Person:Bertha Wenzel (1)

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Bertha Elizabeth Wenzel
b.8 Jun 1886 Indiana
d.30 Sep 1979
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m. 18 Dec 1884
  1. Bertha Elizabeth Wenzel1886 - 1979
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  1. Ervin L. Conrad1914 - 2006
  2. Howard Clarence Conrad1917 - 2003
  3. Thelma J. Conrad1919 - 1969
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Name[1][2][5][6] Bertha Elizabeth Wenzel
Gender Female
Birth[5] 8 Jun 1886 Indiana
Census? 1900 Chester Township, Wabash County, IndianaAge: 13
Marriage to Clarence E. Conrad
Census? 1940 Chester Township, Wabash County, IndianaAge 53
Death[5] 30 Sep 1979
Burial[5][7][8] Urbana, Wabash, Indiana, United StatesUrbana Cemetery

BERTHA was a great source of information about some of the Urbana pioneers. Her step-father was DAVID LAUER of Urbana. Bertha lived on a farm about one mile north of Urbana, in the 1960s when "White Creek" visited her.

She told the story of John Jacob Lower dying in the original log cabin along State Road 13. He had built a new modern house (at the time) behind his log cabin, but then kept the cabin. Bertha did not know John Jacob, but she knew his widow, Magdalena (Karns) Lower when Bertha was a young girl.

Bertha also remembered visits by Sam and Charlie, sons of Nicholas Lower, who would visit from near Chicago. Apparently, there were return visits by the Urbana folks to the Chicago area. It seems most of the Chicago branch, if not all, changed their surname spelling to LAUER, about 20 years after migrating to Chicago. Data about them is in this WeRelate.org website.

Bertha showed this compiler a large photograph (unknown date) of David Lauer's mother, Magdalena (Karns) Lower on the front porch of her home, but unfortunately this compiler was unable to get a copy, as promised. Hopefully, the photograph has survived, but no one seems to know what happened to it.

--White Creek 16:05, 19 August 2012 (EDT)

References
  1. ↑ James Lower of Noblesville, Indiana.
  2. ↑ Donna Mylrea.
  3.   Metcalfe, Howard. Forty North: Lineages of Some Early Settlers Along the Fortieth Parallel. (Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen Publishing Co., 1997).
  4.   Marilyn (Lauer) Coonrod.

    Supplied the photo used for Bertha (ABOVE).

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Woodward, Ronald L. Cemeteries of Lagro Township, Wabash County, Indiana: includes the cemeteries of Allbright, Center Grove, Cramer, Dora, Fisher, Freeze, Friends (Owen), Hopewell, Lagro I.O.O.F., Lagro Township, Renicker (Berman Baptist), St. Patrick's, St. Peter's (Urbana), Speicher. (Warsaw, Indiana: Scheuer Publications, c1991)
    2002.
  6. ↑ "Jacob Miller Family History"
    Rewritten 1952.
  7. ↑ BERTHA CONRAD
  8. ↑ URBANA CEMETERY 1963
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