"My Huck Antecendants" By Glenn L

"My Huck Antecendants" By Glenn L. Sitzman.

ANNA MARIE (KINDSVATER) SAUER

Anna Marie (Annie) Kindsvater married Nikolaus Sauer at Norka on 18 Feb 1872. He was born at Norka on 3 April 1854, and was the son of Conrad and Magdelene (Traudt) Sauer (source of information: AHSGR card from Sophie Traudt Schreiber). The U. S. Census of 1900 for Oklahoma Territory recorded that Nikolaus and Anna Marie immigrated to the U. S. in 1891, that Nikolaus could not speak English in 1900, that he owned his farm free of mortgage, and that he had filed for naturalization.

Anna Marie and Nikolaus lived first at Stanton, Nebraska, after their arrival in the U. S. In 1895 they moved to Oklahoma Territory during the land run and homesteaded a 160 acre farm near what is now the town of Weatherford, along with numerous other Russian Germans eager to own land.

My mother described her "Uncle Nick" as having black hair and beard. He had a full beard but no mustache. He wore his beard trimmed short, but he had such bushy hair on his chest and neck that the beard appeared to be long. He always wore a small earring in one ear. Judging from a photograph I saw of him, I think he must have been a large man. He died on his 55th wedding anniversary, 18 Feb 1927, at age 73.

Anna Marie lived till 23 July 1940. My Aunt Raye Hughes told me that Aunt Annie had rented a part of her house in Weatherford to a family. One day she told her tenant that they were making too much noise. The tenant became angry and shoved Aunt Annie, who fell and struck her head against a piece of furniture. Some of her children wanted to prosecute the tenant, but Aunt Annie would not agree to it. A few days later she died at age 83 yr., 7 mo., 1 day.

The 1900 census recorded that Anna Marie was the mother of 13 children, with 9 living. Her daughter Emily (Sauer) Kissler, however, told me that her parents had lost three children to death, not four, with one buried in Oklahoma. The Zion German Congregational Church Book gives the names of the three children who died as Emma, Katherine, and Henry. (I:134)

Surviving Children of Nikolaus and Anna Marie (Kindsvater) Sauer:

1. John Sauer was born at Norka, 3 July 1876, and died at Weatherford OK,

10 Oct 1954, at age 78 yr., 3 mo., 7 days. On 27 Nov 1899 he married Anna

Elizabeth (Alice) Traudt at Weatherford, Oklahoma Territory. Alice was born

at Norka, 20 Oct 1877, and died at Weatherford, 23 Dec 1947, at age 70. She

was the daughter of Peter (1852-1918) and Elizabeth (Brehm, 1854-1933) Traudt,

both of Norka and Weatherford. Her grandparents were Henry and Elizabeth

(Lofink) Traudt and Adam and Sophie Brehm. (Information on Alice's lineage

from Chris and Mary Mills).

2. George Sauer, b. Norka, 15 Oct 1878; d. Weatherford, OK, 15 May 1951, at age 72 yr., 7 mo. On 20 Jan 1903, he married Anna Marie Adler in the Friesen School near Weatherford. Theirs was the first in the register of marriages in the newly organized Zion German Congregational Church, southwest of Weatherford. Anna Marie was born at Kolb, 18 Aug 1884; she died at Weatherford, 15 Dec 1903, at age 19, and was the first to buried in the Zion Church cemetery. She was the daughter of Johann Peter and Anna Elizabeth (Alice) (Benzel) Adler and the granddaughter of Valentin (1830-1910) and Katherine Elizabeth (Schreiner) Adler (1834-1931). On 12 Feb 1905 George

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married Katherine Elizabeth Adler at Campbell, NE. She was born at Kolb 20 Jan 1877; d. Weatherford, 4 Feb 1944, at age 67. Though both wives were from Kolb and both were named Adler, they were not close kin.

3. Magdelena (Lena) Sauer, b. Norka, 1 Oct 1880; d. Garden City, KS, 11 Jan 1955, at age 74 yr., 3 mo., 10 days. On 4 Oct 1898 she married, at Weatherford, Aloysius K. Ohmes, b. St. Petersburg, M0, 25 Nov 1870; d. Garden City, 30 Apr 1935, at age 64. He was the son of Joseph and Anna Mary (Amrein) Ohmes. (Source: Anna Mary (Ohmes) Lobmeyer, Garden City, KS)

4. Katarina (Katie) Sauer, b. Norka, 15 Sep 1884; d. Clinton, OK, 23 Apr 1961,

at age 76 yr., 7 mo., 8 days. On 2 Nov 1902, at Weatherford, she married

Lewis Hamburger, b. Hastings, NE, 27 Nov 1880; d. Clinton, OK, 3 Aug 1952,

at age 71. He was the son of John Hamburger, Sr., b. Norka, 18 Feb 1855;

d. Weatherford, 21 Dec 1927, at age 72; and Margaret (Bott) Hamburger,

b. Norka, 11 Aug 1855; d. Weatherford, 19 July 1934, at age 78.

5. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Sauer, b. Norka, 24 Sep 1888; d. Portland, OR, 13 Sep 1971, nine days short of her 83rd birthday. On 2 Aug 1903 she married Alexander (Alex ) Traudt, b. Norka, 2 Aug 1882; d. Portland, OR, 24 June 1955, age 72. He was the nephew of Peter Traudt and was raised as Peter's son.

6. Adam Sauer, b. Stanton, NE, 3 Aug 1892; d. Weatherford, 26 June 1973, at age 80 yr., 10 mo., 23 days. On 9 Apr 1914, at Weatherford, he married Elizabeth (Lizzie) Sauer, b. (Norka?), 5 July 1894; d. Weatheford, 16 July 1972, at age 78. (The Zion German Congregational Church Book has: married at Lincoln, NE, 28 Apr 1914) She was the daughter of Conrad and Anna Marie (Klaus) Sauer. Conrad and Nikolaus Sauer were first cousins. (Source: Mrs. John Baker of Portland, OR, cousin of Lizzie Sauer, 1975)

7. Marie (Mary) Sauer, b. Stanton, NE, 20 Nov 1894; d. Lawton, OK, 30 Apr 1967, at age 72 yr., 5 mo., and 10 days. On 21 Nov 1911, at Weatherford, she married Jacob (Jake) Adler, b. Hastings, NE, 19 Apr 1890; d. Lawton, OK, 28 Nov 1984, at age 94. He was the son of Johann Peter and Anna Elizabeth (Alice) (Benzel) Adler, and the grandson of Valentin and Katherine Elizabeth (Schreiner) Adler. (Cf. above at No. 2)

8. Conrad Sauer, b. Weatherford, OK Terr, 7 June 1896; d. Denver, C0, 3 Mar 1960,

at age 63 yr., 8 mo., 27 days. On 10 Sep 1916, at Okeene, OK, he married Marie

(Mary) Katherine Winter, b. Russia, 6 July 1896; d. Denver, C0, 5 Dec 1972,

at age 76. She was the daughter of Leonhardt (b. Tscherbakovba, Russia,

1855; d. Okeene, OK, 1936) and Katherine (Kuxhaus) Winter (b. Tscherbakovba,

26 Sep 1857; d. Weatherford, OK, 9 June 1922)

9. Emelie (Emily) Sauer, b. Weatherford, 7 Aug 1899; d. Fresno, CA, 23 May 1990, at age 90 yr., 9 mo., 16 days. On 16 Mar 1916, at Weatherford, she married Rudolf Kissler, b. Hastings, NE, 17 Feb 1893; d. Weatherford, 5 Dec 1964, at age 71. Rudolf was the son of Heinrich (b. Frank, 9 Oct 1865; d. Weatherford, 11 June 1947) and Maria Katrina (Herbst) Kissler (b. Frank, 1 Nov 1865; d. Hastings, NE, 1893)

NB: Information on the Sauers was received from various members of the Sauer family, and some discrepancies exist between that information and the information recorded in the genealogical section of the Zion Church Book II.

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