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SCHWARTZ, Effie Augusta
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Name SCHWARTZ, Effie Augusta Birth Between 1874 and 1875 Red Wing, Minnesota, USA
Gender Female Death 9 Mar 1964 USA
Person ID I1282 Edgoose Last Modified 6 Feb 2026
Father SCHWARTZ, August, b. 6 Dec 1833, Germany
d. 14 Jan 1913, Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota, USA
(Age 79 years) Mother UNKNOWN, Dora, b. 21 Jan 1834, Germany
d. 9 Jun 1915, Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota, USA
(Age 81 years) Marriage 1874 Kenyon, Minn., United States Of America
Family ID F790 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family WESTMORELAND, James Edgoose, b. 10 Apr 1869, Boston, Lincolnshire, England
d. 21 Apr 1948, Yakima, Yakima County, Washington, USA
(Age 79 years) Marriage 1898 Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota, USA
Children 1. WESTMORELAND, Effie Maude, b. 2 Sep 1899, Brown County, South Dakota, USA
d. 3 Oct 1996, Prosser, Yakima County, Washington, USA
(Age 97 years)2. WESTMORELAND, Olive Dorothy, b. 6 Apr 1901, Brown County, South Dakota, USA
d. 11 Dec 1990, Sunnyside, Yakima County, Washington, USA
(Age 89 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. WESTMORELAND, Walter Edward, b. 3 Jul 1903, Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota, USA
d. 14 Apr 1965, Washington, USA
(Age 61 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. WESTMORELAND, Jeanette, b. 13 Mar 1906, Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota, USA
d. 9 Feb 2002, Sunnyside, Yakima County, Washington, USA
(Age 95 years)5. WESTMORELAND, Edward, b. Jun 1909, South Dakota, USA
d. 8 Sep 1910, Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota, USA
(Age 1 year)Family ID F789 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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EFFIE AUGUSTA WESTMORELAND formerly SCHWARTZ 1874 or 1875-1964
From the 1900 US Federal Census of South Main Street, Aberdeen, South Dakota:
James WESTMORELAND, head, born April 1869 in England, aged 30, arrived in USA in 1887, bakery, house rented;
*Effie A. WESTMORELAND, wife, born in Minnesota in August 1875 of German parents, aged 24, housewife;
Effie M. WESTMORELAND, daughter, born September 1899, aged 8 months.
"Frank HANSON, Lulu H. HANSON and Effie and James WESTMORELAND of Aberdeen have sold to the Commercial State bank of Langford for $600 lots 8 and 9, in block 20, of the first addition to Aberdeen.
Alex HIGHLAND has sold to Frank HANSON and Effie WESTMORELAND of Aberdeen, lots 8 and 9 in block 20 of the first addition to Aberdeen."
(GenealogyBank.com: Aberdeen Democrat (Aberdeen SD), 27 September 1907)
The 1910 US Federal Census for 4th Street S., Aberdeen City, Browm County, South Dakota:
James WESTMORELAND, head, aged 42, married 12 years, born in England, working on his own account as a painter in a paintshop, owned his own house but had a mortgage;
Effie WESTMORELAND, wife, aged 35, married 12 years, had 5 children of whom 5 were living, born in Minnesota of German parents;
Effie WESTMORELAND, daughter, aged 10, born in South Dakota;
Olive WESTMORELAND, daughter, aged 9, born in South Dakota;
Walter WESTMORELAND, son, aged 6, born in South Dakota;
Nettie WESTMORELAND, daughter, aged 4, born in South Dakota;
Edward WESTMORELAND, son, aged 10 months, born in South Dakota;
August SCHWARTZ, father-in-law, aged 77, married 40 years, born in Germany;
Dora SHWARTZ, mother-in-law, aged 76, married 40 years, born in Germany.
(www.ancestry.com T624 Roll 1477 Enumeration District 51 Page 3)
Dora SCHWARTZ died at her daughter's home, 318 First Street South, Aberdeen, South Dakota, where the funeral was held.
(Aberdeen Daily News 11.06.1915)
The 1930 US Federal Census for Seattle, King County, Washington:
James WESTMORELAND, head, owned his own house worth $3500, had a radio set, was 60 years old, was aged 29 when he first married, entered the USA in 1898 and was now naturalised, worked as a painter at home;
Effie WESTMORELAND, wife, aged 55, was 24 when she first married, born in Minnesota;
Jeanette WESTMORELAND, daughter, aged 24, single, born in South Dakota, worked as a stenographer in a dry goods store.
(www.ancestry.com)
The 1940 US Federal Census of 8451 30th Ave S W, Seattle City, King County, Washington, USA:
James E. WESTMORLAND [sic], head, married, aged 70, naturalized, painter, lived in Hanford City, Benton County, Washington, in 1935, born in England;
*Effie A. WESTMORLAND [sic] wife, married, aged 65, lived in Hanford City, Benton County, Washington, in 1935, born in Minnesota.
(www.thegenealogist.com)
"MRS. JAMES WESTMORELAND
Mrs. Effie WESTMORELAND, 89, a former Seattle resident, died yesterday of a stroke while visiting a daughter in Prosser, Benton County.
Mrs. WESTMORELAND, born in Red Wing, Minn., resided here from 1916 until she moved to Sunnyside, Yakima County, 12 years ago. Her husband, James, died in 1950.
She is survived by a son, Walter WESTMORELAND, Seattle; three daughters, Mrs. Effie YOUNG, Prosser, and Mrs. Howard MARTIN and Mrs. Jeanette WEBER [sic], both of Sunnyside; seven grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren.
Funeral werveices [sic] will be Thursday in Prosser."
(GenealogyBank.com: Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, WA), 10 March 1964)
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