Maria Schmidt & Heinrich Lueth

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Subject: Left to Right: Maria Schmidt and Heinrich Lueth.
Date: 1800's.
Location: New Ulm, Minnesota.
Occasion: Portraits.
Photographer: Unknown.
Relationship: Second Great Paternal Grandmother and Grandfather.

Heinrich Lueth was born September 2, 1818 in Meckel, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. At age 27, he married Maria Schmidt in Staven, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany before immigrating to the United States. I do not have any information as to the exact date they arrived in the States, but Heinrich and Maria are recorded in the 1880 Census residing in New Ulm, Brown County, Minnesota. Heinrich was a farmer. He passed away by an accidental drowning, the exact date unknown but attributed by Elfrieda Schutt as September 11, 1896 at the age of 78 in New Ulm, Minnesota.

Maria Schmidt was born in 1821 in Meckel, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. She passed away on February 6, 1897 at age of 76 in New Ulm, Minnesota.

Heinrich and Maria had four surviving children, Augusta Rudolphi Lueth(1846-1903), Johana Lueth Waswo Giermann(1848-1935)(My Maternal Great Grandmother), Elise Lueth(1853-1878) and Frederick T. Lueth(1861-1945).

Johana kept in contact with her brother Frederick. Fredrick moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he worked and is the place of  his death.

These photographs were in the possession of my maternal grandmother, Lucy Waswo. They were together in a frame. I carefully removed them and scanned the photographs to preserve them digitally.

Below is the death notice from the New Ulm newspaper provided by my Cousin Judith Jacob.

In the future, I will return and share more photographs and information about this portion of my family tree.