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  Rudolph KOLBE, 1887-1973
Emilie's cousin

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.

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

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

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

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