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Hello Jeanne,
You and I are 3rd cousins! Your great grandmother, Mary Pauline Goetzer Laux was the sister of my great grandmother, Magdalena Goetzer Adrian. I am the grand daughter of "Lena" Goetzer and William F. Adrian's son Louis Edward Adrian. I have found some documented information on the Goetzer family that differs from what you have.
You have Peter Goetzer as born in 1840 in Germany, and married to (?) Minzer.
According to emigration documents and census records, Peter was born in 1814 in Oberstetten, Muensingen, Wurttemberg, Germany. He emigrated in March 1852 with his first wife, Katharina, their sons, Jacob, born Nov. 1847 and Paul Balthasar, born 1849. Also emigrating with them was Genovefa STROBEL, who on the emigration document was listed as their maid. (This information is from the Wurttemberg Emigration Index, volume 6, page 480, and would have been given by Peter himself). The family arrived in Baltimore On June 23rd 1852, as listed in "Baltimore, 1851-1872 Passenger and Immigration Lists Vol. 2". (In this record, the name is spelled Gotzer.)
After Katherina's death, Genovefa became Peter's second wife.(In the 1860 census of Pittston, Luzerne County. Pa. she is listed as Effa, (which is the nickname or shortened form of Genovefa). I also have the death certificate of my great grandmother Lena Goetzer (Getz) Adrian, which states that her mother's maiden name was STROBEL.)
Might you have confused the "Minzer" you have listed as Peter Goetzer's first wife with the Anna Maria MAINZER who married Matthew Laux?
Also, you state that Peter and Katharina's son, Paul died (or disappeared) in the Civil War, and son Paul drowned in a well, but Paul appears with the family in the 1870 census, so he could not have died in war.
Also, although the family name appeared in records as Goetzer, Getz, Gotzer and Gates, when my grandfather was born in 1895, Lena's maiden name on his baptism certificate was still spelled Goetzer.
If you will email me privately I will be happy to send you copies of the documents I have on the family. I would also like to have the information from Peter Goetzer down to your family.
I hope to hear from you soon,
Bobbi
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