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Mrs. Louise Bense was born in the
city of Brunswick, Germany, August
28,1824. Her maiden name was L*
Bartels. At the age of twenty-one she
was united in marriage to Augustus
Bense. Six children were bom to them.
live of whom survive her: llelene, Wil¬
liam, AuguSt. John and Marie. Hei
husband died in 1873. In the year oi
1851, she, with two children followed
her husband, who preceeded them tt
America, They settled on the farm oi
Portage river, east of Elmore, knowr
as the Bense homestead, and on which
she died. The neighborhood was then
an almost unbroken wilderness, and on
account of her being homesick for her
old home, the family returned to Ger¬
many in 1858 Conditions there ap¬
peared to her in a new light after hav¬
ing lived in the United States, so that
in a few years the family returned to
America and again settled in their
former home, leaving, however, the two
oldest children with their grandmother
to attend school. These two followed
their parents in 1863. Mrs. Bense never
again longed to return to Germany.
After an illness of only a few days,
caused by a partial stroke of paralysis,
complicated with pneumonia, she died
on the 2Mh day of December, aged 7H
years, four months and one day.
