Caroline Sophia Ida Prestin "Carrie" was born to Ludwig (Louis in the US) Heinrich Friedrich Preston and Friederica Sophie Koester on 8 April 1858 in Muehl-Rosin, Mecklenburg, Germany (according to her German birth record). She was baptized in a German Lutheran Church in Badendiek, Mecklenburg, Deutschland (Germany) on 27 April 1858. Her surname in German was Prestien but on the record it was Preston.
Caroline was 9 and her sibling William was 6 months when they came to America from Hamburg, Germany to New York, New York departing on 1 November 1867 on a ship called "Electric."
She was raised in the German Lutheran Faith and her parents continued with that in the US. where they lived in Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin but Carrie was married to Henry and they were Catholic.
Caroline married Henry Tennis, Jr.
They had 4 children: Rosa Ann (married Lee Ackerman), Elmer Louis, John Frederick, and Charles Alexander.
Caroline was 9 and her sibling William was 6 months when they came to America from Hamburg, Germany to New York, New York departing on 1 November 1867 on a ship called "Electric."
She was raised in the German Lutheran Faith and her parents continued with that in the US. where they lived in Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin but Carrie was married to Henry and they were Catholic.
Caroline married Henry Tennis, Jr.
They had 4 children: Rosa Ann (married Lee Ackerman), Elmer Louis, John Frederick, and Charles Alexander.
Caroline Sophia Ida Prestin "Carrie" was born to Ludwig (Louis in the US) Heinrich Friedrich Preston and Friederica Sophie Koester on 8 April 1858 in Muehl-Rosin, Mecklenburg, Germany (according to her German birth record). She was baptized in a German Lutheran Church in Badendiek, Mecklenburg, Deutschland (Germany) on 27 April 1858. Her surname in German was Prestien but on the record it was Preston.
Caroline was 9 and her sibling William was 6 months when they came to America from Hamburg, Germany to New York, New York departing on 1 November 1867 on a ship called "Electric."
She was raised in the German Lutheran Faith and her parents continued with that in the US. where they lived in Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin but Carrie was married to Henry and they were Catholic.
Caroline married Henry Tennis, Jr.
They had 4 children: Rosa Ann (married Lee Ackerman), Elmer Louis, John Frederick, and Charles Alexander.
Caroline was 9 and her sibling William was 6 months when they came to America from Hamburg, Germany to New York, New York departing on 1 November 1867 on a ship called "Electric."
She was raised in the German Lutheran Faith and her parents continued with that in the US. where they lived in Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin but Carrie was married to Henry and they were Catholic.
Caroline married Henry Tennis, Jr.
They had 4 children: Rosa Ann (married Lee Ackerman), Elmer Louis, John Frederick, and Charles Alexander.
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