BRAUN, Wilhelmina Elisabeth Gertraud ^64,229

  Allgemeine Notizen:

5 May, 1997 Robert B Jones has note written from interview of Margaret Schilling of Freeport Il. about 1968. Note reads that Wilhelmina Braun came from Alsace Lorraine, a provance of France. I question that, but I do know that Miss Schilling had a small amount of cancelled stamps from "Europe". I us to play with them as a child. Wilhelmina's obituary states she was born in the village of Alertshausen, next to the town of Bad Berleburg in the District of Wittgenstein, Germany.

Birth: Ev. Kirchengemeinde Elsoff, 1828 page 364/365 # 3. Received this report from Germany 10 Oct 1998. Includes Parents names and Godparents names.

On page 67 of the book "Germans to America Series II. List of Passengers Arriving at US Ports in the 1840s. Volume 6, April 1848 to October 1848" is the passenger list for the ship "HENRY". It sailed from Rotterdam and arrived 27 May 1848 in New York. Wilhelmina is the only Braun listed. Her age is given as 19 and that fits close based on her birth date of Dec. 28, 1828.

Her obituary says she came with her parents in 1843.

Tatsächlich aber erreichte sie mit ihren Eltern und Geschwistern am 4.8.1845 auf dem Schiff "Charlotte" von Bremen aus New York.

1860 US Census of Stephenson County, Illinois, USA:
Page 204 Enumerated on August 1, 1860
line 23 thru line 29
NAME, AGE, Sex, Occupation, Place of birth
Lewis Shilly [Louis Schilling], 33, M, Farmer, Prupia [Prussia]
Mena [Wilhelmina Braun], 31, F, ,Prupia [Prussia]
Chas, 10, M, , NY
Lewis, 3, M, , ILL
Philip, 2, M, , ILL
Geo, 6/12, M, , ILL
Mary Brown [die Mutter Anna Maria Braun, geb. Pfeil ?], 64, F, widow, Prupia [Prussia]

1880 US Census of Stephenson County, Illinois, USA:
Page 7
NAME, Race, Sex, Age, Relation, Occupation, Birth place
Schilling, Minnia, W, F, 51, , keeping house, Germany
Schilling, Lewis, W, M, 23, son, , Illinois
Schilling, Anna, W, F, 24, daugther in law, , Canada
Schilling, John, W, M, 1, grand-son, , Illinois
Schilling, George, W, M, 20, son, , Illinois
Brown, Mina, W, F, 83, mother, , Germany

Other documentation related to Wilhelmina is as follows:
Grave stones that are all alike in appearance and together in the cemetery named Oakland Cemetery at 2591 W Pearl City Rd. Freeport:
1. MINA SCHILLING 1828 - 1914
2. ANNA SCHILLING 1854 - 1923
3. LOUIS SCHILLING 1856 - 1899
4. JOHN SCHILLING 1879 - 1884
5. ALBERT SCHILLING 1881 - 1916
6. LINA E. SCHILLING 1883 - 1976

St. Mary's Cemetery on West Stephenson St. Freeport Il.
1. GEORGE W. SCHILLING 1860 - 1902

Freeport City Cemetery 9021 Lincoln Blvd. Freeport Il.
1. LOUISE K. SCHILLING June 24, 1855 - Oct 17, 1855
2. PHILIP H. SCHILLING geb: 10 Feb. 1858 - gest.: 23 July 1871 (broken stone)
As of 2003 the broken stone with the embedded marbles was thrown away by the cemetery clean up crew. As a child I [Robert Byrne Jones] was told that his own marbles were inset in a lead circle on the front of his stone.

Wilhelmina married Frederick Roser in Rochester NY Sept 11th, 1849 as per the announcement in the daily newspaper. Her obituary says Frederick died in 1850 and that they had one child. I [Robert Byrne Jones] assume this to be the 10 year old Chas in the 1860 census.

  Bekannte Ereignisse in ihrem Leben waren:

• Auswanderung, 4. Aug. 1845, New York, USA.

Wilhelmina heiratete Frederick ROSER im Jahr 1848 in Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA. (Frederick ROSER starb im Jahr 1850.)

Wilhelmina heiratete als nächstes Louis SCHILLING im Jahr 1854 in Cook Co, Chicago, IL, USA. (Louis SCHILLING wurde geboren um 1828 in Germany, starb um 1859 in Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois, USA und wurde bestattet in City Cemetery, Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois, USA.)