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Submitted: 6/27/20 • Approved: 6/28/20 • Last Updated: 7/1/20 • R328914-G328914-S3
Aug 21, 1887-Jan 29, 1964
Anna Barbara Moritz was born near the town of
Born a la Sauer, Luxembourg, on August 14, 1887. She was the daughter of Heinrich Moritz and Elisabeth Huberty Moritz.
She emigrated to America on the steamship Finland which departed Antwerp on September 3, 1904, and arrived at Ellis Island NY on September 13, 1904. She then joined her sisters in Dubuque, IA, where she met and married John Nicholas Theisen on September 27, 1906. In 1908, with their first child Leo, they moved to Lipscomb TX, where Anna lived until her death in 1964. She and John Nicholas owned and ran the Lipscomb Hotel for several years.
Contributed on 6/27/20 by paperdoll1913
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