Charles Edward Bauch - He was known as Ed or Edward to family coworkers and friends.
His Parents were Henry and Stephania Bauch . Edward was born
on February 5,1854. A few years later on January22,1857, his sister
Emma Bauch was born.
His brother Augustave Bauch was born in 1859 and a brother Henry
A.Bauch was born on June 19,1860.
Stephania may have died sometime between 1854 and 1857. Henry Bauch
remarried Minnie Domke in1858. Henry Bauch died on April 15,1863.
Minnie Domke Bauch remarried Louis Schumm Sr. in 1864. When
Minnie Domke Bauch Schumm, died in August 1917, her Obituary stated
that
“she came directly to Laporte Indiana from Posen,Germany. In the same
year she entered into holy matrimony with Henry Bauch,who died early.
This union had been blessed with three children of whom Henry A. Bauch
survives.”
Louis Schumm Sr and Minnie had three children Louis jr. Willie, and
Rose Schumm.
Edward married Elizabeth “Lizzie Marks” on March 27,1877. By the year 1879,they had moved their family to Fort Wayne, Indiana. Edward was employed with the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad.
Their first-born child Eddie “Edward Charles Bauch “ was born
in 1877. Their second baby was born in 1879. His name was Henry George
Bauch Their third child was Oscar Lenden Bauch born on September23,1880
Garland Ridgeway Bauch was born the fourth baby on July
28,1882. Grover Cleveland Bauch was born on October
29,1884.
Sadly ten days after the birth of their fifth son, Grover Cleveland
Bauch, Lizzie died of Complications of childbirth. Lizzie is buried at
the Patton cemetery in Laporte Indiana. On May 1st 1886 Charles Edward
Bauch remarried a widow with two children. Her name was Rosa Hartstine.
On Sept. 19th 1887 Charles Edward was killed on a train wreck and
explosion near Forest Ohio, he worked as a fireman on the train. He is
buried next to his first wife Lizzie, in Patton Cemetery.