As Johann and family left Russia they traveled through Germany to Bremerhaven and there one of the children came down with the measles. They had to stay there eight days until the child got well. They then boarded the steamship "General Wedner" and arrived in New York 4th July 1879. While on board ship, they lost young Peter and Elizabeth due to measles. It has been said that Elizabeth was quarantined for two weeks after they arrived with a case of the measles. Elizabeth never forgot her two children who died aboard ship. When she was quite elderly she told her granddaughter Gertrude and great granddaughter Beverly, with tears in her eyes, that she could still hear her children cry, "Mama, Mama" as they were taken away from her. She never saw her children again. One day when they enquired about them they were told that they had died and were buried at sea during the night.
As Johann and family left Russia they traveled through Germany to Bremerhaven and there one of the children came down with the measles. They had to stay there eight days until the child got well. They then boarded the steamship "General Wedner" and arrived in New York 4th July 1879. While on board ship, they lost young Peter and Elizabeth due to measles. It has been said that Elizabeth was quarantined for two weeks after they arrived with a case of the measles. Elizabeth never forgot her two children who died aboard ship. When she was quite elderly she told her granddaughter Gertrude and great granddaughter Beverly, with tears in her eyes, that she could still hear her children cry, "Mama, Mama" as they were taken away from her. She never saw her children again. One day when they enquired about them they were told that they had died and were buried at sea during the night.
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