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This is a memorial certificate presented to Emma Sutorius, Bill Dean's maternal grandmother, on the day she passed her Catechism exam in 1904. Born in 1889, Emma passed her exam at the age 14. A granddaughter of Swiss emigrants Gottlieb and Anna…

This is the front page of the school report card of Emma Sutorius. A granddaughter of Swiss emigrants Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz, Emma was the first child of Dirk and Maria Sutorius. She married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in…

This ornate document is a marriage certificate for Edo Harms and Emma Sutorius, maternal grandparents of Bill Dean, whose family provided the document. Born in 1889 in Humboldt, Nebraska, Emma Sutorius was a daughter of first-generation Americans…

This document comes from the Family of Bill Dean Collection and belongs to the generation of Bill Dean's parents. The school report card from 1925-1926 school year illustrates that the form for school reports has largely remained unchanged for the…

This a notice of marriage between Jacob "Jake" Schuetz and Mary Herr, printed in the German-language newspaper published in Humboldt, Nebraska. Mary was Jacob's second wife. Jacob's first wife, Katharina, came from the Swiss family out of Canton…

This a notice of marriage between John Schuetz and Anna Meister, printed in the German-language newspaper published in Humboldt, Nebraska. Born in 1875, a sixth child in the family of Swiss emigrants Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz, John Schuetz married at…

This a notice announcing the birth and death in four days of the daughter of John Schuetz and his wife Anna, printed in the German-language newspaper published in Humboldt, Nebraska. Born in 1875, a sixth child in the family of Swiss emigrants…

The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. These four notices tell of Carl Christian Schuetz's death almost two years after he sustained injury in a tornado. A barn collapsed on him,…

The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. These two notices tell of Lucy (Lizzie) Schuetz's death of typhoid. Born in 1879, she was the seventh child in the family of Swiss…

The Family of Bill Dean collection includes many death notices cut out of mostly German-language newspapers. This obituary tells of Anna Schuetz's death in 1906, at the age of 66. Born in 1840 in Ruegsau, Switzerland, Anna Parli married Gottlieb…