In Germany records: Frederike Lisette Maria C. "Mary" Peters.
3-12-1903 Advocate-Republican Newspaper, Audubon, Iowa clipping:
"Obituary. Mrs. Maria Berg died Thursday, March 5th, at their home in Douglas Township, and was buried Saturday in the cemetery west of Douglas Center school house.
Maria Peters was 78 years, 4 month and 21 days old when she died, having first seen the light of day across the foam crest billows of the Atlantic in her fatherland Germany. Her girlhood companion and lover was Wm. Berg to whom she was married in Germany Oct. 1853 and together they bade goodbye to relatives and friends, turned their faces toward the setting sun and finally landed in Ottawa, Ill. in 1882. In 1889 they came to Audubon county where they have since made their home.
Four children, two boys, Fred and William, and two girls, Frederica Blume [Blohm] and Minnie Graves came to their home and live yet and helped care for her in her last sickness and followed her to her last long resting place.
She has lived a life of usefulness and helpfulness in this world. She has been a true and consistent wife, caring for and helping her husband in all the ways of life and as a mother giving an example and advice that will ever make them true and noble citizens."
Notes: Mary/Maria (Peters/Peterson)Berg's husband was Ludwig Fredrick "Lewis" Berg. In the 1900 Census, she stated that she was the mother of 8 children, 4 of whom were living. Those four children were born in a small town Treptow, Germany. Those children are Fredrick Emanuel Berg (9 Sept. 1854-26 Oct 1931); Wilhelm/William Theodore M. Berg (21 Nov. 1857-9 Nov 1928); Fredericka Sophie Berg Blohm (10 April 1860-3 March 1948); and Willamina Catherine Berg Graves (15 March 1862-5 May 1962).
One source has Mary immigrated with her husband and children in 1874 from Treptow, Germany to Ottawa, Illinois. Her brother, "Fritz" Frederich Johann Christian Peters earned his living as a farmer near Albion, Edwards County, Illinois. (Her obituary says she came over in 1882, but the immigration record has the family here in April 1881. Her daughter Fredericka was married to Joe Blohm in Ottawa, IL 16 July 1881). Ludwig & Maria came to Douglas Township, Audubon County in 1889.
(Fritz's findagrave memorial #102685025).
3-12-1903 Advocate-Republican Newspaper, Audubon, Iowa clipping:
"Obituary. Mrs. Maria Berg died Thursday, March 5th, at their home in Douglas Township, and was buried Saturday in the cemetery west of Douglas Center school house.
Maria Peters was 78 years, 4 month and 21 days old when she died, having first seen the light of day across the foam crest billows of the Atlantic in her fatherland Germany. Her girlhood companion and lover was Wm. Berg to whom she was married in Germany Oct. 1853 and together they bade goodbye to relatives and friends, turned their faces toward the setting sun and finally landed in Ottawa, Ill. in 1882. In 1889 they came to Audubon county where they have since made their home.
Four children, two boys, Fred and William, and two girls, Frederica Blume [Blohm] and Minnie Graves came to their home and live yet and helped care for her in her last sickness and followed her to her last long resting place.
She has lived a life of usefulness and helpfulness in this world. She has been a true and consistent wife, caring for and helping her husband in all the ways of life and as a mother giving an example and advice that will ever make them true and noble citizens."
Notes: Mary/Maria (Peters/Peterson)Berg's husband was Ludwig Fredrick "Lewis" Berg. In the 1900 Census, she stated that she was the mother of 8 children, 4 of whom were living. Those four children were born in a small town Treptow, Germany. Those children are Fredrick Emanuel Berg (9 Sept. 1854-26 Oct 1931); Wilhelm/William Theodore M. Berg (21 Nov. 1857-9 Nov 1928); Fredericka Sophie Berg Blohm (10 April 1860-3 March 1948); and Willamina Catherine Berg Graves (15 March 1862-5 May 1962).
One source has Mary immigrated with her husband and children in 1874 from Treptow, Germany to Ottawa, Illinois. Her brother, "Fritz" Frederich Johann Christian Peters earned his living as a farmer near Albion, Edwards County, Illinois. (Her obituary says she came over in 1882, but the immigration record has the family here in April 1881. Her daughter Fredericka was married to Joe Blohm in Ottawa, IL 16 July 1881). Ludwig & Maria came to Douglas Township, Audubon County in 1889.
(Fritz's findagrave memorial #102685025).
In Germany records: Frederike Lisette Maria C. "Mary" Peters.
3-12-1903 Advocate-Republican Newspaper, Audubon, Iowa clipping:
"Obituary. Mrs. Maria Berg died Thursday, March 5th, at their home in Douglas Township, and was buried Saturday in the cemetery west of Douglas Center school house.
Maria Peters was 78 years, 4 month and 21 days old when she died, having first seen the light of day across the foam crest billows of the Atlantic in her fatherland Germany. Her girlhood companion and lover was Wm. Berg to whom she was married in Germany Oct. 1853 and together they bade goodbye to relatives and friends, turned their faces toward the setting sun and finally landed in Ottawa, Ill. in 1882. In 1889 they came to Audubon county where they have since made their home.
Four children, two boys, Fred and William, and two girls, Frederica Blume [Blohm] and Minnie Graves came to their home and live yet and helped care for her in her last sickness and followed her to her last long resting place.
She has lived a life of usefulness and helpfulness in this world. She has been a true and consistent wife, caring for and helping her husband in all the ways of life and as a mother giving an example and advice that will ever make them true and noble citizens."
Notes: Mary/Maria (Peters/Peterson)Berg's husband was Ludwig Fredrick "Lewis" Berg. In the 1900 Census, she stated that she was the mother of 8 children, 4 of whom were living. Those four children were born in a small town Treptow, Germany. Those children are Fredrick Emanuel Berg (9 Sept. 1854-26 Oct 1931); Wilhelm/William Theodore M. Berg (21 Nov. 1857-9 Nov 1928); Fredericka Sophie Berg Blohm (10 April 1860-3 March 1948); and Willamina Catherine Berg Graves (15 March 1862-5 May 1962).
One source has Mary immigrated with her husband and children in 1874 from Treptow, Germany to Ottawa, Illinois. Her brother, "Fritz" Frederich Johann Christian Peters earned his living as a farmer near Albion, Edwards County, Illinois. (Her obituary says she came over in 1882, but the immigration record has the family here in April 1881. Her daughter Fredericka was married to Joe Blohm in Ottawa, IL 16 July 1881). Ludwig & Maria came to Douglas Township, Audubon County in 1889.
(Fritz's findagrave memorial #102685025).
3-12-1903 Advocate-Republican Newspaper, Audubon, Iowa clipping:
"Obituary. Mrs. Maria Berg died Thursday, March 5th, at their home in Douglas Township, and was buried Saturday in the cemetery west of Douglas Center school house.
Maria Peters was 78 years, 4 month and 21 days old when she died, having first seen the light of day across the foam crest billows of the Atlantic in her fatherland Germany. Her girlhood companion and lover was Wm. Berg to whom she was married in Germany Oct. 1853 and together they bade goodbye to relatives and friends, turned their faces toward the setting sun and finally landed in Ottawa, Ill. in 1882. In 1889 they came to Audubon county where they have since made their home.
Four children, two boys, Fred and William, and two girls, Frederica Blume [Blohm] and Minnie Graves came to their home and live yet and helped care for her in her last sickness and followed her to her last long resting place.
She has lived a life of usefulness and helpfulness in this world. She has been a true and consistent wife, caring for and helping her husband in all the ways of life and as a mother giving an example and advice that will ever make them true and noble citizens."
Notes: Mary/Maria (Peters/Peterson)Berg's husband was Ludwig Fredrick "Lewis" Berg. In the 1900 Census, she stated that she was the mother of 8 children, 4 of whom were living. Those four children were born in a small town Treptow, Germany. Those children are Fredrick Emanuel Berg (9 Sept. 1854-26 Oct 1931); Wilhelm/William Theodore M. Berg (21 Nov. 1857-9 Nov 1928); Fredericka Sophie Berg Blohm (10 April 1860-3 March 1948); and Willamina Catherine Berg Graves (15 March 1862-5 May 1962).
One source has Mary immigrated with her husband and children in 1874 from Treptow, Germany to Ottawa, Illinois. Her brother, "Fritz" Frederich Johann Christian Peters earned his living as a farmer near Albion, Edwards County, Illinois. (Her obituary says she came over in 1882, but the immigration record has the family here in April 1881. Her daughter Fredericka was married to Joe Blohm in Ottawa, IL 16 July 1881). Ludwig & Maria came to Douglas Township, Audubon County in 1889.
(Fritz's findagrave memorial #102685025).
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