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Surnames: GURITZ ZIEGLER DRAVIS DREWES DREWIS DRAVIES
Classification: Query
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There are more children than that. There is also a daughter named Lizzie.
Lizzie Ziegler married Theodore Dravis.
You will find Otto, and Minnie living with a widowed Sophia in the 1900 census. In the
same household, you will find Lizzie Dravis (widowed daughter of Sophia) with her children
Martha and William Dravis.
Lizzie had more children. One daughter's name was Rosa Dravis (b Sept 1888) whom I
believe to be living with a married couple, C. Robinson and his wife Mary. They call Rosa
Dravis their neice in the 1900 Fayette County, Fremont Township, IA census.
Furthermore, I am trying to make a connection between Lizzie Ziegler and a Catherine
Ziegler. They were both born in Minnesota. One married Theodore Dravis. Another married a
Heinrich Guritz. All of these families lived in Fayette County.
Heinrich Friedrich WILHELM Ed Guritz (23 MAR 1852 - 26 JUL 1919) m. Maria Catharina
Ziegler of Bremer Co., IA
August Guritz (12 FEB 1856-02 APR 1908) m. Emma Dravis (1861-1904)
Theodore Dravis (1858-22 JUN1895) m. Lizzie Ziegler (1857- ?)
Any and all of this could become important to your research. The children of August Guritz
and Emma Dravis *OR* Theodore Dravis and Lizzie Ziegler could have been given up for
adoption or adopted by a step-parent or another family member.
As you can see by the birth and death dates, these parents died while their children were
still very young.
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