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  • Name Mordt, Ella Alma 
    Born 8 Aug 1915  Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    • She and her ten siblings were born on the family farm in Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, not far from Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri.
    Gender Female 
    Education Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    • According to her obituary, Ella attended Palmer Chiropractic College, at Davenport, Iowa, and graduated with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree.
    Census Jan 1920  Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Census Apr 1930  Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Died 26 May 2010  Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 12, 13, 14] 
    Buried 23 Jul 2010  Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 15, 16] 
    • Ella was buried in the cemetery of Zion United Methodist Church.
    Person ID I2844  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 4 Dec 2010 

    Father Mordt, Heinrich Friedrich Adolph,   b. 28 Nov 1868, Stemmen, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Oct 1952  (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Winter, Meta Christina,   b. 15 Mar 1884, Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Nov 1960, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Married 29 Nov 1906  Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24] 

    •      According to their application for a marriage license and the marriage license, Henry A. Mordt, age 37, of Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri, and Meta C. Winter, age 22, of Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri, were married at Truxton by Rev. L. H. H. Winter. Rev. Winter was almost certainly Meta's elder brother, Louis Heinrich Hermann Winter, a pastor in the German Methodist Episcopal Church.
           In 1908, Rev. Winter would also officiate at the marriage of Meta's younger sister, Alma F. Winter and Herman A. Luelf.
           Following their marriage, Henry and Meta lived together on a farm in Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, not far from Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri. All of their eleven children were born at this home.
    Family ID F527  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Winter, Florence Edward,   b. 25 Apr 1916, Camp Branch Township, Warren County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Aug 2004, Sun City, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Married 2 Mar 1939  Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [25, 26, 27] 
    Children 
    +1. Winter, Arthur Rae
    +2. Winter, Eloise
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F1992  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S33] Carolyn (Fiegenbaum) Fieker, Genealogical reseach.
      Ella Mordt, daughter of Henry Mordt and Meta Christina Winter; born 8 August 1915.

    2. [S121] Alvina Mordt, Winter Family Genealogy (typescript, [about 1976-77?]), page 19.
      Ella Mordt, daughter of Henry Mordt and Meta Christina Winter; born 8 August 1915. No place explicitly cited; all of Henry and Meta's eleven children "were born on the home place."

    3. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1920 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T625, roll 966, page 5A. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1920 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 9, Enumeration District 187, sheet 5 A, enumerated 14 & 15 January 1920, dwelling 98, family 98, lines 19-26. Ella A. Mordt; daughter; age 4 years, 4 months; single; born in Missouri. The reported age would yield a birth date of August-September 1915 by calculation.

    4. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1930 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T626, roll 1249, page 1B. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1930 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 110-2, sheet 1B, enumerated 3 April 1930, dwelling 16, family 16, lines 68-78. Ella A. Mordt; daughter; age 14; single; born in Missouri. The reported age would yield a birth date of 1915-1916 by calculation.

    5. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 104, 141.
      Ella Alma Mordt, child of Henry Friedrich Adolph Mordt and Meta Christina Winter, was born on 8 August 1915 at Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri.

    6. [S22] Obituary, Ella A. (Mordt) Winter. Menke Funeral Home, Sun City Arizona.
      (http://www.menkefuneralhome.com/obituaries/ella-a-winter/). Accessed on 28 November 2010.
           "Ella Winter was born Ella Alma Mordt on August 8, 1915 in the Camp Branch vicinity of Warren County, Missouri (near Hawk Point) to Henry and Meta (Winter) Mordt. ... Ella flourished in a large extended family of neighbors and relatives, all descendants of immigrant German farmers from the Principality of Lippe-Detmold (Germany). "

    7. [S232] Rootsweb.com, Social Security Death Index.
      Accessed on 3 December 2010. Original data from: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File.
           Ella A. Winter, born on 08 August 1915, died on 26 May 2010 at the age of 94 years. She held Social Security Number 495-14-8451, issued in Missouri. The last address of record was St. Louis, St. Louis County [sic], Missouri; this was not necessarily the place of death.

    8. [S104] Personal communication, via email, from Eloise Winter Roberts to J. Mark Fiegenbaum on 19 January 2011.
      Eloise is the daughter of Florence Edward and Ella Alma (Mordt) Winter.
           Ella Alma Mordt was born on 8 August 1915.

    9. [S22] Obituary, Ella A. (Mordt) Winter. Menke Funeral Home, Sun City Arizona.
      (http://www.menkefuneralhome.com/obituaries/ella-a-winter/). Accessed on 28 November 2010.
           Ella Alma (Mordt) Winter and F. Edward Winter "attended Palmer Chiropractic College in Davenport, Iowa. Through the years, she helped Ed with his Chiropractic practice and raised a son and daughter. The family only recently learned that although she never practiced herself, Ella had graduated with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree."

    10. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1920 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T625, roll 966, page 5A. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1920 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 9, Enumeration District 187, sheet 5 A, enumerated 14 & 15 January 1920, dwelling 98, family 98, lines 19-26.

    11. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1930 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T626, roll 1249, page 1B. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1930 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 110-2, sheet 1B, enumerated 3 April 1930, dwelling 16, family 16, lines 68-78.

    12. [S22] Obituary, Ella A. (Mordt) Winter. Menke Funeral Home, Sun City Arizona.
      (http://www.menkefuneralhome.com/obituaries/ella-a-winter/). Accessed on 28 November 2010.
           Ella Alma (Mordt) Winter "passed away quietly in Scottsdale, Arizona on May 26, 2010."

    13. [S104] Personal communication, via email, from Eloise Winter Roberts to J. Mark Fiegenbaum in November 2010.
      Her mother, Ella Mordt Winter, died on 26 May 2010 in Arizona. She and her husband, F. Edward Winter, D.C., were "buried in Zion Cemetary, Truxton, Mo. next to her parents."

    14. [S22] Obituary, for Meta M. Luelf.
      STLtoday.com; posted on 30 January 2008. (http://www.stltoday.com/suburban-journals/article_0ccc3d2a-cd7c-5469-8bb7-b04b530e17d9.html). Accessed on 5 July 2011.
           "[Meta Minnie Luelf] is survived by...four sisters, Ella Winter of Sun City, Ariz., ...eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren."

    15. [S22] Obituary, Ella A. (Mordt) Winter. Menke Funeral Home, Sun City Arizona.
      (http://www.menkefuneralhome.com/obituaries/ella-a-winter/). Accessed on 28 November 2010.
           "Services will be held July 23 [2010] at 1pm, Zion United Methodist Church, Truxton, Missouri."

    16. [S104] Personal communication, From Eloise Winter Roberts to J. Mark Fiegenbaum in November 2010.
      Her mother, Ella Mordt Winter, died on 26 May 2010 in Arizona. She and her husband, F. Edward Winter, D.C., were "buried in Zion Cemetary, Truxton, Mo. next to her parents."

    17. [S33] Carolyn (Fiegenbaum) Fieker, Genealogical reseach.
      Henry Mordt and Meta Christina Winter; married 29 November 1906.

    18. [S121] Alvina Mordt, Winter Family Genealogy (typescript, [about 1976-77?]), page 18.
      Henry Mordt and Meta Christina Winter; married 29 November 1906. "...their lives were spent together on a farm near Hawk Point, Missouri. They were the parents of eleven children, namely: Alvina, August, Louis, Flora, Lena, Ella, Meta, Marie, Laura, Esther, and Robert. All were born on the home place."

    19. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1910 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T624, roll 828, part 1, page 13B. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1910 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 9, Enumeration District 172, sheet 4 A, enumerated 23-25 April 1910, dwelling 65, family 67, lines 10-14. Henry A. Mordt and Meta Mordt; both married for the first time (married for 3 years); Meta is the mother of 2 children (2 still living). The reported length of the marriage would yield date of marriage of 1906-1907 by calculation.

    20. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1920 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T625, roll 966, page 5A. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1920 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 9, Enumeration District 187, sheet 5 A, enumerated 14 & 15 January 1920, dwelling 98, family 98, lines 19-26. Henry A. Mordt and Meta C. Mordt; married.

    21. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1930 U.S. census. NARA microfilm T626, roll 1249, page 1B. Access through Ancestry Library July 2005.
      Henry A. Mordt household, 1930 U.S. census, Warren County, Missouri, population schedule, Camp Branch Township, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 110-2, sheet 1B, enumerated 3 April 1930, dwelling 16, family 16, lines 68-78. Henry A. Mordt (age 38 at 1st marriage) and Meta C. Mordt (age 22 at 1st marriage); married.

    22. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 103.
      Henry Friedrich Adolph Mordt and Meta Christina Winter were married on 29 November 1906 at Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri.

    23. [S22] Obituary, for Meta M. Luelf.
      STLtoday.com; posted on 30 January 2008. (http://www.stltoday.com/suburban-journals/article_0ccc3d2a-cd7c-5469-8bb7-b04b530e17d9.html). Accessed on 5 July 2011.
           "Meta Minnie Luelf...was born July 26, 1917, to Henry Adolf and Meta (Winter) Mordt in Warren County."

    24. [S25] Marriage license, from Ancestry.com, Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002.
      An online database accessed on 3 December 2010. Original data from microfilm records at the Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri.
           Application for License to Marry, Warren County, Missouri, 1906, Number 74, page 457. Henry A Mordt of Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri, age 37, and Miss Meta C. Winter of Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri, age 22, both single and unmarried, applied for a license to marry on 26 November 1906.
           Marriage License from page 115 issued on 26 November 1906 at Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri to Henry A. Mordt, of Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri, who was over the age of 21 years, and Miss. Meta C. Winter, of Truxton, Lincoln County, Missouri, who was over 18 years of age.
           L. H. H. Winter, a minister of the Gospel, certified that he had married the above named persons on 29 November 1906 at Truxton, Warren [sic] County.
           The Certificate of Marriage was filed with the recorder of deeds on 3 December 1906 at 1:20 p.m.

    25. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), p. 141.
      Florence Edward Winter and Ella Alma Mordt were married on 2 March 1939 at Hawk Point, Lincoln County, Missouri.

    26. [S22] Obituary, Ella A. (Mordt) Winter. Menke Funeral Home, Sun City Arizona.
      (http://www.menkefuneralhome.com/obituaries/ella-a-winter/). Accessed on 28 November 2010.
           "In 1939, [Ella Alma (Mordt) Winter] married F. Edward Winter."

    27. [S104] Personal communication, via email, from Eloise Winter Roberts to J. Mark Fiegenbaum on 19 January 2011.
      Eloise is the daughter of Florence Edward and Ella Alma (Mordt) Winter.
           Florence Edward Winter and Ella Alma Mordt were married on 2 March 1939.


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