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Name Marie D. Elsasser
Birth 17 May 1860, Vaihingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Birth abt May 1860, Germany
Birth abt 1861, Germany
Birth abt 1861, Germany
Birth abt 1870, NE, USA
Death 2 Jan 1931, Omaha, Douglas County, NE, USA
Burial 3 Jan 1931, Buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas County, NE, USA
*New [OCCU] abt 1900, None
*New [OCCU] abt 1910, None
*New [OCCU] abt 1920, None
*New [OCCU] abt 1930, None
Birth abt 1860, Wurtemberg, Germany
Death WFT Est. 1903-1955
Father Christian F. Elsasser (1823-1912)
Mother Jacobina Wacker (1828-1899)
Spouses
1 Otto Edward Gugler
Birth 3 Jun 1845, Germany
Birth abt 1845, Germany
Birth abt Jun 1845, Germany
Birth abt 1846, Wurrtemberg
Death 10 Aug 1913, Omaha, Douglas County, NE, USA
Burial 12 Aug 1913, Buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas County, NE, USA
*New [OCCU] Foreman, Union Pacific Railroad
*New [OCCU] abt 1880, Machinist
*New [OCCU] abt 1900, Machinist
*New [OCCU] abt 1910, Machinist (Retired)
Birth WFT Est. 1839-1869, Germany
Death WFT Est. 1903-1954
Father Bernard Gugler (1799-1839)
Mother Mary Leuchs (1806-1839)
Marriage 12 Jun 1880, Omaha, Douglas County, NE, USA
Children Louise Ottillie (1881-1950)
Otto Bernard (1881-~1881)
Henry Carl (1883-1940)
Edward (1884-~1885)
Walter E. (~1886-1961)
Elizabeth I. (1888-1960)
John Bernard (1891-1943)
Infant (~1891-~1891)
Gertrude (~1896-1948)
Herman F./J. (1901-1982)
Bernard (1878-1883)
Walter (1878-1883)
Notes for Marie D. Elsasser
Entry Date: December 1997
Source: Obituary from The Omaha World-Herald Newspaper, Omaha, Douglas County, NE, USA
Saturday, January 3, 1931

Gugler - Mrs. Marie, age 70 years, widow of the late Otto E., residence 3019 Larimore. She is survived by 4 sons, Henry of Burlington, Ia.; Walter of Council Bluffs, Ia.; Ben and Herman both of Omaha; 3 daughters, Mrs. Tillie Dodds of Minneapolis, Minn.; Mrs. Elizabeth Elsasser and Mrs. Gertrude Bathen, both of Omaha.

Funeral Saturday afternoon from John A. Gentleman Mortuary at 3 o'clock. Interment Mount Hope cemetery.


Source: Article from The Omaha World-Herald Newspaper, Omaha, Douglas County, NE, USA
Undated, WWI
Estimated Date: November 14, 1914

Visited Wounded
Soldiers In The
German Hospitals

Mrs. O. E. Gugler Says Every
Woman in Germany Is Knit-
ting for Troops

Three Cousins Killed
and Two Wounded

Says Steamship Rotterdam
Held Up Five Days by
British Searches.

Fresh from the theater of war in Europe Mrs. O. E. Gugler of 2504 North Twenty-fourth street returned home yesterday after an interrupted voyage. The Rotterdam, the ship that she and also Miss Corinne Paulson and Miss Frances Nash of this city came across on, was held up five days near Ostend, Belgium, and searched by British war vessels. Mrs. Gugler says the passengers were considerably scared, both by the British searchers and the mines.

Mrs. Gugler, who visited relatives in Germany six months, was most of the time in Baden and Wurtemberg near the French frontier where wounded German soldiers and French prisoners of war are brought by thousands. She saw her own relatives brought in wounded.

"I saw the wounded soldiers come in with arms and legs shot off and many with their eyes out, " said Mrs. Gugler relating the horrors of war this morning. "I went to the soldiers in the hospitals which are filled. I went with other German women to take them good things to eat."

She has had twenty cousins in the war. Two were brought back shattered by French bullets. Three were reported killed.

"Every woman in Germany is knitting," she said. "From little girls of 6 to old women, they knit all the time -- stockings, mittens, caps and other things for the German soldiers. I knitted all the time, too."

"We made packages of good things for the soldiers -- put in sweet chocolate, cookies, sausages."

Mrs. Gugler is loyal to the kaiser and the German army.

"The kaiser is all right," she declared. "He will go the front, into the trenches. So do his sons. The army is like one man in feeling. If the Germans hadn't gone through Belgium to France, the French would have come over to Germany."


Entry Date: January 1999
Source: Article from The Omaha World-Herald Newspaper, Omaha, Douglas County, NE, USA
Undated, WWI

No World From Mother

J. B. Gugler, proprietor of a bakery at 2504 North Twenty-fourth street, has not received any word from his mother, Mrs. Otto Gugler, who left Omaha for a visit to Germany on May 7. Mrs. Gugler intended visiting at Freiburg and Baden.


Source: Article from The Omaha World-Herald Newspaper, Omaha, Douglas County, NE, USA
Undated, WWI

Hear That Mrs. Gugler
Is Held In Germany

The sons of Mrs. J. B. Gugler, who has a bakery at 2504 North Twenty-fourth street, are very much disturbed because of the recent lack of news from her. Mrs. Gugler left last spring for Germany, and the last letter received from her, a week ago, was from Freiburg.

"Mother was to have sailed for America September 12," said one of the sons this morning, "but we have had no advices from her. She has plenty of cheques, but these are not being honored."

One of the sons visited the post office officials this afternoon to try to invoke the aid of the government in reaching her and attending to her welfare.
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