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Monroe Democrat  December 15, 1911

MORTUARY

Mrs. Henrietta Walldorf.

Mrs. Henrietta Walldorf, one of the early settlers of Monroe, died 
 on Tuesday, Dec. 5th , at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry 
Nicoial (sic) of Toledo.  Having been born on Feb. 5th 1819, she 
had nearly completer (sic) her 93 year, this remarkable age 
placing her among the most aged people of the state.  Miss 
Henrietta Trost was a native of Imsbach Germany and came to 
America in 1840.  Two years later she was married to Mr. Cassimer 
Walldorf in New Youk City and in 1845 the came to Monroe, where 
Mr. Walldorf became engaged in the bakery business and later was a  partner in the flour mills with his brother, Frederick Walldorf.

Purchasing the house still standing at the corner of Elm Ave. and North Macomb street, which was one of the first brick houses built 
in the city, they kept one of the most hospitable homes here, 
having the facility, peculiar to their nation, of entertaining in 
a merry and informal manner.  The couple were young members of a 
set of highly educated Germans who for political reasons were 
seeking homes in America and, following the Canadian waterways, 
were apt to find an abiding place at this end of Lake Erie.  So 
they gathered large parties of young and old under their roof and 
helped to keep alive old world costums (sic) in the town which had 
 previously taken upon it a decided New England stamp.  In fact 
Mrs. Waldorf (sic ) trimmed the first Christmas tree ever seen in 
Monroe and this, exhibited in one of the store windows attracted a 
crowd of spectators all day.  "Tante Walldorf", as she was known 
as time passed on and nieces and nephews multiplied, became a dependable favorite whose door was always open and whose supply of 
Christmas cakes never seemed to give out.  She has survived her 
husband for 30 years.  They lost an adopted son and it is a 
strange fact that their only daughter, Matilda, afterward Mrs. 
Nicolai, of Toledo, died the day after her mother, heart trouble 
being aggravated by her sorrow.  There are, however, remaining 
four grandchildren, four great grandchildren and one niece in this 
 city, Mrs. Julius Weiss.  The deceased was the oldest member of 
Zion Lutheran church of this city, and attended there constantly 
until the last two or three years, when she resided in Toledo. 
 Rev. H. Zapf officiated on Friday, when the remains were brought to the city for interment.


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