Antonette Anna (Rosner) Zulauf (1889 - 1918)

Born 13 May 1889 in St. Louis, Missouri

Ancestors

Wife of Albert S Zulauf — married 21 Jun 1912 in St. Louis, Missouri

Descendants

Died 31 Oct 1918 at age 29 in St. Louis, Missouri

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Biography

Antonette died in the 1918 Flu Epidemic one day after giving birth to her 4th child. On the night that Antonette died George Rosner, the grandfather of the day old baby, used a rubber glove with a pin hole in it to feed the baby.

The fourth child of George cf Katherine Rosner was Antonette Anna Rosner - She was born on June 12, 1889 in St. Louis, Missouri - Antoinette married a Albert Zu/auf on June 12, 1912 by the Rev. Herman Nieters at the St. Boniface Church Antonette sister Elizabeth & her husband Charles Lichtenberg stood up for them - Albert was born on March 20, 1889. At the time of their marriage he was living at 565 Lee Avenue in Seattle, Washington and Antonette Rosner was living at7506 Tennessee in St. Louis.

1/24/2013 I talked with Velva the youngest of Albert Zulauf’s children this morning, and asked why he had moved with his four young children to Seattle after his wife had died in the Flu Epidemic of 1918. She told me that Antonette’s sisters had each taken one of the children and were spoiling them rotten. When they would get together they would just fight. By this time he had moved to Seattle, had a house on Queen Ann Hill. His mother and father lived on one floor, his two sisters had another floor, and he lived in the basement. He assumed he had built in baby sitters. Wrong. His mother spoke German-Swiss and the kids could not understand her. His sisters refused to take care of the kids. Somehow he found an Indian woman named Mrs. Hose In Pacific, Washington, to board and take care of the four children. She loved Louis and spoiled him, but she did shape up the children. When Albert was 35 he met Mae, who was 25 and divorced. After three weeks she agreed to marry him. He promised they would get an apartment and the kids would continue to live with Mrs. Hose. After three month, the people who had rented them their apartment, decided they wanted their apartment for themselves. The solution in Albert’s mind was to get a house and get the kids back and be a family. Mae told Velva every Friday she had her bags packed and was ready to leave, and then she got pregnant with Velva and couldn’t leave. I remember my mother, Alberta, saying that Mae had put the four kids in the attic to sleep while she kept Velva downstairs with them. She said they made Mae’s life hell by wetting the bed well into their teenage years. When Mom and Dad married, Fran and Gin came to live with them. Gin married her husband, Frank, shortly thereafter. Fran went to Issaquah High School and lived with my parents until she married Bob Dyler after I was born.

Sources

Obituary: St. Louis Dispatch, November 2, 1918, page 6

ZULAUF -- Entered into rest on Thursday, October 31, 1918 at 11:50 p.m., Antonette Zulauf, (nee Rosner), beloved wife of Albert Zulauf, dear mother of Alberta, Louis, Virginia and Frances Zulauf, dear daughter of George and Katherine Rosner, dear sister of Joseph, Mrs. Catherine Zeller, Charles, Mrs. Elisabeth Lichtenberg, John, Agnes and George Rosner, and our dear sister-in-law, aged 29 years, 5 months, and 18 days.

Funeral from family residence, 7508 South Grand Avenue, on Sunday, November 8 at 2 p.m. Interment in Mount Olive Cemetery. Private.