Elisabeth MollenkophAge: 79 years1838–1918
- Name
- Elisabeth Mollenkoph
- Given names
- Elisabeth
- Surname
- Mollenkoph
- Married name
- Elisabeth Schirm
Shared note: William Schirm Obituary and Family Listing
 Birth | December 5, 1838 |
 Historical Event | Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848 (Age 7 years)Note: The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War |
 Marriage | Martin Schirm — View this family March 5, 1857 (Age 18 years) |
| Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859 (Age 18 years)Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 22 years)Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 28 years)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 28 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 30 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
 Birth of a son#1 | William B “John” Schirm November 21, 1871 (Age 32 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 39 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Census | June 1, 1880 (Age 41 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 59 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Marriage of a child | William B “John” Schirm — Bessie Barnett — View this family December 30, 1908 (Age 70 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Nancy Ann Schirm February 8, 1910 (Age 71 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | William “Billy” Schirm 1913 (Age 74 years) |
| Death of a husband | Martin Schirm August 29, 1913 (Age 74 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #3 | Robert Frank Schirm June 22, 1914 (Age 75 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 77 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Death of a grandson | William “Billy” Schirm 1917 (Age 78 years) |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 78 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 79 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
 Death | January 14, 1918 (Age 79 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Shaffer Cemetery |
| Family with Martin Schirm |
| husband |
Martin Schirm Birth: December 20, 1830 — Württemberg, Germany Death: August 29, 1913 — Fulton, Indiana, United States |
| herself |
Elisabeth Mollenkoph Birth: December 5, 1838 — Wyandot, Ohio, United States Death: January 14, 1918 — Union, Fulton, Indiana, United States |
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Marriage: March 5, 1857 — Crawford, Ohio, United States |
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15 years son |
William B “John” Schirm Birth: November 21, 1871 40 32 — Fulton, Indiana, United States Death: December 26, 1946 — Logansport, Cass, Indiana, United States |
No family available
| Census | 1880 United States - Census transcript - Martin Schirm - Household
Union Township, Fulton, Indiana, United States
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| Name | William Schirm Obituary and Family Listing
William SCHIRM, 75, lifelong resident here, died Thursday at a Logansport hospital.
He was born Nov. 21, 1871, near Kewanna, the son of Martin and Elizabeth SCHIRM.
Surviving are three children, Mrs. Minnie COCHRANE, Lakeville, Ind.; Mrs. Dorothy BRANIFF, and Robert SCHIRM, South Bend; three sisters, Mrs. Minnie EVANS and Mrs. Sadie BROOKS, of here; Mrs. Emina STEPHENS, Plymouth; six grandchildren.
The body is at the Harrison funeral chapel and rites will be there Saturday at 1:30, conductd by the Reverend Darwin LAVENGOOD. Burial will be in the Shaffer cemetery near Kewanna.
Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Friday, December 27, 1946
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1946
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67801448/william-schirm |