SCHMIDT Rosa Mary

1884 - 1980  (95 years)

• Name	SCHMIDT Rosa Mary
  Born	25 Sep 1884	Lebanon, IL
  Gender	Female
  Died	1980	Little Rock, Arkensas
  Person ID	I1911	Hans Landis Tree for trimming
  Last Modified	19 Jul 2010

  
  

  Father	SCHMIDT Johann Christian,   b. 8 Oct 1831, Damflos, Germany ,   d. 14 Apr 1908  (Age 76 years)
  Mother	GEINES Christina,   b. 2 Jan 1841, IL ,   d. BEF. 1900  (Age < 58 years)
  Married	1859	Lawrence Co, IL
  Family ID	F0052	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	KELLY Thomas E.,   b. 1877, Collinsville, IL ,   d. ABT. 1905, St. Louis, MO  (Age 28 years)
  Married	12 Apr 1903	Lebanon, IL
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F0175	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	HULL Robert Irvin,   b. 21 Nov 1878, St. Louis, Missouri ,   d. 17 Oct 1962, Little Rock. Arkensas  (Age 83 years)
  Married	24 Nov 1906	Lebanon, St. Clair Co, IL
  Children	1. Living   2. Living
  Family ID	F0109	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  According to Rosa, she met her second husband at the St. Louis fair, he was working as a fireman in St. Louis and she was working at the fair. The fair was held from April 30, 1904 to December 1, 1904 and the incubator section where she worked was 2 or 3 exhibits away from the fireman exhibit for St. Louis, so is the most likely place for them to have met. The incubator section became somewhat notorious because over 50% of the infants died there eventually, the exhibit had to install a glass partition in the end to protect the babies. It is said that one of the babies was a foundling and had a contagious infection which several of the other infants caught and died from. Rosa worked at the St. Louis Fair cooking for staff who worked in the baby incubator, got 10 dollars a week and had to pay half of it for child care for her daughter Nellie. Rosa was forced to put the baby up for adoption according to her, as she could not afford to keep her. She would travel from Lebanon, Il to St. Louis by streetcar and drop the baby off with a sitter while she worked. This streetcar had been established specifically for the World's Fair so that people could more easily reach the fair. Rosa met her first husband, Tom Kelly while she was" walking up the street and he was coming out of her father's saloon." Tom was well known to her family and well liked. In the 1930 census records for St. Louis, MO, Rosa states her father was born in Berlin, Germany.