Rosena _____ (abt. 1831 - June 25, 1907)
(This is Frank and Janis Sanford's second great-grandmother on the Sanford side)
Rosena lived on a farm in Bavaria, Germany, enjoyed good health all her life, and by the time she was older in age, she'd been married twice and had six living children. Two of her children (Rudolph Seufert and Sabina Seufert) had immigrated to the United States. Rosena had "considerable property" when she died.
An image of a Bavarian farm circa 1900 |
We can also guess that she was Catholic, given what is known about Bavaria*, and the fact that her son Rudolph belonged to a Catholic parish in Ohio.
In 1905, her son Rudolph, daughter-in-law Agnes, and baby grand-daughter Eva visited her in Germany for three months over the summer, traveling by ship to and from Ohio via Baltimore.
*The Kingdom of Bavaria was a German state that existed from 1805 to 1918. While many German territories that joined the German Empire in 1871 were Protestant, Bavaria was one of the few major German powers to remain Catholic.
Sources:
July 22, 1907 Evening Review, a daily East Liverpool Ohio newspaper (the Facebook of its day), page 4
Baltimore Passenger Lists, 1905, Rudolph Seufert
Cynthia Poth Nanto family tree on Ancestry dot com
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