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From: "Jackie Ginn" <>
Subject: Re: [MNHennep] MNHENNEP Digest, Vol 1, Issue 27
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 17:12:58 -0800
References: <mailman.777.1165219900.8233.mnhennep@rootsweb.com><4575DF93.10904@xtra.co.nz>


Melinda,

Oh dear, no wonder they got divorced, if she tried to kill him. But then we
never know the whole story. She may have had good reason.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Melinda Kohler, Kerri and Paula Kohler-Saunders"
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To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [MNHennep] MNHENNEP Digest, Vol 1, Issue 27


> Hi Jackie
>
> I thought that I would let you know that when i looked at the draft card
> it had obviously been filled in after the divorce as care of two
> children were cited as being a reason for not going to War. It is
> possible that divorce was granted to gertrude on these grounds and she
> got to care for them anyway. (Apparantly he had been reluctant to
> divorce her and she had tried to murder him)
>
> He obviously survived the attempt as the 1948 death record is his. :-)
>
> Kind Regards Melinda
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:41:51 -0800
>> From: "Jackie Ginn" <>
>> Subject: Re: [MNHennep] Desperately seeking help on locating
>> information on my grandmother (with focus on death record).
>> To: <>
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>>
>> There is a WWI Registration card for William A Kohler at Ancestry. It is
>> dated 15 Jun 1917 and shows him as single, born May 26, 1895 in St. Paul,
>> MN. Registration was in Minneapolis. If you would like a copy, contact me
>> privately so that it won't go to the whole mailing list.
>>
>> There is also one for Joseph Frank Snitzka born 25 Mar 1892, born in
>> Chaska,
>> MN. Registration also is in Minneapolis. This man is married with
>> children, but no names given. However he lists 2 sons (unnamed) under 12
>> who
>> are dependent on him. Lived at 2132 Wash No., a mattress worker for
>> Bergstene Bros. Again, contact me privately if you want a copy of this.
>>
>> How certain are you that the 1918 death certificate is not for your
>> grandmother? Perhaps the cause of death? Could it be that your
>> grandmother
>> was burned badly, but did not die of the burns but died of something
>> else..perhaps infection or the flu epidemic? There is also a Grace
>> Gertrude
>> Koehler listed on the Minnesota Death Index, died 5 Jan 1927 in Hennepin
>> Co.. I know your father and uncle would not have been small children at
>> that time, but teenagers. But that might be worth following up on.
>>
>> Here is the death record for Joseph Snitzka in case you don't already
>> have
>> it.
>>
>> Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002
>> about Joseph Frank Snitzke
>> Name: Joseph Frank Snitzke
>> Death Date: 19 Aug 1948
>> Death County: Stearns
>> State file number: 015825
>> Certificate Number: 015825
>> Certificate Year: 1948
>> Record Number: 1074232
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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