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Nicholas Welter married Clara Mathias on 17 Apr 1866 at St. Nicholas Church in Frenchtown, Ohio. He resigned from the railroad to farm Clara's land. Nicholas was Clara's second husband. Her first husband was Peter Arend.

(4 MAY 1840-11 JUL 1910)
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Clara was the daughter of Lewis Mathias and Clara Feck. She was the first American born Mathias.
(10 FEB 1867 - 20 FEB 1867)
Peter was the first child born to Nicholas & Clara. He only lived to be 10 days old.

(13 MAR 1868-21 MAY 1893)
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Catherine married Frank X. Wagner on 27 May 1890. She caught diphtheria from her doctor while giving birth to her son Alfred. Her doctor had just been with a diphtheria patient prior to delivering her son.

(13 DEC 1869-21 SEP 1947)
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(29 JUL 1872-26 JUN 1947)
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Rose married Matthew Charles Clancy on 19 Aug 1895. They had seven children: Marie, Luella, Matthew E., James, Rose M., John and Robert. (A great deal of the information on our Welter ancestors for this website has been taken from "The Memoirs of Our Family" by Father Matthew Clancy.)

(27 FEB 1874-15 SEP 1943)
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John Married Bertha Warnement on 30 Jan 1900. They had ten children: Pius, Leon, Reginald, Albert, Raymond, Mary, John, Leona, Margaret and Carl.

(7 SEP 1876 - 3 May 1958)
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Mary Susan married John Schultz on 4 Nov 1902. They had one child, Ralph.

(26 MAY 1880-28 APR 1967)
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Josephine Matilda married Frank Kirian on 16 May 1899. They had six children: Genevieve, Ethel, Andrew, Mary Ann, Cyril and Emil.
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