Individual Details

Immigration

Steerage passengers
15 Gottfried Graefe 45 m merchant Wintersdorf (Country to which they belong)
16 Wilhelmine " 21 f "
17 Augusta " 15 f "

Gottfried Graefe
Arrival Date: 17 May 1849
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Bremen, Germany
Ship Name: Johann Smidt
Port of Arrival: New Orleans, Louisiana
National Archives' Series Number: M259_30

Marriage

married 36 years

Census (family)

1860 Jefferson County KY 472 2 W Louisville
Ruwe, Henry. 42, Male, Huckster, 400 real estate, 150 personal p., Oldenberg
Menia 32, Female, Saxony
Slanta, Louis, 16, Male, Hostler, Saxony

Census (family)

1870 Census, 4th Ward, Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY, Page 55 -
306-450 Reve, Henry 62 M,W, No Occupation, 15,000,20,000, Oldenburg
Reve, Minnie 42, F,W, Keep House, , Saxony
Graffa, Gotfried, 67,M,W, at home, , Saxony
Hollenkamp, Augusta, 37, F, W, at home, , Saxony
Hollenkamp, Henry, 12,M,W, at school, , Kentucky
Hollenkamp, Mary, 10, F,W, at school, , Kentucky
Hollenkamp, Minnie, 8, F,W, , Kentucky

Census (family)

J. N. RUEWE Self M Male W 63 GER Teamster GER GER
Wilhelmina RUEWE Wife M Female W 52 SAXONY Keeps House SAXONY SAXONY

Source Information:
Census Place Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky
Family History Library Film 1254422
NA Film Number T9-0422
Page Number 147C

Census

Living with her sister, Augusta Graff at 621 Lampton Street -
Holen Kamp, A, head WF, July 1824, 76, widow married 48 yrs. 5 children - 1 living, born Germany, parents Germany. Immigrated 1849, 51 years in US
can read, write, speak English. Own house free of mortgage.
Weaber, Wilhelmina, sister, WF, Feb 1828, 72, widow married 36 yrs., no children, born Germany, parents Germany. Immigrated 1849, 51 years in US
can read, write, speak English.
DeWitt, Nellie, Grandchild, WF, Nov 1895, 4 yrs. born Kentucky, parents born Kentucky.

Census

Jefferson, Louisville SD 5, ED 70, sheet no. 10 B
28, April, 1910. 187, visit 252
Hollenkamp, Augusta, Head, F, W, 76, Widowed, 5 childern born, 0 living. Germany
Rueve, Minnie, sister, F, W, 82, Widowed, 0 childern born, 0 living. Germany
DeWitt, Nellie, Granddaughter, F,W, 14, single, Kentucky.

Sisters Augusta and Minnie immigrated to the US in 1849. Augusta has none listed for her occupation while Minnie's says Own Income.

Soundex:
Minnie Reive
Enumeration District: 0070 Color: W
Age: 82 Birth Place: Germany
Visit: 0252
County: Jefferson, Louisville
Relation: Sister
Relatives: Husband Augusta Hollenkamp (W)

Death

The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) Thu, Jan 6, 1916, Page 5
Mrs. Wilhelmina Ruewe.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Ruewe, widow of John Henry Ruewe, who, nearly half a century ago, founded the Farmers' Home Hotel, on Market street, between Jackson and Preston streets, died of senility at 6:45 o'clock yesterday morning at the Deaconess Hospital. She had been ill six months. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon at Schildt's chapel, 700 East Broadway, and at 2:30 o'clock at the Third German Methodist church, of which she was one of the oldest members. Burial will be in Cave Hill.
Born in Germany 89 years ago she came here as a girl with her father and sister. She made her home with the latter, Mrs. Augusta Hollenkamp, 619 Lampton street. Her husbands's death occurred in 1888. Besides her sister she is survived by several grand-nieces, residents of Louisville and Cincinnati.

Owensboro Messenger (Owensboro, Kentucky) Fri. Jan 7, 1919, Page 7
Death has reunited Mrs. Augusta Hollenkamp, eighty-one years old, and Mrs. Wilhelmina Ruewe, eighty-nine years old, sisters, who had been inseparable during their long lives. Twenty-three hours after the death of her sister, Mrs. Ruewe, Mrs. Hollenkamp died at 5:45 o'clock this morning at her home, 619 Lampton street.
Both were victims of the grip. A double funeral will take place at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) Fri, Jan 7, 1916, Page 5
Aged Sisters, Who Died of Grip, To Be Buried In Cave Hill To-day
MRS. AUGUSTA HOLLENKAMP. MRS. HENRY RUEWE
Double funeral services will be conducted this afternoon for Mrs. Wilhelmina Ruewe and Mrs. Augusta Hollenkamp, sisters, who had been inseparable for four-score years. Services will be held at 2 o'clock at Schildt's chapel, 700 East Broadway, and at 2:30 o'clock at the Third German Methodist Episcopal church, of which they were among the oldest members. Burial will be in adjoining graves in Cave Hill cemetery.
Their deaths resulted from the grip and occurred withing twenty-three hours. Mrs. Ruewe died Wednesday morning at the Deaconess Hospital. She was 89 years old, and the widow of John Henry Ruewe, founder of the Farmers' Home Hotel, on Market street, between Preston and Jackson streets. His death occurred in 1888. She was survived by her sister, Mrs. Hollenkamp, with whom she made her home, 619 Lampton street, and several grandnieces and grandnephews.
Mrs. Hollenkamp died at 5:30 o'clock yesterday morning. She was 81 years old, and the widow of Henry Hollenkamp, a grocer. She is survived by fourteen grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. The sisters were natives of Germany, coming to Louisville with their father when they were girls.

Burial

Section A, lot 559, grave 9. Owners of lot 559 are John H Ruwe and George Kramer.
Inscription; Minnie Ruwe, born Feb 10 1828, died Jan 5 1916