Pittsburgh Press 17 January 1889
Jumped in the River. The body of Mrs. Cara Nossack, wife of Joseph Nossack, of Millvale, who left her home the evening of Jan. 7, was found yesterday by two men who were cutting ice at the head of Herr’s Island. Mrs. Nossack was mentally deranged. Her husband had made every effort possible to find her. She was last seen the evening she left home standing at the end of the Forty Third street bridge. She had her little dog with her and the next morning,when her husband was looking for her, the dog was still waiting at the bridge. It is supposed she plunged into the river there. A verdict of suicide was rendered.
Joseph Nosseck was married three times, the last to my husbands great grandmother Katharina Rauscher Sperl. Clara, the first wife left two small children, the youngest less than one year. I am wondering if she had post partum depression.
The second wife Katherine Stross died in 1899 from tuberculosis and Joseph died in 1914 also from tuberculosis. His third wife Katharina Rauscher Sperl lived until 1947.
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