Carl George Christian Theodore
Butzbach was born on July 23, 1884 in Butzbach Germany. When he was
two years of age he moved from Butzbach, Germany to College Point, New York
in Long Island. He had only a little bit of schooling, grammar school
through the eight grade.
At twelve years of age Great Grandfather began working at the
American Hard Rubber Company. He had no military experience but had to
go through a very traumatic time during the Great Depression. His
leisure time activities consisted of raising St. Bernards and canaries.
He also loved to garden, like his father.
He was one of 9 children consisting of 6 girls, and 3 boys; Maria,
Ernest, Baby, Kariena, Wilimena, Henry, Lena, Minnie, and himself. My
great grandparents met each other on a blind date that their friends had set
up for them. They both lived in Long Island, and the date was actually
a buggy ride through Central Park. I guess they really liked that
buggy ride because 6 months later, they were married in my Great-Great
Grandmother's living room on June 28, 1908. Together they had three
children, William, Lydia, and Carl Theodore II. William died at the
age of six due to cancer in his lymph glands.
My Great Grandfather continued working at the rubber company until
1932 when the Depression hit. The depression forced him and his family
up to his brother's farm in Fleishman, NY in the Catskill Mountains.
Here his family worked, didn't make any money, but still got the food they
needed to live. In 1935 his job was reactivated at the Butler Branch
of the American Hard Rubber Co. He retired in 1950 after 52 years of
service. In 1950 they began living with their daughter, Lydia, in Fair
Lawn, NJ.
Great Grandma was known as a "good mother", and she was very family
oriented. She was Lutheran and was a very, very, religious individual.
When they both passed away, it was in Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ.
They were both buried in Flushing, NY, on Long Island. My Great
Grandfather died on March 4, 1963, and Great Grandmother died on November,
21, 1975. |
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