Augusta Buchhold

Per Mary Jane Yann Stapp's family history book, "Before WWI, Rudolph's sister, Augusta, came to New Albany where most of the family lived for a visit. The world situation became very unstable and I imagine after the disturbance in the Balkans, she rapidly departed for home. Her husband was in the German army. Rudolph got word that the Lusitania, the British ship she had sailed on for home, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915 off the coast of Ireland. After several days of anxiety and sorrow, the family learned that Augusta did not arrive in New York in time to board the Lusitania and had waited for another ship."