gray County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Lakin, Kearny County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 2, Block 48, Section 1
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Katherine was born in Pfeifer, Russia. It was a colony made up of German Catholic immigrants who were invited to farm along the Volga River by Catherine the Great in 1767. She immigrated with Antonius (62) and Magdaline (56) when she was 10 or ll years old in 1876. The ship's manifest said that it originally went to Brazil via Lisbon, Portugal. A great many of these Germans from Russia settled together in Kansas communities.

Katherine married Fred Marks (also an immigrant from Pfeifer, Russia) on July 10, 1881 at the Church of the Assumption in Topeka, Kansas. Fred was a harness and shoe maker, being well thought of in his profession. He owned the Electrical Shoe Shop.

Katherine died while living with her youngest daughter, Louise.


They had a total of 14 children, two of whom died in infancy. Her children were:

***Peter Jacob Marks (1882-1954)
***Katherine Dorothy Marks Alsdorf (1884-1972)
***Ferdinand Theodore Marks (1886-1969)
***John Joseph Marks (1888-1954)
***Mary Elizabeth Marks Schanfeldt (1890-1950)
***Jacob Peter Marks (1893-1966)
***Rose Gertrude Marks Kaeberle (1895-1964)
***Anna Marks Appelhans (1897-1986)
***Barbara Helena Marks (1899-1901)
***Caroline Madeline Marks Rothe (1901-?)
***Matilda Martha Marks Breight (1904-1988)
***Twin Boy to Matilda (1904)
***Bertha Cecilia Marks (Sister m. Clarissa, CSJ) (1906-1996)
***Louise Josephine Marks Hewes (1908-2000)

Katherine was born in Pfeifer, Russia. It was a colony made up of German Catholic immigrants who were invited to farm along the Volga River by Catherine the Great in 1767. She immigrated with Antonius (62) and Magdaline (56) when she was 10 or ll years old in 1876. The ship's manifest said that it originally went to Brazil via Lisbon, Portugal. A great many of these Germans from Russia settled together in Kansas communities.

Katherine married Fred Marks (also an immigrant from Pfeifer, Russia) on July 10, 1881 at the Church of the Assumption in Topeka, Kansas. Fred was a harness and shoe maker, being well thought of in his profession. He owned the Electrical Shoe Shop.

Katherine died while living with her youngest daughter, Louise.


They had a total of 14 children, two of whom died in infancy. Her children were:

***Peter Jacob Marks (1882-1954)
***Katherine Dorothy Marks Alsdorf (1884-1972)
***Ferdinand Theodore Marks (1886-1969)
***John Joseph Marks (1888-1954)
***Mary Elizabeth Marks Schanfeldt (1890-1950)
***Jacob Peter Marks (1893-1966)
***Rose Gertrude Marks Kaeberle (1895-1964)
***Anna Marks Appelhans (1897-1986)
***Barbara Helena Marks (1899-1901)
***Caroline Madeline Marks Rothe (1901-?)
***Matilda Martha Marks Breight (1904-1988)
***Twin Boy to Matilda (1904)
***Bertha Cecilia Marks (Sister m. Clarissa, CSJ) (1906-1996)
***Louise Josephine Marks Hewes (1908-2000)

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