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Emma Fecht1855

Name
Emma Fecht
Surname
Fecht
Given names
Emma
Birth October 25, 1855 36 31
Birth of a brotherAlbert Oscar Fecht
February 19, 1858 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a sisterAugusta Victoria Fecht
May 19, 1860 (Age 4 years)
Birth of a sisterPauline Eugenie “Jennie” Fecht
June 29, 1863 (Age 7 years)
Birth of a sisterBertha Otilie “Otelia” Fecht
September 26, 1865 (Age 9 years)
Death of a sisterAugusta Victoria Fecht
February 2, 1896 (Age 40 years)
Cause: Typhoid (from bad milk)
Death of a fatherEugene Fecht
December 15, 1904 (Age 49 years)
Cause: marsmus senilis
Death of a motherMaria Walburga Wurth
August 15, 1906 (Age 50 years)
Cause: Inflammed gall bladder
Death of a sisterIda Helena Fecht
March 24, 1913 (Age 57 years)
Death of a sisterHelene Fecht
after 1920 (Age 64 years)

Death of a brotherJulius Fecht
January 19, 1924 (Age 68 years)
Cause: cancer
Death of a brotherEmil J. Fecht
July 16, 1926 (Age 70 years)
Death of a sisterBertha Otilie “Otelia” Fecht
November 7, 1933 (Age 78 years)
Death of a sisterPauline Eugenie “Jennie” Fecht
January 25, 1947 (Age 91 years)
Death of a brotherAlbert Oscar Fecht
September 26, 1950 (Age 94 years)
Cause: Car accident
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mother
Marriage: November 9, 1843Helig Kreuz RC church, Stein Am Kocher, Baden
17 years
younger sister
-11 years
elder brother
-4 years
elder sister
2 years
elder sister
6 years
elder brother
2 years
herself
2 years
younger brother
5 years
younger sister
2 years
younger sister

Note

Never married. Spent most life as a piano teacher. Lived in Detroit her whole life. 1920 census shows her a lodger living at 276 Randolph St., Detroit, MI, age 64, salesman at a dry goods store.

Note

Eugene Fecht wrote in his family bible: "My daughter, Emma, was born 1855 Oct 25 at Isle Royal, Mine Town Portage Lake, Houghton county, Lake Superior." In 1852, the Isle Royale Mining Co. had moved operations from Isle Royale (an island in Lake Superior) to a mine south of Houghton, near Portage Lake. This was one a several mines in the "South Portge Range." I assume that Eugene was working here at the time of Emma's birth. In his memoir, Eugene states the family moved to Detroit in 1856, so Emma lived in the U.P. about a year.

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