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Born Anna Maria Schmitt (given name Maria), known in English as Mary Anna Smith, she was the youngest daughter of Jakob Schmitt & Katharina Baas of Young Township and twin sister of Samuel J. Smith. She was raised on the Schmitt family settlement in Young Township on what is now Ellermeyer Rd.
In 1871 she was married in Young Township to John Christian Ackerman (Johann Georg Christian Ackermann the younger), son of Christian and Barbara (Grambach) Ackermann, of Troy Hill, Allegheny City in 1871. Ackerman was the nephew of Georg Friedrich Ackermann of McCalmont Township, Jefferson County, and it is likely that the nephew either worked for or visited his uncle in Punxsutawney, and that is how he met Maria.
Maria is thought to have died at her home in the Duquesne neighborhood of Allegheny City (German North Side) shortly after giving birth to her only child, Barbara, who died in infancy a few months after her (now called Troy Hill). She and her husband were members of the Voegtly German Protestant Congregation, where the Ackermann family worshiped. Her husband Christian Ackerman was a laborer and salt barrel inspector at the docks near Herr's Island but later became a prominent North Side contractor. After her death, Ackermann remarried to Anna Louisa Gaydel on 4 Apr 1874 and had several children by her. Christ Ackerman committed suicide at his home on 9 Feb 1892 after a series of domestic disputes led to his arrest.
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Mary Anna (Smith) Ackermann's burial is mentioned in the court documents from the 1920s that partially identified the portion of burials that would be in the way of the proposed (and now current) church building's construction.
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Sources:
1. Smith Family Records
2. Voegtly Evangelical German Protestant Church, Register of Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths
Born Anna Maria Schmitt (given name Maria), known in English as Mary Anna Smith, she was the youngest daughter of Jakob Schmitt & Katharina Baas of Young Township and twin sister of Samuel J. Smith. She was raised on the Schmitt family settlement in Young Township on what is now Ellermeyer Rd.
In 1871 she was married in Young Township to John Christian Ackerman (Johann Georg Christian Ackermann the younger), son of Christian and Barbara (Grambach) Ackermann, of Troy Hill, Allegheny City in 1871. Ackerman was the nephew of Georg Friedrich Ackermann of McCalmont Township, Jefferson County, and it is likely that the nephew either worked for or visited his uncle in Punxsutawney, and that is how he met Maria.
Maria is thought to have died at her home in the Duquesne neighborhood of Allegheny City (German North Side) shortly after giving birth to her only child, Barbara, who died in infancy a few months after her (now called Troy Hill). She and her husband were members of the Voegtly German Protestant Congregation, where the Ackermann family worshiped. Her husband Christian Ackerman was a laborer and salt barrel inspector at the docks near Herr's Island but later became a prominent North Side contractor. After her death, Ackermann remarried to Anna Louisa Gaydel on 4 Apr 1874 and had several children by her. Christ Ackerman committed suicide at his home on 9 Feb 1892 after a series of domestic disputes led to his arrest.
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Mary Anna (Smith) Ackermann's burial is mentioned in the court documents from the 1920s that partially identified the portion of burials that would be in the way of the proposed (and now current) church building's construction.
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Sources:
1. Smith Family Records
2. Voegtly Evangelical German Protestant Church, Register of Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths
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Born Anna Maria Schmitt (given name Maria), known in English as Mary Anna Smith, she was the youngest daughter of Jakob Schmitt & Katharina Baas of Young Township and twin sister of Samuel J. Smith. She was raised on the Schmitt family settlement in Young Township on what is now Ellermeyer Rd.
In 1871 she was married in Young Township to John Christian Ackerman (Johann Georg Christian Ackermann the younger), son of Christian and Barbara (Grambach) Ackermann, of Troy Hill, Allegheny City in 1871. Ackerman was the nephew of Georg Friedrich Ackermann of McCalmont Township, Jefferson County, and it is likely that the nephew either worked for or visited his uncle in Punxsutawney, and that is how he met Maria.
Maria is thought to have died at her home in the Duquesne neighborhood of Allegheny City (German North Side) shortly after giving birth to her only child, Barbara, who died in infancy a few months after her (now called Troy Hill). She and her husband were members of the Voegtly German Protestant Congregation, where the Ackermann family worshiped. Her husband Christian Ackerman was a laborer and salt barrel inspector at the docks near Herr's Island but later became a prominent North Side contractor. After her death, Ackermann remarried to Anna Louisa Gaydel on 4 Apr 1874 and had several children by her. Christ Ackerman committed suicide at his home on 9 Feb 1892 after a series of domestic disputes led to his arrest.
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Mary Anna (Smith) Ackermann's burial is mentioned in the court documents from the 1920s that partially identified the portion of burials that would be in the way of the proposed (and now current) church building's construction.
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Sources:
1. Smith Family Records
2. Voegtly Evangelical German Protestant Church, Register of Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths
Born Anna Maria Schmitt (given name Maria), known in English as Mary Anna Smith, she was the youngest daughter of Jakob Schmitt & Katharina Baas of Young Township and twin sister of Samuel J. Smith. She was raised on the Schmitt family settlement in Young Township on what is now Ellermeyer Rd.
In 1871 she was married in Young Township to John Christian Ackerman (Johann Georg Christian Ackermann the younger), son of Christian and Barbara (Grambach) Ackermann, of Troy Hill, Allegheny City in 1871. Ackerman was the nephew of Georg Friedrich Ackermann of McCalmont Township, Jefferson County, and it is likely that the nephew either worked for or visited his uncle in Punxsutawney, and that is how he met Maria.
Maria is thought to have died at her home in the Duquesne neighborhood of Allegheny City (German North Side) shortly after giving birth to her only child, Barbara, who died in infancy a few months after her (now called Troy Hill). She and her husband were members of the Voegtly German Protestant Congregation, where the Ackermann family worshiped. Her husband Christian Ackerman was a laborer and salt barrel inspector at the docks near Herr's Island but later became a prominent North Side contractor. After her death, Ackermann remarried to Anna Louisa Gaydel on 4 Apr 1874 and had several children by her. Christ Ackerman committed suicide at his home on 9 Feb 1892 after a series of domestic disputes led to his arrest.
***
Mary Anna (Smith) Ackermann's burial is mentioned in the court documents from the 1920s that partially identified the portion of burials that would be in the way of the proposed (and now current) church building's construction.
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Sources:
1. Smith Family Records
2. Voegtly Evangelical German Protestant Church, Register of Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths
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