Dorothea Walter

Dorothea Walter

• Father: Johann Gottlieb Walter b. 1 October 1791, d. 28 September 1853
• Mother: Johanna Stump b. 2 January 1793, d. 8 November 1854

• Dorothea Walter was baptized/christened on 10 June 1825 in Machtolsheim, Württemberg.
• She was born on 10 June 1825 in Machtolsheim, Württemberg.
• She was known as Dora.
• She was confirmed in 1839 at Machtolsheim, Württemberg.
• Dorothea Walter and Ursula Walter arrived in the Port of New York on 15 April 1853, having departed London on 7 March, aboard the packet ship Northumberland, carrying merchandise and 340 passengers to agents Griswold, Morgan & Wiley.
• She married Melchior Kilberer, son of Frederick Kilberer, circa 1853.
• She was a sponsor at the baptism/christening of Dora Fink on 5 July 1863 at Zion Lutheran Church in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York.
• She was a sponsor at the baptism/christening of Margaret Fink on 29 November 1866 at Zion Lutheran Church in Niagara, Niagara Falls, New York.
• Melchior Kilberer and Dorothea Walter, appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Suspension Bridge, Niagara County, New York. Other members of the household included Frederick Kilberer, Jacob R. Kilberer, Johanna Kilberer, Christina Kilberer and Melchior Kilberer.
• She was a sponsor at the baptism/christening of Maria Elisabeth Fink on 22 June 1873 at Zion Lutheran Church in Niagara Falls, New York.
• Melchior Kilberer and Dorothea Walter appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880. Other members of the household included Jacob R. Kilberer, Johanna Kilberer, Christina Kilberer and Melchior Kilberer.
• She was a sponsor at the baptism/christening of Maria Kilberer on 25 July 1880 at Zion Lutheran Church in Niagara, Niagara County, New York.
• Dorothea Walter died on 11 October 1880 at age 55 in Niagara County, New York, resulting from a railroad collision.
• Melchior Kilberer became a widower at her death.
• She was interred at Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York.
• The following appeared on 13 October 1880 in The Niagara Falls Gazette: Mrs. Kilberer, the wife of Jacob [sic] Kilberer, of Suspension Bridge, who is employed by the Niagara Falls Paper Mills, has for a long time been accustomed to take her husband from his home to his place of work in a buggy in the morning, and calling for him at night drive him back to Suspension Bridge. Monday afternoon Mrs. Kilberer had driven from Suspension Bridge, crossed the Second st. canal bridge, and was driving over the Central tracks on Niagara st., when the locomotive drawing the 5:30 train from the east struck the center of the buggy, freed the horse from the thills, and threw the unfortunate woman over sixty feet into a ditch, near Peter Shomer's dwelling. The woman struck on her head, turned a somersault, and was lying motionless and insensible when picked up by parties who witnessed the collision. The horse after being freed from the buggy ran down Niagara st., where he stopped and was soon caught, and was found to be uninjured. The wrecked buggy was carried on the pilot of the engine until the locomotive was stopped opposite McMahon's Hotel.  /P/ Mrs. Kilberer was carried into Mrs. Shomer's dwelling and Dr. Wm. B. Rice summoned. The suffering woman regained consciousness and was subsequently removed to her home at Suspension Bridge, but medical skill and tender care proved unavailing, and she died about eight o'clock the same evening. The injuries sustained were a broken leg, a seriously contused head, and evidences of internal injuries, the latter of which are thought to have caused the victim's death.  /P/ The deceased was about fifty years of age, and leaves a family of five grown-up children.  /P/ The engineer of the locomotive was a special-- John Cool, who was running in the place of the regular driver. There is no doubt that the engine crossed Niagara st. at a high rate of speed (said to have been at least thirty miles an hour), and this with the fact that the Central authorities keep no flagman at that crossing makes the case one that will probably receive some pretty serious attention.  

• Last Edited: 14 Mar 2014

• Charts: Descendants of WALTER Gottlieb & Caecilia Kölle