The Proeger Family · Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents and their siblings

Minnie Proeger Benjes

Probable daughter of Julius Karl Proeger · Mrs. Benjes of Baltimore

Minnie Proeger Benjes

Probable

Probable daughter of Julius Karl Proeger · Mrs. Benjes of Baltimore

Parents
Julius Karl Proeger & Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer
Sources
1

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE daughter of Julius Karl Proeger and Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer. Evidence: the Pittsburgh obituaries of her mother, 11–12 April 1912, say she left “four sons, Julius, Jr., Fred, William and Walter; three daughters, Mrs. Minnie Benjes of Baltimore, Md.; Caroline and Gertrude, at home” S1654. Added to the family tree on 10 October 2026, with no dates

Evidence: The Pittsburgh obituaries of her mother, 11–12 April 1912, name among the children left “three daughters, Mrs. Minnie Benjes of Baltimore, Md.; Caroline and Gertrude” (S1654). Weak or missing: She is known only from these obituaries, read as machine-read text, not from the page images; no birth, marriage or death record of hers has been read, and no dates are known. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Siblings
Her brothers and sisters with cards: Julius Herman Proeger, William Leonard Proeger, Caroline M. Proeger Ross and Gertrude Proeger Murfin.

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What is weak or missing: she is known only from these obituaries, which were read as machine-read text, not from the page images; no birth, marriage or death record of hers has been read, so her birth year, her husband’s given name and her death are not known and none is entered. A Benjes–Proeger marriage record, at Baltimore or Pittsburgh, would settle it. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.
Cited on this card S1654 Card added 2026-10-10

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  1. S1654Death notices and obituaries of Mrs. Minnie Proeger — Pittsburgh papers, 10–12 April 1912. Death notices, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10 April 1912, p. 9, and The Pittsburgh Post, 11 April, p. 14; obituaries, The Pittsburgh Press, 11 April, p. 4, and The Pittsburgh Post, 12 April, p. 9. Newspapers.com, read from the site’s machine-read (OCR) text of the page on 2 October 2026; the page image has not been checked by eye. Notice: “PROEGER—On Tuesday, April 9, 1912, 12:50 a.m., at her late residence, 707 North St. Clair street, East End, MINNIE KOCHENDORFER, wife of Julius Proeger, aged 65 years. Funeral services on Thursday … at 2 p.m. … (Greensburg and Uniontown papers please copy).” Press obituary: “Except for a short period during which she lived in Greensburg, Pa., Mrs. Proeger had been a resident of Pittsburg for over 40 years. She was a member of the German Evangelical church. Besides her husband, she leaves four sons, Julius, Jr., Fred, William and Walter; three daughters, Mrs. Minnie Benjes of Baltimore, Md.; Caroline and Gertrude, at home, and nine grandchildren.” The Post of 12 April gives the same names. Her parents are not named; the printed age is a year over her baptism [S184].

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