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Newspaper Entries at the Time of Her Death
Chico Enterprise, 4 November 1946
PIONEER RESIDENT TAKEN BY DEATH; LENGTHY ILLNESS
Mrs Lizzie Allwardt, 85, a resident of Butte County for the past 46 years, died in Oroville Saturday afternoon after an illness of several years.
Mrs Allwardt was born in Muscatine, Iowa, where she received her schooling and was married to William Allwardt there in 1881. She and her husband farmed there until 1900 when they moved to Chico and her husband was employed by General and Mrs. Bidwell as gardner,...
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Updated 23 April 2021
Newspaper Entries at the Time of Her Death
Chico Enterprise, 4 November 1946
PIONEER RESIDENT TAKEN BY DEATH; LENGTHY ILLNESS
Mrs Lizzie Allwardt, 85, a resident of Butte County for the past 46 years, died in Oroville Saturday afternoon after an illness of several years.
Mrs Allwardt was born in Muscatine, Iowa, where she received her schooling and was married to William Allwardt there in 1881. She and her husband farmed there until 1900 when they moved to Chico and her husband was employed by General and Mrs. Bidwell as gardner, until his death in 1922. Mrs Allwardt continued to live in Chico until 1941 when she moved to Oroville to make her home with her daughter, Mrs Hulda Simmonds.
She is survived by the following children: Mr Hulda Simmons of Oroville, Mrs Effie Roads of Redding, O.H. Allwardt of Butte City and Charles B. Allwardt of Oakland and the late Mrs Ida Banta who worked in the Chico Record for many years; and 15 grandchildren and 16 great grand-children.
Funeral service will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 in the Nugent-Huddleston Funeral Chapel. Interment will be in the family plot, Chico cemetery.
Oroville Mercury Register, 4 November 1946, pg 5
LIZZIE ALLWARDT OF CHICO DIES
Mrs Lizzie Allwardt 85, of Oroville, died Saturday afternoon at the Good Samaritan hospital. She was the wife of the late William Allwardt, caretaker of Bidwell Mansion in Chico.
Born in Muscatine, IA., Sept 19, 1861, she came to Chico in 1900. She lived there until 1941, when her health began to fail and she left to make her home with her daughter, Mrs Hulda Simmons of Oroville.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs Simmons and Mrs Effie Rhoades of Redding; two sons, Oliver Allwardt of Butte City and Charles Allwardt of Oakland, and 15 grand children and 16 great grandchildren. She was the mother of the late Mrs Ida Banta and Walter Allwardt of Chico.
Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. Nugent's Funeral Home in Chico has charge of arrangements.
HER PARENTS: Christian Sander, born Dec 25, 1819 in Otkfrazen Kosrich, Hanover, Germany. Christain Sander mother's maiden name was Daurkoph. Christian married May 15, 1859 in Sweetland Township, Muscatine, Iowa to Ida Echoff. Ida Echoff was born March 14, 1839 in Manstate, Holstine, Germany. Christian and Ida had six children:
John August Sander, 21 March 1860 – 20 April 1890 in Muscatine, IA
Lizzie Augusta (Sander) Allwardt, 19 Sept 1861 – 2 Nov 1946 in Oroville, CA
Fredrick Sander, 6 April 1863 – 6 Dec 1890 in Muscatine, IA
Henry R Sander, 4 Nov 1864 – 24 Jan 1891 in Fort Bragg, CA
William J Sander, 7 May 1866 – 8 June 1943 in Los Angeles, CA
Lena Ida (Sander) Hare, 29 Dec 1867 – June 21, 1928 in San Francisco, CA
BIOGRAPHY Lizzie Augusta Sander Allwardt (Sept 19, 1861 – Nov 2, 1946)
Lizzie was born in Muscatine Iowa, where she received her schooling. For many years she resided in Iowa.
On 27 October 1881, Lizzie married William H. Allwardt (March 8, 1856 – Feb 18, 1922).
The Muscatine County, Iowa Marriage Records, 1880-1910, on file at the Muscatine City Library includes an entry, "William Alwardt 27 October 1881 Elizabeth Sander".
Lizzie and William Allwardt had seven children, all born in US, first five in Muscatine, Iowa, and the last two in Ft Bragg California:
1) Johan Christian Allwardt, 16 Sep 1882 in Muscatine Iowa, died Apr 13, 1902 in Chico, CA
2) Walther Wilhelm Allwardt, 13 Jan 1884 in Muscatine Iowa, died Mar 23, 1923, in Chico following attack of accute appendicitis
3) Ida Caroline (Allwardt) Simmons, Dec 9, 1885 in Muscatine Iowa, died July 21, 1945
married C Frank Simmons,
4) Hulda Sophia (Allwardt) Simmons 3 Apr 1887 in Muscatine Iowa, died 20 May 1954,
married 17Oct 1908 to William Lewis Simmons (brother of CF Simmons) ,
5) Effie Rebecca (Allwardt) Rhoades, 24 Jan 1889 - 3 Oct1980 in Amador County, married 9Aug 13 to John C Rhoades
The Sander family remained on their farm in Sweetland Township for many years. In approximately 1887, Christian & Ida Sander retired from the farm and moved into the city of Muscatine and purchased a home.
The Sander brothers, Henry and William, were in Fort Bragg from at least 1897 (as reported by David Foucheaux, Vice President Board of Directors, Fort Bragg - Mendocino Coast Historical Society, 2013)
The Great Registry of Mendocino County (California), dated October 1890, included both the two youngest brothers of Lizzie, Henry R and William J, living in Fort Bragg, CA. Both are listed as having the occupation of carpenter. Neither was listed in the Sep 1888 register, so the brothers probably arrived in Mendocino County and Fort Bragg some time after 1888.
On 13 January 1890, Lizzie's mother, Ida Sander passed away at the home she shared with her husband of 30 years, Christian, at 802 East Ninth Street in Muscatine. As stated in the obituary at the time of Ida's passing, all the children, four sons and two daughters, reside here, save two of the youngest boys, who are now sojourning in California. The funeral is appointed for Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from the German Baptist church, services conducted by Rev C.L. Marquardt.
Lizzie's elder brother, John, died 20 April 1890, just 3 months following the passing of his mother. He was buried in the Sander plot in Greenwood Cemetery along with his mother.
Sometime in 1890, soon after the passing of his wife, Lizzie's father, Christian, moved to Chicago and made his home in the German Baptist Old Friends' Home of Chicago.
A review of the local newspapers of Muscatine County during the period 1885 – 1890 turned up two articles in which William Allwardt is mentioned. The articles read:
Muscatine Journal (Muscatine, Iowa), Monday, 24 November 1890, pg. 3
"Wm. Allwardt will hold a public sale Tuesday, December 2, at his home 1 mile south and ½ mile east of Sweetland (6 miles north-east of Muscatine.) Large amount of stock and farm utensils will be offered.
Muscatine Weekly Journal (Muscatine, Iowa), Friday, 5 December 1890, pg. 4, col. 5, SWEETLAND
"Wm. Allwardt and family departed for California yesterday." [3Dec1890]
In early December 1890, the William & Lizzie Allwardt family moved 2,000 miles to the remote seaside village of Fort Bragg on the north coast of California. Its likely that Lizzie's two brothers, Henry and William, living and working in Fort Bragg had much to do with the Allwardt family decision to leave Muscatine and move to Fort Bragg.
Beginning in late May 1890, Lizzie was pregnant with their sixth child. Her pregnancy likely influenced the means by which the Allwardts traveled to California. William and Lizzie's sixth child, Oliver was born 26 January 1891 in Fort Bragg.
We don't know how the family of seven with their belongings traveled to California. One option would have been via riverboat down the Mississippi, then travel by ship to Panama, crossing the isthmus via the Panama Railroad then north through the Pacific Ocean by steamship to San Francisco, perhaps even on to Fort Bragg. The most likely option for the Allwardt family was to ride the transcontinental railroad – the Union Pacific Railway to Sacramento. The Union Pacific, Council Bluffs, Iowa to Sacramento, had been in operation for 21 years, since 1869.
Lizzie lost a second brother just a few days after the Allwardts departed Muscatine, when Fredrick Sander died 6 December 1890, at age 27. He too was buried in the Sander plot in Greenwood Cemetery along with his mother and elder brother, John.
HISTORICAL FACT: Emigrants going west continued to use the Oregon Trail well into the 1890s. The transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, providing faster, safer, and usually cheaper travel east and west (the journey took seven days and cost as little as $65).
William & Lizzie Allwardt added two children to the family while in Fort Bragg
6) Oliver Hemerick Allwardt, Jan 26, 1891 in Fort Bragg,CA, died 20 Aug 1966, in Willows, CA of an apparent heart attack
married 26 Sep 1919 to Elsie L Oliphant
7) Charles Carl Baldwin Allwardt, 21 May 1892 in Fort Bragg, died 21 April 1971
married Wood Margorie Tyrell Dec 28, 1916
*Lizzie had borne seven healthy children in a span of 9 years and eight months!
Lizzie's father, Christian, died 20 February 1903 in Chicago. His remains were brought to Muscatine by train. Christian was buried in Muscatine's Greenwood Cemetery on 23 Feb 1903, along side his wife, Ida, and sons, Johann and Fredrick.
Lizzie's brother Henry Sander of Fort Bragg age 27 years 2 month and 16 days died of Brights Disease (kidney Disease) 21 January 1892 in Fort Bragg. He is buried in the local cemetery, Rose Memorial Park.
On 17 February 1893, in Fort Bragg, Lizzie's sister, Lena Ida Carry Sander, married a Fort Bragg local, Douglas A. Hare. On 4 September 1895, Lena gave birth to a son, Ralph M. in Fort Bragg. 2 ½ years later on 6 February 1898, Lena gave birth to a daughter, Ethel B. Lena and Douglas remained married 35 years - until the death of Lena in San Francisco on 21 June 1928.
Lizzie's brother William married Nellie A. Ayer of Fresno in Fresno, CA 7 January 1894. The couple lived in Fort Bragg. On 28 February 1895, a daughter was born to the wife of William J. Sander.
W J Sander was in the hardware/ undertaking business with a Mr. Hare from January 1897 to February 1902. They had a hardware store and undertaking business (this was a common practice at the time for hardware stores to also do undertaking). W J sold out in February 1904 and moved to Los Angeles. (David Foucheaux, Vice President Board of Directors, Fort Bragg - Mendocino Coast Historical Society)
The Allwardt family moved to Chico, CA from Ft Bragg in 1899 and Mr Allwardt secured a position on the Bidwell ranch. He soon became gardener about the Bidwell Mansion grounds and for many years worked under Mrs Bidwell's supervision in cultivating the beautiful flowers and shrubbery of the grounds. After Mrs Bidwell's death in 1918, Mr Allwardt continued as gardener until his stroke.
"As the Census of 1910 revealed, more than ten million of America's ninety-two million people had emigrated from Germany or had one or two parents from Germany or Austria-Hungary." Page 564, A Diplomatic History of the American People, by Thomas A. Bailey
William Allwardt died in Chico, California at their home, 403 Maple Street on Feb 18, 1922, after suffering a stroke of paralysis at Second and Broadway while shopping on December 28, 1921. He was buried in Chico Cemetery.
Mrs Allwardt continued to live in Chico until 1941 when she moved to Oroville (20 miles southeast of Chico) to make her home with her daughter, Mrs Hulda Simmons.
In November 1943, an official document listed Lizzie Allwardt's address as 500 Royer Street, in Roseville, CA.
Lizzie passed away on Nov 2, 1946, at the age of 85, having outlived her three oldest children, Johan, Walther and Ida.
Her funeral was in Chico, CA on Nov 5, 1946.
Pall bearers were Robert Simmons, Boyd Allwardt, David Allwardt, Walter Allwardt, Donald Allwardt and Oliver Rhodes
Lizzi Allwardt is survived by the following Children: Mrs Hulda Simmons of Oroville, Mrs Effie Rhoades of Redding, O.H. Allwardt of Butte City and Charles B Allwardt of Oakland and the late Mrs Ida C (Simmons) Banta (and 15 Grand children and 16 great grandchildren).
DIRECTIONS TO THE GRAVE: To find the grave, located in Section 12 of the Chico Cemetery, enter the cemetery on its east side, off of Mangrove Ave, then around the garden and turn right (west); proceed approximately 100 yards on the cemetery road; turn left (south) toward the cemetery office. Continue south past the cemetery office and shops (on your left) about 50 yards, to where the road forks right, straight and left. Take the left (easterly) fork. Continue about 50 yards. Park. The Allwardt plot is about 10 yards on the east side of the cemetery road. There is a row of five adjacent headstones: (left to right) John Allwardt, Lizzie Allwardt, William Allwardt, Henrietta, Oliver & Elsie Allwardt. Just behind these headstones are the other five headstones of the Allwardt plot: (left to right) Infant Son, Infant Dau, Infant Dau of William L & Hulda Simmons, Frances E Simmons (Dau of C.F. Simmons & Ida Caroline Allwardt), William L. & Hulda Allwardt Simmons
Memorial created and maintained by Robert Simmons, #46941336; son of Wilton & Virginia (Fowler) Simmons, grandson of C Frank Simmons & Ida Caroline Allwardt (Simmons) Banta; and great grandson of Lizzie (Sander) & William Allwardt.
Unknown at this time (17April2015), is the location of the grave, or if there is a grave for Lizzie's younger brother, William, and her only sister, Carolena.
William J. Sander,, who, according to the California-issued certificate of death reads that William died on 8 June 1943 at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, and cremated two days later at the L.A. Crematory. I spoke to the LA Crematory. The crematory has no record of William J. Sander.
William's wife, Nellie (Ayer) Sander, died in Los Angeles on 24 July 1939. She is buried in Buena Vista Cemetery in the small foothill's town of Murphys, Calaveras County, Calif. Find a Grave memorial #70641999.
Carolena "Lena" (Sander) Hare died 21 June 1928, age 59, in San Francisco. The Hare family home was at 74 Castro Street. She was survived by her husband, Dr. Douglas A. Hare; her children, Ralph M. Hare and Ethel B (HARE) Davis; her elder sister, Lizzie A. (Sander) Allwardt of Chico and elder brother, William J. Sander of Los Angeles.
Dr Douglas A. Hare died 26 January 1948. Services were conducted at Grant D. Miller Mortuaries, Inc., Oakland. |
