Lottie Klaessig

Source Citation
Year: 1900; Census Place: Syracuse Ward 3, Onondaga, New York; Page: 15; Enumeration District: 0095; FHL microfilm: 1241136

Year: 1910; Census Place: Syracuse Ward 3, Onondaga, New York; Roll: T624_1056; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0107; FHL microfilm: 1375069

Year: 1920; Census Place: Syracuse Ward 4, Onondaga, New York; Roll: T625_1247; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 130

New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 04; Assembly District: 03; City: Syracuse Ward 04; County: Onondaga; Page: 27

Year: 1930; Census Place: Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey; Page: 20A; Enumeration District: 0018; FHL microfilm: 2341114

The Morning Call; Publication Date: 30 Mar 1932; Publication Place: Paterson, New Jersey, United States of America;

New York State Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917–1919. Adjutant General's Office. Series B0808

Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, New York, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02675; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 31-2072B

Publication Date: 1/ Dec/ 1949; Publication Place: Paterson, New Jersey, USA

Publication Date: 9/ May/ 1950; Publication Place: Paterson, New Jersey, USA

Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current 

Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line].

     Lottie Miller Klaessig was born on the 25th of June 1887 in Syracuse, New York.  Lottie had four sibling: sisters Edith, Clara, and Ella, and a brother, Carl.  Lottie's parents, Charles and Anna, were German immigrants who had lived in the United States since the 1870's.

The 1920 U.S Census records both Lottie and sister Ella working as public school teachers and still living with their parents in Syracuse.  However, Lottie would soon marry Kurt Otto Klaessig, also a child of German immigrants, and move out of the family home.  Kurt was a graduate of Cornell University at Ithaca, located only 56 miles from Syracuse.

Mr and Mrs Klaessig settled in Paterson, New Jersey where Kurt worked at Central High School as a teacher of foreign languages, a post he would hold for 45 years.  Ella Miller, Lottie's sister, also taught at Central High from 1915 until she retired in 1950.

The Klaessigs had two children, a son, Robert, who died at the age of nine after a brief illness, and a daughter, Margaret Joan, or "Peggy."  Peggy was a student of New York University and when a senior was engaged to marry William Brennan of Long Island, New York.  The couple wed in 1950 and resided in Cinncinati where William worked as an industrial engineer for Proctor and Gamble.

Kurt Klaessig died in 1962 as the result of an auto accident in Long Island, New York.  Lottie was also injured in the crash and was hospitalized with multiple injuries.  This was the second such tragedy for Lottie; in 1925, her mother, Anna, also died in an auto accident in which Lottie was a passenger along with Lottie's two children and sisters, Clara and Edith.

Lottie outlived all but one of her siblings:  Carl Miller died of pneumonia during the great flu epidemic of 1918 while serving in the military, Clara Miller died in 1966 and is buried in Onondaga, Ella Miller died in Paterson New Jersey in 1959, and Edith Miller Steen passed away in 1984 in Philadelphia.

Lottie Miller Klaessig died on the 14th of August 1983 and was buried on Hart Island on the seventeenth of November 1983.