Anna Emilie Mathilde (Feuerhelm) Graham (1880 - 1957)

Born 18 May 1880 in Brügge, Soldin, Neumark, Brandenburg, Preußen

Wife of Thomas James Graham — married 25 Nov 1902 in Saginaw County, Michigan, USA.

Descendants

Died 7 Oct 1957 at age 77 in Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, USA

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Biography

Anna (Feuerhelm) Graham has German Roots.

Anna (Feuerhelm) Graham was born in the Province of Brandenburg, Prussia

Anna Amelia Feuerhelm was born as German Anna Emilie Mathilde on 18 May 1880 in Brügge, Kreis Soldin, Neumark, Provinz Brandenburg, Preußen (Prussia, Germany) nowadays Ławy in Poland.^[1][2] She was the daughter of Carl Friedrich Feuerhelm (1851 - 1926) and Emilie Mathilde (Hok) Feuerhelm (1853 - 1913).

Her siblings were:

1. Wilhelm Friedrich Feuerhelm (1878 - 1938)
2. Amelia M. Feuerhelm (1883 -1972)
3. Mathilda Feuerhelm (1887 - )
4. Lena J. (Feuerhelm) Hoffman (1890 - 1965)
5. Lizzie Feuerhelm (~1891 - )

She emigrated with her parents and brother Wilhelm Friedrich on April 23, 1882 from Bremen on the ship "Hohenstauffen" and they arrived May 8, 1882 in New York. Name americanized after emigration in Amelia.

She married Thomas J. Graham on 27 November 1902 in Lakefield, Saginaw County, Michigan, USA.^[3][4]

They had 6 children:

1. Bessie Elizabeth Graham (1904 - 2000)
2. William James Graham Sr. (1905 - 1997)
3. Frank R. Graham (1910 - 1971)
4. Ernest C. Graham (1915 - 1998)
5. George I. Graham (1918 - 1957)
6. Mabel L. Graham (1922 - )

The family moved to Saginaw in 1922.

She passed away on 7 October 1957 in Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, USA aged 77.

BURIAL: Hemlock Cemetery, Hemlock, Saginaw County, Michigan, USA

Sources

1. ↑ Brügge, Kr. Soldin - Meyers Gazetteer
2. ↑ Brügge - GenWiki (german)
3. ↑ Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQQ4-FG5 : 18 February 2021), Thomas Graham and Anna Feuerhelm, 27 Nov 1902; citing Marriage, Lakefield, Saginaw, Michigan, Citing Secretary of State, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 4001634
4. ↑ Michigan Marriages, 1822-1995, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ91-VTH : 17 January 2020), Anna Feuerhelm in entry for Thomas Graham, 1902

• Auszug aus der Kartei mit Auswanderern aus dem Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt des Brandenburgischen Landeshauptarchivs - Kr. Soldin
• Michigan, Saginaw County, Biographical Card File, ca. 1830-2000, database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DY5C-G3ZM), Anna Feuerhelm in entry for Thomas Graham, 1902
• 1900 United States Census
• 1910 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLRT-H3G), Anna Graham in household of John L Graham, Richland, Saginaw, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 46, sheet 2B, family 29, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 671; FHL microfilm 1,374,684
• 1920 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ7W-1VH : 2 February 2021), Anna A Graham in entry for Thomas J Graham, 1920
• 1930 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7M3-ZQQ), Anna A Graham in household of Thomas Graham, Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 54, sheet 10A, line 3, family 206, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1022; FHL microfilm 2,340,757
• 1940 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K416-49S : 10 January 2021), Anna A Graham in household of Thomas Graham, Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 73-65, sheet 15B, line 67, family 296, 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 1814
• Find a Grave, memorial page for Anna A. (Feuerhelm) Graham (18 May 1880–7 Oct 1957), Find A Grave: Memorial #93872069, citing Hemlock Cemetery, Hemlock, Saginaw County, Michigan, USA; Maintained by Jerri Sierocki (contributor 47297297)

Acknowledgments

Thanks to A.W.Gürth for starting this profile.