The River Running
"Immigrants: we get the job done" -- Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
Louisa M Sohn and John C Frank
Louisa M Sohn and John C Frank married in or about 1898. Carrie was the daughter of Annie C and Adam Sohn born in Maryland February 1872. John had been born in Maryland March 1869. His parents were German immigrants but I don't know their names. Louisa and John were the witnesses at the wedding of Louisa's brother William to Mary Hettchen in 1892, six years before their own marriage.
Louisa and John's son John William was born 14 Aug 1898. By 1900 the family was living at 234 East Eastern Avenue in Baltimore. John C was working as a journeyman baker. By 1910 they had moved to 426 South Highland Avenue and John C was working as a clerk in a hardware store, a job he was to hold for the rest of his life.
Louisa's widowed mother Annie died at 302 South Highland Avenue on 29 May 1914. By 12 Sep 1918 when John William registered for the WWI draft, he and his parents were living at this address. He had started working as a clerk for the Maryland Casualty Company. The 1920 US Census found the family at the same address, with John C and John William working at the same jobs they had previously.
Louisa died 17 Jun 1920. Like her brother Peter and her sister Emma, she was buried in the Oak Lawn Cemetery in Baltimore.
John William married Katherine L Furst 30 Apr 1922 at the Christ English Lutheran Church in Baltimore. Katherine was the daughter of Louise and Albert Furst born in or about 1901.
Katherine and John William had three daughters:
The 1930 US Census found the two oldest girls, their parents and their grandfather John C still living at 302 South Highland Avenue. Sometime between 1935 and 1940 they moved to 3609 Crossland Avenue in the Mayfield neighbourhood of Baltimore. John C was no longer working by then, but John William had risen to be an executive at a life insurance company, presumably Maryland Casualty.
John C died in 1941. I can't find a death record or obituary, so I don't know the exact date. He's buried next to Louisa in the Oak Lawn Cemetery.
I'm not sure whether or not Virginia had married by the time of her grandfather's death. Certainly she had done so by 14 Feb 1944 when her husband, William M Muhly, enlisted in the Army Air Corps. William was born 18 Apr 1922, but I don't know anything else about his family.
Jeanne married Dr Leon Clair Perry 10 Jun 1951 at the Christ Lutheran Church where her parents had married. Leon was the son of Roxie Myrl Woods and Andy Everett Perry born 16 Mar 1921 in Hewlett, Boone County, West Virginia. At the time of his marriage to Jeanne, he had just received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - which gives me some idea as to how he and Jeanne may have met.
Lois married William A Collinge 17 Oct 1959, also at the Christ Lutheran Church. William was the son of Anna Nymann of Denmark and Robert Collinge of England. He was born in New York 18 Dec 1930. His mother later remarried and is mentioned the engagement and wedding announcements in the Baltimore Sun (28 Jun 1959, 01 Nov 1959) as Mrs Anne N Avery. William himself was a graduate of the University of Maryland, while Lois had graduated from the Church Home and Hospital School of Nursing.
Katherine L Furst Frank died 17 Apr 1973. Her obituary in the Baltimore Sun mentions that besides her husband and three daughters, she was survived by 13 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
After Katherine's death, John William married again, his second wife's name being Anna. He died 23 Jul 1992. Besides his second wife and three daughters, he was survived by the same 13 grandchildren and by 16 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.
Jeanne Katherine Frank Perry's husband, Dr Leon Clair Perry, died 10 Jul 2000. He was survived by his wife, a daughter, five sons and five grandchildren.
Virginia Louise Frank Muhly died 10 Dec 2012. Her husband WilliamM Muhly three months later on 11 Mar 2013. They were survived by two daughters, two sons, 11 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Anna Nymann Avery, mother-in-law of Lois Ann Frank Collinge, died in 2010. She's buried in Saint John's Lutheran Church Cemetery in Sweet Air, Baltimore County, Maryland. She shares a headstone with Lois and William, but while their names and dates of birth were already engraved as of early 2011, their dates of death were left blank. As far as I know, both are still alive.