Bertha Mailahn
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Bertha, and her twin sister Anna, were the eldest children in the family and she was also the first to die young. Unlike the majority of her siblings, however, she did manage to marry and have a child - Grant Welch. Her son was born in June of 1905. The previous March her sister Anna became ill with consumption but the progression of the disease was slow in her. In about September Bertha also became ill with tuberculosis of the lungs, another name for consumption. Bertha died relatively quickly in November at the age of 25 while Anna continued to struggle on until she finally passed in March 1906. At the end of the following May 1906, Grant came down with lung fever and died just three weeks later. He was two days shy of his first birthday. These three were the first in a long line of deaths in the Mailahn family. Bertha's husband, likely destraught over the loss, lived with his siblings for several years afterword. In 1912 he would be elected to be among the jury in the coroner's inquest over the triple homocide/suicide of the Mailahn family - his previous in-laws. He did eventually remarry but does not appear to have ever had additional children.
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- 10 Nov 1904 - The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin): Marriage Licenses