Susan1
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I wish I had somebody in my family who was interested in this stuff. Anybody know any Bauers from Cincinnati? Because..... I found a death of Josephine Bauer Wiese, father Michael (born in Alsace Lorain), who would have been born a year before the oldest one that was sent to the orphanage. Doesn't have a mother's name. Josephine was the name of the mother who died in childbirth. Did he keep the oldest daughter and get rid of the other four? She would have been 13. Is that weird? I have chills.
Every spring, it drags me back in. Just like in The Godfather???? Getting giddy.....................................
False alarm! Josephine was born in October of 1861. George was born in April of 1862. That would have been impossible. And she is listed on the 1900 census with father Michael and a mother AND an older brother (See - this is the kind of thing they do on WDYTYA - follow the new information because it is more interesting. I think it was the Smokey Robinson one, where a son they went back and "discovered" a person with the right name who couldn't have been the father because they were only 10 or 12 years older or something. But they mentioned in a newspaper or something, so they researched that one as the famous relative.)
So, there are four Michael Bauers buried in Cincinnati who are the right age range. Some had widows, which would make sense that he got remarried. I'm hoping he didn't have more children. An unmarried one is the only one buried in the same cemetery as my great-great-grandma Josephine. But.....one of the widowed one's mother was named Eva, which was my grandmother's name. Too many people with same or related names back then. Maybe all the Michael Bauers are cousins!!! I put messages on Find-A-Grave. Figures that the one I think it is does not have a person who did the indexing because they are a relative. It's just added by the site.
Oh (sob stories) - after 7 years in the orphanage, at the age of 12, my great- great-grandma was sent back to the orphanage a week after her first "entrustment" because of illness and wasn't entrusted out again for two years. The Cincinnati Historical didn't have any more details. Geez Louise!!!!
Turning off the computer now!