Howard married Mary Ann Grawey on 29 Dec 1943 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA. Mary (daughter of Simon Edward Grawey and Rose Olive Barth) was born on 25 Dec 1921 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA; died on 23 Jan 2005 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA; was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Born at home at 215 W. Sherman Avenue in Peoria.
Birth certificate actually says Mary Anna Gravois.
Baptized 1-1-1922 at St. Mark's in Peoria. Bill Boland and Clementine Grawey Boland (her aunt and uncle) were godparents. Confirmed 5-9 1929 at St. Marks. Sponsor was Bette (Elizabeth) Wierschem Sieks (her 3rd cousin).
Married at St. Mark's Catholic Church. Father Fitzgerald was priest.
Aunt Louise Grawey taught her how to bake cookies and cakes. Mary Ann would walk to her house below Western hill in Peoria when she was in grade school. Several other cousins would go there and hang out with Aunt Lou.

Took piano lessons for only 1 year around 3rd grade from her Uncle Fred. Played ragtime style with very active left hand. Learned to play a march called "Frat" which was written by John F. Barth. It was published in Cleveland in 1910 and is still available online at the Duke University Special Collections Library. Maryann told her daughter, Christine, that the author was her grandfather's (Henry Barth's) brother (her great-uncle). However, we have no information that Henry Barth had any siblings. It is possible that Henry's father, John F. Barth, had another son named John.

Simon married Rose Olive Barth on 6 May 1914 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA. Rose (daughter of Heinrich August Barth and Anna Wierschem) was born on 14 Aug 1892 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA; died on 17 Mar 1963 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA; was buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery, West Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Note: Second youngest of 6 children. Worked at home as a kid because her mother and father worked in their bakery, and so she didn't finish grade school because she had to stay at home to take care of the youngest child. Lived above the bakery, which was on Lincoln Avenue in Peoria across from Lincoln Park. She would play in the park and take the younger child there to play. Also, there was a library near there where she spent a lot of time. Married at St. Boniface Catholic Church. Drove to church in horse and buggy. Had cousins who lived in Germany. She wrote to them and they referred to their Uncle Henry and Aunt Anna Barth. They lived on a farm in Huberhof, Germany and worked in town in Zweibrucken, Germany. In the letters, the German cousins also referred to other cousins who lived in Otterbach and Lambsheim and Hohenecken, Germany. In the 1950's, she became very ill and the doctors diagnosed cancer. Before going into the hospital for surgery, she made a novena to Saint Therese of the Child Jesus (Therese of Lisieux - The Little Flower - A Doctor of the Catholic Church). When she went for surgery, the doctors were astounded to find no cancer.

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• Occupation: Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA; baker

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Christened Henricus Augustus Barth about 12 May 1861 in Hauenstein, Bavaria in the Palatinate region of Germany according to LDS microfilm records. This was known as the Pfalz Bayern region (Palatinate Bavaria). However, after World War II it is in the Rheinland Pfalz area (Rhineland Palatinate). These records were from Katholische Kirche Hauenstein (BA, Pirmasens) the Kirchenbuch, 1800-1961. They can be found at www.familysearch.org at Batch No. J986582, Date 1795-1875, Source Call No. 0400462 Microfilm. The records show that he was an only child and they list the names of his parents. The Catholic Church used Latin as the official language then, and apparently recorded all names in the Latin format. However, nothing else is known about the parents. German spelling would be Heinrich August Barth with the American being Henry August Barth. Henry Barth (great-grandson) in Brimfield, Illinois has a beer mug from Germany that has the following: Heinrich Barth - Kaiserslautern - 1893 - Andenken. Don't know if this is where he lived or whether this is from a trip back to Germany after moving to US. It is near to Hauenstein. Henry Barth came to the US before 1884. His original bakery was on Lincoln Avenue in Peoria, across from Lincoln Park. The first three sons (Henry and Herman and Julius) all worked in the bakery. There is a story that they would work most of the night and sometimes drink beer while working (they were good Germans). They would occasionally fight (as brothers do) and there are reports of them chasing each other across Lincoln Park in the middle of the night with knives.Henry Barth moved the bakery to Main Street in Peoria below the hill. Henry Barth was apparently very successful as a baker and was active and important in the German-American Society in Peoria. He travelled back to Germany several times (it is reported that he went with the Trefzgers and others).Note Hauenstein is in southwestern Germany about 15 miles from the border with France. It is about 35 miles east of the Germany city of Saarbrucken. Three small towns that are mentioned in Barth records are nearby. Pirmasens is 10 miles west, Zweibrucken is 20 miles west, and Kaiserslautern is 20 miles north.

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Heinrich married Anna Wierschem on 29 Jan 1885 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA. Anna was born on 28 Aug 1866 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA; died on 7 Oct 1950 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA; was buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery, West Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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