"Emil von Osten. his wife Rosie. and their ten-month-old baby daughter, Annabelle Rose, were almost instantly killed at the Gann crossing near Louviers on Monday evening when Rio Grande passenger train No. 4 struck their automobile on...............
"Their car stalled on the railroad tracks and they could not get out in time. Emil and their new baby were killed instantly and Rosie died on the way to the hospital.
They were buried in 2 caskets, one for Emil and their baby Anna was laid to rest in her mother's arm in the other one."
Sources
"Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KNQR-V3K : 8 December 2017), Emil E Von Osten and Rose Woodhouse, 18 Mar 1921, Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States; citing no. 5626, State Archives, Denver; FHL microfilm 1,690,145.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKWP-Y6S : accessed 18 August 2019), Rosie Woodhouse in household of James Woodhouse, Sedalia, Douglas, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 14, sheet 1B, family 14, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 114; FHL microfilm 1,374,127.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX2Z-1VM : accessed 18 August 2019), Rosie Woodhouse in household of James Woodhouse, Sedalia, Douglas, Colorado, United States; citing ED 62, sheet 10A, line 14, family 63, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 157; FHL microfilm 1,820,157.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 30 October 2020), memorial page for Rose “Rosie” Woodhouse Von Osten (20 Sep 1902–13 Aug 1923), Find A Grave: Memorial #11441667, citing Bear Canon Cemetery, Sedalia, Douglas County, Colorado, USA ; Maintained by James Parmenter (contributor 48620764) .
Monumental inscription. United States. Bear Canon Cemetery, Sedalia, Colorado. 1923 (b. 1903) VON OSTEN, ROSIE GPS: n/a. Photo courtesy of Archives & Local History, Douglas County Libraries, Castle Rock, CO. In addition an inscription reads "Gone but not forgotten"
Record Journal of Douglas, August 17, 1923, Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, Colorado State Library, Von Osten Family Killed at Crossing
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