Four families were allowed to settle in Laupheim in 1730. There is no evidence of when the cemetery was established. The chewra kaddisha was established in 1748 and the oldest existing gravestone dates from 1761.Some of Hermann's mother's family are buried here: his mother Sophie Maier (née Gugenheim b. 22 June 1822 d. 10 October 1848 aged 26), his maternal grandmother, Sophie Gugenheim (née Lämmle whom our records name as Charlotte b. 3 February 1789 d. 26 December 1838 aged 49) and his uncle, Samuel.
Related records show that Sophie had three other children who did not survive -- Eugen Isaac (1843), Anonymus (1845) and Anonyma (1848). The death register states that Sophie Maier died of gynecological illness 10 weeks after this stillborn daughter. Hermann was one year old, his brother, Gustav, four years old and their father 35 years old.
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