Gertrude (Elfred) Dunz (1883 - 1952)

Born 3 Jan 1883 in Lincoln County, Missouri

Ancestors

Died 5 Jan 1952 at age 69 in Jefferson Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Biography

Gertrude was the fifth of eight children in the family of Bernard and Catherine Bredengerd Ellefredt. Gertrude was working at the Victoria Hotel in Chicago when she was 19.^[1]

She married William Dunz about 1909, when she was about 26. They are the parents of a son William and a daughter Catherine, both born in Missouri. By 1930, the family had moved to New Orleans, where William worked as a metal lather.^[2] In 1940, William worked in a New Orleans housing project.^[3]

She died at age 69^[4] and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSSJ-4QF : accessed 2 January 2016), Gerterdue Alfred in household of Alice Howard, Precinct 8 South Town Chicago city Ward 1, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing sheet 3A, family 5, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,244.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XMYB-X9V : accessed 13 January 2015), Gertrude Dunz in household of William Dunz, New Orleans (Districts 1-250), Orleans, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0025, sheet 3A, family 47, line 19, NARA microfilm publication T626, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 801; FHL microfilm 2,340,536.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-27772-3589-30?cc=2000219 : accessed 13 January 2015), Louisiana > Orleans > New Orleans City, New Orleans, Ward 4 > 36-85 New Orleans City Ward 4 (Tract 50 - part) > image 25 of 44; citing NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012).
4. ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q5SV-KBC4 : 29 July 2020), Gertrude Elfred and Dunz, 1952.
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #89789690 Gertrtude Alfred Dunz.