She was an early civil rights activist of the Victorian era. She died in Brooklyn on the 15th March 1921. Caroline Weldon made the media in the 1880's and 1890's because of her close friendship with the legendary Sioux Indian chief Sitting Bull.
The youngest daughter of Johann Lukas Faesch by his wife, Anna Maria Barbara, née Marti. Came to America in 1850 with her recently remarried mother and her stepfather, Dr. Carl Heinrich Valentiny. Was married to Dr. Claudius Bernhard Schlatter, a fellow Swiss, whom she divorced in 1883. Around 1889 and beyond that year she started to utilize the assumed surname WELDON for the remainder of her life. There is no record or any evidence that she had ever remarried after her divorce from Dr. Schlatter. The cause of her death is stated as "third degree burns".
The youngest daughter of Johann Lukas Faesch by his wife, Anna Maria Barbara, née Marti. Came to America in 1850 with her recently remarried mother and her stepfather, Dr. Carl Heinrich Valentiny. Was married to Dr. Claudius Bernhard Schlatter, a fellow Swiss, whom she divorced in 1883. Around 1889 and beyond that year she started to utilize the assumed surname WELDON for the remainder of her life. There is no record or any evidence that she had ever remarried after her divorce from Dr. Schlatter. The cause of her death is stated as "third degree burns".
She was an early civil rights activist of the Victorian era. She died in Brooklyn on the 15th March 1921. Caroline Weldon made the media in the 1880's and 1890's because of her close friendship with the legendary Sioux Indian chief Sitting Bull.
The youngest daughter of Johann Lukas Faesch by his wife, Anna Maria Barbara, née Marti. Came to America in 1850 with her recently remarried mother and her stepfather, Dr. Carl Heinrich Valentiny. Was married to Dr. Claudius Bernhard Schlatter, a fellow Swiss, whom she divorced in 1883. Around 1889 and beyond that year she started to utilize the assumed surname WELDON for the remainder of her life. There is no record or any evidence that she had ever remarried after her divorce from Dr. Schlatter. The cause of her death is stated as "third degree burns".
The youngest daughter of Johann Lukas Faesch by his wife, Anna Maria Barbara, née Marti. Came to America in 1850 with her recently remarried mother and her stepfather, Dr. Carl Heinrich Valentiny. Was married to Dr. Claudius Bernhard Schlatter, a fellow Swiss, whom she divorced in 1883. Around 1889 and beyond that year she started to utilize the assumed surname WELDON for the remainder of her life. There is no record or any evidence that she had ever remarried after her divorce from Dr. Schlatter. The cause of her death is stated as "third degree burns".
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