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From: "Janice M. Healy" <>
Subject: Re: [GFO] Peter THOHORST
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:04:55 -0800
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>Peter THOHORST, b. June 1865, Germany
>married: October 4, 1895, Marion county, OR (prob. St. Paul, OR)
>Magdalena GRIMM (nee EGGERS) b. May 1865, Gernstedt, Germany
>Magdalena had 4 children by her first husband, Claus Grimm:
>1. John Wilbert GRIMM, b. 6 Aug 1887, Omaha, NE and d. 20 Apr 1975,
>Rainier, WA
>2. Margaret GRIMM, b. 1889, Washington
>3. Katherine (or Catherine) GRIMM, b18 sept 1891 Oregon & d.10
>Nov1972,Tacoma, WA
>4. Anna GRIMM, b. May 1893 Oregon and prob. d. 6 Jan 1914, Tacoma, WA.
>
>The children above took on the name of their step-father, THOHORST,
>all except the oldest, #1, John Wilbert GRIMM. Katherine Thohorst
>married twice, once to a Potter and once to a Rhines. She is well
>documented.
>
>BUT...no history of what happened to Margaret or Anna GRIMM-THOHORST.
>
>And, Peter and Magdalena (Eggers-Grimm) THOHORST show up on the 1900
>census living in Smelter pct., Pierce co., WA...then, they
>disappear. They would have been 35 years old in 1900, so, I am
>guessing they could have lived at least another 30 years but they do
>not appear on any census or death index after that... that I can
>find....
>This seems to be the only THOHORST family of that spelling. They did
>not like the name and there is a chance they changed their name.
>But, I ran a search of all with the given name Peter and Magdalena
>and Lena...for Pierce county in 1910...and nothing showed up.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Doneva Shepard

Could this possibly be her??? This is from ancestry, try a global
search on Heritage-proquest site on the Multnomah Library if you have
a card if not let me know as I do. I suspect they moved and maybe
also went back to a different name. Ancestry did not have anything
for her under Thohorst.

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> 1920 United States Federal Census
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>Magdalena Grimm In United States
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>Grimm, Magdalena62 1857at sea White Iowa City,
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Janice M. Healy
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