Hattie (Neidhardt) Morris (1908 - 2004)

Born 6 Jan 1908 in Hebron, ND

Ancestors

Daughter of Jacob Johann Neidhardt and Maria (Ding) Neidhardt

Descendants

Died 27 Jan 2004 at age 96 in Sun City, Riverside, California

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Biography

Birth

Hattie's grandson Richard Hollenbeck recalls, "One of my earliest memories of my grandmother was her telling me how much she hated her name. Grandma explained to me that she was named Henriette (pronounced "Henrietta" as if with an 'a') after her father's sister Henriette who came to America a few years before the rest of the Neidhardt family came. Henriette settled in Philadelphia. Grandma continued to explain that she was also named Anna and Wilhelmina after Anna and Wilhelm Klick who were her godparents in Hebron, ND."

Hollenbeck continues, "Whenever we kids stayed with my grandparents, every morning Grandma would spend some time reciting the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles Creed to us. I do not remember not knowing them."

W.P.A.

both Charlie and Hattie worked for the W.P.A, a big government Depression-era program designed to put families back to work, during the mid 1930s. This complication delayed their marriage due to the program's one-worker-per-family rule.

1940 U.S. Federal Census

Name: Hattie Morris

Respondent: Yes

Age: 32

Estimated birth year: abt 1908

Gender: Female

Race: White

Birthplace: North Dakota

Marital Status: Married

Relation to Head of House: Wife

Home in 1940: Oakland, Alameda, California

Street: 88th Avenue

House Number: 2008

Inferred Residence in 1935: Dickinson, Stark, North Dakota

Residence in 1935: Dickinson, Stark, North Dakota

Resident on farm in 1935: No

Sheet Number: 11B

Attended School or College: No

Highest Grade Completed: High School, 4th year

Weeks Worked in 1939: 0

Income: 0

Income Other Sources: No

Neighbors: View others on page

Household Members:

Name Age

Chas M Morris 34

Hattie Morris 32

Janice A Morris 2

James C Morris 1 ^[1], ^[2]

Lost Teeth in Automobile Accident

On 26 Oct 1947, while driving Mabel and Judy home, she ran into a tree and knocked her teeth out when her teeth hit the steering wheel. ^[3]

26 Oct 1947 Diary Entry of Jacob Neidhardt

Death

Death Certificate

Find A Grave

Birth: Jan. 6, 1908

Hebron, Morton County, North Dakota, USA

Death: Jan. 27, 2004

Sun City, Riverside County, California, USA [Edit Dates]

Hattie was born Anna Henriette Wilhelmina Neidhardt but has always been known to everyone as just "Hattie."

Parents:

Jacob Johann Neidhardt (1875 - 1956)

Mary Ding Neidhardt (1880 - 1959)

Siblings:

Katherine Eva Neidhardt Froehlich (1902 - 1994)*

Hulda Johanna Neidhardt Prideaux (1906 - 1987)*

Hattie Neidhardt Morris (1908 - 2004)

Lydia Elizabeth Neidhardt (1918 - 2003)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:

Cremated: Ashes scattered over the graves of her parents at Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, California, USA ^[4]

Sources

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an Ancestry DNA match to John Michael Neidhardt and Maria (Egelkraut) Neidhardt between second cousins Gustaf Carlson and Janice Morris Kollitz,

1. ↑ Year: 1940; Census Place: Oakland, Alameda, California; Roll: T627_433; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 61-266
2. ↑ Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.
3. ↑ Eyewitness testimony of Hattie Morris, personal memory of Janice Kollitz, and diary entry of Jacob Neidhardt
4. ↑ Created by: Richard Hollenbeck, Record added: Oct 03, 2015; Find A Grave Memorial# 153217289; URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=153217289