Victoria Ruppel

Born: circa 1822
Marbach, Principality of Kurhessen

Died: 10 April 1860
Twelve Corners, Brighton, Monroe County, New York
coat of arms of Kurhessen

Victoria was the daughter of Nikolaus Neumann and Elisabeth Vogel of Marbach. The coat of arms of Kurhessen, also known as Hesse-Kassel, is shown here.

She and her future husband were passengers on the bark Sophie, which sailed from Bremen with 172 passengers in March 1854. Off the Grand Banks, a large quantity of drift ice and a number of icebergs were seen. The Sophie arrived at New York City on 1 May 1854, after a 42-day voyage.

Victoria married John Ambrose Ruppel on 7 November 1854 at St. Joseph's in Rochester, New York.

According to the June 1855 census of Monroe County, she and her husband were living in Brighton, New York at that time.

Between 1856 and 1859, Victoria and John had three children:

  1. Elizabeth (May) (2 Sep 1856 - 5 Dec 1946)
    She married Thomas Anthony Lumbrezer (1847-1936)
  2. Ambrosius [twin] (5 Jul 1859 - 22 Jul 1859)
    He died in infancy.
  3. Theresia [twin] (5 Jul 1859 - 1859)
    She died in infancy.

Victoria died at age 38 from a "disease of the heart." According to her obituary, she had been suffering from dropsy and enlargement of the heart, and had obtained a prescription from her doctor the day before. She and her husband were at work in the barn of a Mr. Richardson at Twelve Corners, and she remained there after he left. An hour later, she was discovered lying dead upon the floor. A coroner named Bloss held an inquest, and the verdict of the jury was that she had died from her heart condition.

Her funeral seems to have taken place from St. Joseph's on 12 April 1860, but the place of burial is unknown. At that time, St. Joseph's was using the Goodman St. Cemetery, which was just south of the corner of the present day Palmer and Breck streets. After Holy Sepulchre Cemetery was established in 1871, the Goodman St. Cemetery was closed and sold to the New York Central Railroad, who wanted the land for a railroad yard. In April 1872, the graves were dug up and moved to Holy Sepulchre. However, there is no actual record of her reinterment at Holy Sepulchre.