ALTHAUS, Louis ³⁸⁰

  Allgemeine Notizen:

According to the information given to me (Thomas Franklin Keyser) by Mr. Voy Althaus, Sr., Louis went to Arizona after all his children were born. He found a job and moved his family there. He worked around various mining operations and homesteaded in several places. All of his descendants stayed in Arizona and New Mexico. He was a carpenter and homesteaded land several times. When he died he was sent back to Cave Creek for burial. He is there by himself now, his wife was buried in Arizona.

NOTE: I (Thomas Franklin Keyser)have two sources that list the first three children as being born in 1887. Information on two of them is not available. I (Thomas Franklin Keyser)was told that Frieda and two of her sibling were in a buggy accident when she was just an infant so based on her birthday and the marriage date of Louis and Dorothea that the other two were born before 1887.

Louis' wife Dorothea "Dora" Quindel Althaus is buried at the McNeal Cemetery in McNeal, Cochise County, AZ. She stayed there with her children after her husband died.

The following obituary was taken from the Bisbee Daily Review dated July 6, 1927.

LOUIS ALTHAUS DIES IN C. & A. HOSPITAL

Louis W. Althaus for many years a resident of this district, died yesterday morning at three o'clock at the C. & A. Hospital. The cause of the death is stated by attending physicians to be cancer of the stomach and liver. ** See Remarks Below

The deceased came to Bisbee from Fredericksburg, Texas in 1907 and has been in the service of the Calument & Arizona Mining Company for the 20 years since then in the capicity of watchman. He became ill and entered the hospital only six weeks ago. He was 62 years old.

Surviving are his widow, three sons, two daughters, two brothers and two sisters. The widow and one son, Edwin A. Althaus reside in Warren, another son, Harry J. Althaus, who is a member of the Ft. Bayard baseball club resides in Ft. Bayard, N.M. and the other son, Walter L. Althaus lives on his farm in the Sulphur Springs Valley. One daughter, Mrs. T.E. Rogers, resides in McNeal and the other, Mrs. J.J. Cuba, is residing in Inspiration. The brothers and sisters, William and Charles Althaus, and Mrs. Louis Gardner and Mrs. John Young all reside in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Funeral services will be conducted this morning at the Palace Undertaking parlors at 11 0'clock, the Rev. C.C. Albrecht, Lutheran Minister, of Tucson officiating and the remains will be shipped to Fredericksburg, Texas this afternoon for interment.


** 4/26/1998 Today I (Thomas Franklin Keyser) visited with Dorothea "Dorothy" Rogers Littleton, Edna Rogers Soles and Jacob Rogers, all grandchildren of Louis Althaus and Dorothea Quindel Althaus. Apparently, there was some dispute that was never settled over the death of Louis Althaus. Although his death certificate states that he died from cancer of the stomach and liver, it seems that he probably died from an accident at the C & A Mines when he was crushed between two mining cars. They all state that lawyers were involved and that at one time Louis' wife was going to have his body exhumed for an additional autopsy. For some reason, this was never settled.

Louis heiratete Dorothea E. QUINDEL, Tochter von Adolf QUINDEL und Maria WENDEL, am 25. Nov. 1886 in Fredericksburg, Gilliespie Co., Texas, USA. (Dorothea E. QUINDEL wurde geboren im Jahr 1867 und starb im Jahr 1950.)