Louis Petersen and Anna Majoros, in Chicago, around 1900 at the time of their marriage
Annie Petersen and her mother, Mary Majoros, about 1915.
Louis Peter Petersen, eldest son of Hans and Catherina Petersen, was born in 1880 in Fairmont, Nebraska, close to the town of Belle Prairie where the Petersen clan had settled as farmers in the 1870s. Louis was named for his grandfather Lorenz Peter Petersen and his uncle Ludwig (Louis) Peter Petersen.
In 1882 the clan moved to Hebron, a growing agricultural community. Louis' grandparents Peter Hansen and Elise Momsen accompanied the group.
Hans and Catherina and their growing family relocated to Chicago, Illinois around
1890, apparently accompanied by Louis' grandfather Lorenz, who died there in 1891. The
Petersens rented a home on Paulina Street and Louis, as the eldest son, became a laborer like his father
Hans.
1900 Louis married Anna Majoros, daughter of Albert and Mary Majoros, who had recently emigrated from Bohemia. Louis and Annie had eleven children, definitely the most prolific of Hans and Catherina's children.
Louis worked hard to support his large family died of pneumonia in Chicago in 1926. He's buried at Mt. Greenwood Cemetery in the Petersen family plot. Annie remarried Emil Wuske but is buried next to her first husband Louis at Mt. Greenwood. Her family changed her headstone so she was noted as Annie Petersen, not Annie Wuske!