Notes for Maria Elisabeth Hottua: From Frank Schumacher:
The oral history goes: when Elisabeth was young, she used to work at the forge "like a man", because the sons in the family were too young. (A "forge" is a furnace for heating metal to be wrought into shape...a smith.) Elisabeth was carrying on the family trade from the mad blacksmith.
Elisabeth and her Husband settled in Chicago
Godparents: Peter Hottua and Elizabeth Marnach
Children of Maria Elisabeth Hottua and George Nicholas Schuster are: