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• FSID: LZ82-ZDM
• Residence: 1910, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1920, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA
• Residence: Apr 1930, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA

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Newspapers: Boonville Daily News: Obituary, Of Mrs. Herman Stretz - 03 Dec 1951.
Married Patrick David Sweeney also buried in the same cemetery

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Obituary - Boonville Daily News, 16 July 1945

Lifelong Resident of Boonville Dies

Herman M. Stretz passed away at the St Joseph's Hospital yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Stretz had been ill for four weeks, but was only admitted to the hospital Saturday.
He was born Sept. 9, 1884 in Boonville, the son of Frank and Margaret Whitman Stretz. He attended and graduated from the parochial school and was a lifelong member of SS Peter and Paul Catholic church.
On Nov. 21, 1905 he was united in marriage with Miss Minnie Knack and to this union four children were born, two of whom died in infancy. He is survived by his wife and two children, Rosemary of the home and Harold of St Louis, Mo., and by three grandchildren, Richard, Karen, and John Stretz, all of St Louis. He also leaves four sisters, Mrs. John Schiebrel of Joplin, Mrs. J. J. Burke, Danville, Ill., and Misses Ida and Mayme Stretz of Boonville.
Stretz was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at SS Peter and Paul Catholic church in charge of the Rev. Fr. John Baskett and the Rev. J. J. Hans of St Anthony, Mo. Burial will be in the Catholic Church Cemetery. He will lie in state at the Stegner & Koenig Funeral Home until time for the services. Rosary will be said at the Funeral Home tonight at 9 o'clock.

Government Records: World War I Draft Registration Cards, Full date of birth, middle name.
Newspapers: Boonville Daily News: Obituary, Of Mrs. Herman Stretz - 03 Dec 1951.

Herman married Knack, Maimie on 21 Nov 1905 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. Maimie (daughter of Knack, Adolph "Otto" and Back, Elizabeth Bertha Friederica) was born on 24 May 1886 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; died on 3 Dec 1951 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried on 5 Dec 1951 in Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Obituary - Boonville Daily News, 3 December 1951

Mrs. Herman Stretz Dies Suddenly

Mrs. Herman Stretz died at her home, 808 East Morgan Street at 6:50 a.m. today. While she had not been well, death was unexpected.
Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a.m. Wednesday at SS Peter and Paul Catholic. Burial will be in the Catholic Church Cemetery. The rosary will be recited at the Goodman and Boller Funeral Home at 8 p.m. tomorrow.
She is survived by one son, Harold Stretz, Boonville, a daughter, Miss Rosemary Stretz of the home, and five grandchildren.
She was born in Boonville May 24, 1886, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Knack and spent her entire life here. She was married to Herman Stretz Nov. 21, 1905. Mr. Stretz died July 15, 1945.

Newspapers: Boonville Daily News: Obituary, Of Mrs. Herman Stretz - 03 Dec 1951.

Died:
Residence at 808 East Morgan Street,

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• Occupation: Concrete Carpenter and Brick Layer
• Residence: 1850, Cooper, Missouri, USA
• Migration: 1860, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1900, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1910, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA
• Residence: Jan 1920, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA

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Internet: Ancestry.com World Tree, Middle name of Leo.

Frank married Wittman, Margaret on 11 Nov 1873 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. Margaret (daughter of Wittman, Stephen) was born on 16 Jun 1856 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; died on 6 Apr 1944 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried after 6 Apr 1944 in Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Housewife

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• Occupation: Owned Phoenix Saloon

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Central Missouri Republican, 14 May 1903

Took His Own Life

Adolph Knack was born in Prussia, Germany, December 26, 1855, came to America in the early 70's, and about 1873 located in Boonville where he lived until his death on May 8, 1903.
On May 25, 1884, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Back, who died nine years thereafter - 1893. Four children were born to this union, three of who, Annie, Minnie, and Corinne, survive; the other died in infancy.
Just after eating his breakfast last Friday morning, Mr. Knack left his home on west High street to go to his place of business, the Phoenix saloon. There he remained a few minutes only, then went out on the street. He id not return as was his wont to do before noon, and one of his employees, having noticed for two or three days that he was acting in a peculiar manner, began to make inquiries in a quiet way. As nothing could be heard of him, a limited search was made in the immediate neighborhood during the afternoon, with no result, except to strengthen the suspicion that something serious had happened to him. Quite early Saturday morning, parties began again to look for the missing. Between seven and eight o'clock the lifeless body was found by C. R. Foster, the courthouse janitor, near the entrance to the old fairgrounds about a mile southwest of the city. The body was in a position that would indicate that death was without a struggle. The head was lying on the right arm as if the poison, carbolic acid, was swallowed and the victim had laid down and quietly awaited the end. A bottle, containing a small amount of carbolic acid, was found near the body. There was also evidence on the lips of the corpse that told plainly the cause of death.
The cause for the suicide can only be conjectured. Mr. Knack's business was flourishing, and it is barely possible that he was the least embarrassed in matters of finance. He was, however, of a disposition to worry over matters that would not affect others of a more genial nature.
Mr. Knack was a man of energy, thrift and honesty in business matters and was recognized as a citizen who possessed many qualities of merit. He was of a very charitable disposition and was ever ready to minister to the wants of any who merited charity in any way. His employees speak of him in the highest terms as an employer. Those who knew him best held him in high esteem as a man and friend. The surviving children will ever remember him as a kind, indulgent and considerate father. For these children, the REPUBLICAN has the deepest sympathy in their sad bereavement.
Funeral services were held at the family home on High Street Sunday afternoon, Rev. E. L. Mueller, pastor of the German Evangelical church, officiating. Interment was made at Walnut Grove cemetery under auspices of the IOOF lodge of this city, of which the deceases had long been a very respected member. So passed away a citizen of Boonville who had been identified with the city's progress and advancement for about thirty years.

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Bill Scroggin
Reply to: itcscrog@aol.com

Adolph married Back, Elizabeth Bertha Friederica on 25 May 1884 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Back, Phillip Gottfried and Saueressig, Katherine Christine) was born on 15 May 1861 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; died on 7 Jul 1893 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried in Jul 1893 in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Housewife
• Baptism: 9 Jun 1861, Boonville German Evangelical Church, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA

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• Occupation: Potter and Gardener
• Naturalization: 1855, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; Circuit Court

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Immigrated from Germany to America in 1845 and settled at Boonville, where he was first employed as potter by Mr. Vollrath, the pioneer potter of this city. In his latter years, Mr. Stretz was engaged in gardening. He died in 1878, from the effects of sunstroke. Mrs. Stretz died at the age of 82 years. Both father and mother are interred in the Catholic Church Cemetery at Boonville.

Lived on Jefferson City Road a couple of house from Lorenz Thoma, who was also a potter working for Vollrath. Lorenz also later became a gardener. Lorenz and Frank's children worked together in later trades.

Mr. Frank Stratz (sic), aged 56 years, was found in an insensible condition on Saturday last about 7 o'clock in the evening. He had been at a neighbor's about 4 in the afternoon, and was heard to complain of pain in his limbs and feeling badly generally. It is not known how long he had been there but as soon as he was found, Dr. W. E. Evans, of this place was sent for and applied all the known remedies for sun-stroke, but to no avail, as he died Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. Mr. Stratz (sic) was a highly respected citizen and will be much missed. The family have the sincere sympathy of the Advertiser.

Frank married Reiter, Magdalena on 24 Nov 1845 in Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Magdalena (daughter of Reiter, Lorenz and Brenneisen, Therese) was born on 20 Oct 1823 in Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died on 22 Dec 1905 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried on 24 Dec 1905 in Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In the death of Mrs. Margaret (Magdalena) Stretz Boonville loses (sic) another of her old citizens. The deceased was born in Germany on October 20, 1823, and removed to the United States in 1840, settling in Boonville soon after coming to America.
She was ill but a short while, dying at the residence of her son-in-law, Joseph Schuster, Friday morning, December 22.
The deceased was a very devoted member of the Catholic church, and her funeral was largely attended Sunday afternoon by the many friends who gathered to pay the last sad tribute.
She leaves a circle of relatives. She was the mother of eight children, 51 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren and will be missed by a large circle of friends who loved her for her noble character and many acts of charity. The remains were buried in the Catholic cemetery.

(Magdalena the d/o Lorenz Reiter & Therese Brenneisen, w/o Frank Stretz. This obit states she was born on 20 Oct 1823, but Reiter information I got from Udo Strickfaden has her born 20 Sep 1823.)

Census Records: US, MO, Cooper, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, Living with Sophia in 1900.

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• Occupation: Farmer
• Departure: 1853, Germany

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Central Missouri Republican, 2 May 1901

GOTTFRIED BACK

Gottfried Back, aged 74 years and 9 months, died Sunday afternoon, April 28, 1901 at his home on West Morgan street in this city. The funeral was held from the German Evangelical church to Walnut Grove cemetery Tuesday afternoon, Rev. E. L. Mueller officiating.
Deceased was born in Rettert, Nassau, Germany, August 26, 1826 and came to America in 1853, settling in Cooper county, where he has continuously resided. He has lived on a farm in this county until about six years ago when he moved to Boonville. Gottfried Back and Miss Katherine Saueressig were united in marriage in 1858. Five children were born to this union, three of whom are dead. The widow and two children, George Back and Mrs. Joseph Kessel, survive. He was the grandfather of 11 children. One sister, Mrs. Magdalena Huth, of Minneapolis, Minn., happened to be visiting in Boonville at the time of the demise of Mr. Back.

Deceased served at the beginning of the war in the Boonville Home Guard; he was a good man and a kind neighbor. May he rest in peace!

There is one story about Gottfried Back's Civil War experiences. He was a teamster. He used to boast that during one battle he was where the bullets were the thickest and survived the battle. He was under the ammunition wagon.

Phillip married Saueressig, Katherine Christine on 27 Oct 1857 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. Katherine was born on 24 Apr 1827 in Larrelt, Emden, Niedersachsen, Germany; died on 9 Mar 1910 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried on 11 Mar 1910 in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Housewife
• Alternate Birth: 24 Apr 1827, Ölsburg, Peine, Niedersachsen, Germany

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Alternate place of birth of Olsburg, Germany

Died:
Family Hom on West Morgan Street