STURZENEGGERS!

Been working on the children of John Sturzenegger and Rosina Zopfe from Switzerland but in California. They had 12 children.

John Sturzenegger was born about 1820 in Switzerland, died about 1810, but I don't have a whole lot of info on Rosina other than she was born about 1832 in Switzerland. Their children are as follows as best as I can determine from the 1870, 1880 censuses from San Antonio, Monterey, California:

William Francis 11 Mar 1871
Fredrick 1854
Elizabeth ~1859
John J ~1862
Jacob J ~1868
Emma ~May 1870
Carolina ~1876
Rosa ~1857
Louisa (Luisa) ~1862
Amia ~1853
And Predeline (?) or Piery Ann (?) - ~1864.

Fredrick's wife, Rachel, is reported that her family came from Missouri, and some were involved in the Mountain Meadow Massacre, but she was born the year after, and I understand only a few children survived from that, so I don't know it would have been her family directly.


These were obtained off Ancestry.com - but here we go!  Some faces to the names.  I'm currently researching Lizzy, her husband, William (?) Orr, died in a buggy accident leaving her a widow but she died when her oldest was 11 but I don't know why or how.  Anyways, these are the photos I have for now.

Rachel Fancher Sturzenegger - wife of Fredrick Sturzenegger, buried at Mountain View cemetery, Kingman Arizona

And Fredrick

Fredrick Sturzenegger - San Francisco ~1880-ish

Elizabeth "Lizzy" Sturzenegger (Later Orr)

William & Jacob

Rosa

Agnews State Hospital for Insanity

This is a bit tangential for a genealogy study, but I'm also working on becoming a doctor of psychology so obviously the concept of an insane asylum is interesting to me.

My g-g-grandfather John Sturzenegger was, according to a 1900 census, committed to the Agnews State Hospital for Insanity.  Here's a link to the hospital here.

Here's another link to the hospital itsself.  Given that my professional studies are in psychology, I'm interested in finding the records of John Sturzenegger.  Given that he was from Switzerland, I wonder if there was something to this at that point in regressing to a native language, or was it just dementia?

Here's the census. 

Muffenbiers!

I got an Ancestry.com subscription!  However, I don't have the international version subscription.   So my work kind of stops here in the states.

Tonight I worked on the family married to Thelma Marie Millican - now Thelma Marie Muffenbier.  She is the daughter of William and Marie Millican. Apparently, still living out in Boring, Oregon (as in boring a hole, not boring lack of entertainment). 

I remembered that I have a picture of her being married in the 1940's to a Philip Muffenbier - don't ask me how I remember this.  I have no idea how I remember this.  But I do. The clue was she is in my genealogy as Thelma Marie Muffenbier rather than Millican, so I just had to remember the first name.  So I did some searches to confirm what I thought I remembered and VOILA!  I was right.  

So she married a Philip R Muffenbier, though I don't remember the date.  I do know it was in the second world war though because Philip was in his uniform. I believe they got married at St. Agatha's church in Portland.


So here's a few screen shots of my info that I've gotten, including Philip's father Joseph Muffenbier:


 At present I'm unable to locate, according to the 1930 census from Milwaukie, Oregon, for the Muffenbier Family, where their birth took place in North Dakota (according to the census).  I'm finding unofficial records of a wedding in Saskethawan, and saw a hint at a crossing from Canada into the US, but other things I'm finding are saying that Joseph was from Odessa, Russia - so - not sure if he came to Canada and then to the U.S. to Oregon.

Joseph Muffenbier sturgeon fishing in 1960 (somewhere)

Joseph Lawrence Muffenbier with his son Ben

Joseph Muffenbier in his younger years

Joseph Lawrence Muffenbier & Mary L. Somers during their wedding (year?) in Saskatchewan Canada

Millicans in Portland Oregon

Here's some of the Millican's data I have here in Portland - beginning with a newspaper clipping from WWII.

Albert & Arlene's Headstones at Willamette National Cemetery

I discovered my grandmother died the day I photographed this, not the headstone is L3250.

This was Albert & Arlene's residence at 1552 SE Marion St in Portland Oregon

Here's a church over near Oaks Park in Portland Oregon where apparently my family had SOME business but I'm not certain what.

Saint Agatha's Catholic Church where Albert & Arlene and other Millicans were married

Last view of the USS Helena before she was sunk at Kuala Gulf - Grandpa Millican was topside for this one

Former residence of William Millican, father to Albert Millican at 7835 SE 13th - now a supermarket - formerly the back side of a laundry.

Raymond was Albert's Brother

Where they are buried at Willamette National

Ronald was Albert's younger brother - as you can see we have a Navy Family

William Sturzenegger, Madera California.

Here's some of the documents I have on William Sturzenegger, father of Myrtle Evelyn Sturzenegger (Lippert) who later moved to Roy Oregon and was buried at Lincon memorial in Portland Oregon.  I haven't yet determined whether the draft registration and the passport application are the same person as the documents list different dates of birth, though only off by ~1 year.

Project Status

At present I do not have the money for an ancestry.com subscription.  Given this, I'm going to focus primarily at this time on simply working back to Europe on each side of my family through the direct lines, rather than fanning out through marriages at this time. 

At the moment I'm focusing on the Lipperts and have a few other names I'm working on, but my goal is to simply go back to Europe through the censuses through marriages so I can fan out later on.

We'll see how this works.

Ervin Frederick Lippert, Myrtle Evelyn Sturzenegger Lippert - Graves

This is Myrtle Evelyn (Sturzenegger) Lippert and Eryn Frederick Lippert's gravestones from Lincoln Memorial Cememtery up on Mt. Scott Blvd. in Portland Oregon.(All of these can be enlarged)

1930 Roy Oregon Census when Myrtle and Ervin lived there after the death of Ervin's parents

I have not yet found records for Duane C. Lippert who is listed on the 1930 census as being a step-son to Ervin in the home. The records I have from Ancestry.com indicate thatthey were married in Mesa, Arizona in 1926.  At the time of the Census in 1930, Duane was 3 1/2 years old so I'm not sure who the father of Duane is.  FWIW, Duane was known in my family as "The kindest man ever" and it was from him that I received my middle name. 

Ervin Lippert's WWI draft card

Ervin Lippert's grave stone

Lincoln Memorial Park entrance

Erin and Myrtle's graves side by side

Their house on SE Marion Street in Portland Oregon taken in 2010

John Lippert & Union Point Cemetery, Roy Oregon, Banks Oregon

While working on a genealogy presentation for our Elders Quorum, I ended up researching the name of one of my ancestors, John Lippert.

union point cemetery

I found him in a census from Roy Oregon in 1820, which lists his age as 63 and having been born in 1857. However, a search of cemeteries near Roy Oregon (beginning with the Catholic Cemetery) found he was buried at the Union Point Cemetery in Banks.

I'm enclosing some snapshots of the graves that were located there, however, there's a discrepancy between the grave and the 1920 census as his grave has him born in 1855.

All of these can be clicked to enlarge

1920 Roy, Washington, Oregon, USA census with Lippert Family - from Ancestry.com

Headstone - note age difference between headstone and census

the mapping of the cemetery - there is a 3 ring binder with names that correlates to the map

The rest of these are names I haven't had a chance to verify.

view of the cemetery

Yet another view...

another view of the cemetery overlooking highway 6 to the East