This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TJB.2ACI/1667.1 Message Board Post: Here is some information on the Mathias Faber family. Faber, Mathias b. 17 March 1839 at Canach, Remich, Luxembourg; m. Maria Simon on 25 October 1865; Mathias Faber died 15/16 Oct. 1904 & is buried at St. Nicholas Cemetery, St. Nicholas, Minn.. Maria Simon b. 6 Dec. 1845 at Medernach, Diekirch, Luxembourg; Maria Simon died 29 June 1936 at St. Cloud, MN & is buried at St. Nicholas Cemetery, St. Nicholas, Minn.. Children of Matthias Faber & Maria Simon: 1. Faber, Nicholas b. 9 July 1867 at St. Paul, Minn.; m. Margaretha Molitor on 24 Nov. 1897 at Rockville, Minn.; Nicholas Faber d. 18 Sept. 1919 at Havre, Montana. Margaretha Molitor b. 1874 in Minnesota; She died in 1961 at Havre, Montana. 2. Faber, Peter b. 15 Aug. 1868 at St. Paul, Minn. (b. 15 March 1868 per St. Boniface Parish Census); m. Mary Anne Paulus on 25 Nov. 1890 at St. Nicholas, Minn.; Mary Anne Paulus b. 1869 in the Diocese of Trier, Germany; She d. 5 Dec. 1896 at St. Nicholas, Minn. 3. Faber, Henry 19 Feb. 1874 at St. Nicholas, Minn.; m. Catherine Theis; 4. Faber, Maria b. 26 April 1875 at St. Nicholas, Minn.; m. Leonard Paulus 5. Faber, John b. 24 June 1879 at St. Nicholas, Minn. 6. Faber, Margaretha b. 11 Jan. 1881 at St. Nicholas, Minn. 7. Faber, Nicholas b. & d. 16 June 1883 at St. Nicholas, Minn. 8. Faber, Elisabeth b. 10 Feb. 1886 at St. Nicholas, Minn. 1. 1875 Minnesota State census, Stearns County, Wakefield Twsp. P. 393, fam. No. 95. 2. 1880 Census, Stearns County, Minn., Wakefield Twsp, p. 1 3. Burial record, Mathias Faber, St. Nicholas Parish, St. Nicholas, Minn. 4. St. Nicholas Parish Census, St. Nicholas, Minn.,1884 5. Index to Gravestones of Stearns, Benton, and Sherburne Counties, Minn. 6. Burial record, Maria Simon, St. Nicholas Parish, St. Nicholas, Minn. 7. Marriage record, Faber-Paulus, St. Nicholas Parish, St. Nicholas, Minn. 8. St. Boniface Parish Census, Cold Spring, Minn., 1892