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Friday, March 18, 2011

Signing My Will and Irritating Some Children

This German native signed her will in 1920 in Quincy, Illinois. A few of her children were not too happy with it.

7 comments:

  1. Her last name looks like the less common variation of Sutorius, Surtorius.

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  2. Were did my first post go? I'll try again.

    Trientje Sartorius

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  3. Trientje Surtorius

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  4. Trientje Sartorius is the answer to this one. She died in Adams County, Illinois, in the 1920s and was born Trientje Ulferts Behrens in Ostfriesland, Germany, in the 1840s. Trientje's my 3rd great-grandmother.

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