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Lillian "Lilly" BENZ, 1892-1968Live-in maid, housekeeper
Edward Benz's sister
Father August Ferdinand BENZ, 1853-1917 Mother Bertha Maria Therese HOGE Benz, 1857-1914 Sister Magdaline Sophie Auguste "Lena" BENZ Engel, 1877-1915 Sister Alma Wilhelmina Anna BENZ Boehmer, 1879- Brother Georg Johann August BENZ, 1882- Sister Rose W S BENZ Newmann, 1884-1977 Brother Eduard Georg Ferdinand "Eddie" BENZ, 1887-1935
Lillian "Lilly" BENZ, 1892-19684 February 1892 - Born at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
16 May 1897, age 5 - Grandfather August Ferdinand HOGE, age 68, died at 970 Holton St there of atherouatous degeneration of the circulatory system
6 June 1900, age 8 - Recorded in the United States Census at Mequon, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
28 April 1901, age 9 - Grandmother Sophie PAGENKOPF Benz, age 72, died at Milwaukee of phthesis pulmonzlis, secondarily senile debility
6 November 1901, age 9 - Sister Magdaline Sophie Auguste "Lena" BENZ, age 24, married William ENGEL, age 20, at Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
15 June 1904, age 12 - Sister Alma Wilhelmina Anna BENZ, age 25, married Alfred F A BOEHMER at Milwaukee
1 June 1905, age 13 - Recorded in the Wisconsin census at Mequon
As of sometime before 1910 - Resided at 970 Holton St, Milwaukee. After the 1920s this was 2564 N Holton St.
26 April 1910, age 18 - Recorded in the United States Census there
9 December 1914, age 22 - Mother Bertha Maria Therese HOGE Benz, age 57, died at 970 Holton St there of exophthalimic goiter
18 December 1915, age 23 - Sister Magdaline Sophie Auguste "Lena" BENZ Engel, age 38, died there of complications following appendicitis surgery
21 January 1917, age 24 - Father August Ferdinand BENZ, age 63, died there
28 August 1920, age 28 - Brother Eduard Georg Ferdinand "Eddie" BENZ, age 33, married Viola Louisa Hermine Sophia HARTIG, age 17, there
As of sometime before 1926 until sometime after 1955 - Resided at 3027 N Marietta Ave there. (779 Marietta Ave pre-1929 old street numbering system.) She lived in the family residence of her employer. First Frank W Breidster, the president of Briedster Marble Company on Locust Street, later Fred W Breidster, vice-president of Wisconsin Memorial Park.
20 July 1935, age 43 - Brother Eduard Georg Ferdinand "Eddie" BENZ, age 48, died at Milwaukee County Hospital there of pulmonary tuberculosis
As of sometime before 1959 until sometime after 1961 - Resided at 2942 N Stowell Ave there
As of sometime before 1964 - Resided at 3843A N Port Washington Ave there
As of sometime before 1966 - Resided at 5528 N 32nd St there
14 March 1968, age 76 - Died at Doctor's Hospital there at 7:45 PM of cardiac standstill due to pulmonary embalism to due rothrombosis venais, secondarily stroke and cancer
18 March 1968 - Cremated at Wisconsin Memorial Park, Brookfield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin