ID	First	Middle	Last	DOB	DOD	COD
152	Louisa	Gaetner	Paulus	N/A	9/27/1876	N/A

veteran	exhumed	purchaser	cemetery
N/A	FALSE	N/A	Adams Street

lot	plot
N/A	R6 G4 lot 182 1/2; south face; marker is of limestone, badly eroded by rain and lichens. Only south face is now legible.

relations

Rev. C.F. Paulus (husband) Louisa (daughter b. c1876)

comments

Berea lists her date of burial as 29 September 1876, her age at death as 31 years old. The Grindstone City Advertiser reported: "Died. Paulus—In Berea, Ohio, September 27th, 1876, Mrs. Louisa Paulus (nee Gaetner) wife of Rev. C.F. Paulus, Professor in German Wallace College, aged 31 years, 8 months and 21 days. The deceased was born in Bremen, Germany, and came to this country in the summer of 1875, to become the wife of Prof. Paulus, to whom she was married soon after her arrival. The funeral services will be held in the German M.E. Church, on Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock." A transcription of a headstone was recorded in 1904. "Louisa wife of Rev G.[sic] F. Paulus, died Sept 27, 1876, age 31". Prof. F. C. Paulus [sic] purchased 1/2 of lot#182. An acid test done on this stone suggests it is limestone; it is very badly worn; small fissures exist and the surface is crumbling. If inscriptions ever existed on the other faces, they are completely effaced. Louisa's inscription is all that remains. A picture of Dr. Carl Friedrich Paulus and wife Louisa is located in the Paulus file at the Baldwin-Wallace College Historian's House. On the back of the photo the following is written: "Dr. Carl Friedrich Paulus born at Salon bei Lugwigsburg Germany July 27 1843 and died at Berea Ohio Nov 1893 and his wife Louise Emilie Gartner, born Bremen Germany 1849 and died of child birth fever with the birth of her first child at Berea Ohio 1876 probably about the end of September or early in October- They had met while Dr Paulus was teachign at a theological school in Bremen. before he came to America in 1871. In 1875 Louise came to America where she was met in New York by Dr Paulus and they were married. This is probably their wedding picture." Louisa's marker was loose and was releveled.

sources

E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904, Berea Historical Society "List of Burials and Names 1856-1871", City of Berea Records Grindstone City Advertiser 24 September 1876 "Number of Burial lots and prices," Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society. Louisa Paulus tombstone photograph, Jeremy Feador, 2007. Dr. C.F. and Louisa Paulus Wedding Photograph, Paulus file, Baldwin-Wallace College Historian's House. Grave Marker Repair Notes, Louisa Paulus, 2009.