Martha Louise Groppel, my great grandmother, was born on 5 August 1880 in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to the Ramsey County birth records index. She was the youngest daughter of German immigrants Henry Casper Groppel (1834-1919) and Louise Kuether (1850-1934). For some reason, her date of birth was given as 7 August 1879 in her obituary; however, census data supports the 1880 date as she was not listed with the Groppel family in the 1880 census and in the 1885 Minnesota census, Martha and her family were living in St. Paul, and Martha was listed as age 4.
The Groppel family left St Paul shortly after the 1885 census and moved to Danville in Blue Earth County, Minnesota where Henry apparently purchased a farm. There is little else known about Martha's life up until her marriage to Daniel M. Nichols on 14 Oct 1899 in Blue Earth, Minnesota.
Martha and Daniel lived their married life in Winnebago, Minnesota. They raised five children: Harry Orville (1900-1990), Irene Mae (1903-1954), Agnes Elizabeth (1909-2007), Lucille Myra (1911-1986) and Audrey Violet (1917-1980).
Martha suffered a stroke in June 1954 and died from its effects in August 1954, only one week after the death of her daughter Irene.
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