Marie Raibel, 1836-1920

Marie Raibel was born Marie Friedrike Karoline Kraus on 25 March 1836, in Unterjesingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She married physician Dr. Wilhelm Fritz on 28 September 1858; they came to America in the 1860s, settling in St. Louis, Missouri. After Wilhelm’s death, she married Julius Raible, a businessman from Alton, Illinois. She died on 19 May 1920, and is buried in Alton, Illinois.

She published a book of her poetry, Deutsch-Amerika: Gedichte, printed in 1904, 1910, and 1913.

“Alton’s Gifted Poetess.” The Edwardsville Intelligencer (Edwardsville, Illinois), 10 August 1892.

“Deutsch-Amerika, Gedichte von Marie Raible.” Mississippi Blätter (St. Louis, Mo.), 5 June 1904.

 “Vom Büchertisch. Deutsch-Amerika, Gedichte von Marie Raible, der Weltaustellung gewidmet.” Mississippi Blätter (St. Louis, Mo.), 17 July 1910.

“Mrs. Marie C. Raible Dies in Sleep.” Alton Evening Telegraph, 20 May 1920.