Saturday, April 14, 2012

Wedding Deferred; Commits Suicide. Prospective Bride-to-be, Fiance Gone, Takes Own Life in Grief.

Wedding Deferred; Commits Suicide. Prospective Bride-to-be, Fiance Gone, Takes Own Life in Grief. The postponement of the date set for her marriage to Anton Winblad, with whose parents she lived at 437 Wayne Street, caused Clara Minnie Olsen, 22 years old, to commit suicide by inhaling illuminating gas in her bedroom yesterday afternoon. The woman who is barely 22 years of age was discovered by Mrs. Selmine Winblad who detected the deathly fumes of gas coming from the bedroom. The girl was lying one the bed with one end of the gas tube fastened between her teeth and the other was connected to the gas jet over her head. Mrs. Winblad terrified at the sight of the body of the young girl ...

Notes:
Anton Julius Winblad II (1886-1975) goes to the Isle of Pines in Cuba to scout out living there and his fiance, Clara Minnie Olsen (1888-1910), takes her own life.

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Marriage of Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer (1815-1866) and Sophia Weber (1815-1891) on May 27, 1851



Marriage of Oscar Arthur Moritz Lindauer (1815-1866) and Sophia Weber (1815-1891) on May 27, 1851 in Essex County, New Jersey. The oral family history had them married in Alsace and then emigrating to the United States.