Compiled and written by David R. Schleper, 2023

Petrus Peter Sames was born March 5, 1865, in Brück, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was baptized March 17, 1865, at Katholisch, Brück, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Peter was the fourth of six children born to Jacobus Jacobi Sames (1828-1915) and Apollonia Plein Sames (1837-1918).

Peter’s grandparents were Johann Jacob Sames (1788-1850) and Maria Margaretha Meÿer Sames (17886-1843); and Nikolaus Plein (1796-1855) and Elizabeth Neises Plein (1798-1860).

Peter Sames’s great-grandparents were Phillip Sames (1748-1813) and Anna Maria Zens Sames (1749-1814); Johann Mathias Meÿer (1750-1806) and Helen Heck Meÿer (1752-1786); and Joannes Plein (1762-1798) and Anna Klara Swilling Plein (1759-1813); and Jacobi Neises (1760-1840) and Mariae Catherinae Keyl Neises (1762-1842).

Peter emigrated to Minnesota in 1888.

Petrus Peter Sames married Agnes O’Toole in Marystown on May 20, 1890. They had three children. Their first child was Mary Theresa Sames, who married Henry Marschall after his first wife, Margaret Beckrich Marschall (1889-1920) died.

Henry Marschall’s first wife, Margaret, developed delivery complications after the birth of Leander, their sixth baby, and on Dec. 8, 1919, Margaret Beckrich Marschall was taken to the hospital in Shakopee by horse and sleigh. Their five children, then about ten to four years of age, still remember seeing their mother being carefully carried from the house and placed in the blanketed sleigh. On New Year’s Day, she was taken to the home of her father-in-law, Anton Marschall. At the age of 31 years, 5 months and 16 days Margaret Beckrich Sames died.

After being widowed for sixteen months, Henry married in April 1921 to Mary Theresa Sames (1892-1972). They had three sons.

The second child of Peter and Agnes was Peter John Sames (1895-1971). He married Clara Elizabeth Klehr (1896-1946) in Marystown on Nov. 14, 1917. They had six children.

And finally, Peter and Agnes had another son, Mathew Nicholas Sames (1897-1959).

Mathew married Caroline Marie Carrie Erkens (1903-1980) in 1925, and they had three children.

Agnes O’Toole Sames died in Marystown on Feb. 7, 1925.

On Aug. 11, 1936. Peter Sames married Marie Theresa Kersting Klehr (1882-1968).

Marie Theresa Kersting’s first marriage was to Jacob C. Klehr (1872-1931).

Jacob C. Klehr had first married Mary Elizabeth Hartmann (1871-1902). Mary Elizabeth Hartmann Klehr and Jacob C. Klehr had two children. Then Mary Eiizabeth Hartmann Klehr died in 1902.

Then Jacob married Marie Theresa Kersting. They married on May 5, 1903, in Jordan. They had ten children.

Confusing, huh? Peter and Theresa married on Aug. 11, 1936. They had no children together.

Petrus Peter Sames died on Dec. 16, 1951, in Marystown, and was buried at the St. Mary’s Purification Cemetery. His second wife, Marie Theresa Kersting Klehr Sames died Nov. 26, 1968, and was buried next to St. Mary’s Purification Church in Marystown, Minnesota.