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Author: PaulPeterson1223
Surnames: Zeller, Meyer, Dustman
Classification: queries
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I purchased the subject undated studio portrait of 12 men, 8 women, 6 boys, and 6 girls
taken by the Art Studio, Burlington, IA (during a family reunion?). There is a small
inset photo of a young couple (included in the above head count) inset into the upper left
corner of the larger photo. The photo, taken in front of a house, bears the following
identifications on the back of the mount in period ink handwriting:
"inset Matilda (Dustman) Poggemiller
Row 1 (1) Charles Frederick Meyer (2) (wife) Tillie Sabens Meyer (3) Dan Dustman (4)
Theresa Zeller Meyer (5) (husband) Fred Meyer (6) [blank/unidentified young man] (7) Ed
Dustman (8) [blank/unidentified young man]
Row 2 (1) Ruth Meyer (2) Charles Julius Meyer (3) Matilda Zeller REIS (4) Arthur Henry
Meyer (Franz Henry Meyer (6) Amelia Zeller Hoh (7) Edward Zeller brother to (8) Augustus
(Gus) Zeller
Row 3 (1) Fred Dustman (2) Ricoe Dustman (3) Grandpa Zeller (4) Anna Wilhelmina Zeller
Meyer (5) William Frederick (Billy) Meyer (6) (Nellie) Eleannor ("Tante") Meyer
(widow of Ernest Meyer)
Row 4 (1) Naomi Meyer (2) Frederick (Fritz) Meyer (3) Hazel Valentine (4) Grace Meyer (5)
Warren (Bud) Meyer) (6) Margaret Meyer (7) Freddie Meyer (8) Irene Meyer children of Uncle
Billie [last two names]"
I found many of these individuals in U.S. Census records and Public Member Trees posted on
ancestry.com, as summarized below.
John Frederick "Fred" Dustman (1851-1932), son of John Henry Dustman (1816-1897)
and Anna Marie Bosckstiegel (1813-1897), married Fredericka
"Ricka/Reke/Reake/Ricka" Meyers (1848-1929), daughter of John Frederick Meyers
(1816-) and Mary Lowks (1826-), and they had 5 children, including: Matilda Pauline
Dustman (1877-), Lewis/Louis H. Dustman (1879-), Edward Henry Dustman (1880-1975), and
Daniel Henry Dustman (1888-1982). Matilda Pauline married William C. Pogemiller.
William Edward Zeller (1830-1908) married Marie Johanette Elizabeth Krakel (1843-1903) and
they had 10 children: Henry William Zeller (1859-1932), Louise Zeller (1862-1931), Anna
Zeller (1866-), Amelia Zeller (1870-), Caroline Zeller (1873-1925), Therese Zeller
(1875-), Christian Zeller (1877-1916), Matilda "Tillie" L. Zeller (1881-),
Augustus C. Zeller (1884-1962), and Edward Zeller (1886-1956).
Frank Henry Meyer (1860-) married Anna Zeller (1866-) and they had 5 children: Charles
Julius Meyer (1890-), Arthur H. Meyer (1892-), Naomi E. Meyer (1894-1988), Fred L. Meyer
(1897-), and William R. Meyer (1906-).
Charles Frederick Meyer (1864) married Tillie Sabens (1868-) and they had 4 children,
including: Grace Meyer (1893-), Margaret Meyer (1895-), and Warren Meyer (1897-).
Contact me if you wish to view this oversize photo (print measuring 9" x 11"
mounted to a board measuring 14" x 17").
Paul A. Peterson
email: farulacaddis(a)yahoo.com
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