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The following is a nearly exact transcription of "Pop" Hermann's description of his family members in the above photo:
The Hermann family in Rupea Transilvania ( Reps Sibenbuergen)
#I Fader Daniel Hermann 2 Step Mother Fathers 3rd wife
Minni #3and Fritzi #4Minni died in the 70is and Frtzi died of tuberculosy during the last war.
#5 is my brother Will,he had a position in Buda_Pest and after the war I heard he was in Checho Slovakia. his sister Hanni ( hana ) #6wher the two of the first marriage Hanny marrid Peter Schuller #7. They had twoe boys#8and 9 Peter and Hermann, One gat ciled in the last war and the other I heard from after the war in East Germany. Thees wer of of my Fathers firs marriage.
#10 is the only one alive today. Fathers second marriage was to Regina Lutch my Motyer. Ther ver twoe bois in that marriage Daniel and Karl . Daniel could not be in this for he was serving hes apritisship out of town. My Father and Mother seperated when I was about 6 years old . Father kept Daniel , for hi was 2 years oder then I and Mother kept me. Mother nd I left for Romania. Here I vent tho the German Luteran school , close to the palas of King Karol of Romania He and his Queen attended oure church servises.
I was 11 years old when Mother died in Bucurest. My Father then tuk me bak and I finished schooling troug the 8 grade. I steartet my aprinticship as e store clerc.
In 1907 Father decided to migrate to America. Brother Dan was working in Switzerland in his trade and Father instrukted Him tomeet us at Bremer Hafen at a given time. So the 3 of us landed an Herman Str. in Cleveland Ohio. Dan did nat have any trouble geting a job in a paking hose , I strugled along with all kinds of work but Father had quite a time. After one year Father decided to go bak home
Dan succseeded in hes own buther shop in Ceveland then moved to Chipowa Lake with his shop and shlouder house. Here he and his wife Minni wer geting along well til in 46 he got cilled . Minni disposed of everithing and moved bak to Cleveland. Shi had her probles and did not last mutch longer. In 1910 I left Cleveland for Akron, here I realy made good. I marrid in 1912 raisd a family and got mi own home. I lived to be 94 years in 1983 and how mutsh longer I will be around, God only knows.
P S. I heart that Father had died in Kronstat at the age of 72. thats quite a hard life to raise 6 chideren. But so it was and is life in the Old contry.
I twoe would have had 6 chideren , but lost one when Gretchen was two days old, but I am realy proud of all I have.
Pop Hermann
Karl with a local band before leaving Austria-Hungary.
(circa 1905)
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Penny Allen Nelsonpennyallennelson@comcastREMOVE.net
Spokane, Washington, 2009
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