Re: Franz Seiter & Anna Schmidt
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In reply to:
Re: Franz Seiter & Anna Schmidt
11/22/00
Kelli:
You probably thought I fell of the ends of the earth.I kind of left everyone hanging back in 2000!We were living in GA then but transferred to IL at the end of 2000.We never settled in here because we thought it was going to be for 6-9 months - didn't unpack, didn't buy a house.We are still here thanks to 9/11 but are now probably going to be sent to TX when school is out - Marble Falls area.Too much going on and genealogy had to take a sidetrack.The TX move will interrupt things again but I hope to be settled in one place this summer.
About that story you mentioned about Frank's mother running off with another man . . . no, that's not true, at least from this side of the family.My husband's grandfather (Albert b. 1899 d. 1992) said that his grandparents had been killed by Comanches and that's why the kids were orphaned.It was apparently a well-known story and it is possible that a newspaper recorded the massacre.My father-in-law remembers everyone talking about it when he was a child.
My information also says that Frank's mother was born in Saxony, Germany and couldn't have been a Cherokee, but we don't have a name.The 1870 census just says "Mrs. Hamrich Seiter" and gives her birthplace.
Your info on the Franz Seiter who was born 5 July 1867 is interesting.A Franz Seiter b. 1867-1868 was also listed in that 1870 census I mentioned above as a son of Mrs. Hamrich Seiter, and I am pretty sure that he is "our Frank."My husband's grandfather Albert Seiter b. 1899 verified that information before he died (he also remembered his aunts and uncles who were listed as Franz's siblings), so it makes me wonder who your Franz is.There were other Seiters in the area and Franz was a popular German name so . . . it could be anyone.Maybe Hamrich was also called George and they are the same Franz.
As usual, figuring this stuff out is going to take more research, which you might have already done since your last posting.
Sorry I just disappeared but when the house sold in GA, things moved quickly and haven't stopped since.I felt like catching up a little this week and found your long-ago posting.Things will be a little patchy until we move again, but I will try not to let it go as long this time!
Regards,
Lisa Weatherford
wife of Thomas W. Seiter