GIESY, Mabel and Maude (Pocahontas IA)

MAUDE and MABEL GIESY

UPDATE - This photograph has been claimed by Maude's granddaughter, and has gone home!

IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO: "Maude & Mabel Giesy, daughters of Wm Giese"
PHOTO TAKEN: Silvers Studio, Fonda IA, circa 1900
PURCHASED: 2019 Brandywine River Antiques Mall, Chadds Ford PA

These sisters are Maud and Mabel GIESY, the daughters of Carl Frederich Wilhelm GIESY (born 1868 in Schoenfeld Germany) and Mary H. HOPPIE (1875-1968, born in Iowa).

1900 Federal Census > IA > Pocahontas > Colfax
GIESY, William, head, Mar 1868, 32m born in Germany, farmer, imm. 1876 (alien)
GIESY, Mary, wife, Nov 1875, 24, born in Iowa of German parents
GIESY, Maud, dau, Feb 1894, 6, born in Iowa
GIESY, Mabel, dau, Aug 1895, 4, born in Iowa
GIESY, Jessie, son, Feb 1899, 1, born in Iowa

GIESY, William, father, Feb 1823, 77, born in Germany, imm. 1872 (naturalized)

1910 Federal Census is pretty much the same, except that youngest daughter Dorothy has been added, being born 1903.

Maude Mae Giesy is married first to Daniel Engh, with whom she has two daughters:
  1913 Mary Margaret Engh (d. 2005) m. Frank Orin Hamilton
  1914 Mabel Dorothea Engh (d. 2004) m. 1) Marvin Meister, 2) Stanley Maschino, 3) Arthur Blesi

Maude's second husband is John Joseph Otto (1893-1979) with whom she has two more daughters:
  1925 June Loretta Otto (d. 2007) m. Herbert Peters
  1927 Janet Josephine Otto (d. 2003) m. Byron Poduska

Mabel married Richard Paul Wentzel (1894-1952) and had no children. She died in 1988 and is buried at Cedar Township Cemetery, Fonda Iowa.