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Bleimes Family History Chapter 8. Hattie Usually called Hattie, Harriet Elizabeth Marshall was the first non-German to join the Bleimes line. At times she was known as Harriet Wright, which was the surname of her mother Amanda's last husband. And since we know next to nothing about her father, John, we can only theorize her lineage to be all British. She started life in the little town of Juda, Green County, Wisconsin in December 1864, or possibly '63. . Juda is just a few miles north of Winnebago Village, Illinois where she and her husband George lived for a while. The 1880 Chicago census (June) lists her as age 17, father born in Ohio, mother born in Kentucky, occupation servant. So she and George may have met there, or up north where he worked for the railroad. She bore six children, the last birth causing, or at least contributing to her death in the Chicago winter of 1893, one day short of her 29th birthday. The death certificate names double pneumonia as the cause, with confinement as a contributing factor. I assume confinement equates to childbirth. |