My Trails into the Past

This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. Over five days, three family members of the Horoch family in Oberhundem, Kreis Olpe, Westfalen, died. The first was eleven-year-old Johan Joseph Carl, who died on 1 October 1857, just ten days short of his twelfth birthday. He died from dysentery. [1] The next day on 2 October, the youngest child, Maria Elisabeth Horoch, died from dysentery. She was about a year and a half old. [2]                                                  Lastly, on the 5 October, their f...