The Hilpert family
Elizabeth Hedwig Hilpert
January 8, 1880 – June 20, 1967
Elizabeth Hedwig Hilpert, known as Hattie, was born on January 8, 1880. Her father, David Hilpert, was 52 and her mother, Magdalena, was 38.
- Parents
- David August Hilpert & Magdalena Hilpert
- Spouse
- Robert Henry Teeter
Married 1902 - Children
- Alonzo Robert Teeter Sr. · Selma Evangeline Teeter · Harold Otto Teeter · Vernon Teeter · Ethel Adams Teeter
She married Robert Henry Teeter in 1902. They had five children over fourteen years: Alonzo Robert Teeter Sr., Selma Evangeline Teeter, Harold Otto Teeter, Vernon Teeter and Ethel Adams Teeter.
Hattie died in Tacoma on June 20, 1967, at age 87.
Places in a Life
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Elizabeth Hedwig Hilpert (Hattie)
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Public album page is headed At home, identifies Hattie among the Hilpert children, and describes their family house. Family album evidence of childhood home; not a claim of exact birth location. Marker precision: town area; farm sites are not pinpointed.
Source for this placeTwo public profile captions explicitly call the setting Aunt Hattie’s place in Gig Harbor.
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Birth date January 8, 1880 is given without birthplace. Tacoma death in 1967 is excluded from the residence chronology.
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Otto’s sibling
Family connections
Otto · Reinhold Hilpert · Selma Anna Hilpert · Phillip Henrich Hilpert · Pauline Magdalena Hilpert · Hannah Hilpert Schaefer · Helena Christina Hilpert
Photographs and memories
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All related album pages (28)
- The Hilpert family outside their log house in 1892
- The Hilpert family, taken July 10, 1892
- About 1897: The Hilpert girls: Pauline, Helen, Hannah, Hattie and Selma.
- Hattie, about 1897, around age seventeen.
- Robert Henry (“Bob”) and Hattie Teeter.
- Probably about 1915. In front of Mother Hilpert’s home. Those identified on porch Hattie Teeter and Selma Wagner and Grandma Hilpert. On steps: probably: Alonzo, Harold & Selma Teeter, Lona Pitzer sitting next to post and Phillip below with Freddie Hilpert.
- In front of the Hilpert farm house in 1912. Back Row (Left to Right): Joe Shirer, Leonora Pitzer, Hattie Teeter, Hannah Schaefer, Pauline Reece, Lona Pitzer, Selma Pitzer Front row (Left to Right): Little Selma Teeter & Grandma Hilpert (Magdalena)
- In front of the Hilpert farm house in 1912. Back Row (Left to Right): George Pitzer, Carl Pitzer, Otto, Fred Schaefer, Phillip, Carl Pitzer Jr., Bob Teeter, Magdalena Middle Row (Left to Right): Joe Shirer, Lona Pitzer, Pauline, Leonora, Selma, Hattie, Hannah and Hilpert Schaefer (b.1899) There are three children in front. From left to right, they are Harold Teeter (b.1906), Little Selma Teeter (b.1904), and Alonzo Teeter (b.1903).
- Milly, Hattie Teeter and probably Vernon Teeter at Priest Point, Washington on July 13, 1919.
- 1921: L to R: Bob’s car, Otto Salma Teeter, Grandma, Vernon, Hattie, Harold, Ring, Milly, Bob, Woodshed, Sour kraut barrel. We are facing South.
- June 17, 1923: Hoggens Beach: Bill Wagner, Reinhold, Hamlet, Lilla Hilpet<?Milly & Otto, Front row: Lowell Hilpert, Hattie Teeter, Sig Thorlakson, Selma Wagner, Pa Dortzbach, Bob Teeter Shirley Hilpert, Lona Thorlakson and probably Kryl Thorlakson.
- 1924: Bob and Hattie Teeter, Milly, Otto & Eileen, Vernon Teeter and Grandma Hilpert.
- 1924: Milly, Hattie Teeter, Grandma Hilpert, Vernon Teeter and Eileen.
- Eileen, Vernon Teeter, Grandma Hilpert, Hattie Teeter and Milly. July 30, 1924. Eileen was the only one looking toward the sun, so that caused her to squint her eyes so.
- Aug. 1926: Selma, Helena, Reinhold, Hannah, Otto, Pauline, Phillip, Hattie.
- Aug. 1926: Grandma, Aunt Pauline, Helen, Hattie & Hannah. (Hilpert sisters.
- Rec. Xmas 1929: Pauline Reece, Helen Schaefer, Selma Wagner, Hattie Teeter, Hannah Schaefer and Grandma Hilpert.
- At Otto & Milly’s home, July 1930. Herb Schaefer, Milly, Lillian Gavic, Reinhold & Otto Hilpert., Ma & Pa Dortzbach, Carl Gavic, Al Honore, Hattie & Al Roland (teachers from California) Mr. & Mrs. Schaefer (Herb’s parents, Bob Teeter & Hattie, Helen Honore, Helen Schaefer, Eileen & Albert Honore.
- At Otto & Milly’s home, July 1930. Herb Schaefer, Milly, Lillian Gavic, Reinhold & Otto Hilpert., Ma & Pa Dortzbach, Carl Gavic, Al Honore, Hattie & Al Roland (teachers from California) Mr. & Mrs. Schaefer (Herb’s parents, Bob Teeter & Hattie, Helen Honore, Helen Schaefer, Eileen & Albert Honore.
- Aug. 1930: Phillip, Hattie, Grandma Hilpert, Helen, Otto & Selma.
- 1937: Aunt Helen Schaefer holding Honey Boy, Catherine Pitzer, Selma Wagner, Pauline Reece, & Hattie Teeter.
- At Aunt Hattie’s place--Gig Harbor, WAsh. Sept. 16, 1947. Left to right: Selma Wagner, Pauline Reece, Hattie Teeter, Helen Schaefer.
- Sept. 1947: At Aunt Hatties place in Gig Harbor, WA. Hattie Teeter, Hannah Schaefer, Selma Wagner, Helen Schaefer.
- 1952: Otto and his dog King, Aunt Selma, Lona Thorlakson Steele and Rusty Steele, Hattie Teeter, Bud Townsend and Aunt Hannah Schaefer.
- 1953: Aunt Hattie feeding Martha.
- Aunt Hattie (Hilpert) Teeter in the 1950’s.
- 1954: Aunt Hattie Teeter holding Bill at the Centralia farm house with Eileen and Papa Otto.
- 1954: At our little Cinebar house: Papa Abb Townsend, Aunt Hattie Teeter holding Martha and Papa Otto.
Stories and captions drawn from Eileen Townsend’s family album.