Obituary: Ozaukee County, Wisconsin: Mrs. Christian STAUSS

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The Cedarburg Weekly News
October 8, 1884
Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin

DIED--at Mequon in this County on Friday last, Mrs. STAUSS in the 95th year
of her age. Deceased came to the United States with her husband Christian
STAUSS and children in the fall of 1840 and settled at once in the Town
where she died, preceded in death by her husband in the year 1849. Of her
eight children three survive her together with 41 grandchildren and 75
great grand children and one great great grand child.

It seems to us but yesterday that in the absence of the regular clerk of
the little C.C. Trowbridge, Mr. SACHS, we as one of the clerks of Jacob L.
Bean & Co. often took his place to out on the bay to take passengers and
freight from the large Buffalo steamers. It was on one of these occasions
that we landed the family of STAUSS from the Trowbridge on the wharf of our
store in the so-called Rogers block on the river in Spring street and
corner of West Water. We assisted them afterward in the selection and
buying of government land, half a mile west of the present Louis WAGNER
store in Mequon, which is held by the family to this day. Among that large
contingent of descendants we are somewhat interested also, claiming one of
the grand children as a son-in-law and three of the great great grand
children as our own grand children.

May the old lady rest in peace. Her husband was an old soldier who had
served under the great Napoleon during the wars in Germany, when Germans
were beaten by Germans; he also went with the army to Russia and was one of
the few survivors of his regiment on the retreat from Moscow in 1812. If
the old veteran's family had been raised on hot saleratus biscuits and cold
water the record of their dyspeptic descendants would show but very few in
number, if any.