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John Schuchmann and Rosa Anna Sippel, cabinet card, Johnson's Studios.

Year: 1895 • Collection: Schuchmann

The wedding was held in Carlyle, Illinois. John was 26, Rosa was 18. They had four children before Rosa suffered a fatal lung embolism and died at 27 years old in 1904. A newspaper clipping described the funeral cortege as the longest that had ever been seen in town.

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