G. Friedrich Kubach

This monument for G. Friedrich Kubach, located in the North Ridge section of Sandusky's Oakland Cemetery has fallen down, but Mr. Kubach's name is clearly legible. In the 1860 U.S. Census for Erie County, Ohio, the Kubach family (spelled Kuback by the census enumerator) is listed as:

Frederick, age 38, born in Baden
Magdaline, age 20, born in Baden

and the children, all born in Ohio:

Christina, age 10
August, age 7
Charles, age 5
William, age 2
Another person, John Shepley, age 10, also lived with the Kubach family.

The book SANDUSKY THEN AND NOW, has this listing in the section on German Settlers in Sandusky:

Kubach, Friedr., b. May 1, 1822, in Liedolsheim, Baden, d. Jan. 8, 1865; m. July 7, 1850 to Magdal. Schopfle, b. Aug. 31, 1833, in Kretzingen, Baden

SANDUSKY THEN AND NOW, which was written by Ernst Von Schulenburg in the German language, and translated into English by Norbert A. and Marion Cleaveland Lange, is an excellent resource on the people of German heritage who settled in Sandusky.

Cora Mary Kubach

Birth records accessed at Family Search Labs tell us that Cora Mary Kubach was born on August 29, 1879 to Charles and Lena (Hassenpflug) Kubach in Sandusky, Ohio. She died on November 13, 1879, at the age of three months. Little Cora was buried at Sandusky's Oakland Cemtetery, where the front of her tombstone is in the shape of a scroll.

The sides and back of Cora Mary Kubach's tombstone were sculpted in the shape of bricks. What a lovely memorial to a precious little one whose years were so few on this earth.