When Anna Cressman was born on 7 August 1828, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joseph Cressman, was 30 and her mother, Barbara Biehn, was 22. She married Moses Bechtel Bauman on 8 October 1844, in Freeport, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Wilmot Township, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1871. She died on 22 December 1902, in Mannheim, Waterloo, Canada West, British Colonial America, at the age of 74, and was buried in Mannheim, Waterloo, Canada West, British Colonial America.
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Americanized form of German Kressmann: see Kressman .
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