Person:Carolina Hartmann (1)

Physical Characteristics and Temperament:

Carolina Hartwig was from Alsace-Loreanne. She was 'of black German stock' with German and French blood. Her hair, even up to the end, was jet black, and her eyes were also black. She was of large build, broad shouldered, pretty well even up and down, weighing, in her late years, probably 200 lbs. Her face was broad and bony. She must have been 5'10" tall, a head taller than her spouse Carl.

Her education was rather neglected. When her son Carl wrote to her from St. Louis, he always used black lettering like the German printed type, not the then-normal so-called Gothic script, because she could not read script.

She was of a quiet nature. Sister Minne (sister of FWJ) tells me that she loved grandmother because she was always so kind.

She was a woman deeply concerned about salvation. She made it know she often prayed for her son Carl that the Lord might preserve him from falling away from the true Word and keep him from becoming proud. She often told about her anxiety when her husband and other fishermen were out on a boat fishing for herring, how she would stand on the seashore and watch the boat on the high sea being swallowed by big waves; she would cry out, 'Now they are lost!' But the boat would be lifted up atop a rising wave and she would see them again.

Source: S1

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Sam Janzow communiques to cousins, in Letters Fredrich W Janzow wrote to his son Sam Janzow..

   Sam Janzow, great-grandson of Carl (Ludwig) Friedriche Christiane Janzow-Janzen and grandson of Friedrich Christian Janzow, and culled this information from notes his father, Fredrich W Janzow, had written.