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Louisa Einspahr was born Louisa Anna Hanna Felzien on Feburary 25, 1872 in Blue Island, Illinois and died April 25, 1957 in Imperial, Nebraska. She is buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Imperial, Nebraska
She was one of eleven children born to Ernest and Augusta Felzien.
Brief History of the Family:
Two brothers, Ernest and Fred Felsen, imigrated to America in 1858. They later changed their last name to FELZIEN to either Americanize it or so that it would be pronounced more nearly as it was in Germany. It is not known where they were born except that it was in the state of Mecklinburg. Information indicates that Fred was confirmed in Badresch, Germany in 1854. Ernest was 30 years old and Fred was 20 years old when they imigrated. Their parents' names were John Felsen and Freda Ricke. The verbal history passed through the generations indicates that another brother imigrated to America earlier, but he was never heard from after his departure from Germany.
The brothers first settled in Blue Island, Illinois where we assume other German-born people and acquaintances from Germany may have lived. Ernest met and married Augusta(Gusty)Kortz who was also German-born and who imigrated with her parents at an early age.
Ernest and Augusta had eleven children, Ernest, Adam, Gustav, John, Caroline, Louisa, Andrew, Fredricka, and William, all born in Blue Island, Illinois, and Otto and Emil who were born in Kenesaw, Nebraska.
Their daughter, Louisa married Fred Einspahr who died after one son, Rudolph, was born. Louisa was then married to William Einspahr (Fred's brother) and 3 children were born to them, Della, Martha, and Charles. Louisa died in Imperial, Nebraska and it bried there.
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