The Proeger Family · Generation 7 — Kristin's 4th-great-grandparents
Maria Neuendorf
Mother of Sophia Herman · 1817–1890
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Person · Maria Neuendorf
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Supplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands apart from the three record tags above S24.
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Maria Neuendorf
ConfirmedMother of Sophia Herman · 1817–1890
- Born
- 7 May 1817 in Prussia
- Died
- 17 October 1890 at Meservey
- Sources
- 2
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Maria Neuendorf · Sources
Citations
Sources cited on this card
2 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.
- S1532New York passenger list, ship Electric from Hamburg, arrived 14 December 1861, lines 59–63 — the Hermann family. Ancestry, “New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820–1957”, record 2277787. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Probable J. Hermann, 44, a farmer; Maria, 44; Friedrich, 16; and Sophia, 17; between decks; arrived at New York on 14 December 1861. Name and age only; nothing on the list ties her to John Peters.
- S1783Compiled family chart — “Family: Benjamin Peters / Edna Blanche Orsborn (F492)”, in the “Toni Walker Family Tree” on Canadian Families, a website hosted by Ontario Ancestors (the Ontario Genealogical Society). ontariofamilyhistory.org, family F492, tree 93228; pages last modified 22 January 2025. Sent to this record on 13 October 2026 by LaVonne Danielson, a great-granddaughter of the couple, who had it from a relative. Read by us on 13 October 2026: the group sheets of this family, of both sets of parents (F20, F585) and of the children’s own families, and the person pages. Confirmed Benjamin Peters, born 12 December “1881/2” at Cedar Falls, Iowa, died about 1957 at Sioux Rapids, son of John Charles Johann Peters and Sophia Herman; Edna Blanche Orsborn, born 7 May 1884 at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, died about 1942 at Marathon, daughter of John W. Orsborn and Arimena (Minnie) Howard; married 1 April 1903 at Alexander, Franklin County, “at the residence of Ray Pence, Meservey, Iowa”, by the Rev. J. C. Shirk; five children, Eva M., Benjamin La Roy, Clifford L., Hazel F. and Russell Ray. A compiled tree, not a record: it cites census pages, church registers and other Ancestry trees, and none of its own sources has been read here. By Earl Proeger’s decision of 13 October 2026, what LaVonne Danielson contributes to this record is taken as verified, and what the chart alone carries is entered as Confirmed on the family’s account. Where the chart and a record read here disagree, both are shown and the record stands: John W. Orsborn’s birth (chart 1852, Kentucky; his own 1921 statement 1 June 1848, Cleves, Ohio, S1075), Frank Peters’s death (chart 21 September 1931; certificate 2 September, S1009) and the child of 12 March 1884 (chart a daughter, Clara; birth return a son, S998). It prints both 1881 and 1882 for Benjamin Peters’s birth and so settles nothing between them. Living people on the chart are shown there only as “Living” and are not taken from it.
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