Margaretha (DeFehr) Peters (1876 - 1940)

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Biography

Margaretha (DeFehr) Peters was born on the 7th of February 1876, the daughter of Jacob Abraham DeFehr and Katharina Wiens.^[1]

She emigrated aboard the S. S. Köln, sailing from Bremen, Germany on 4 June 1903, arriving at the Port of Galveston, Texas 27 June 1903. ^[2] She traveled with her husband, Peter Peters and five daughters.

Margaretha died on the 15th of May 1940 in Chinook.^[1] Cause of death was a coronary embolism.^[1] She is buried in the Kuper Memorial Cemetery in Chinook, Blaine County, Montana, USA.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Death Certificate for Margaret Peters, 15 May 1940, File No. 1762, State of Montana Bureau of Vital Statistics.[Parents: Jacob A. DeFehr & Kathrine Wiens; COD: Coronary Embolism, DOB: 7 Feb 1876; Age: 64 yrs 3 mos 8 dys
2. ↑ Selected Passenger and Crew Lists and Manifests. National Archives, Washington, D.C.; database and digital images, ""Texas, U.S., Arriving and Departing Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893-1963,"" Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014 (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 April 2021); citing The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Galveston, Texas, 1896-1951; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004. Ancestry Record 8722 #44233 View Image
3. ↑ Burial. Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 8 Apr 2021), memorial page for Margaret DeFehr Peters (1876–15 May 1940), Find A Grave: Memorial #179981152, citing Kuper Memorial Cemetery, Chinook, Blaine County, Montana, USA ; Maintained by Barb Walker (contributor 47034601).

See also:

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML74-QVC : accessed 12 April 2021), Margurite Peters in household of Peter Peters, Union, Washita, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 268, sheet 20B, family 280, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1277; FHL microfilm 1,375,290.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M83X-NJR : 2 February 2021), Margareta Peters in entry for Peter Peters, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCMX-DFH : accessed 12 April 2021), Margeret Peders in household of Peder Peders, Norheim, Blaine, Montana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 16, sheet 1B, line 57, family 12, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1252; FHL microfilm 2,340,987.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VB35-M1G : 4 January 2021), Marguerite Peters in household of Peter Peters, School District 10 Chinook, Blaine, Montana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 3-6B, sheet 7B, line 65, family 141, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2212.

• Margaretha Peters Obituary, Great Falls Tribune, Great Falls, Montana, 26 May 1940, Sun • Page 4, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75422396/great-falls-tribune/

• GRanDMA database. https://grandmaonline.org/guest?IND=8010

• Geni Profile, Margaretha DeFehr

• FamilySearch.org • global Family Tree by various contributors:
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• Paternal and Maternal relationships are confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Robert Janzen and his second cousin. Their most-recent common ancestors are Jacob Abraham DeFehr and Katharina Wiens, their great grandparents. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 2nd-3rd Cousins based on sharing 230 cM across 12 segments.