Elizabeth Rosli Borth

b. 18 September 1869, d. 6 August 1967

Elizabeth Rosli "'Rose" Borth Boehner, 1869-1967
  • Elizabeth Rosli Borth was born on 18 September 1869 in New York.
  • She was known as Rosa.
  • Frederick Christian Borth and Margaretha Kammerer, appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. Other members of the household included Elizabeth Rosli Borth, Susanna Elizabeth Borth.
  • She was enumerated in the household of Frederick Christian Borth and Margaretha Kammerer on 1 June 1880 at 213 Grape Street, Buffalo, Erie County, New York.
  • A photographic portrait was made of Frederick and Maggie Borth and family, about 1895.
    Frederick and Maggie Borth and family, about 1895
  • She married Ludwig M. Boehner on 15 October 1896.
  • Ludwig M. Boehner and Elizabeth Rosli Borth appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 235 Peach Street. Other members of the household included Margaret Louise Boehner.
  • A four-generation photographic portrait was made about 1902 of Elizabeth Kammerer, her daughter Maggie Borth, granddaughter Rose Boehner, and great granddaughter Margaret Boehner.
  • Ludwig M. Boehner appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 1995 Bailey Avenue. Other members of the household included Elizabeth Rosli Borth, Margaret Louise Boehner and Madlyn Elizabeth Boehner.
  • The following appeared on 1 May 1911 in the Niagara Falls Gazette: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Borth, Mr. and Mrs. Schalcraft [sic], Mr. and Mrs. Louis Boehner, Mr. and Mrs. C. Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. George Barnett and Mr. Charles Werler [sic] of Buffalo attended the funeral of Adam Kammerer yesterday afternoon. . . . J. A. Kammerer of Toronto, Ont., was in town yesterday attending the funeral of his brother, Adam Kammerer.
  • Ludwig M. Boehner and Elizabeth Rosli Borth appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Buffalo, New York, at 1995 Bailey Avenue. Other members of the household included Margaret Louise Boehner and Madlyn Elizabeth Boehner.
  • Ludwig M. Boehner and Elizabeth Rosli Borth appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Buffalo, New York. Other members of the household included Madlyn Elizabeth Boehner.
  • Ludwig M. Boehner appeared in the 1931 Buffalo, New York, City Directory at 147 Sprenger.
  • Ludwig M. Boehner and Elizabeth Rosli Borth appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Buffalo, New York. Other members of the household included Madlyn Elizabeth Boehner and Otto Lenz.
  • Elizabeth Rosli Borth became a widow at the 24 December 1943 death of her husband Ludwig M. Boehner.
  • The following appeared on 25 December 1943 in the Buffalo Courier-Express: Struck by autos--one a police car driven by Inspector Jeremiah R. Cronin--two men and a woman were killed in Buffalo and the Town of Tonawanda last night. They were:
         Louis M. Boehner, 75, of 147 Sprenger Ave, Killed in Bailey Ave. between Dingens and William. . . .
         Boehner was killed shortly after 6 o'clock last night as Inspector Cronin, who was on duty at the time, was driving north in Bailey in a police car assigned to him. He was bound home for dinner, he said, and was passing the Cohen scrap metal yard at 909 Bailey, when Boehner started to cross the avenue from east to west.
         In a report to the Broadway station, Cronin, who is a former police commissioner, reported he was driving 20 to 25 miles an hour and did not see Boehner, a watchman at the Cohen yards. The inspector summoned an Emergency Hospital ambulance but the victim was dead by the time it arrived . . .
  • The following appeared on 19 June 1944 in the Schenectady Gazette: (Schoharie News) Rev. and Mrs. David C. Gaise and daughters, Carol and Jean, of Albany, Mrs. Rose Boehner of Buffalo and Mrs. Charles D. Gaise of Niagara Falls were Thursday guests of Mrs. Webster G. Gardner and family.
  • On two occasions during the 1940s, women of the Borth and Hoffman families were photographed at the same location. This one was earlier.
    Women of the Borth and Hoffman families, 1940s
  • Of the two photographs of women of the Borth and Hoffman families taken in the 1940s at the same location, this one was later.
  • Sisters Margaret, Mate, Addie and Rose Borth celebrated Mate's birthday on 23 October 1951 at the home of her daughter Esther Schillke.
  • The SSDI lists Buffalo, New York, as the last residence of record of Elizabeth Rosli Borth.
  • Elizabeth Rosli Borth died on 6 August 1967 at age 97 in Kenmore, Erie County, New York, at Kenmore Mercy Hospital.
  • She was interred at Saint John Cemetery, Pine Ridge & Sugar Roads, Cheektowaga, Erie County New York.
  • The following appeared on 7 August 1967 in the Buffalo Courier-Express: [Died] Rosa E. Boehner of 348 Tremaine Ave., Kenmore, N.Y., August 6, 1967, wife of the late Louis M. Boehner; mother of Mrs. Margaret B. Leggett and the late Madlyn Lenz; sister of Mrs. Frederick Knaisch and the late Mrs. Charles Gaise, Mrs. Christian Hoffman, Mrs. Frederick Chalcraft, Frederick, George and Robert Borth. Calls may be made at the Steck, Lockwood, and Clark Funeral Home, 2775 Main St., from 2-4 and 7-9 o'clock, where funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
  • The following appeared on 8 August 1967 in the Tonawanda News: Funeral services were conducted today for Mrs. Rosa E. Boehner, 97, of 348 Tremaine Ave., a Kenmore resident for five years.
         The Rev. Franklin Schweiger, pastor of Concordia Lutheran Church, officiated at the Steck, Lockwood & Clark Funeral Home, Buffalo. Burial was in St. John's Cemetery at Pine Hill.
         Mrs. Boehner died Sunday at Kenmore Mercy Hospital after she became suddenly ill at home. She was the former Rosa E. Borth of Buffalo, widow of Louis M. Boehner, a cabinetmaker.
         Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. William A. Leggett; a sister, Mrs. Frederick Knaisch; a granddaughter, Mrs. Donald K. Hall, and two great-grandchildren, Kathleen and Keith Hall.
  • Last Edited: 7 Mar 2017

Family: Ludwig M. Boehner b. 13 October 1867, d. 24 December 1943