Elsie Christine Buehrly

1891 - 1980  (89 years)

• Name	Elsie Christine Buehrly  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	24 Apr 1891	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Died	24 Apr 1980	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1, 2]
  Buried	27 Apr 1980	Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [2]
  Notes	Cass City Chronicle Thursday, May 1, 1980 Page Six Elsie Anthes dies on 89th birthday Elsie Christine Anthes, 89, a lifelong resident of the Cass City area, died on her 89th birthday last Thursday at Hills and Dales General Hospital after a long illness. She was born April 24, 1891, on the family homestead farm, in Elkland township, the daughter of Leonard and Catherine (Buerk) BUEHRLY. Miss Buehrly married Walter Anthes March 24, 1945, in Cass City. He died November 16, 1966. Mrs. Anthes was a member of the Salem United Methodist church since childhood. She is survived by two brothers, Lawrence BUEHRLY and Edward BUEHRLY, both of Cass City; three stepsons, Roy Anthes of Cass City, Harold Anthes of Potiac and Paul Anthes of Conway, Ark., two stepdaughters, Mrs. Lucille BUSH of Caro and Mrs. Alice BEECHER of Bad Axe; 14 step-grandchildren and a number of step-great-grandchildren. Two sisters and one brother preceded her in death. Mrs. Anthes was taken from Little's Funeral Home, Cass City, to the Salem United Methodist church at noon Sunday, to lie in state until 1:30 funeral service. Rev. Eldred Kelley officiated. Burial was in Elkland cemetery. (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Spring 2007) She was one the family members BonnieMargaret Jacobs personally interviewed when preparing her history of the Benkelman family.
  Person ID	I12755	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Johann Leonhard Buehrly,   b. 21 Feb 1859, B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany ,   d. 3 Feb 1939, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Catherine Buerk,   b. 16 Aug 1865, W?rttemberg, Germany ,   d. 20 Mar 1954, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  (Age 88 years)
  Married	24 Mar 1885	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1, 3, 4]
  Headstones		Buehrly, Leonard and Catherine (Buerk)
  Family ID	F2350	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Walter J. Anthes,   b. 22 Nov 1884, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan ,   d. 15 Oct 1966, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  (Age 81 years)
  Married	24 Mar 1945	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1, 2, 5]
  	No issue.
  Last Modified	13 Nov 2010
  Family ID	F2238	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 24 Apr 1891 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Married - 24 Mar 1945 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Died - 24 Apr 1980 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Buried - 27 Apr 1980 - Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos		Live Wire Bible Class of the Evangelical United Brethern Church Sunday School, Cass City Michigan, ca 1917 FRONT ROW, l to r, Grant McConnell, class leader; UNKNOWN Clergyman, UNKNOWN class member, William Schwegler, Sam Helwig, George Burg SECOND ROW, l to r, Hattie Helwig McConnell, Janet "Jennie" Gardner Buehrly, Minerva Helwig Sherman, Mary Buehrly Striffler, Mary Mark Buehrly THIRD ROW; l to r, Alma Striffler Schenck holding her baby Ruth, Lena Helwig Jaus, Lillian Striffler Ricker, Minnie Jesse Benkelman, Mary Schwegler Jaus, Jacob Hiller. Note: Alma Striffler Schenck's three year old son, Donald, was said to be asleep in the Model T Ford just to the left of the group at the time this photo was taken FOURTH ROW: l to r, Elsie Buehrly, Mary Striffler Helwig, Cora Helwig Klinkman, Laura McConnell Hiller, Alice Ross Schwegler, Mary McLellan Joos, Ed Helwig FIFTH ROW, l to r, Art Ricker, Erwin Kercher, Ed Buehrly, Harvey Klinkman, UNKNOWN Class Member, Fred Buehrly, Fred Joos TOP ROW, l to r, Sol Striffler, Clayton Schenck, Fred Jaus, William Ackerman, Sam Jaus It appears that at least 33 of the 36 adults in this Sunday School class were directly related, through either blood or marriage, to the Striffler, Benkelman and Helwig families who emigrated together from Erie County, New York to Tuscola County, Michigan beginning in the 1860's. PLEASE HELP US IDENTIFY THE UNKNOWN INDIVIDUALS.
  		The Kolb and The Mark Sisters, Cass City, Michigan From the postcard collection of Lena Mark Schwegler of Cass City. She had labeled it "Kolb Sisters, Mark Sisters, Elsie Buehrly, Fred Buehrly and Clarence Kolb The Kolb's were children of George Kolb and Maria Katharina Benkelman. The Mark's sisters were daughters of Archie Mark and Emeline Striffler. PLEASE EMAIL IF YOU CAN IDENTIFY WHO IS WHO

  
  

  Headstones

  Anthes, Elsie Christine (Buehrly)

  
  

• Sources

  [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982. [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, Thursday, May 1, 1980 (Reliability: 3). [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, Friday, March 26, 1954 (Reliability: 3). [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 162 (Reliability: 3). [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Volume 8, September 3, 1945 (Reliability: 3).