Wilhelmina Foatz

Wilhelmina Foatz

• Wilhelmina Foatz was born on 29 December 1861 in Germany.
• She was known as Minnie.
• She married Jacob Karl, son of Georg Anton Karl and Sophia Dexheimer.
• Jacob Karl and Wilhelmina Foatz appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Carmel, Putnam County, New York. Other members of the household included George Anthony Karl, Minnie T. Karl and Isabelle Karl.
• The following appeared on 14 May 1904 in the Putnam County Republican: Mr. and Mrs. Dux, of New York City, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Karl on Sunday afternoon. They came up from Mahopac, where they were stopping over Sunday at the Thompson House. [Perhaps these visitors were related to the wife of Jacob's brother Peter, Magdalena Duhs.]
• The following appeared on 28 October 1904 in The Putnam County Courier: (Carmel) Mrs. Jacob Karl and little daughter, Isabelle, are visiting relatives in New York.
• The following appeared on 11 August 1905 in The Putnam County Courier: (Carmel) Miss Josephine Goodwin, of New York is visiting her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Karl.
• The following appeared on 13 October 1905 in The Putnam County Courier: Jacob Karl went to the city Wednesday to attend the celebration of th eightieth birthday of his mother, Mrs. Sophia Karl. There was a general assembly of the family in the evening. In the afternoon Mrs. Karl and daughter, Miss Minnie, attended the wedding of Miss Kittie Goodman, who has been a frequent visitor of theirs in Carmel.
• Jacob Karl and Wilhelmina Foatz appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Carmel, New York. Other members of the household included George Anthony Karl and Isabelle Karl.
• She was working at home as a dressmaker, according to the 1910 census.
• The following appeared on 6 January 1912 in the Putnam County Republican: Mrs. Minnie Karl Cole, of New York City, is spending a few weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Karl. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Howland, of New York City were entertained at Jacob Karl's on Sunday and New Yera's Day. Mrs. Howland is a niece of Mrs. Karl.
• The following appeared on 20 March 1914 in The Putnam County Courier: (Carmel) Mr. and Mrs. Harry Howland of Brooklyn spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Karl. 
• The following appeared on 26 February 1915 in The Putnam County Courier: John Karl and George Karl were guests of Mrs. Jacob Karl over the week end.
• The following appeared on 10 July 1915 in the Putnam County Republican: Mrs. Jacob Karl is entertaining Miss Teresa Karl, of New York City.
• The following appeared on 4 December 1915 in the Putnam County Republican: George Karl spent this week end at the home of his mother, Mrs. Jacob Karl, in Carmel.
• The following appeared on 27 February 1916 in the Putnam County Republican: John Karl, of New York City, visited Mrs. Jacob Karl's on Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Karl's son, George, also came home to spend the double Holiday. 
• The following appeared on 26 August 1916 in the Putnam County Republican: John Karl, of New York City, was a week end guest of Mrs. Jacob Karl in Carmel. 
• The following appeared on 30 December 1916 in the Putnam County Republican: Reports from Mrs. Jacob Karl, who is in a private sanitarium in New York are that she was very poorly last Saturday but on Thursday of this week was more comfortable.
• Wilhelmina Foatz died on 14 January 1917 at age 55 in Manhattan, New York, at the Radium Sanitarium.
• She was interred at St. Lawrence Cemetery, Brewster, Putnam County, New York.
• The following appeared on 19 January 1917 in The Putnam County Courier: Carmel feels sad over the death of Mrs. Wilhemina Karl which occurred on Sunday last, January 14, 1917.
       She was in the Radium Sanitarium undergoing treatment for cancer. Her case was hopeless and her suffering intense when she left Carmel a few weeks ago to receive the treatment. The physicians then said that her death was only a matter of days or weeks at the most.
       The body was brought back to Carmel on Monday, to the home she loved so well to await the funeral which took place on Wednesday. High Mass for the repose of the soul was said in the Catholic church by Father Murray, her pastor, and the services were attended by a large congregation and the interment was made in the St. Lawrence cemetery at Brewster, by the side of her husband, Jacob Karl, who died in the same month two years and strangly too, from a cancer.
       She was born in Germany on December 29, 1861, and came to America with her parents when she was only seven years old, and was married in New York city.
       Mrs. Karl came to Carmel with her family about twenty years ago and Mr. Karl opened a barber shop on Fair street, which he ran continuously in Carmel until his death. They had three children, George A. Karl and Mrs. Minnie Cole of New York, and Miss Isabel Karl, who has lived with her mother. Isabel was the only child born in Carmel.
       It was about eight years ago that they built their home on lower Gleneida avenue, where she has since very successfully conducted a dressmaking establishment, and who socially made friends readily and kept them, so her loss will be greatly felt among a large circle of acquaintances and friends as well as by her family and among her relatives.
• The following appeared on 24 December 1941 in The Putnam County Courier: (Carmel) Miss Isabelle Karl spent the weekend with her mother in New York.

• Last Edited: 9 Apr 2016

• Charts: Descendants of DEXHEIMER Philipp Peter & Maria Agnesa Wagner / Anna Christina Baltz