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
2

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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Weak or missing
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 and her death are not known and none is entered; her husband’s name, below, is probable. A Benjes–Proeger marriage record, at Baltimore or Pittsburgh, would settle it. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.
Probable
🆕 Probable confirm or correct → Her husband was probably Richard P. Benjes of Baltimore. Evidence: the 1910 census of Baltimore, Ward 8, has Richard Benjes, 31, with his wife Minnie W., 31, born in Pennsylvania of German-born parents, married 8 years; the 1920 census, Ward 4, has Richard P. Benjes, 41, and his wife Minnie, 41 S1665. What is weak or missing: both were read from the index only, and no record gives this Minnie’s maiden name, so that she is the Proeger daughter rests on her name, the city, her birth state and her German-born parents. He was added to the family tree on 11 October 2026 with no dates and has no card of his own. A Benjes–Proeger marriage record of about 1902 would confirm or correct this
Cited on this card S1654 S1665 Card added 2026-10-10

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Minnie Proeger Benjes · Sources

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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.

  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].
  2. S16651910 and 1920 U.S. censuses — Richard Benjes household, Baltimore, Maryland. Ancestry records 155652095 (1910, Ward 8, N. Patterson Park Ave.) and 38659276 (1920, Ward 4, E. Pratt St.), read from the index entries on 2 October 2026; neither sheet has been opened. 1910: Richard Benjes, 31; wife Minnie W., 31, born in Pennsylvania of German-born parents; married 8 years. 1920: Richard P. Benjes, 41; wife Minnie, 41. Neither entry gives the wife’s maiden name. Taken to be the “Mrs. Minnie Benjes of Baltimore, Md.” of her mother’s 1912 obituaries [S1654]. Probable. The children of the household are not named here.

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