Born in Germany
Ancestors 
Daughter of Rudolph Wilhelm Schmidt
and Marie Elisabeth (Kok) Schmidt
Sister of
Wilhemina (Schmidt) Metzger, Henry W Smith, William John Smith, Edward W.h. Schmidt and Emma Sophia (Schmidt) Smith
Wife of
William Take
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
William Take
Died
at age 70
in St. Louis, MO
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Nov 2018
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Biography
Dena was born in 1859. Baptism source lists her as "SchmEdt" She was the daughter of Rudolph Schmidt and Elizabeth Kok. She passed away in 1929 and is apparently buried in St. Peters Cemetery in St. Louis.
Sources
- "Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NC13-RXR : 10 February 2018), Catharine Bernhardine Schmedt, 26 Jun 1859; citing ; FHL microfilm 465,570.
- Family papers - Dena's father's obituary (clipping in family scrapbook) says that his daughter Dena, wife of Wm Taake, lives in 1910 in St. Louis, MIssouri. PM is attempting to find an online copy of this document.
- Death and burial - "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV24-QL4R : 13 December 2015), Dena Take, ; Burial, Normandy, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Saint Peter's Cemetery; citing record ID 61309953, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dena by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dena:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dena by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dena:
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~12.50%
Jean (Smith) Besich
:
AncestryDNA
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~6.25%
Richard Smith :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch FD7634282 [compare], Ancestry member richsmith429
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