Christine Bosch
Born: October 10th, 1810
Died: June 3rd, 1883
Obituary
Bosch- Died in this city, Sunday morning, June 3rd at 4:30, of rheumatism Mrs. Christine Bosch, wife of John G. Bosch, aged 72 years, seven months, and twenty-five days.
The death of Mrs. Bosch removes from our midst one who has shared the good and bad luck of the semi-centennial city, almost since the time of its foundation. She was one of the very few, who came here as soon as the country was open for settlement and it is a sorrowful coincidence, that she should have passed away almost at the very time when the city which she called her home for fully fifty years, was joyously celebrating its fiftieth birthday.
Mrs. Bosch was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, on the 10th day of October, in the year 1810, and came to America in 1825, when her parents emigrated, making the state of Florida their home. Removing with her family to St. Louis, she there married her first husband, Mr. Francis T. Bercht, with whom she came to Burlington in 1833. Her happy union with him was ended by his sudden death, by accident, on September 5, 1853. Two children remained with her. Chas Bercht, now living in East St. Louis, and Mrs. Theo Waleschmidt, of this city. On August 21, 1855, she was married to Mr. Bosch, with whom she has lived twenty-seven happy years, till death on Sunday morning put an end to her earthly career. For eleven long years, the deceased had been an invalid, suffering from rheumatism in its worst form. Nothing had been neglected to procure a restoration of her health. Her husband accompanied her three times to Europe, where the most renowned doctors were consulted and the most celebrated bathing places were visited, but this was of little avail, as the watering places she visited in this country, such as Colfax, in our own state, Hamilton and Hot Springs. The latter renowned place she visited during the fall and winter just passed, but without success, and when some time ago she returned, accompanied by her devoted husband, it was to spend the last days in the presence of those who were near to her heart.
Though confined to her home for a long number of years Mrs. Bosch was very well known to a large number of the older residents, and unanimously beloved and respected for her kindness of nature and her ever-willing purpose to be of help and service to others. To her children and grandchildren, she was a most loving mother, and to her husband a loving wife. Revered by all who knew her, her death is a loss to many, but a very hard blow to her husband and family. We express to the husband our fullest sympathy.