Individual Details
Margaretha Ann "Maggie" Breuer
(28 Mar 1862 - 18 Jun 1955)
A letter written in 1914 by Anna Elizabeth "Elise" (Faymonville) Krupper from Krinkelt PR to her cousin Maria Catherine (Breuer) Deuhs in Long Prairie, MN, USA, asks about her cousins in California. "..... And now tell me how do your sisters happen to be in California? That must be a great distance from you and that is surely where one goes to look for gold. According to my figuring, you are all widely separated, whereas we can all get together in four hours by train. Is everything really still so good in America? Are your brothers making a success of farming?......" (Girgen,15).
Events
Families
Spouse | Jacob Weber (1862 - 1923) |
Child | George Joseph Weber (1890 - 1941) |
Child | Irene Sybil Weber (1892 - 1946) |
Child | Francis Breuer "Frank" Weber (1897 - 1965) |
Child | James Walter "Jim" Weber (1932 - 1983) |
Father | Johann Baptist Breuer (1828 - 1905) |
Mother | Sibilla, Savilla "Celia" Langer (1829 - 1909) |
Sibling | Mathias Breuer (1858 - 1859) |
Sibling | Magdalena Breuer (1859 - 1918) |
Sibling | Katharina Ann "Katherine" Breuer (1861 - 1953) |
Sibling | Maria Breuer (1863 - 1863) |
Sibling | Maria Rosa "Rose" Breuer (1864 - 1937) |
Sibling | Maria Katherine "Mary" Breuer (1866 - 1957) |
Sibling | Nicolas C. "Nick" Breuer (1868 - 1934) |
Sibling | John L. Breuer (1870 - 1953) |
Sibling | Joseph Peter Breuer (1873 - 1945) |
Notes
Census
Maybe this Margaret. An early photo of her is labeled C.B. Rust, Hastings, Minn. -Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
David RUST Self M Male W 47 MA Cabinet Maker MA MA
Mary RUST Wife M Female W 37 OH Keeps House MI OH
Clarence RUST Son Male W 18 MA At School MA OH
Jessie RUST Dau S Female W 8 MN At School MA OH
Margaret BREWER Other S Female W 18 MN Servant PRUS LUX
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Source Information:
Census Place Hastings, Dakota, Minnesota
Family History Library Film 1254618
NA Film Number T9-0618
Page Number 162D
Marriage
Marriage LicenseFiled for record the 5th day of August A.D. 1889, at 3.30 o'clock PM,
Jacob Weber
to
Miss Maggie Brewer
Territory of Montana, County of Missoula
These Presents are to authorize any Judge of a Court of Record, any Justice of the Peace within the said County, elected or appointed by the Governor of Montana therefore; any regularly ordained Minister, who is in good standing in the religious denomination to which he belongs,or any Religious Society, according to the usages of said Society, to solemnize, within said County, the marriage of Jacob Weber a White man, aged 28 years, born at Germany in the _ of _ of _ and now residing at Missoula in the county of Missoula territory of Montana and son of Joseph Weber and Anna Wiler with Miss Maggie Brewer a white woman, aged 27 years born at St. Paul in the County of _ State of Minnesota and now residing at Missoula in the County of Missoula and Territory of Montana, and daughter of John Brewer and Savilla Langer.
Neither of said persons have been before married
Said parties being of sufficient age to be capable of contracting marriage, and there being no legal impediment thereto.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this 3rd day of August A.D. 1889.
McLandis, Probate Judge
Territory of Montana, County of Missoula - Certificate
I Hereby Certify, That I believe that the facts stated in the foregoing Licence are true, and that, upon due inquiry, there appears to be no legal impediment to the marriage of said Jacob Weber and Maggie Brewer that said parties were joined in marriage by me on the 5th day of August A. D. 1889, at Missoula in the said County and Territory; that Valentine Blindauer a resident of Missoula of the County of Missoula and Territory of Montana and Kate Blindauer resident of Missoula of the County of Missoula and _ of _ were present as witnesses of said marriage ceremony' that sidad Jacob Weber and Maggie Brewer solemnly declared, in my presence, and the presence of said named witnesses, that there took each other as husband and wife.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, this fifth day of August A. D. 1889
Oil Devinellie
Parish Priest
in the presence of
Valentin Blindauer
Kate Blindauer
Witnesses
Volume/Page/Certificate Number: p 195
Film Number: 1888747
Digital Folder Number: 4156725
Image Number: 232
The Saint Paul Globe (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Wednesday, August 07, 1889. Page 8
MARRIED.
WEBER-BREUER-Miss Margaret Breuer, of Vermillion, to Jacob Weber, formerly of St. Paul, in the Catholic church at Missoula, Montana, Aug. 5, 1889, which they will made their future home. We wish them much success.
Census (family)
Town of Winnemucca, Fourth St.Weber, Jacob, Head, W,M, May 1862, 38, M, 10, Germany, Germany, Germany, 1869, 31, NA ,
Engine inspector, 0 months unemployed, Rent, House
Margret, Wife, W,F, Mar 1862, 38, M, 10, 3,3 Minnesota, Germany, Germany,
George, Son,W, M Jul 1890, 9, S Montana, Germany, Minnesota
Irene Daughter, W, F Mar 1892, 8, S Montana, Germany, Minnesota
Francis, Son, W, M Mar 1897, 3 S Montana, Germany, Minnesota
all but the baby, Francis, could read, write, speak English, and George and Irene were at school.
Census (family)
SD 4, ED 44, sheet 9BFolsom Street #2896
Weber, Jacob, Head, 48, M 20 yrs. Germany, Germany, Germany, Coppersmith Railroad
Margaret, Wife, 48, M 20 yrs. 4 children born and living, Minnesota, Germany, Germany
Dressmaker at own home.
George J. Son, 19, Montana, Machinist Railroad
Irene S. Daughter, 18, Montana, None
Frances B. Son, 13, Montana, None
Walter J. Son, 9, Nevada
Census (family)
Mayfield Township, Vol 120, SD 7, ED 125, Sheet 1, Line 9Santa Clara Co., Purissima Precinct, Purissima Road
3,3, Weber, Jacob 57 Germany 1873 Na 1883 parents both Germany
Own home, free of mortgage. Fruit Farmer.
Weber, Margaret wife 57 Minnesota, Father: Belgium spoke French, Mother: Alsace Lorraine spoke German.
Census
Margaret is living on Purissima Rd. 68 yrs old and widowed, she doesn't list any employment. Next door is her son James and wife Eleanor, and a few doors down her daughter Irene. She lists owning her own home and a radio. She says that her father was from France, and mother from Alsace Lorriane.11, 11, Weber, Margaret, Head, own home and radio, FW, 68, Wd, Minnesota, France, Alsace Lorriane, occupation none
Census
Weber, Francis B, Head, WM, 53, married, Montana, Dentist Dental officeWeber, Alma M, Wife, WF, 54, married, Kansas
Weber, Frances M, Daughter, WF, 23, nev. CA, dental assistant Dental office
Weber, Kenneth B, Son, WM, 19, nev CA
Weber, Margaret, Mother, WF, 88, Wd, Minnesota
Burial
Mother (Lyle) and I use to go every year together to visit the graves of her mother and father and also the grave of Margaret Weber, her grandmother. She has a nice big old fashioned upright headstone. Irene and Fred Duval have the flat kind, but are pretty with nice pictures on them. It's a nice cemetery, well maintainedLot 117 Sub.
Section B
Tombstone reads (see photo) -
WEBER
Jacob | Margaretha
1862 - 1923 | 1862 - 1955
The Daily Palo Alto Times (Palo Alto, California) 23 May 1924, Fri ยท Page 1
Santa Clara County
Alta Mesa Improvement Co., to Margaret A. Weber, part lot 117, Sec. B, Alta Mesa cemetery, $75.
Endnotes
1. California Death Records, Rootsweb.com online [http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi], accessed 2008-2012.
2. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints., Transcription of the United States Federal Population Census - 1880 (http://www.familysearch.org/ Oct. 2002).
3. U.S. Federal Census - Nevada, Humboldt Co., - 1900 Winnemucca precinct E.D. 17, sheet 3 Winnemucca town (taken 2 & 3 June 1900 by Mary G O'Donnell read from microfilm, 18 Oct. 2000, Nancy Prouty).
4. U.S. Federal Census - Nevada, Humboldt Co., - 1900 Winnemucca precinct E.D. 17, sheet 3 Winnemucca town (taken 2 & 3 June 1900 by Mary G O'Donnell read from microfilm, 18 Oct. 2000, Nancy Prouty).
5. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), Read May 24, 2003 N. Prouty.
6. 1910 San Francisco City Directory..
7. US Federal Population Census, 1920 California Census (read July 18, 2001 Nancy Prouty Sonoma Co. Library Annex, Santa Rosa).
8. Soundex - California 1920. (read July 14, 2001, Nancy Prouty Sonoma Co. Library Annex, Santa Rosa), W 160.
9. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1920 > CALIFORNIA > SANTA CLARA > PURISIMA; MAYFIELD TWP Series: T625 Roll: 146 Page: 58.
10. US Federal Government, US Population Census. 1930. California, Santa Clara Co. Fremont Township (Purissima Precinct) ED 43-11 SD 10 Sheet 9A & 9B..
11. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1930 > CALIFORNIA > SANTA CLARA > LOS ALTOS Series: T626 Roll: 219 Page: 79.
12. California Death Records, Rootsweb.com online [http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi], accessed 2008-2012.
13. Pape (Thurman), Eileen., Family oral history of Duval/Weber/Breuer. (2000-2003).
14. Alta Mesa Memorial Park Cemetery Visit, Aug. 19, 2000 by Al & Marion Heiken, Nancy Prouty, 695 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, Calif. 94306-3840. (650) 493-1041..