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C. Rosenach (sic)  33 b. Hanover
Doretta            32      "
Fritz              10    Illinois
Wm.                 7      "
Mary                5      "
Louis               1    Missouri

A daughter, Sophia, was born 1871.

Family story states that the parents and a small child  (would  be  Louis
since I have traced all the others) died in a cholera epidemic  (probably
a flu epidemic)

about 1872. The children were then placed with relatives/friends.

I know that Sophia was sent to an uncle, Fred Lenthe in Grundy Co., Iowa.
She is on the 1880 census with him as niece. She  is  also  on  the  1885
census as niece, adopted.

Fred was Dorothea (Lenthe) Rosenbrook's brother.

Another relative mentioned the town of Phelps City.

Supposedly Claus and Dorothea's daughter, Mary, received  $300  from  her
father's estate around 1887-1890 when she lived in Nebraska, so there may
be a court record in Atchison Co., Missouri and Tabor Co., Nebraska.