Bertha Mailahn
Biographical Information
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Bertha, and her twin sister Anna, were the eldest children in the family and she was also the first to die young. Unlike the majority of her siblings, however, she did manage to marry and have a child - Grant Welch. Her son was born in June of 1905. In about September she became ill with tuberculosis of the lungs. She died in November at the age of 25. At the end of the following May, 1906, her son came down with lung fever and died three weeks later. He was two days shy of his first birthday. These were the first in a long line of deaths in the Mailahn family. Her husband, likely destraught over the loss, lived with his siblings for several years. In 1912 he would be elected to be among the jury in the coroner's inquest over the triple homocide/suicide of the Mailahn family - his previous in-laws. He did eventually remarry but does not appear to have ever had additional children.
Documentation
Census Records
Newspaper Articles
- 10 Nov 1904 - The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin): Marriage Licenses