Caroline’s Children

I always return to this picture because it is the only picture of Caroline and all her children. Her LIVING children.

As I’ve searched the parish records for birth records, I’ve encountered additional children of Caroline and Joseph. Upon examination of the 1910 Federal Census, she lists 14 children born with eight living! Here they are:

• *Phillip – born on March 1, 1879. Died on May 1, 1883 of smallpox
• John – born on March 5, 1880. Died on February 1, 1942
• *Francis – born March/April 1881. Died August 23, 1881, of Dysentery
• *Maria – born on March 18, 1883. Died on May 15, 1883 of smallpox
• Joseph – born on August 9, 1884. Died on November 9, 1974
• Konrad – born on May 3, 1886. Died on December 28, 1944
• Charles – born on September 18, 1887. Died on April 30, 1952
• Francis – born on September 1, 1889. Date of death unknown
• *Stanislaus – born on August 14, 1891. Died on August 14, 1891, at birth
• Mary – born on January 21, 1893. Died on Mary 1, 1995
• Elizabeth – born on September 24, 1896. Date of death unknown
• *Baby Girl Bonk – born June 28, 1899. Died on June 28, 1899, at birth
• Walter Bonk – born on August 29, 1903. Died on August 3, 1998

I’m missing the 14th birth, but I’m still reviewing the records. Caroline and Joseph were married in 1876 so I checked 9 months from their wedding to 9 months before Phillip was born with no success. Next up will be the gaps between the other births!

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