Emma Augusta Kiel was born 1 October 1890 in North Plato, Kane County, Illinois, United States to August Kiel (1843-1920) and Johanna Grugel (1849-1926) and died 18 November 1983 Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois, United States of unspecified causes. She married Sylvester Sylvanis Doty (1885-1953) 30 March 1910 in Hampshire, Kane County, Illinois, United States.
Emma Kiel was born in 1890 in the small German-American country cross-roads village of North Plato, Illinois. She was the youngest child of German immigrants August and Johanna Kiel. The Kiels spoke German at home and Emma attended grade school at Saint Peter's Lutheran Church in North Plato where instruction was in both German and English. In her late teens Emma worked as a housekeeper for Eleanor Doty. In 1910 she married her employer's son, Sylvester Doty, a farmer who was renting a nearby farm. Three years later Sylvester and Emma moved to the farm in Dorr Township of McHenry County, Illinois, where they would raise their family for the next 40 years. After Sylvester's death in 1953, Emma moved to Woodstock, Illinois, where she lived until her death in 1983.
Children
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Jessie Luella Doty (1911-1989) | 4 January 1911 Burlington, Kane County, Illinois, United States | 14 December 1989 Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois, United States | Harry Ernest Beu (1911-1989) |
Louis Doty (1913-1913) | |||
Everett Sylvester Doty (1914-1974) | 10 September 1914 McHenry County, Illinois, United States | 28 April 1974 Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, United States | Lucille Barbara Mengs (1914-1976) |
Kenneth Kiel Doty (1917-1973) | 24 January 1917 Dorr Township, McHenry County, Illinois, United States | 15 May 1973 Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois, United States | Doris Irene Hunt (1924-1972) |
Raymond Doty (1922-1922) |
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