Most of the records on Maria Elizabeth Hesse show her birth year as 1823 or 1824 in the 1870 and 1880 US Census. Her headstone in Edwards County, Illinois shows 1823. And yet, there's a baptismal record from Roxförde, Saxony from March 1821 for a Maria Dorothea Elizabeth Hesse, daughter of Dorothea Sophia Gagelmann of Klüden (a town 3 km south of Roxförde). Maybe this is an older sister with a similar name, or perhaps this is the right baptism record.
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| Source: Ancestry. Saxony Anhalt Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. |
One challenge is I find German handwriting from this era to be very difficult to read. I'm much better with Spanish or French handwriting on similar records.
An earlier record from 1817 shows a baptism record for another daughter of Dorothea Sophia, this time for Anna Dorothea Sophia, on 30 March 1817 in the parish of Roxförde.
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| Source: Ancestry. Saxony Anhalt Baptisms. |
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