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3451. Nancy Pratt Melton, “vessels and their passengers that sailed from the State of Connecticut to California in 1849:,” http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~npmelton/argosea6.htm, 2003.
3452. Togin Cassell, “Hotchkiss and Fountain family,” February 25, 2004, Lists name as Ann Eliza Fountain.
3453. Richard Knupfer, Records were in a family photo album., Lists name as Anna Eliza Fountain.
These records were in a family photo album.
3454. Richard Knupfer, Records were in a family photo album., Says Farmington, IA.
These records were in a family photo album.
3455. Togin Cassell, “Hotchkiss and Fountain family,” February 25, 2004, Says Van Buren County, IA.
3456. Win. J. Davis, “An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California,” 1890, http://www.cagenweb.com/cpl/bios1.htm, Excerpts published on-line, Gives birth on January 13, 1841 in Iowa.
Page 796

William Andrew Fountain, elder brother of James B. Fountain, and senior member of the business firm of Fountain Brothers, a brick-makers, is the oldest living son of Joshua Fountain, a native of the state of Delaware, born near Milford in 1811, and Prudence Rebecca (Walton) Fountain, who emigrated to Beard's Prairie, Michigan, in 1835, where the subject of this biography was born March of the following year (1836). As stated elsewhere in this volume, the family soon removed to Van Buren County, Iowa, where grandfather Andrew Fountain, who was a farmer, died in 1844. In the spring of 1850, our subject, at that time just twenty-four years of age, his father, his uncle Lloyd Rollins, a daughter of the latter, and three young men, made up a party to cross the plains overland to the "land of golden promise." They left home on the 9th of April, crossed the Missouri River at Council Bluffs on the 29th, the north side of the Platte, and via Fort Hall, arrived safely at Grass Valley on the 15th of September following. They wintered there, and in the spring of 1851 started for Gold Lake mining district. Abandoning that project they mined on the Feather River during that summer, at Bidwell's Bar and at Oregon Gulch until November, 1852, when our subject came to Sacramento and worked for his father, who had started a brickyard on Eighth and O streets. (For full particulars of locations, which were changed from time to time to accommodate the advancing requirements of a growing city, see sketch of Joshua Fountain, the pioneer brick-maker.) In 1859 Mr. Fountain started business on his own account, taking a contract to make brick for the wine-cellar, residence and other buildings for Mr. Bell, at Gold Hill, Placer County, and in 1862 and 1863 had a contract for constructing a portion of the levee near Freeport. In 1863 and 1864 he burned a kiln of brick at Auburn, and also made the brick for the courthouse and jail at Woodland that year. In 1865 and 1866 he bought a farm lying between Elk Grove and Georgetown, and was engaged in farming for two years, but in the meantime he burned a kiln of brick at Elk Grove. In 1867 the present firm was established. (For full particulars see sketch of J.B. Fountain.) Mr. Fountain has always taken an active interest in the local politics since the organization of the Republican party, to which he belongs, but has never been willing to accept any official position. He is a member of the Sixth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and he has had his residence on the corner of Fifteenth and P Streets for twenty-three years. In 1877 he was associated with Hon. John Q. Brown in street contracting, cobbling and graveling the principal streets, and they continued the business for several years. The latter gentleman was afterward mayor of the city for six years, and is now president of the San Francisco Board of Trade. July 28, 1859, Mr. Fountain was married to Miss Abbie Louise Brewster, a native of Massachusetts, the daughter of Mr. Charles Brewster, a florist. She was a devoted Christian woman. Her death occurred September 13, 1879. The family consists of six daughters, viz: Henrietta, now Mrs. Charles Lowell; Clara, now Mrs. Charles Hockell; Grace; Anne; Lizzie; and Abbie. In 1881 he was again united in marriage to Miss Helen Powers, an earnest Christian woman, a native of New York State. Her death occurred April 23, 1888. Of their private affairs, the home life, of the tender interests which cluster around the family altar, it is not our province to speak, but we must be permitted to say that the influence of such homes are far-reaching; the influence of such lives will ever remain a monument to enduring memory. [From the 1901 Sacramento City Directory: Page 222 Fountain, Wm. A. brick mfr. r.1430 P]

Page 670

Joshua Fountain was born in Maryland, February 27, 1811, his parents being Andrew and Rebecca (Barwick) Fountain. His maternal grandparents were James and Mary (Fisher) Barwick. Grandmother Barwick lived to be over seventy. The Barwicks are Marylanders for several generations. His grandfather Fountain bore the name of Andrew, and lived to be nearly seventy. Joshua Fountain's great-grandfather, who is believed to have been also named Andrew, was one of the three brothers, who had come to America from France before the middle of the last century. One settled in Maryland, one in Long Island, and the third went South, but afterward returned to France, where he died leaving, it is said, a large fortune, to his indirect heirs in America. A grand-uncle was a Colonel Fountain in the French-Indian Wars, about 1760, serving on the side of the British colonies; and is said to have received the grant of one or two sections of land over which the city of Baltimore has since spread. Whether the alleged $8,000,000 of Fountain's inheritance includes this as well as the foreign claim, or whether one is confounded with the other, or whether either is genuine, Mr. Joshua Fountain is unable to say, and meanwhile is little concerned about the prospective millions which perhaps is little better than a lawyer's lure to gather a handsome retainer from American Fountains. Joshua Fountain was brought up on a Maryland farm near the Delaware line; and was married in 1834 to Miss Prudence Rebecca, a daughter of Solomon and Anvibator Fountain, born June 15, 1815. He rented a farm for the first year after his marriage, and in 1835 moved to Michigan, where he bought a farm in Cass County. In 1838 he moved to Iowa, buying a farm near Farmington; and then he moved into Lee County, where he farmed for seven years. In 1850, he came to California, across the plains, accompanied by his oldest son, then a boy of fourteen. Arriving in Grass Valley on September 15, 1850, he went to mining there that winter, assisted by his boy. In the spring he went to prospecting for three months, and again settled down to work at Big Rich Bar, on the north fork of the Feather River. Coming down to Oregon Gulch, below Orville, he there mined in the winter of 1851 and the spring of 1852. In the summer he came down to Sacramento seeking a location, having accumulated about $3,000, and bought a place at Eighth and O Streets. The son followed in November with $1,000 which he had won from the mines at the age of sixteen. He went into his old business of brickmaking, which he carried on from 1852 to 1861 in Sacramento. August 20, 1855, Mr. Fountain returned to Iowa to bring out his wife and family of four children, leaving his son in charge of the business and twenty men. In 1857 he bought the ranch of 240 acres in the northeast corner of Franklin Township, which he still owns, and on which he came to reside in 1859. During his brickmaking career in Sacramento he went to Grass Valley in 1857, and there made brick for the Catholic Church of that place; and in 1859 to Suisun City, where he made brick for the courthouse and jail. On his farm he raises grain, though is well adapted for fruit raising with proper irrigation. Mrs. Fountain died December 13, 1871, having borne the following children: William Andrew, born June 9, 1836; James Barwick, July 11, 1838; Ann Eliza, January 13, 1841; George Walton, January 19, 1844; Sarah Jane, December 17, 1847, deceased in 1849; Mary Marion and an unnamed twin sister, who died soon after birth March 17, 1849. Mary Marion died in 1851. Of these, William A. was born in Michigan, and the others in Iowa. The following were born in Sacramento: Joshua Jr, April 2, 1857; an unnamed child, born March 31, 1861, died April 12, 1861; Charles Henry, born April 16, 1862, died February 12, 1884. The two oldest carry on a brick business in Sacramento as Fountain Brothers. Ann Eliza is the wife of F.S. Hotchkiss of the same city. George W. is in the dairy business in the Locke and Levin, son place, below Courtland. He supplies half the stock, the firm the other half and the land, the product being owned in equal shares. He is married to Louisa Hollman. Joshua, Jr. is a traveling salesman for the hardware house of Hillburn brothers of Sacramento, and is married to Clara Hoyt. December 30, 1874, Mr. Fountain was married to Miss Mary Myers, born in Dade County, Missouri, in 1855, a daughter of Garrett Laure, and Delina (Robertson) Myers, the father being of French and the mother of English descent, both now living in Sacramento.
3457. “Anna Eliza Fountain Hotchkiss,” Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36580124, 36580124.
3458. “MARRIAGES IN CITY AND COUNTY,” F. S. Hotchkiss and Ann Eliza Fountain, Sacramento Daily Union, Sacramento, CA, January 1, 1861, 1.
May 23—F. S. Hotchkiss and Anna Eliza fountain.
3459. Society of California Pioneers, “Members or Ancestors,” http://www.cagenweb.com/cpl/cps2.htm#h.
3460. “Sacramento Society of California Pioneers, a composite of portraits,” http://cdm15248.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/1497, 1860.
File: Sacramento_Society_of_California_Pioneers_a_composite_of_portraits
3461. Constitution and By-Laws of the Sacramento Society of California Pioneers, Jos. M. Anderson Co. Print, Sacramento, CA, 1910, https://archive.org/stream/constitutionbyla00sacr#...2up/search/Hotchkiss.
3462. “Perry Ellis Folsom,” Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102453110, 102453110.
3463. “HUSBAND IS GRANTED DECREE OF ANNULMENT,” Perry E Folsom and Isabelle C Kohler, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, CA, April 5, 1904, 11.
Man Who Married Contrary to Law Invokes Law to Gain Freedom. Superior Judge Frank H. Kerrigan handed down a decision yesterday granting Perry E. Folsom a separation from Isabel C. Folsom on the ground that he had contracted a second marriage within a year of a divorce from his first wife. The suit is somewhat novel, Inasmuch as Folsom, against the wishes of his wife, insisted upon an annulment of the nuptial contract. Folsom married Clara B. Hancock in Chicago on December 1, 1885, and continued to live with her until November 1, when she secured a divorce in the courts of Cook county, Ill. A few months afterward he came to California and on April 24, 1900, married again. He set forth in his complaint that he did not know of the law forbidding a second marriage in California within a year.
3464. Laura M Hotchkiss, “California Death Index, 1940-1997,” October 10, 1966, Santa Clara County, CA, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP4L-YB2.
3465. “United States Census,” 1910, CA, Santa Clara, Saratoga, 9A, 5, 114, T624, 106, 237, Bureau of the Census, US Dept. of Commerce, United States of America, April 27, 1910, Greg W Smith, Suggests about 1868.
File: 1910 CA Santa Clara County Saratoga p9A
3466. San Jose Mercury Herald, San Jose, California, August 9, 1945, 18, http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CASCLARA/2001-01/0979147108, Age 77 years, 5 months, 1 day at death.
3467. San Jose Mercury Herald, San Jose, California, August 9, 1945, 18, http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CASCLARA/2001-01/0979147108.
3468. “Population Schedules for the 1880 Census,” 10th Decennial Census Office, Bureau of the Census, US Dept. of Commerce, United States of America, 1880, MI, Livingston, Howell.
3469. “California Death Index; 1940-1997,” California Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Section, http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi, https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2015582, Lists name as Addie Bailey Elliott.
3470. San Jose Mercury Herald, San Jose, California, November 5, 1947, 6, http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CASCLARA/2001-01/0979143701.
3471. “United States Census,” 1870, MI, Livingston, Marion, M593, 687, 192, Bureau of the Census, US Dept. of Commerce, United States of America, September 6, 1870, Syman Jackson.
Files (2): 1870 MI Livingston County Marion p192A, 1870 MI Livingston County Marion p192B
3472. “Obituary,” Alburta Carolyn Knupfer, Great Falls Tribune, Great Falls, MT, January 25, 2004.
California native Alburta Carolyn (Elliott) Knupfer, 85, of 125 20th St. S.W. and Monarch, a former administrative secretary, died of natural causes Friday at a local hospital.

Her memorial service will be held at a later date. Cremation will take place under the direction of Schnider Funeral Home.

She is survived by her husband Hans G. Knupfer, of Great Falls; daughters Carolyn A. (Douglas H.) Miller, Katherine C. Rucker and Alissa A. Durocher, all of Great Falls; sons Richard E. (Phyllis) Knupfer of Ivans, Utah, and Robert L. (Pam) Burks, of Fortuna, Calif.; a brother, Burton Elliot Jr. of Danville, Calif., grandchildren Richard E. Knupfer II (Maria) of California, Heidi L. (Robert) Tijerina of Texas, Nicole (Steven) Nunez of Florida, Becky A. (James A.) Edwards of Montana, Amy D. (Aaron J.) West of Phoenix, Christopher Burks, Mollee A. Rucker, Kiel D. Rucker, William E. Riley and Jason A. DuBose, all of California; as well as seven great-grandchildren.

Alburta was born July 17, 1918, in San Jose, Calif., the daughter of Henry Burton and Alice Vera (Hotchkiss) Elliott, and was raised in Oakland, Calif. She attended business college and later worked as an administrative secretary at the Hayward Unified School District in Calif. In 1951 in Carmel, Calif., she married Hans G. Knupfer.

She and her husband came to Montana for her daughter's wedding and loved it so much they moved here. Her favorite pastime was sitting on the deck of their cabin on Belt Creek watching the wildlife.
She loved spending time with her family and her dear friends in the Monarch area.

Memorials in Alburta's name may be made to the Shriner's Hospital or to the organization of the donor's choice.
3473. “Richard A Burks,” Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19358220, 19358220.
3474. “Obituary,” Hans George “Papa” Knupfer, Great Falls Tribune, Great Falls, MT, March 11, 2008.
Hans George "Papa" Knupfer, 91, of Great Falls and Monarch, an Army Korean War veteran and retired manager of inventory control for World Airways in Oakland, Calif., died of natural causes Sunday at a local hospital.

At his request, no services are planned. Schnider Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Survivors include daughters Carolyn (Douglas) Miller, Kathy (George Tomlinson) Rucker and Alissa Durocher, all of Great Falls; sons Richard (Phyllis) Knupfer of Utah and Robert (Pam) Burks of California; a brother, Dieter Knupfer of Virginia; and grandchildren Richard (Maria) Knupfer II of California, Heidi (Robert) Tijernia of Texas, Nicole (Stephen) Nunez of Florida, Becky (James) Edwards of Great Falls, Amy (Aaron) of Phoenix, Christopher (Kelly) Burks, Mollee Rucker, Kiel Rucker, William Riley and Jason DuBois of California; and 11 great-grandchildren.

Hans was born Oct. 13, 1916, in Germany, to Anna and Albert Knupfer, and was raised and educated in Binghamton, N.Y. He enlisted in the Army and served during the Korean War.

He retired from World Airways in Oakland and was involved in the Vietnam Orphanage Airlift with Ed Daily.

Hans was a lifelong member of the Masonic Order in California.

Hans married Alberta Elliott in January 1951 in Carmel, Calif. Many years later, he and his wife retired and moved to Montana in 1983 to be with their daughter, Carolyn. They bought a cabin in Monarch and enjoyed their last years with friends and families in Monarch.

In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents.
3476. Richard Knupfer, Records were in a family photo album., Says February 20, 1950.
These records were in a family photo album.
3477. “Obituary,” Hans George “Papa” Knupfer, Great Falls Tribune, Great Falls, MT, March 11, 2008, Says January 1951 in Carmel.
Hans George "Papa" Knupfer, 91, of Great Falls and Monarch, an Army Korean War veteran and retired manager of inventory control for World Airways in Oakland, Calif., died of natural causes Sunday at a local hospital.

At his request, no services are planned. Schnider Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Survivors include daughters Carolyn (Douglas) Miller, Kathy (George Tomlinson) Rucker and Alissa Durocher, all of Great Falls; sons Richard (Phyllis) Knupfer of Utah and Robert (Pam) Burks of California; a brother, Dieter Knupfer of Virginia; and grandchildren Richard (Maria) Knupfer II of California, Heidi (Robert) Tijernia of Texas, Nicole (Stephen) Nunez of Florida, Becky (James) Edwards of Great Falls, Amy (Aaron) of Phoenix, Christopher (Kelly) Burks, Mollee Rucker, Kiel Rucker, William Riley and Jason DuBois of California; and 11 great-grandchildren.

Hans was born Oct. 13, 1916, in Germany, to Anna and Albert Knupfer, and was raised and educated in Binghamton, N.Y. He enlisted in the Army and served during the Korean War.

He retired from World Airways in Oakland and was involved in the Vietnam Orphanage Airlift with Ed Daily.

Hans was a lifelong member of the Masonic Order in California.

Hans married Alberta Elliott in January 1951 in Carmel, Calif. Many years later, he and his wife retired and moved to Montana in 1983 to be with their daughter, Carolyn. They bought a cabin in Monarch and enjoyed their last years with friends and families in Monarch.

In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents.
3478. “Licenses Issued,” George Hans Knupfer and Carolyn A Burks, The Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, February 21, 1951, 27, Marriage license issued on February 21, 1951.
KNUPFER - BURKS
Hans George Knupfer, 34, and Alburta Carolyn Burks, 32, both Oakland.
3479. “Anniversaries,” Hans and Alburta Knupfer, Great Falls Tribune, Great Falls, MT, August 27, 2000, Says married February 22, 1950 in Carmel.
(Excerpt) Alburta Carolyn Elliott and Hans Knupfer were married on Feb. 22, 1950, in Carmel, Calif.
3480. “Obituary,” Henry Elliott III, Inside Bay Area, San Francisco, CA, January 8, 2010.
Henry Burton Elliott, III
Nov. 12, 1921 - Jan. 5, 2010

Resident of Fremont Always known as Burt, Henry Burton Elliott was born in Oakland, California on November 12, 1921. A longtime resident of Hayward, Walnut Creek and Fremont, Burt passed peacefully on January 5, 2010. Burt graduated from Castlemont High School in 1940. Shortly after graduation he joined the Army Air Corps. At the start of World War II he was stationed at an air base in southwestern Colorado where he met his wife of 62 years, Maycelle Biggs. After the war they returned to Oakland where he became a link trainer at the Oakland airport. While training pilots he became a qualified pilot himself and flew for Transocean Airlines from 1950 to 1960. Burt and Maycelle raised three children in Hayward; Donald, Kenneth and Marlis. After his flying career Burt joined Peterbilt Motors. He enjoyed a 20 year career in the truck industry before retiring in 1984. In retirement he was an avid golfer and member of Sequoyah Country Club. In later years he resided at Rossmore in Walnut Creek and Carlton Plaza in Fremont. He is survived by his son Kenneth and his wife Sandy, grandchildren Heather and Sean, and daughter Marlis. He will be missed. A remembrance for Burt will be held at Papillon in Fremont on Saturday, January 9 at 4:30.
3481. “Maycelle Marie Biggs Elliott,” Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33025861, 33025861.
3482. Hans George Kneupfer, “New York, County Naturalization Records, 1791-1980,” Septemper 18, 1942, Watertown, NY, 5765065, GS Film number: 001002842 , Digital Folder Number: 005395000 , Image Number: 00621, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KFXD-LNY.
File: HansGeorgeKnuepfer_Naturalization
3483. “Robert Christensen,” Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137971501, 137971501.
3484. “Miss Newell To Wed,” Robert Spencer Christensen and Beverly Genevieve Newell, Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, October 22, 1943, 19.
Invitations were received this morning for the marriage of Miss Beverly Genevieve Newell and Mr Robert Spencer Christensen. The ceremony to take place in Saint Paul's Episcopal Church at Montecito and Bay Place, Friday evening, October 29. at 8 o’clock. The Rev. A. Ronald Merrix, rector, will conduct the ritual. The reception to follow will take place at the home of the bridegroom-elect's parents at 397 Palm Avenue, Oakland .

Miss Newell is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Frederick Newell of Fairfield, Calif. Her father is a member of the Board of Education.

The future bride attended the University of California where she was a member of the Alpha Xi Delta Sorority, and later, the College of the Pacific in Stockton where she met her fiance.

Mr. Christiansen attended Salints Junior College and later transferred to College of the Pacific. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Christensen of Palm Avenue, and a grandson of Mr. Frederick Spencer Hotchkiss of Broadmoor Park, San Leandro. He is a brother of Dean Marius Christiansen, U.S.A. Air Corps, who is attending Technical Training School at Sioux Falls, S.D. and of Miss Doris Carine Christensen, who will be a junior bridesmaid at the wedding.

Mr. Christensen is at present at tending Marine Officers Candidate School at Colorado College.
3485. “California Birth Records,” 1905 - 1995, https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2001879, California Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Section, Gives birth date as April 15, 1923 and mother’s maiden name as Wilson.
3486. “United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014,” Beverley Genevieve Hummel, The Reporter, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKK2-3DN3.
3487. Robert S Christensen and Beverly G Newell, “California Divorce Index, 1966-1984,” July 1968, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP5Y-N7P.
3488. “Dean M Christensen,” Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53079383, 53079383.
3489. Dean Marius Christensen, Bingham, ID.
POCATELLO—Dean M. Christensen, 73, 715 Northland, died Wednesday, Sept. 24, 1997 at a local hospital following an illness.

Dean was born April 27, 1924 in Oakland, California, to Henry H. and Anetta Catherine Hotchkiss Christensen. He was a member of the Episcopalian Church. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II until he was honorably discharged in 1948.

Dean was a member of the American Association of Retired Persons. He had many hobbies, including tinkering with electronics and music. He was a classical pianist. He was a great neighbor. Education was very important to Dean. He had two master’s and numerous minors. He attended the University of Utah and the University of Arizona, and Stanford University.

Surviving Dean are his children, Don, Mike, Karl and Steven Christensen, and daughter, Geroldine Fuentes, and one brother, Bob Christensen. He was preceded in death by one sister.

Memorial graveside services are being planned for Oct. 4, in Santa Rosa, Calif., at the Santa Rosa Memorial Park. Arrangements are under the direction of Downard-Hansen Funeral Home, 241 N. Garfield Ave.
File: DeanMariusChristensen_Obituary
3490. “German Girl Weds S R Soldier,” Dean Marius Christensen and Martha Helwig, The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, CA, February 6, 1948, 3.
<photo caption>
Sgt. Dean Christensen and his bride of one day, Martha Helwig recently arrived from Germany pose for a picture in Santa Rosa, their new home. Sgt. Christensen's parents live in this city.
<end photo caption>

Love That Blossomed Overseas Fulfilled With Marriage

Wedding bells rang in Santa Rosa Wednesday to culminate the romance of a Santa Rosan and his bride which began to the accompaniment of church bells in a war-torn German town.

Exchanging marital vows were Staff Sergeant Dean Christensen, 24, of Santa Rosa, and Fraulein Martha Helwig, 20, late of Mannheim, Germany.

Martha, a comely, dark-haired girl, arrived here only last Sunday, just two weeks after leaving Bremerhaven. She was met in Oakland by Sergeant Christensen and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Christensen, 118 Sebastopol road.

It was the first time since Dean left Mannheim in October, 1946, that he had seen his fiancee—and it was her first glimpse of the state and countryside which will be her home.

Within the next few days the couple will leave for Fort Lewis where Dean is currently stationed. He will be discharged in November and will return to Santa Rosa to make his home and to continue his study of music.

An excellent pianist, he is now busy at work on several musical compositions including a ballet, an operetta and a piano rhapsody.

Dean first met his bride in Mannheim when his outfit, the 118th Infantry, was sent there to do police duty. He was billeted in the home of Martha's parents. A common interest in music, electrical and radio technique and church led to friendship which ripened into love.

The sergeant blushingly admits most of his courtship was conducted in church—and it was in a Mannheim church, while the bells were pealing, that he received his first kiss from the girl who is today his bride.

He proposed, she accepted, and after his return home, he worked hard and saved his money to raise the $500 necessary to send for her. There was more delay while State Department red tape was cut.

Martha speaks English, having studied the language before she met Dean three years ago. She is "almost" an electrical engineer, having been employed by Siemans, the German equivalent of General Electric, for many years, since she was 14 years old.

She has been thrilled by the clothing and food available in America and by the Sonoma valley country.

"It is so much like the country around Mannheim. I won't feel too strange here," she said.

"You won't ever feel strange if I have my way," the tall, good-looking sergeant at her side assured her.

File: Dean_Marius_Christensen_and_Martha_Helwig_Marriage_Article
3491. “Obituaries,” Martha R Martin, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA, October 30, 2013.
Resident of San Jose

Born February 2, 1927 in Mannheim, Germany and returned to the earth October 16, 2013, San Jose, California. 

Preceded in death by her husband Thomas J. Martin and leaving behind her children, Geraldine Fuentes and Ralph Christensen; granddaughter Kimberly Usury, and three great grandchildren.

A valued employee of Wells Fargo Bank for over 20 years. Martha's passion was the care and rights of animals and was a devout contributor to their causes internationally.

Memorial services have been held.
3492. “Martha R Martin,” Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167154195, 167154195.
3493. “Mary E Mischler,” Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114256512, 114256512.
3494. “Doris Carine Christensen Schmierer,” Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53079622, 53079622.
3495. “California Death Index; 1940-1997,” California Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Section, http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi, https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2015582, Gives middle name of Allen and mother’s maiden name as Schmidt.
3496. “Ernest Benjamin Hummel,” Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141039546, 141039546.
3497. Ernest B Hummel and Beverly Christensen, “Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005,” August 14, 1974, Carson City, NV, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VVBW-4GC.
3498. “Thomas J Martin,” Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120595392, 120595392.
3499. “United States Census,” 1850, Iowa, Van Buren, Farmington, M432, 189, 306A, 128, September 24, 1850, Charles Baldwin.
Files (2): 1850 IA Van Buren County Farmington_A, 1850 IA Van Buren County Farmington_B
3500. “California Death Index; 1940-1997,” California Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Section, http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi, https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2015582, Says March 28, 1860.
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