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7: 1871_Patent_6616_to_Chas_G_Schmidt.jpg
8: 1871_Top_of_Deed_Chas_G_to_Gottfried.jpg
9: Hannah Schmidt Eggert and her mother, Wilhelmina Preppernau Schmidt, about 1885. Wilhelmina was also the mother of Fred W. Schmidt, grandmother of Alfred L. Schmidt, and great-grandmother of Claude & Ruben Schmidt.
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11: assuming this is the other half of their wedding day picture, it was 1885-02-06 (he was 22 – born May 1863)
12: 1893_Back_of_Deed_Aufust_G_to_FW_Schmidt.jpg
13: 1893_Deed_August_G_to_FW_Schmidt.jpg
14: Alfred L. Schmidt about 1910.
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16: The Ernest & Minnie Ruhbusch family, about 1912. Ernest was the uncle of our grandmother Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt, so the kids in this photo were her first cousins. Marie, second from right in the back row, was Irmgard's age. The ancestry.com family tree I got the photo from lists the family members as: back, Ernest Jr., Amanda, Helena, Arlo, Marie, Ella; front Minnie (Wilhelmina Schenk), Clara, Minnie, and Ernest.