Today’s birthday girl was part of a family that spent a limited number of years in East Perry County before migrating to the state of Michigan. This girl has no church records in local Lutheran churches during her short stay here, but she did have some siblings whose baptism records are documented in our German Famliy Tree.

Pauline Hedwig Piltz was born on May 28, 1866 in Bad Goisern, Austria. She is called Pauline in her early years, but later she is called Hattie. Since she is called Hattie on her gravestone, I will use that name. She was the daughter of Gottlieb and Susanna (Stadelmann) Piltz. We can view her baptism record from the Bad Goisern parish. On this form, her surname was spelled Pilz, and there are quite a few people found in our German Family Tree with that surname, but it appears that this family chose to have their name spelled with a “t” in it when they got to America.

Hattie was just a baby when she came to America with her parents on the ship, Carl, in 1867. We can see the Piltz’s on that ship’s passenger list below. Hattie is called 11 months old. Their surname is spelled Pilz on this document.

The Piltz family is found in the 1870 census living in the Brazeau Township of Perry County. Hattie was 4 years old, and her father was a farmer. It mistakenly says that Hattie (Pauline) was born in Missouri.

There are 2 Piltz baptism records found in the books of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Altenburg, but then when a child was born in 1872, that child was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg. Since the Piltz family is not found in the Missouri state census taken in 1876, this family likely moved away from Perry County between 1872 and 1876. They are next found living in Traverse City, Michigan where Gottlieb was called a marble cutter. Hattie was 14 years old in this 1880 census entry.

Now, we will take a look at the man who would become Hattie’s husband. His name was David Newmarch, who was born on October 15, 1856 in Canada. David was the son of James and Melissa (Milches) Newmarch. At the age of 4, David is found living in the Eardley Township in Quebec when a Canadian census was taken in 1861. His father was a farmer.

When the Canadian census was taken in 1871, we find the Newmarch family living in Montreal. David was a teenager, and his father is called a laborer.

In 1873, David Newmarch was baptized in Montreal at the Mountain Street Methodist Church. We can view his baptism record below.

At some point prior to 1880, the Newmarch family moved to the United States. We find them living in the Paradise Township in Grand Traverse County in Michigan when the 1880 census was taken. David was 22 years old in this entry. His father was a farmer again.

David Newmarch married Hattie Piltz on December 9, 1889. I cannot resist saying that they were married on the 50th anniversary of the first day of school at the Log Cabin College in Altenburg. David and Hattie were married in Traverse City. This document says that Hattie was from Traverse City, and David was from Fife Lake.

I think David and Hattie had 3 children. In 1895, plat maps were produced for Grand Traverse County. We find a parcel of land belonging to David Newmarch located west of Fife Lake, Michigan.

In the 1900 census, the Newmarch household is found living in Fife Lake with 2 children. David was called a farmer, and Hattie was called a stone cutter.

I do not know when this photo of David was taken. It is the only photo I found for this post.

When the 1910 census was taken, the Newmarch’s were living in Traverse City. David is called a traveling salesman for a monument company. There were 3 children in their family.

According to a 1919 city directory for Traverse City, the Newmarch’s were still living in that city, and David is called an auto worker.

Next, we find the Newmarch household in the 1920 census. They had apparently recently moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and David is called a polisher for a brass works company.

The last census entry in which we find David and Hattie was the one taken in 1930. These two were living in the Alfred Ziegler household as boarders. Their daughter, Melissa, had married Alfred Ziegler in 1912. They were living in Waterford which is located in the Pontiac, Michigan area. At the age of 73, David was called a retired farmer.

David Newmarch died in 1931 at the age of 74. His Michigan death certificate mentions both a cerebral hemorrhage and influenza as causes of death.

Hattie Newmarch died in 1939 at the age of 73. We can also view her Michigan death certificate.

David and Hattie Newmarch are buried together in the Oakwood Cemetery in Traverse City.

In case you are interested, I have previously written a post about Hattie’s sister, Rose. That post was titled, Braack, the Almond Gristmiller. That story, like this one, took us through Altenburg before heading to Traverse City, Michigan and beyond.