Schoenberger, Catherine died 1910

SCHONBERG, SCHOENBERGER, TREXLER, KETTENHOFEN, MITCHELL, KUTSCH, DUENSER, PFIFFNER

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 9/4/2014 at 20:43:05

Catherine Schonberg, the little girl who was burned at her home at 1825 Lynn street, died Monday evening about 6:30 at Mercy hospital. When she was taken there in the afternoon there was but little hope of her recovery but during the afternoon she became conscious and a little hope was aroused. But about six o'clock she again became unconscious and passed away about a half hour later. Death really came as a relief to the little sufferer who endured terrible agony while she was conscious. The girl's body was burnt from head to foot, there hardly being a spot that was not scorched.

The accident is the third tragic event in the Schonberg family, for the first Mrs. Schonberg was killed by lightening in the same house about twenty years ago, and a sister of the little victim was burnt to death while ironing, some time ago. This particular tragedy is very pathetic in all its details. The little girl, who had just taken her first communion and had just had her picture taken in the communion dress, really suffered her injuries from this same dress, for the filmy veil and thin goods were aflame in an instant.

The funeral of the little victim will be held Wednesday morning from the family residence.

~Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, Tuesday evening edition, June 21, 1910

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The funeral of the late Catherine Schoenberger, who met her tragic death on Monday as the frightful burning she sustained when lighting the fire at her home, was held on Wednesday morning at nine o'clock to St. Mary's. The members of the first communion class of Sunday of which she was a member, and numbering over eighty marched from her home in a body clad in their communion garments to St. Mary's where Father Craemer officiated. The little girl was laid out in her first communion dress. Father Craemer officiated at the grave in Linwood.

The pallbearers were Misses Dorothy Trexler, Marie Kettenhofen, Hilda Mitchell, Clara Kutsch, Florence, Duenser and Marie Pfiffner.

~Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, Thursday evening edition, June 23, 1910

Note: Surname transcribed as in the newspapers. None of the articles I read about Catherine gave her parents names. The 1910, Dubuque, Dubuque co. Iowa, census enumerates a Katherine Schoenberger, age 12, parents Jacob & Emma and several siblings.