Samuel Backer & Bertha Maerz Headstone Photo, Hillcrest Cemetery

Samuel Backer, Aug. 11, 1877 - Aug. 10, 1948. Bertha M. Backer, Nov. 16, 1878 - Jan. 31, 1968. Samuel Backer was a son of Christian Backer and Verene Sulzer. He was a grandson of Engle Backer and Katharine Sauer. On Sept. 12, 1900 in Callaway Co., Missouri, he married Bertha Maerz. She was a daughter of Andrew A. Maerz and Johanna K. Leers.

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