German immigrants
TagVeronica and Maximillian Fischer
She had to take care of her flu stricken husband while caring for a newborn.
Amelia Hirth-Meyer
with more knowledge of the overwhelming trauma she experienced in her life, I have more understanding of why she was so unapproachable and ungiving.
Adelheide Mueller
“When they lied down, they died, they died!”
Augusta Anderson
She took both babies, the dead one and my Mom, and put them in a carriage and walked to the ferry, rode from Camden to Philadelphia—then walked to Frankford.
Mary Elizabeth (Menold) Beine
Losing a Mother, Grandmother, and Aunt
Port Richmond, Philadelphia
Walter Bader & Irene Rummel Bader
Whiskey in the Morgue
Chester County, Pa., and West Kensington, Philadelphia