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Note: Elizabeth Erb emigrated to the US aboard the Vessel RHINE. It sailed from the Port of LaHavre, France and arrived at New York, NY. on February 25,1854. She was accompanied by an older sister, Dorothea, and a brother, Jakob. (GERMANS TO AMERICA PASSENGER LISTS, Ira A. Glazier and P. William Philby). The ship's manifest also shows Alexander Erb accompanied them; relationship unknown.
An older brother, Michael, had arrived in 1851, and is one of the founders of Columbus, NE.
After John Kumpf's death, Elizabeth remarried to Henry Loseke on June 28, 1864 by C.A. Spiece, Mayor of Columbus. John Held and Michael Erb were witnesses.
Elizabeth Kumpf lived in Platte County for over fifty years. She and Henry are buried in the Columbus Cemetery. _________________________ As published in the local newspaper at Lahr, Baden, GER., May 31, 1860-
Elizabeth Erb of Friesenheim has moved without prior consent, she has settled in America and married there. She is being called upon, to appear within three months and justify herself over her unauthorized exit, if she does not appear she loses her right to country and citizenship and she would have to pay a legal penalty of three per cent of her possessions which she has taken along and of those that are to be sent yet. At the same time all property and possessions are to be confiscated. (Translated by Brother Boniface, Benedictine Mission, Schuyler, NE.)
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From THE COLUMBUS TELEGRAM, October 1, 1909-
LOSEKE, ELIZABETH (ERB), February 10, 1831-September 27, 1909
After an illness of seven years, during five years of which time she had been bedfast, Mrs. Elizabeth Loseke, wife of Henry Loseke, sr., died Monday night at the family home in this city. Mrs. Loseke was born in Baden, Germany, in 1831, and came to Platte county in 1858, direct from the fatherland. During the period of more than fifty years which she had lived in Platte county she had formed many close associations and lived to see her children well-established. She is survived by her husband and seven children. The children are Mrs. Henry Grotelueschen, Mrs. William Bucher, Mrs. William Reese, Mrs. L. H. Leavy and August Loseke, all of Platte county, and Charles Kumpf and Henry Loseke, of Colfax county. Rev. H. Miessler conducted the funeral service at the Lutheran church Wednesday afternoon, and interment was made in the Columbus cemetery.
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