Found Photo: Otto Failmezger and Metta Kleinsteuber of Milwaukee
Despite the lovely handwriting on the back of this photo, this young couple was hard to place. There seem to be multiple spellings of each of their names. Here are some of them:
- Otto Falmezger
- Maria Meta Kleinsteuber
- Meta Kleinstuber
I believe that I've found the correct couple, though. Metta was born in 1861 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her parents were Carl or Charles Kleinsteuber and Carolina Just, both of whom were born in Germany but met and married in Milwaukee. Metta was one of eight children born to Carl and Carolina, and she was their youngest daughter. Metta married Otto in August 1881, but sadly died just two years later, in 1883. It does not appear that they had any children. Otto married again some years later, to Ida Struebig. They had two sons, Adolph Failmezger (b. 1901) and Carl Walter Failmezger (b. 1904).
Carl Failmezger married Viola Groskopf, and they had two children. He died in Florida in 1993. Adolph also married and had a child. He died in 1953.
Metta left behind many nieces and nephews. Perhaps one of their descendants would be interested in this photo.
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