Name: Bertha Willamina Wieting
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Birth Date: 8 May 1868
Marriage Date: 20 Mar 1887
Marriage Place: Tazewell, Illinois, USA
Father: Frederick Wieting
Mother: Emilie Wagener
Spouse: Charles E. Ingalls
Film Number: 001314688
Contributor: Linda Jackson (48777733)
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Bertha Willamina Weiting Ingalls was the Nation's oldest homesteader, having been given the deed to her land in March of 1893. She lived in a sod house then. In 1962 a ceremony in Colorado was planned for her being the Oldest Homesteader, but she died very shortly before the ceremony was scheduled.
Contributor: redhatmary (47203534)
Name: Bertha Willamina Wieting
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Birth Date: 8 May 1868
Marriage Date: 20 Mar 1887
Marriage Place: Tazewell, Illinois, USA
Father: Frederick Wieting
Mother: Emilie Wagener
Spouse: Charles E. Ingalls
Film Number: 001314688
Contributor: Linda Jackson (48777733)
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Bertha Willamina Weiting Ingalls was the Nation's oldest homesteader, having been given the deed to her land in March of 1893. She lived in a sod house then. In 1962 a ceremony in Colorado was planned for her being the Oldest Homesteader, but she died very shortly before the ceremony was scheduled.
Contributor: redhatmary (47203534)
Gravesite Details
Buried: 1962 (4/1/1986, Source: City of Colo Spgs cemetery data 3/14/09)
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