The 20^th Century.

Edesse Petelle Myer and her husband Odilon lived in his home at 1912 Milwaukee Avenue with his remaining girls, Agnes, 22, Emma, 15 and Lizzie, 13. Other of Odilon's children, Joseph and Juliane are not found in the 1900 census with their father. Hover over the map below to view home locations.

Three of Edesse's children were in Chicago in 1900. Matilda and Henry Odenbrett lived around the corner at 425 Rhine. He was a corset designer/manufacturer.

Joseph and his oldest child, Mabel, lived at 1221 North California Avenue. He was a railroad conductor and Mabel was at school. His wife Lulu and their two younger children, Walter and Stella, were in Milwaukee living with her parents.

Paul and Anna, with daughter Corinne, were on Belmont Avenue. Sadly, this couple was soon to divorce.

In 1902, more heartache for the family as Odilon's daughter Emma, at just 17 years of age, died of tuberculosis like her sisters before her. She too was buried at National Bohemian cemetery.

Tuberculosis (TB), or consumption as it was called, is spread easily when a person with active TB coughs or sneezes. In these days before pasteurization, milk from cows infected with bovine tuberculosis was another source of the disease. One person contracting TB could easily start a chain of deaths in their family.