Obituary

We already knew that Peter Schaefer and Maria Magdalena Vierling Schaefer had a son referred to as "Louie" because he appeared on the 1880 census of Murray, Iowa with his family there.  But I could never find any trace of him after that, and so assumed that Mary Schaefer returned to New York with the only two children she had remaining, namely Charles and Lena.

I recently discovered a Schaefer family in the 1892 census of New York.  Mary Schaefer, age 42, was enumerated on Devoe St. in Brooklyn with Ludwig, age 21, Charles, age 17, and Lena, age 14.  Ludwig was a laborer.

On 5 Jun 1893, there was a death of one Louis Schaefer who lived on Devoe St. in the same block where the census of the previous year was taken.  He died of some kind of disease of the heart, and he was buried at Holy Trinity cemetery.  He was 22 years old.