. So who is that lady on the right, does anyone recognize her? Elsie is my maternal Grandmother and Elizabeth my paternal. The lady on the right is only known as a Broadhurst sister. So here’s a guess: Mary “Mae” Broadhurst from England; one of “The Eleven.”  She never moved to America but visited in [...]

While researching your family tree have you found any “forgotten” relatives tucked away in insane asylums? I found one. My maternal Great Aunt, Lillian Schletter. Sometime between 1905 and 1920 Lillian “went after her brother with a kitchen knife.” And that’s the end of the details. Her brother, my maternal Grandfather George Schletter, did visit [...]

On Thursday, 11 May 1882, barely a month before this cartoon ran in Puck magazine, my maternal Great Grandfather, Edmund Theodore Schletter arrived at Castle Garden immigrant landing depot aboard the S.S. Westphalia. Caption: “Castle Garden” Source: Puck Date: June 14, 1882 Artist: Frank Opper Throughout the period of mass immigration, New York City was [...]

Edmund T. Schletter was born on Friday, 18 July 1851 in the Kingdom State of Saxony, Germany. He may have been the son of Carl and Christiana SCHLETTER. About 1877, when he was 25, he married Wilhelmina “Minna” LUKE(?) (c 1855, in Bergeborbeck, an area of Essen, Germany) in Saxony. She was about 22. Edmund [...]