So... very recently we've aquired more bits of information from various branches of the ol' family tree. The obituary of Martin Joos pointing to his sisters, the obituary and subsequent family information of Edward Winkler, ditto for Frederick Winkler, the re-discovery of "Uncle Walt's" place in the hills above Santa Rosa... most of these things lead to entirely new lines of cousins and more (temporary) brick walls.
Looking for Koechlin yielded the 1900 census with Martin's sister Emily and her husband, Emile, with their son, Adolph. I haven't found 1910 yet, they probably got their name misspelled. In 1920 Emily is a widow living with her son.
At the Pleasant Hill library I first looked in the city directories for Richmond around 1928 and found a listing for Edward and wife Emma. When I searched the microfilm for the Richmond Independant around when Edward died, it didn't take long to find his obituary. Not only was he married, but he had four children- Edward, Anita, Florence and Edith. The children have been tough to locate, even with the CABI, but I think I found two of the girls in a census living with another family. More to come on this.
The 1910 census showed Fred's young widow living with her parents- and a two-year-old girl bearing the feminine of her father's name! I found her in the California Birth Index since she was born after 1905, and her mother's maiden name was recorded as "Wilson". Now that I had a birth date, I could do a wild card search in the Death Index to see if I could find a married name. I sure did, O'Reilly. And Frieda died fairly young, too, in 1946. Back at the birth index I searched on these two names and found one son, David, born in 1940.
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