Name: Amelung-Littrell

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1. Title:   1870 USA Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1870; Census Place: Township 34, Iron, Missouri; Roll: M593_; Page: ; Image: .
Publication:   Name: Name: National Archives; Location: Washington, D.C., USA;;
2. Title:   1880 USA Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1880; Census Place: Pilot Knob, Iron, Missouri; Roll: T9_691; Family History Film: 1254691; Page: 524.1000; Enumeration District: 52; Image: 0434.
Publication:   Name: Name: National Archives; Location: Washington, D.C., USA;;
3. Title:   Ancestry.com Family Trees
Page:   Ancestry Family Trees
Publication:   Name: Name: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. ACCURACY UNCONFIRMED;;
4. Title:   Immanuel Ev. Lutheran Church of Pilot Knob, Box 26, Arcadia, MO 63621
Publication:   Name: Name: Microfilm at MO State Archives, Jefferson City, MO of Original Church Books;;
5. Title:   Missouri, State Census Collection, 1844-1881
Page:   1880 Pilot Knob, Iron County, Missouri Census; Roll: T9_691; Family History Film: 1254691; Page: 524.1000; Enumeration District: 52; Image: 0434
Publication:   Name: Name: Missouri State Archives; Location: Jefferson City, MO, USA;;
6. Title:   Pilot Knob Cemetery, Highway V, Pilot Knob, MO 63663
Publication:   Name: Name: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mo/iron/cemeteries/pilknobn.txt;;
7. Title:   Missouri, State Census Collection, 1844-1881
Page:   1870 Township 34, Iron County, Missouri Census; Roll: M593_780; Page: 596 (Handwritten page 13); Image: 724. Post Office: Ironton
Publication:   Name: Name: Missouri State Archives; Location: Jefferson City, MO, USA;;
8. Title:   Pilot Knob Cemetery, Highway V, Pilot Knob, MO 63663
Publication:   Name: Name: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/mo/iron/cemeteries/pilknobn.txt;;
9. Title:   Newspaper Article/Obituary: Iron County Register Newspaper
Publication:   Name: Name: Ironton, Missouri;;
10. Title:   Iron County Historical Society, 123 W. Wayne Street, Ironton, MO 63650-1327
11. Title:   Family Stories handed down from generation to generation
12. Title:   Iron County Register Newspaper
Publication:   Name: Name: Ironton, Missouri;;
13. Title:   John Albert Undertaking Business 1878-1921
Page:   Notation for coffin and deat of death
Author:   Albert, John
Publication:   Name: Name: Ironton, Missouri, USA; Location: Iron County Historical Society;;

Notes
a. Note:   Louisa was the eighth child born on April 5, 1869 to Christian and Johanna Amelung and was baptized in the Pilot Knob Lutheran Church as Louisa Christian Amelung on May 18, 1869. Her baptism sponsors were Christian P. F'f6rtner, Justine Grog, and Louise Lesser whom she was named after.
  On November 14, 1886, Louisa's life took a tragic twist. As the story was told by her younger brother, Herman then 14, to his own children later. The family was visiting relatives in Cape Girardeau County. Louisa had gone to the well to fetch some water and the handle slipped and hit her in the side of the head. After she gathered her senses, she went back into the house but later insisted that they all go home. At her persistence they finally did. By the next morning (November 15, 1886), Louisa had died of a concussion and was buried in the Pilot Knob Cemetery. She was 17 years old.
  The John Albert Funeral Home records indicates that Louisa died of Pneumonia. According to the story handed down, Louisa was hit hard enough to cause a concussion, but they didn't have that diagnosis back then. It may be that either Pneumonia set in or they used that cause for everything they didn't have an answer for. It would seem that Pneumonia would not set in and cause her death in one night's time and I doubt that her parents would have taken her traveling if she were ill.
  Cause of Death: Concussion. While visiting relatives (possibly visiting the Bodenstein's in Cape Girardeau), she went to the well to fetch some water and the handle slipped and hit her in the head. She gathered her senses but later insisted that they return to Pilot Knob as she wasn't feeling well, which they did. The following morning, she was dead. (This was told to Nelle White & Edna Hall by their father, Herman, who was 14 when Louisa died and there when it happened).
  Iron County Register Newspaper, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, November 18, 1886, Volume XX, Number 9, Page 5, Column 2, Last Paragraph:
  Died at the residence of her father, Christian Amelung in Pilot Knob, Missouri on Monday, November 15, 1886, Louisa Amelung, age 16 years and 7 months.
  Miss. Amelung was "one of ten thousand." Amiable, intelligent and gifted with all the graces of early womanhood. She was beloved of all. To her parents she was the bright particular star which gave to earth its nearest approach to heaven and they will mourn her departure for a time with the blackness of despair. But it is hoped that with the passing days will come the reflection that she has only gone before to lovingly greet them on their approach to that other shore wither we all are bound.
  "She was fair amongst the fairest
 With a heart so kind and true
 And the brightest smile and whereas
 is a diamond kissed with dew.
 Radiant with grace and beauty
 with sweet heaven in her soft eyes
 like a prayer of love and duty
 she has ascended to the skies."

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