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Maria Rebecca Wohlers Oberkotter
3 Jan 1847 – 18 Dec 1932
| Birth | 3 Jan 1847 |
| Death | 18 Dec 1932 |
| Cemetery | Geneva Cemetery Geneva , Fillmore County , Nebraska , USA |
| Added by | M. Jensen Seggerman on 28 Nov 2012 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94083489 |
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OBERKOTTER, MARIA REBECCA—Maria, widow of Henry Oberkotter, died at the family home in Geneva Township, Fillmore County, Nebraska, at 6 a.m. Sunday, December 18, 1932, aged 85 years, 11 months and 15 days. The funeral services will be held at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church south of Grafton at 2 p. m. Thursday, December 22. Interment will be in the Geneva Cemetery. The Nebraska Signal 22 December 1932 front page. ALSO: Maria Rebecca Wohlers was born in Hanover, Germany, January 3, 1847. She died at her home in Geneva Township December 18, 1932. She migrated with her parents to the United States at the age of eleven, coming across the Atlantic in a slow-sailing vessel that took seven weary weeks to make the trip. They came up the Mississippi River by boat and made their first home in America on a farm near Meredosia, Ill. March 1, 1866, she was married to Henry Oberkotter. This couple lived for a few years in Illinois, then moved to Missouri, and the next move, in 1885 brought them to Nebraska. Maria Oberkotter lived on their farm northwest of Geneva for forty-seven years. Mrs. Oberkotter has been a semi-invalid for the past ten years, but last Sunday morning at 6 a.m. after a short, severe attack of the flu, her spirit took its flight. Her husband preceded her in death twenty-six years ago and her oldest son, John, ten years ago. The rest of the children, ten in number are scattered far and wide: Henry, Burwell, Neb.; Martin, New York City; Anna, Lark, N. D.; Amalia, Los Angeles, Calif.; Martha, Lena, Louise and Florence, Seattle, Wash.; Alvin and Mary of Geneva, Neb. She is also survived by an only sister, Mrs. Maggie Werries of Tescott, Kas.; twenty grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. The funeral services were held at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Thursday, December 22, and were conducted by Rev. G. W. Miller. Interment was in the Geneva Cemetery. The Nebraska Signal 29 December 1932 front page. The following has been contributed by a Find a Grave visitor: Maria Rebecka Wohlers Birth 3 Jan 1847 in Klethen, Kr. Ahlerstedt, Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany Death 18 Dec 1932 in Geneva, Fillmore, Nebraska daughter of: Martin & Margaretha Rebecca Eckhoff Wohlers married Heinrich Oberkotter in Morgan County Illinois 3/1/1866
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- Anna Margaret "Maggie" Wohlers Werries 1853–1944 FaG
- Gesche Wohlers Brockhouse 1855–1929 FaG
- Martin Wohlers 1860–1931 FaG
Children
- John Frederick Oberkotter 1866–1923
- Henry Oberkotter 1871–1950
- Anna Oberkotter Kleinlein 1873–1947
- Lewis Martin "Monte Morgan" Oberkotter 1875–1956
- Mary E. Oberkotter 1877–1935
- Martha Oberkotter 1880–1965
- Amalia Rosina "Mollie" Oberkotter Curtiss 1884–1972
- Albert Oberkotter 1893–1893
- Hazel Oberkotter 1901–1902
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