She was mother of 8, dying of childbed fever at the birth of her last child. On her deathbed she gave newborn son Edwin to step-sister Sophia Brand Zahn to raise.
The seventh child, a daughter Alice, had died very young. The older 5 remained with their father.
Several of her children held religious careers. One daughter, Mary Sophia, became a missionary to India and married there. Edwin Edgar Voigt became a Methodist bishop.
She was mother of 8, dying of childbed fever at the birth of her last child. On her deathbed she gave newborn son Edwin to step-sister Sophia Brand Zahn to raise.
The seventh child, a daughter Alice, had died very young. The older 5 remained with their father.
Several of her children held religious careers. One daughter, Mary Sophia, became a missionary to India and married there. Edwin Edgar Voigt became a Methodist bishop.
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