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5195 | Rudolph Christian Carl Rudi Schenken ![]() ![]() ![]() why and how Grandpa Schenken committed suicide. Interesting that within a few days I received separate letters from Anneliese Pfuhl and Dr. Silvia Koch with the following information. This is not all pleasent to read, but it is apparently a true reflection of what happened at the time I quote froma letter dated 3 February, 2001, from Dr. Koch: "Concerning your question of your Grandfather Schenken's death I can inform you by a letter of his sister, Luise Schenken. She was in correspondence with Gertrud Stoy, nee Krebs, sister of my Grandmother, for many years, until the 1950's. They had met in 1911 in Freiburg when Luise visited Germany. After the death in 1977 of Anita Stoy, Gertrud Stoy's daughter, we sorted out the estate and we found several letters to Gertrud from Luise. In one of these letters Luise wrote about the death of her brother, Rudolf Christian Schenken, in 1906. He had had a lot of economical problems and went bankrupt. After this he tried to end his life by gas [gas-cock but he couldn't manage it]. Then he took a glass of spectacles and cut his throat -- so written in Aunt Luise's letter." Then in a letter dated 18 January, 2001, from Anneliese, she sent me a few pages from material Helen Pfuhl is translating from notes Hugo Koch, one of Hermann and Mathilde Koch's 13 children, had written about his brothers. About Adolph Koch, his eldest brother, Hugo wrote: "As soon as Adolph had established himself in Iowa he asked his fiance to join him. Johanne Carspecken quit her job in Uruguay and returned to Germany for a visit. Once arrived in Luzerne she found friendly reception in a intimate family, so that the wedding could take place soon after in the house of Rudolph Schenken." The story then continues about how Adolph and Johanne settled into farm life near Keystone, Iowa, then Hugo Koch wrote: "It was also during this visit [Hugo visited his brother Adolph in Iowa] that Hugo and his brother [Adolph] visited the farm of Rudolph Schenken, only about 3 miles away, with whom Adolph was close friends and who according to Hugo had already succeeded in improving his standard of living. This friendship formed the basis for the marriage between their children. Hugo writes that this friendship with the Schenken family suffered after the suicide of Minnie Koch's [daughter of Adolph] husband Rudi Schenken [son of Rudolph]. The Schenken family didn't treat Minnie and her 6 children well, and after the divorce between Jenny Koch [daughter of Arnold Koch] and her husband Robert Schenken [also a son of Rudolph Schenken] the situation became worse." How very sad. And I am very grateful we seem to moved beyond those dark days. Our best wishes to you all, Rudy | ||
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