52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Blogging Prompt by Amy Johnson Crow http://www.nostorytoosmall.com/ William Skibbe WWI William Adolph Emil Skibbe was born on the 3rd day of November, 1890 in Chicago, Illinois. [i] He was the first son born to Wilhelm Gustav Skibbe and his wife Julia Ann Panzer. I have found information to confirm that William had eight siblings - four sisters: Meta "May", Ella, and Ruth "Olga" and four brothers: George, Arthur, Edward, and Louis. Some researchers include a sister born in Germany by the name of Frieda that was born and died in Germany in 1887, I have not yet found proof that she existed. William and three of his siblings were born in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. The youngest five children were born in Indiana - two in Laporte and two in the town of North Judson. William was baptized at the St. Matthew Evangelical Church in Chicago on 6 December 1890. [ii] Witnesses to the baptism were Adolph Blank, Emil Buhnke,
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