Louisa Fredericka Backhaus

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111016946/louisa-backhaus

Louisa arrived in the United States on April 6. 1892 and made her home with much of her family in Akron, Ohio.

Akron Beacon Journal May 18, 1910

Mrs. BACKHAUS Dies of Exhaustion -- Widow in Akron for Many Years.

An old resident of Akron, Mrs Louisa Backhaus, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs A. J. Prochnow, Tuesday morning about 9 o'clock of exhaustion and a general breakdown. She was a widow and for many years had been a resident of this city.

The funeral was held from the residence a 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, and later from the German Lutheran church of which she had long been a member. Interment in Glendale cemetery.

Comment: Louisa was born 30 Jan 1833 in Mellen, Pommern, (Ger/Prussia), died 17 May 1910 and her surviving children were Karl, August, Mrs Prochnow and Mrs Gomoll (extracted from the Zion Lutheran Church & School records)