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Catherine Buerk

Female 1865 - 1954  (88 years)


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  • Name Catherine Buerk  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 16 Aug 1865  W?rttemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Female 
    Death 20 Mar 1954  Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4
    Burial Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 
    • Cass City Chronicle
      Friday, March 26, 1954

      Pioneer Resident of Cass City Area Dies

      Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Evangelical United Brethren Church for Mrs. Catherine Buehrly, pioneer resident of this community, who died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Walter ANTHES. She had been in ill health for the past two years. The Rev. S.R. Wurtz and Rev. Stanley Kirn officiated. Mrs. Buehrly was born in Waldhausen, Wurttemberg, Germany, August 16, 1865, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frederick BUERK and came to this country with her parents when she was seven years old. The settled on a farm three and one-half miles northeast of Cass City. On March 24, 1885, she married Mr. Leonard BUEHRLY at her home in Elkland Township. Following their marriage, they made their home on a farm near the homestead. Mr. Buehrly died February 4, 1939, and in 1945 Mrs. Buehrly came to live with her daughter, Mrs. ANTHES, where she had lived until her death. Mrs. Buehrly had been a faithful member of the Evangelical United Brethren Church of Cass City since early childhood and attended services when they were being held in the Walmsley School. She watched the church grow to the present time. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Walter (Elsie) ANTHES of Novesta Township and Mrs. S.C. (Mary) STRIFFLER of Elkland Township; three sons, Fred, Edward and Lawrence, all of Elkland Township; then grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. One daughter preceded her in death. Funeral arrangements were in charge of Little's Funeral Home and burial was in Elkland Cemetery.

      (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Spring 2007)
    Person ID I12745  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Johann Freidrich "Fredrick" Buerk,   b. 16 Sep 1840, W?rttemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Mar 1915, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Anna Catharina Benkelman,   b. 6 Aug 1843, Bartenbach, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Sep 1917, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Marriage 1867  Schneiderhof, Waldhausen Parish, Welzheim, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5, 6, 7
    Family ID F5209  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Johann Leonhard Buehrly,   b. 21 Feb 1859, B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Feb 1939, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 24 Mar 1885  Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Children 
     1. Bertha Catherine Buehrly,   b. 7 Mar 1886, Elkland Township, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Mar 1953, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
     2. Mary Magdalene Buehrly,   b. 19 Jun 1887, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Dec 1963, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
     3. Fred Leonard Buehrly,   b. 7 May 1889, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Aug 1971, Elkland Township, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
     4. Elsie Christine Buehrly,   b. 24 Apr 1891, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Apr 1980, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
     5. Edward Buehrly,   b. 6 Sep 1895, Elkland Township, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Feb 1989, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 93 years)
     6. Lawrence William Buehrly,   b. 30 Jun 1902, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Oct 1981, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Headstones
    Buehrly, Leonard and Catherine (Buerk)
    Buehrly, Leonard and Catherine (Buerk)
    Family ID F2350  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Jul 2013 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 16 Aug 1865 - W?rttemberg, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 24 Mar 1885 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 20 Mar 1954 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982.

    2. [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, Friday, March 26, 1954 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 162 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Volume 17, September 6, 1954 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, September 14, 1917 (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, April 2, 1915 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 160 (Reliability: 3).