The Hilpert family
Annie Hulda Helen Dortzbach
May 20, 1891 – March 11, 1945
Annie was Milly’s sister, a daughter of Peter and Ida Dortzbach. The family album records her life as 1891–1945. Photographs follow the sisters from childhood to their adult lives, including Annie’s 1912 wedding to Harry Schmidt and family photographs with Dorothy and Valetta.
- Parents
- Jen Peter Dortzbach & Ida Falkenrath
- Spouse
- Harry Otto Schmidt
Married 1912 - Siblings
- Milly · George Karl · Karl George
- Children
- Valetta · Dorothy
Parents and family history
Jen Peter Dortzbach and Ida Falkenrath
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From the written family history
Peter’s biography records Annie’s birth in Milwaukee on May 20, 1891, and says her names honored her aunts. She grew up with Milly and their brother George Karl, first in Wisconsin and then in Colorado. Peter remembered both daughters helping Ida operate a hotel in Boulder before an illness interrupted that work.
Annie and Harry Otto Schmidt raised daughters Valetta and Dorothy. Peter and Ida visited their household in Pueblo and their cabin in Beulah, Colorado, in 1935. The family records give Annie’s death as March 11, 1945, in Halstead, Kansas.
Peter’s biography and the descendants’ chart agree on May 20; the 2010 compilation gives a different birthday elsewhere.
Sources: Peter P. Dortzbach’s biography, recorded by Eileen Townsend; The Falkenrath Family, compiled by Dawn Kelm (2010); Descendants of Carl F. “Charles” Falkenrath.
Places in a Life
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Annie Hulda Helen Dortzbach
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Profile explicitly states Milwaukee birth, following Peter’s biography and descendants’ chart. A different birthday appears elsewhere in the 2010 compilation.
Source for this placePeter’s linked biography dates the household’s move to Cripple Creek. Family memoir; childhood family portrait is dated 1897.
Source for this placeProfile expressly says Peter and Ida visited Annie’s household in Pueblo in 1935.
Source for this placeThe public caption expressly calls the setting their Beulah home near Pueblo. Caption includes a separate April 1944 phrase; retain the main photograph date as family caption, not a move date. Marker precision: broad locality.
Source for this place
Halstead, Kansas is the death location, not proof of a home there. Boulder hotel employment is undated.
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Milly’s sibling
Family connections
Milly · George Karl Dortzbach · Karl George Dortzbach
Photographs and memories
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All related album pages (48)
- Family picture of Peter and Ida Dortzbach in 1897 in Cripple Creek Colorado. Milly about 7, Ane about 6 and Georgie 4 years old.
- Milly and Annie Dortzbach. About 1900
- Annie, George and Milly Dortzbach in Cripple Creek, Colorado. Kjesten Emilie Dortzbach (Milly) was born February 1, 1890 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is about 6 years old in this picture.
- Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, 1909. Peter, Ida, Annie and Milly Dortzbach.
- Billy Edwards, Milly Dortzbach Harry and Annie Schmidt.
- Milly, friend and Annie.
- About 1910: Harry Schmidt & Annie Dortzbach.
- About 1911: Harry Schmidt & Annie Dortzbach.
- Milly Dortzbach and Annie Dortzbach. They are dressed in their Sunday best. About 1910
- About 1914–15. Aunt Annie and Milly Dortzbach. Milly was Eileen’s mother Annie was Dorothy and Valetta’s mother
- Pa, Annie, Milly, Harry, Ma, Valetta, Carl and friends about 1916.
- 1912: Milly Dortzbach & friend. Harry & Annie Schmidt.
- Annie Hulda Dortzbach, about 1914.
- About 1912-13. Ida, Carl & Pete in the front row and Milly and Annie Dortzbach.
- Annie, Harry & Valetta Schmidt about 1916.
- About 1913-14. Aunt Annie is fourth from the left and Mama is the sixth one. They are with friends in Denver, Colorado.
- Annie Schmidt, Ma, Pa, Milly & Carl Dortzbach about 1916.
- About 1910: Milly & Annie Dortzbach and Harry O. Schmidt.
- Annie Dortzbach marries Harry O. Schmidt. June 5, 1912
- In front of the Marion Str. Apts. Annie Schmidt marries Harry O. Schmidt. I think, Billy Edwards and Betty Walters stood up with them.
- Annie Schmidt, Milly Dortzbach and friends in Harry’s new car.
- About 1915. Uncle Harry Schmidt driving the car. Aunt Annie standing on the left and Mama on the right, in front of the car, with other friends.
- Dora - Uncle Harry’s sister - Harry, Annie, Valetta & Dorothy Schmidt.
- Out for a ride in Harry’s and the Dortzbach’s touring cars a few days before the wedding. October, 1918. Harry and Annie Schmidt. Carl Dortzbach. Otto Milly. Grandma Dortzbach and Valetta Schmidt.
- Viola, Aunt Mary Falkenrath, Annie Schmidt and Dorothy, Grandma Dortzbach, Oct. 16, 1918.
- Pa, Viola Falkenrath, Annie & Dorothy Schmidt, Aunt Mary Falkenrath, 10/16/1918
- 1920: Annie, Harry, Dorothy & Valetta, Hulda & Henry Schmidt.
- 1920: Carl, Annie, Dorothy & Valetta.
- 1920: Annie & Harry Schmidt’s farm. This is I and kids taken at the back of our house.
- Valetta, Harry, Annie, Dorothy Schmidt, 1922.
- Harry, Dorothy, Annie, Valetta Schmidt, about 1922.
- Nov. 30, 1923. Bucoda, Wash. Dorothy, and Annie Schmidt and Eileen.
- Nov. 30, 1923. Bucoda Wn. Dorothy Annie and Eileen.
- 1923 Denver, Colorado. Annie, Harry, Valetta & Dorothy Schmidt. Ma, Carl & Pa Dortzbach, & Milly.
- 1923 Denver, Colorado. Annie, Harry, Valetta & Dorothy Schmidt. Ma, Carl & Pa Dortzbach & Milly.
- Sept. 1924: Grandpa Dortzbach’s brother’s family visits in Denver, Colorado. Grandma & Grandpa Dortzbach, Clara, son, Fred Dortzbach and Aunt Annie and Fred"s children.
- June, 1928: Harry O. Schmidt family. Dorothy Annie & Valetta.
- June, 1928: Harry O Schmidt and family. Dorothy, Annie & Valetta.
- 1931. Grandma & Grandpa Dortzbach, Milly, Carl and Annie.
- July 1, 1935, Pueblo, Colorado: Harry, Annie S. Milton Falkenrath Dorothy & Valetta Schmidt. Clara Falkenrath, Ida D. Ernie Falkenrath Peter Dortzbach.
- July, 1935 in Pueblo, Colorado. Harry Schmidt, Milton Falkenrath, Dorothy Schmidt, Ruth Falkenrath, Valetta and Annie Schmidt, Grandma Dortzbach and Ernie Falkenrath.
- June 10, 1937. Annie, Eileen and Papa. King and Bumpsky.
- June 5, 1937: At West Port. Eileen, Annie, & Milly in front and Otto and Pa in back.
- Anniversary picture. They were very disappointed in these pictures that were taken by a fly-by-night that stopped by on the day of the celebration. In back row: Doris holding Shirley and Carl Dortzbach, Annie Schmidt, Milly and Otto Hilpert. Front row: Grandpa Dortzbach, Eileen holding Doris Ann and then Grandma Dortzbach.
- Denver, Colorado. Annie, Hulda, Harry Schmidt. Dorothy & Donna Brack.
- May, 1943. Annie, Dorothy and Donna Brack, and Harry O. Schmidt.
- May 17, 1942. Papa died May 23, 1942. Doris, Otto, Carl holding Joan Karen, Grandma D, Annie Schmidt, Dickie, Grandpa D. Doris Ann and Shirley Dortzbach.
- Annie & Harry Schmidt. Picture taken May 20, 1944 at their Buelah home near Pueblo, Colo. Annie 53.April 1944.
Stories and captions drawn from Eileen Townsend’s family album.