Charlie's Beloved Wife
Martha Forst

MARTHA ANNE FORST Hermann
of Recklinghausen, Germany

Charles & Martha Hermann
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Martha arrived in the United States at Ellis Island on August 10, 1904, with her sisters, BERTHA and OLGA. They were escorted by their half-sister, ELLA Forst, who had first come to Cleveland in 1898 and returned to Germany bring her sisters back to Cleveland with her.

Front (L-R) Olga, Martha
Back (L-R) Bertha with future husband, Joe Bauknecht

Forst Sisters with Joe Bauknecht

Martha and daughter, Gretchen
ca 1922, Akron

Forst Sisters with Joe Bauknecht

Martha with 2nd son, "Herbie" who later died at age 3
from being fatally burned after playing with matches.

Martha and baby, Herbert Daniel

Martha sitting in garden behind the Hermann's Akron home
on East Avenue

Martha sitting in East Ave. Garden

Martha with 1st son, Karl in the 1940's

Martha and Karl

Charlie & Martha celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 1952

Charlie & Martha, May, 1952

Martha working in her kitchen at their East Avenue home

Martha in the kitchen

Charlie & Martha at their son, Daniel's wedding to Betty Schneider

Charlie & Martha, September, 1952

Since my grandmother died in 1953 when I was 9 years old, I have very little memory of her outside of the photographs that remain. The above image of Martha in the kitchen, one of the only candids of my "Grandma Herman," represents the way I remember her . . . in the kitchen. I still make the German Potato Salad that she once made from HER mother"s recipe and taught my mother to make. I remember the streudels, the kuchens, and especially the homemade ketchup that was among the many home canned foods kept in their root cellar. It was a sad day when the last bottle of her ketchup was emptied. But not quite as sad as the day when Grandma died.
Penny Allen Nelson


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