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Mary Elizabeth Hagar Marcks, Hugo 'Otto' Marcks, Herbert Otto 'Kye'
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William Henry Marcks was
born in Germany, February 22, 1853. He was born Gustov Wilhelm, but
changed his name when he became a citizen of the United States October 24,
1989, in San Diego County. He married Mary Elizabeth Hoyer December 5,
1874, in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Mary Elizabeth was born in Germany,
February 26, 1849. They lived in Iowa for a while, then Oregon, and
finally San Diego County, locating on government land at the head of Eagle
Peak Grade in Julian. He engaged extensively in the beekeeping business.
He farmed some and ran a bunch of cattle. For some years he was foreman of
the Eagle Peak Road District. He came to the ranch in 1887 and remained
there until two days before his death in 1931 at the age of 77. He was
survived by his widow, Elizabeth Hoyer Marcks, and four sons, Hugo Otto,
William Gustav ‘Gus,’
Arthur Walter and Herbert Henry. They all lived in the Lakeside and Julian
area all of their lives, Mary Elizabeth died at Quintard Hospital in San
Diego February 8, 1942. |
