Les Minear wrote: > > My Grandmother's maiden name was Martha Fredericka Stolle. She married Valentine Benz > in San Francisco, CA on January 8, 1914. I was told she was born in Tilleda, Thüringia, > Germany on August 22, 1887. I'm not sure this town still exists. It still exists at 011° 08' 29'' East, 51° 25' 09'' North, near the Kyffhäuser mountain. Though there is (and was) not Thuringia but Province of Saxony, Prussia, today Sachsen-Anhalt. Dieter