Arnold, Anna Mary

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Birth:
According to information provided by Mary Neudorff for Frederick Neudorff's death certificate, "Anna Mary Arnold" was born at "Alsace Loraine [sic]."

Buried:
She was buried in Mount Mora Cemetery.

Anna married Neudorff, Louis Otto. Louis was born 3 Oct 1824, Germany; died 2 Mar 1876, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA; was buried , St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Occupation: Abt 1880, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA; hardware merchant

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Occupation:

     The following brief biographical sketch was published in 1898.

     "Frederick Neudorff, hardware merchant, 114 S. Fourth street, was born at Platte City, Mo., July 5th, 1859. His father, Louis Otto Neudorff, a jeweler, was born in Germany, and his mother, maiden name Arnold, was born in France. He came to St. Joseph in 1863 and attended the public schools. For twenty years Mr. Neudorff has been engaged in the same block, first with Koch, Chew & Co., wholesale grocers, then with R. H. Jordan & Co., hardware; for five years as manager of the retail department of Shultz & Hosea, hardware, and since, 1887, in business for himself, being at this time the leading retail hardware merchant in the city. Mr. Neudorff was for two terms a member of the school board and vice-president of that body for one term. He is positive in his political convictions, but affiliates with no party. Mr. Nudorff [sic] was married first to a daughter of Rev. H. Fiegenbaum, of the German Methodist Church. This lady died in 1892, leaving him two children, Julia W., now aged sixteen, and Clara May, now aged ten. In 1893 he was married at Kansas City to a daughter of F. and Agnes Bauer, by whom he has two children, Frederick Franklin, aged four, and Agnes Olive, aged two years."

     This account fails to mention that three children were born to the first marriage. A son, Franklin Grant, was born in 1885, between Julia and Clara. He died in 1892, sixteen days after his mother, Lizette Clara Fiegenbaum.

Buried:
Frederick Neudorff was interred at Mount Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, Missouri on 6 May 1940 in Section/Range 6; Block 6; Lot S1/2 4.

Died:
According to his death certificate, Frederick died early in the morning at this home, 1701 Dewey Avenue, from arteriosclerosis.

Frederick married Fiegenbaum, Lizette Clara 14 Sep 1881, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA. Lizette (daughter of Fiegenbaum, Heinrich Hermann and Kastenbudt, Clara Catherine) was born 24 Mar 1862, Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa, USA; died 6 Feb 1892, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA; was buried 13 Feb 1892, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet]

Frederick married Bauer, Mary 1 Mar 1893, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA. Mary (daughter of Bauer, Frederick and [---?---], Agnes) was born 3 Dec 1866, Indiana, USA; died 13 Apr 1948, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA; was buried 15 Apr 1948, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Birth:
This approximate year of birth is calculated from the statement in her father's 1898 biographical sketch that Julia was 16 years old at that time.

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Buried:
According to cemetery records, Franklin was buried at Mount Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, Missouri on 13 October 1892 in Section/Range 6; Block 3; Lot 4. This is the same location as the interment of his mother in February 1892. There is currently no explanation for why burial took place so long after death.

Died:

     The following is a transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Franklin Grant Neudorff which she reported had appeared on 21 February 1892, in the St. Joseph Herald, of St. Joseph, Missouri.

"Franklin Grant, only son of Fred Neudorff, died at the residence of his grandfather, Rev. H. Fiegenbaum, Fifth and Auguate Streets, at 3:00 a.m. yesterday, of typhoid fever, after an illness of two weeks. Franklin was six years and six months old and was seriously ill almost from the hour of the death of his mother, which occurred two weeks ago yesterday. The funeral will take place from the Fiegenbaum residence tomorrow at 2 p.m. and services will be held at the German M. E. Church, Third and Robidoux."

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Birth:
This approximate year of birth is calculated from the statement in her father's 1898 biographical sketch that Clara was 10 years old at that time.

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Birth:
This approximate year of birth is calculated from the statement in his father's 1898 biographical sketch that Frederick was four years old at that time.

Buried:
Frederick F. Neudorff was interred at Mount Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, Missouri in Section/Range 6; Block 3; Lot 4.

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Birth:
This approximate year of birth is calculated from the statement in her father's 1898 biographical sketch that Agnes was two years old at that time.

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Birth:
Details of the birth are not known at this time.

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Birth:
Details of the birth are not known at this time.