Person:Martin Clos (1)

Martin Clos was born on 24 May 1803 to Anna Magdelena Clos and an unknown father in Blieskastel, Bavaria (now part of Germany). Anna later married Theobald Woll, and in 1809 they gave Martin a step-brother, Nicholas Woll. Martin married Magdalena Maria Leonard and between 1830 and 1848 they had eight children in Blieskastel, three of whom died before the age of 6.

Martin and Magdalena Clos sailed from Le Havre, France with most of their surviving children on the ship Harvest Queen, identifying their place of origin as Bavaria, and arrived in the United States on 12 Oct. 1853; he was 50 and she 51. Two years later they were living at 210 Lafayette Street in Detroit, Michigan, where Martin worked as a shoemaker. Martin died on 18 May 1856, and is buried in Lot 41, Section C, of Mt. Elliot Cemetery in Detroit. Magdalena died twenty-three years later.

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