Full name was Adlina Christina Dorothea Hesse Claussen.
Married John D.W. Claussen June 8, 1898 in Charleston. They took their honeymoon aboard the Delaware, a wood-hulled, 66-passenger steamer that was built in Philadelphia in 1880. It sunk during their cruise, Saturday July 9, 1898, from a fire below decks. It burned to the waterline, no casualties. The news article said they tried to get her to evacuate early with women and children, but she "stomped her little foot" and refused to leave without her husband.
The wreckage is now a scuba diving destination - see http://njscuba.net/sites/site_delaware.html
Lived at 48 Bull Street.
Dora and John had ten children, in a timeline something like this:
John 1899–1968, Johann 1900–1900, Ernest & Ernestine 1901-1904, Johanna 1903–1903, Gertrude 1904–1989, Lewis, Catherine, "No Name", Margaret 1912–1967
In 1903, Dora's sister Julia died. Dora raised Julia's children as her own: Julius 1898-1963, Ruth 1899-1979, and Helen 1902-1966.
Of Dora and John's children:
---Three made it to adulthood: John (b February 1899), Gertrude (b September 1904), and Margaret (b March 1912).
--Johann (22 Apr - 10 Jun 1900) and Joanna (1 Mar - 23 Mar 1903), the first to be lost, are marked in the family plot with Dora.
--Twins Ernest and Ernestine ("Erna") died from eating oleander berries when they were around three, as their nursemaid chatted with John's.
-Louis was also lost young.
-Catherine had red hair and died of malaria around age 2. Gertrude remembered, so it was probably after 1908.
-The last baby lost, referred to as "No Name", bled to death from the umbilical cord.
Dora floated with ease on the ocean. Once she fell asleep and the Coast Guard had to go get her.
Dora loved children. After raising six children to adulthood, she was a chaperone on a ship taking orphans from Charleson to New York. As the story goes, she slept the whole way there, and that was her menapause.
All seven young children are buried with Dora, most unmarked, filling up Dora's plot. Husband John is buried with his parents.
Managed rental properties (presumably starting when John died) until her death.
Married John D.W. Claussen June 8, 1898 in Charleston. They took their honeymoon aboard the Delaware, a wood-hulled, 66-passenger steamer that was built in Philadelphia in 1880. It sunk during their cruise, Saturday July 9, 1898, from a fire below decks. It burned to the waterline, no casualties. The news article said they tried to get her to evacuate early with women and children, but she "stomped her little foot" and refused to leave without her husband.
The wreckage is now a scuba diving destination - see http://njscuba.net/sites/site_delaware.html
Lived at 48 Bull Street.
Dora and John had ten children, in a timeline something like this:
John 1899–1968, Johann 1900–1900, Ernest & Ernestine 1901-1904, Johanna 1903–1903, Gertrude 1904–1989, Lewis, Catherine, "No Name", Margaret 1912–1967
In 1903, Dora's sister Julia died. Dora raised Julia's children as her own: Julius 1898-1963, Ruth 1899-1979, and Helen 1902-1966.
Of Dora and John's children:
---Three made it to adulthood: John (b February 1899), Gertrude (b September 1904), and Margaret (b March 1912).
--Johann (22 Apr - 10 Jun 1900) and Joanna (1 Mar - 23 Mar 1903), the first to be lost, are marked in the family plot with Dora.
--Twins Ernest and Ernestine ("Erna") died from eating oleander berries when they were around three, as their nursemaid chatted with John's.
-Louis was also lost young.
-Catherine had red hair and died of malaria around age 2. Gertrude remembered, so it was probably after 1908.
-The last baby lost, referred to as "No Name", bled to death from the umbilical cord.
Dora floated with ease on the ocean. Once she fell asleep and the Coast Guard had to go get her.
Dora loved children. After raising six children to adulthood, she was a chaperone on a ship taking orphans from Charleson to New York. As the story goes, she slept the whole way there, and that was her menapause.
All seven young children are buried with Dora, most unmarked, filling up Dora's plot. Husband John is buried with his parents.
Managed rental properties (presumably starting when John died) until her death.
Full name was Adlina Christina Dorothea Hesse Claussen.
Married John D.W. Claussen June 8, 1898 in Charleston. They took their honeymoon aboard the Delaware, a wood-hulled, 66-passenger steamer that was built in Philadelphia in 1880. It sunk during their cruise, Saturday July 9, 1898, from a fire below decks. It burned to the waterline, no casualties. The news article said they tried to get her to evacuate early with women and children, but she "stomped her little foot" and refused to leave without her husband.
The wreckage is now a scuba diving destination - see http://njscuba.net/sites/site_delaware.html
Lived at 48 Bull Street.
Dora and John had ten children, in a timeline something like this:
John 1899–1968, Johann 1900–1900, Ernest & Ernestine 1901-1904, Johanna 1903–1903, Gertrude 1904–1989, Lewis, Catherine, "No Name", Margaret 1912–1967
In 1903, Dora's sister Julia died. Dora raised Julia's children as her own: Julius 1898-1963, Ruth 1899-1979, and Helen 1902-1966.
Of Dora and John's children:
---Three made it to adulthood: John (b February 1899), Gertrude (b September 1904), and Margaret (b March 1912).
--Johann (22 Apr - 10 Jun 1900) and Joanna (1 Mar - 23 Mar 1903), the first to be lost, are marked in the family plot with Dora.
--Twins Ernest and Ernestine ("Erna") died from eating oleander berries when they were around three, as their nursemaid chatted with John's.
-Louis was also lost young.
-Catherine had red hair and died of malaria around age 2. Gertrude remembered, so it was probably after 1908.
-The last baby lost, referred to as "No Name", bled to death from the umbilical cord.
Dora floated with ease on the ocean. Once she fell asleep and the Coast Guard had to go get her.
Dora loved children. After raising six children to adulthood, she was a chaperone on a ship taking orphans from Charleson to New York. As the story goes, she slept the whole way there, and that was her menapause.
All seven young children are buried with Dora, most unmarked, filling up Dora's plot. Husband John is buried with his parents.
Managed rental properties (presumably starting when John died) until her death.
Married John D.W. Claussen June 8, 1898 in Charleston. They took their honeymoon aboard the Delaware, a wood-hulled, 66-passenger steamer that was built in Philadelphia in 1880. It sunk during their cruise, Saturday July 9, 1898, from a fire below decks. It burned to the waterline, no casualties. The news article said they tried to get her to evacuate early with women and children, but she "stomped her little foot" and refused to leave without her husband.
The wreckage is now a scuba diving destination - see http://njscuba.net/sites/site_delaware.html
Lived at 48 Bull Street.
Dora and John had ten children, in a timeline something like this:
John 1899–1968, Johann 1900–1900, Ernest & Ernestine 1901-1904, Johanna 1903–1903, Gertrude 1904–1989, Lewis, Catherine, "No Name", Margaret 1912–1967
In 1903, Dora's sister Julia died. Dora raised Julia's children as her own: Julius 1898-1963, Ruth 1899-1979, and Helen 1902-1966.
Of Dora and John's children:
---Three made it to adulthood: John (b February 1899), Gertrude (b September 1904), and Margaret (b March 1912).
--Johann (22 Apr - 10 Jun 1900) and Joanna (1 Mar - 23 Mar 1903), the first to be lost, are marked in the family plot with Dora.
--Twins Ernest and Ernestine ("Erna") died from eating oleander berries when they were around three, as their nursemaid chatted with John's.
-Louis was also lost young.
-Catherine had red hair and died of malaria around age 2. Gertrude remembered, so it was probably after 1908.
-The last baby lost, referred to as "No Name", bled to death from the umbilical cord.
Dora floated with ease on the ocean. Once she fell asleep and the Coast Guard had to go get her.
Dora loved children. After raising six children to adulthood, she was a chaperone on a ship taking orphans from Charleson to New York. As the story goes, she slept the whole way there, and that was her menapause.
All seven young children are buried with Dora, most unmarked, filling up Dora's plot. Husband John is buried with his parents.
Managed rental properties (presumably starting when John died) until her death.
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