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’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, who married Henry Marschall after his first wife, Margaret Beckrich Marschall (1889-1920) died.

Henry’s first wife, Margaret, developed delivery complications after the birth of Leander, their sixth baby, and on December 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 16 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 (1895-1971). He married Clara Elizabeth Klehr (1896-1946) in Marystown on November 14, 1917. They had six children.

And finally, Peter and Agnes had another son, Mathew Nicholas (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 February 7, 1925.

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

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

Jacob had first married Mary Elizabeth Hartmann (1871-1902). Mary and Jacob 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 August 11, 1936. They had no children together.

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