{"id":821,"date":"2009-12-02T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/an-update-on-emil\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T18:25:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T23:25:55","slug":"an-update-on-emil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/an-update-on-emil\/","title":{"rendered":"An Update on Emil"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a follow-up to my Finding Emil<\/a> post from last month.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t really be able to figure out much since that post, but I\u2019ve found some more information that may eventually help, including a real photo postcard in the box of photos<\/a> from my aunt.<\/p>\n

While I was at the Illinois Archives a few weeks ago, I pulled a few death certificates.\u00a0 One was for John SEVERING, who was Hulda WACH Miller\u2019s second husband.\u00a0 And working on a hunch, I pulled one for Hermina Severing.\u00a0 See, I find a Charles, Hermina, and Lilian in McHenry County, Illinois in 1920, and John and Hermina in 1930, also in McHenry County.\u00a0 Now, I don\u2019t think Hermina is Hulda (although anything is possible), but I am wondering if he possibly married again.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fairly certain that I have the correct death certificate for John.\u00a0 Since it lists his wife\u2019s name as Hermina, I\u2019m pretty sure the census records I found for 1920 and 1930 are for him as well.\u00a0 I\u2019m not certain of the death certificate for Hermina.\u00a0 First, she was living in Chicago at the time of her death in 1943, and died in Kane County.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t necessarily mean anything.\u00a0 The other information provided, widow of John, born in 1858, seems to correspond to the Hermina found with John in the censuses.\u00a0 However, it lists her birthplace (and mother\u2019s birthplace) as Hungry, but in the 1920 and 1930 census, it\u2019s listed as Germany.\u00a0\u00a0 What I do feel certain about is that this is not Hulda; the birth date is about 10 years off and the birthplace and mother\u2019s name\/birthplace do not match.<\/p>\n

My new hypothesis is that Hulda may have died between 1910 and 1920, and John remarried.\u00a0 I suppose they could have also divorced.<\/p>\n

Switching over to Emil MILLER, Hulda\u2019s first husband and the topic of this post, I may have stumbled onto something.\u00a0 I\u2019m working with the hypothesis that the Emil, Henry, Emil I found in the 1900 census is in fact my family, and that Hulda and Emil divorced (as opposed to Emil dying leaving Hulda a widow as indicated in her 1900 census record).\u00a0 That said, their son\u2019s marriage record in Chicago indicates that he resided in Harvard, McHenry, Illinois in 1909.\u00a0 This is the only reference I have placing him in the same town\/county as his mother.<\/p>\n

New Clue<\/strong><\/p>\n

When son Emil was married in 1915, he was living in Chicago.\u00a0 But, I stumbled across a photo postcard from Henry to brother Emil (living in Harvard) in 1912.\u00a0 (Side note:\u00a0 This photo also gives me a clue as to where Henry worked, as he was a blacksmith.\u00a0 Heck, that could be him in the photo!)\u00a0 So now I have a reference placing Emil in the same town\/county as his mother.\u00a0 So now I\u2019m wondering if father Emil died prior to 1909 and Henry and Emil went to live with their mother in McHenry County.<\/p>\n

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I have yet to find son Emil in the 1910 census, but plan to go back and look in McHenry County instead of Cook County.\u00a0 According to the census record for his mother, he is not living in the same residence as her in 1910.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I haven\u2019t solved the mystery yet, but new hypotheses have emerged.<\/p>\n