A photo of Lizzie Schmidt. “Grandma- age 88”
Grandmother to Linden Crawn and Adria (Crawn) Reinhardt -Their Mother Mathilda’s Mother - picture likely taken somewhere in NJ ! (Johnny?)
Elizabeth (Maul) Schmidt of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey United States was born in 1856. She was married to Louis Henry Schmidt in 1879, and they were together until Louis' death in 1910. She had children Minnie Schmidt, Anne Schmidt, John Schmidt, Henrietta Schmidt, George Schmidt, and Mathilda Edna (Schmidt) Crawn. Elizabeth Schmidt died at age 92 years old in 1948.
Coming out of the Great Depression, the world faced another challenge in the 1940's: World War II. Although the war began in the 1930's, it expanded and gained in ferocity (and atrocities) in the 194...