♀Elizabeth Frances Schulz

Elizabeth Frances Schulz (born 8 December 1879) was a Chicago woman who was working as a factory hand in 1900 and had five children. She was the grand-aunt of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), the sister of his grandfather Frank Frederick William Schulz (1882–1961).

Early life

Elizabeth was born in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, the daughter of Rudolph Schulz and Mary Adams. When the census taker called in June 1880 the family was living in the town of Lake, then outside the city, and her father was working in a packing house; Elizabeth was six months old. Her mother bore four children, but only Elizabeth and her brother Frank, born in 1882, lived to grow up.

Her father died sometime between 1882 and 1900. By June 1900 her mother was a widow, keeping a rented house in Chicago’s 30th Ward with Elizabeth, then twenty and single, working as a factory hand, and Frank, seventeen, as a messenger.

Marriage and family

On 11 October 1905 in Chicago, Elizabeth married Burchard Tiemann, who was born in Germany in 1874 and came to the United States in 1884. Three years later her widowed mother married Charles Mielke. By 1910 Elizabeth and Burchard were living in Chicago’s 5th Ward with two small sons, Burchard and George. They are given four children, Burchard (1906), George Frank (1909), Edward Louis (1912) and Marie Elizabeth (1916), and a fifth who is still living.

Death

She is given as dying in Chicago on 5 April 1928, and as buried at Mount Hope Cemetery on 9 April, but neither date is documented. A Cook County death register entry is cited for the death.

Notes

Birth date

A FamilySearch profile gives her birth as 30 June 1880. The date used here is 8 December 1879. The 1900 and 1880 censuses both support a December 1879 birth; the day, 8, rests on her 1928 death record.

Spelling and the children

A compiled family tree kept by the Tiemann descendants writes the husband and some of the children as Tilmann, gives the husband’s years as 1873 to 1937, and dates Marie Elizabeth 1915 to 1923. The dates above are those used here. The 1910 census entry gives Burchard as three years old and George as one.