Auguste Albertine KASTEN Dockter, 1851-1913
Wife of a farmer
Lydia's mother's half-sister

 Mother Marie Emilie KASTEN Sohrweide, 1831-1890
       Auguste Albertine KASTEN Dockter, 1851-1913
       Sister Wilhelmine Caroline KASTEN, 1854-1855
       Sister Mathilde KASTEN, 1860-1860

 Husband Christian DOCKTER, 1842-1930
      The couple had nine children

Time Line

29 May 1851 - Born at Arnsberg, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern
Triebs Church

1 June 1851 - Baptized at Triebs, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern

11 November 1854, age 3 - Sister Wilhelmine Caroline KASTEN born at Arnsberg

22 March 1855, age 3 - Sister Wilhelmine Caroline KASTEN died there

4 April 1856, age 4 - Grandfather Johann Friedrich KASTEN, age 44, died there

21 August 1860, age 9 - Sister Mathilde KASTEN born at Triebs

22 August 1860, age 9 - Sister Mathilde KASTEN died there

7 November 1862, age 11 - Mother Marie Emilie KASTEN, age 31, married Johann Carl Wilhelm "Wilhelm" SOHRWEIDE, age 30, there

20 October 1864, age 13 - Half-sister Bertha Friederike Maria SOHRWEIDE Beise born at Arnsberg

15 April 1867, age 15 - Half-brother Ferdinand August Wilhelm SOHRWEIDE born there

8 June 1867, age 16 - Grandmother Marie ZIMDARS Kasten, age 58, died there

6 February 1868, age 16 - Half-brother Ferdinand August Wilhelm SOHRWEIDE died there

2 July 1870, age 19 - Half-sister Pauline Mathilde Augusta SOHRWEIDE born there

20 January 1872, age 20 - Half-sister Pauline Mathilde Augusta SOHRWEIDE, age 1, died there of Krämphe (convulsions)

13 November 1872, age 21 - Half-brother Otto August Bernhard SOHRWEIDE born there

Until 1874, age 22 - Resided there

16 October 1874, age 23 - Emigrated in Hamburg. She traveled on the ship "Thuringia". Also on that voyage was her cousin, Albert Sohrweide, from Gützlaffshagen.

29 October 1874, age 23 - Immigrated in New York

4 August 1875, age 24 - Half-brother Albert August Hermann SOHRWEIDE born at Arnsberg

About May 1876, age 24 - Married Christian DOCKTER, age 33. The couple had nine children. Albert, Charles, George, Chris Jr, Fredrick, Emma, Anna, Otto and Louis.

As of sometime before June 1880 - Resided at Burnett, Dodge County, Wisconsin

1 June 1880, age 29 - Recorded in the United States Census there

19 October 1883, age 32 - Half-sister Bertha Friederike Maria SOHRWEIDE, age 18, married Carl Friedrich Wilhelm BEISE, age 23, at Triebs

28 August 1890, age 39 - Mother Marie Emilie KASTEN Sohrweide, age 58, died at Arnsberg

As of sometime before June 1900 until sometime after April 1910 - Resided at Melrose, Grant County, South Dakota

2 December 1904, age 53 - Half-brother Otto August Bernhard SOHRWEIDE, age 32, married Emilie Minna GLANDER, age 26, at Triebs

2 November 1905, age 54 - Mother's widower Johann Carl Wilhelm "Wilhelm" SOHRWEIDE, age 73, died at Arnsberg

13 January 1913, age 61 - Died

Buried at Lutheran Cemetery, Grant County, South Dakota. Lot 6, Grave 7.