Marian Jennie (Rummler) Bluthardt (1876 - 1979)

Born 1 Mar 1876 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

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Biography

Marian was born in 1877. She was the daughter of Joseph Rummler and Jenny Sittig.

The family moved from Kalamazoo to Detroit in the mid-1870s and Marian was the first of three children born there. She arrived on March 1, 1876 and soon was showing musical talent. After studying voice in the United States and Berlin she sang in many churches and gave to her three daughters a love of fine music. As an adult she was serious minded, full of dignity in conduct, a fine mother and a friend to young people who often came to the home. . She married Edwin L. Bluthardt of Chicago. He was the son of Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Bluthardt, a surgeon, practicing at the time of the famous Hay Market Riot in 1886. Ed's first wife was Marian's cousin, Gertrude Sittig, who's father was a brother of Marian's mother. After Gertrude's death, Marian and Ed were married.

Sources

• THE RUMMLER STORY: an account of the descendents of Joseph Jacob RummIer and his wife, Jenny Rosalia Sittig to the fifth generation, BY John Stevenson Atwood. 620 Plymouth Road #4, Claremont, California 91711, 1990.