Friedericka Sophia Henrietta Johanna (Heiden) Schmidt was born on December 31, 1832  in Gross Wokern, the first child of Maria Heiden. She was the half-sister of August Heiden, Maria's second offspring. Her father was listed as man named Wilhelm Ave from the nearby village of Klaber.

She married Johann Carl Theodor Schmidt on April 16, 1861 in Mamerow at the age of 28 while he was 33 years of age. Friedericka died on Friday, January 12, 1900 in Mamerow at the age of 67.

They had three children.

  1. Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schmidt (December 3,1861)
  2. Helmuth Friedrich August Ludwig Carl "August" Schmidt (November 25, 1863)
  3. Marie Rudolphine Johanne Auguste (Schmidt) Dohmstrich (March 26, 1866)

We do not know what happened to her son, Heinrich, but the second son, known as August (i.e. Helmuth), moved to the village of Mamerow.

Her daughter, Marie, was married and widowed as a young woman. At the age of 52 in 1918, she marred a man named Dohmstrich and moved to the city of Ribnitz-Damgarten which about 25 miles north of Rostock, Germany She is the one of the people who corresponded with August and Rika (Knaack) Heiden in the 1920's.