Waterloo Region Generations
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Salome Poth

Female 1854 - 1946  (92 years)


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  • Name Salome Poth 
    Born 8 Nov 1854  New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Female 
    FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170599614 
    Name Salome Kalbfleisch 
    Name Sarah Poth 
    Residence 1861  Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Baptist 
    Residence 1871  Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Baptist 
    Residence 1874  New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-216066 
    Died 26 Nov 1946  Brown City, Sanilac, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Evergreen Cemetery, Burnside Twp., Lapeer Co., Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I216066  Generations
    Last Modified 7 Nov 2024 

    Father Andrew Poth,   b. CALC 3 Jan 1826, Kleinbieberau, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 May 1891, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 65 years) 
    Mother Magdalena Lautenschlager,   b. 15 Oct 1835, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1918, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 1852  [3
    Family ID F19848  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Johann George "John" Kalbfleisch,   b. 20 Dec 1850, Eulersdorf, Grebenau Kr Alsfeld, Hessen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 May 1929, Brown City, Sanilac, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 1 Sep 1874  New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Last Modified 12 Nov 2024 
    Family ID F46847  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
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    Poth-Salome-001-1854-1946.jpg
    Salomi Poth - The Times Herald, Port Huron, Michigan Wed, Nov 27, 1946 Page 1

  • Notes 
    • Aged Brown City Woman Dies Of Accident Injuries

      Sarnia, Nov. 27-Mrs. Salome Kalbfleisch, 93, resident of Brown City for 69 years died Tuesday in St. Joseph's Hospital of injuries suffered in an automobile - train crash near Sarnia the morning of Nov. 2.

      Mrs. Kalbfleisch was injured when the car in which she was a passenger, driven by her son-in-law, Gideon J. Foster, also of Brown City, was struck by a southbound Canadian National passenger train at a crossing in Sarnia Township. Other passengers in the car, were Mrs.
      Kalbfleisch's daughter, Mrs. Clara Steinkopf and Mrs. Foster.

      The dead woman was a charter member of the Brown City Baptist church and had been active in its affairs until the time of her injury.

      She was born Salome Poth, Nov. 8, 1853 in New Dundee, Ont. She married John Kalbfleisch, Sept. 1 1873. Three years later the couple moved to Michigan, settling in Burnside Township. They moved Brown 1911, Mr. Kalbfleisch died in 1929.

      She is survived by one son Edward Kalbfleisch and two daughters, Mrs. Steinkopf and Mrs. Foster, all of Brown City; three brothers, Herman Poth, Brown City and Phillip and Fred Poth, both of New Dundee; eight grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren and one great, great grandchild.

      Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in her home in Brown City with Rev. Donald Olsen pastor of the Baptist church officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.

      The Times Herald, Port Huron, Michigan Wed, Nov 27, 1946 Page 1

  • Sources 
    1. [S190] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1871, Div. 1 Page 48.

    2. [S721] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, marriage certificate 9870 (1874), Kalbfleisch-Poth.
      John Kalbfleisch, 23, Wagon Maker, Eulendorf Germany, Hanover, son of Werner and Maria married Solome Poth, 20, New Dundee Wilmot Twp, New Dundee, daughter of Andrew and Magdalena, Witn: John Stump of Hanover Bruce Co., and Magdalena Donewerd of Berlin, 1 September 1874 in New Dundee

    3. [S844] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1861, Sect. 1 Page 6.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 8 Nov 1854 - New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Baptist - 1861 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Baptist - 1871 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1874 - New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 1 Sep 1874 - New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 26 Nov 1946 - Brown City, Sanilac, Michigan, United States Link to Google Earth
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