Thisbe Jane (Snell) Kratzer (1853 - 1879)

Born 14 Feb 1853 in Flat Branch Township, Shelby, Illinois, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin R. Kratzer — married 7 Nov 1872 in ,Shelby,IL,USA

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Jane Copes [send private message]

Biography

Thisbe Jane SNELL. Given Name: Thisbe. Surname: SNELL. SECG Jane.

KRATZER married Surname: KRATZER.

Born 14 Feb 1853. Flat Branch Twp,Shelby,IL,USA.

Died 24 Nov 1879. Buried Masonic Cem, Flat Branch Twp,Shelby,IL,USA. Her death record (Thisba J. Koatzer) lists pulmonary consumption (tuberculosis) as cause of death. Illinois Mortality Schedules are lists of deaths in the year preceding a census (1879 before the 1880 census). It is just the coincidence that she died in that year that makes the record available. Her younger brother Russell Patten Snell-2749 died just two days before Thisbe. Find A Grave: Memorial #48530583.

Benjamin Kratzer married a second time in 1881 and died in California. I adopted his profile, which has some additional information. Thisbe's gravestone says SNELL only.

Sources

• Shelby Co, IL, plat book, 1875. Book owned by Jane Snell Copes. Family info is hand-written in the book, perhaps by Ann Catherine Snell.
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6W6-74B : 12 April 2016), W H Snell, Illinois, United States; citing p. 9, family 62, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,776. Flat Branch Twp, Shelby Co, IL. W H age 53 b OH, Ann age 34 b MD, Mary age 18, Eliza age 17, Daniel age 14, Ephram age 12, Cornelia age 8, Lillie age 5, Alice age 4, Anna age 2, Willis age 0. All b. IL. And Julia Black age 14, Andrew Black age 8, and Andrew Jenkins age 20 (farm laborer) all b. IL. Believe she is the "Eliza age 17" in this record.
• "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28Z-59P6 : 28 November 2018), Benj R Kratzer and Thisbie J Snell, 07 Nov 1872; citing Shelby, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 1,008,065.
• "Illinois Deaths and Burials, 1749-1999", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HP9R-QJN2 : 14 February 2020), Thisbie Jane Kratzer, 1879.
• "Illinois Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL91-JHJL : 16 March 2018), Thisba J Koatzer, death Nov 1879, Illinois, United States; citing Pub. T1133 Nonpopulation Census Schedules for Illinois, 1850-1880., Film 64, NARA microfilm publications T1133 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FamilySearch digital folder 007282689.