It's the Rev. E. A. Bauer's funeral record for my husband's great great grandmother, Elizabeth Winter, widow of John Roth of Franklin Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. I was able to make out her name, the date of death, date of burial, and age. But when it came to the remarks, I was really stuck.
The second line says: 8 h: 17 feh: 3 urckl
Well, at least that was what I managed to make out. I googled and googled looking for abbreviations. No luck. I transposed the letters and googled again. No luck. Finally I posted it to the German Genealogy Records Transcription Group on Facebook and once again a kind stranger helped me out.
Here's a portion of the note I posted along with it:
Almost all other records are in this order: 1) place of birth 2) birth date 3) parents names. From this information I see she was born in 1789 and her maiden name was Winter (I have this from a second source). I can't read much else. I'm especially curious about the second line. Thanks for any assistance.
Within an hour, Renate posted the following: 8 children, 17 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren.
Nothing I researched looked anything like that. Now to reverse engineer the answer. I immediately saw that the first term is probably 8 k for kinder or children..
With a little more help from google translate, I determined the last term was 3 Ur ekl for ur-enkel or great grandchilden.
I posted an additional query about the middle term for grandchildren. Renate said it's ekl
for enkelkinder. I see another letter there that looks like a s or an f but I absolutely trust Renate.
This family poses a serious brick wall. Now I'm off to pull up census records from 1810 to 1840 and start counting children.
Till next time, keep the blue side up ... Lynn
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