Death Record of Catharina Elisabeth (Rödiger) Lotz

This is the record that established that Conrad Tobias Rödiger/Roediger did indeed have an older full sister. I have had to extrapolate the header info from the info contained in the columns, but with the help of a friend at the South East Ohio Historical Society in Athens, Ohio I have learned what caused her death

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Column 1 [deceased's name and immediate family]--Catharina Elisabeth Lotz geb. Rödiger, Tochter die Eheleute Tobias Rödiger und Anna Margaretha Eichenauer zu Tann; Ehefrau des Puddler Jakob Lotz
Catharina Elisabeth Lotz, née Rödiger, daughter of the married couple Tobias Rödiger and Anna Margaretha Eichenauer of Tann; wife of the Puddler*, Jakob Lotz

Column 2 [deceased's occupation and residence]--Ehefrau, Bochum
Wife, residing in Bochum

Column 3 [age and birthdate]--25 [Jahre alt], geb 28 November 1848
25 years old, born 28 Nov 1848

Column 4 [relationship of informant]--der Ehemann
the husband

Column 5 [date and time of death]--18 achtzehnter Juli, Abends 6 Uhr
18 July [1874], 6 in the evening

Column 6 [cause of death]--Schwindsucht
consumption/tuberculosis

Column 7 [date and place of burial]--21 Juli; Bochum
21 July [1874], in Bochum

*See the previous post for an explanation of the occupation of Puddler

By comparing this record, with that of her marriage record (see previous post), it becomes clear that she had only been married for one and a half years when she died. I'm no expert on TB, but my understanding is that usually a person lives a year or more before succumbing to the disease, so it is likely that Catharina Elisabeth had the disease before she was married or contracted it afterwards, but she probably suffered with it for most of her married life.

The question of whether she had any children was answered by the record immediately above her own death record.

#109--
Column 1 [deceased's name and immediate family]--Johann Georg Heinrich Conrad Lotz, Sohn der Eheleute Puddler Jacob Lotz und Catharina Elizabeth Rödiger
Johann Georg Heinrich Conrad Lotz, son of the married couple, the Puddler Jacob Lotz and Catharina Elizabeth Rödiger

Column 2 [deceased's occupation and residence]--Kind, Bochum
Child, residing in Bochum

Column 3 [age and birthdate]--geb. 30. November 1873
0 years old, born 30 Nov 1873

Column 4 [relationship of informant]--die Eltern
the parents

Column 5 [date and time of death]--17 siebenzehnten Juli, Abends 1/2 11 Uhr
17 July [1874], 10:30 in the evening

Column 6 [cause of death]--Brechreiz
diarrea and vomiting [often referred to in 19th century America as cholera infantum, a common cause of infant death]--this explanation is also curtesy of my friend at SEOHS

Column 7 [date and place of burial]--21 Juli; Bochum
21 July [1874], in Bochum

Next post will contain a surprise wrapped in a mystery, coming as it does from the same page as Jakob Lotz and Catharina Elisabeth Rödiger's marriage record in Bochum.