Rosina Wilhelmina Aust

Brief Life History of Rosina Wilhelmina

When Rosina Wilhelmina Aust was born on 6 June 1836, in Kemsie, Maldaiten, Fischhausen, East Prussia, Prussia, Germany, her father, Gottfried Bernhard Aust, was 61 and her mother, Louise Charlotte Huebner, was 47. She married Traugott Bitter on 24 September 1859, in Königsberg, Province of Prussia, Prussia. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 26 May 1919, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Traugott Bitter
1834–1929
Rosina Wilhelmina Aust
1836–1919
Marriage: 24 September 1859
Martha Bitter
1860–1946
Joseph Bitter
1864–1967
William Traugott Bitter
1862–1863
Amelia Bitter
1866–1921
Albert Bitter
1868–1870
George Bitter
1871–1872
Richard Alfred Bitter
1873–1960
Willard Rudolph Bitter
1876–1891
Charles Bitter
1878–1964

Sources (48)

  • Wilhelmina Bitter, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Wilhelmine Aust, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
  • Wilhelmia Rosina Bitter, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

1847

EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Christian Barfuss BIRTH 1 Jun 1800 Bern, Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland, Bern, Switzerland DEATH 16 Apr 1847 (aged 46) Bern, Switzerland BURIAL Logan City Cemetery Logan, Cache County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 27371672

1852 · The Book of Mormon Published in German

On May 25, 1852, the Book of Mormon is published in German.

1859 · Logan is Founded

"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Dietmar, Erwin, Gerhard, Gunter, Jurgen, Kurt, Rudi, Willi.

German: from a shortened form of the personal name August or Augustin .

English: habitational name from Aust, Gloucestershire, whose name derives from Latin augustus ‘consecrated, majestic, venerable’ in a Vulgar Latin and Brittonic Celtic form agust-, with possible reference to the Roman Second Legion (Augusta), stationed at Caerleon on Usk, just across the Severn from Aust, in 75 C.E.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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WILHELMINA AUST BITTER 1836 – 1919

WILHELMINA AUST BITTER 1836 – 1919 – as recorded by one her grand daughters from an account in her own words. Wilhelmina Rosina Aust Bitter was born June 6, 1836 at Rudan, East Prussia. She was t …

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