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Subject: Re: BUTZ/DIEHL/REITZ
Date: 2 Jun 2003 00:58:35 -0600

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I am a BUTZ and DIEHL descendant who had been looking for my Evansville BUTZ family for years. I was told that they were from Pennsylvania to Evansville and that part of the family had gone to Chicago and started a company that made things out of wood.
Well, they had not gone from Pa to Ind., but Pa to Naperville, Illinois where I have taught for 34 years! My 3rd grt grandfather (BUTZ) is buried across the street from the school administration center. I had never heard of Naperville until I began working there.
I am also a descendant of Jacob DIEHL, AmRev from Pa. The school where I worked is 2 blocks from DIEHL Rd.
The BUTZ family--Edwin--m. into the Conrad REITZ family.

Conrad was born in the French Alps region of Prussia and was orphaned at age 7. His parents and some siblings died of the Black Plague. The children were brought down from the mountains and he and a couple of sisters were sponsored to come to America by a family in Evansville, Ind., possibly the famed Reitz family , presumably an uncle.
Conrad was first married to Emma "Lilly" with whom he had 4 children. Upon her death he married her sister Sadhre Butz, a twin of Mame Butz. Conrad and Sadhre had 2 children.
Worked in a shoe factory during the day and was a train dispatcher at night. His wife took in boarders and they lived on the NE side of Evansville,Ind.

According to family oral history Conrad's father died about the time Conrad was born.--Muriel Anschicks-Thompson.


Index to Marriage Records Vanderburgh County, Indiana 1846-1920 Inclusive Volume I Letters Aab-Cla Inclusive WPA
Butts Sadie Conrad Reitz May 16 1878 9 497

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