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Margretha Strauss <I>Fornoff</I> Witt

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Margretha Strauss Fornoff Witt

Birth
Tazewell County, Illinois, USA
Death
19 Feb 1930 (aged 67)
Kankakee, Kankakee County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Sibley, Ford County, Illinois, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.5888481, Longitude: -88.3971405
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Widow of _____ Strauss, she married Gustav Witt on 1 Jan 1903 in Pekin, IL. She had other adult children but brought Clara and William Strauss with her to the Witt home in Sibley, IL .

Margaretha (Margaret) died in a Kankakee Hospital. Family records say she died in 1938. Cemetery , State Death Index and tombstone say 1930. Some records spell her name Fornhoff. She may be related (a sister?) to Mary Fornoff Hafer.

daughter Clara married _______ BOETTGER of Hamilton, ND.
William Strauss was gassed in W. W. I and died in a veteran's hospital in Montana.
Margaret endeared herself to her stepchildren. The stone is inscribed "mother."
Widow of _____ Strauss, she married Gustav Witt on 1 Jan 1903 in Pekin, IL. She had other adult children but brought Clara and William Strauss with her to the Witt home in Sibley, IL .

Margaretha (Margaret) died in a Kankakee Hospital. Family records say she died in 1938. Cemetery , State Death Index and tombstone say 1930. Some records spell her name Fornhoff. She may be related (a sister?) to Mary Fornoff Hafer.

daughter Clara married _______ BOETTGER of Hamilton, ND.
William Strauss was gassed in W. W. I and died in a veteran's hospital in Montana.
Margaret endeared herself to her stepchildren. The stone is inscribed "mother."


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