ROSA GROSSHEIM
UPDATE - Rosa has been sent home to her great-great-great-grandniece.
IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO: "Miss Rosa Grossheim"
PHOTO TAKEN: Collins Studio, Alton IL, circa mid-1890s
PURCHASED: 2018 August Madison-Bouckville (NY) Antiques Week
This is Rosa Grossheim, born in Alton IL 3 Mar 1874, to parents Johann Joachim "Jacob" Grossheim (1828-1909) and Anna Maria "Mary" Meinard (1832-1908). The family is found on the 1880 Census.
1880 Census > IL > Madison > Alton
GROSSHEIM, Jacob, 51, head, labrorer, born in Germany
GROSSHEIM, Mary, 48, wife, keeps house, born in Germany
GROSSHEIM, George, 20, son, laborer, born in IL
GROSSHEIM, Lizzie, 17, dau, at home, born in IL
GROSSHEIM, Mary, 15, dau, at home, born in IL
GROSSHEIM, Rosa, 6, dau, at school, born in IL
GROSSHEIM, John, 3, son, born in IL
Rosa married Sebastian Miller (1869-1924) in 1898.
1900 Census > IL > Madison > Alton
MILLER, Sebastian, head, Feb 1869, 31, m. 1 yr, born in Germany, glassblower
MILLER, Rose, wife, Mar 1874, 26, m. 1 yr, 1 of 1 children living, born in IL
MILLER, John M., son, May 1899, 1, born in IL
The 1920 Census gives a good view of all their children, who were all born in Illinois.
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MILLER, Sebastian, head, 50, born in France, imm. 1879, foreman at Standard Oil
MILLER, Rose, wife, 45
MILLER, John, son, 20, clerk in a store
MILLER, Louis, son, 18, country club keeper?
MILLER, Salome M, dau, 16
MILLER, Herbert J, son, 14
MILLER, Elizabeth, dau, 11
MILLER, Joseph, son, 9
MILLER, Rosemary, dau, 5
Her husband Sebastian Miller died in 1924. This story on the news of his death appears in the Alton Evening Telegraph, 27 Feb 1924.
Rose Grossheim-Miller died 23 Feb 1966.
Kathleen, thank you for posting this! I am the great great granddaughter of Rosa’s brother George, so she is a distant aunt of mine! We didn’t have a photo of her before and I also appreciate the obituaries you posted that give us a little more information about our family tree. Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteAre you interested in having the original? This belongs to you more than to me. I'd like to send her home to you. Please drop me an email at kathleen@teamvalor.com with a mailing address and I will happily send her out right away.
DeleteThis is my almost 93 year old Mother’s grandmother. They called her ‘grossmutter’. I remember seeing her for the last time when I was about 5; by then she had suffered a stroke and was confined to bed. I loved hearing stories about her from my parents. My Mother is her son John’s daughter, Barbara.
ReplyDeleteAre you interested in having the original? This belongs more with someone like you than with someone like me. Please email me at kathleen@teamvalor.com and let me know a good mailing address. I will send the photo to you.
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