Gertrude RIEDEN

  General Notes:

Gertrude immigrated from Dungenheim, Germany in 1848 with her parents, Peter & Anna Fuhrmann Rieden, and with them Peter Rieden brought his wife, Barbara Fuhrmann and their two children, Fred and Anna Marie, and Nicholas Rieden came with his wife, Gottlieber Roeser. They settled in what was then Springwells Township, Michigan. Today their land would be located within the southwestern city limits of Detroit. It ran south from the present Amtrack/Conrail tracks, across Dix Highway, and just west of Livernois Avenue. Rieden Street off Vernor Highway is located on the southern most portion of their original fifty acre farm.

NOTE: Springwells Township was established in 1818, and incorporated as a village in 1919. In 1923 it became the City of Springwells. Two years later its name was changed to Fordson in honor of Henry, and his son Edsel Ford. In 1929, the City of Fordson merged with the City of Dearborn, creating Dearborn's present day boundaries.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Immigration: Dungenheim, Prussia.

Gertrude married Martin SCHNEIDER, son of Anton SCHNEIDER and Gertrude HUERTER, on 5 Aug 1851 in St. Joseph Church, Gross Point. (Martin SCHNEIDER was born on 24 Sep 1830 in Kehrig, Prussia and died on 27 Jan 1906 in Detroit, MI.)