Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Leutwein Epilogue


Thanks for the comments and emails concerning the previous post about Victoria Leutwein and her family.

Since putting the story up, I've come across two more items that may interest you.

On June 6, 1903, the passenger ship Graf Waldersee set sail from Hamburg for Boulogne, Plymouth, and New York. Among those aboard was one Isabella Leutwein of "Calamazoo." Our Isabel never made it to South West Africa. It is possible the military situation there made it unsafe for her to proceed on her most excellent adventure.

And on May 15, 1954, the Chicago Daily Tribune ran this obituary:


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