Wilhelm Ferdinand REIM

                   DEATH CERTIFICATE: Translation of copy from German "Death Certificate no. 67. Leisnig, April 16, 1879. Noted by the undersigned registrar, Mrs. Elizabeth Anna, ne Reim, residing at Riesa an der Elbe, No. 264 wishes to make known that her father, pawnbroker Heinrich Reim, 49 years old, 2 months and 1 day, of Protestant-Luthern religion, residing in Leisnig, Chemnitzer Street No. 755, and born in Leisnig, February 14, 1830, married to Johanna Christiana, ne Gunther of Leisnig, son of shoemaker, Ferdinand Reim and his wife Johanna Dorothea, ne Fincke of Leisnig, both parents deceased and of Leisnig; died on the 15th of April 1879 at 7:00 o'clock in the morning.  Witnessed, read and duly executed by Elizabeth Anna Rudiger, ne Reim and the registrar (Eichenbrecher).  This document is valid with the Department of Death Registery and the Court of Leisnig, 16th of October, 1885.  F.W. Lohrmann, Registrar."

Herman A. Reim (1892-1974) in letter to son Kenneth M. Reim (1926-    ) dated 20 Oct 1967, with marked up pedigree chart revised 26 Dec 1967, noted that his grandfather, Heinrich Herman Reim was a shoemaker and pawnbroker (goldverlieher - gold loaner).

REFERENCE: REIM, Herman A., 1954-1972; genealogical file, reports marriage date as 3 Aug 1856.  This marriage date with note RIN 10, states the date to also be 3 Aug 1856.