Jefferson County IA Archives Biographies.....Trabert, Lewis 1852 - 
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Author: Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa

“Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa”
Published 1890, Chicago.
Page 456

LEWIS TRABERT still resides on the farm where he opened his eyes to the light of
day, Nov. 13, 1852. It is the TRABERT homestead, Sec. 15, Lockridge Twp.,
Jefferson County. He is the fifth in a family of six children born unto JOHN I.
and MARY B. (HARDING) TRABERT. His father was born in Bavaria, Germany, May 12,
1810, and his people were devoted to agricultural pursuits…. Emigration to
America in 1840. The four years preceding his arrival in this county he worked
as a day laborer in Pennsylvania, and during that time married MISS HARDING, who
was born in the same neighborhood with her husband. In 1844 they came to the
Territory of Iowa, making a location in Lockridge Township. He died on the 11th
of February 1875 in the faith of the Lutheran Church…. He left to his family a
priceless heritage—a good name. MRS. TRABERT still surviving her husband and
makes her home with her children, five sons and one daughter—GEORGE, the eldest,
born Dec. 31, 1842, is a miller of Griswold, Iowa; ANDREW, born Oct. 2, 1844, is
a farmer near Stanton, Iowa; JOHN, born Dec. 31, 1845, is a farmer of Milford,
Neb.; ANNA M., died Aug. 21, 1852, when three years of age; LEWIS is the next
younger, and HENRY, born Sept. 13, 1854, died Feb. 19, 1876.

Soon after his father’s death our subject married MISS ANNAS SOPHIA SCHMIDTLEIN,
who is a representative of one of the pioneer families of Lockridge Township.
Their union has been blessed with two children, a son and daughter – FRANK A.,
born March 30, 1878, and MARY BARBARA, born August 29, 1880.

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