Anna Mae Hill Thiede

Anna Mae Hill was born in Montfort, Wisconsin, on February 2, 1873. Annie, as she was affectionately known, was the second of eleven children born to John and Mary Ann Hill. She married Charles Thiede in the nearby town of Lancaster on December 11, 1895, and she was mother to four children—John Elmer (1897), Charles Clement (1899), Verna (1901), and Harold (1904).

In addition to the four children who lived full lives of their own, Charles and Annie also had a daughter and a son who died at birth or in early infancy, a fate that was all too common to families at this time.

Annie Mae Hill Thiede died in Dubuque, Iowa, on June 2, 1958, and she is buried at Linwood Cemetery in Dubuque along with her husband Charles Thiede who preceded her in death nearly twenty years earlier.