Spotlight Sunday – Elisabeth (Lachowski) Ostrowski

Name: Elisabeth Lachowski (Lachovsky / Lachowska, etc)
Birthday: about 1867
Parents: Joseph Lachowski & Elisabeth Kunath
Siblings: August, John & Joseph
Relationship: married to John Ostrowski, mother of 7 children
Children: Joseph, John, Anthony, Lillian, Marie, George & baby boy
Hometown: Prussia Germany
Immigration: 1875 aboard “Cimbria” from Hamburg
Last Known Residence: Detroit, Michigan
Education: unable to read or write
Occupation: worked as a tailoress in 1880
Church: St. Albertus Church - Detroit, Michigan
Death: August 28, 1897 in childbirth delivering a stillborn son, 30 years old
Cemetery: Mt. Elliott Cemetery, Detroit Michigan
Relationship to Me: 2nd great-grandmother
