Rudolph Kolbe
  Rudolph KOLBE, 1887-1973
Emilie's cousin

 Father Emil KOLBE, 1856-1927
 Mother Marie Franziska SCHENK Kolbe Lipps, 1855-1948
       Brother Emil KOLBE, 1884-1884
       Rudolph KOLBE, 1887-1973
       Sister Albertine Marie Sofie "Bertha" KOLBE Meyer, 1888-1975
       Brother Otto Joseph KOLBE, 1891-1934

 Wife Meta RAUSCH Kolbe, 1901-1964

Time Line

Jaegerndorf

2 October 1887 - Born at Jägerndorf, Kreis Troppau, Austrian Silesia

29 June 1888 - Sister Albertine Marie Sofie "Bertha" KOLBE Meyer born there

7 July 1889, age 1 - Filed passport request. Included on application with his grandmother, parents, and sister.
S. S. Rhein

25 August 1889, age 1 - Emigrated in Bremen. Traveled with parents, sister, and grandmother on the S S Rhein, not in the usual immigrant steerage class, but in their own private cabin as 'tourists'.

12 September 1889, age 1 - Immigrated at Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland

27 February 1891, age 3 - Brother Otto Joseph KOLBE born at Plymouth, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

17 March 1894, age 6 - Mother Marie Franziska SCHENK, age 39, divorced from Emil KOLBE, age 37, at Circuit Court for Sheboygan County, Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

29 March 1894, age 6 - Father Emil KOLBE, age 37, married Henrietta KOEBEL, age 21, at Plymouth

19 June 1894, age 6 - Half-sister Henriette KOLBE born at Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

25 August 1894, age 6 - Mother Marie Franziska SCHENK, age 39, married Christian LIPPS, age 40, there

9 November 1895, age 8 - Half-sister Annie Mary LIPPS Beiersdorf born at Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

10 February 1897, age 9 - Half-sister Amelia H. KOLBE born at Sheboygan

30 March 1897, age 9 - Half-sister Amelia H. KOLBE died there of convulsions

6 May 1898, age 10 - Half-brother Emil KOLBE born there

6 October 1899, age 12 - Half-brother Emil KOLBE, age 1, died at Plymouth Twp, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin of infantile atrophy
Rudolph Kolbe Otto and Rudolph Kolbe

26 May 1900, age 12 - Half-sister Lillian Rose Mary KOLBE born

18 December 1900, age 13 - Grandmother Maria Magdalena STRNADT Kolbe, age 83, died at County Hospital, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin of senile debility and exhaustion

1 January 1902, age 14 - Half-brother Emil C KOLBE born at Greenbush Twp, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

5 December 1904, age 17 - Half-brother Karl KOLBE born in Wisconsin

6 December 1904, age 17 - Half-sister Theresa KOLBE born at Greenbush Twp

12 March 1905, age 17 - Half-brother Albert KOLBE born in Wisconsin

14 May 1906, age 18 - Half-brother Karl KOLBE, age 1, died at Greenbush Twp of gastritis

24 January 1910, age 22 - Sister Albertine Marie Sofie "Bertha" KOLBE, age 21, married John G. MEYER, age 21, at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 661 N 4th Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Sometime before August 1910 - Half-sister Theresa KOLBE died

1 August 1912, age 24 - Mother's husband Christian LIPPS, age 58, died at St. Nicholas Hospital, Sheboygan of Sepsis of gall bladder, peritonitis and shock

25 October 1913, age 26 - Half-sister Annie Mary LIPPS, age 17, married Albert Gustave BEIERSDORF, age 21, at St Mark Lutheran Church there

1917, age 29 - Occupation listed as farmer at Mrs. Anna Wifler, Town of Plymouth, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

1918, age 30 - Occupation listed as tanner
Rudolph Kolbe Rudolph Kolbe in Army

As of 1919 until 1941 - Occupation listed as farmer at Plymouth

9 March 1921, age 33 - Half-brother Albert KOLBE, age 15, died at Greenbush Twp

As of sometime before 1927 - Resided at Town of Plymouth

20 May 1927, age 39 - Father Emil KOLBE, age 70, died at Greenbush Twp of uremia following chronic nephritis, chronic myrocardics

25 October 1930, age 43 - Married Meta RAUSCH, age 29, at Plymouth. Attendants were Mr. Wallace Rau and Mrs. Wallace Rau

19 October 1934, age 47 - Brother Otto Joseph KOLBE, age 43, died at St. Nicholas Hospital, Sheboygan of coronary thrombosis, chronic nephritis
The Schenk, Lipps, Kolbe, Henning, Sterz and Beiersdorf Families The Schenk, Lipps, Kolbe, Henning, Sterz and Beiersdorf Families

As of 1941 until 1948 - Employed at Frost Veneer there

As of 1941 until 1969 - Resided at 1536 S 11 Street there

As of 1948 until 1951 - Occupation listed as janitor at Bethlehem Lutheran School there

10 October 1948, age 61 - Mother Marie Franziska SCHENK Kolbe Lipps, age 93, died at St. Nicholas Hospital there of Old age, cerebral arteriosclerosis, ulcerating breast cancer.

4 January 1959, age 71 - Father's widow Henrietta KOEBEL Kolbe, age 85, died at Greenbush Twp of liver cancer

17 March 1964, age 76 - Wife Meta RAUSCH Kolbe, age 62, died at 1536 S 11 Street, Sheboygan

As of 1969 until 1973 - Resided at Rocky Knoll there

16 February 1973, age 85 - Died at Rocky Knoll Sanitorium and Hospital, Plymouth of diabetes and liver cancer

Buried by Ramm-Ziegler Funeral Home at Lutheran Cemetery, Sheboygan