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Henry married Mary Josephine Shehan on 1 Mar 1938 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA. Mary was born in 0Aug 1915 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA; died on 29 May 2003 in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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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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