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Friday, July 6 2001 |
In
1888, Frank Obermaier, my great-grandfather, arrived in
Chicago, IL from Bavaria. He was 22 years old. With him was
his brother Joseph, and later followed brother Martin and, I
believe, John. Though the Obermaier brothers were "recent"
immigrants to the U.S., through their wives and decendants
they are related to Americans who can trace their roots in
this country back hundreds of years.
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| Collected
histories |
This area of our website, the
Collected
Histories section, is by far our most ambitious
undertaking. As our parents and grandparents get older and
pass away, we lose those very important links to the past, to
who we are, where we came from, and to what makes us a family.
To try and preserve as much as we can, we've sought out our
older relatives, and recorded what they've told us. Some of
what they told us is mundane, some funny, and some was
pretty hard to believe. But it's all part of us.
"William Obermaier died at 39, leaving
behind his wife, Florence Edith, and 5 young children. After a
while, friends began to encourage Florence to marry again, but
she refused, saying, "Any man who'd marry a widow with 5
children is nuts, and I'm not marrying anybody nuts". And she
didn't. She never married again and lived to the ripe old age
of 90, outliving her one and only husband by some 55
years."
as told by Joyce Obermaier
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