AUGUSTA KOHRS BIELENBERG
1880-1901
Miss Augusta Kohrs Bielenberg-second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Bielenberg of Deer Lodge died yesterday morning in Philadelphia of typhoid fever. The news, while not entirely unexpected, is a great shock to the many Anaconda and Deer Lodge friends of the young lady. Particulars are told in the following special dispatch from Deer Lodge.
Deer Lodge. January 5. - N. J Bielenberg received a telegram from Philadelphia this morning conveying the sad news that his daughter, Miss Augusta, died there at 9 a. m. Mrs. Bielenberg started last Saturday for Philadelphia in response to a telegram announcing that Miss Gussie—as she was best known—was dangerously ill of typhoid fever. Mrs. Bielenberg was at the bedside when her daughter passed away. The crisis of the disease came Wednesday. Since that time the sufferer gradually grew weaker until the end came this morning. Mr. Bielenberg starts out to-night for the East to join Mrs. Bielenberg and Miss Anna Bielenberg, the other daughter, who is with her mother. The remains will be brought to Deer Lodge for burial.
Miss Augusta Bielenberg, the second daughter of N. J. and Annie Bielenberg, was born in Butte 21 years ago, but for 18 years of her active life she has lived in Deer Lodge and grown up amid the pleasant surroundings of her beautiful home and town. By nature, she was of a sunny and vivacious disposition, and was not only the life of the household but a pleasant factor in every social event. Her companions were chosen from among the poor as well as the more prosperous, and she never evinced any desire to pass any by because they were not on the same social level. To say that she was a universal favorite is only giving the exact truth.
Her life, while not an uneventful one, has been spent mostly in Deer Lodge. For a year or two past she was in attendance at a conservatory of music in St. Paul Minnesota, paying particular attention to the culture of her voice, which was of an unusually fin quality. Las fall she entered a seminary for young ladies in West Philadelphia, where she was stricken down with her fatal illness. While extremely active, Miss Bielenberg was never of a robust constitution, so that she more readily succumbed to the disease so prevalent in most places in winter.
In the circle of young ladies to which she belonged she will be most sadly missed, the more so as she is the first one to be taken, but it is in the home of which she was the life that the blow falls with crumbling weight. What comfort human sympathy can give the people of Deer Lodge will most gladly render to Mr. Bielenberg and family, yet after all “ the heart knoweth its own bitterness” and the friends and neighbors must stand at the threshold of sorrow while the parents, sisters and brothers enter the portals to be alone with their dead. The date of the funeral will be announced later when it is definitely known the remains will reach Deer Lodge.
Reference
1. Anaconda Standard, Anaconda, Montana, January 5th, 1901
Miss Augusta Kohrs Bielenberg-second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Bielenberg of Deer Lodge died yesterday morning in Philadelphia of typhoid fever. The news, while not entirely unexpected, is a great shock to the many Anaconda and Deer Lodge friends of the young lady. Particulars are told in the following special dispatch from Deer Lodge.
Deer Lodge. January 5. - N. J Bielenberg received a telegram from Philadelphia this morning conveying the sad news that his daughter, Miss Augusta, died there at 9 a. m. Mrs. Bielenberg started last Saturday for Philadelphia in response to a telegram announcing that Miss Gussie—as she was best known—was dangerously ill of typhoid fever. Mrs. Bielenberg was at the bedside when her daughter passed away. The crisis of the disease came Wednesday. Since that time the sufferer gradually grew weaker until the end came this morning. Mr. Bielenberg starts out to-night for the East to join Mrs. Bielenberg and Miss Anna Bielenberg, the other daughter, who is with her mother. The remains will be brought to Deer Lodge for burial.
Miss Augusta Bielenberg, the second daughter of N. J. and Annie Bielenberg, was born in Butte 21 years ago, but for 18 years of her active life she has lived in Deer Lodge and grown up amid the pleasant surroundings of her beautiful home and town. By nature, she was of a sunny and vivacious disposition, and was not only the life of the household but a pleasant factor in every social event. Her companions were chosen from among the poor as well as the more prosperous, and she never evinced any desire to pass any by because they were not on the same social level. To say that she was a universal favorite is only giving the exact truth.
Her life, while not an uneventful one, has been spent mostly in Deer Lodge. For a year or two past she was in attendance at a conservatory of music in St. Paul Minnesota, paying particular attention to the culture of her voice, which was of an unusually fin quality. Las fall she entered a seminary for young ladies in West Philadelphia, where she was stricken down with her fatal illness. While extremely active, Miss Bielenberg was never of a robust constitution, so that she more readily succumbed to the disease so prevalent in most places in winter.
In the circle of young ladies to which she belonged she will be most sadly missed, the more so as she is the first one to be taken, but it is in the home of which she was the life that the blow falls with crumbling weight. What comfort human sympathy can give the people of Deer Lodge will most gladly render to Mr. Bielenberg and family, yet after all “ the heart knoweth its own bitterness” and the friends and neighbors must stand at the threshold of sorrow while the parents, sisters and brothers enter the portals to be alone with their dead. The date of the funeral will be announced later when it is definitely known the remains will reach Deer Lodge.
Reference
1. Anaconda Standard, Anaconda, Montana, January 5th, 1901
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