Ferdinand BENZ, 1855-
Tannery worker
Edward Benz's uncle

 Father Johann "John" BENZ, 1823-
 Mother Sophie PAGENKOPF Benz, 1829-1901
       Sister Caroline Wilhelmine BENZ, 1849-1849
       Sister Caroline Wilhelmine Marie BENZ, 1850-1852
       Brother August Ferdinand BENZ, 1853-1917
       Ferdinand BENZ, 1855-
       Brother Wilhelm BENZ, 1855-1855
       Brother Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ, 1858-1883
       Sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ Seehawer, 1861-
       Brother Otto Albert Ferdinand BENZ, 1864-
       Sister Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ, 1871-1871

Time Line

4 April 1855 - Born at Gützlaffshagen, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern at 7:30 AM and baptized there. Godparents were August Pagel, Büdnersohn from Gützlaffshagen, Ferdinand Schwanz, Knecht from Gützlaffshagen and Sohhie Arndt (Mrs Schwanz) from Gützlaffshagen ; Brother Wilhelm BENZ born there
Gützlaffshagen Church with pre-1913 steeple

6 June 1855 - Brother Wilhelm BENZ died there

3 April 1857, age 1 - Grandmother Catharina TEWS Pagenkopf, age 57, died there

7 July 1858, age 3 - Brother Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ born there

29 January 1861, age 5 - Sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ Seehawer born there

25 September 1864, age 9 - Brother Otto Albert Ferdinand BENZ born there

18 March 1865, age 9 - Grandfather Peter PAGENKOPF, age 67, died there

24 January 1871, age 15 - Sister Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ born there

30 January 1871, age 15 - Sister Mathilde Wilhelmine Dorothea BENZ died there of Kramphe (convulsions)
S. S. Cimbria

30 April 1872, age 17 - Emigrated at Hamburg, Germany. Family traveled on the S S Cimbria from Hamburg via Havre, France to America.

16 May 1872, age 17 - Immigrated at New York, New York

3 September 1876, age 21 - Wedding attendant when brother August Ferdinand BENZ, age 22, married Bertha Maria Therese HOGE, age 18, at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

1880, age 24 - Recorded in the Federal census there

Sometime after 1880 - Father Johann "John" BENZ died in U.S.A.

20 November 1881, age 26 - Wedding attendant when sister Emilie Wilhelmine BENZ, age 20, married Ferdinand SEEHAWER, age 24, at Milwaukee

25 May 1883, age 28 - Brother Hermann Friedrich Albert BENZ, age 24, died there of tuberculosis

8 March 1887, age 31 - Godparent when Eduard Georg Ferdinand "Eddie" BENZ (his nephew) baptized at Saint Marcus Gemeinde Ev Luth there

28 April 1901, age 46 - Mother Sophie PAGENKOPF Benz, age 72, died there of phthesis pulmonzlis, secondarily senile debility

9 December 1914, age 59 - Sister-in-law Bertha Maria Therese HOGE Benz, age 57, died at 970 Holton St there of exophthalimic goiter

21 January 1917, age 61 - Brother August Ferdinand BENZ, age 63, died there