A New Feature - What do we know about our family?

There are a little less than two years until the 150th Anniversary of the Nebraska Klitzes arriving in America.  In the build-up to the Reunion, we will share facts and memories about our ancestors.  This blog will hopefully continue after the Reunion and in the meantime, please feel free to contribute to our shared memories.  (Please limit information to those who were born before 1920.)

This week in 1878 (August 6), Heinrich Klitz died in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Heinrich was eldest child of Englebert and Clara Klitz.  Heinrich was the first Klitz to emigrate to the United States in 1847, most likely entering the U.S. in Baltimore before making his way to Cincinnati.  The rest of his family followed in 1849. 

This week in 1936 (August 10) Elizabeth Klitz Wissman died in Cincinnati.  Elizabeth was the daughter of Heinrich Klitz (above) and Elizabeth Himmelgarn.  Elizabeth Klitz married John Wissman in 1884.  She was the last Klitz in Cincinnati.  The Wissman family still lives in the  Cincinnati area.