Living married Living Erdmann. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1920, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; 2838 W 39th St
• Residence: 1930, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; 3621 W 65th Place
• Residence: Abt 1945, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Elma Lehmann: They owned their 2-story flat at 3603 S Wolcott Ave; his trade was a painter, from which he eventually retired

Notes:

Buried:
Elma Lehmann: Glen Oaks Cemetery; Roosevelt Road & Oak Ridge Avenue; Hillside, IL

Died:
Soc Sec: last residence Round Lake -- Elma Lehmann: Veterans Hospital, from Cancer of the throat

Richard married Henrietta Vandre on 23 Jul 1940 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. Henrietta (daughter of George William Beaver Vandre and Wilhelmine Ottolie - Wilhelmina - Minnie - Staack) was born on 1 Aug 1918 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; died on 24 Oct 1990. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Elma Lehmann: She worked as a housekeeper, at a sewing factory and last at Harper High School cafeteria (same high school that she had attended)
• Baptism: Abt 15 Aug 1918, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1920, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; 3527 South Mozart (Fred & Katherine are renting to their daughter Minnie & George Vandre and living down the street from Katherine's sister Mary & Otto Kluth at 3513 and their daughter Marie & William Buehler at 3533); age 1
• Residence: 1930, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; 7645 South Chicago Avenue (step-father's apartment building); age 11; at school
• Education: Abt 1935, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Elma Lehmann: went to Harper High School, where she worked in later years in the cafeteria
• Residence: 1984; Elma Lehmann: widowed 6 Dec 1984 & moved to Round Lake, IL and lived in an attic flat in her sister Katherine (Vandre) Hoffman's house

Notes:

Birth:
Cook County File Number 6027936

Baptism:
Elma Lehmann: godmother washer Aun Henrietta (Staack) Johnston; godfather not known

Notes:

Married:
Cook County File Number 1645806; Elma Lehumann: St Phillippus Church; 36th & Seeley Ave; Chicago; 44 anniversaries

Other Events:

• Residence: 1920, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1930, Chicago, Cook, Illinois

Herman married Meta Aka Mae Beyer. Meta was born about 1898 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1920, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1930, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

Other Events:

• Personal Nature: Elma Lehmann: "No matter what problems he had he was always happy-go-lucky."
• Residence: 5 Jun 1917, Chicago, Cook, Illinois; WWI Draft Reg; living at 3524 Rockwell St; Teamster for C. D. ?Gorman? Teaming Co at 119 Ada St; married; was Cpl in 2nd Infantry ?NG? for 3 years in Illinois; claims draft exemption -left eye defective; medium height & build; gray eyes; dark brown hair
• Residence: 1920, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; 3527 South Mozart (Fred & Katherine are renting to their daughter Minnie & George Vandre and living down the street from Katherine's sister Mary & Otto Kluth at 3513 and their daughter Marie & William Buehler at 3533); age 25; Driver for Gannon and Company
• Occupation: Abt 1925, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; info from Elma Lehmann's records (1987): truck driver
• Surgery to Amputate Arm at Shoulder: Abt Jun 1926, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Elma Lehmann: "My Aunt told my mother Marie all he asked the Doctor that the nurse give him one cigarette after another which they did while the Doctor operated on him at home. He smoked 16 packages of cigarettes. He lived one year after the operation.\"

Notes:

Birth:
Elma Lehmann (1987) wrote that he was born Beaver but adopted by Vandre; he explicitly gave his birth date and place on his WWI draft registration, but I cannot find a Chicago birth record for him

Buried:
info from Elma Lehmann's records (1987): Oakwoods Cemetery

Died:
Cook County Death Certificate 6017155 -- see http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/idphdeathsrch.html; Elma Lehmann: died of cancer

George married Wilhelmine Ottolie - Wilhelmina - Minnie - Staack on 5 Feb 1916 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. Wilhelmine (daughter of Friedrich Gustav Carl Fred Fritz Staack and Katherine Schaumburg) was born on 4 Feb 1896 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; died on 24 May 1931 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; was buried on 27 May 1931 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Personal Nature: Elma Lehmann: "My Aunt used to roller skate to work and back so she could save money. Many times her & my cousins roller skated to our home at the time at 60th & Campbell from 79th & Cottage Grove where they lived."
• Personal Nature: Elma Lehmann: "My Aunt was a great cook. Her sister my mother Marie [Staack Buehler] would have her come and cook fried brains for my father because she cooked them the best."
• Occupation: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Elma Lehmann: "Worked for Wrigley Gum Factory and a Cookie Factory located at 35th & Ashland. ... My Aunt would always bring my brother and I Wrigley chewing gum."
• Baptism: 4 Apr 1896, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1900, Chicago Ward 10, Cook, Illinois, USA; 977 West 21st Place
• Residence: 1910, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; 3527 South Mozart
• Residence: 1920, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; 3527 South Mozart (Fred & Katherine are renting to their daughter Minnie & George Vandre and living down the street from Katherine's sister Mary & Otto Kluth at 3513 and their daughter Marie & William Buehler at 3533); age 24
• Residence: 1930, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; 7645 South Chicago Avenue (husband's apartment building); age 34; age at first marriage 20; occupation: none

Notes:

Birth:
No civil birth record found for her - birth date is from baptismal record

Baptism:
Immanuel Lutheran Church - sponsors Wilhelmine (Gelis) Schaumburg & Otto Kluth

Buried:
Oakwoods Cemetery by Lain & Son at 316 W. 63rd St.

Died:
Elma Lehmann: died at County Hospital of yellow jaundice caused by her gallbladder -- Death Cert: at 7643 S Chicago Ave; married to Salvatore; housewife; cause acute hepatitis (2 weeks); burial 27 May 1931 at Oakwoods Cemetery by Lain & Son at 316 W. 63rd

Notes:

Married:
by Rev. Hermann L. Pflug of 3650 South Honore Street -- see image in Media Gallery