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  Albertine Marie Sofie "Bertha" KOLBE Meyer, 1888-1975
Emilie's cousin

29 June 1888 - Born at Jägerndorf, Kreis Troppau, Austrian Silesia

7 July 1889, age 1 - Filed passport request. Included on application with her grandmother, parents, and brother.

25 August 1889, age 1 - Emigrated in Bremen. Traveled with parents, brother, 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 2 - Brother Otto Joseph KOLBE born at Plymouth, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

17 March 1894, age 5 - 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 5 - Father Emil KOLBE, age 37, married Henrietta KOEBEL, age 21, at Plymouth

19 June 1894, age 5 - 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 7 - Half-sister Annie Mary LIPPS Beiersdorf born at Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

10 February 1897, age 8 - Half-sister Amelia H. KOLBE born at Sheboygan

30 March 1897, age 8 - Half-sister Amelia H. KOLBE died there of convulsions

6 May 1898, age 9 - Half-brother Emil KOLBE born there

6 October 1899, age 11 - Half-brother Emil KOLBE, age 1, died at Plymouth Twp, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin of infantile atrophy

26 May 1900, age 11 - Half-sister Lillian Rose Mary KOLBE born

18 December 1900, age 12 - Grandmother Maria Magdalena STRNADT Kolbe, age 83, died at County Hospital, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin of senile debility and exhaustion

1 January 1902, age 13 - Half-brother Emil C KOLBE born at Greenbush Twp, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

5 December 1904, age 16 - Half-brother Karl KOLBE born in Wisconsin

6 December 1904, age 16 - Half-sister Theresa KOLBE born at Greenbush Twp

12 March 1905, age 16 - Half-brother Albert KOLBE born in Wisconsin

14 May 1906, age 17 - Half-brother Karl KOLBE, age 1, died at Greenbush Twp of gastritis

24 January 1910, age 21 - Married John G. MEYER, age 21, at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 661 N 4th Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Attendants were Edward Meyer from Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin and Elsie Meyer from Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. After their marriage, they lived in Buffalo, New York and Chicago, Illinois. They had one daughter who died during childhood.

As of sometime before April 1910 - Resided at 1185 6th Street there

April 1910, age 21 - Recorded in the United States Census there

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

As of sometime before 1921 - Resided at Buffalo, New York

9 March 1921, age 32 - Half-brother Albert KOLBE, age 15, died at Greenbush Twp

As of sometime before 1927 - Resided at Evanston, Cook County, Illinois

20 May 1927, age 38 - Father Emil KOLBE, age 70, died at Greenbush Twp of uremia following chronic nephritis, chronic myrocardics

25 October 1930, age 42 - Brother Rudolph KOLBE, age 43, married Meta RAUSCH, age 29, at Plymouth

19 October 1934, age 46 - Brother Otto Joseph KOLBE, age 43, died at St. Nicholas Hospital, Sheboygan of coronary thrombosis, chronic nephritis

10 October 1948, age 60 - Mother Marie Franziska SCHENK Kolbe Lipps, age 93, died at St. Nicholas Hospital there of Old age, cerebral arteriosclerosis, ulcerating breast cancer.

As of 1954 until 1975 - Resided at 243 Bishop Street, Plymouth

4 January 1959, age 70 - Father's widow Henrietta KOEBEL Kolbe, age 85, died at Greenbush Twp of liver cancer

17 March 1964, age 75 - Sister-in-law Meta RAUSCH Kolbe, age 62, died at 1536 S 11 Street, Sheboygan

16 February 1973, age 84 - Brother Rudolph KOLBE, age 85, died at Rocky Knoll Sanitorium and Hospital, Plymouth of diabetes and liver cancer

22 February 1975, age 86 - Died at Plymouth Hospital there

26 February 1975 - Buried by Wittkopp Funeral Home at St John the Baptist Cemetery there