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Marie Christiane “Mary” <I>Finke</I> Schneider

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Marie Christiane “Mary” Finke Schneider

Birth
Germany
Death
20 Sep 1911 (aged 79)
Albert Lea, Freeborn County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Conger, Freeborn County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
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Lot 12
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Johanne Marie "Mary" Christiane Finke Schneider was bn in Wetterburg, Waldeck, Prussia, Germany. She waa Baptized at the family's Evangelische (Lutheran) Church in nearby Külte. She was 17 years old when her father died. She immigrated to New York State with the other eight members of her family in 1854, and journed West with her mother and older brother, two sisters and infant niece, two years later to the frontier wilds of Freeborn County, Minnesota, arriving there in the late fall of 1856. She was 24 years old. Still single.
But a young man, who had bought into helping the Fink family on the move West, took an interest in Mary. Mary and Heinrich Schneider married on 30 Jun 1857 in nearby Shellrock, thus becoming the first pioneer couple of record to marry in Freeborn County.
They started farming on land adjoining that of her brother Frederick, and of her recently married sister Louise and Christian Bailey.
And then came the family - and considerable sorrow with it. Mary and Heirich had thirteen children, but the great winnower of Diptheria claimed ten of them. The greiving parents buried them one by one in a small plot right outside the kitchen window. Such pain. Unbearable.
But three survived, and from them descended a host of grand chldren for Mary to dote over. The curse, if that is what it was, was finally broken.
We believe that Mary is buried with her husband in the Concordia Pickerel Lake Lutheran Cemetery, even though the stone lists only Heirich.
Johanne Marie "Mary" Christiane Finke Schneider was bn in Wetterburg, Waldeck, Prussia, Germany. She waa Baptized at the family's Evangelische (Lutheran) Church in nearby Külte. She was 17 years old when her father died. She immigrated to New York State with the other eight members of her family in 1854, and journed West with her mother and older brother, two sisters and infant niece, two years later to the frontier wilds of Freeborn County, Minnesota, arriving there in the late fall of 1856. She was 24 years old. Still single.
But a young man, who had bought into helping the Fink family on the move West, took an interest in Mary. Mary and Heinrich Schneider married on 30 Jun 1857 in nearby Shellrock, thus becoming the first pioneer couple of record to marry in Freeborn County.
They started farming on land adjoining that of her brother Frederick, and of her recently married sister Louise and Christian Bailey.
And then came the family - and considerable sorrow with it. Mary and Heirich had thirteen children, but the great winnower of Diptheria claimed ten of them. The greiving parents buried them one by one in a small plot right outside the kitchen window. Such pain. Unbearable.
But three survived, and from them descended a host of grand chldren for Mary to dote over. The curse, if that is what it was, was finally broken.
We believe that Mary is buried with her husband in the Concordia Pickerel Lake Lutheran Cemetery, even though the stone lists only Heirich.

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