Eldest of 10 of Ernest Christoph & M. Dorothea Freise Kukuck, Dorta married Theodor Gottlieb Voigt on 13 Mar, 1877 in a double ring ceremony in Limestone Township with her sister Elizabeth and his brother Albert.
She was mother of 8, dying of childbed fever at the birth of her last child. On her deathbed she gave newborn son Edwin to step-sister Sophia Brand Zahn to raise.
The seventh child, a daughter Alice, had died very young. The older 5 remained with their father.
Several of her children held religious careers. One daughter, Mary Sophia, became a missionary to India and married there. Edwin Edgar Voigt became a Methodist bishop.
She was mother of 8, dying of childbed fever at the birth of her last child. On her deathbed she gave newborn son Edwin to step-sister Sophia Brand Zahn to raise.
The seventh child, a daughter Alice, had died very young. The older 5 remained with their father.
Several of her children held religious careers. One daughter, Mary Sophia, became a missionary to India and married there. Edwin Edgar Voigt became a Methodist bishop.
Eldest of 10 of Ernest Christoph & M. Dorothea Freise Kukuck, Dorta married Theodor Gottlieb Voigt on 13 Mar, 1877 in a double ring ceremony in Limestone Township with her sister Elizabeth and his brother Albert.
She was mother of 8, dying of childbed fever at the birth of her last child. On her deathbed she gave newborn son Edwin to step-sister Sophia Brand Zahn to raise.
The seventh child, a daughter Alice, had died very young. The older 5 remained with their father.
Several of her children held religious careers. One daughter, Mary Sophia, became a missionary to India and married there. Edwin Edgar Voigt became a Methodist bishop.
She was mother of 8, dying of childbed fever at the birth of her last child. On her deathbed she gave newborn son Edwin to step-sister Sophia Brand Zahn to raise.
The seventh child, a daughter Alice, had died very young. The older 5 remained with their father.
Several of her children held religious careers. One daughter, Mary Sophia, became a missionary to India and married there. Edwin Edgar Voigt became a Methodist bishop.
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