Lizzie Barbara Marks Bauch

Biography contributed by
David Bauch

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Barbara Marks was born on February 5,1854 to Charles Marks and Barbara (Smelzer) Marks.

Her father Charles Marks was born in Prussia, Germany in1808. He was previously married (unknown name) and had a daughter from his first marriage. The daughter's name was Sophia Marks; she was born in 1840 in Germany. His first wife passed away, and he later remarried Barbara Smelzer.

Barbara Smelzer and Charles Marks were married in Germany in 1846,They came to America in 1850.Sopia was 10 years old at the time and Catharine Marks was just 6 weeks old.

Sophia Marks married Mattas Jacob Fox.

Charles Marks took out his Citizenship Papers on February 19,1852 in Toledo, Ohio, Lucas, County.

They settled in Ohio first and then several years later moved to LaPorte, County, Indiana

The children of Charles Marks and Barbara Smelzer Marks are as follows,

Catharine Marks, born January 25,1850 in Linksweiller, Germany and died November 4,1917.She married Michael A. Aigner. She died November 4,1917.

Charles S. Marks born July 4,1852 in Toledo, Ohio and died January 28,1926 in South Wanatah, Indiana. He married Harriet Jacobs.

Lizzie Barbara Marks, born February 5, 1854. Married March 1877, to Charles Edward Bauch. She Died in Fort Wayne, Indiana on November 7,1884,was buried in the Patton Cemetery in LaPorte, Indiana. They shared the same birth date.

George H. Marks was born January 18,1857 and died May 1936 Tippicanoe, Marshall, Indiana. He married Eliza Friebley.

Emma Marks Born March 8,1859 and died July 1,1933

Jennie Marks born about 1861.She married William Schultz

Fannie Marks was born about 1863 in Illinois. She married Stephen Bailey.

Lorena Marks born about 1865,and married? Burbeck

Julia Marks born about 1867. She married John Leser.

Mollie Marks born about 1869.She married William Gawl.

William Marks born about 1871.He married Jenny Wilson.

Lizzie Barbara Marks was Married to (Ed) Charles Edward Bauch on March 27,1877 in LaPorte, Indiana.

By 1879 they had moved their home to Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company employed him.

The children of Lizzie and Ed Bauch are as follows,

(Eddie) Edward Charles Bauch born in 1877 and died in 1931

Henry George Bauch born in 1879 and died in 1940

Oscar Lenden Bauch born September 22,1880 and died 1932

Garland Ridgeway Bauch was born July 28,1882 and died 1940

Grover Cleveland Bauch was born October 29,1884 and died May 26,1951

Sadly, ten days after she gave birth to her son Grover Cleveland Bauch, Lizzie Barbara Marks Bauch passed away from complications of childbirth.

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