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Bruce Morton Garver, grandson of Emma Lotz Morton, briefly describes her and the extended Lotz family in his captions for two of the five group photographs depicted on this Memorial. Following these two captions, Bruce has written a fragment of a memoir about his beloved grandmother with emphasis upon her early life in Denver and Hamilton and with regard to her relationship with her youngest daughter, Ruth, Bruce's mother. * * * * * SECOND LOTZ FAMILY GROUP: In 1902, the family of Henry Lotz, senior (1835-1906), and Elizabeth Catherine Donges Lotz (1838-1916) posed for this portrait at the home of Christian and Elizabeth Christine Lotz Wismeyer at the corner of Franklin (No. 552) and “G” Streets in Hamilton, Ohio. In top row, standing, left to right are John Daniel Lotz (1872-1959); Carl Wesley Lotz (I884-fall 1960); Edward George Lotz (1875-1952) holding his son, Edwin; Christian (Chris) W. Wismeyer (1861-1913, husband of Elizabeth Christine Lotz Wismeyer); his and her daughter Mabel Marie Wismeyer (McCloskey, 1887-1979)**; Charles Johnson (born 1863), husband of Mary Lotz Johnson; William (“Bim”) Lotz (1863-1944), holding son, Wesley Lotz (1896-1964, son of “Bim”); Henry (“Henny”) Lotz (1868-1943); David Hinsey Morton (1878-1914, husband of Emma Lotz Morton); William H. (Willie) Wismeyer (1885-1957); Ernst Garfield Lotz (1880-1963). Seated in the front row are Mary Rose Mick Lotz (1875-1976, wife of Henry Lotz); Mellie Adeline Cann Lotz (1885-1973, wife of Edward Lotz); Edgar Wismeyer (1899-1954) and his friend Hilda Wallace, both seated on the ground; Elizabeth Christine Lotz Wismeyer (1860-1962); William D. (“Bill”) Lotz (son of “Bim” & “Nell” Lotz); Mary (Anna Marie Lotz) Johnson; Ella D. Hanley (“Nell”) Lotz (1864-1934, wife of “Bim” Lotz); their son, Robert Vincent (“Bob”) Lotz; Emma Lotz Morton (1877-1962); Mary Irene Lotz (Knox***, 1898-1983), daughter of “Bim” & “Nell” Lotz), (Catherine) Elizabeth Donges Lotz (Grossmutter, 1838-1916) and Henry Lotz, Grosspop (1835-1906). Notes: *Henry (Heinrich) Lotz was born on Sept. 13, 1835, in Asslar, Kreis Lahn-Dill (now Kreis Wetzlar), Prussia, and immigrated to the United States in May 1852 with two brothers, three sisters, a sister-in-law, and a niece and nephew; and died on June 8, 1906, in Hamilton, Ohio. **Mabel Marie Wismeyer married Howard Hill McCloskey (1887-1950) in 1913 at Hamilton, Ohio. *** Mary Lotz married Alan Wesley Knox (1898-1979) circa 1920 and lived in San Jose, California. **** Emma Lotz Morton and David Hinsey Morton were married in 1901 at the German Methodist Church in Hamilton and were the parents of Edith Elizabeth Morton (Bippus) and Ruth E. Morton (Garver). * * * * * THIRD FAMILY GROUP: This portrait of the Henry & Elizabeth Donges Lotz family of twenty-seven members and one neighbor was made by a professional photographer in Hamilton, Ohio, on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1904, at the home of Christian and Elizabeth Wismeyer on 552 Franklin St. at the corner of “G” and Franklin Streets. In the top row, standing left to right, are: Christian (“Chris”) Wismeyer (1861 to 1913); Henry (“Henny”) Lotz, II (1868 to 1943) whose hands rest on the shoulders of Edgar Wismeyer (1899 to 1954), the youngest son of Chris and Elizabeth; Edward George (“Eddie”) Lotz (1875 to 1952); William H. (“Willie”) Wismeyer (1885-1957); and William (“Bim”) Lotz (1863 to 1944) with son Robert Vincent (“Bob”) Lotz (1900 to 1960). In the second row from top, standing left to right are: Carl Wesley Lotz (1884 to 1960), Ernst Garfield Lotz (1880 to 1963) with his dog “Spot”; Henry Lotz, senior ("Grosspop", 1835 to 1906). In the third row from the top, seated on the top step of the porch, left to right, are: John Daniel Lotz (1872 to 1959); next to him stands young Edgar Wismeyer, mentioned above; Emma Lotz Morton (1877 to 1962); Elizabeth Christine (”Lizzie”) Lotz Wismeyer (1860 to 1962), wife of Chris Wismeyer; Mary (Annamarie) Lotz Johnson (1866 to 1948) and her husband, Charles E. Johnson (born in 1863); and David Hinsey Morton (1878 to 1914), husband of Emma Lotz Morton. In the fourth row from the top, seated on the second from the top step, left to right, are: Ella Hanley (“Nell”) Lotz (wife of “Bim”) holding daughter Nellie E. Lotz (1904-1944); Nell’s older daughter Mary Irene Lotz (Knox, 1898 to 1983); and Mary Rose Mick Lotz (1875 to 1976), wife of Henry [“Henny”] Lotz, II. In the fifth row from the top, seated on the third from the top step, are: Elizabeth Catherine Donges Lotz (”Grossmutter”, 1838 to 1916); Ella Goldrick (Nell Lotz’s cousin); young Hilda Wallace, a neighborhood friend of Edgar Wismeyer; brothers Wesley Lotz (1896-1964) and William Dervin (“Bill”) Lotz (1893-1958), the older sons of “Bim” and Ella D. “Nell” Hanley Lotz (1864-1934); Mildred Adeline (“Millie”) Cann Lotz (1885-1973), wife of Edward George Lotz, with their infant son, Edwin Lotz (1903-1961), standing; and Tom Hanley, the brother of “Nell” Hanley Lotz (Bim’s wife). Ruth Ernestine Morton Garver identified all of the persons present in this photograph by writing their names on the back of it. * * * * * During 2018, Bruce Morton Garver composed this fragment of a memoir about his maternal grandmother, Emma Lotz Morton (1877-1962): My mother Ruth E. Morton Garver (1907-2004) and her sister Edith E. Morton Bippus (1905-1988) confirmed in other conversations with me the great extent to which their mother Emma Lotz Morton had understandably been deeply and enduringly saddened at having lost her husband and their father to pneumonia at the young age of thirty-six. Ruth was of the opinion that her mother's reluctance thereafter to display very much emotional or physical affection toward her two daughters arose in part from her mother's concern that were she frequently and warmly to express her love for her two daughters she might "lose" them as she had "lost" her husband. In fact, I recollect my mother Ruth having told me that her mother, Emma Lotz Morton, had expressed these or similar sentiments to her and to Edith on several occasions. I hasten to add that Ruth generally evaluated her mother both lovingly and objectively when speaking to me about her. Emma Lotz Morton had completed the sixth grade of school in Hamilton, Ohio, from 1883 to 1889, and worked at two jobs there from March 1914 through the 1920s in order to support her daughters and herself and to provide them with as many advantages in life as she could afford. On Mondays through Saturdays at about 3 a.m., Emma arrived for work at a nearby bakery (whose name I shall find among family records) to help prepare each day's baked goods and either place them in display cases or else wrap them for home delivery. On mid-afternoons, Emma walked to the downtown Hamilton YMCA where she helped to prepare the evening entrees for customers of the YMCA's cafeteria before working on its serving line until it closed around eight o’clock in the evening. When Emma returned to Hamilton, Ohio, with Ruth and Edith in late February or early March 1914, probably accompanied by her brother-in-law Will Morton, she was given every assistance possible by Will, her two sisters, and her six brothers, four of whom still lived in Hamilton -- John, Edward, Ernst and Carl Lotz. My recollection is that the all six brothers, along with brother-in-law Will Morton and Emma's mother, Elizabeth Donges Lotz, contributed funds to assist Emma in purchasing a small wooden house at 214 Charles Street in Hamilton, a house in which she resided for all but the last eight or nine months of her life. The two out-of-town brothers were William (“Bim”) who resided with his wife, Ella (“Nell”), and their children - William, Wesley, Mary (Knox), Robert and Nellie -- in San Jose, California, and Henry (Henny), who lived with his wife, Mary Mick Lotz, and their daughter, Dolores Lotz (Goggins), in Dearborn, Michigan. A number of other relatives besides Emma's brothers in Hamilton -- especially John and Ernst -- helped her to raise Edith and Ruth. These relatives included Emma's older sisters, Mary Lotz Johnson (1866-1948) and Elizabeth Lotz Wismeyer (1860-1962), and Elizabeth's daughter and son-in-law, Mabel Wismeyer McCloskey and Howard McCloskey -- the parents of Robert (Bob), Dorothy and Melba McCloskey. John Daniel Lotz contributed funds to help pay for Edith's and Ruth’s tuition as each of them earned an elementary school teaching certificate from Miami University where Edith graduated in June 1925 and Ruth in June 1927. Ruth never ceased to express profound gratitude for all that these relatives had done to help her mother raise her and Edith and to encourage them to excel in school, to serve their church*, and to become accomplished pianists and violinists. Ruth and Edith never doubted that they were beloved by many members of a large extended family. *All persons in three generations of the Lotz family of Hamilton were members of the German Methodist Church -- after 1919 the Grace Methodist Church - at 320 South Front Street in Hamilton, Ohio. Emma’s former home at 214 Charles Street was erected during 1889 and still stands in Hamilton, where I photographed it in June 2016. From my many childhood visits to that home, I can still visualize its interior rooms and small back yard as well as its extremely narrow and fairly deep lot. The front of this house faced south and stood close to the city sidewalk on the north side of Charles Street between Central Avenue and South Third Street. On the first floor, three back-to-back rooms began with a formal front “parlor” used only to entertain guests and to house the upright piano on which Ruth and Edith practiced and performed. Emma also tended to the ferns that she kept in a large fern stand next to the piano. [Ann Clifton Garver now displays this fern stand in her assisted living apartment at Lincoln Park Manor in Kettering, Ohio]. Moving north through Emma’s narrow house, one next passed into a dining room with a large side window out of which one looked eastward toward the house close by next door. We almost always entered Emma’s house on its east side through a door leading into a small hallway between the dining room and the large kitchen behind it to the north. In fact, I do not remember having ever entered or left 214 Charles Street through its front door. Along the west wall of this kitchen stood an enameled steel gas stove. Along the north wall, Emma stored perishable food in a small icebox cooled by large blocks of ice delivered by an iceman as late as 1948 or 1949. Near the center of the kitchen stood an oaken kitchen table and four or five chairs along with a small four-legged coal-fired cast-iron furnace that provided heat to the room. Attached to the north wall was a large tinned-steel sink into which Emma pumped fresh water from an underground backyard cistern into which rainwater either fell directly or else flowed gradually into it from the sloped concrete surface surrounding the cistern. Within her deep and narrow backyard, Emma prided herself on the luxuriant grape arbor that she meticulously maintained very much like the larger grape arbor in back of the brick home of her parents, Henry and Elizabeth Donges Lotz, nearby on South Front Street. After passing underneath Emma’s grape arbor, one arrived at a tool shed next to the fence along the north end of Emma’s backyard, a fence whose swinging gate led into an alley that ran east to west parallel to Charles Street. The second floor of 214 Charles Street consisted of back-to-back bedrooms connected by a hallway. As I recollect, the back bedroom did not extend fully above the kitchen. At sometime during the 1930s, a toilet, sink, and shower were installed within a tiny enclosed space on the ground floor at the north end of the stairway leading up to the second floor. Until the construction of this tiny bathroom, an outhouse had stood along the west side fence near the far north end of the backyard during the two decades when Edith and Ruth resided with their mother -- Ruth to 1931 and Edith to 1938. I was told that they and she at that time bathed in a tinned-steel tub placed between the kitchen sink and the small kitchen furnace. When not being used for bathing, this tub stood with its bottom up against the kitchen’s north (back) wall next to the icebox. A second narrow stairway of identical dimensions was located directly below the one leading upstairs to the hallway connecting the two bedrooms. This second stairway provided access to a half-basement whose dirt floor remained unpaved during the nearly 48 years --circa March 1914 to February 1962 -- when my grandmother resided at 214 Charles Street.
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