Born Margarette Agnes to Henry and Helena Humpe in Holland, she came with them to America where they most likely settled in New York City.
She met and married German immigrant August Buscher who was living in New York City about 1863, and together they had three children:
Henry b. 1867 in Massachusetts
Frederick b. 1873 in New York
Theodore b. 1874 in Missouri
On the 1870 census, Agnes and August and baby Henry are living with her parents in household no. 497 in Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York where August is working as a dyer and her father as a shoemaker.
She is shown as the head of household on the 1880 census with all three of her son, living on Branch Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island. While August is inexplicably missing from the household, her apparently widowed father Henry (incorrectly identified as her father-in-law) is there, working as a cobbler, listed as being 'maimed, lame, etc.'
Per the 1883 Providence Directory, there is a Henry Humpe listed as "removed to Holland", so it is possible he went back home although it would have been an arduous trip for someone of his years.
And now...for a little mystery. On the same 1883 Providence Directory, Agnes is listed as "widowed", presumably the reason for August not being reported on the 1880 census.
However, on the 1900 census he has apparently risen from the dead as he's with her in Rhode Island where they're living with Theodore. She states on that census that she had two children, only one of which survives, and at this point it is unclear what happened to Henry and Frederick, or how three children became two. Theodore, however, remained with his parents the rest of their lives.
Theodore eventually married and moved to Chicago, and his parents went with him, passing away before he and his wife returned to her home town of Milwaukee.
She met and married German immigrant August Buscher who was living in New York City about 1863, and together they had three children:
Henry b. 1867 in Massachusetts
Frederick b. 1873 in New York
Theodore b. 1874 in Missouri
On the 1870 census, Agnes and August and baby Henry are living with her parents in household no. 497 in Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York where August is working as a dyer and her father as a shoemaker.
She is shown as the head of household on the 1880 census with all three of her son, living on Branch Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island. While August is inexplicably missing from the household, her apparently widowed father Henry (incorrectly identified as her father-in-law) is there, working as a cobbler, listed as being 'maimed, lame, etc.'
Per the 1883 Providence Directory, there is a Henry Humpe listed as "removed to Holland", so it is possible he went back home although it would have been an arduous trip for someone of his years.
And now...for a little mystery. On the same 1883 Providence Directory, Agnes is listed as "widowed", presumably the reason for August not being reported on the 1880 census.
However, on the 1900 census he has apparently risen from the dead as he's with her in Rhode Island where they're living with Theodore. She states on that census that she had two children, only one of which survives, and at this point it is unclear what happened to Henry and Frederick, or how three children became two. Theodore, however, remained with his parents the rest of their lives.
Theodore eventually married and moved to Chicago, and his parents went with him, passing away before he and his wife returned to her home town of Milwaukee.
Born Margarette Agnes to Henry and Helena Humpe in Holland, she came with them to America where they most likely settled in New York City.
She met and married German immigrant August Buscher who was living in New York City about 1863, and together they had three children:
Henry b. 1867 in Massachusetts
Frederick b. 1873 in New York
Theodore b. 1874 in Missouri
On the 1870 census, Agnes and August and baby Henry are living with her parents in household no. 497 in Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York where August is working as a dyer and her father as a shoemaker.
She is shown as the head of household on the 1880 census with all three of her son, living on Branch Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island. While August is inexplicably missing from the household, her apparently widowed father Henry (incorrectly identified as her father-in-law) is there, working as a cobbler, listed as being 'maimed, lame, etc.'
Per the 1883 Providence Directory, there is a Henry Humpe listed as "removed to Holland", so it is possible he went back home although it would have been an arduous trip for someone of his years.
And now...for a little mystery. On the same 1883 Providence Directory, Agnes is listed as "widowed", presumably the reason for August not being reported on the 1880 census.
However, on the 1900 census he has apparently risen from the dead as he's with her in Rhode Island where they're living with Theodore. She states on that census that she had two children, only one of which survives, and at this point it is unclear what happened to Henry and Frederick, or how three children became two. Theodore, however, remained with his parents the rest of their lives.
Theodore eventually married and moved to Chicago, and his parents went with him, passing away before he and his wife returned to her home town of Milwaukee.
She met and married German immigrant August Buscher who was living in New York City about 1863, and together they had three children:
Henry b. 1867 in Massachusetts
Frederick b. 1873 in New York
Theodore b. 1874 in Missouri
On the 1870 census, Agnes and August and baby Henry are living with her parents in household no. 497 in Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York where August is working as a dyer and her father as a shoemaker.
She is shown as the head of household on the 1880 census with all three of her son, living on Branch Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island. While August is inexplicably missing from the household, her apparently widowed father Henry (incorrectly identified as her father-in-law) is there, working as a cobbler, listed as being 'maimed, lame, etc.'
Per the 1883 Providence Directory, there is a Henry Humpe listed as "removed to Holland", so it is possible he went back home although it would have been an arduous trip for someone of his years.
And now...for a little mystery. On the same 1883 Providence Directory, Agnes is listed as "widowed", presumably the reason for August not being reported on the 1880 census.
However, on the 1900 census he has apparently risen from the dead as he's with her in Rhode Island where they're living with Theodore. She states on that census that she had two children, only one of which survives, and at this point it is unclear what happened to Henry and Frederick, or how three children became two. Theodore, however, remained with his parents the rest of their lives.
Theodore eventually married and moved to Chicago, and his parents went with him, passing away before he and his wife returned to her home town of Milwaukee.
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