Dienstbier, Frederick

Male 1859 - 1937  (77 years)


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  • Name Dienstbier, Frederick 
    Born 18 Nov 1859  St. Louis, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Occupation a jeweler  [5
    • According to information on his death certificate, Frederick had been a jeweler all his life and was retired at the time of his death.
    Died 27 Mar 1937  St. Louis, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • Frederick died at mid-morning at his home, 3524 Halliday Avenue, of a self-inflicted gun shot wound to the right temple.
    Buried 30 Nov 1937  St. Louis, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    • According to information on her death certificate, Frederick was buried in New St. Marcus Cemetery. Two years later, his wife, Pauline, would be laid to rest in the same cemetery. Peetz Brothers, of 3029 Lafayette Avenue, were in charge of both burials.
    Person ID I1309  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 9 Sep 2017 

    Father Dienstbier, Heinrich,   d. 4 Oct 1875, St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother [---?---], Barbara,   b. Abt 1823, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Apr 1871, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 48 years) 
    Married Y  [2, 8
    • In his will, Henry Dienstbier names as his heirs two children from the first marriage and three children from his third marriage. The second marriage is implied; no offspring, if there were any, are mentioned as heirs. Barbara's maiden name is not known at this time.
    Family ID F1427  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Bohley, Pauline,   b. 5 Apr 1866, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 May 1939, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Married Y  [9, 10, 11, 12, 13
    • Details of the marriage are not known at this time.
    Children 
     1. Dienstbier, Frederick H. P.,   b. 29 Aug 1887, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Apr 1917, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 29 years)
     2. Dienstbier, Robert George,   b. 18 Nov 1894, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Nov 1950, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F1704  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 18 Nov 1859 - St. Louis, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 27 Mar 1937 - St. Louis, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - 30 Nov 1937 - St. Louis, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), Household of Henry Diensbier, 1870 U. S. Census, St. Louis County, Missouri, population schedule, City of St. Louis, ward 1, sub-division 1, page 89, dwelling 540, family 622, lines 4-8. NARA microfilm M593, roll 810, page 124.
      Fred Diensbier [sic]; age 11; male; white; at school; born in Missouri; father foreign born; mother foreign born; attended school within the year.

    2. [S123] Missouri State Archives, St. Louis Probate Court Digitization Project, 1802-1900 (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/mojudicial/ - last confirmed in May 2011), Henry Dienstbier, 1875; Case No: 11956; St. Louis Probate Court; Microfilm Reel C 35591; Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City. [Online version on 1 July 2004; surname spelled Diensbier].
      Will of Henry Dienstbier, written 30 June 1871; filed 12 October 1875; recorded in Book L, page 1911. Henry, in a will written by his lawyer, names as his heirs from his first marriage his son John "Dinstbier" [sic] and Margaret Etling, wife of August Etling. He names "my three children of my third marriage...which three children are named Simon "Dinstbier" [sic], Johann Eckhardt "Dinstbier" [sic] and Fritz "Dinstbier" [sic]. No heirs from the second marriage are named.

    3. [S22] Obituary.
      For Frau Margaret Etling. She was survived by, among others, "...vier Brüder, Dr. John, Frederick und Eckhardt Dinsbeer in St. Louis und Simon Dinsbeer in Decatur, Ill., als nächste Anverwandte das Ableben der Dahingeschiedenen" [...four brothers, Dr. John, Frederick, and Eckhardt Dinsbeer in St. Louis and Simon Dinsbeer in Decatur, Ill., as next of kin, mourn the death of the dear departed.]. From an undated and unidentified German-language newspaper in the possession of the Gerber family of St. Louis, Missouri. For the full text of the obituary, see the notes for Margaret's death.

    4. [S237] Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates Database (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ - last confirmed in August 2017), Frederick Dienstbier; St. Louis (city); 1937; Certificate of Death #10842.
      http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1937/1937_00010842.pdf Accessed in October 2007. Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death #10842. For Frederick Dienstbier. A white, male born on 18 November 1859 at St. Louis, Missouri. Father's name: Henry Dienstbier, born in Germany. Mother's maiden name: unknown, place of birth was unknown. He was married at the time of death to "Pauline Dienstbier." Personal information was provided by Mrs. Pauline Dienstbier, of 3524 Halliday Avenue.
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.

    5. [S237] Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates Database (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ - last confirmed in August 2017), Frederick Dienstbier; St. Louis (city); 1937; Certificate of Death #10842.
      http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1937/1937_00010842.pdf Accessed in October 2007. Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death #10842. For Frederick Dienstbier. A white, male born on 18 November 1859. Died on 27 March 1937. He was married at the time of death to "Pauline Dienstbier." He had been a jeweler all his life and was retired at the time of his death. Personal information was provided by Mrs. Pauline Dienstbier, of 3524 Halliday Avenue.
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.

    6. [S237] Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates Database (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ - last confirmed in August 2017), Frederick Dienstbier; St. Louis (city); 1937; Certificate of Death #10842.
      http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1937/1937_00010842.pdf Accessed in October 2007. Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death #10842. For Frederick Dienstbier. A white, male born on 18 November 1859 at St. Louis, Missouri. Father's name: Henry Dienstbier, born in Germany. Mother's maiden name: unknown, place of birth was unknown. Died at 10:30 a.m. on 27 March 1937 at his residence, 3524 Halliday Avenue, St. Louis, Ward 16, Missouri at the age of 77 years, 4 months, 9 days. He was married at the time of death to "Pauline Dienstbier." He had been a jeweler all his life and was retired at the time of his death. Cause of death was "Gun Shot wound in right temple, self inflicted at residence, on March 27, 1937 at about 11:45 AM." Contributory cause of death was "Suicide." There was no autopsy. The death was described as a suicide at "Home" in St. Louis, Missouri on 27 March 1937. Burial, cremation, or removal was to be on 30 March 1937 in "New St. Marcus Cem." The Peetz Bros., of 3029 Lafayette Avenue. Personal information was provided by Mrs. Pauline Dienstbier, of 3524 Halliday Avenue. Joseph M. [Q?]uinn, Deputy Coronor [sic] signed the certificate. The certificate was received by the local registrar on 29 March 1937.
           The time of death is clearly typewritten on the form as "10.30am." while the deputy coroner's hand written description of the cause of death states that the self-inflicted gun shot wound occurred "at about 11:45 A M."

    7. [S237] Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates Database (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ - last confirmed in August 2017), Frederick Dienstbier; St. Louis (city); 1937; Certificate of Death #10842.
      http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1937/1937_00010842.pdf Accessed in October 2007. Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death #10842. For Frederick Dienstbier. A white, male born on 18 November 1859. Died on 27 March 1937 at his residence, 3524 Halliday Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. He was married at the time of death to "Pauline Dienstbier." Burial, cremation, or removal was to be on 30 March 1937 in "New St. Marcus Cem." The Peetz Bros., of 3029 Lafayette Avenue. Personal information was provided by Mrs. Pauline Dienstbier, of 3524 Halliday Avenue.
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.

    8. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), Household of Henry Diensbier, 1870 U. S. Census, St. Louis County, Missouri, population schedule, City of St. Louis, ward 1, sub-division 1, page 89, dwelling 540, family 622, lines 4-8. NARA microfilm M593, roll 810, page 124.
      Barbara Diensbier [sic]; age 47; female, white; keeps house; born in Germany; father foreign born; mother foreign born.

    9. [S237] Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates Database (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ - last confirmed in August 2017), Frederick Dienstbier; St. Louis (city); 1937; Certificate of Death #10842.
      http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1937/1937_00010842.pdf Accessed in October 2007. Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death #10842. For Frederick Dienstbier. A white, male born on 18 November 1859. Died on 27 March 1937. He was married at the time of death to "Pauline Dienstbier." Personal information was provided by Mrs. Pauline Dienstbier, of 3524 Halliday Avenue.
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.

    10. [S237] Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates Database (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ - last confirmed in August 2017), Pauline Dienstbier; St. Louis (city); 1939; Certificate of Death #17162.
      http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1939/1939_00017163.pdf Accessed in November 2007. Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death #17162. For Pauline Dienstbier. A white, female born on 5 April 1866 in Missouri. Died at 5:00 a.m. on 22 May 1939 at 3524 Halliday Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. Her usual residence was 3524 Halliday Avenue [St. Louis, Missouri]. She was a widow at the time of death; she had been married to "Fredrich [sic] Dienstbier." Personal information was provided by Roger G. Dienstbier, of 3524 Halliday Avenue [St. Louis, Missouri].
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.

    11. [S237] Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates Database (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ - last confirmed in August 2017), Frederick H. P. Dienstbier; St. Louis (city); 1917; Certificate of Death #17232.
      http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1917/1917_00018036.pdf Accessed in April 2006. Missouri State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death #17232. For Frederick H. P. Dienstbier. A white, male born on 29 August 1887 at St. Louis, Missouri. Father's name: Frederick Dienstbier; born St. Louis, Missouri. Mother's maiden name: Pauline Bohley; born St. Louis, Missouri. Personal information was provided by Laura Dienstbier, of 4016a Flad Avenue.
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.

    12. [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Missouri, Birth Registers, 1847-1910.
      (https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1170 -accessed in July 2018). Data included a textual abstract and a digital image of a "Registry of Births - City of St. Louis."
           Record Number: 10636. Date of birth: 18 November 1894. Name of child: Dienstbier, Geo. Sex: M. Color: W. Place of birth: 2755 Gravois Avenue. Father's name: Fred. Father's place of birth: St. Louis. Mother's name: Pauline. Mother's birth place: St. Louis. Name of informant: M. Oberfall.

    13. [S237] Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates Database (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ - last confirmed in August 2017), Robert G. Dienstbier; St. Louis (city); 1950; Standard Certificate of Death #38415.
      (http://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1950/1950_00038414.pdf -accessed in September 2017). Division of Health of Missouri, Standard Certificate of Death #38415. For Robert G. Dienstbier. A white, male born on 18 November 1894 at St. Louis, Missouri. Father's name: Frederick Dienstdier [sic]. Mother's maiden name: Pauline [surname not recorded]. Personal information was provided by Esther O. Dienstbier, of 6427 Devonshire Avenue [St. Louis, Missouri].
           See the notes for this person's death for more details of the death certificate.