Bertha P. Kaiser was born on December 31, 1885 in Sulphur Springs, DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. [1] She was the daughter of John Alexander (Kiser) Kaiser and Emma Brown Kaiser.
In the 1900 U. S. Census (20 June 1900) Emma and her three children were living in Sulphur Springs. Emma was thirty-six. Lived in a home owned with no mortgage. She had been married seventeen years, but her husband was not in the household. Her son Webster was sixteen, Bertha was fourteen and attending school and Bessie Bessie Kaiser Little was ten.[2]
In the 1910 U. S. Census (April 19, 1910) Emma and the children were living in Marion County, Tennessee, United States. In this record the surname was spelled Kiser. Emma was listed as forty-five years old and was divorced. Webster was working as a mechanic, Bertha was twenty-three and Bessie was twenty.[3]
↑ Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4119981_00577; accessed 26 Feb 2021). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Sulphur Springs, De Kalb, Alabama; Page 10; Enumeration District 0071; FHL microfilm 1240014; Precinct 13 Dwelling 179, Family 179, Lines 66-71; EMMA L KISER FAMILY
↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGFC-NXF : accessed 26 February 2021), Bertha P Kiser in household of Emma Kiser, Civil District 6, Madison, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 130, sheet 4B, family 80, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1512; FHL microfilm 1,375,525. FHL microfilm 1375525; Dwelling 75, Family 80, Lines 56-59; EMMA KISER FAMILY
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