Rosina Zeifang

Rosina Zeifang

• Rosina Zeifang was born on 14 May 1830 in Machtolsheim, Württemberg.
• She applied in February 1854 in Blaubeuren, Württemberg, to emigrate.
• She married Jacob Kelberer, son of Frederick Kilberer, say 1855.
• She was a sponsor at the baptism/christening of Jacob R. Kilberer on 24 March 1857 at Zion Lutheran Church in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York.
• Jacob Kelberer and Rosina Zeifang appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York. Other members of the household included Anna Kelberer.
• Rosina Zeifang became a widow at the 19 September 1864 death of her husband Jacob Kelberer.
• She married John Ruopp on 17 April 1865 in Niagara, Niagara County, New York, at Zion Lutheran Church The marriage was witnessed by Melchior Kilberer and Marcus Zeifang.
• She was a sponsor at the baptism/christening of Rosina Zeifang on 15 November 1868 at Zion Lutheran Church in Niagara, Niagara Falls, New York.
• John Ruopp and Rosina Zeifang, appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Suspension Bridge, Niagara County, New York. Other members of the household included Anna Kelberer, Johann Friedrich Kilberer, Jacob Ruopp Kelberer, Georg Ruopp and Lucy Ruopp.
• John Ruopp and Rosina Zeifang appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Suspension Bridge, New York. Other members of the household included Jacob Ruopp Kelberer, Lucy Ruopp and Rosina Ruopp.
• John Ruopp and Rosina Zeifang appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, at 733 Pierce Avenue.
• Rosina Zeifang became a widow at the 31 May 1903 death of her husband John Ruopp.
• The following appeared on 1 June 1903 in the Niagara Falls Gazette: John Ruopp of No. 733 West Pierce Avenue, died yesterday morning at 5 oclock of old age. Deceased was one of the best known and most respected German residents of the city. He was 76 years of age and for over forty years has been a resident of this city, coming from Germany in the days of the old village of Suspension Bridge.
       The surviving relatives are a wife, two daughters, Miss Lucy Ruopp and Mrs. Henry L. Colpoys and two step children, Mrs. A. Schleisinger and Mr. Jacob R. Kelberer.
       The funeral will be observed tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the German Zion's Lutheran Church. The Rev. F. R. Hoffmann will officiate and the interment will be made in Oakwood cemetery.
• Rosina Zeifang appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Niagara Falls, New York, at 733 Pierce Avenue.
• The following appeared on 28 February 1916 in the Niagara Falls Gazette: [Died] In this city at Memorial hospital, Monday, Feb. 28, Flora Schliesinger Haeberle, aged 30 years, wife of Charles E. Haeberle; besides her husband she leaves an infant son, her grandmother, Mrs. John Roupp, of 723 Pierce avenue, and one sister, Mrs. James B. Martin of Rochester, N. Y. Funeral will be held from the family home, 1911 Tenth street, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Rev. Herman Brezing of German Lutheran church officiating; interment in Mausoleum in Oakwood cemetery.
• Rosina Zeifang died on 23 February 1918 at age 87 in Niagara Falls, New York.
• The following appeared on 25 February 1918 in the Buffalo Courier: (Niagara Falls, Feb. 24) Mrs. Rosina Kelberer Roupp, aged eighty-eight years, died here Saturday. She was one of the long-time residents. Burial in Oakwood cemetery Monday afternoon.
• She was interred at Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York.
• Research Note: It is an educated guess that.

• Last Edited: 14 Mar 2014