Person:Louisa Von Bauer (1)

... [Louisa Von Bauer] was born August 26, 1812. Her father, George Christian Von Bauer, was born February 24, 1792, and was one of Napoleon's body guards and was an eye witness to the burning of Moscow. He brought his family to the United States, lived for a few years at Philadelphia, was naturalized as an American citizen in 1856 and died February 15, 1878. Francis and Louisa Mosbaugh were married July 18, 1837, in New York City and in 1838 moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and three months later, in November, 1838, arrived at Cambridge City. Francis Mosbaugh had come from Germany to New York September 26, 1836. On coming to Indiana he bought three lots and put up a house in 1839. He was the first shoemaker at Cambridge City and he made boots and shoes for people living all over that part of Indiana. He followed his trade until his death on June 7, 1854. His widow survived him until October, 1896. ...

10 Sep 1896, p 3 - OBITUARY. Mrs. Louise Mosbaugh was born August 26, 1812, about fifteen miles from Worms, Germany, in Goellheim, a town of the Rhine Palatinate of Bavaria. She was the oldest of ten children of whom but one, a sister, Mrs. Keller, of Philadelphia, is now living. Her parents were George Christian and Louise Marx Bauer, borth of whom lie buried at Germantown, Indiana. She and Mrs. Keller came to America in 1836, landing on November 8, after a voyage of forty-six days of storm and sickness. Frantz Mosbaugh, whom she had known slightly in Germany, came over in the same vessel, and they were married in New York city July 18, 1837. That city continued to be their residence until May, 1838, when they started for what was then the Far West. The journey was circuitous and wearying,and pleased with Cleveland they spent three months there, after which they joined relatives in Wayne county, Indiana, arriving in Vandalia September 26, 1838, the day on which the lots of west Cambridge City were sold. Buying some of these lots, they built a house within the following year, moving into it March 4, 1840, since which time it has been the family homestead. There were seven children, but one son, Henry, died in infancy, and another, George, in 1883. Those still living are Mrs. Swiggett, of Kansas, Mrs. Thurston, of Minnesota, Mrs. Kiess, and Frank C. Mosbaugh, of Cambridge City, Indiana, and Margaret Mosbaugh, of Cincinnati, Ohio. There are also fourteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild. In 1854 Mrs. Mosbaugh was left a widow with six young children. Being unable at that time to speak the English language, and having had an unusually considerate husband, the rearing of her family became a severe struggle, taxing her courage and energy to the utmost. As her children grew into manhood and womanhood life became easier for her, and her simple wants could readily be supplied. She was always greatly interested in the people about her, having only pleasant words and kind intentions for them, and both the lowly and namy men and women that have gained honorable position hold her in affectionate remembrance. A great lover of Nature, she was quick to appreciate and point out any of its beauties, and liked travel. She remembered the first steamer down the Rhine ; the Martin Luther tree set as a sapling while he was at the famous Diet of Worms ; and her father having been one of Napoleon's body guards and with him on the Russian campaign, her early life was marked by many incidents of uncommon historical interest, and she talked entertainingly of these, and of German customs, and of her experiences in America. Always fond of reading, in later years religious literature became her chief pastime and her church papers and her Bible were never out of reach. She was confirmed as a Lutheran, but in 1841 united with the Evangelical church at Germantown, Indiana, of which she has been a devoted member for the past fifty-five years, and many of whose early ministers were entertained in her home. While of a deeply serious and religious nature, she had a quiet sense of humor very pleasing to those that knew her. Her life was one of extreme simplicity, and modesty, and conscientiousness, and her great desire was "to do justice and love righteousness." Physically she has been failing for the past two years, but mentally she has been remarkably clear, and did not cease to be thoughtful for others. For ten weeks she suffered the pain and unrest that comes from utter weakness, and then, triumphant in faith, on September 4, 1896, she fell asleep in Jesus, to awake in the regions of unending peace. The funeral services were held at 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, September 5, 1896, in the Methodist church at Cambridge City, her own pastor, Rev. R.F. Jameson, assisted by Rev. J.H. Harwell, of the Methodist church, officiating. The services were made to correspond with the simplicity of her life, the music being the old-time hymns that she herself had long ago known and loved, and the sermon a tribute to the inspiration excited by her childlike and bright christian character. The large audience, in which were seen faces from all parts of the county, testified to the widespread influence of her quiet living. Her tired body was tenderly carried to its resting place in Riverside cemetery by Mr. John Jackson, Mr. Israel Morrey, Mr. John Marson, Jr., Mr Aaron Scheidler, Mr. Jacob Condo and Mr. Andrew Reigle, some of the men in whom she had had especial interest. Throughout her illness she constantly received the most thoughtful and touching attentions from her townspeople and friends, both young and old, and for these and for assured sympathy, her family feels grateful to a degree not easily expressed.