Elisabethe Sabina Loesch

Elisabethe Sabina Loesch

WürttembergProbable

4th great-grandmother · 1803–1872

Born

spring 1803, Crailsheim, Württemberg

Died

12 August 1872

Parents

Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch

Married

Georg Melchior Julius Prüger

Sources

7

Images

1

Research status

Evidence: Her 1872 burial entry, read from the register, and her son's 1924 Pittsburgh death certificate. Weak or missing: Her given name differs between registers (Elisabeth Catharina in 1844), and her birth is from a family tree. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1803

Born spring 1803, Crailsheim, Württemberg S12S133

Burial1872

Elisabethe Sabina Loesch died 12 August 1872 at 5 a.m., a widow of Kirchberg u. Oa.; buried 14 August 1872 at ten in the morning

her own burial entry, burial entry no. 534, read from the register image S133

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents—

Father: Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch Probable confirm or correct →

Parents1835

🆕 Her mother: Maria Dorothea Wolf Probable confirm or correct →, by the indexes of her baptism S840 and of her 1835 marriage S122. What is weak: both are indexes, and her own 1872 burial entry, read from the register, calls her mother Maria Dorothea geb. Muck S133; the maiden name is unresolved. added 28 September 2026.

Parents2026

🆕 Her parents, named for the first time in this record, 21 September 2026. Father Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch, Glasermeister

master glazier — of Crailsheim; mother Maria Dorothea geb. Muck. Both are marked deceased in the 1872 entry S133

Names1924

Her surname is Lösch, and it is settled. The Württemberg index reads the Kurrent of this entry as a different surname altogether; the register itself names her father a Lösch of Crailsheim, which is also the birthplace the German deaths index gives her. It is corroborated on another continent: her son Julius Karl's 1924 Pittsburgh death certificate gives his mother's maiden name as "Lossetta Loesch"

the given name garbled by an informant who never saw a Württemberg register, the surname right S68S133

Marriage—

Wife of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, mother of Julius Karl Proeger S12

Names—

Name variants: Elisabeth Catharina (parish register), Elisabethe Sabina (FamilySearch index), Lossetta (death certificate) S12

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

Open question

⚠ Her given name is still not settled, and a second ORIGINAL now backs Sabina. The 1844 Kirchberg baptism of her son calls her Elisabeth Catharina geb. Lösch S69; a Schwieberdingen family register, written by a different parish for a different purpose, calls her Elisabeth Sabina geb. Lösch S159. Two contemporaneous registers disagree and neither is overturned here. Her son's 1924 death certificate adds a third form, Lossetta S68. ⚠ That same Schwieberdingen page names a daughter, Christiane Juliane Prüger (1838–1911), and rejects Ancestry's offered residence of Schwieberdingen for her

she is named there as an absent parent, at Kirchberg.

Open question

⚠️ Her date of birth is not settled, and is not going to be forced. The register states her age at death as 69 years, 3 months, 14 days, which counts back to late April 1803

not the 26 May 1803 the index offers. Those digits sit at the edge of legibility even at full resolution. The image establishes spring 1803 at Crailsheim and no more; the record that would settle it is her baptism at Crailsheim, which is not in hand S133

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Burial register, Evangelische Kirche Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn) — Heiraten u. Tote 1784-1896, burial entry no. 534 · full resolution 4796 × 4013 px — page img 656/706, entry 534

Parish register — burial · 14 August 1872

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In the record Generation 6 — earliest known

1. S12FamilySearch Tree public pages, no login required for deceased persons — William Harry Proeger KC1N-799, Aileane Marie Silva L9GZ-NDP, William Leonard Proeger L7GK-VBK, Queen Anne Proeger LHQW-W1L — ancestors.familysearch.org. User-contributed; event lists are treated as PROBABLE unless separately sourced.
2. S68Julius Proeger — Pennsylvania death certificate, 6 January 1924. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, file no. 677, registration district Pittsburgh, Allegheny County; Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906–1972 (Ancestry collection 5164), Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Read on the certificate image 16 September 2026. Date of birth April 15, 1844, age 79, widower, retired; birthplace Germany; maiden name of mother Loesch, her birthplace Germany. The certificate names the mother and not the father — line 11 reads unknown Proeger. The father's given names came from S69, a different record on a different continent. This is also the record whose 15 April 1844 birth date made that match provable rather than plausible.
3. S69Carl Julius Prüger — Lutheran baptism, Kirchberg an der Jagst (Oberamt Gerabronn), Württemberg, 28 April 1844. Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023), retrieved 16 September 2026. Born 15 April 1844, between 11 and 12 noon, baptised 28 April 1844 at Kirchberg an der Jagst, Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg — the register writes the place Gerabronn, Kirchberg u. Oa. (today Baden-Württemberg); father Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, Bürger und Schuhmachermeister dahier; mother Elisabeth Catharina geb. Lösch. Entry no. 22, original scan 5759 × 4607 px. The record that ended the "somewhere in Germany" wall on this line, and the origin of the Prüger spelling that was anglicised to Proeger in America. The identification rests on an exact birth-date match with S68, not on the name alone. ⚠ Superseded note, corrected 20 September 2026: this entry previously said the mother's name was lost in the binding fold and that her surname came from S68 alone. That was a limitation of a low-resolution screenshot, not of the record — at full resolution the line is legible, and the Schrift im Falz verdeckt flag on the film refers to a gutter this entry sits clear of. The register names the mother, and it is the best of the three readings of her given name — see S122. The parish is Kirchberg an der Jagst and the Oberamt is Gerabronn: the siblings' entries read Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), and Julius gave Kirchberg as his home to the Hamburg clerk in 1865.
4. S122Georg Melchior Julius Proeger & Elisabethe Sabina Lösch — marriage, Triensbach, Crailsheim, Württemberg, 1835. Germany, Marriages, 1558–1929, FamilySearch ARK 1:1:NZMF-P6V (bride's entry 1:1:NZMF-P6F), read 20 September 2026. Groom born 1804 at Ertenbrechtshausen, single; bride born 1803 at Crailsheim. His parents: Joh. Leonhard David Proeger and Eva Barbara Schmidt. Her parents: Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch and Maria Dorothea Wolf. This is the record that names a seventh generation on the Proeger side and a sixth on the Lösch side. It is an index entry, not an image: everything it supplies is Probable until a parish register page is read at Triensbach or Crailsheim. ⚠ Three readings of one woman's given name. This index says Elisabethe Sabina; the 1844 Kirchberg baptism register, written at the time and read at full resolution, says Elisabeth Catharina [S69]; Julius's 1924 Pennsylvania death certificate says Lossetta [S68]. The surname Lösch is identical on all three, and this record takes the contemporaneous register as primary. ⚠ The birthplace is a lead, not a finding. The FamilySearch shared tree says Schwäbisch Hall; both index originals say Erten- or Entenbrechtshausen, two readings of one hand, and Erkenbrechtshausen is a real hamlet 3½ km from the Triensbach church. The place-standardiser separately mangled the baptism entry into "Kirchberg an der Iller, Biberach", 150 km south. Always read the original place field, never the standardised one. ⚠ Corrected 26 September 2026: his 1804 birth register [S591] names his mother as Anna Maria Busch. Eva Barbara Schmid(t) was his stepmother, his father's second wife from 1806, and she raised him.
5. S133Elisabetha Sabina (Lösch) Prüger — burial register, Kirchberg u. Oa., 14 August 1872. Evangelische Kirche Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), Heiraten u. Tote 1784–1896, image 656 of 706, burial entry no. 534; Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart, through Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023, record 15195655). Read from the register image at full resolution, 4796 × 4013 px, 21 September 2026. Died 12 August 1872 at five in the morning, a Wittwe (widow) of Kirchberg; buried 14 August at ten; age at death given as 69 years, 3 months, 14 days. Father Johann Heinrich Melchior Lösch, Glasermeister of Crailsheim, marked deceased; mother Maria Dorothea geb. Muck, marked deceased; her late husband named in the entry as a Schullehrer in Kirchberg. The register settles a surname, a death date and a trade, and refuses to settle a birth date. The Ancestry index of this same entry reads her surname as something else entirely — a misread of the Kurrent. The register names her father a Lösch of Crailsheim, which is the birthplace the German deaths index independently gives her, and her son's 1924 Pittsburgh death certificate [S68] gives his mother's maiden name as Loesch. Two record images, two continents, one surname. On the death date the two Ancestry indexes disagreed — 13 August in collection 61023, 12 August in collection 9868; the image says 12 August, and collection 9868 is the one that was right. On the birth date the stated age counts back to late April 1803, against the index's 26 May 1803; those digits are at the edge of legibility even at 4796 px and are not forced here. The record that would settle it is her baptism at Crailsheim, which is not in this corpus. ⚠ Read at full resolution on purpose. At the 600 px tier this page was illegible and an earlier pass misattributed the parents' column to her husband; the correction is what the full-resolution image is for.
6. S159Württemberg family register — Ev. Landeskirche SCHWIEBERDINGEN, Familienregister Band 25, opening pp. 366b/367: the household of Johann Georg Fux, whose second wife is a DAUGHTER of Georg Melchior Julius Prüger and Elisabeth Sabina Lösch. Ancestry collection 61389, records 3576174 and 3576173 (one image closes both hints), image 1056758-00638, film stamp 000262. Read from the image at full resolution — 6447 × 4585 px, 117/117 DeepZoom tiles, 22 September 2026. Hausvater: Johann Georg Fux, kath., Gürtlermeister hier, b. 7 Jul 1821, d. 14 Okt 1910, son of Matthäus Fux and Barbara geb. Hornung. Copulation I, 25 Nov 1850: Maria Ana geb. Pfrogg (1822–1857). Copulation II, 28 Mai 1861, zu KIRCHBERG a. d. Jagst: Christiane Juliane Erdlin, geb. PRÜGER, evang., born 25 Okt 1838 zu Kirchberg, died 3 Febr. 1911. Her parents are written out in the register's own rows: "II V." — Georg Melchior Prüger, B[ürger] u. Schuhma[cher] in Kirchberg a. J., and "II M." — Elisabeth Sabina geb. Lösch. 🔑 THE FIRST SIBLING OF THE IMMIGRANT EVER DOCUMENTED. Until this page the Proeger line held Julius Karl Proeger and his parents and nothing beside him — no brother, no sister. Christiane Juliane Prüger, born at Kirchberg on 25 October 1838, is his elder sister, five and a half years before his own 28 April 1844 baptism in the same parish S69. She stayed in Württemberg, married a Schwieberdingen belt-maker, and died there in 1911. 🔑 The identification does not rest on the surname. It rests on four points in the two parent rows that agree with the 1844 Kirchberg baptism: the given names Georg Melchior; the trade Schuhmacher; the town Kirchberg an der Jagst; and the wife's full name with maiden surname, Elisabeth Sabina geb. Lösch. A parish 80 km away, with no access to the Kirchberg book, wrote all four. 🔑 "Sabina" is no longer index-only — and the name is still not settled. Her given name was Elisabeth Catharina on the 1844 Kirchberg baptism S69, Elisabethe Sabina on a FamilySearch index of the 1835 Triensbach marriage, and Lossetta on her son's 1924 death certificate S68. This is a second ORIGINAL register giving Sabina. Two originals now disagree, written by different parishes for different purposes, and neither is overturned here. The existing hedge stands with a second witness cited. ⚠ Ancestry indexes the parents' surname as Sträger. The image reads Prüger at 4×, same hand, same word — but the initial cluster is not beyond dispute even at 4×, and this is flagged rather than quietly corrected. Nothing above depends on it. ⚠ "Residence Place: Schwieberdingen" is REJECTED for both ancestors. Ancestry offers it as new. Schwieberdingen is the parish of the book and of the daughter's married household; Georg Melchior and Elisabeth Sabina are named as absent parents, at Kirchberg. Neither ever lived there on this evidence. ⚠ "Erdlin" is a MARRIED name. She was already widowed or once married before 28 May 1861 at twenty-two. That first marriage is not on this page and has not been looked for. ⚠ The third given name "Julius" is not on this page — a family table abbreviates. Not a conflict, but not corroborated here either. ⚠ The children block for the second marriage is EMPTY. That proves none were entered in this book, not that there were none.
7. S840Ancestry index — Germany, Select Births and Baptisms: Elisabethe Sabina Lösch. Ancestry collection 9866, record 28291305. Probable Elisabethe Sabina Lösch; father Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch; mother Maria Dorothea Wolf. An index with no image. Ancestry's collection 9866 is the FamilySearch births and baptisms index, so it is not independent of FamilySearch; it is independent of the marriage index (S122). ⚠ Her 1872 burial entry, read from the register, gives her mother as Maria Dorothea geb. Muck and her father as Johann Heinrich Melchior (S133).