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Marie (Mary) Strecker Hummel, Her Life and Story
Marie (Mary) Magelena Strecker Hummel was a widow at the age of 40, having been married only 12 short years. At the time of Gottlieb’s death in 1868, they had three living children ages 7, 5 and 2 years old with an unborn son who would be born 7 months after his father’s death. Can you…
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Christian Gottlob Hummel, Son of Mary And Gottlieb
Mary and Gottlieb had a son named Christian Gottlob Hummel who died in Germany before they came to the United States. We found the records of their infant son Christian Hummel, as we were preparing for this family reunion. I had gone on Ancestry.com to look at some additional information and records and stubbled across the records of Christian…
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A Preacher, Artist, Doctor and Farmer
Gottlieb and Mary Hummel’s children all chose very different paths in life. One was a preacher, one was a doctor—who liked to boil up a corpse in his spare time—another an artist, while one chose to be a farmer. All traveled various paths, but all came from the same origin: the Hummel family. At this year’s Hummel…
