Margaret Schiefelbein Kampfert

 Margaret Carolyn Schiefelbien was born to Robert Schiefelbein and Elenore Radekopf Schiefelbein February 20, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. Margaret was their first child born just under a year after Robert and Elenore married, and just 13 years after Robert immigrated from Germany. Elenore had immigrated with her mother when she was a teen. Margaret would have 1 brother in 1902 (Erwin) and 2 sisters (Elenora and Lilly born in 1904 and 1905.

Margaret (left) with her sisters

Margaret is first listed in the 1910 census at age 9 with her parents and 3 siblings. The family lived at 3635 S. Wood Street in Chicago. The 1920 census was conducted in January so Margaret, now age 19, is still found with her parents and siblings. She is listed as working as a Machine Operator for a dress maker. The family had moved to 4318 S. Fairfield. She lived 2 doors down from the man she would marry later that year, a young packinghouse butcher (the same job her father held) named Arthur Kampfert. They married May 29, 1920.

 

Almost exactly a year later Margaret gave birth to her first daughter, Mildred (May 30, 1921). Four more daughters would be born to Margaret and Arthur, Evelyn (October 1923), Shirley (January 1927), Violet (birth info private), and Ethel (1931).

In the 1930 census, Margaret is with Arthur and her daughters in the same house on Fairfield with her parents and younger sisters living on the bottom floor and Margaret and her young family (except Ethel, of course) living on the 2nd floor. 

Margaret with her 3 oldest daughters likely in 1927 as Shirley is the baby

Margaret and her family are all still living in the same house in 1940.

The Kampfert family in 1939

 

Margaret was widowed in 1951. When the 1950 census is released this year I anticipate finding the family at the same house on Fairfield as that house was talked about for many years.She lived the last years of her life living with her daughter Shirley's family. She passed away June 3, 1969 at the age of 68.

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