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For my granchildren's heritage books -- each layout is two pages --- one the photo, the other the story:
John & Sophia are your great-great-great grandparets. I remember the first time I “met” them. I had gone to the cemetery where they are buried, knowing only their names from my gran-
dad, GaBill (they were his grandparents). He never talked much about them. So we walked into the cemetery and among the many small and old stones were these two beautiful stones -- and by John’s was a GAR marker. That was when I started the Schmidt genealogy. John and Sophia were both born in Mecklinberg, Schwarin Germany, he in Tassin, she in Kroepplin. He was born March 23, 1836 and she on January 17, 1844. Each immigrated with his/her parents to America, he in 1857 and Sophia the following year. They were mar-
ried in Naperville, Illinois November 8, 1865. That would have been right after Grandpa left the Army, at the close of the Civil War. He served from 1862 until the war’s end, a member of Company I, One Hundred Fifth Illinois Volunteers. He was in numerous battles but those especially recognizable were the Siege of Atlanta, the Occupation of Atlanta, and he was with General Sherman on his march to the sea. In his picture, I feel his eyes look haunted and probably they were. What horror he must have seen. If children can be a mirror of their parents, then John and Sophie must have been quiet, gentle, and funny. Their children I was lucky enough to know were all of the above. John died October 27, 1915 in Friend, Nebraska and Sophia died June 6, 1925 in Friend. They had 12 children, three of whom died at young ages. John’s death came shortly after they had celebrated 50 years of marriage.
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