My great Aunt Alice (Alice Rothert Wiles 1894-1992) lived in Buffalo, New York for most of her life. She kept an interesting set of records and sent them to my father, my aunt and their cousin, with a lovely note explaining that she was passing on to them her knowledge of family members.
I’m grateful she did this. My parents passed that collection to me and there I found quite a few obituaries that she had copied from various news clippings that she had held. Her mother’s, her aunt and uncle’s, her grandmother’s, her father’s – all carefully copied from clippings in Buffalo newspapers. Thank God for her attention, or I just wouldn’t know about how these various family members had died.
This is the obituary for my great great great grandfather William Rothert (1825-1889), who died falling down an elevator shaft.
Who was Uncle Herman? Dad often talked of him.
Uncle Herman was John Brusch’s brother. Sophia’s son. Anna’s brother-in-law. He never married and lived with Sophia till she died. I haven’t found a death date for him, though, which frustrates me greatly. They had a sister, Emma, also.
Was her name of record “Sophia” or “Sophie”?
I think, but am not sure, that in German both are possible, but that “Sophie” is probably the more common.
It’s Sophia. Well, it was Sophia here, in the US. Their shipping record, leaving Hamburg, states that her married name was Sophie Brasch